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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:
Graham Greene - The Man Within
Bantam Books 355, 1948
Dust Jacket Artist: unknown
"A haunting story of passion and violence."
This early Arkham House anthology of works by H. P. Lovecraft includes such fantasies as "The White Ship" and the novel, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," and such horror stories as "The Moon Bog," "The Unnamable," and the novel, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." There are poems and collaborations and revisions by Lovecraft, including "The Diary of Alonzo Typer," "The Curse of Yig," "The Mound," "The Horror in the Museum," and others. To the writings by Lovecraft himself have been added a "Cthulhu Glossary," by Francis Laney, designed to summarize what is known about the fabled beings and places of Lovecraft's monumental creation, the "Cthulhu Mythos."
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.
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If you're used to hang around antique markets, then i'm sure you already stumbled upon Carpenter's workbench. These pieces of solid wood tell a story at the first sight but you wondered what you could do with it ? Here are 11 ideas of modern uses for vintage workbenches.
An old factory work bench now holds the sinks (French Barn House, Texas)
Workbench in the mudroom: source
Carpenter's workbench turned kitche island: source
A carpenter table is used as bar seating: source
Rustic workbench used in the kitchen: source
Dipped Carpenter's workbench: source
Another take of the kitchen island/ kitchen table : source
Vintage workbench repurposed in the bathroom
Workbench bar: source
Workbench desk: source
Rustic french carpenter's workbench turned into a console.
Walter Gibson was an accomplished magician as well as an author. Under the Street & Smith house name of Maxwell Grant, he created and wrote 282 of the 325 novels about the most famous crimefighter to battle evil-doers in the pages of pulp magazines -- "The Shadow." So in creating his other crimefighting hero, "Norgil, the Magician," Gibson combined his talents as a mystery writer and a leading authority on magic. "Magic and mystery are so closely interwoven," he once wrote, "that it is hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins."
Stories about Norgil first appeared in pulp magazines such as "Crime Busters" and "Mystery Magazine" during the 1930's and 40's. Each story employs a famous stage illusion as a plot device, and Norgil is a solitary representation of several real-life magicians who made those tricks popular. These long-lost stories are collected here for the first time in book form.
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.
Persephone books reprint neglected novels, mostly early to mid-twentieth by women. They are lovely grey paperbacks, with patterned endpapers and matching bookmarks which reflect the book.
Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centers more on his daughter Enid and his old friend Edward Malone. Another friend from “The Lost World,” Lord John Roxton, is also involved in the novel's second half. Professor Summerlee, who has died of old age around this time, is referred to by the mediums much to the anger of Professor Challenger. Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. [Source: Wikipedia]
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)
Quoting from the blurb on the dustjacket:
“Bold, imaginative and packed with excitement, STAR WARS is destined to become a classic in the genre. This is the novel that brings that ‘sense of wonder’ back to science fiction – each page brimming with heroic adventure, unexpected marvels and amazing characters…”
For sure! Little did they realize how really huge it would become.
"Pinocchio" is one of the most beautiful works of animation ever produced. Through Pierre Lambert's research, and beautiful, careful reproductions, this volume celebrates the genius of the legendary artists who, more than seventy-five years ago, worked with Walt Disney to create one of the world's most beloved animated films.
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.
1954; The Burning Fuse by Ben Benson. Dust Jacket by Hedley Rainnie. Published by M.S. Mill co and William Morrow & Co. New York.
The novel was originally written in 1933 and it was adapted in 1951 as the film "When Worlds Collide" produced by George Pal. Here is a link to the trailer for the 1951 film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXeT-yHNcFI
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.
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.
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.
How CANADA Conquered THE COMIC BOOK UNIVERSE.
by John Bell.
Toronto, Dundurn Press, [november] 2oo6. ISBN 1-55oo2-659-3.
7 x 9-3/8, 112 sheets ivory bond perfectbound in ivory light card endpapers with 5/8" black & white cloth applique head- & tailbands into 7-3/16 x 9-3/4 black carnival groove-covered boards printed brown letterpress spine only, interiors all except 21 pp printed black offset with 3-colour process additions throughout, in 7-1/4 x 9-3/4 white byronic brocade dustjacket with glossy PVC verso & 3-3/4" flaps printed 4-colour process recto only.
cover graphic by Dave Cooper.
37 other contributors ID'd:
Leo Bachle, Stanley Berneche, David Boswell, Chester Brown, Alison Carr, Richard Comely, Dave Cooper, Palmer Cox, Arch Dale, Clayton Dexter, Adrian Dingle, Hal Foster, George Freeman, Ed Furness, Gregory Gallant [ie "Seth"], David Geary, Harry Hall, Rand H.Holmes, Calum Johnston, Harold A.MacGill, John MacLeod, Vincent Marchesano, Henry Mietkiewicz, Bernie Mireault, Gabriel Morrissette, George Rae, Paul Rivoche, Richard Robertson, Spider Robinson, Su Rogers, Jon Saint Ables, Gerhard [Shmuck], Joe Shuster, Dave Sim, Charles Snelgrove, Paul Stockton, Colin Upton.
includes:
i) SPOTLIGHT CHESTER BROWN AND THE SEARCH FOR NEW NARRATIVES (insert between chapters 6 & 7, pp.139-168; references Brown's instigational association with jwcurry, p.146)
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!”
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 ….
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."
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.
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.”
Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off to a nature clinic to be tuned-up to his former state of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet regime – and thereby upsets the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary, more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh.
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.
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...
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.