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Another int he series of book jackets, or dust wrappers, Barnett Freedman drew for Faber Books in the 1930s and this shows his style off well. Probably printed by auto-lithography, a method Freedman was very accomplished at.
Some recent secondhand purchases:
The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary (a 2009 collection of three Caspary stories from the 1940s and one from the 1960s)
Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer (1936; mine is an ex-library copy of the 1971 Dutton hardcover with dust jacket)
The Last of the Country House Murders by Emma Tennant (1974 first US edition hardcover with dust jacket)
Judges (three short stories by Andrew Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo)
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne (1921; mine is a 1978 BCA hardcover with dust jacket)
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough (1987; mine is the 1988 Avon paperback)
An anthology of railway stories by various authors (named on the luggage tags) and edited by Charles Irving. The cover art (and illustrations inside the book) are by C W Bacon the then popular illustrator whose work was seen in advertising, books and periodicals such as Radio Times.
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]
1954; The Burning Fuse by Ben Benson. Dust Jacket by Hedley Rainnie. Published by M.S. Mill co and William Morrow & Co. New York.
1952; Rendez-vous met de Dood [ I The Jury ] by Mickey Spillane. Hardcover with dust jacket Published by The Combinatie Rotterdam. Unknown Artist. First translated publication in The Netherlands.
Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell, and Fred Haise (at left, behind blurred figure of a frogman) bob safely in a life raft. Lovell, an inveterate naval officer, was the last of the three astronauts to leave the spacecraft.
In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck. A mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one.
In “Lost Moon,” Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger tell the full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, “Houston, we’ve got a problem.” Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home.
As the hours tick away, engineers on Earth search desperately for solutions. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA’s finest hour. “Lost Moon” was the basis for the 1995 movie “Apollo 13” directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris.
In this, the fifteenth book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan series, Tarzan faces Soviet agents seeking revenge and a lost tribe descended from early Christians practicing a bizarre and debased religious cult. The story first appeared as a serial in the Blue Book magazine from October, 1931 through March, 1932.
Born in Philadelphia, R. Crumb is one of the pioneers of underground comics and the author of many of them. Written and drawn when he was 19, The Yum Yum Book is a fractured fairy tale that incorporates parts of traditional yarns such as Jack & the Beanstalk and The Princess & Her Frog Suitor.
This is Great Britain’s tribute to America’s first walking stiff. “It’s Alive. It’s Alive. It’s Alive!”
From the text on the dustjacket:
In this classic story of the Baxter family of inland Florida and their wild, hard, satisfying life, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied story – tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwood’s hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, with lusty humor and earthy philosophy – “The Yearling” is a novel for readers of all tastes and ages. Its glowing picture of life that is far and refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living becomes universal in its revelation of simple, courageous people and the abiding beliefs they live by. When the Pulitzer Awards were announced, Lewis Gannett, literary critic of “The New York Herald Tribune,” wrote, “There are few novels more likely to delight succeeding generations than “The Yearling.”
It was natural that N. C. Wyeth, illustrator of so many classics and great modern novels, should create the paintings which embody in living color the land and people of this modern classic. Mr. Wyeth visited Mrs. Rawlings at her orange plantation in Florida where she has lived for the past ten years. He studied the luxurious verdure of the near-by scrub and met the people about whom Mrs. Rawlings wrote in “The Yearling.”
“The people who live on these endless sandy roads,” Mr. Wyeth says, “are as interesting and authentic types of American pioneers, hunters and trappers as I ever saw. I’ve watched ‘gators’ slide into the dark streams, caught a glimpse of a black bear and actually heard the scream of a panther last night. I was standing in one of those ‘bays’ of live oaks and pines. There was a light wind which moved the great festoons of Spanish moss back and forth spectrally, and through this the moonlight poured. The moving shadows made the ground we were standing on writhe and undulate as though it were actually alive. The distant fearful call of that cat added the last touch of blood-chilling accompaniment to the scene.”
"There had been no warning. The space ships of the Overlords had appeared suddenly above every major city of the earth. It was only a very small operation from their point of view, but to Earth it was the biggest thing that had ever happened...
... The international armaments race stopped immediately.
