Category: Clifford Geary

Some more Heinlein cover art

5/31/2017

Recently I picked up a nifty old Space Cadet with lovely cover and interiors by Clifford N. Geary, plus the two issues of Boys’ Life that serialized the story “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon” in 1949. These magazines are harder to come by than more usual ones like Astounding, I would say, and the interior illustrations happen to be quite nicely rendered.

Now the art from these pieces all is scanned, and posted to the appropriate pages in my huge Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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Heinlein cover art: Beautiful old Star Beast

4/25/2017

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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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More Heinlein cover art—old Farmer in the Sky

4/21/2017

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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

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Heinlein art: Beautiful old Starman Jones!

3/14/2017

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Today in the mail came a lovely old hardcover of Starman Jones I had ordered. Although the novel was published in 1953, this particular copy dates from at least 1958, as the listing of Heinlein’s work on the inside includes Have Space Suit—Will Travel. I doubt it’s any later, though. The thing is beautifully illustrated by Clifford N. Geary, not only with the richly colored cover art but also with a whopping 7 black-and-whites inside.

This old high school library text has had solid use over the years, but it was specifically made for hard duty, and the binding allowed me to scan the interiors very fully, in a way a paperback would not have. After a couple hours of work, everything is scanned, saved, and posted to the “Scribner’s YA/Juveniles” page of my Heinlein cover art.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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Heinlein art: Red Planet with Mars globe with canals

3/10/2017

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I had always heard that the early editions of Red Planet (1949) had a map of Percival Lowell’s conception of Mars, complete with his imagined canals—a conception of great cultural influence from the 1890s on, and one which was not yet 100% discredited by the 1940s, actually.

Finally I have acquired one of these lovely old books, and although it has no dust jacket and hence is a tad plain on the cover, the Clifford Geary “scientific”-type art under both front and back covers is absolutely gorgeous. Now, of course, these have been scanned, then posted to my “Scribner’s YA/Juveniles” page.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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More anthologies with Heinlein!

3/5/2017

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By happenstance I realized that I had forgotten to look under the dust jacket of my library edition of Space Cadet, so in doing this I discovered the Clifford N. Geary art stamped there, which I scanned, and then posted to the Scribner’s YA/Juveniles section of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Somehow, though, this also reminded me I might have some anthologies on the shelf that have Heinlein stories, and hence should be scanned. To my pleasant surprise, I found five, including the great old wartime Pocket Books volume at left, so now they are scanned, and posted to Collections.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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More Heinlein art added to galleries!

4/5/2015

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Yesterday we drove down to Ann Arbor to go through the U of M museum, which we hadn’t visited in quite a few years, and we also stopped in to the Dawn Treader bookstore on Liberty Avenue. This really is a helluva shop, beautifully cluttered in the way that only a good used bookstore can be. It may not have more masks than my attic, but it has a nice assortment, along with a lovely faux Egyptian sarcophagus that it is quite eye-catching, and its SF collection is lovely and varied, with some things piled so high that someone around six feet tall may juuuust reach ’em. Oh, yes, and Dawn Treader also has a section of first editions and signed editions that the easily tempted, especially those with slack on their credit cards, perhaps should not peruse...

In any event, I picked up 10 nice Heinleins, including some beautiful old first edition Scribner’s and an edition of Variable Star signed by Spider Robinson. I scanned all covers, plus the occasional Clifford Geary interior and some further Richard M. Powers interiors of the illustrated Fawcett The Number of the Beast. All 24 shots now are posted to their appropriate pages in my Heinlein art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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More Heinlein art!

3/23/2014

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Well, on the one hand, it has hardly been any time at all since my last update, but on the other hand, I stopped in to Schuler’s today, where I found three used Heinlein that I did indeed want...

In addition to the beautifully lonely, and unfortunately uncredited, cover of Orphans of the Sky at left, I also picked up a later variation of the early, vaguely ominous The Puppet Masters, plus a Revolt in 2100 done by the unmistakable Gene Szafran.

As long as I was on a roll, I then went back to my Clifford Geary Between Planets, and at last I scanned his half-dozen interior pen-and-ink drawings. Fun!

I hope you may enjoy,

Rafeeq

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Some more Heinlein cover art

Heinlein cover art: Beautiful old Star Beast

More Heinlein cover art—old Farmer in the Sky

Heinlein art: Beautiful old Starman Jones!

Heinlein art: Red Planet with Mars globe with canals

More anthologies with Heinlein!

More Heinlein art added to galleries!

More Heinlein art!

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