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193631578New York: C.J.H. Publications Inc. 1936. Text paper tanned but quite supple light edge wear with tiny closed tears at the upper and lower spine. A very good or better copy with bright front cover. 31578. Large octavo single issue illustrations by Fred Meagher pictorial wrappers saddle stapled. Pulp magazine. The only issue which includes eight full page color illustrations. An attempt to blend the comic strip and pulp field which did not find the right audience. Includes the lead story which stars Flash Gordon and three other SF stories. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 273-274. C.J.H. Publications, Inc. unknown
196121274Pasadena TX: Glenn Lord 1961-1973. Some age tanning to edges of early issues a nearly fine to fine set except for the Winter 1965 issue has a closed tear to the lower front cover and some wear along upper front edge a very good copy. Complete sets are uncommon. 21274. Small octavo printed wrappers. All published. A major source for material by and about Robert E. Howard. Many Howard poems letters and fragments of fiction are printed here for the first time. Most issues are scarce especially the early numbers. Glenn Lord unknown
193634746Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1936. First edition. Mild tanning to text paper slight edge wear slight wear to spine ends a bright fine copy. 34746. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Laboratory of the Damned" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
192731969New York: Experimenter Publishing Co. 1927. Text paper mildly tanned front cover shows a touch of edge rubbing a lovely copy bound in brown cloth which has preserved this issue quite nicely. This issue does not appear to be trimmed for binding. 31969. Large octavo single issue bound volume pictorial wrappers in brown cloth with spine stamped in gold. Bedsheet-sized pulp bound. This features the first printing of "Master Mind of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The only issue of AMAZING STORIES ANNUAL. Released in July 1927 its 100000-print run sold out. The success of the ANNUAL encouraged Gernsback to launch AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY in January 1928. Reference: Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 49-51. Experimenter Publishing Co. unknown
194833277Sauk City Wisconsin: Arkham House 1948-1949 volume 1 number 1-volume 2 number 4. First edition. Touch of wear to corner tips and spine ends to several issues the usual rust staining from the staples a nearly fine to fine set. A very nice set. 33277. Octavo printed wrappers. All published. A short lived but important periodical. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray Bradbury H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith Robert Bloch Theodore Sturgeon A. E. van Vogt and many others the magazine published essays criticism memoirs and book reviews. One issue was devoted to science fiction. The final issue included an index. All issues were limited to 1200 copies except the "All Science-Fiction Issue" that had a 2000-copy print run. Reference: Parnell Monthly Terrors pp. 14-15 listing contents. Tymn and Ashley eds. Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 112-114. Arkham House unknown
100977<p>New York October 14 1976. 1976. Very good. - Over 110 words penned in two columns on his personal 7 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide ruled "Message/Reply" stationery. John Cage writes to Sydney Cowell Henry Cowell's widow about Henry Cowell's compositions "Recv enclosed letter from my Japanese composer friend. Located piece in Ms. at Lincoln Center. It is actually 2 pieces called Set of Two but one was too difficult and the other was recorded in Japan under the title Prelude for Vn & Hapschd. I have given Kuniharu Akiyama's address to Mr. Jackson." He goes on to indirectly refer to his own compositions "Renga" and "Apartment House 1776" which were performed in Boston: "The Boston piece went very well. Seiji was marvelous. Now must wk with Boulez on it. Singers were great." Signed "John". There are minor annotations along the top edge in an unidentified hand and staple holes at top left. Else near fine.</p><p>John Cage's compositions "Renga" and "Apartment House 1776" were performed simultaneously by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa on September 29 1976. Boulez performed the works with the New York Philharmonic on November 5th of that year.</p><p>The Japanese avant-garde composer Kuniharu Akiyama 1929-1996 was also a music critic and a poet. He was a founding member of the Jikken Kobo group of avant-garde artists.</p><p>The American avant-garde composer John Cage 1912-1992 was a pioneer in electroacoustic music and the unconventional use of instruments. An artist and music theorist he was Merce Cunningham's lover and influential in the development of modern dance. Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg were both his teachers.</p><p>Henry Cowell's wife Sidney Robertson Cowell 1903-1995 was a pianist and an American ethnomusicologist and collector of folk songs.</p> New York, October 14, 1976.
193334710Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1933. Mild tanning to text paper slight edge wear reading crease with separation at lower left spine edge inked date stamp to upper front cover spine is bright red a nearly fine to fine copy. 34710. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The third issue. With this issue and the remainder of the run the house pseudonym of Grant Stockbridge is used. This issue "Wings of Black Death" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193334709Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1933. Mild tanning to text paper slight edge wear closed tears at upper spine edge mild spine fade a nearly fine to fine copy. 34709. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The second issue. "The Wheel of Death" by R. T. M. Scott. This is the last to be written by Scott starting with the next third issue a house pseudonym was used. The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 602-604. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
2015111723Park Books. New. 2015. Paperback. 3906027538 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and German. -- with a bonus offer-- . Park Books paperback
193334571New York: Street & Smith Publications Inc. 1933-1949. Tanning to pages of all some minor losses throughout front and back covers present bindings are bright with the exception of volumes 10-13 which are quite faded. All issues trimmed for binding. Overall the magazines are very good to nearly fine. The complete list report upon request. Note for shipping extra funds required. 34571. Octavo thirty-two volumes pictorial wrappers uniformly bound in green cloth. A complete file of 181 issues in bound volumes. Doc Savage was a precursor to the modern super hero. Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. was trained from birth with a rigorous regimen resulting in extraordinary strength and intelligence. He never killed unless necessary he had scientific gadgets a headquarters and a secret base a fortress of solitude. The stories combined mystery adventure and some science fiction. He also had a team of five experts in various fields to assist in his adventures. His stories were extremely popular during the pulp era and then found a new audience in the 1960s-70s when the series was reprinted in paperback. The novels were written using the house pseudonym of Kenneth Robeson the main author was Lester Dent who wrote nearly 80% of the novels. Other author contributors as Robeson included William Bogart Alan Hathway Harold Davis Laurence Donovan and W. Ryerson Johnson. There were many excellent contributors to the short stories which rounded out the magazine with authors such as Steve Fisher E. Hoffman Price Q. Patrick John D. MacDonald Bruno Fischer Frank Herbert William Lindsay Gresham to name a few. Street and Smith publishing executive Henry Ralston and editor John Nanovic established the initial idea for Clark "Doc" Savage Jr. - .a brawny 'superman' a master of many fields-surgeon mineralogist engineer inventor linguist. His skin was a glowing bronze.his hair was a matching hue and so too his eyes resembling gold flake. He would be known as the Man of Bronze."- Server Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers p.81. "Doc Savage was intended to be an adventure character but under Lester Dent's imaginative manipulations he became something more - the first superhero and an inspiration for countless pulp comic-book and television characters." - Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 521-527. "The enormously wealthy Doc Savage – headquartered in a fantasticated New York with his five sidekicks who specialize in various crafts and sciences at the borderline of sf – devotes his life to combating criminal conspiracies almost all masterminded by the kind of charismatic villain later given definitive form by Ian Fleming in the James Bond books. Doc Savage himself clearly influenced the creation of Superman." - SFE online. A note on artists Walter Baumhofer contributed the initial look to the character with his striking cover painting through late 1936. Other artists include Robert George Harris Emery Clarke Modest Stein and George Rozen. An ideal collection for an institution. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 183-185. Street & Smith Publications, Inc. unknown
