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The “Nuremberg Chronicle” is an illustrated world history that follows the story of humankind related in the Bible, from Creation to Last Judgment. It was written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel in the city of Nuremberg and is one of the best-documented early printed books – an incunabulum – and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Durer. The large workshop of Michael Wolgemut, then Nuremberg’s leading artist, provided the unprecedented 1,809 woodcut illustrations. Albrecht Durer was an apprentice with Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489, so may well have participated in designing some of the illustrations for the specialist craftsmen who cut the blocks.
Approximately 400 Latin and 300 German copies of the Chronicle survived into the twenty-first century. Some copies were broken up for sale as decorative prints. The larger illustrations in the book were sold separately, often hand-colored in watercolor. Many copies of the book are also colored, with varying degrees of skill; there were specialist shops for this. The coloring on some examples has been added much later.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Treatise on Painting,” the most important treatise on art to be written during the Renaissance, was actually compiled by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo’s pupils, around 1540. It circulated widely, first in separate manuscripts and later in printed books, and for centuries it was thought to have been written by Leonardo himself. Artists, scientists, and scholars including Galileo, read it avidly as an authoritative record of Leonardo’s thoughts. In the 19th century, when the artist’s original notes became available, scholars realized that the text poorly reflected Leonardo’s sophisticated ideas. The text was very influential nonetheless. For better or worse, it was the primary source for disseminating Leonardo’s art theory in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century.
[Source: www.treatiseonpainting.org/]
“The Chase of the Golden Meteor” was one of Jules Verne’s last novels. Verne’s son, Michel, extensively edited the novel before its publication in 1908, three years after his father’s death. An asteroid wanders into the earth’s gravitational field and is spotted by two rival astronomers in the same small town in Virginia, and they attempt to claim credit for themselves. The discovery becomes a worldwide sensation when it is announced that the asteroid is solid gold and is plummeting toward earth. Another eccentric amateur scientist, Zephyrin Xirdal, invents a ray which will cause the golden meteor to fall where he chooses. Xirdal, the two Virginia astronomers and their families, and representatives from many nations race to find and claim the golden meteor.
The book is seen as less an early example of hard science fiction than a social satire lampooning greed, monomania and vanity. It combines hard science and scientific speculation with a farcical comedy of manners. Grant Richards in London published the first English translation of the novel (as revised by Michel Verne) with 24 illustrations by George Roux.
“The Complete Book of Outer Space” is a collection of essays about space exploration that first appeared as a magazine, published by Maco Magazine Corp. The hardcover book was produced mainly for libraries and is the rarest of all Gnome imprints. The dust jacket illustration is by Chesley Bonestell.
Contents
"A Preview of the Future: Introduction", by Jeffrey Logan
"Development of the Space Ship", by Willy Ley
"Station in Space", by Wernher von Braun
"Space Medicine", by Heinz Haber
"Space Suits", by Donald H. Menzel
"The High Altitude Program", by Robert P. Haviland
"History of the Rocket Engine", by James H. Wyld
"Legal Aspects of Space Travel", by Oscar Schachter
"Exploitation of the Moon", by Hugo Gernsback
"Life Beyond the Earth", by Willy Ley
"Interstellar Flight", by Leslie R. Shepard
"The Spaceship in Science Fiction", by Jeffrey Logan
"Plea for a Coordinated Space Program", by Wernher von Braun
"The Flying Saucer Myth", by Jeffrey Logan
"The Panel of Experts"
"Chart of the Moon Voyage"
"Chart of the Voyage to Mars"
"Timetables and Weights"
"A Space Travel Dictionary"
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
A bulldog mother and her little potatoes are snoozing sweetly in this illustration from "Nipper, the Little Bull Pup." (Written by Dorothy K. L'Hommedieu; Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse;
Published by J.B. Lippincott Co; 1965)
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müller Verlag, München. Első kiadás
T. Nelson Downs created a classic in coin magic known as "The Miser's Dream" and "Modern Coin Manipulation," the author's first book, is where this famous trick was first published, along with other tricks in his repertoire as the "King of Koins." The book is still issued in reprints today and, being out of copyright, can also be read online for free.
archive.org/details/moderncoinmanip00downgoog
"The Miser's Dream" is an impressive sleight-of-hand trick in which the magician continually pulls coins out of the air and drops them in a container, usually a hat or a bucket. The coins appear at his fingertips and are then dropped into the container with a clinking sound.