... Within fifty years, ignorance, disease, poverty, and fear were to be virtually eliminated.
... It was to be One World.
But how could the men and women of Earth have foreseen that theirs was the last generation of mankind?"
[Quote from the front flap of the dust jacket]
Twenty-three stories of the strange and terrible edited by August Derleth. The authors include Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Ray Bradbury, Walter de la Mare, Nelson Bond, and others.
Willy Ley (1906-1969) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight both in Germany and in the United States. He was a rocket designer and co-founder of the world’s first rocket airfield in Berlin. In 1935, he fled Nazi Germany for Great Britain and then the United States.
Willy Ley also enjoyed writing about the mysteries of natural history and was one of the early chroniclers of cryptozoology. He wrote about Sea Serpents, Yeti and the possibilities of living dinosaurs. He also suggested that some legendary creatures (e.g. the Sirrush, the Unicorn and the Cyclops) might have been based on real species (or the misinterpretation of certain animals or their fossils or remains).
Many of his articles published in journals, newpapers and magazines were on cryptozoological topics. The German book “Drachen Riesen” (Dragon Giants) appears to be the German edition of Willy Ley’s “Dragons in Amber: Further Adventures of a Romantic Naturalist,” first published in the UK in 1951. It is an early example of Ley’s cryptozoological writings where he describes strange animals from yesterday and today and makes amazing connections between science and legend. He writes about extinct animals and animals from the distant past that are still living in hidden corners of the earth.
Jacket art by Rosemary Hird. Romance Book Club edition hardcover (1961).
Ursula Torday wrote under the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce, Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock and Charlotte Keppel.
Here is a summary of “Creep, Shadow!” posted on the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/book/show/9126201-creep-shadow):
This Two Thousand Year-Old Sorceress Had the Power to Turn People into Shadows! Here is A. Merritt's masterwork, our publisher's pick for the best of all his classic fantasies. Creep, Shadow! Is based on legends of Ys and an old Breton song. "Fisher, fisher, have you seen/White Dahut, the Shadow Queen/Riding on her stallion black/At her heels her shadow pack?"
Had the last King and Princess of wicked Ys, returned after three thousand years? Why were they creating an exact replica of Stonehenge on their New Jersey estate? What was the Mael Bennique, the Breaker of Chests? And what was the dread Gatherer in the Cairn? And can men and women really be turned into shadows and made the helpless slaves of the one who transformed them?
Ethnologist Alan Caranac (who may just be the reincarnation of the Alain de Carnac who brought about the destruction of sinful Ys and its evil rulers) has to find out the answers, for one of his best friends has been killed, and perhaps transformed into a shadow, while his fiancee Helen, her brother, Bill, and the famed Dr. Lowell have already been marked for death or worse! But first Alan will have to enter the tower of the Demoiselle Dahut de Ys in New York and journey through it thousands of years into the past to her tower in the legendary city from which she draws her name. And then return, if he can!
In this stunning sequel to his classic “Burn, Witch, Burn!,” the great A. Merritt, an authority on ancient magic and civilizations, captured the feeling of sorcery and the supernatural as never before! Discover why the New York Times raved that Merritt's writings spin "a shimmering, glittering web of imagination" whose "fertility never seems to lessen"; andwhy Analog magazine called his stories "crammed with fascinating people and creatures." Here is a classic by the author the Science Fiction Encyclopedia crowned "the supreme fantasy genius."
FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978) alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine – published from 1972 to 1989.
FILE magazine Summer-1978 General Idea
General Idea: FILE megazine, vol 4, issue 1, summer 1978 (the “1984: A Year in Pictures” issue), edition of 3,000 copies.
FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978). Toronto: General Idea, 1978
35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers. A single number from General Idea's art periodical where the trio published conceptual, mail and intermedia art including the GI's own work - often with a homoerotic element. This number has GI's "General Idea flees the burning pavilion in 1984" and several articles on Miss General idea 1984. One slight crease on the back cover and front lower-right corner and spine wear and, as ever, browned internal newsprint pages else VG+. Scarce.
