Language: English
Published by Paperback Library, 1965
Seller: Volunteer Paperbacks, Battle Creek, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good/Fine. 1st Printing. Paperback Library 54-819. Extremely light wear along the edges of the wraps, with a bit of foxing on the spine edges. An anthology featuring: The First Men by Howard Fast; A Work of Art by James Blish; Evening Primrose by John Collier; Memento Homo by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; A Miracle of Rare Device by Ray Bradbury; "All You Zombies?" by Robert A. Heinlein; Faq' by George P. Elliott; Babel II by Damon Knight; A Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon; Night Piece by Poul Anderson; Now Let Us Sleep by Avram Davidson; The Strange Girl by Mark Van Doren; The Quest for Saint Aquin by Anthony Boucher; The War in the Air by R. V. Cassill; The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov.
Published by Ace F Series. New York: Ace Books., 1964
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. F-267 very good , creases Cover by Ed Emsh. paperback,
Published by Paperback Library. New York: Paperback Library, Inc., 1967
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. 2nd. 54-577 very good, spine creases paperback,
Language: English
Published by Intertec Publishing Corportion October 1986, Overland Park, Kansas, 1986
ISBN 10: 087288239X ISBN 13: 9780872882393
Seller: Book People, Henrico, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A little shelf worn but looks unread. The spine is slightly sunfaded but still legible.
Published by Paperback Library. New York: Paperback Library, Inc., 1965
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. 54-819 very good Cover art by Jack Gaughan. paperback,
Published by Paperback Library. New York: Paperback Library, Inc., 1965
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. 54-819 near fine, unread Cover art by Jack Gaughan. paperback,
Published by Paperback Library. New York: Paperback Library, Inc., 1965
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. 54-819 almost near fine Cover art by Jack Gaughan. paperback,
Language: English
Published by Wheaton, Illinois: Quest Books/ The Theosophical Publishing House, 2003
ISBN 10: 0835608360 ISBN 13: 9780835608367
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "First Quest Edition 2003 First Printing 2003" stated. Fine hardback in fine dust jacket ($29.95) on rear panel. Only trivial, if any signs of age/previous use to book and dust jacket.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1962
Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later Edition. This book has been listed as being in Good (G) condition. Used Book.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1959
Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. The inner front flap of the dust jacket has a ~0.5cm stain near the mid-point which bleeds through to the opposite side. Inscription on inner front cover and on front fly page. Yellowing to dust jacket. Used Book.
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1961
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazines. 11 issues (lacking April). Pictorial wrappers. Pages toned, inked numbers on the front cover of three issues, binding slightly cocked on one volume, overall very good. Contributions by: William Eastlake, Isaac Asimov, Brian W. Aldiss, Rosel George Brown, Zenna Henderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip José Farmer, Carol Emshwiller, Stephen Barr, Cordwainer Smith, Kingsley Amis, Rosemary Harris, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Walter Tevis, and more.
Published by Modern Poetry Association, Chicago, 1969
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Pictorial mustard wrappers. Contains pages 79-136pp, [12]pp. Fine. Contributions by Henry Rago, Daryl Hine, May Swenson, Denise Levertov, Stanley Kunitz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Benedikt, Daniel Hoffman, Larry Eigner, Frederick Bock, Lisel Mueller, Marvin Bell, Leonard Cochran, Richard Howard, HJ. Sobiloff, Robert Creeley, Galway kinnell, Gary Snyder, Karl Shapiro, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., and Hayden Carruth.
Published by Victor Gollancz, London England, 1963
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Good. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Couple of letters in pen to inside cover. Slight fading to front cloth. Slight foxing to end pages. 260 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).
Published by The Science Fiction Book Club, London England, 1963
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Hardback. Wear and tear and a small waterstain mark to D/J. 260 pp.
Published by Published jointly by MIT Press and John Wiley & Sons: 1962., 1962
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 751 pages. This conference was sponored by The Solid State Sciences Division of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. AF-AFOSR 61-31. "The four parts of this volume cover: 1. designs of high-field solenoids and supporting systems, 2. high-field research programs now underway at laboratories around the world, 3. application of high fields in solid-state and low-temperature physics, and 4. use of high fields in plasma physics." FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Language: English
Published by The American University in Cairo Press, American University in Cairo Press, for the American Research Center in Egypt, 2010
ISBN 10: 0936770287 ISBN 13: 9780936770284
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxiii, 298 pp. LCC: 2009939004.
