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Hank Janson, a pseudonym used by Stephen Frances, D. F. Crawley, Victor Norwood and others, was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 50s. The main character in Janson’s novels (of which there are over 200) is alternatively portrayed as a tough Chicago reporter or as an assistant to a private detective. In “Bewitched” he gets involved in a boxing fix and falls for a girl mixed up in a boxing racket.
This collection of stories by Robert A. Heinlein includes “If This Goes On” originally published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940. It describes a rebellion against an American theocracy and thus served as the vehicle for Heinlein to criticize the authoritarian potential of religious fundamentalism. Two other short stories “Coventry” and “Misfit” describe the succeeding secular liberal society from the point of view of characters who reject it.
Mercer Mayer's cute illustration of "Little Critter," who is trying his best to be a help to his mother.
From: "Just for You" By Mercer Mayer, 1975 First Edition
"Little Bear's Visit" is one of the first books Maurice Sendak illustrated, and it was first published in 1961. In this story, Little Bear goes to visit Grandmother and Grandfather Bear and spends an exhilarating and fun day with them.
Little Bear's Visit
Written by Else Holmelumd Minarik
illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Harper & Brothers 1961 first edition
Robin Hood trains a young archer.
“Based on the Paul Creswick telling of Robin Hood and drawing from the rich and varied lore surrounding the beloved outlaw, this spirited reworking of Robin Hood’s many adventures is a vibrant introduction to Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and, of course, Robin Hood, the hero whose generosity and sense of justice has captivated readers for eight hundred years.” [Source: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Robin-Hood/Paul-Creswick/S...]
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From the back cover:
She was marble-still and bare in the moonlight and I thrashed wildly up the path toward her. I knelt beside her and thanked God there was only a little blood.
She opened her eyes and screamed and tried to hit me, but I pinioned her flailing body and said, "It's me -- Gabe. Lucy, I'm Gabe!"
She said, "Gabe," like a long-drawn sigh, and threw her arms around my neck and burst into racking sobs. I knelt there and held her and it seemed to me that the night got colder.
That was the way it was in our town. Without warning, terror had invaded our lives -- and now we were living under an umbrella of violence . . .
A beautiful illustration by Maurice Sendak from "The Moon Jumpers," the 1960 winner of the Caldecott Medal. It's a magical story of a moon-lit night, when four small children and a black cat are swept away by the loveliness of summer and the enchantment of a full moon.
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.
Great vintage typography on the cover of "November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three," a poetry book by Wendell Berry with illustrations by Ben Shahn.
George Braziller; First Edition (1964)
End papers to "Great Wolf and the Woodsman."
Written by Helen Hoover
Illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak
1967 First Edition
List of stories: “The Hound of Death,” “The Red Signal.” “The Fourth Man,” “The Gypsy,” “The Lamp,” “Wireless,” “The Witness for the Prosecution,” “The Mystery of the Blue Jar,” “The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael,” “The Call of Wings,” “The Last Séance,” and “S.O.S.”
“Most of these are tales of fate and the supernatural with comparatively little detective content. This collection is most notable for the first appearance in a book of Christie’s famous short story “The Witness for the Prosecution.” The author subsequently wrote an award-winning play based on this story which has been adapted for film and twice for television.” [Source: Agatha Christie Wiki at agathachristie.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hound_of_Death_and_Oth...]
"Witness for the Prosecution" 1957 Movie Trailer:
“While visiting Tarzan in his African jungle home, an American girl falls into the most astonishing science-fiction adventure of all. By a quirk in Time, a white-skinned savage from the Stone Age is thrust forward to modern days long enough to meet her and bring her back to his own world of cave people, saber-tooth tigers, and prehistorical wilderness. The ETERNAL SAVAGE (aka, The Eternal Lover) is the story of Nu of the Niocene and Victoria Custer of Nebraska, U.S.A. two human beings pitted against the world of primeval past. A startling natural catastrophe throws a caveman into contact with the modern African jungle and brings a Twentieth Century American girl into the dawn world of the Niocene Age. Here is Nu, son of Nu seeking to test his mettle against the terrible angst of the ferocious saber-tooth tiger. Here is Victoria Custer, guest of Tarzan, seeking vacation and adventure and finding more than she The Eternal Savage could ever have dreamed of.”
[Synopsis from the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library at www.edgarriceburroughs.com/series-profiles/stories-of-adv...]
A pig joking with friends as seen in "Roland the Minstrel Pig," Written & Illustrated by William Steig; 1968
From the Introduction on the first page:
THE GRIM REAPER OF STAR-SHIP ONE!