This book presents an anthology of gems selected by Peter Haining from the pages of Weird Tales. The book presents them as facsimile reproductions of the actual pages of the magazine. According to fantasy enthusiasts, Weird Tales was the first and the best of all the fantasy periodicals. It spanned thirty years of publication as a pulp from 1923-1954.
Some of the authors appearing in Haining's anthology are Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, and nearly every other major figure who contributed to Weird Tales.
Cover artist Margaret Brundage (1900-1976) sold 66 original pulp cover illustrations to Weird Tales from 1933 to 1945. Her covers were signed “M. Brundage” and were very popular with readers, but most of the public wasn’t aware the artist was female. When puritanical social forces complained about the overt sexuality of the art, the editor finally revealed that the artist was a woman, hoping to mollify the perceived offensiveness of her work.
As a woman in a field dominated by men, Brundage brought a unique aesthetic to pulp art. Most of her work was created with pastels on illustration board and often featured fantasy scenes of women trapped in sexually vulnerable situations. Brundage continued to create fantasy scenes in pastels for the rest of her life but was unable to find a steady publisher of her work after the publisher of Weird Tales moved to New York City in 1938. After a divorce from a drunken husband and the death of her only son, Brundage’s later years were spent in relative poverty. Check out the “Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists” for more on Brundage (www.pulpartists.com/Brundage.html).
From the back cover:
"The dream of being a superman came true for Max Quest - and immediately turned into a nightmare. He was not alone. There were Others with extraordinary powers, and the last thing they wanted was another superman on Earth - especially one working for good instead of evil. They couldn't kill him. But they could send him ... elsewhere.
Elsewhere was the viciously hostile world of Qanar, where Max's powers didn't work and sorcery was a more potent weapon than science, where shadows were as menacing as steel. Max Quest still had to save Earth from the corrupt threat of the Others - but he found his destiny intricately linked with that of Qanar as well. And somewhere in space-time was his lost love..."
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müllerr Verlag, München. Első kiadás
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
I've been past Foster's many times and it's the first time that I've seen books outside like this. The oldest shopfront in Chiswick, it was built in the18th Century and is grade II listed. The reason for bowed shopfronts was that the glazing bars were on the outside and the puttied rebate was inside, the reverse of the usual practice. It was easy to dislodge the putty, remove the glass and steal something. This was safer, they would rarely have been fitted with 'bottle glass'. Fosters book shop is wonderful if you love books. The interior is piled high with antiquarian books, fine bindings, children's illustrated and first editions. The entire building is Georgian. I've always had a fondness for Chiswick High Road, because it hadn't been taken over by the 'High Street' shops., as Hammersmith & Richmond had. Sadly over the last few years 'they' have crept in, also every other new business to open is a Brasserie.
Late C18. Brown brick. 3-storeys. 2 double-hung sashes in reveals with flat arches. Good original bowed shop front flanked by 2 doors (one with traceried fan) and narrow pilasters; entablature with dentil cornice over all. British Listed Buildings
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Rackham Trade Edition.
First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers. Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter. Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to "act normal." Now the government wants its brainchild back - for its own insane ends.
"Firestarter" was adapted into a movie in 1984:
From the book "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). First edition. This is the first book that tells the story of Peter Pan, Wendy and their exploits in Neverland along with the now familiar cast of characters that includes Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and Tiger Lily.
An early acolyte of H. P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley emerged as a talented and versatile writer in the domain of the uncanny. He developed his own imaginative adaptation of the Cthulhu Mythos in stories that range from the nethermost regions of subterranean dread to the star flung spaces beyond the rim of the world.
The title story, "The Horror at Oakdeene," begins within the eerie confines of Oakdeene Sanatorium, where an invocation from the pages of the Cthaat Aquadingen leads the reader into the realm of nightmare. Another story, "The Statement of Henry Worthy," opens on the bleak Yorkshire moors and culminates in a primeval cavern where a race of hideous fungoid anomalies lurk.
