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This edition of Poe’s Tales features 12 full page color plates and 17 black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
1946 3rd Print; Best Supernatural Stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Dust Jacket art by Leo Manso. Editor August Derleth
This is one of Arthur C. Clarke’s best novels. It has an irresistible theme – mankind’s first encounter with a visitant from the unimaginably remote depths of space and time.
A new celestial body appears in the outer reaches of our solar system in 2130. Believed at first to be an asteroid and named Rama by earthlings, it proves not to be a natural object at all. It’s a vast cylinder about 31 miles long and over 12 miles across, with a mass of at least ten trillion tons. It is moving steadily closer to the Sun. The five-thousand-ton spaceship Endeavour lands on Rama, and when Commander Bill Norton and his crew make their way into its hollow interior they find a whole self-contained world – a world that has been cruising through space for at least 200,000 years and perhaps for more than a million.
Norton and his crew have, at most, three weeks to explore Rama, which seems to be a dead world, though not without its perils. Then, in its own astonishing way, it proves to be very much alive and the perils intensify. Yet in the end homo sapiens pose the greatest menace.
If Morgan Freeman has his way, Rama will someday make its way onto the big screen:
“The Maltese Falcon” was originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. The main character, Sam Spade, appears in this novel only and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre. Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op. Sam Spade combined several features of previous detectives, most notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked “The Maltese Falcon” 56th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. [Source: Wikipedia]
The story of “The Maltese Falcon” has been adapted several times for film, the most successful being John Huston’s 1935 version with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=phUxnXGhEiI
Dust Jacket Art by C. E. Monroe.
"Tarzan and the Golden Lion" is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ninth Tarzan novel. It was made into a motion picture in 1927. A. C. McClurg published the first edition of the novel in 1923 with a dust jacket and interior illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Grosset & Dunlap began reprinting the book in 1924. My copy retains St. John's interior illustrations but the dust jacket features new art by C. Edmund Monroe.
In the previous novel, Tarzan rescued Jane after he discovered that she was alive, and was reunited with his son Korak. In this story he and his family encounter and adopt an orphaned lion cub, whom they name Jad-bal-ja ("The Golden Lion" in the language of the lost land of Pal-ul-don, which they have recently left). They then return to their African estate, gutted by the Germans during the course of World War I in “Tarzan the Untamed.” They find it already being rebuilt by Tarzan's faithful Waziri warriors, including old Muviro, who first appears in this novel after a previous mention in “Tarzan the Untamed.” Muviro reappears in a number of later novels as sub-chief of the Waziri. Back home, Tarzan raises Jad-bal-ja, who in adulthood is a magnificent black-maned golden lion devoted to the Ape Man.
Later Tarzan is drugged and delivered to the priests of Opar, the lost colony of Atlantis that he had last visited in “Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.” Once again La, the High Priestess of the Flaming God, who is consumed by her hopeless infatuation with Tarzan, rescues him. But when her people discover that she had betrayed them, she flees with Tarzan into the legendary Valley of Diamonds, where savage gorillas rule. The good news is that Tarzan and La are followed by the faithful Jad-bal-ja. The bad news is that they are also being trailed by Esteban Miranda - who happens to look exactly like Tarzan - who hopes to locate and loot Opar. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Tarzan’s Quest,” the nineteenth book in the Tarzan series, originally appeared as a six-part serial, “Tarzan and the Immortal Men,” in The Blue Book Magazine from October 1935 to March 1936. The characters include a prince, a princess, an English valet, a French maid, a hardboiled American aviator, and Tarzan’s wife Jane. These and an airplane crack-up, a murder, a tribe of bestial men who have discovered the secret of longevity, unfriendly natives, and Tarzan are the ingredients in this jungle adventure story.
Rear panel of the dust jacket with scenes from the movie.
“A great American story, together with 12 other tales, formerly published as THE LONG VALLEY. The story from which the Technicolor film was made, starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Peter Miles and Sheppard Strudwick. A Republic Picture – Directed by Lewis Milestone. A Charles K. Feldman – Lewis Milestone Production.
