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

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...

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Rafeeq

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.

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​Rafeeq

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.

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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.

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Rafeeq

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.

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​Rafeeq

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.

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Rafeeq

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.

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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.”

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​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 names 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