1978
FILE Megazine ("1984: A Year in Pictures," Vol. 4, #1, summer 1978)
Book Description
Publication Date: 1978
Publisher:General Idea, Toronto
Book Condition: VG+
35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers
GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994
An alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine --published from 1972 to 1989--
Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson of General Idea lived and worked together for 25 years. Partz and Zontal died in 1994. AA Bronson continues to work under his own name
The General Idea Archive is now on deposit at the National Gallery of Canada. You can access the finding aid here:
national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc112.html
In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole, an organization devoted to collecting, publishing and distributing artists' books, multiples, audio and video.
Read about FILE Megazine in Artforum here:
www.aabronson.com/art/gi.org/artforum.htm
General Idea, Fluxus, Mail Art, Ray Johnson and the importance of Art Magazines as the forerunners of Social Networking:
The first issues of FILE, the publication launched in April 1972 by the Toronto-based group General Idea (comprising artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal), leave a different, less sober impression than previous magazine-based Conceptual art projects. Lifting its name and logo from the most famous (and popular) postwar US glossy, Life, FILE clearly anticipated a strategy that today is an everyday youth-cultural ploy: namely, logo-busting, an ironic game with the powerful markers of consumer culture, a small act of semiotic subversion whereby one borrows power from the public side of capital--and momentarily uses it against itself.
For the better part of a century artists have been using the format of the periodical to create and disseminate their work. Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Void, another iconic work, was published in the artist’s broadsheet publication Dimanche, which was sold at Parisian newsstands in 1960. Artists' magazines were integral to numerous important movements, such as Conceptual Art, Mail Art, Performance Art, Intermedia, Concrete Poetry, Neo-Dadaism and Fluxus.
The name Fluxus was originally coined by George Maciunas for the title of a magazine of experimental notation that he had hoped to produce.
For the uninitiated, a simple distinction suffices: the “artist periodical” is a primary source and an “art magazine” is a secondary one. That is to say, whereas an art magazine features reproductions and documentation of artwork as illustrations, the artist periodical is an alternative site for the realization of art works rather than their review.
Like their cousins, artists’ books and multiples, artists’ periodicals were intended to be easily distributable, affordable and accessible. And now – much like artists’ books and multiples – they can be difficult to track down and often costly. Complete sets of FILE megazine can sell for upwards of $5,000. Depending on the issue, a single copy of Aspen magazine might sell for the same price. Putting together complete collections piecemeal is the artworld equivalent of collecting a complete set of baseball cards. Critical discourse, too, has been hard to come by; apart from a few key articles, very little has been published on the subject of artists’ magazines.
Publications by General Idea:
THIS IS A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS DESIGNED AND EDITED BY GENERAL IDEA
(Note: FILE Megazine was published by Art Official Inc. in varying edition sizes ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 copies)
A Side note about A.A. Bronson: He wrote …
TWENTY-TWO WOMEN TALK FRANKLY ABOUT THEIR ORGASMS
(Bronson, A.A.) Harrison, A.S.A. TWENTY-TWO WOMEN TALK FRANKLY ABOUT THEIR ORGASMS Toronto: Coachhouse Press, 1974 31 x 23cm, 78pp. Boards with pictorial dustjacket.
First edition of this feminist investigation of the female phenomenology of the orgasm (at the time such investigations were part of a concerted attempt to de-mystify female sexuality and empower women into exploring their bodies and, for some, enjoying sex for the first time). Verbatum texts of 22 different women explaining how they trigger and what they experience orgasms. This book was designed for Harrison by A.A. Bronson of General Idea who also contributes a short note of approval on the inside back dustjacket about his friend. The book is in part dedicated to General Idea. One of 2,500 published - this copy has a couple of tears on the edges of the dj and is slightly bowed but may interest not only those considering feminism in the 70s but also the association with Bronson and G.I.
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Communities Collaged: Mail Art and The Internet
By Mark Bloch
(Originally appeared in New Observations)
NEW YORK June 6, 2000- Is it a coincidence that both international mail art and the Internet reached a critical mass in the late 1960s?
Mail art was expanding exponentially as ….