Jay West was a killer -- he had to be. No human kindness could swerve him from duty, because the iron-clad law of the Space Ship was that non one - no one - ever must live past forty!
But how could he fulfill his next assignment -- the murder of his sweetheart's father? Yet, how could he not do it? The old had to make way for the new generations. There was no air, no food, no room for the old.
Only slim hope remained. In the almost mythical Master of the Ship's destiny, Jay might find reprieve. But how can a man find a legend? He had to -- or die!
NOTTINGHAM
“Based on the Paul Creswick telling of Robin Hood and drawing from the rich and varied lore surrounding the beloved outlaw, this spirited reworking of Robin Hood’s many adventures is a vibrant introduction to Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and, of course, Robin Hood, the hero whose generosity and sense of justice has captivated readers for eight hundred years.” [Source: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Robin-Hood/Paul-Creswick/S...]
From the Introduction on the first page:
Security Agent Cussick was an old hand at outwitting possible enemies of the Twenty-first Century government. But in the bespectacled young man named Jones he met his match.
Because Jones could call Cussick’s every move – and call it in advance! For that matter Jones knew everything in advance – except the nature of the cosmic visitors who drifted down from outer space.
And yet it was around these aliens that Jones built up his drive to absolute power – a drive which was universal in scope and which no one could stop.
Because Jones knew all the answers a year ahead of time. That is, all the answers but one.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
The four stories that make up “Beyond Infinity” reveal unusual heights of imagination and a sure, smooth writing style that is rarely found in this type of work. Nor are these stories merely good science fiction – they are unusually good stories by any standard, ingenious tales of romance and adventure written for the Atomic Age.
The title story, “Beyond Infinity,” deals with a quest as old as the human race, and the first flight into space, a flight into realms “beyond infinity.”. . . In “Those Men From Mars,” Mr. Carr tells what happens when Martians visit the Earth, one group landing on the White House lawn, and the other at the Kremlin in Moscow! . . . “Morning Star” begins with a meeting of the greatest living scientists, assembled to discuss the world’s most dangerous weapon. An intruder slips in – a woman who is as baffling as she is beautiful – of whom it can truthfully be said that she is “out of this world.” . . . “Mutation” presents a fascinating answer to the question prodding the mind of every thinking person: “What about the effects of radiation after an atomic war?”
Here is writing of an unusually high order. At one and the same time “Beyond Infinity” will enthrall the dyed-in-the-wool science fiction fan, and will charm and delight the reader for whom science fiction is a strange and fearsome realm.
“YOUR CHILDREN KNOW – BUT THEY WON’T TELL YOU!”
“A daring novel of reefer smoke – reckless thrills – and the wild love of boys and girls of the city streets.”
From the back cover:
THIS WAY DOWN . . .
Seven steps descended from the sidewalk to the cellar club. They led lovely young Kathie Melton out of the innocence of her teens into the guilt and viciousness of a precociously sinful world!
Kathie knew the cellar gang was a little wild. She joined, just the same – chiefly to show Hank Landrum she was tired of his idea of an exciting Saturday night. What she didn’t know was that the cellar crowd were fond of vile amusements and up to their neck in the rackets.
The excitement really started when Hank, out of longing for her, tried to pull her from the gang. Its jittery members decided to take care of both Hank and Kathie . . .
A frank, daring novel of teen-age life in a Bronx slum! Here are intimately revealed the desperate secrets of youth caught in the toils of poverty, seeking escape through vice and violence!
"The grim head fell on one side, and in its place appeared the honest, sturdy countenance of the scout."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Fantastical mermaids as seen in "Siegfried the Mighty Warrior."
by Maria De Vivanco.
Illustrated by Lazlo Gal
Published by Golden Press; First Edition (1968)
A vignette from a cute 1940s children's book about a little puppy named Tatters.
Tatters the Puppy, Published by Whitman, First Edition 1949
A rueful-looking dog with a peacock who has...fainted?
Illustration by Mart Kempers as seen in: "The Good Food Guide: Dinner Party Book." Published in Great Britain and printed in the Netherlands, Hodder & Stoughton 1971 First Edition
Wie der Fachmann sofort erkennt .. muss dieser Wagen SOFORT GANZ DRINGEND gefahren werden .. 😎👍
As the expert immediately recognizes... this car needs to be driven IMMEDIATELY... 😎👍
“The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path” (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel in his “Leatherstocking Tales.” Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the “Leatherstocking Tales,” Natty Bumppo (or Hawkeye). The novel’s setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of “The Pioneers,’ the first of the tales to be published (1823). “The Deerslayer” is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. It should have been the opening book, for in that work Natty Bumppo is seen just emerging into manhood as a young hunter among the Delaware Indians; to be succeeded by “The Last of the Mohicans,” “The Pathfinder,” “The Pioneers,” and “The Prairie.” Fenimore Cooper relates the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of the five “Leatherstocking Tales.” “The Deerslayer” is a rousing story of warfare between the Indians and the white settlers around Otsego Lake. [Source: Preface to the Book and Wikipedia]
John W. Campbell’s classic “Who Goes There?” was the basis of two popular movies – Howard Hawks’ “The Thing From Another World” in 1951 and John Carpenter’s “The Thing” in 1982. The story is about an Antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal and man alike. Paranoia ensues as a band of frightened men work to discern friend from foe and destroy the menace.
