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1944rif. 10689THE CHANGELING in Astounding Science Fiction for April 1944 Street & Smith first edition some wear to the spine else just about vg in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by Clifford Simak LOBBY George O. Smith THE LONG WAY Malcolm Jameson THE BUREAUCRAT Fritz Leiber SANITY Willy Ley John W. Campbell et.al. Astounding / Street & Smith paperback books
1914rif. 26008523New York: Henry Holt & Co 1914. Litho on board concertina or accordion book. The front side has sixteen illustrations with a story caption at the base. The reverse includes a two page pictorial map of the Polar Region followed by 14 pp. of text. Letterpress by Lionel Fable. Measures 6" x 5 1/4". Cover wear. Henry Holt & Co unknown books
1920rif. 32219New York: Macmillan Company 1920. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Macmillan Company 1920 1929 Reissue. Octavo; publisher's cloth pictorial endpapers in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price $2.50; ix1282pp.; color frontispiece three leaves of plates collated complete. Jacket rather chipped and worn along margins with shallow losses at spine ends slightly affecting text moderate foxing to jacket and endpapers contemporary ownership signature and address pressure-stamp to front free endpaper else a Very Good sound copy. "The Children's Book of Northern Myths" jacket spine reprised by the Irish poet and novelist Padraic Colum with the vibrant illustrations of Willy Pogany. Macmillan Company unknown books
1982rif. UCOLCHI00htAladdin 1982. Very Good. Colum Padraic. The Children's Homer: The Adventure of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy. Pogany illustrator Willy. NY: Aladdin 1982. 247pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light soiling and bumping. Aladdin paperback books
1969rif. 90408NY:: Weybright and Talley. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. B0006BZAJY . Illustrated with maps and drawings. First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Weybright and Talley, hardcover books
1956rif. 18001THE EXPLORATION OF MARS Viking 1956 first edition fine in vg/near fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear with 16 wonderful full color illustrations by Bonestell. Indeed some of his best work. Viking unknown books
1956rif. 140947438New York: The Viking Press 1956. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Wernher von Braun on the half-title page and inscribed to a young recipient: "Your Uncle Stu has told me of your interest in rockets and satellites. Good luck. Christmas 1958." x 176 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth titled in silver on the spine blindstamped rocket design to front board. Near Fine with light soiling to covers rubbing to corners and softening to head and tail of spine. Contents lightly toned. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear creasing and horizontal tears to fold lines and spine and chipping at fold ends and head and tail of spine. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun a Prussian aristocrat and SS Stormbahnfuerer who was spirited to the United States after the Second World War was one of the most important rocket developers of the 20th century. His passion had always been space exploration but during the 1940s he was charged with the development of the ballistic missiles that terrorized London during the final months of the war. After surrendering to the Americans in 1945 in order to safeguard his legacy and scientific work and himself von Braun was frustrated to spend the next few years cooling his heels with fellow German scientists in Texas and Alabama. He told one of his colleagues: "We can dream about rockets and the Moon until Hell freezes over. Unless the people understand it and the man who pays the bill is behind it no dice." Von Braun wrote the book The Mars Project in order to spark public enthusiasm for his project. Eighteen publishers turned it down but von Braun had a stroke of luck when he met Cornelius Ryan associate editor of Collier's magazine at a symposium on space medicine in San Antonio. Ryan was impressed with the German engineer's vision and the magazine published eight influential features on space travel over the next two years starting March 1952 in which von Braun essentially outlined the future of NASA. Those features were expanded into the book The Conquest of the Moon in 1953 and by the time Viking published The Exploration of Mars in 1956 von Braun had become a national figure appearing on a "Tomorrowland" feature on Disney's popular television show watched by tens of millions of people. The book was co-written with his Collier's collaborators Willy Ley who had fled Nazi Germany in 1935 to become a science fiction and popular science writer in the United States and the astronomical artist Chesley Bonestell. The Christmas 1958 inscription to little Jimmy was written at the end of a momentous year for von Braun: on January 31 after years of development the satellite Explorer I was successfully launched into orbit. Americans were thrilled and The American Weekly ran von Braun's autobiography in three installments. The story was turned into the 1960 biopic I Aim at the Stars which inspired Kennedy speechwriter Mort Sahl to quip that Wernher von Braun had aimed for the stars but sometimes hit London. The Viking Press unknown books
1943rif. 02511THE FRENZIED PRINCE David McKay 1943 first edition near fine in bright vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some light dust soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Illustrated in both color and black & white by Willy Pogany. David McKay unknown books
1943rif. 541653Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarto. 196pp. Green cloth. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Fine in just about fine dust jacket. Scarce in jacket. David McKay Company hardcover books
1943rif. 504542Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 196pp. Green cloth. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Near fine in very good or better price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce in jacket. David McKay Company hardcover books
1991rif. 97724NY:: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing. Fine. 1991. Paperback. 1561630098 . Translated by Michael Koch. First edition thus paperback. Fine in oversize illustrated wraps. . Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine Publishing, paperback books
