Posted in Collecting SF, Publishing on February 20th, 2007 No Comments »
The late 1940s and early 1050s saw the rapid decline of the old pulp magazines. Formerly the largest outlet by far for short fiction, these cheaply produced magazines suffered from the paper shortages of the Second World War era becoming increasingly more expensive to produce. Many publishers began either to close their doors outright 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, Publishing on December 2nd, 2006 6 Comments »
One of the most famous and highly collectible of the early genre series is the renowned Adult Fantasy Series published by Ballantine Books between 1969 and 1974. The series grew out of the popularity of Ballantine’s paperback editions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s now famous quartet, as well as a number of other fantasy classics seen in […]
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