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Yesterday I had to go through East Lansing, so I thought, Well, why not...? I stopped into Curious Books and its sister shop, The Archives, therefore. In Curious I picked up 3 out of 4 installments of I Will Fear No Evil from Galaxy of late 1970, while at The Archives I got a copy of Glory Road with very nice Carl Lundgren art on the cover. I scanned all the covers plus the Galaxy interiors, and all now are posted to the appropriate pages of my Heinlein galleries. Enjoy! Rafeeq
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It had been...well, a few days, I guess, since I went to Curious, so I stopped in again. Really, I was just looking for a couple of Bradbury paperbacks that would be of use for my current project for Salem. Since they weren’t there, I figured I’d check into the basement...where I finally found the fourth, and final, installment Citizen of the Galazy published in Astounding in 1957. Therefore, I scanned the cover by Kelly Freas plus the six interior pen-and-ink drawings by van Dongen, and all are posted to my “Serializations” page. Enjoy! Rafeeq Yesterday I stopped in to Curious Books in East Lansing—it had been a whopping six weeks or so, right? What could be the harm? Well, I did see a few books of interest here and there, but I was actually thinking I would just hang loose and save my pennies for another day...until I saw the old Heinlein pulps, namely “Beyond This Horizon” from Astounding Science-Fiction, April 1942 and May 1942. Only the first cover depicted Heinlein, while the second depicted an A.E. Van Vogt, but both, however, had pen-and-ink interiors by Hubert Rogers as well. These lovely artifacts from a lifetime ago are hard for me to resist. I did not resist, therefore. And then as I was checking out, Ray Walsh, the proprietor, who apparently knows his marks just a tad too well, asked if I had seen this old library copy of the Scribner’s juvie Citizen of the Galaxy. Deftly he conjured it from somewhere around his credit card machine, and yet, pointedly, before he had run my card... ’Twas significantly cheaper than the non-library edition I already saw, but sort of still real money. There was a 20% off sale, though, so oh, well. I scanned all covers and, for those huge old pulps, interiors as well. Citizen of the Galazy is now on my Scribner’s YA/Juveniles page, and the Astounding with “Beyond This Horizon” are on my Pulp Magazines page. Enjoy! Rafeeq A few weeks ago at Curious Books I picked up a couple beautiful old Astounding Science-Fiction pulps from 1942, containing Heinlein’s “Goldfish Bowl” and “Waldo.” While I had immediately scanned those covers, it wasn’t until today that I got around to scanning their interior pen-and-ink art: 3 by Kramer for the Anson MacDonald-pseudonym “Goldfish Bowl” and 7 by Orban for “Waldo.” These two issues of Astounding are huge—as big as the Unknown in my collection—and that makes scanning of interiors a tad easier. All are posted to the Pulp Magazines page of my site. Fans of old SF art, enjoy! Rafeeq
Yesterday I needed to go to Curious Books in East Lansing to pick up a couple stray Bradbury collections for a big text on Ray Bradbury I'll be putting together for next year—which perhaps should be another post in itself, come to think of it—when I figured that as long as I was in, I should check for any Heinlein of interest, too... Upstairs I found a nice first-edition hardcover of Expanded Universe and a newer edition of Time Enough for Love with quite a decent cover illustration. But then downstairs—ah, downstairs!—I found two beautiful old Heinlein pulps: “Waldo” from August 1942 and “Goldfish Bowl” from March 1942, Both have lovely covers by Hubert Rogers, though only the one for “Waldo” (pictured here) depicts the Heinlein story, the other one depicting an A.E. Van Vogt. I should comment that the Astounding each also have several interior line drawings of their Heinlein stories. I haven't yet taken the plunge on those, though, as that will entail a significant amount of very finicky work with these almost three-quarter-century-old magazines. But right now at least the books are their appropriate pages, and the magazine covers are on my “Pulp Magazines” page. Enjoy! Rafeeq A friend of mine was up in Nova Scotia and happened to stop into a nice little used bookshop, where she found quite a fair pile of Heinlein. After a few texts back and forth, including pics, and including cross-referencing against the huge list of things already on my webpage, we discovered that there were two that I didn't yet have: a 1960 copy of Beyond This Horizon and a lovely Barclay Shaw The Puppet Masters. Finally these books have percolated down across the border, and now I have scanned and then posted ’em to my “Earlier Adult Works” page. Enjoy! Rafeeq I stopped into Curious Books in East Lansing a couple days ago, whereupon Ray Walsh, the proprietor, smiled a self-deprecating greeting and then immediately tempted me with some beautiful vintage hardcover Heinleins... Most kind of him, really, and most excruciating. I don't know if he has other victims he does this to, but he sure knows me! In any event, after picking up another version of the 6xH paperback, I somehow restrained myself and only splurged on a single oldie, a lovely original Doubleday Waldo and Magic, Inc. of 1950. Both covers are now scanned and in their respective places in my galleries—in “Earlier Adult Works” and “Collections”—so perhaps others may enjoy as well! Rafeeq Today I returned to the Dawn Treader, an absolutely lovely used bookshop in Ann Arbor, where I picked up some more Heinlein: an original ex-library hardcover of Farnham’s Freehold, a first-edition hardcover of I Will Fear No Evil, and a paperback of the British edition of Friday. The covers now are scanned, and posted to the “Later Works” page of my site. Enjoy! Rafeeq I was poking through an antique mall down the road, and I’m sure glad I was, for I happened upon a first edition of a library copy of Heinlein’s first book for Scribner’s--Rocket Ship Galileo of 1947. It’s a solid hardcover, presumably made without a dust jacket for the rigors of school library traffic; presumably it saw a decade or two of service in the Valley Farms School Library here in Lansing—as this is what the stamp on the title page says—but the dealie that formerly held the checkout card on the last page unfortunately has been removed long ago. In any event, this book is a specimen in rather good condition, considering that it’s just short of 70 years old, and it it also contains four decent black-and-white interior drawings by a fellow named Thomas W. Voter. Cover and interiors of course have been scanned and posted to the appropriate page in my galleries. Enjoy! Rafeeq |
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