“’The Red Pony’ is one of Steinbeck’s finest stories and the title story of this volume. It is one of thirteen magnificent stories, almost all set against the background of the Salinas Valley that Steinbeck has preempted as his literary domain. Here we see once more the paisanos of ‘Tortilla Flat,’ the barley-ranch hands of ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the agricultural workers of ‘In Dubious Battle’ – the farm boys, the idlers on the wharves of Monterey, the simple people of the land so profoundly brought to life in all of Steinbeck’s work.
“Contained in this volume are: ‘The Chrysanthemums,’ the ‘White Quail,’ ‘Flight,’ ‘The Snake,’ ‘Breakfast,’ ‘The Raid,’ ‘The Harness,’ ‘The Vigilante,’ ‘Johnny Bear,’ ‘The Murder,’ ‘St. Katy the Virgin,’ ‘Red Pony’ (3 Parts), ‘The Leader of the People.’
“Some of the finest work that the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ has ever produced has been in the short story or novelette form. Always a superb craftsman who leans to economy of words and directness and concreteness of impression, Steinbeck often includes in a single tale as much material as another author would spread thinly throughout a novel.”
[From the blurb on the dust jacket]
Things I like in the morning:
- lots of coffee
- light seeping in through the window
- having a couple of hours to myself
- good books, especially with the dust jackets removed (a little risqué, no?)
A great deal of hardcovers are prettier underneath the flashy outer shell.
Volume 3 contains the stories “Son of Celluloid,” “Rawhead Rex,” “Confession of a (Pornographer’s) Shroud,” “Scape-Goats,” “Human Remains.” Barker himself adapted "Rawhead Rex" into a movie in 1986. A particularly nasty demon is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rawhead Rex's rampage through the Irish countryside while a man struggles to stop it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSLX1IDR1d8
The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.
Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Everybody is a book of blood;
Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
Clive Barker
“Rebecca” is Du Maurier’s first and most popular book, which opens with a truly memorable line: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” The book is arguably the most famous and well-loved gothic novel of the 20th century. The story begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, is swept off her feet by the rich and dashing 42-year-old widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. After a brief courtship, she agrees to marry him and, after the wedding and honeymoon, accompanies him to his mansion in Cornwall, the beautiful West Country estate Manderley.
It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife, Rebecca, will cast over their lives – presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave. The sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who was profoundly devoted to the first Mrs. de Winter, continually attempts to undermine the new Mrs. De Winter psychologically.
The story was made into a haunting film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders, and Judith Anderson. It was Hitchcock’s first American project and it won two Academy Awards, including Best Picture, out of a total of 11 nominations. Olivier, Fontaine and Anderson were all Oscar nominated for their respective roles. Here is a link to the movie trailer:
The source of the artwork for this Book Club Edition was the official poster for the 1971 film, which starred Sean Connery as James Bond. The movie’s female leads were Jill St. John as Tiffany Case and Lana Wood as Plenty O’Toole.
“Millions of dollars worth of diamonds are being smuggled around the world through a pipeline protected by death-dealing American gangsters and sophisticated millionaires. British secret agent James Bond, with the rare double-O prefix, that gives him the license to kill, is ordered to join the Spangled Gang, expose it and wipe it out. . .” [From the dustjacket]
Volume 1 contains the stories “The Book of Blood,” “The Midnight Meat Train,” “The Yattering and Jack,” “Pig Blood Blues,” “Sex, Death and Starshine,” and “In the Hills, the Cities.” Two stories were adapted into movies: "Book of Blood" (2009) and "The Midnight Meat Train" (2008). "The Yattering and Jack" was adapted by Barker himself in 1986 for the U.S. television series "Tales of the Darkside."
Trailer of "The Midnight Meat Train:"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPazfR_DyAo
Trailer of "Book of Blood:"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQjvTkfaWY
"The Yattering and Jack" on "Tales of the Darkside:"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHGer9Hk9U
Clive Barker's greatest horror was not in his "Books of Blood" but it deserves a mention here anyway:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TWm3Akw-s
The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.
Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Everybody is a book of blood;
Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
Clive Barker
Frank Herbert's celebrated science fiction novel "Dune" was first published as a three-part serial "Dune World" in the December, 1963 - February, 1964 issues of Analog (formerly Astounding Science Fiction).
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The Chilton Company, which was better known for automotive manuals, put out the novel in book form in 1965. "Dune" was the basis for a less-than-stellar film directed by David Lynch in 1984, an Emmy-winning TV miniseries written and directed by John Harrison in 2000 and a popular 3-D video game in 2001.
What could possibly be scary about a pet cemetery? Stephen King answers that question in spades with one of his scariest stories. He tells the tale of a family that moves into a small town in Maine and strange things start happening from day one. The two children are hurt in accidents and, soon after, the family cat is run over outside their new home. The cat is buried in the “pet sematary” in nearby woods where the town kids bury their dead animals. Now the paranormal story begins and soon all hell breaks loose.
"Pet Sematary" was adapted into a movie in 1989:
The starting point for “2001: A Space Odyssey” was a short story written in 1948 by Arthur C. Clarke called “The Sentinel.” It dealt with the discovery of an artifact on Earth’s Moon left behind eons ago by ancient aliens. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick took that concept and built an epic story for the screenplay of “2001.” Clarke also wrote the novel which was published soon after the film was released. The story now deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious black monoliths that are apparently affecting human evolution. A voyage is undertaken to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the Moon.
Though essentially a minor collection, “The Shuttered Room & Other Pieces” offers some illuminating footnotes to Lovecraft’s story, and adds to the list of Cthulhu tales the memorable title story and the haunting “Fisherman of Falcon Point.” The jacket art is by Richard Taylor.
Kepes, G. (ed.), The Man-Made Object, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1966.
Essays by: Christopher Alexander, Dore Ashton, Michael J. Blee, Marcel Breuer, Theodore M. Brown, Francoise Choay, Gillo Dorfles, Kazuhiko Egawa, Joan M. Erikson, Jean Helion, Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Read, Leonardo Ricci, Henry S. Stone, Jr., Frederick S. Wight
Bip Pares was a prolific designer of dust jackets and book wrappers - she also produced posters for companies such as London Transport. This is for a 1942 Compton Mackenzie novel.
This book from The Viking Press is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.
Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important, smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives of that Iceworld for a new and virulent narcotic...the most dangerous drug ever to come into their universe.
Now Sallman Ken wondered what manner of creature could exist on a planet so cold that sulfur was a solid, not a gas, and water actually existed as a liquid. But he wouldn't wonder for long, for Ken had to find a way onto the surface of that planet so he could locate the source of that deadly drug.
1948; Mysterie in Blauw by Hartger Menkman. Cover art by RJP ?? SEE LARGER SCAN FOR COLOR AND DETAIL !!
A combination of circumstances and a mishap of war stranded Tarzan in the mountains of Japanese-held Sumatra nearly two and one-half years after the invasion. Here, in company with American fliers, natives, Dutch guerrillas, a Chinese, a Dutch girl, and the granddaughter of a Borneo head-hunter, he found a full scope for his jungle-trained senses.
Sumatra is approximately the size and shape of California. And right there all similarity ends. This island sprawls across the equator. Its great forests, its lush jungles, its mountainous backbone are the abode of such an aggregation of savage life as may not be found in an area of similar size anywhere else in the world.
There are elephants, rhinoceroses. bears, wild dogs, tigers, orangutans, monkeys, wild cattle, cobras, pythons, and Japanese, just to name a few. There are native collaborationists and bands of Dutch outlaws. The stage was already set for high adventure and the other actors were already there when Tarzan arrived.
The close companions who shared these adventures with him were a pilot from Oklahoma City, waist gunners from Brooklyn and Texas, a ball turret gunner from Chicago, a radio man from Van Nuys, California, a Chinese, a Dutch reserve officer, a Eurasian girl, and blonde Corrie Van der Meer, the daughter of a Dutch Sumatran planter. Viewing the diverse racial origins of this aggregation, their friends of the Dutch guerrillas dubbed them "The Foreign Legion."
