Posted in Collecting SF on January 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
Hooray, hurrah, another list! This time of marvelous genre artists. One of the less frequent themes for a book collection is a focus on the artist who illustrates the cover, dust jacket or interior illustrations. Such a collection can be a wonderful showcase of a particular artist showing diversity, style development over a career or […]
Posted in Collecting SF, Publishing on January 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
A noteworthy update to my recent discussion on Fantasy Press was kindly provided by Fred Reynolds. It’s an amazing six-volume boxed set of E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman books titled The History of Civilization. Limited to only 75 copies, the set includes Triplantary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensman, and Children of […]
Posted in Collecting SF, Publishing on January 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Fantasy Press was one of the very earliest of the small presses specializing in the science fiction genre. Created in 1946 by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Fantasy Press specialized in reprinting novels and short stories originally published in the early pulp magazines. Many of these were the first hardcover printings of works by A. E. […]
Posted in Collecting SF on December 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
Not too long ago I talked about the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series and the Ace Science Fiction Special series as possible themes for a nice paperback collection. Here are a few more imprints that are excellent choices for paperback collectors.
Ace Doubles - The original Ace Books series that began in 1952. Mostly comprised […]