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1960
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazines. 10 issues (lacking July and August). Pictorial wrappers. Pages toned, inked numbers on the front cover of two issues, small tears on rear cover and last two leaves of January, tape repair at the foot of the spine on March, chip and tear on the spine of December with splitting along the rear spine fold, overall very good. Contributions by: Poul Anderson, Clifford Simak, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Jane Rice, Algys Budrys, Gordon R. Dickson, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Clifford Simak, John Berry, Winston P. Sanders, James Blish, Allen Drury, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Matheson, Katherine Maclean, Mack Reynolds, Winona McClintic, and more.
Published by Fantasy House, New York, 1958
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazines. 12 issues. Pictorial wrappers. Tape reinforcement on the spine of the January issue with an ink stain on the foredge, inked numbers on the cover of two issues, pages toned, overall very good. Contributions by: Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, Avram Davidson, Arthur C. Clarke, Fredric Brown, Robert A. Heinlein, Damon Knight, Jane Roberts, Walter Tevis, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, Robert Silverberg, C. S. Lewis, and more.
Published by Cambridge University], [Massachusetts, 1964
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 40pp. Stapled wrappers. Age-toning on the spine with light rubbing, near fine. Cambridge University's Literary Magazine printed in the 1950s and 1960s featuring poetry, stories, and reviews. Notable contributors include J.M. Newton, Howard Mills, Anne Beresford, Robert Fothergill, B.C. Southam, Fred Inglis, David Ingleby, Geoffrey Strickland, and Alan Ramsey. Scarce.
Language: English
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1961
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Art / Print / Poster First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Original Proof Illustration. Proof, Color Print. Fine. Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925 - 1990), Better Known As Ed Emshwiller, Was An American Visual Artist Notable For His Science Fiction Illustrations And His Pioneering Experimental Films. He Usually Signed His Illustrations As Emsh But Sometimes Used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer And Others. From 1951 To 1979, While Living In Levittown, New York, Emshwiller Created Covers And Interior Illustrations For Dozens Of Science Fiction Paperbacks And Magazines, Notably Galaxy And The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He Debuted In The Pulp Magazines With About 50 Interior Illustrations And Four Cover Paintings For The May To December 1951 Issues Of Galaxy, A Monthly Edited By H. L. Gold. In That Year Or 1952 He Also Did His First Book Cover For The U.S. Paperback Edition Of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because He Experimented With A Diversity Of Techniques, There Is No Typical Emsh Cover. His Painterly Treatment For The August 1951 Cover Of Galaxy Science Fiction Prefigures Later Work By Leo And Diane Dillon. Emshwiller Won One Of The Inaugural Hugo Awards In 1953, As The Previous Year's Best "Cover Artist" (A Tie With Hannes Bok). Cover Artists And Interior Illustrators Were Not Thereafter Distinguished By The Hugo Award For Best Artist Under Various Names; He Won Four More During The 1960S Under The Current "Professional Artist" Distinction.[8] On June 16, 2007, He Became The Third Artist Inducted By The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame. His Paintings Of Aliens Were Displayed In The Alien Encounters Exhibition Of The Science Fiction Museum, Which Houses The Hall Of Fame, At That Time (September 10, 2006 To October 30, 2007). In 1964, A Ford Foundation Grant Allowed Emshwiller To Pursue His Interest In Film. Active In The New American Cinema Movement Of The 1960S And Early 1970S, He Created Multimedia Performance Pieces And Did Cine-Dance And Experimental Films, Such As The 38-Minute Relativity (1966). He Also Was A Cinematographer On Documentaries, Such As Emile De Antonio's Painters Painting (1972), And Feature Films, Such As Time Of The Heathen (1964) And Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah The Hills (1963). Emshwiller's