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Amid Heinlein paperbacks, original hardcover art and a rare magazine appearance

10/30/2022

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Since my last update of about 7 weeks ago, I ended up finding about two-dozen pieces of Heinlein that would be good for my collection...  The great majority were paperbacks with cover art that I previously had not had, although there also were a couple of hardcovers, like a neat New English Library Job: A Comedy of Justice with blonde angels in the clouds working on 1980s desktop computers, a 1951 The Puppet Masters with wonderfully creepy cover art, and a scrupulously correct First Edition Library reprint from the late 1980s or early ’90s of the original 1948 Fantasy Press book printing of Beyond This Horizon that followed its serial appearance in Astounding Science-Fiction​ in 1942.

I also picked up a copy of the 30 August 1947 issue of Collier’s, which has the rare-ish “Flight Into the Future” article written with Cal Laning, which discusses the type of U.N.-controlled orbiting deterrent atom bombs that turn up in Heinlein’s 1948 young-adult novel Space Cadet​.  I find the Rolf Klep interior art charmingly draftsman-like, as always.

Oh, and the reprint of the Beyond This Horizon originally published in 1948 by Fantasy Press?  Well, I already had a 1948 Grosset & Dunlap with the original A.J. Donnell cover art...but what I didn't realize was that the slightly earlier Fantasy Press also had 3 charcoal interiors by a fellow named Robert Breck.  Great.  Now, the way I realized this was not by buying the First Edition Library reprint—which actually came second—but by seeing one of Breck's original pieces for the book, namely the one appearing between pages 148 and 149, available at auction...  When something like a Frank R. Paul or a Frank Frazetta goes up for sale, prices are huge, and even an Emsh can be deadly serious money.  This Breck, however, ended up being not too bad at all, really, so I was able to get it.

All the pieces mentioned above, along with the 20 others I didn’t specifically name, now can be found at the appropriate pages of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries, of course.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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Further interesting Heinlein acquisitions, including 1929 U.S. Naval Academy yearbook

9/11/2022

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In the last couple months I have been fortunate enough to pick up about a dozen more pieces of Heinlein for my collection.  Most, though not all, are paperback reprints of books I already have, of course, but with different cover artwork.

I got 3 or 4 more copies of The Menace from Earth, for example, and 3 more of The Green Hills of Earth, all of which of course are shown on the Collections/Anthologies page of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.  As seen here, I finally was able to find an old 1951 Shasta first hardcover printing of The Green Hills of Earth with cover art by Hubert Rogers, who had illustrated many Heinlein stories in pulp magazines.  The price wasn't too bad, and I was very glad to get it.

I also came across a kinda funky reprint of Beyond This Horizon, which originally was from the April and May 1942 issues of Astounding Science-Fiction, and now is in the Winter 1952 issue of the magazine titled Two Complete Science-Adventure Novels.  This latter is--as are the earlier Astounding, naturally--on my Pulp Magazines page.  I'm also waiting for an early hardcover British printing of the 1949 Red Planet I had not seen before; having come all the way from Australia, it spent over a week getting cleared in Customs, and I believe it should be arriving shortly.

Perhaps the most peculiar thing I found, though, was The Lucky Bag 1929​...which is the yearbook of the U.S. Naval Academy, specifically for the year Heinlein graduated.  Although the future author himself doesn't yet appear to have any work appearing in this weighty, oversized tome bound in fancy tooled leather, he does receive, like all the other graduates, a page dedicated entirely to his portrait and a mildly comedic biographical blurb.  This great big book really was quite a find, and I am so happy to have it on my shelf at last.  Scans of the cover, of some of the introductory patriotic naval artwork by Henry Reuterdahl, and of course of the Heinlein page itself are viewable on my On Heinlein page.

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More Heinlein . . . in German!

1/25/2019

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Recently a friend of mine was in Germany, and she kindly picked me up a neat German-language copy of Sixth Column.  Danke, mein fraulein!

Originally the tale was serialized in Astounding Science-Fiction, in January, February, and March of 1941 under the Anson MacDonald byline, of course, and scans of the Hubert Rogers cover art and Schneeman interiors can be seen in the Pulp Magazines page of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Afterward the piece was published in book form in 1949, under this title and also as The Day After Tomorrow.  In any event, the cover art for this version of the book, like the others, is posted in my Earlier Adult Works page.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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Heinlein art rediscovered--"Common Sense"!

11/27/2018

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Currently I am in the middle--well, more like the first 20%, actually--of a project to catalog my library onto a single Excel.  I've considered this for years, and finally have begun to take the plunge.