In this, Ian Fleming’s seventh secret service adventure, James Bond comes to grips with his most powerful adversary yet, the Goliath of crime – Goldfinger.
One of the fascinating series of "The Roadmakers Library" issued in 1948 and this, on traffic control, by one of the foremost experts on the subject. A Alker Tripp had a long career in traffic management having been steered by his family into a career in the Metropolitan Police, where he rose to became Assistant Commissioner (Traffic) in 1932. He wrote extensively on the subject as well as having a life time interest in art, his desire to train as an artist apparently thwarted by his father!
This cover jacket (or dustwrapper) has, apart from a wee road roller) a marvellous set of period traffic signals!
Kenneth Roberts (1885 – 1957) was an American author of historical novels. Roberts worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction and "Trending Into Maine" is an homage to his native state. He often wrote about his native state and its terrain, also depicting other upper New England states and scenes. For example, the main characters of "Arundel" and "Rabble in Arms" are from Kennebunk (then called Arundel), the main character of "Northwest Passage" is depicted as being from Kittery, Maine with friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the main character in "Oliver Wiswell" is from Milton, Massachusetts.
American artist N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, "Treasure Island," was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Beside his many illustration plaudits, NC Wyeth is famous for being the father of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Kepes, G. (ed.), Sign Image Symbol, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1966.
Essays by: Rudolf Arnheim, Saul Bass, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, John E. Burchard, Edmund, Carpenter, Henry Dreyfuss, Heinz Von Foerster, Lawrence k. Frank, James J. Gibson, S. Giedion, J.P. Hodin, Abraham H. Maslow, P.A. Michelis, Rudolf Modley, C. Morris & F. Sciandini, Robert Osborn, Ad Reinhardt, Paul Riesman, Ernesto N. Rogers, Werner Schmalenbach
After a shower of blazing lights in the sky, a plague of blindness befalls the entire world and allows the rise of a deadly and seemingly intelligent species of plant. The novel was the basis for the 1962 British film "The Day of the Triffids" starring Howard Keel:
This first edition copy still has its original dust jacket! Dust jackets were used as early as 1830. After WWI they were often designed by prominent artists and became a great marketing tactic. This one was created by John Held Jr, who also designed many covers for Life Magazine in the Jazz Age.
Location: Special Collections, MSEL
The story is of the devious pursuit of Cthulhu, the search for his lair in sunken R'lyeh, of the danger from Cthulhu's minions ever wary of detection and disclosure. It begns in a house on Curwen Street in legend-haunted Arkham, Massachusetts. It ends on a shunned and mysterious island in the South Pacific, after having ranged from the Inca ruins near Machu Pichu to London, from the Nameless City of Irem to Singapore, in a colorful and dramatic sequence of events which in sum fit into place more pieces in the mosaic of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu—a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" (first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928)—to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. Authors of Lovecraftian horror use elements of the Mythos in an ongoing expansion of the fictional universe. [Source: Wikipedia]
Jasper Maskelyne (1902-1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. His “Book of Magic” describes a range of stage tricks, including sleight of hand, card and rope tricks, and “mind-reading” illusions. A 1937 Pathé film, “The Famous Illusionist,” was made of Maskelyne, looking dapper and apparently eating a boxful of razor blades, one at a time.
Jasper Maskelyne was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered, however, for his entertaining accounts of his work for British military intelligence during the Second World War. His exploits in the camouflage unit during the war are described in David Fisher’s book, “The War Magician” (1983), and in Maskelyne’s own book , “Magic: Top Secret” (1949). Book reviewer Peter Forbes writes that “the flamboyant magician’s contribution was either absolutely central (if you believe his account and that of his biographer) or very marginal (if you believe the official records and more recent research).” [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is a link to David Fisher's book "The War Magician:"
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1946 4th print; The Adventures of Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett. Cover art dust jacket by Leo Manso.