Footage Of Bob Dylan Singing "Only A Pawn In Their Game" On July 6, 1963 At A Voters' Registration Rally In Greenwood, Mississippi, Was Shot For Jack Willis' 1963 Documentary The Streets Of Greenwood And Appears In D. A. Pennebaker's Dylan Documentary, Dont Look Back (1967). His Films Of The 1960S Were Mostly Shot In 16Mm Color, And Some Of These Included Double Exposures Created Simply By Rewinding The Cameras. He Was One Of The Earliest Video Artists. With Scape-Mates (1972), He Began His Experiments In Video, Combining Computer Animation With Live-Action. In 1979, He Produced Sunstone, A Groundbreaking Three-Minute 3-D Computer-Generated Video Made At The New York Institute Of Technology With Alvy Ray Smith.[4] Now In The Museum Of Modern Art's Video Collection, Sunstone Was Exhibited At Siggraph 79, The 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival And Other Festivals. In 1979, It Was Shown On Wnet's Video/Film Review, And A Single Sunstone Frame Was Used On The Front Cover Of Fundamentals Of Interactive Computer Graphics, Published In 1982 By Addison-Wesley. After A Period As Artist-In-Residence At The Television Laboratory Wnet/13 (New York), Where He Worked On The Effects For The Lathe Of Heaven Among Other Projects, He Moved To California Where He Was The Founder Of The Calarts Computer Animation Lab And Served As Dean Of The School Of Film/Video At The California Institute Of Arts From 1979 To 1990. He Also Served As Provost From 1981 Through 1986. In 1987, He Created His Electronic Video Opera, Hunger, For The 1987 Los Angeles Arts Festival, In Partnership With Composer Morton Subotnick. It Was His Last Completed Work, Also Presented In October 1989 At The Ars Electronica Festival In Linz, Austria. (Wikipedia).
Language: English
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1961
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Art / Print / Poster First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Fine. Original Proof Illustration. Proof, Color. Fine. Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925 - 1990), Better Known As Ed Emshwiller, Was An American Visual Artist Notable For His Science Fiction Illustrations And His Pioneering Experimental Films. He Usually Signed His Illustrations As Emsh But Sometimes Used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer And Others. From 1951 To 1979, While Living In Levittown, New York, Emshwiller Created Covers And Interior Illustrations For Dozens Of Science Fiction Paperbacks And Magazines, Notably Galaxy And The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He Debuted In The Pulp Magazines With About 50 Interior Illustrations And Four Cover Paintings For The May To December 1951 Issues Of Galaxy, A Monthly Edited By H. L. Gold. In That Year Or 1952 He Also Did His First Book Cover For The U.S. Paperback Edition Of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because He Experimented With A Diversity Of Techniques, There Is No Typical Emsh Cover. His Painterly Treatment For The August 1951 Cover Of Galaxy Science Fiction Prefigures Later Work By Leo And Diane Dillon. Emshwiller Won One Of The Inaugural Hugo Awards In 1953, As The Previous Year's Best "Cover Artist" (A Tie With Hannes Bok). Cover Artists And Interior Illustrators Were Not Thereafter Distinguished By The Hugo Award For Best Artist Under Various Names; He Won Four More During The 1960S Under The Current "Professional Artist" Distinction.[8] On June 16, 2007, He Became The Third Artist Inducted By The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame. His Paintings Of Aliens Were Displayed In The Alien Encounters Exhibition Of The Science Fiction Museum, Which Houses The Hall Of Fame, At That Time (September 10, 2006 To October 30, 2007). In 1964, A Ford Foundation Grant Allowed Emshwiller To Pursue His Interest In Film. Active In The New American Cinema Movement Of The 1960S And Early 1970S, He Created Multimedia Performance Pieces And Did Cine-Dance And Experimental Films, Such As The 38-Minute Relativity (1966). He Also Was A Cinematographer On Documentaries, Such As Emile De Antonio's Painters Painting (1972), And Feature Films, Such As Time Of The Heathen (1964) And Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah The Hills (1963). Emshwiller's Footage Of Bob Dylan Singing "Only A Pawn In Their Game" On July 6, 1963 At A Voters' Registration Rally In Greenwood, Mississippi, Was Shot For Jack Willis' 1963 Documentary The Streets Of Greenwood And Appears In D. A. Pennebaker's Dylan Documentary, Dont Look Back (1967). His Films Of The 1960S Were Mostly Shot In 16Mm Color, And Some Of These Included Double Exposures Created Simply By Rewinding The Cameras. He Was One Of The Earliest Video Artists. With Scape-Mates (1972), He Began His Experiments In Video, Combining Computer Animation With Live-Action. In 1979, He Produced Sunstone, A Groundbreaking Three-Minute 3-D Computer-Generated Video Made At The New York Institute Of Technology With Alvy Ray Smith.