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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.
"Dune Messiah" carries on the monumental story begun in "Dune," which won Nebula and Hugo awards. A holy war fought in space and on a thousand planets had made Paul Atreides the religious and political leader of the Galaxy. The product of generations of controlled breeding, trained in arcane disciplines by the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, he had more than human powers, including the ability to sense the shape of the future.
Then the Bene Gesserit, unable to dominate the man they had made a god, set out to overthrow him. But Paul Atreides could foresee their plans and shape them to an unexpected and shocking goal...
A misfit and bullied high school girl, Carrie White, uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her. She gets pushed to the limit on the night of her school's prom by a humiliating prank.
Carrie's revenge (1976):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiPw2v02nE4
Carrie's revenge (2013):
The cover illustration is by Alan M. Clark. The illustration for the first edition of the book is deceptively bland-looking by comparison:
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This is the book that introduced readers to Norman Bates, his knife-wielding Mother and a horrifying shower scene at the Bates Motel. The story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film of the same name. Here is Hitchcock's take on that infamous shower scene:
Olaf Wieghorst (1899-1988), born and raised in Denmark, was a painter of the American West in the vein of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. I first saw his artwork in the opening credits of the 1967 motion picture “El Dorado” starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. I viewed a fully-restored version of the film on Blu-Ray and Olaf’s paintings served as backdrops during the credits. George Alexander sings the haunting “El Dorado” theme song by Nelson Riddle and John Gabriel. The paintings and the song are the best two minutes in the movie. For a low-quality version of the opening credits (which should actually be seen in HD to do justice to the paintings), check out:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihn6FuFWZg
The fifteen paintings in El Dorado’s opening credits are also on display at this website:
Joe Servello's art is reminiscent of a classic paperback book cover:
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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."
The book contains seven tales of science fiction, including the title story – a classic of science fiction – about a lonely, isolated station in the Antarctic where “The Thing from Another World” is discovered frozen in the ice. Terror ensues when this shape shifting “thing” is defrosted. A motion picture based on this terrifying tale was released in 1951, which led to this second printing of Campbell’s book. The first printing in 1948 had a different dust jacket:
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In the distant future, a strange plan for civilization is being followed by man. Two different planets are involved, two separate worlds in space -- and yet they are joined , though only by a mysterious pathway whose secret very few know.
The story centers around Ketan in the strange, isolated world of Kronweld. He is a Seeker, defying law and tradition to search into forbidden knowledge. It is he who challenges the unquestioned rule of a mighty machine which forms the community mind of Kronweld. And there is his companion, Elta, both friend and enemy, who also is seeking some unknown goal.
What Ketan does to solve the Mystery of the Origin of Life and his penetration into the Temple of Birth brings him into contact with the other world. With determination he penetrates the infinite curtain which so weirdly surrounds his city. And from then on, uncovering fact after fact, he slowly discovers the monstrous secret of two human worlds.
1947; Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. with dust Jacket by Ben Stahl, The original front cover is by Lester Kohs www.flickr.com/photos/42080330@N03/3882180950/
First edition, with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. 8vo., publisher's heavy grain decorated beige cloth. A near fine copy in like dustjacket, bright, clean and fresh. Housed in a tailor made leather spined case. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:
"For Jules and Joyce and also Joan with love John Steinbeck."
Beneath the signature is one of Steinbeck's irreverent flying pig sketches (or "Pigasus" if you prefer), generally an indication that the recipient of his presentation was a close and valued friend,or someone he held in high esteem. In this case it was Jules Buck, and Joyce Gates, with their young daughter, Joan. Jules Buck started out as John Huston's camerman for his wartime documentaries (”Winning Your Wings", "Let There Be Light" etc.) and then grew into an influential producer, both in the US and abroad. Although having a sketchy working relationship with Huston, they reportedly fell out over Huston's anti-Semitic behaviour (Huston later referred to Buck as "My body servant" which is obviously super healthy). He collaborated with Steinbeck on the screenplay of what would end up as Elia Kazan's "Viva Zapata", although uncredited, and later produced "The Killers", "The Naked City" etc. before shifting to Europe to escape the Hollywood witch hunts, founding a production company with Peter O'Toole (Keep Films) and producing such wonders as "Under Milk Wood", "The Day They Robbed The Bank of England", "Lord Jim" and "What's New Pussycat" Joyce Gates was an actress in various small, often uncredited, roles in movies like "Kismet", and their daughter Joan is a notable journalist, writer, and all round renaissance woman by all accounts; at one point the London correspondent for Warhol's "Interview" magazine, the only American to have been editor-in-chief of French Vogue, and the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Life and Hard Times of a Teenage London Society Girl.", later published in "The Pump House Gang." She started studying acting in 2002, and appeared in Nora Ephron's "Julie and Julia", later writing about the experience of auditioning for Ephron. She fell from grace after Vogue published a decidedly lightweight and grievously ill timed interview with Asma al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad. Frankly they seem fascinating, but basically the point is that Steinbeck knew them very well, and liked them, and inscribed his sad, slow, strange, dust-bowl novel to them. A really gorgeous and interesting association copy of an undeniably great book.
Dust jacket designed by Bill English for A Bit Off the Map, and Other Stories by Angus Wilson. New York: Viking Press, 1957. PR6045.I577 B5 1957
--Updated with new scan, August 4 2020--
Cover to Super Turtles #1, published in Japan by Dengeki Comics in 1995. This issue gives the backstory to how the TMNT acquired the Mutastones which were seen in that kooky TMNT anime episode released in Japan. It features story and artwork by Hidemaki Idemitsu. The credits page dates this publication as August 15, 1995.
Check out the English fan-translation project of this issue, courtesy of TMNTEntity and Optical Internet Translation Gang:
tmntentity.blogspot.com/2009/05/tmnt-manga.html.
Also, see a Dengeki advertisement flyer for this volume here:
Kepes, G. (ed.), The Nature and Art of Motion, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965
Essays by: James S. Ackerman, Donald Appleyard, Gillo Dorfles, Karl Gerstner, Robert Gessner, James J. Gibson, Stanley W. Hayter, Gerald Holton, Katharine Kuh, Hands Richter, George Rickey, Hans Wallach, Gordon B. Washburn
The jacket painting is the artist's conception of the Jura Mountains on the Sinus Iridum as seen from a crater in Mare Imbrium. What the lunar surface is, how man will get to it, and what he will do when he arrives there is the subject of "Man and the Moon," which was published just weeks before John F. Kennedy proposed going there by the end of the decade. Basic questions about the moon are discussed in the book including: Is the moon covered with a thin film of dust - or with 300 feet of it and what is the best place to land? Imagine landing on the moon and sinking in hundreds of feet of dust, a legitimate concern back then.
1952; Dutch Hardcover 'Moordkroeg Chicago' [ The Fabulous Clippoint ] by Fredric Brown. The dustjacket is a Twin of a Bantam paperback
“Savage Pellucidar” is the sixth book in the Pellucidar series. It consists of four short inter-linked stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote in the 1940s. Three of these stories were published in the magazine Amazing Stories in 1942. The fourth story, “Savage Pellucidar,” didn’t get published until Amazing Stories published the entire series in 1963. The series also appeared in book form for the first time when Canaveral Press published it in November 1963. The four stories that make up the series are:
"The Return To Pellucidar" (Amazing Stories magazine, February 1942)
"Men Of The Bronze Age" (Amazing Stories magazine, March 1942)
"Tiger-Girl" (Amazing Stories magazine, April 1942)
"Savage Pellucidar" (Amazing Stories magazine, November 1963)
I first read Scribner’s classic edition of “Treasure Island,” with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, and I reread the story again later as an adult in the unembellished Grosset & Dunlap edition. The Scribner’s edition with Wyeth’s dramatic visuals added a whole new dimension to the story. The illustrations were so vivid and dynamic in capturing the spirit of adventure that they left a lasting impression.
Grosset & Dunlap, on the other hand, attempted to reach a wider audience without sacrificing durability. Their edition is built to be more affordable, so only the dustjacket and frontispiece are illustrated. Yet it, too, has become quite valuable over time. The nostalgia factor combined with Grosset & Dunlap’s historical significance has made their books sought-after by collectors who appreciate their accessibility and charm.
By the time I revisited “Treasure Island” in the G&D edition, it was almost like seeing a familiar landscape through a different lens – text only, yet still infused with Wyeth’s imagery that had shaped my first encounter. It speaks to the power of great artwork in storytelling. Even when absent, it lingers in the imagination, influencing how we visualize the characters and scenes.