“Wings” is a 1927 silent war film acclaimed for its realistic air combat sequences. The film was shot at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas with hundreds of pilots and planes of the US Army Air Corps and 3500 infantrymen on a mock battlefield constructed on location to simulate an actual WWI battlefield. The film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture at the first Academy Award Ceremony in 1929, the only silent film to do so. The film was re-released for a limited run in theaters on its 85th anniversary in 2012. Here is the link to a movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFRas2-x_OQ
“Speed” Powell, in his racer the “Shooting Star,” terrorized the sober citizenry of Temple, Washington, who prophesied a bad end for him. He had but one champion, the girl next door, who adored him. Powell however directed all his attentions toward Sylvia Lewis. When the war came Powell found his way into the Air Service. The qualities that had brought him into disrepute at home, now served to make him a brilliant pilot; his flair for speed, his bent for mechanics, his nerve and daring. He was sent overseas as a member of the First Pursuit Group.
Powell’s flying mate at the front was David Armstrong. Theirs was a friendship begun at ground school and sealed by a series of desperate adventures in the air. An hour before their last flight together, Powell precipitated a bitter quarrel between them over Sylvia Lewis. Estranged, they flew off on a balloon-strafing mission and Powell led Armstrong to his death. It was only when he was going over his dead comrade’s effects that he discovered that David and Sylvia were lovers. A different “Speed” Powell returned home to pick up the threads of everyday living, to find himself and to find the girl next door.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
An imaginative reconstruction of history and legend, "A Search for the King" is an idealistic adventure, a medieval tapestry, woven with richness and color. It is the story of the troubador Blondel's search for Richard the Lion-Heart, held prisoner by Duke Leopold after one of the Crusades. From castle to castle, across the face of Europe, Blondel journeys, singing his ballads, encountering giants and dragons and enchanted forests, as he follows the trail of the King.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin died just shy of his Vostok 1 mission's seventh anniversary, on March 27, 1968, when the MiG-15 fighter jet that he and instructor Vladimir Seryogin were piloting on a routine training flight went down outside a small town near Moscow. Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first man to leave a spacecraft and float in the open vacuum of space, has worked for years to learn what led to Gagarin's death. He finally gained permission and spoke about the details in an interview released on Friday, June 14, 2013, by the state-funded Russia Today (RT) television network.
"We knew that a Su-15 [fighter jet] was scheduled to be tested that day, but it was supposed to be flying at the altitude of 10,000 meters [33,000 feet] or higher, not 450-500 meters [1,480-1,640 feet]," Leonov told RT. "It was a violation of the flight procedure."
A new declassified report confirmed that an unauthorized Sukhoi (Su-15) supersonic jet flew dangerously close to Gagarin's MiG-15. “The two jets must have been no less than 50 kilometers apart." Leonov said.
"While afterburning the aircraft reduced its echelon at a distance of 10-15 meters [30-50 ft] in the clouds, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and thus sending it into a tailspin — a deep spiral, to be precise — at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour [470 miles per hour]," Leonov said in the television interview. “Now, a jet can sink into a deep spiral if a larger, heavier aircraft passes by too close and flips [the jet] over with its backwash. And that is exactly what happened to Gagarin. That trajectory was the only one that corresponded with all our input parameters," Leonov told RT.
Eric Ravilious designs used for Version 4 Dustjacket illustrations of Publishers Dent & Dutton's "Everyman's Library"
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Since July, I've been working on a project for my photomedia studies at Sydney College of the Arts as part of my Masters degree. Final assessment takes the form of a custom printed, hardcover photo book with a matt laminated dust jacket (this is the cover above) and I'm relieved to have just sent it off to the printers this afternoon! It features 26 images from the series I have been working on, both formally and informally, for the past couple of years.
While this book is just a prototype (I am initially printing just one copy) and will only be seen by a few pairs of eyes, the process of continuing to develop this series, articulate the concepts behind it, and prepare a selection of my work in book form has been immensely instructive. I'll be continuing to work on this series in more cities around the world for the next couple of years, I feel!
The novel was originally published as a paperback in May, 1956 (Gold Medal S-577).
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The author Richard Matheson adapted his book for a motion picture which came out in 1957. It has since been named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant and will be preserved for all time. It's a classic. Here is a small excerpt from the motion picture: