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2005ref. 15208FRITZ WILLY AND BOB AND THE SUMMER OF '48 Posthumous Press 2005 first edition as new in like pictorial dust-wrapper. 1/85 copies the total print run. This small volume reproduces the text of a letter which has never before been published anywhere about a hitherto unknown occurrence from the world renowned film director Fritz Lang to his very good friend and perhaps equally renowned rocket and space travel enthusiast Willy Ley. It's a most fascinating letter revealing for the first time that George Pal was not Heinlein's first choice as producer on this project and concerns events of the summer of 1948 when then a still maturing science fiction writer named Robert Heinlein visited Fritz Lang in the hopes of stimulating the esteemed film director to produce an accurate and technically correct film of a journey to the moon. What actually transpired between the two men at least from Mr. Lang's point of view makes fascinating reading if not only for the fact that such a meeting took place but also in an attempt to better understand the machinations of that marvelous and enigmatic wonderland of magic and nepotism we call Hollywood. The 85 copies produced have some intentional variations. As with the first Posthumous Press publication which is now available only through the antiquarian market place at a price more than 6 times the original it will not be reprinted. Posthumous Press unknown
1956ref. 201G4686Montreal: Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers. 1956. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Good. 108 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City; Nice colour ad for International Trucks shows them at work in a growing baby-boomer subdivision; Colour-photo ad for GE kitchen mixers in '3 Festive Colours'; Duplessis is Not Unbeatable; Colour photo ad for Hoover Vacuums features lady in heels dress and apron happily cleaning her home; One-page colour ad for Dodge features Dodge Mayfair Hardtop with push-button transmission; Who Really Owns Canada - great article by Peter C. Newman explains how outsiders own most of our oil mining pulp and other biggest industries; How Man Will Conquer Mars - the detailed story complete with timetable of how the first Mars journey may be carried out - with nine illustrations eight in colour by Chesley Bonestell not in Schuetz; I Married a Count - Catherine Cziraky explains how she married Hungarian Count Laszlo Cziraky; You Don't Have to Panic Over Rabies; The B.C. Coast - with large colour night photo of the intersection of Georgia and Granville in Vancouver; One-page photo of logger faller beside gigantic cedars he has taken down on the west coast of Vancouver Island; The Most Baffling Show on Television - Holiday Ranch is Canada's most popular show; You Really Run by Electricity - the electrical system of the human body is so ingenious that it makes man's inventions seem like clumsy toys; The Secret of Stolen Love Letters; I Cry at the Movies; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the Remington 60 de luxe Auto-Home electric shaver shows it at work at home and in a car; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Tappan electric and gas ranges; Fancy half-page ad for Allied Van Lines in bright orange; One-page colour ad for Chevrolet features six of their station wagons for 1956; Classy colour-photo one-page ad for Leonard appliances features glamorous photo of Anne Leonard; Heinz baby food colour-photo ad features mother breastfeeding; Nice 2/3-page colour ad for Maxwell House coffee features smiling lady and card game; Classy one-page colour ad for the yellow 1956 Chrysler Windsor Newport; Trans-Canada Air Lines ad; Colour Molson's Export ad features smiling newspaper man at quitting time; Half-page Olsonite ad features open toilet seat which eerily resembles a crocodile waiting to snap someone's backside!; One-page colour ad for Ford 225 HP V-8 cars battling a big truck on the highway; 3/4-page photo ad for Electrohome Fans of Kitchener Ontario; Toronto-Dominion TD Bank colour-photo ad features funky family checking into Motel; Classic colour O'Keefe's Ale ad features lumberman with peavey jumping over floating logs outside mill; Colour ad features five of the 1956 car models made by Packard - Clipper - Studebaker; R.O.T.P. Regular Officer Training Plan ad features smiling young man; Labatt's ad features photo of Arthur G. Turner of Toronto delivering ice; Nice colour GWG ad inside back cover features lineman climbing utility pole; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad shows four scenes; and more. Unmarked with average wear and external soiling. A sound vintage copy of this stellar issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine June 9 1956 - Wernher Von Braun and Willy Ley Explain How Man Will Conquer Mars Rex Woods cover illustration of the Royal 22nd Regiment in Quebec City; Nice colour ad for International Trucks shows them at work in . Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers unknown
ref. 38553Germany. Photograph 13.7 x 8.7 cm of Nobel Peace Laureate Willy Brandt as chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany i.e. West Germany. SIGNED BY BRANDT IN INK UNDER THE IMAGE. From the collection of Catalan autograph hound José Bronsoms Nadal. FINE AND BRIGHT IN PERFECT CONDITION. unknown
1951ref. 04544THE PUPPET MASTERS In Galaxy Science Fiction for September October & November 1951 World Editions first edition 3 volumes a just about fine set in full color pictorial wraps as issued. The true first apperance in print of this novel and the source for the film of the same name released in 1994. Also contains the work of Murray Leinster Damon Knight Isaac Asimov Bernard Wolfe Willy Ley et.al. World Editions paperback
1953ref. 08140MANS SURVIVAL IN SPACE in Colliers Magazine between February 28 & March 14 1953 first edition 3 volumes closed tear to rear cover of the last issue else fine in wraps. Contains a detailed look at the first space suit. Also contains TOM EDISON'S SHAGGY DOG by Vonnegut an early work. Colliers Magazine paperback
1960ref. 07565DRUNKARD'S WALK in Galaxy Science Fiction for June & August 1960 Galaxy Publishing Corporation 1960 first edition 2 volumes complete fine in full color pictorial wraps each SIGNED by Fred Pohl. Scarce thus. The true first appearance in print of this novel. Also contains original contributions by Edmund Pangborn Fredric Brown Willy Ley et.al. Galaxy Publishing Corporation paperback
1950ref. 04617Also contains original work by Cyril Kornbluth Eric Frank Russell et.al. Along with FRITZ WILLY AND BOB AND THE SUMMER OF '48 Posthumous Press 2005 first edition as new in like pictorial dust-wrapper. 1/85 copies the total print run revealing for the first time that George Pal was not Heinlein's first choice as producer on this project. This small volume reproduces the text of a letter which has never before been published anywhere about a hitherto unknown occurrence from the world renowned film director Fritz Lang to his very good friend and perhaps equally renowned rocket and space travel enthusiast Willy Ley. It's a most fascinating letter concerning events of the summer of 1948 when then a still maturing science fiction writer named Robert Heinlein visited Fritz Lang in the hopes of stimulating the esteemed film director to produce an accurate and technically correct film of a journey to the moon. What actually transpired between the two men at least from Mr. Lang's point of view makes fascinating reading if not only for the fact that such a meeting took place but also in an attempt to better understand the machinations of that marvelous and enigmatic wonderland of magic and nepotism we call Hollywood. The 85 copies produced have some variation. As with the first Posthumous Press publication which is now available only through the antiquarian market place at a price more than 6 times the original it will not be reprinted. Along with SHOOTING "DESTINATION MOON" in Astounding for July 1950 Street & Smith first edition just about vg in wraps. Astounding / Street & Smith / Posthumous Press paperback
1952ref. 02802LANDS BEYOND Rinehart 1952 first edition vg/near fine in like dust-wrapper. Signed by both De Camp and Ley. Most uncommon thus. INTERNATIONAL FANTASY AWARD winner. Rinehart unknown
1955ref. 05614HISTORIC LETTER TYPED LETTERS between Willy Ley & Mrs. Fritz Lang the former dated 7-11-1955 one page over 200 words and SIGNED & the latter dated 7 -25 -1955 one page about 175 words and SIGNED respectively concerning the origin of "The Countdown" in rocket launches. It seems that in the former letter Ley realizes that the first time he encountered such a thing was in Lang's film FRAU IM MOND a silent film released in 1929. He writes to ask Lang if this was an original thought on his part. Mrs. Lang answers for her husband who is on vacation after many weeks work on NEWS IS MADE AT NIGHT in the affirmative! A seemingly historic correspondence. N.p. unknown
1926ref. 03629RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Crowell ca. 1926 light wear to the head of the spine else just about a fine copy in publishers original full limp leather binding stamped in decorative gold-gilt with 16 tipped-in full color plates by Pogany. Crowell hardcover
1936ref. 05865DIE VERSTUCHE AUF DEM GREENWOOD-SEE THE ATTEMPTS ON GREENWOOD-LAKE in DAS NEUE FAHRZEUG Vol. 3 #4 31-12-1936 first edition some tanning to the margins else a vg copy. This 3 page article takes up about 1/3 of this most fragile German publication of contemporary rocketry. Also contains NEUARTIGER PROPELLERANTRIEB FUR MOTORSCHISSE by Otto Steinitz et.al. Berlin unknown
1928ref. 07541Willy Pogany'S MOTHER GOOSE Thomas Nelson & Sons 1928 first edition light rubbing to corner tips else a bright vg copy. Profusely illustrated in full color. Thomas Nelson & Sons unknown