In any event, I just discovered that the October 1941 issue of Astounding, which features "By His Bootstraps," actually also contains the Heinlein story "Common Sense," along with five interior drawings.  Great!

How I had missed this previously, I don't know.  Now, however, they are posted to the "Pulp Magazines" page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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Heinlein Pulp Art—Hubert Rogers from 1940 Astounding

5/24/2017

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I was working on a chapter about Heinlein yesterday, and I had need to cross-reference some familiar book-published versions against the original versions serialized in magazines in the 1940s and 1950s.  These happened to bear out a couple of suppositions I had had, but more important right now is that I discovered that I somehow had neglected to scan and post two nifty Hubert Rogers interiors for “ ‘If This Goes On—’ ” from the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction.

This was quite an oversight indeed, but at last I have posted these Hubert Rogers illustrations to the “Pulp Magazines” page of my “Heinlein Cover Art” galleries.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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Heinlein art additions—Double Star and “The Year of the Jackpot” in 1950s magazines

4/15/2017

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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

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One more Heinlein—Nice old Beyond This Horizon

3/25/2017

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Yesterday the mail brought a nice old Beyond This Horizon I had ordered, an early Grosset & Dunlap reprint of the Fantasy Press edition with dark but evocative cover by someone named Donnell.

Beyond This Horizon first was published in April and May 1942 in Astounding Science-Fiction, of course, illustrated then by Hubert Rogers.  Those printings are shown on my “Pulp Magazines” page.  After the war it was published in book form by Fantasy Press, and then by Grosset & Dunlap.

The two-tone painting here shows a future of soft parkland and soaring skyscrapers with arched bridges of white concrete...with an hourglass superimposed, in the bottom of which a toddler plays at piling up sand.  The book itself is a bit light in weight, as if made of cheaper materials, and the dust jacket has some little chunks missing at the edges.  Still, for its age, that’s not too bad, and the piece really was a great find.

See it on on the “Earlier Adult Works” page of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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Heinlein art—last installment of Citizen of the Galaxy

1/2/2017

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It had been...well, a few days, I guess, since I went to Curious, so I stopped in again.  Really, I was just looking for a couple of Bradbury paperbacks that would be of use for my current project for Salem.  Since they weren’t there, I figured I’d check into the basement...where I finally found the fourth, and final, installment Citizen of the Galazy published in Astounding in 1957.

Therefore, I scanned the cover by Kelly Freas plus the six interior pen-and-ink drawings by van Dongen, and all are posted to my “Serializations” page.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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Heinlein pulp art: “Beyond This Horizon” in Astounding, April and May 1942

12/29/2016

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Yesterday I stopped in to Curious Books in East Lansing—it had been a whopping six weeks or so, right?  What could be the harm?

Well, I did see a few books of interest here and there, but I was actually thinking I would just hang loose and save my pennies for another day...until I saw the old Heinlein pulps, namely “Beyond This Horizon” from Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1942 and May 1942.  Only the first cover depicted Heinlein, while the second depicted an A.E. Van Vogt, but both, however, had pen-and-ink interiors by Hubert Rogers as well.

These lovely artifacts from a lifetime ago are hard for me to resist.  I did not resist, therefore.

And then as I was checking out, Ray Walsh, the proprietor, who apparently knows his marks just a tad too well, asked if I had seen this old library copy of the Scribner’s juvie Citizen of the Galaxy.  Deftly he conjured it from somewhere around his credit card machine, and yet, pointedly, before he had run my card...  ’Twas significantly cheaper than the non-library edition I already saw, but sort of still real money.  There was a 20% off sale, though, so oh, well.

I scanned all covers and, for those huge old pulps, interiors as well.  Citizen of the Galazy is now on my Scribner’s YA/Juveniles page, and the Astounding with “Beyond This Horizon” are on my Pulp Magazines page.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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Astounding Science-Fiction, 1942: More Heinlein art!

11/25/2016

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A few weeks ago at Curious Books I picked up a couple beautiful old Astounding Science-Fiction pulps from 1942, containing Heinlein’s “Goldfish Bowl” and “Waldo.”

While I had immediately scanned those covers, it wasn’t until today that I got around to scanning their interior pen-and-ink art: 3 by Kramer for the Anson MacDonald-pseudonym “Goldfish Bowl” and 7 by Orban for “Waldo.”

These two issues of Astounding are huge—as big as the Unknown in my collection—and that makes scanning of interiors a tad easier.  All are posted to the Pulp Magazines page of my site.

Fans of old SF art, enjoy!

Rafeeq

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