1936rif. 29966Los Angeles: Suttonhouse 1936. Hardcover. 56pp Quarto 27.5 cm Brown cloth. Very good/Near fine. A couple of small nicks to the extremities of the jacket. Overall a nice copy. Charming children's story of Marta Lenker and her cabinet making father. Profusely illustrated by Willy Pogany. Suttonhouse hardcover books
1935rif. 56641New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Illustrated by J. O'H. Cosgrave II. Tiny stain to the edge of a couple of pages and the delicate green binding very slightly sunned still fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and very slight soiling. A lovely copy. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1934rif. 126391New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Frederick A. Blossom. Illustrations by J. O'H. Cosgrave II. A very good plus copy in orange cloth binding with some very slight soiling and a tiny bit of fraying to the spine ends. No dust jacket. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1934rif. 31873New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First edition. Orange cloth a near-fine copy jacket with light edge wear small chip at the top of the spine affecting "THE Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1932rif. UARNLIG01fpDavid McKay Company 1932. Very Good. Arnold Sir Edwin. The Light of Asia of the Great Renunciation being the Life and Teaching of Gautama. Pogany Willy. Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1932. xvi 182pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and spot on front cover. David McKay Company hardcover books
1932rif. 18586Philadelphia: David McKay 1932. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth silver front cover panel with cloth inset illustrated by Pogany. Fine. 192 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Illustrated in black and white by Will Pogany. Signed presentation copy "To Herbert Morrison from his old friend Hollywood 1937." Morrison Life Peer Baron Morrison of Lambeth was a member of the Labour Party serving as Foreign Secretary 1951 and as a Deputy Prime Minister. During World War II he served as Home Secretary. Morrison also created the London greenbelt system and was responsible for the unified London transport system. Crisp fresh and very bright copy. No dust jacket but believe not issued by publisher. David McKay hardcover books
1945rif. 10678THE LION AND THE UNICORN in Astounding Science Fiction for July 1945 Street & Smith first edition some light wear else vg in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains original contributions by Murray Leinster TIGHT PLACE Eric Frank Russell RESONANCE Willy Ley John W. Campbell et.al. Astounding / Street & Smith paperback books
1994rif. 195750New York: Simon & Schuster 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket both a nice clean copy like new. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1947rif. 2330191Basle Switzerland: Amerbach Publishing Comp 1947. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Rebound in full leather originally published in printer wrappers which are not included here. Pages lightly toned boards lightly rubbed and slightly discolored with a golden tinge to the red on both front and back possibly transfer from another binding or document but this seems unlikely given the color. 1947 Full-Leather. 11 1 24 pp. Red leather marbled endpapers. A short volume providing historical context for the imagery contained in the Weingartner manuscript along with color reproductions of all 24 figures. The Weingarten Manuscript German Weingartner Liederhandschrift is a 14th-century illuminated manuscript containing a collection of Minnesang lyrics. It is currently in the Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart with the shelf-mark HB XIII 1. In Minnesang scholarship it is referred to as Manuscript B. Along with the Codex Manesse MS. C and the Kleine Heidelberger Liederhandschrift MS. A it is one of the major sources of Minnesang texts from the beginnings around 1150 to the end of the 'golden age' around 1230. Amerbach Publishing Comp hardcover books
1947rif. 149524Basle: Amerbach Publishing Comp 1947. Softcover. G Ex-library with label and bookplate and marks; cover slightly soiled; page edges are tanning; plates and texts are clean. Pink illus. wraps French flaps 11 pp. of text plus 24 pp. of colored plates. An introduction presents the 24 colored plates of Minnesingers from this medieval manuscript. Amerbach Publishing Comp paperback books
1951rif. 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 books
1910rif. 33890London: George G. Harrap and Co 1910. Very good minus. Signed limited first Pogany edition one of only 525 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by Pogany. Often called Pogany's masterpiece this production owes much to the aesthetics of Morris's Kelmscott Press and Ricketts's Vale Press as well as artists like Gustave Doré and Aubrey Beardsley. Printed on silky high-quality paper each page features decorative borders and interlocking designs in subtle colors. A gorgeous book. 12.5'' x 9''. Original full brown calf gilt-stamped and -lettered. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates calligraphic text decorative borders plus a profusion of stunning illustrations in color and line throughout text many full-page. Signed by Pogany on limitation page. Joints expertly repaired with some additional careful repair to boards where leather has been scuffed all along edges. George G. Harrap and Co unknown books
1910rif. 140938515London: George Harrap 1910. First THUS. Very Good. Limited edition of 525 copies hand-numbered 91 in blue signed by illustrator Willy Pogany. Quarto. Original full tan calf decorated in gilt illustrated with 20 beautiful tipped-in color plates top edge gilt. Unpaginated. Very Good with scratch in front cover wear along edges of leather internally near fine bookplate ghost on paste down. All plates present. A wonderful visual exploration of Coleridge's classic poem with intricate ink illustrations and every plate a hazy dream-like wash of color. George Harrap unknown books
rif. 183961New York: George H. Doran Co not identified. Hardcover. Fair heavy shelfwear to boards foxing spots mainly to end papers soiling to bottom block extending slightly to bottom of some pages previous owner's name inside front ffep text and illustrations are otherwise clear. Brown paper boards with green cloth spine gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt color illustrated title and half title page ornamental borders; unpaginated; profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color with many mounted color plates. Presented by Willy Pogany. A classic Coleridge poem. George H. Doran Co hardcover books