Also included in the volume is Lumley's short novel, "Born of the Winds," in which the reader is taken on a trek across the Great White North, lacerated by icy arctic winds and confronted by the Ithaqua legend, an entity of awesome cosmic malevolence. Other tales of the occult and the macabre in this collection are "The Viking's Stone," "Aunt Hester," "No Way Home," "The Cleaner Woman," and "Darghud's Doll."
Adorable puppies in a vintage book about sled dogs.
A Puppy Named Gih.
Written by Sara Machetanz
Illustrated by Fred Machetanz
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons; First edition (1957)
The novelist Ernest Hemingway once remarked that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” and other writers such as poet T. S. Eliot and African American novelist Ralph Ellison have added their acclaim. Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, worked for eight years on the story of an outcast white boy, Huck, and his adult friend Jim, a runaway slave, who together flee Missouri on a raft down the Mississippi River in the 1840s. The book has been controversial since the day it was published, opinions ranging from “the book is a masterpiece” to the book is “trash and suitable only for the slums.” The free-spirited and not always truthful Huck narrates the colorful stories in the book in his own coarse and ungrammatical voice. He shows a lack of respect for religion and adult authority and repeatedly uses the “n” word. Some readers view the book as satire and consider it a powerful attack on racism. Others believe it contributes to a “racially hostile environment” and are offended by the language and the portrayal of the slave Jim. In spite of it all, Huck Finn remains the Great American Novel to the many people who have read it and loved it.
Cover art by Maria L. Kirk.
Burnett’s story of a sickly and unloved 10-year-old orphan who finds joy and happiness in her secret garden is a classic of English children’s literature and one of Burnett’s best-known works.
"Navy Commander Alan Shepard, 37, father of two girls, 13-year-old Laura and 9-year-old Juliana, had no desire to be a hero.
"What drove him to volunteer for the potentially dangerous task of probing the void beyond our planet? Mostly, it was the chance to serve his country in a role for which he felt well qualified, but also because he saw it as a personal challenge.
"No daredevil, he has a great, restless desire to do everything well, and then to do it a little better than the other fellow. As an astronaut, he could pit his strength against man and Nature with the added incentive of a thrilling ride beyond the Earth's atmosphere in a space capsule.
"This unusual and timely book tells the whole story of Commander Shepard and his fantastic journey into outer space." [From the Introduction]
Interesting perspective of the space program from 1961. Chapter 11 presents some speculations of what NASA had on the drawing board at the time, including the "Apollo Orbiting Laboratory," which would be lifted up not by the Saturn V, but by the more powerful and as yet undeveloped Nova rocket.
From the book "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). First edition. This is the first book that tells the story of Peter Pan, Wendy and their exploits in Neverland along with the now familiar cast of characters that includes Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and Tiger Lily.
A page from Arnold Lobel's "Fables" book.
Fables.
Written and Illustrated by Arnold Lobel
Published by Scholastic Inc; First Edition (1980)
....Shows the Way.
Written by Donald Sobol
Illustrated by Leonard Shortall
Published by Weekly Reader Books (1972)
While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon" -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty. The book was turned into a movie, also called Lost Horizon, by director Frank Capra in 1937. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.
The first American edition of “The Phantom of the Opera” is illustrated with a color frontispiece and four double-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne (1861-1929). The book’s author, Gaston Leroux (1868-1927), was a French journalist and writer of detective fiction. Though this is his most famous novel, he also authored a popular series of “locked room” mysteries including The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black. But The Phantom of the Opera is, by far, his most influential novel and the basis of many film adaptations, beginning with Lon Chaney Sr. in 1925, as well as the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, one of the most successful of all time.
“The Apollo spacecraft will be manned by three astronauts. Two will land on the Moon in the Lunar Excursion Module (see preliminary model above). To return, they will blast off in the top part, leaving the lower section behind. They will then join the third man in the Command and Space Module for the trip back to Earth. The upper part of the LEM will remain in orbit around the Moon.” (The description accompanies the photo and is what actually happened three years later on Apollo 11.)
First of three Pop-Ups in the book.
Early pop-up book from the Disney studios featuring Mickey and the gang with the circus animals. The text Includes three color pop-ups and black & white illustrations throughout.
