Abner Gelula (7 results)

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Lacking original wraps / cover. Pages tanned with minor chipping.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 13, No. 6. [Edited by Raymond A. Palmer.] Cover by William Juhre for "World Without Death" by Polton Cross [John Russell Fearn]; "Future Space Suit," uncredited article for rear cover space-suit design by Frank R. Paul. Includes "The Whistling Death" by Abner J. Gelula; "The Deadly Slime" by Frederic Arnold Kummer; "Lundstret's Invention" by Robert Moore Williams; "Microbes from Space" by Thornton Ayre [John Russell Fearn]; "The Radio Man Returns" by Ralph Milne Farley; "Brigade of the Damned" by Ed Earl Repp. Features: "Observatory"; "Riddles of Science"; "A Lost Civilization"; "The Giant Eye"; "Questuions & Answers"; "Monthly Merit Award"; "Forecast"; "Meet the Authors"; "Science Quiz"; "Discussions"; "Correspondence Corner". Letters from Thornton Ayre [John Russell Fearn], Chester S. Geier, and others. Dealer's mark on cover; upper foredge corner off (moderate to large - takes off the top of "n" and most of "g" in "Amazing"); 2" separation at upper front hinge, less at others; creasing.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 8, No. 4. Bedsheet-sized pulp. Edited by T. O'Conor Sloane. Cover art by Sigmond. Includes "The Candle" (editorial) by T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D.; "Unto Us a Child is Born" by David H. Keller, M.D.; "Hibernation" by Abner J. Gelula; "The Intelligence Gigantic" (pt. 2 of 2) by John Russell Fearn; "Cavern of Thunders" by Harl Vincent; "What Do You Know?" (science questionnaire); "The Flight of the RX-1" by Raymond Z. Gallun; "The The Realm of Books" by T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D.; "Discussions". Letters from Harvey Haggard, Forest J. Ackerman, Mortimer Weisinger and others. Illustrated by Morey. Creased; tears and small losses; spine lacks pieces; tanned with stains. Ted White, noted author and editor, owner's stamp on cover. Association.

Condition: good+. cover drawn by Morey (illustrator). pulp magazine, 25¢, stories, articles and discussions. softcover, spine taped with bookbinding tape, cover clean, pages good, 144 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. VG+ to Near Fine. Minor edgewear only. Cover art by Leo Morey depicting a scene from Subjugating the Earth.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 4to. pp 577-768. Monthly magazine. Original publisher's illustrated covers. Two issues. Contributors include: Bob Olsen, Bernard Brown, Harl Vincent, Jack Williamson (The Stone from the Green Star - story runs in both issues), Abner J. Gelula. Highly attractive covers, designed by Morey, showing an orange rocket blasting through a green 'star' and a man in a space suit being attacked by bright pink tentacles. Very good indeed. Excellent condition.

First edition. Octavo, seventeen parts plus preliminaries, the parts and the two preliminary leaves professionally bound in black cloth. COSMOS, a legendary collaborative novel by eighteen authors, was published in seventeen parts as supplements to SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST (later FANTASY MAGAZINE), July 1933January 1935. In order of appearance, contributors were Ralph Milne Farley, David G. Keller, Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Frances Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters, Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, P. Schuyler Miller, Lloyd A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, and Edmond Hamilton. The title page (designed by Hannes Bok) and table of contents were printed with the final issue. In 1946 Sam Moskowitz estimated that only thirty complete sets of COSMOS existed. [Reference: Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 16. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 19]. Installments and preliminaries are in fine condition throughout. This set is accompanied by Hannes Bok's original black and white preliminary drawing for the cover illustration. (34593).