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

Today I received in the mail three different packages of old book-dom.

One box with not just bubble wrap but actual cotton inside held an old Book Club Edition of This Island Earth—I saw the film maybe 25 years ago, so on general principle I figured I might as well give the book a try.  It definitely won’t be today or tomorrow, but I’ll get around to it sometime.

One puffy envelope from Canada held a lovely UK Pan edition of The Puppet Masters with a cover reminiscent of—but not by, since the initials in the painting appear to be “GA”—Boris Vallejo.

Finally, a flat and sturdy little box held December 1951 Famous Fantastic Mysteries that has a reprint of “ ‘—And He Built a Crooked House,’ ” which of course first appeared in Astounding Science-Fiction in February 1941.

A nice evening’s haul, and now the Heinlein are scanned, and posted to the appropriate pages in my Heinlein Cover Art galleries.

Enjoy!

Rafeeq

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

A couple of days ago I received the beautiful Earle Bergey-covered October 1947 Thrilling Wonder Stories containing Heinlein’s “Jerry Was a Man,” the 8 February 1947 Saturday Evening Post with “The Green Hills of Earth,” and the September and October 1951 Blue Book with Between Planets serialized as Planets in Combat—these latter each also contained 8 or 10 lovely interior illustrations by Brendan Lynch.

Yesterday I got a nice vintage Door into Summer with a charmingly bold cover by Mel Hunter.

Then today a few newer paperbacks arrived: a British Assignment in Eternity with an interesting techno-treehouse sort of cover, a Rick Sternback Starman Jones, and a Man Who Sold the Moon with a bright and mildly humorous John Melo painting.

All now are scanned to the appropriate pages in my “Heinlein Cover Art” galleries, so now you may enjoy, too!

​Rafeeq

I had found an old original Doubleday printing of Heinlein’s Double Star online last week, with nice cover art by Mel Hunter.  Today it arrived.  As you can see at left, ’tis lovely, and now, of course, a scan of the cover is posted at the “Earlier Adult Works” page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq

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

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

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

I happened to stop in to The Reading Place over in Charlotte, MI, which is a very fine used bookstore indeed.  There I happened to find variations on an early 1960s Signet Green Hills of Earth and a mid-1990s Baen Sixth Column with a John Melo cover, plus an early 1990s SF collection edited by Jerry Pournelle that includes Heinlein’s “The Long Watch.”

The scanning was easy, the posting more so, so now you may enjoy as well!

Rafeeq

It’s been weeks and weeks and weeks—or perhaps week and week and week, meaning 3 weeks—since I picked up any books, so I popped into Curious Books in East Lansing today for about 15 minutes.  I found a nice late 1970s Vincent Di Fate cover of The Menace from Earth, which now is posted on the “Collections” page of my Heinlein cover art galleries.

Enjoy!

​Rafeeq