[4] Now In The Museum Of Modern Art's Video Collection, Sunstone Was Exhibited At Siggraph 79, The 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival And Other Festivals. In 1979, It Was Shown On Wnet's Video/Film Review, And A Single Sunstone Frame Was Used On The Front Cover Of Fundamentals Of Interactive Computer Graphics, Published In 1982 By Addison-Wesley. After A Period As Artist-In-Residence At The Television Laboratory Wnet/13 (New York), Where He Worked On The Effects For The Lathe Of Heaven Among Other Projects, He Moved To California Where He Was The Founder Of The Calarts Computer Animation Lab And Served As Dean Of The School Of Film/Video At The California Institute Of Arts From 1979 To 1990. He Also Served As Provost From 1981 Through 1986. In 1987, He Created His Electronic Video Opera, Hunger, For The 1987 Los Angeles Arts Festival, In Partnership With Composer Morton Subotnick. It Was His Last Completed Work, Also Presented In October 1989 At The Ars Electronica Festival In Linz, Austria. (Wikipedia).
Published by Mercury Press, New York, USA, 1958
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 15, No. 5 November 1958 - printed and published in the USA, with a price of 35c on the front cover. This issue contains the first publication of an astronomical article by Isaac Asimov, plus novellas, stories and articles by Poul Anderson, A. Bertram Chandler, Jack Williamson et al (please see scan of Contents page for a full list of the authors). ***Very good in colour illustrated paper covers. The covers have some light wear commensurate with age and handling, but are generally very clean. The edges of the covers are slightly rubbed and creased, mainly at the top corners, and the spine is rolled from reading, but no significant reading creases to the spine. No fading. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. No creases or tears. Cheap pulp paper stock tanned as usual. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***194mm x 130mm. 130 pages including a single-page publisher's advert at the back. ***'Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 - July 31, 2001) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001. Anderson also wrote historical novels. His awards include seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.' (Wiki) ***A collection of Science Fiction stories, novellas and articles, including a scientific astronomical article "Dust of Ages" by Isaac Asimov about the nature of cosmic dust. ***A classic original 1950s American issue of pulp magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction, published in November 1958, in very good condition for its age. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1962
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazines. 10 issues (lacking April and May). Pictorial wrappers. A few tiny nicks and tears at the edges of wraps, soiling on the rear cover of one volume, inked numbers on the front cover of five issues, overall very good. Contributions by: Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Richard Matheson, Avram Davidson, Fritz Leiber, Alfred Bester, John Brunner, Kate Wilhelm, Truman Capote, Terry Carr, Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon, James Blish, Evelyn E. Smith, Robert Sheckley, Gordon R. Dickson, and more.
Published by The Modern Poetry Association, (Chicago, 1966
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Contains pages 69-144pp. Pictorial brown wrappers. Spine and edges lightly age-toned, near fine. Contributions by Thom Gunn, Clayton Eshleman, Frederic Will, James Crenner, Andrew Hoyem, Daniel Hoffman, Philip Levine, Robert Pack, Isabella Gardner, Austin Clarke, Thomas Clark, Theodore Enslin, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., Richard Tillinghast, Ron Loewinsohn, Mark Mc Closkey.
Language: English
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1960
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Art / Print / Poster First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Fine. Original Proof Illustration. Proof, Color. Fine. Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925 - 1990), Better Known As Ed Emshwiller, Was An American Visual Artist Notable For His Science Fiction Illustrations And His Pioneering Experimental Films. He Usually Signed His Illustrations As Emsh But Sometimes Used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer And Others. From 1951 To 1979, While Living In Levittown, New York, Emshwiller Created Covers And Interior Illustrations For Dozens Of Science Fiction Paperbacks And Magazines, Notably Galaxy And The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He Debuted In The Pulp Magazines With About 50 Interior Illustrations And Four Cover Paintings For The May To December 1951 Issues Of Galaxy, A Monthly Edited By H. L. Gold. In That Year Or 1952 He Also Did His First Book Cover For The U.S. Paperback Edition Of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because He Experimented With A Diversity Of Techniques, There Is No Typical Emsh Cover. His Painterly Treatment For The August 1951 Cover Of Galaxy Science Fiction Prefigures Later Work By Leo And Diane Dillon. Emshwiller Won One Of The Inaugural Hugo Awards In 1953, As The Previous Year's Best "Cover Artist" (A Tie With Hannes Bok). Cover Artists And Interior Illustrators Were Not Thereafter Distinguished By The Hugo Award For Best Artist Under Various Names; He Won Four More During The 1960S Under The Current "Professional Artist" Distinction.[8] On June 16, 2007, He Became The Third Artist Inducted By The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame. His Paintings Of Aliens Were Displayed In The Alien Encounters Exhibition Of The Science Fiction Museum, Which Houses The Hall Of Fame, At That Time (September 10, 2006 To October 30, 2007). In 1964, A Ford Foundation Grant Allowed Emshwiller To Pursue His Interest In Film. Active In The New American Cinema Movement Of The 1960S And Early 1970S, He Created Multimedia Performance Pieces And Did Cine-Dance And Experimental Films, Such As The 38-Minute Relativity (1966). He Also Was A Cinematographer On Documentaries, Such As Emile De Antonio's Painters Painting (1972), And Feature Films, Such As Time Of The Heathen (1964) And Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah The Hills (1963). Emshwiller's Footage Of Bob Dylan Singing "Only A Pawn In Their Game" On July 6, 1963 At A Voters' Registration Rally In Greenwood, Mississippi, Was Shot For Jack Willis' 1963 Documentary The Streets Of Greenwood And Appears In D. A. Pennebaker's Dylan Documentary, Dont Look Back (1967). His Films Of The 1960S Were Mostly Shot In 16Mm Color, And Some Of These Included Double Exposures Created Simply By Rewinding The Cameras. He Was One Of The Earliest Video Artists. With Scape-Mates (1972), He Began His Experiments In Video, Combining Computer Animation With Live-Action. In 1979, He Produced Sunstone, A Groundbreaking Three-Minute 3-D Computer-Generated Video Made At The New York Institute Of Technology With Alvy Ray Smith.[4] Now In The Museum Of Modern Art's Video Collection, Sunstone Was Exhibited At Siggraph 79, The 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival And Other Festivals. In 1979, It Was Shown On Wnet's Video/Film Review, And A Single Sunstone Frame Was Used On The Front Cover Of Fundamentals Of Interactive Computer Graphics, Published In 1982 By Addison-Wesley. After A Period As Artist-In-Residence At The Television Laboratory Wnet/13 (New York), Where He Worked On The Effects For The Lathe Of Heaven Among Other Projects, He Moved To California Where He Was The Founder Of The Calarts Computer Animation Lab And Served As Dean Of The School Of Film/Video At The California Institute Of Arts From 1979 To 1990. He Also Served As Provost From 1981 Through 1986. In 1987, He Created His Electronic Video Opera, Hunger, For The 1987 Los Angeles Arts Festival, In Partnership With Composer Morton Subotnick. It Was His Last Completed Work, Also Presented In October 1989 At The Ars Electronica Festival In Linz, Austria. (Wikipedia).
Language: English
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1961
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Art / Print / Poster First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Original Proof Illustration. Proof, Color Print. Fine. Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925 - 1990), Better Known As Ed Emshwiller, Was An American Visual Artist Notable For His Science Fiction Illustrations And His Pioneering Experimental Films. He Usually Signed His Illustrations As Emsh But Sometimes Used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer And Others. From 1951 To 1979, While Living In Levittown, New York, Emshwiller Created Covers And Interior Illustrations For Dozens Of Science Fiction Paperbacks And Magazines, Notably Galaxy And The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He Debuted In The Pulp Magazines With About 50 Interior Illustrations And Four Cover Paintings For The May To December 1951 Issues Of Galaxy, A Monthly Edited By H. L. Gold. In That Year Or 1952 He Also Did His First Book Cover For The U.S. Paperback Edition Of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because He Experimented With A Diversity Of Techniques, There Is No Typical Emsh Cover. His Painterly Treatment For The August 1951 Cover Of Galaxy Science Fiction Prefigures Later Work By Leo And Diane Dillon. Emshwiller Won One Of The Inaugural Hugo Awards In 1953, As The Previous Year's Best "Cover Artist" (A Tie With Hannes Bok). Cover Artists And Interior Illustrators Were Not Thereafter Distinguished By The Hugo Award For Best Artist Under Various Names; He Won Four More During The 1960S Under The Current "Professional Artist" Distinction.[8] On June 16, 2007, He Became The Third Artist Inducted By The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame. His Paintings Of Aliens Were Displayed In The Alien Encounters Exhibition Of The Science Fiction Museum, Which Houses The Hall Of Fame, At That Time (September 10, 2006 To October 30, 2007). In 1964, A Ford Foundation Grant Allowed Emshwiller To Pursue His Interest In Film. Active In The New American Cinema Movement Of The 1960S And Early 1970S, He Created Multimedia Performance Pieces And Did Cine-Dance And Experimental Films, Such As The 38-Minute Relativity (1966). He Also Was A Cinematographer On Documentaries, Such As Emile De Antonio's Painters Painting (1972), And Feature Films, Such As Time Of The Heathen (1964) And Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah The Hills (1963). Emshwiller's Footage Of Bob Dylan Singing "Only A Pawn In Their Game" On July 6, 1963 At A Voters' Registration Rally In Greenwood, Mississippi, Was Shot For Jack Willis' 1963 Documentary The Streets Of Greenwood And Appears In D. A. Pennebaker's Dylan Documentary, Dont Look Back (1967). His Films Of The 1960S Were Mostly Shot In 16Mm Color, And Some Of These Included Double Exposures Created Simply By Rewinding The Cameras. He Was One Of The Earliest Video Artists. With Scape-Mates (1972), He Began His Experiments In Video, Combining Computer Animation With Live-Action. In 1979, He Produced Sunstone, A Groundbreaking Three-Minute 3-D Computer-Generated Video Made At The New York Institute Of Technology With Alvy Ray Smith.[4] Now In The Museum Of Modern Art's Video Collection, Sunstone Was Exhibited At Siggraph 79, The 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival And Other Festivals. In 1979, It Was Shown On Wnet's Video/Film Review, And A Single Sunstone Frame Was Used On The Front Cover Of Fundamentals Of Interactive Computer Graphics, Published In 1982 By Addison-Wesley. After A Period As Artist-In-Residence At The Television Laboratory Wnet/13 (New York), Where He Worked On The Effects For The Lathe Of Heaven Among Other Projects, He Moved To California Where He Was The Founder Of The Calarts Computer Animation Lab And Served As Dean Of The School Of Film/Video At The California Institute Of Arts From 1979 To 1990. He Also Served As Provost From 1981 Through 1986. In 1987, He Created His Electronic Video Opera, Hunger, For The 1987 Los Angeles Arts Festival, In Partnership With Composer Morton Subotnick. It Was His Last Completed Work, Also Presented In October 1989 At The Ars Electronica Festival In Linz, Austria. (Wikipedia).