Some groovy nostalgia from the 1970s: a (nonfunctioning) lava lamp, 45s, tapes with the Oldies, and a classic tape deck--all sitting atop a paisley shirt. Look closely at the cassette tape, bottom right, to see some titles of great 70s singles. Oh how I wish I had saved my platform shoes and one of those psychedelic glow-in-the-dark posters. Far out, man!
Title: Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar - vol 2;
Author: Peter V. Bruyns;
Publisher: Umdaus Press, Hatfield, South Africa;
Edition: first (2005)
Pages: IV + 331÷606 (color);
Cover: hardcover in dustjacket;
Language: English;
Dimensions: 23,7 x 30,3 cm;
ISBN: 1-919766-38-3 (standard edition)
The only prize I ever received in my schooldays was for Senior English in 1958. I was awarded a book token for my efforts, so I took myself off to the Ibis Bookshop in Banstead High Street, where I bought Teach Yourself Journalism. I don’t really know why journalism appealed – apart from the fact that I enjoyed writing and it was basically the only thing I could do with any proficiency at school.
Two years later, on 1st February 1960, I began work as a junior reporter on the Sutton and Cheam Herald and its sister paper, the Banstead Herald. That copy of Teach Yourself Journalism is still on my bookshelf – and turning the pages half a century later, I note that "journalism is no profession for the delicate in health and the physical weakling... many qualities of mind and character spring from a sound and healthy constitution... the journalist must be a person of higher than average intelligence... the slow-witted and the lazy-minded will find no happy resting place in the field of journalism". Hah!
And how about this? "It is not difficult for a reporter in Fleet Street to earn well over £1,000 a year, especially if he is prepared to do a sixth day’s work a week as voluntary overtime." ("He", please note!) In my first year, my weekly wage was £3 2s 6d (£3.25) – that’s £169 a year – and the thought of £1,000 a year was the holy grail, the stuff of wild dreams.
I’m still dreaming...
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986) was best known as the author of the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer.
The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and the series is widely considered to be among the classics of the genre. [Source: Wikipedia]
Book cover design by George Salter for Teeth, Dying and Other Matters by Richard G. Stern. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
A collection of 17 short stories.
"R Is for Rocket"
"The End of the Beginning"
"The Fog Horn"
"The Rocket"
"The Rocket Man"
"The Golden Apples of the Sun"
"A Sound of Thunder"
"The Long Rain"
"The Exiles"
"Here There Be Tygers"
"The Strawberry Window"
"The Dragon"
"The Gift"
"Frost and Fire"
"Uncle Einar"
"The Time Machine"
"The Sound of Summer Running"
George R. Stewart - Storm
Bantam Books 155, 1948
Cover Artist: Denver Gillen
Issued in 1944 by Infantry Journal/Penguin Books. It was reissued in 1948 by Bantam with a dust jacket over the original book when Ian Ballantine left Penguin to form Bantam Books
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.
Another Australian writer whose works are now hard to find.
ill met by a fish shop on george street (1969 first UK edition, Hodder and Stoughton, jacket art by Ellen Raskin)
Night's Evil (1966 first US edition, Doubleday, jacket art by Larry Lurin)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1970 Horwitz paperback edition)
The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
Dust jacket cover of the "Mountain Pony and the Rodeo Mystery," by Henry V. Larom, illustrated by Ross Santee.
Grosset and Dunlap, New York; 1949. This edition (which has the brown tweed cover with the embossed horseshoe on the cover) was issued by McGraw Hill, but has no publication date.
The Week-End Book was a popular compendium of advice as to how to spend a weekend and contained a wide range of information, pastimes and stories. First published in the 1920s by the Nonsuch Press and edited by the redoubtable Francis Meynell along with Vera Mendel it went through various guises and editions, with one being issued quite recently. This 1954 edition uses the 1920s cover design by MacDonald Gill, better known as Max, the brother of the more well-known Eric Gill (he of the typeface Gill Sans). Max was an accomplished artist and designer especially of decorative maps, and this cover is very typical of his style. Max had died in 1947 and so this version was issued posthumously.
This is pure pulp from the golden age of pulp fiction, Flash flies to another planet , rescues a princess from the horrible, devouring octopus-things that surround her kingdom, enlists her aid and returns to destroy the monstrous cavern men overrunning Mongo. Flash, his sweetheart Dale Arden and the scientist Dr. Zarkov, the only earthlings on the planet, who, with Vultan's bravest nobleman, descend deep into the heart of Mongo.