Dust jacket, direct scan, from "The Guide to Garden Flowers by Norman Taylor, Houghton Mifflon Company, NY
This is the book that introduced readers to Norman Bates, his knife-wielding Mother and a horrifying shower scene at the Bates Motel. The story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film of the same name. Here is Hitchcock's take on that infamous shower scene:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4
The Gauntlet Press published a 35th anniversary edition of the novel with Mother’s portrait on the cover:
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1948 3rd Print; Kelly by Donald Henderson Clarke. A present from my Brother for my :-) Cover art by Barye Phillips !
Direct scan of the cover, with flaws, of the dust jacket of a hard cover copy of the "Green Fairy Book," edited by Andrew Lang.
“Hawk of the Wilderness” (1938) is a Republic movie serial based on the Kioga adventure novels written by pulp writer William L. Chester (1907-1971). Kioga was a Tarzan-like white child raised on a lost island in the Arctic Circle, somewhere in northern Siberia, which was heated by thermal springs and unknown currents. Chester wrote four Kioga novels. The first, “Hawk of the Wilderness” (1935), was the one that was filmed as the 12-part 1938 Republic serial. (The other novels in the series were “Kioga of the Wilderness” (1936), “One Against a Wilderness” (1937) and “Kioga of the Unknown Land” (1938)).
Herman Brix had earlier also played Tarzan on film in the 1935 Edgar Rice Burroughs-produced serial “The New Adventures of Tarzan.” “Hawk of the Wilderness” was later re-edited into a feature film version for television as “The Lost Island of Kioga” in 1966. [Source: Wikipedia]
This fourth book in the Dune series takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy (Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune). It tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, savior of the planet Dune. Leto still lives but is no longer human. He has traded his humanity for virtual immortality by undergoing what will soon be a total transformation into the magnificent and enormous sandworm of Dune. He must live, for without his guidance the human race will surely go astray. Will his awesome sacrifice have been in vain?
There are 23 “Dragonriders of Pern” novels and two collections of short stories through July 2012. The original books were a trilogy consisting of “Dragonflight” (1968), “Dragonquest” (1970) and “White Dragon” (1978). “Dragonflight,” the first book in the series, is composed in part of two novellas from 1967, “Weyr Search” and “Dragonrider,” which first appeared in Analog science fiction magazine.
The “Dragonriders of Pern” book series depicts an elite group of warriors who ride dragons with telepathic powers. The series is based upon a fictional planet called Pern that faces a deadly threat from spores that are rained down upon it by a rogue planet called the Red Star. The stories are set in several different periods of Pern’s history from initial exploration to more than 2500 years after landing. Later stories focus on earlier periods of time, the creation of the dragons via genetic engineering and the same events seen from the viewpoint of different characters. The series has a large fan base and rumors are that Warner Bros. has optioned the books and hired author-screenwriter Sarah Cornwell to adapt the first installment of the series.
In the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama,” and Larry Niven’s “Ringworld,” John Varley’s “Titan” is an astronomically huge wheel-shaped structure in orbit around the planet Saturn. Captain Cirocco “Rocky” Jones and her crew aboard the ship “Ringmaster” discover the awesome structure and, as they approach, they realize it is hollow and can only be an artifact of alien intelligence. Before they have a chance to establish orbit around it, it sends out tentacles, pulls the “Ringmaster” apart, and draws the crew deep inside its bowels. There they remain, isolated from one another, in a state of near-total sensory deprivation, while the alien intelligence works its mysteries on their minds.
After an unknown period of time, Rocky and her crew are disgorged into Titan’s incredible internal world – an organic fairyland which they share with centaurs, harpies, angels, mudfish, not-quite-kangaroos, whale-like things that sail through the sky and other products of some truly wild imagination. Though this world seems benign, almost a paradise, Rocky is too well trained to accept it at face value. She sets about to find her crew, re-establish her command, and find out what makes this place tick.
Scribner's, 1926. This is a later printing with a different and more modern dust jacket from the stated first..
Check out the tagline: "Wherein the lost generation that followed the War goes to the devil with a smile on the lip but with despair in its heart."
Call NO.: Awaiting to be cataloged.