Language: English
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1959
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Art / Print / Poster First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Original Proof Illustration. Proof, Color Print. Fine. Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925 - 1990), Better Known As Ed Emshwiller, Was An American Visual Artist Notable For His Science Fiction Illustrations And His Pioneering Experimental Films. He Usually Signed His Illustrations As Emsh But Sometimes Used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer And Others. From 1951 To 1979, While Living In Levittown, New York, Emshwiller Created Covers And Interior Illustrations For Dozens Of Science Fiction Paperbacks And Magazines, Notably Galaxy And The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He Debuted In The Pulp Magazines With About 50 Interior Illustrations And Four Cover Paintings For The May To December 1951 Issues Of Galaxy, A Monthly Edited By H. L. Gold. In That Year Or 1952 He Also Did His First Book Cover For The U.S. Paperback Edition Of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because He Experimented With A Diversity Of Techniques, There Is No Typical Emsh Cover. His Painterly Treatment For The August 1951 Cover Of Galaxy Science Fiction Prefigures Later Work By Leo And Diane Dillon. Emshwiller Won One Of The Inaugural Hugo Awards In 1953, As The Previous Year's Best "Cover Artist" (A Tie With Hannes Bok). Cover Artists And Interior Illustrators Were Not Thereafter Distinguished By The Hugo Award For Best Artist Under Various Names; He Won Four More During The 1960S Under The Current "Professional Artist" Distinction.[8] On June 16, 2007, He Became The Third Artist Inducted By The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame. His Paintings Of Aliens Were Displayed In The Alien Encounters Exhibition Of The Science Fiction Museum, Which Houses The Hall Of Fame, At That Time (September 10, 2006 To October 30, 2007). In 1964, A Ford Foundation Grant Allowed Emshwiller To Pursue His Interest In Film. Active In The New American Cinema Movement Of The 1960S And Early 1970S, He Created Multimedia Performance Pieces And Did Cine-Dance And Experimental Films, Such As The 38-Minute Relativity (1966). He Also Was A Cinematographer On Documentaries, Such As Emile De Antonio's Painters Painting (1972), And Feature Films, Such As Time Of The Heathen (1964) And Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah The Hills (1963). Emshwiller's Footage Of Bob Dylan Singing "Only A Pawn In Their Game" On July 6, 1963 At A Voters' Registration Rally In Greenwood, Mississippi, Was Shot For Jack Willis' 1963 Documentary The Streets Of Greenwood And Appears In D. A. Pennebaker's Dylan Documentary, Dont Look Back (1967). His Films Of The 1960S Were Mostly Shot In 16Mm Color, And Some Of These Included Double Exposures Created Simply By Rewinding The Cameras. He Was One Of The Earliest Video Artists. With Scape-Mates (1972), He Began His Experiments In Video, Combining Computer Animation With Live-Action. In 1979, He Produced Sunstone, A Groundbreaking Three-Minute 3-D Computer-Generated Video Made At The New York Institute Of Technology With Alvy Ray Smith.[4] Now In The Museum Of Modern Art's Video Collection, Sunstone Was Exhibited At Siggraph 79, The 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival And Other Festivals. In 1979, It Was Shown On Wnet's Video/Film Review, And A Single Sunstone Frame Was Used On The Front Cover Of Fundamentals Of Interactive Computer Graphics, Published In 1982 By Addison-Wesley. After A Period As Artist-In-Residence At The Television Laboratory Wnet/13 (New York), Where He Worked On The Effects For The Lathe Of Heaven Among Other Projects, He Moved To California Where He Was The Founder Of The Calarts Computer Animation Lab And Served As Dean Of The School Of Film/Video At The California Institute Of Arts From 1979 To 1990. He Also Served As Provost From 1981 Through 1986. In 1987, He Created His Electronic Video Opera, Hunger, For The 1987 Los Angeles Arts Festival, In Partnership With Composer Morton Subotnick. It Was His Last Completed Work, Also Presented In October 1989 At The Ars Electronica Festival In Linz, Austria. (Wikipedia).