Here are links to the movie trailers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=05-qogh7GA0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec
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.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
On the planet Mars, when the waters of the melting polar ice caps begin to flow, bringing new life to the ancient dying cities, Spring Night is celebrated. During this time of revelry and unrestrained emotions, Masters and Blood-givers are equal, and there is no law. In earlier ages when Mars was young there was only one race on the Red Planet, but thousands of centuries of inbreeding have changed the Masters to a stunted, atrophied race whose thin blood needs periodic renewing from the virile veins of the Blood-givers.
Against the strange background of an old, old world, with a social system which has no earthly counterpart, P. Schuyler Miller has developed a fascinating story of intrigue and adventure. Rebellion stirs among the Blood-givers, complicated by a romance which develops between Korul, leader of the servant race, and Thorana, daughter of the First Master.
A new factor enters the tale in the person of a great, bearded creature in a Martian Zoo – a being who is called the “Star-Beast” because of his gesturing and screaming to the stars at the time of his capture twenty years earlier. He becomes “The Titan” when he finally makes himself known as a man from Earth.
This unusual novella is a story of Martians with the man from Earth as the strange, alien being – and Miller handles his theme with his customary skill.
The remainder of the book contains a selection of the best of Miller’s shorter science fiction published in magazine form during the past fifteen years. Here are such masterpieces as “Spawn,” which tells what happens when pure life falls to earth, landing in the ocean, in a mountain peak of gold, and in the body of a dead dictator – animating each! . . . Here is “Old Man Mulligan,” a queer old guy with delusions of age – a hundred thousand years of age. Odd how his memory of cave men days on Earth helps out on Venus . . . Then there’s “Gleeps” – who spells trouble in the star lanes. He can be anything or anyone. Bad luck with a personality.
There are other stories, equally entertaining – as much entertainment and as much length as two average science novels.
From the back cover:
HOT BLOOD IN HARLEM
Maybe Luz wasn't the best kind of woman, but she was a real beauty -- and she belonged to Carlos. But one night Carlos came back to their flat in Spanish Harlem and found her gone. Now in the code of his birthplace, there was only one thing to do. So he bought a knife and started hunting the other man.
But this wasn't Puerto Rico, this was the teeming tenement jungle of Manhattan, and the man who'd stolen his wife was its feared boss -- a racketeer and killer. And Carlos, by his action, set off a chain reaction of vengeance and terror that could not be stopped until it reached its explosive climax.
Louis Malley, author of "Horns for the Devil," has written a tension-packed novel of the Puerto Ricans in America, told with understanding, full-bodied characterization and rising excitement.
So I’ve been looking to buy a Rollei 35 camera for some time and my delay was due to my criteria. It had to be black and made in Germany. Recently I came across two cameras that met this and purchased them both for a decent price. This is the second one and it has the original smaller lock for the back (or base), it is uncommon.
Lighting by Marcel.
Please respect copyright. Do no use without written permission.
Alice and Martin Provensen illustrations help tell the stories of twenty of the world's best-loved ballets in this fab 1960s book.
Tales from the Ballet
Adapted by Louis Untermeyer
Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.
Golden Press, 1968 First Edition.
Great back cover illustration to a classic book to help kids overcome their fear of the dark.
What's in the Dark?
Written by Carl Memling.
Illustrated by John E. Johnson.
Published by Parents' Magazine Press, 1971. First Edition.
Shirley, James (1596-1666). The Opportunitie. A Comedy. London: Printed by Thomas Cotes for Andrew Crooke, [1640]. First Edition. Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Copyright 2023, James A. Glazier
Professor Hoffmann (1839 - 1919), born Angelo John Lewis in England, was a lawyer, professor and the leading writer on magic, and on the games, amusements and puzzles of his time. He wrote a series of articles on magic for a boy's magazine (“Every Boy's Annual”) that was later expanded into his classic book on magic, “Modern Magic,” first published in 1876. He used the pen name, Professor Hoffman, because he feared that his professional prospects as a lawyer would be injured if it became known that he possessed such an intimate knowledge of the arts of deception. He was also the author of a novel for kids entitled “Conjurer Dick” (1886). Another of his works is entitled “The Haunted Hat,” a magical short story, first published in Chambers's Journal, January 7, 1905.