Deep in the core of the planet lives a race who have been sealed in their dark caverns for centuries. Tirelessly they work to break through the upper crust of Mongo to destroy King Vultan and his people. And they would have succeeded but for ...
Book cover design by George Salter for Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories by Shirley Hazzard. New York: Knopf, 1963.
The Voyage of the Waltzing Matilda by Philip Davenport 1953.
The newly-wed Philip and Roz Davenport, sailed around a major part of the World in a small 46’ Bermudian Cutter with a 53’ mast, leaving Sydney Harbour on October 1950. The cutter had just been constructed in Tasmania for the three adventurous Sydney brothers: Jack, Philip and Keith Davenport, who had all seen service as bomber pilots during World War 2 with the Royal Australian Air Force. Accompanying the 32 year-old Philip, and his wife Roz, was his brother, Keith and a sailing friend, Don Brown.
The Waltzing Matilda, named after a popular Australian folk song, visited New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil along the way before finishing in London in late 1951.
Published by Hutchison of London. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 232 pages 14cm x 22cm.
trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18517571 Roz Davenport’s interview about the journey from the (Sydney) Sunday Herald 30th November 1952.
Philip Davenport’s account of his crash, capture and incarceration in a Gestapo prison in Norway in 1945:
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/51/a3964151.s...
The middle brother, Wing-Commander Jack Davenport, who helped fund and prepare the Waltzing Matilda, had a distinguished Air Force career, and won the DSO for his command of 455 Squadron (Bomber Command).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._455_Squadron_RAAF
and:
www.amazon.com/Jack-Davenport-ebook/dp/B0042JSPOI This biography of Jack Davenport, also includes some details of the Air Force action of his brothers Philip and Keith.
Jack followed the military career with an equally distinguished business career, including directorship of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL Co).
"The Haunted Looking Glass" contains a dozen ghost stories compiled and edited by Edward Gorey, who also prefaces each story with a wonderfully creepy drawing. The stories are:
"The Empty House" by Algernon Blackwood.
"August Heat" by W. F. Harvey.
"The Signalman" by Charles Dickens.
"A Visitor from Down Under" by L. P. Hartley.
"The Thirteenth Tree" by R. H. Malden.
"The Body-Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
"Man-Size in Marble" by E. Nesbit.
"The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker.
"The Shadow of a Shade" by Tom Hood.
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs.
"The Dream Woman" by Wilkie Collins.
"Casting the Runes" by M. R. James.
Edward Gorey's illustrated (and sometimes wordless) books, with their vaguely ominous air and ostensibly Victorian and Edwardian settings, have long had a cult following. Gorey became particularly well-known through his animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! in 1980, as well as his designs for the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design. He also was nominated for Best Scenic Design. In the introduction of each episode of Mystery!, Vincent Price would welcome viewers to "Gorey Mansion".
From Mathematical Models, 2nd Edn, by H. M. Cundy and A.P. Rollett, Oxford University Press, 1951.
Any notations are by my father, as he worked out measurements to build models.
Post is here: blog.ounodesign.com/2009/04/29/stellated-polyhedra-mathem...
This was the very first science fiction novel I read and I was intrigued by the idea of having extra bodies that are activated when you die. Die on one planet and awaken on another, It was a good read and I was hooked from the start. Since then, stories by A.E. Van Vogt have remained high on my reading list.
Book cover design by Keith Vaughan for A Little Stone: Stories by Paul Bowles.
London: J. Lehmann, 1950. PS3552.O874 L5 1950
"Jacket illustration courtesy of Lear, Inc., Santa Monica, Calif."
The book presents the best information, ideas and assumptions on the conquest of the moon as of 1958. The authors, who were experts on missiles and space flight, tell how the moon would be approached, first with instrumented probes and then with man himself as a payload. Fascinating conjectures, based on the latest scientific findings, show what life on the moon might be like, how men would build a base there, how they would explore the moon, and how they would push on from there to further explorations of outer space.