Language: English
Published by Mercury Press, New York, 1960
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Art / Print / Poster First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Original Proof Illustration. Proof, Color Print. Fine. Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (1925 - 1990), Better Known As Ed Emshwiller, Was An American Visual Artist Notable For His Science Fiction Illustrations And His Pioneering Experimental Films. He Usually Signed His Illustrations As Emsh But Sometimes Used Ed Emsh, Ed Emsler, Willer And Others. From 1951 To 1979, While Living In Levittown, New York, Emshwiller Created Covers And Interior Illustrations For Dozens Of Science Fiction Paperbacks And Magazines, Notably Galaxy And The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He Debuted In The Pulp Magazines With About 50 Interior Illustrations And Four Cover Paintings For The May To December 1951 Issues Of Galaxy, A Monthly Edited By H. L. Gold. In That Year Or 1952 He Also Did His First Book Cover For The U.S. Paperback Edition Of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because He Experimented With A Diversity Of Techniques, There Is No Typical Emsh Cover. His Painterly Treatment For The August 1951 Cover Of Galaxy Science Fiction Prefigures Later Work By Leo And Diane Dillon. Emshwiller Won One Of The Inaugural Hugo Awards In 1953, As The Previous Year's Best "Cover Artist" (A Tie With Hannes Bok). Cover Artists And Interior Illustrators Were Not Thereafter Distinguished By The Hugo Award For Best Artist Under Various Names; He Won Four More During The 1960S Under The Current "Professional Artist" Distinction.[8] On June 16, 2007, He Became The Third Artist Inducted By The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame. His Paintings Of Aliens Were Displayed In The Alien Encounters Exhibition Of The Science Fiction Museum, Which Houses The Hall Of Fame, At That Time (September 10, 2006 To October 30, 2007). In 1964, A Ford Foundation Grant Allowed Emshwiller To Pursue His Interest In Film. Active In The New American Cinema Movement Of The 1960S And Early 1970S, He Created Multimedia Performance Pieces And Did Cine-Dance And Experimental Films, Such As The 38-Minute Relativity (1966). He Also Was A Cinematographer On Documentaries, Such As Emile De Antonio's Painters Painting (1972), And Feature Films, Such As Time Of The Heathen (1964) And Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah The Hills (1963). Emshwiller's Footage Of Bob Dylan Singing "Only A Pawn In Their Game" On July 6, 1963 At A Voters' Registration Rally In Greenwood, Mississippi, Was Shot For Jack Willis' 1963 Documentary The Streets Of Greenwood And Appears In D. A. Pennebaker's Dylan Documentary, Dont Look Back (1967). His Films Of The 1960S Were Mostly Shot In 16Mm Color, And Some Of These Included Double Exposures Created Simply By Rewinding The Cameras. He Was One Of The Earliest Video Artists. With Scape-Mates (1972), He Began His Experiments In Video, Combining Computer Animation With Live-Action. In 1979, He Produced Sunstone, A Groundbreaking Three-Minute 3-D Computer-Generated Video Made At The New York Institute Of Technology With Alvy Ray Smith.[4] Now In The Museum Of Modern Art's Video Collection, Sunstone Was Exhibited At Siggraph 79, The 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival And Other Festivals. In 1979, It Was Shown On Wnet's Video/Film Review, And A Single Sunstone Frame Was Used On The Front Cover Of Fundamentals Of Interactive Computer Graphics, Published In 1982 By Addison-Wesley. After A Period As Artist-In-Residence At The Television Laboratory Wnet/13 (New York), Where He Worked On The Effects For The Lathe Of Heaven Among Other Projects, He Moved To California Where He Was The Founder Of The Calarts Computer Animation Lab And Served As Dean Of The School Of Film/Video At The California Institute Of Arts From 1979 To 1990. He Also Served As Provost From 1981 Through 1986. In 1987, He Created His Electronic Video Opera, Hunger, For The 1987 Los Angeles Arts Festival, In Partnership With Composer Morton Subotnick. It Was His Last Completed Work, Also Presented In October 1989 At The Ars Electronica Festival In Linz, Austria. (Wikipedia).
Published by Voyages Press, New York, 1957
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Introduction by George N. Shuster. Frontispiece by Eugene Delacroix. Topedge and endpapers slightly foxed, boards with light edgewear, very good in a lightly soiled very good dust jacket with slight tanning to the spine and extremities. One of 700 copies. Contains poems by Adam Mickiewicz translated "in versions by" Louise Bogan, Donald Davie, Babette Deutsch, Jean Garrigue, Daniel Hoffman, Arthur Gregor, Robert Hillyer, George Reavey, Charles Tomlinson and more.