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
In this, Asimov's second voyage into the human body, the destination is deep inside the human brain in a desperate search for the origins of thought itself. As in the first voyage, a team of scientists is miniaturized to molecular size and travel in a specially designed submarine. They embark on a dangerous journey to a dying brain in an attempt to tap the secrets held there.
“Pirates of Venus” is the first book in the Venus series and was first published in six installments in Argosy magazine in 1932 and in book form two years later. The novel contains elements of political satire aimed at communism and there are fantastic creatures, amazing landscapes, picturesque kingdoms with strange customs, a resourceful hero with telepathic abilities, and, of course, a beautiful and strong-willed princess. Carson Napier, the hero of the story, is on a journey to Mars, misses the red planet by a wide margin and crashes on Venus, a water world called Amtor by its humanlike inhabitants. And it’s there that many new adventures begin. “Pirates of Venus” is generally considered one of Edgar Rice Burroughs best books from the 1930s. [Source: Wikipedia]
This is a lovely version of Rudyard Kipling's tale accompanied with charming illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. --The little elephant gets by with his very short "nose", but you will be surprised how elephants got their longer trunk. : )
This is the first one-volume edition of two classic works, "Houdini's Escapes" (1930) and "Houdini's Magic" (1932). These books provided the most complete description available of Houdini's feats and how he performed them. Walter Gibson prepared them after Houdini's death in 1926, from the magician's private notebooks and with the assistance of his widow, Beatrice, and of Bernard Ernst, then president of the Society of American Magicians.
"It will soon become apparent to the reader that, although Houdini was daring, he never took an uncalculated risk. He would not accept a challenge unless he was sure he could meet it. He was physically fit, an athlete, and a strong swimmer. Yet his assistants were poised to rescue him if he didn't surface on schedule from an underwater box. A dozen less careful performers have been drowned, or seriously injured, because they attempted this feat without sufficient knowledge, or without taking the necessary precautions." -- Milbourne Christopher
Author Walter B. Gibson, after completing "Houdini's Escapes and Houdini's Magic" in the early 1930s, turned to fiction writing, creating the famed pulp hero of Lamont Cranston, also known as the Shadow. Under the pen name of Maxwell Grant, he wrote novel-length stories for "The Shadow Magazine" for more than fifteen years. These novels were adapted for the Shadow radio program and, today, they have been reprinted in paperback and hardcover editions. Under his own name, Walter Gibson has written many other books in the fields of magic, games and the occult.
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Rackham Trade Edition.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
The book features seven stories by the long-time editor of Astounding Science Fiction. They are all set in the far distant future amid technologies way more advanced than our own. The tales describe the perils we are inevitably exposed to in a universe indifferent to our lives, our progress, or our extinction. Campbell foresees humans bred for specific characteristics, watches their fight for freedom from interstellar invaders and bears witness to the rule of the Machine and to mankind’s sudden loss of memory.
In the Victorian age most book owners felt that any book worth keeping deserved to be rebound, usually in some form of leather to become part of a personal library. This copy of "Through the Looking Glass...," which was re-bound in leather, retains the original publisher's binding inside.
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1872) was published seven years later and is set some six months later than the earlier book. This time Alice enters a fantastic world by stepping through a mirror. “Through the Looking Glass” is not quite as popular as “Wonderland” but it does include celebrated verses such as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and episodes involving “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and “Humpty Dumpty.” The book features fifty in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
The author, Lewis Carroll, is a pseudonym for Reverend Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) who was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was awkward and is said to have had a crippling stammer around other adults. But around children the stammer melted away as he told them his nonsensical stories. He was a brilliant and imaginative artist whose “extravagantly absurd” stories and witty wordplay appealed to young people.
The “Nuremberg Chronicle” is an illustrated world history that follows the story of humankind related in the Bible, from Creation to Last Judgment. It was written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel in the city of Nuremberg and is one of the best-documented early printed books – an incunabulum – and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Durer. The large workshop of Michael Wolgemut, then Nuremberg’s leading artist, provided the unprecedented 1,809 woodcut illustrations. Albrecht Durer was an apprentice with Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489, so may well have participated in designing some of the illustrations for the specialist craftsmen who cut the blocks.
