I was up in Frankenmuth for a conference for a couple of days, and on my way in I stopped at a couple of junk/antique joints, where I got four Heinlein paperbacks: two nice Scribner's with Darrell K. Sweet covers, a Vincent Di Fate Man Who Sold the Moon, and a John Melo Green Hills of Earth. All now are posted to their appropriate pages in my Heinlein Cover Art galleries. Enjoy! Rafeeq |
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![]() 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 ![]() Yesterday we drove down to Ann Arbor to go through the U of M museum, which we hadn’t visited in quite a few years, and we also stopped in to the Dawn Treader bookstore on Liberty Avenue. This really is a helluva shop, beautifully cluttered in the way that only a good used bookstore can be. It may not have more masks than my attic, but it has a nice assortment, along with a lovely faux Egyptian sarcophagus that it is quite eye-catching, and its SF collection is lovely and varied, with some things piled so high that someone around six feet tall may juuuust reach ’em. Oh, yes, and Dawn Treader also has a section of first editions and signed editions that the easily tempted, especially those with slack on their credit cards, perhaps should not peruse... In any event, I picked up 10 nice Heinleins, including some beautiful old first edition Scribner’s and an edition of Variable Star signed by Spider Robinson. I scanned all covers, plus the occasional Clifford Geary interior and some further Richard M. Powers interiors of the illustrated Fawcett The Number of the Beast. All 24 shots now are posted to their appropriate pages in my Heinlein art galleries. Enjoy! Rafeeq |
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