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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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More Heinlein art—Ed Emshwiller F&SF, pulp Weird Tales and Earle Bergey, etc.

4/5/2017

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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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Heinlein cover art—old 35-cent Puppet Masters, 1970s Di Fate, Glory Road serials with Emshwiller covers, etc.

3/30/2017

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Today I received a nice old Signet edition of The Puppet Masters, which with an original price of 35 cents is the oldest one I have, along with an early 1980s Revolt in 2100 with a nifty Vincent Di Fate cover—I used to see this one when I was a kid, but I hadn't come across a copy like this in years and years.

Also arriving were the first installment of I Will Fear No Evil—meaning the last one I lacked—in the July 1970 Galaxy, plus the first and third installments of Glory Road in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction with lovely Ed Emshwiller covers.

All now are scanned in the appropriate pages of my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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Six new Heinlein covers

3/3/2014

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Stopped off at Curious Books in East Lansing today and picked up some old Hal Clement and L. Sprague de Camp that I had heard of but not yet read, along with Philip K. Dick’s Confessions of a Crap Artist, which I also need to read.

More apropos to this post, however, I picked up 6 nifty new Heinlein covers.

Four are novels: another variation of Darrell K. Sweet’s The Star Beast, a Steele Savage Tunnel in the Sky, a stylized British book club edition of The Door into Summer, and an uncredited The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that appears to be by the same artist who did a number of Heinlein covers for Berkley in the late ’60s.

Perhaps most enjoyably, I got both Ed Emshwiller covers for Starship Soldier, which is how Starship Troopers was serialized in F&SF.  The October ’59 cover does not specifically depict Heinlein’s piece, but, as seen above, the November one sure does!

Enjoy,

Rafeeq

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