Art
ROBERT E. HOWARD: CONAN: TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT: A CLASSIC FANTASY ADVENTURE FOLIO...
Merriam, KS: House of Fantasy, 1977. Large folio, publisher's "verification of authenticity" leaf, poem "Yag-Kosha, The Elephant God" - a single leaf, eight plates (including title plate), enclosed in stiff color illustrated covers and illustrated envelope. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by Fabian.
ROBERT E. HOWARD: CONAN: TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT: A CLASSIC FANTASY ADVENTURE FOLIO...
Merriam, KS: House of Fantasy, 1977. Large folio, publisher's "verification of authenticity" leaf, poem "Yag-Kosha, The Elephant God" - a single leaf, eight plates (including title plate), enclosed in stiff color illustrated covers and illustrated envelope. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by Fabian.
ARTHUR RACKHAM: HIS LIFE AND WORK.
New York: Scribners, 1975. Octavo, Hardcover. Reprint. Contains a revised checklist from the previous publication in 1960. Also reprinted in 1973. Contains many tipped in color reproductions.
THE ART OF JEFFREY JONES.
Nevada City, CA: Underwood Books, 2002. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 numbered copies signed by Jones. A major book with a comprehensive look at the work of Jones (1944-2011), the majority of the material is color reproductions with some previously unpublished material. Jones contributed many great fantasy and science fiction covers during the period of 1960s - 1970s. His work illustrated Robert E. Howard, Andre Norton, Dean Koontz, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, Karl Edward Wagner and many others. For a time in the 1970s he founded and shared a studio in New York with Berni Wrightson, Barry Windsor Smith, and Michael W. Kaluta. Jones was a major talent of the latter half of the 20th Century.
THE ART OF MAHLON BLAINE.
[East Lansing, MI]: Peregrine Books, 1982. Large octavo, numerous illustrations, color and black and white, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback. Along with artwork a reminiscence by Legman and a bibliography by Roland Trenary. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 14-38.
THE PANDEMNIUM PORTFOLIO OF DENIS TIANI [Centipede Artist Series].
[Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2019]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Introduction by Jason Van Hollannder and afterword by Harry O. Morris. This copy was sent out for review and has no limitation leaf.
MERVYN PEAKE: WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS.
London, New York: Academy Editions, St. Martin's Press, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition, U.S. issue. Simultaneous publication in England and the U.S. Done by the author's widow, with varied selections from the author's career with some analysis.
THE HANNES BOK MEMORIAL SHOWCASE OF FANTASY ART.
San Francisco: Sisu Publishers, [1974]. Large octavo, profusely illustrated in color and black and white, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Includes a lengthy introductory essay on fantasy art by Petaja, thirty-one biographies or autobiographies of fantasy artists illustrated with examples of their art, and other material.
THE HANNES BOK MEMORIAL SHOWCASE OF FANTASY ART.
San Francisco: Sisu Publishers, [1974]. Large octavo, profusely illustrated in color and black and white, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Includes a lengthy introductory essay on fantasy art by Petaja, thirty-one biographies or autobiographies of fantasy artists illustrated with examples of their art, and other material.
LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE.
Paris: Georges Decaux éditeur, n.d., [1887]. Oblong octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-48, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in red, black and gold, pictorial endpapers, all edges stained red. First edition. The second, scarcest and least popular of the three major parts of Robida's mammoth history of the twentieth century: LE VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE, LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE, and LA VIE ÉLECTRIQUE. Robida's LE VINGTIEME SIECLE, the first and central part of his remarkable vision of life in a technology-driven world of tomorrow, was first published as a fifty-part serial beginning in January 1882. The work was first published in book form in 1883. Robida's fantastic satire opens in the Spring of 1952 and focuses upon the activities of Helene Colobry, a recent graduate from a private provincial school, who becomes a broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent. Robida continued his extraordinary depiction of life in the twentieth-century in LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE (1883; 1887), LA VIE ÉLECTRIQUE (1891-1892) and several lesser works (VOYAGE DE FIANCAILLES AU XXe SIECLE, etc.). Robida (1848-1926), French illustrator, lithographer and writer, "was the most important and popular of nineteenth-century science fiction illustrators, and may even be said to have founded the genre, though he was clearly working in the tradition of such French fantastic artists as Grandville (Jean Gerard; 1803-1847) and Gustave Dore (1932-1883) ... The texts [of his prophetic] works are generally undistinguished. The illustrations, however, mostly in a vein of detailed caricature, are consistently inventive and amusing. Robida worked mostly with lithographic pencil and crayon, achieving a haphazard but impressive vigor. The figures are very much those of Victorian Europe, dressed in the fashions of the time, and involved in various busy scenes with a huge variety of modernistic devices. Among his hundreds of predictions were the videophone and germ warfare." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1014. "Writers everywhere drew upon the deposit of contemporary credibility for their accounts of the future; and between the extremes of peace and war they roamed at will, dealing in the exciting rhetoric and heroic deeds of 'the next great war' or giving their readers the utopian delight of living in the most desirable world of the twentieth century. The most striking illustration of this general practice appeared in the extraordinary fantasies of Albert Robida, the most gifted and original artist in the history of science fiction. His singular talent, remarkable even in that age of prophets, lay in his ability to imagine a future period in which all the anticipations of his day would decide the way of life in a self-explanatory world of the twentieth century. In 1882 he began the serial publication of LE VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE, in which his exceptional imagination created a complete society at work and play in the year of 1952: angry wives upbraid their husbands by le telephonoscope; women wear short dresses designed for use in flying machines; families watch the latest news from Africa on the television; there are food factories, submarine towns, aerocabs, and underwater sports. All the elements in the Robida projection coincided in the natural unity of a feasible society; and that same coherence of the imagination decided the application, but failed entirely to foresee the consequences, of the military technologies he was the first to describe in his spectacular fantasies on twentieth-century warfare." - Clarke, The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2001, pp. 104-05. LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE was first published, in a drastically abridged version, in the 27 October 1883 issue of LE CARICATURE, the magazine Robida owned and edited. The 1883 version is set in Africa in 1975, partly to distance its slaughter from Europe. In the more sinister 1887 book version the war is fought in Europe in 1945 and Robida has filled its pages with many graphic illustrations of total war on land, at sea, and in the air. As a whole, it is a remarkable and sober anticipation of the full range of military tactics and weapons of mass destruction employed during World War I and World War II. Lundwall, Science Fiction: An Illustrated History, p. 74. Rottensteiner, The Science Fiction Book: An Illustrated History, pp. 93-94. Stableford, The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique, pp. 413-415. Versins, Encyclopédie de l'Utopie, des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction, pp. 759-760.
GAHAN WILSON'S AMERICA.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1985]. Large octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Wilson on the title page. Wilson's unique view of America told in his words and cartoons.
STILL WEIRD.
New York: Forge, [1994]. Large octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by Wilson. Collection of the author's cartoons which includes 100 brand new cartoons and 100 which have never been collected in book form.