Approximately 400 Latin and 300 German copies of the Chronicle survived into the twenty-first century. Some copies were broken up for sale as decorative prints. The larger illustrations in the book were sold separately, often hand-colored in watercolor. Many copies of the book are also colored, with varying degrees of skill; there were specialist shops for this. The coloring on some examples has been added much later.
Six men and two women are trapped in a tropic clearing – and one of them is a murderer. Confronted with the intense heat and boredom of the tropics, having to wait for the arrival of the coasting launch which passes by once a month, this assorted group become irritable and overwrought. Jealousies and enmities become more and more marked until one night one of the members of the party is found strangely and horribly strangled by the head of an Indian doll which has been thrust far down his throat.
Albert Dekker stars as Alexander Thorkel, a mad scientist who pursues a fantastic experiment deep in the Peruvian jungle. He uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including humans, reasoning that if people were one-tenth their normal size, there would be ten times as much food to go around. When fellow scientists penetrate his jungle retreat, the paranoid Dr. Thorkel shrinks them down to size to protect his secret, even killing one of them to demonstrate his power. Here is a link to the movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSqylxm3jo
Will Garth, the author of the novel based on the movie, is a house pseudonym. Authorship is often misattributed to Henry Kuttner because of his shorter magazine version from the film script published in “Thrilling Wonder Stories.” The actual author of the novel is likely Alexander Samalman.
This scarce twenty- page pamphlet tells the story of the Dakotas last winter buffalo hunt in 1880-1881. The hunting party consisted of 60 Sioux Indians and the story is told by Reverend Thomas Lawrence Riggs (1847-1940), the only white man in the group and an active participant in the hunt. Rev. Riggs, who was a missionary among the Indians, talked their language from childhood. He provides an inside view of the customs and laws that controlled the hunting of big game, sharing in the humor and hard work of the Sioux Indians during the hunt.
“The Blue Poetry Book” was Andrew Lang's first and only “colored” book of poetry. It collects nearly 150 poems by masters such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Longfellow, Burns, Byron, Shakespeare, Poe, Marlowe, Coleridge, Milton, Macaulay, among others. The poems are accompanied by 100 black and white illustrations by Henry J. Ford and Lancelot Speed.
Andrew Lang (1844 -1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales and for his twelve “colored” fairy books, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own color, beginning with “The Blue Fairy Book” (1889) and ending with “The Lilac Fairy Book” (1910). In all, 437 tales from a broad range of cultures and countries are presented. The series was immensely popular, helped by Lang's reputation in folklore, and by the packaging device of the uniform books. The series proved of great influence in children's literature, increasing the popularity of fairy tales over tales of real life.
This book from Arkham House collects four bizarre novels by British author William Hope Hodgson, their first printing in the USA. They are “The Boats of the Glen Carrig” (1907), “The House on the Borderland” (1908), “The Ghost Pirates” (1909), and “The Night Land” (1912). Primarily the romanticist, Hodgson could not overcome a strong predilection for the weird. A thread of romance creeps into even “The House on the Borderland,” perhaps his best work and one of the most unforgettable weird-scientific novels ever written. “The Night Land” which was subtitled “a love tale” is a weird fantasy story of the world millions of years in the future.
William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) was the son of an Essex clergyman who left home early in life to spend eight years at sea, a circumstance that profoundly influenced his writing career, for his best weird tales were written about the sea. When World War I broke out, Hodgson was granted a commission in the 171st Brigade at Royal Field Artillery. He fought at Ypres and, in the following year, he distinguished himself for bravery by the part he played to help stem the onslaught of a superior German force. Not long after, while on duty in the dangerous post of observation officer of his Brigade, he was killed by a shell.
Hannes Bok (1914-1964) is one of a handful of fantasy illustrators from the pulp magazine era, along with Virgil Finlay and Edd Cartier, whose work is just as popular today as it was in the 1940s. He made his professional debut in the pages of Weird Tales in late 1939, but he began dabbling in fantasy and science fiction art as early as 1930. He did considerable pulp magazine work throughout the 1940s, and was active as a book illustrator and painter in the late 1940s and early 1950s, contributing to such publishers as Arkham House, Shasta, Fantasy Press, and Gnome Press.