1930ref. 03631RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1930 first edition thus some light soiling to the covers some light wear to the upper front fore edge corner tip else just about a vg copy featuring 12 fine full color tipped-in plates by Willy Pogany as well as 44 fine gold and black decorated and pictorial plates woodblocks measuring 3-3/8" by 2-3/8." From the collection of esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn. George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd. unknown
1960ref. 11181TYPED LETTER SIGNED dated 8-8-1960 on the authors own stationery about 80 words to First Fandom member Jack Price consenting to be on a panel at the upcoming 1960 SF World Con in Pittsburgh detailing his flight plans no not by rocket and schedule. Original envelope included. N.P. unknown
1965ref. NF1337SCIENCE SERVICE SCIENCE PROGRAM Nelson Doubleday 1965 four booklets fine in full color pictorial wraps in slipcase each with a set of full color photographic stamps pasted in their proper place to accompany the text save for one booklet in which the stamps remain unused !!! . They are: ROCKETS by Willy Ley; FLIGHT by Peter Viemeister; MAN IN SPACE by Marvin L. Stone & SPACE EXPLORATION U.S.A. by Walter Ryland. Nelson Doubleday paperback
1930ref. 12192CLAUDINE AT SCHOOL Albert & Charles Boni 1930 first American edition vg in near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and some shallow chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. Albert & Charles Boni unknown
1991ref. 165530Zürich: Ex Libris 1991. Hardcover. Schönes Exemplar. 4°. mit zahlreichen mehrfarbigen Abbildungen. Or.Ln. mit rotem Schutzumschlag Neben einer allgemeinen Geschichte des Plakats in der Schweiz eine systematische Darstellung nach Themen Druckern und Auftraggebern. Zudem ein Bildlexikon von 376 schweizerischen Plakatgestaltern von 1890 bis 1990 jeweils mit einem Beispiel und einer knapper Biographie und Einschätzung seines Werks. Ein ausserordentlich nützliches Nachschlagewerk zur schweizerischen Plakatkunst gehört zu den Referenzwerken zum Thema. Lizenzausgabe für den Buchclub Ex Libris das Original erschien bei der Edition Stemmle. Schweiz; 20. Jahrhundert; Lexikon Lexika; Helvetica Ex Libris, hardcover
1962ref. 116766Zch.: du 1962. Softcover. Gutes Exemplar. 4°. Or.br. USA; Schweiz; 20. Jahrhundert; Helvetica du Kulturelle Monatsschrift 221962 1 du, paperback
1990ref. 130695Schaffhausen; Zch.; Ffm.; Düsseldorf: Edition Stemmle 1990. Hardcover. Schutzumschlag vorne nmit einem Einrisse davon abgesehen schönes Exemplar. 4°. mit zahlreichen mehrfarbigen Abbildungen. Or.Ln. mit grünem Schutzumschlag Neben einer allgemeinen Geschichte des Plakats in der Schweiz eine systematische Darstellung nach Themen Druckern und Auftraggebern. Zudem ein Bildlexikon von 376 schweizerischen Plakatgestaltern von 1890 bis 1990 jeweils mit einem Beispiel und einer knapper Biographie und Einschätzung seines Werks. Ein ausserordentlich nützliches Nachschlagewerk zur schweizerischen Plakatkunst gehört zu den Referenzwerken zum Thema. Schweiz; 20. Jahrhundert; Lexikon Lexika; Helvetica Edition Stemmle, hardcover
1960ref. 129278Zch.: Editions Girsberger 1960. Hardcover. Schutzumschlag mit kleinen Randeinrissen etwas angestaubt. gr.8° quer. mit zahlreichen teils farbigen und ganzseitigen Abbildungen nach Fotografien sowie Zeichnungen und Plänen. Original-Leinwand mit Schutzumschlag Thematische geordnete Gesamtschau über das Werk Corbusiers als Architekt Gestalter und Künstler. Beiliegend Zeitungsausschnitte aus dem Zürcher Tages--Anzeiger von 1965 und 1967. Paralleltext in deutsch französisch englisch. Schweiz; 20. Jahrhundert; Helvetica Editions Girsberger, hardcover
ref. 6208925827.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 101950London George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. Ca 1940’s. Hardback 9 x 6 inches. In later leather craft binding with gilt lettering and raised leather jug design to front. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Later leather craft binding. No inscriptions. Some slight tanning to pages with one or two minor handling marks. Page edges rough cut. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 75pp 16 mounted colour plates.; Each page is illustrated with border in green. London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. Ca 1940’s hardcover
ref. 36830803like new. unknown
ref. 0791454800.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1968ref. 1156971London: SCM Press 1968. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First edition. Good shape. Some wear to jacket spine and edges. Jacket is price clipped. Binding is tight. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Light pencil markings in margins of some pages but pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. SCM Press hardcover