His classic “Modern Magic” (1876), and three sequels (“More Magic” (1890), “Later Magic” (1903), and “Latest Magic” (1918) have been reprinted numerous times in many different editions since their original publication, and are still in print and enjoy popular sales today to magic enthusiasts.
Of the series, “Modern Magic” is the most famous. It provides advice on the appearance, the manner of dress, and the staging for magicians. It goes on to describe many different effects with playing cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes, dice, cups and balls, balls, and hats. It concludes with a long chapter on miscellaneous tricks, including magic with strings, gloves, eggs, rice and descriptions of some utility devices. The penultimate chapter describes large stage illusions, and the final chapter contains advice on routines for a magic show, and more advice on staging.
Its popularity is due in part to the scarcity of teaching materials available to would-be magicians in the late 19th Century. “Modern Magic” was the first book in the English language to really explain the techniques of how to perform magical feats.
[Source: Magicpedia at www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Professor_Hoffmann
From the back cover:
There were seven of them, that white-hot summer at Malibu, with seven different deadly desires, each primed for explosion -- and each focused on the love-hungry, destruction-hungry woman who called herself Star Osborne.
Star had a few desires of her own, none of them very pretty, and when she hurled them headlong at the seven vacationers, there was hardly time enough -- even before the corpse showed up -- to discover who was really the deadliest of the deadly.
This is plate 15 in Gaspey’s “Book of the World,” which contains 35 full-page, hand-colored engravings. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors.
Dedication sketch in "Pigs in Hiding" by Arlene Dubanevich.
Published by Four Winds Press 1983, First Edition
“ON HER WEDDING NIGHT, A STRANGE MAN WALKED IN . . .”
From the back cover;
COME BACK MY LOVE . . .
Sherry was keenly aware of the opening door. She smiled into the velvet darkness and stretched languorously, “You’ve come home, my darling.” The man’s voice came to her through the darkness and she sat bolt upright. This was a stranger! HER CANDLE BURNS HOT! is a love story, burning as the desert sands of Old Mexico, and as exciting as the sight of an oasis to a thirsty man!
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A series of 30 digest-sized Rainbow Books were published in 1951-53, numbered 101-130. They all have terrific pinup, good girl art by classic cover artists of the period like George Gross, Rudy Nappi and others. They also have great stories written by topnotch crime noir writers like Norman Daniels, Lionel White and others using various pseudonyms. [Source: Gary Lovisi on Youtube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6qSSO71vyU&t=112s]
From the blurb on the book cover:
Have you ever wished to read a DIFFERENT type of Murder Story. WELL -- Here it is. A different twist entirely!
Combine a South Sea setting with a Thrilling Mystery, and you have "Haunted Harbor."
Interspersed with native superstitions you will find it difficult to lay this book aside.
As Jim Marsden loses his fortune and faces death simultaneously, adventure after adventure follow through with rapidity. You will thrill at his escapades.
Native witch hunters, haunted lagoons and tropical intrigue all combine to make "Haunted Harbor" a top notch mystery.
Standing Rock, Dakota. . .
“In the summer of the year preceding the Massacre of Wounded Knee, there was much unrest among the recently defeated Sioux. For defeat did not sit easily on these warriors of the great plains – the transition from fighting nomad to reservation farmer did not take place, and there were those who rode secretly with the call to the Ghost Dance and war.
“In that fateful summer there came to Standing Rock a white man, a doctor, fleeing from the threat of death – Edward Chance, who, willy-nilly, would become blood brother to the Sioux and play a powerful part in their last great uprising.
“A broad, sweeping pioneer historical, rich with the color, the life, the terror of a time that will never be again.” [Text from the back cover]
“Old Bear was a very old man indeed. He had seen many leaders come and go – and now he waited for one last leader, one who would throw off the yoke binding his people, one who could hurl the whites out of his lands, to bring dignity and strength and self-respect to the Sioux Nations once more.
“Old Bear knew this time would come when he found the White Buffalo. This was to be the sign. The coming of the White Buffalo would mean blood and death and glory once again. . .” [Introduction]
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.
“Based on the Paul Creswick telling of Robin Hood and drawing from the rich and varied lore surrounding the beloved outlaw, this spirited reworking of Robin Hood’s many adventures is a vibrant introduction to Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and, of course, Robin Hood, the hero whose generosity and sense of justice has captivated readers for eight hundred years.” [Source: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Robin-Hood/Paul-Creswick/S...]