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driveintheaterofthemind · 15 days

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Vintage Paperback - Live Bait For Murder by William Herber

Art by Mitchell Hooks

Bantam Books

#Paperback Cover #Paperback Art #Noir #Crime #Mitchell Hooks #William Herber #Live Bait For Murder #Vintage #Art #Bantam #Bantam Books #Mystery #Detectives #Paperback #Paperbacks

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atomic-chronoscaph · 8 months

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The Minerva Stone - art by Harry Barton (1969)

#harry barton #pulp art #gothic romance novels #paperback covers #cover art #the minerva stone #anne maybury #dark manor #old house #bantam books #sixties #1969

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 8 months

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William Sloane - The Edge of Running Water - Bantam - 1967

#witches #on-callers #occult #vintage #the edge of running water #bantam books #william sloane #1967

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thehauntedrocket · 5 days

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A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

A Wizard Of Earthsea / The Tombs Of Atuan / The Farthest Shore

Art by Pauline Ellison

Bantam Books (1975)

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garadinervi · 4 months

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Dee Brown, (1970), Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. An Indian History of the American West, Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1973, pp. 413-418

#graphic design #book #wounded knee massacre #dee brown #bantam books #1970s

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chernobog13 · 1 year

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Artist James Bama’s original painting of Doc Savage for the Bantam Books 1964 edition of The Man of Bronze. This is the first of 62 covers of the 96-book series that Bama would paint.

Steve Holland, star of a short-lived Flash Gordon television series in the 1950s, was Bama’s model of choice, given his rugged features and physique. As seen in the painting, Bama matched Holland’s hair closely to give Doc a more realistic look. It also closely resembles how Doc was pictured in the original pulp series and comic books.

However, Bantam’s art director, Len Leone, who was a big Doc Savage fan, didn’t want “normal” hair for Doc; he wanted a look that conveyed that Doc was no ordinary man.

Doc’s hair is described in the pulps as a darker shade of bronze than his skin, and that Doc usually wore it combed back so that it resembled a skullcap made of bronze. Leone wanted that look. He also mandated a widow’s peak which he said had been mentioned in the pulps; this a matter of small controversy because many fans don’t recall anything about the widow’s peak ever being mentioned.

Nevertheless, Bama did as he was told by his boss, and changed Doc’s hair in the painting.

Thus was born the iconic Doc Savage look that has prevailed to this day.

#Doc Savage #Street & Smith #Bantam Books #Steve Holland #James Bama #pulp heroes

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datascatvislorturlough · 3 months

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The mental count of my Star Trek books has been off for a while. It's not off by a few, either. I thought I had approximately 320 Star Trek books in my library. The updated count is a bigger number than I thought, and a much smaller gap to 400 than was originally assumed.

I have 379. That is nearly 40% of the general definition of a library...

I also recently found out one of my books is signed by J.M. Dillard!

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uwmspeccoll · 2 years

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Ray Bradbury Birthday Anniversary!

On this day, August 22 in 1920, the great American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born just over the Wisconsin border in Waukegan, Illinois. He would go on to become what The New York Times called "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream," with such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). He died in 2012 at the venerable age of 91.

To memorialize Ray Bradbury’s birth, we present some images from a 1983 collection of stories and poems related to the author’s earliest childhood and life-long fascination with dinosaurs in Dinosaur Tales, published by Bantam Books. The collection includes the short stories "Besides A Dinosaur, Whatta Ya Wanna Be When You Grow Up?" (1983), "The Fog Horn" (1951), "Tyrannosaurus Rex," originally published as “The Prehistoric Producer” (1962), Bradbury’s classic time-travel, “butterfly effect” story "A Sound of Thunder" (1952), and a new poetic collaboration with the legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson, "What If I Said: The Dinosaur's Not Dead?" Other illustrations in this book are by William Stout, Steranko, Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith and David Wiesner. Click on the images for the attributions.

Happy Birthday Anniversary, Ray Bradbury!

View a post on Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.

View other Milestone Monday posts.

#Milestone Monday #birthdays #Ray Bradbury #August 22 #Dinosaur Tales #Bantam Books #illustrated books #Gahan Wilson #William Stout #Moebius #Kenneth Smith #david wiesner #science fiction #fantasy #dinosaurs

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retrogirlsbooks · 9 months

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The Magic of the Moon by Joan Elliott Pickart

Cover illustration by Hal Frenck

ISBN 0-553-44006-3

#1980s #1989 #bantam books

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 8 months

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A PAINTING THAT'S HAUNTED ME EVER SINCE I PICKED UP A VINTAGE "DRACULA" PAPERBACK.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the 1824 oil on canvas/landscape painting titled "Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon" (German: "Mann und Frau in Betrachtung des Mondes") by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.

PIC #3: Spotlight on a 1981 Bantam Books/Bantam Classics publication of "Dracula" (1897), written by Bram Stoker. Cover art by Caspar David Friedrich.

NOVEL OVERVIEW: "One of the most popular stories ever told, Dracula has been recreated for the stage and screen hundreds of times yet it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of a supremely moralistic age."

-- BIBLIO (online book shop)

Sources: https://biblio.com.au/book/dracula-bram-stoker/d/1361720236, X (formerly Twitter), & Wikimedia.