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1954; Brandon in New York by Vernon Warren. Cover art by Jas. E. McConnell. Hardcover with dustjacket.
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COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN
“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”
“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
Receiving the Marine Corps’ full cooperation, including the use of facilities and personnel at Naval Base San Diego and NAS North Island, provided the authentic settings Capra required. A total of 28 aircraft were at Capra’s disposal and with the benefit of using actual aircraft, Capra did not have to rely on “process shots” or special effects which was the standard of the day, although dangerous crash scenes and a mass night takeoff were staged using studio miniatures. [Source: Wikipedia]
(Frank Capra would later direct such classics as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.)
The fourth in the series of Contact Books that had begun in 1946 launched by George Weidenfeld and that were, through Contact Publications Ltd. the precursor to the publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Their origins as 'books' was somewhat down to a legal restriction on the launch of new magazine titles in post-war Britain, due to paper shortages. Weidenfeld was advised that by calling the publications 'books', even through they came out on a regular basis of around four per year, they could circumnavigate the magazine ban.
The Books are based on themes around current affairs and the arts and are considered to include some of the most interesting articles on the topics at the time; the editorial associates, contributors and illustrators read like a role call of British thinkers, commentators and political writers. This, issue four, is called "The Changing Nation" and includes articles on suburbia by Barbara Jones, the Metropolis in Transition by Hugh Casson, Marriage and divorce in post-war Britain by Mass-Observation and many more. Artists featured include Leonard Rosoman and John Farleigh who contributed the dust jacket, not often found on surviving copies.
The books also contain much in the way of contemporary advertising.
From "An Appreciation" by E.C. Comic fan Larry Stark:
"E.C. comics," we called them back then.
"Entertaining Comics -- A New Trend in Comic Books," was the way they described themselves. And they were right. The great Horror Comics of the Fifties, as we've come to remember them -- were a brand-new concept in both comic art and story-telling. Seriously conceived and executed, wildly and freely creative, it was a sign of their excellence that they never really died a natural death. They were killed -- legally tried and ultimately executed like criminals -- by a frightened generation of witch hunters. Nothing remains of them now but the tattered copies yellowing in the closets of collectors like myself -- and a very strong memory. For brief as the life of E.C. was, it flashed with such brilliance as to make forgetting impossible. . . "
“Tarzan and the Lost Empire,” the twelfth in the series of Tarzan books, was first published as a serial in Blue Book Magazine from October 1928 through February 1929. The story involves a lost remnant of the Roman Empire that Tarzan and a young German find hidden in the mountains of Africa. The book is notable for the introduction of Nkima, Tarzan’s monkey companion who appears in a number of later Tarzan stories. It also reintroduces Muviro, first seen in “Tarzan and the Golden Lion,” as sub-chief of Tarzan’s Waziri warriors.
Howard Spring's autobographical story of his Cardiff childhood published in 1956 and embellished with a dust jacket illustrated by Lynton Lamb.
Howard Thurston (1869 -1936) was a stage magician from Columbus, Ohio who ran away to join the circus in childhood. He eventually became the most famous magician of his time. Thurston's traveling magic show was the biggest one of all; it was so large that it needed eight train cars to transport his road show.
He is still famous for his work with playing cards, billing himself as the King of Cards. According to legend, a Mexican magician appeared at a magic shop owned by Otto Maurer in New York City. The enigmatic magician demonstrated how he could make cards disappear, one by one, at his fingertips. Maurer showed Thurston the move, which he would later feature in his act.
He added the "Rising Cards" trick from Professor Hoffman’s "Modern Magic," the book from which Thurston had learned the rudiments of magic. For this trick, he would walk into the audience and ask several people to choose cards from a deck of cards. The deck was shuffled and placed into a clear glass. Thurston would then call for the chosen cards. One by one the cards would rise up to the top of the deck. When audiences wanted the cards to rise higher, he developed a way of causing the cards to rise directly out of the pack.
Thurston continued to present the traveling magic show following the retirement of his partner, Harry Kellar. He kept up the grind for about thirty years until, on March 30, 1936, he suffered a stroke from a cerebral hemorrhage. He died on April 13 at his Oceanside apartment in Miami Beach, Florida. [Source: Wikipedia]
Doc Stoeger, owner and editor of the Carmel City Clarion, hopes that before he dies he can put out just one exciting issue of the Clarion. Closing up the forms on Saturday’s issue, he crosses the street for a drink at his favorite tavern. It is as though he had fallen into a rabbit hole, landing in another world where Vorpal Blades, Jabberwocks and Bandersnatches are real as they were to Alice on the other side of the looking glass.
Doc feels quite at home with these unconventional goings-on, being an authority on the works of Lewis Carroll, but murder, bank-robbing, night-driving metropolitan gangsters and a “haunted” house never figured in Doc’s understanding of Carroll’s world. Wonderland became Murderland, with no holds barred.
The "Jabberwock" is a fanciful creature from the wacky mind of Lewis Carroll, who described it in his book "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There." The Jabberwock has "jaws that bite," "claws that catch," and "eyes of flame." John Tenniel, the book's illustrator, brought it too life and his rendering looks pretty much like the cover illustration on Brown's book:
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From the dust jacket:
When two Englishmen on vacation to the Canary Islands unearthed a bundle of age-old sheets, they were surprised to learn that they were the autobiography of one Deucalian, the warrior-priest of Atlantis. Deucalian was the governor of the Province of Yucatan, and on his recall to Atlantis learned that the throne had been seized by the beautiful but tyrannical and unscrupulous Phorenice. A revolt had flared up and the capital city was besieged by the rebels. Even before his arrival at Altantis his fleet was attacked to prevent his landing. Phorenice had chosen him to be her consort, but he met and fell in love with Nais, daughter of the chief priest, Zaemon. And this sets in motion a chain of events that rocks the nation and eventually results in the destruction of the Continent of Atlantis through the occult magic of Zaemon.
Kepes, G. (ed.) The New Landscape in Art and Science. Chicago: Paul Theobald and Co., 1956.
Essays by: Jean Arp, Naum Gabo, R.W. Gerard, S. Giedion, Walter Gropius, S.I. Hayakawa, Jean Helion, Fernand Leger, Kathleen Lonsdale, Charles Morris, Richard J. Neutra, C.F.A. Pantin, Bruno Rossi, Paul Weidlinger, Heinz Werner, Norbert Wiener, Richard Wilbur
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Young Danny Cross couldn’t understand the telegram from the Security Commission ordering him home from college. He wondered whether it had anything to do with the reported “death” of one of America’s leading atomic scientists in a rocket explosion over White Sands. He was surprised that it was only another thorough security check and a change of security card – the vital “open sesame” to anyone living in the Alamogordo, New Mexico, of 1981.
But Danny noticed a change in the atmosphere at the proving grounds and in the communities where its scientists and technicians lived. As more and more atomic scientists disappeared in “rocket explosions” miles above Earth – explosions that failed to scatter debris under the sites of the accidents – the former camaraderie was replaced by an air of suspicion and foreboding. The continuing disappearances led Danny to conclude that a highly skilled scientific group had planned, constructed and was operating a space station that circled the Earth in secret. He suspected that even his father and mother planned to desert Earth’s laboratories for an extraterrestrial life.
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
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]
“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:
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