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More Heinlein cover art

6/24/2018

A few weeks ago I was in Nova Scotia, and I made a point of stopping in to the half-dozen used book joints within driving distance of the lovely cliffside cottage where we were staying. This Bookapalooza yielded 23 books of many different variety...including a different cover of To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

And then today I stopped in to Curious Books in East Lansing, where I picked an early paperback Double Star in gorgeous purple, another Gene Szafran Puppet Masters with slightly different layout, a movie tie-in Starship Troopers with James Warhola art, and an old anthology from 1951 called Three by Heinlein.

I have scanned these, and now all images are in their appropriate “Heinlein Cover Art” galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

Heinlein art: Farnham’s Freehold, with Jack Gaughan

7/22/2017

Farnham’s Freehold originally was serialized in Worlds of If in July, August, and October 1964. The covers vary, though the first is by Gray Morrow, who also did the interiors for The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress when it was published in the same magazine a year later. The interior art for this serialized novel, though, is by Jack Gaughan, who later illustrated I Will Fear No Evil when it appeared in Galaxy in 1970.

Today to my Serialized Novels page I have posted all three covers, plus the whopping 10 interior illustrations for the first of three installments. This, by the way, brings my total distinct images of Heinlein art to over 700.

In any event, I hope in the coming week or so to post the others.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

Heinlein cover art: More “Gulf,” with Hubert Rogers art

7/18/2017

A bit belatedly, I realized that “Gulf” was not a stand-alone story when published in Astounding Science-Fiction in 1949, but instead was serialized across two issues. I rectified that wee lack in my collection, therefore. The cover, which is colorful and interesting, is by someone I confess I had never heard of, but the interiors for the Heinlein story still are by the familiar Hubert Rogers. Almost as soon as the old pulp came in the mail, I scanned the appropriate parts, and they now are posted in the “Pulp Magazines” area of my voluminous Heinlein galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

9 Heinlein juvies, including much Darrell K. Sweet!

6/8/2017

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

Heinlein art: Irv Docktor Orphans and Farnham’s

6/5/2017

Well, a couple more Heinlein books came today, mid-1960s Putnam Book Club Edition hardcovers of Orphans of the Sky and Farnham’s Freehold, both of which have nice dust jackets by Irv Docktor. They are welcome additions to my Heinlein collection, and now they are scanned and posted to the site.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

Heinlein art: British Starship Troopers with wraparound cover

6/4/2017

Another Heinlein for my collection came in the mail a couple days ago, a nice New English Library edition of Starship Troopers, printing circa 1975, with cool wraparound cover art by Gordon C. Davies.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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

Heinlein Pulp Art—Hubert Rogers from 1940 Astounding

5/24/2017

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

Heinlein cover art: Beautiful old Star Beast

4/25/2017

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

More Heinlein cover art—old Farmer in the Sky

4/21/2017

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