
It was a great find...and now it is scanned, and posted to the appropriate page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.
Enjoy!
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![]() Today I received an old library copy of The Star Beast, complete with checkout stamps in the back from the late 1950s. The piece is a tad banged up around the edges, but they bound these babies quite solidly back then. No matter what, though, the book has a gorgeous colorful cover by Clifford Geary, and a nice black-and-white frontispiece illustration. It was a great find...and now it is scanned, and posted to the appropriate page of my Heinlein cover art galleries. Enjoy! Rafeeq
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![]() Today I just received a nifty old hardcover Farmer in the Sky in the mail. The inside back flap of the dust jacket lists the juvies up through Have Space Suit--Will Travel, meaning that this is a printing from 1958 or after, rather than being a first edition of 1950. Nevertheless, it really is nice indeed, and it has a beautiful cover by Clifford N. Geary, along with a number of cool black-and-white interior illustrations. I have scanned all the art, and then posted it to my “Scribner’s YA/Juveniles” page. Enjoy! Rafeeq ![]() Over the past couple of weeks I received a March 1952 Galaxy with “The Year of the Jackpot,” plus the February,March, and April 1956 issues of Astounding Science Fiction, in which are serialized Double Star. The art—especially the Kelly Freas for Double Star—is lovely. All-up I had 23 scans to do, both easy-peasy covers plus significantly trickier interiors, but at last all are done, and all are posted; “The Year of the Jackpot” art is at “Pulp Magazines,” while the art from Double Star is at “Serialized Novels.” Enjoy! Rafeeq ![]() I was in Chicago for a few days, during which my mail brought some nice old magazines of Heinlein. For starters, I received three issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: the first installment of Have Space Suit--Will Travel in August 1958 with a beautifully detailed and plot-correct cover by Ed Emshwiller, an installment of The Door Into Summer from December 1956 with Kelly Freas cover, and the August 1957 issue with “The Menace from Earth” under a cover from someone named Barry Waldman. In addition, I received two hard-to-find pulps with less-famous Heinlein stories: “Columbus Was a Dope” in the May 1947 issue of a Startling Stories splashily covered by the inimitable Earle Bergey, and the light fantasy tale “Our Fair City” in the May 1949 Weird Tales. Then, as long as I was in a big city, I figured I'd poke around a couple of bookstores to see if I could find any Heinlein I didn‘t already have. Indeed I could: hardcovers of To Sail Beyond the Sunset and Requiem, which I had had only in paperbacks, plus more modern Glory Road and Red Planet. The prices were decent, so I picked ‘em up. At last all are scanned, and all are posted to my Heinlein Cover Art galleries. Enjoy! Rafeeq |
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