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9 Heinlein juvies, including much Darrell K. Sweet!

6/8/2017

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Recently I received a box of 9—nine!—of the so-called “juveniles” Heinlein did for Scribner’s in the 1940s and ’50s.  These included Double Star, Farmer in the Sky, Have Space Suit—Will Travel, Red Planet, Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, The Star Beast, Starman Jones, and Time for the Stars.

All of them were in quite decent condition, with most actually appearing to have been unread.  Except for some minor shopwear, the only problem was that there was some old label-type sticky gunk on the back of one, and it peeled up some of the cover of Red Planet, which was indeed exceedingly annoying...

The artwork included 7 nice Darrell K. Sweet covers, one by Lee Rosenblatt—a funky early-1970s-looking Starman Jones—and an uncredited Farmer in the Sky.  Do I have other copies of these books with covers of very close variation?  Yes.  But do I like to maintain a pretty sizable Heinlein collection?  Yeah...

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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swgold link
6/25/2017 01:59:23 am

Wow! Someone does the same as I do. I'm glad that I found your page. I write a series of articles about illustrations on Heinlein's works and I just missed a few illustrations from the Blue Book. If it's interesting to look at pictures from other countries - come, for example, here - Tonnel in the sky http://swgold.livejournal.com/138503.html or http://samlib.ru/g/gold_s_w/hein18.shtml

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Rafeeq link
6/25/2017 10:32:42 am

Ooh, that's very interesting and beautiful--thanks for the links! And yes, it's neat sometimes to be able to dig up random old things like Planets in Combat in Blue Book, "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon," etc., isn't it? Also, about those great images on your sites, do you collect these from the web, or are they from books you own, or what?

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swgold
6/25/2017 12:32:06 pm

Both. I buy only books with internal illustrations. Covers of books without illustrations I search on the Internet. Magazines are a big problem. The "Blue Book" in the Internet is a rarity, and "Callin all Girls" or "Senior Prom" generally absent.




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