Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Roy Squires, Los Angeles, 1950
Da: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Jon Arfstrom, Neil Austin, Jack Gaughan, Frank Jonbrian (illustratore). 1st Edition. Los Angeles:Roy Squires, 1950. Volume 4, No. 4, the September, 1950 issue of Fantasy Advertiser. Cover by Jon Arfstrom; interior art by Arfstrom, Neil Austin, Jack Gaughan, and Frank Jonbrian in this issue. Octavo, stapled wraps, 34 numbered pages. Near Fine copy, with cover sunning at angles (see scans). Otherwise a high grade, very sharp, undamaged copy. An early copy of the fanzine; mostly ads, book lists, book reviews. In this issue, and articles by Malcom Ferguson (nice piece on M.P. Shiel), Frederick Shroyer (The Antiquarian Bookshelf), and Henry Kuttner (Prognosis Favorable), and book reviews are offered by Dan Imbrifer (Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman), Jack Kelsey(Fligh Into Space), George D. Martindale (Genus Homo), Paul Spencer (Shadows of Ecstasy) and by editor Roy Squires. An attention getting ad for Frank Scully's "Behind the Flying Saucers" graces the back cover (see scan), and asks Roswell-inspired questions that sound like they were just asked yesterday - only this was 1950. A classic issue from a fanzine classic from the golden age of sci-fi, replete with ads, sale and auction notifications, publications notices, and more - all focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror, of course. L-pr1.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Roy Squires, Los Angeles, 1950
Da: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Con Pederson, Arfstrom, Gaughan, Grossman, George Martindale (illustratore). 1st Edition. Los Angeles: Roy Squires, 1950. Volume III, No. 6, the January, 1950 issue of Fantasy Advertiser. Cover by Neil Austin; interior art by Arfstrom, Gaughan, Grossman, and George Martindale in this issue. Octavo, stapled wraps, 27 numbered pages. Near Fine copy, with only the inevitable modest toning to the paper and lightly red-penciled previous owner's note at cover top (see scan), which is probably erasable. High grade. Very sharp, undamaged copy. An early copy of the fanzine; mostly ads, book lists, book reviews, and in this issue, an S.T. Horn review of "Giant Brains (or, Machines That Think)" (Edmund C. Berkeley) and reviews, respectively, of Lord Dunsany, Arthur C. Clarke, and James Branch Cabell by Lin Carter, Marjorie Hope Nicolson (reprinted from the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society), and George D. Martindale. Forrest J. Ackerman provides a checklist of "Prozines" for 1949 at the end. Also, a brief uncredited review of Robert A. Heinlein's "Sixth Column" (Gnome). Pacific Rockets Journal ad on rear cover (see scan). A classic issue from a fanzine classic from the golden age of sci-fi, replete with ads, sale and auction notifications, publications notices, and more - all focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror, of course. L-pr1.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Roy Squires, Los Angeles, 1951
Da: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Morris Scott Dollens (illustratore). 1st Edition. Los Angeles: Roy Squires, 1951. Volume 5, No. 3, the September, 1951 issue of Fantasy Advertiser. Cover by Morris Scott Dollens. Octavo, stapled wraps, 38 numbered pages. Near Fine copy, notable toning at margins, else flawless. See scan. A high grade, very sharp, undamaged example. Mid-run issue of the thrice-titled classic sci-fi fanzine (Fantasy Advertiser, then Science Fiction Advertiser, then Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser); essays, opinion, ads, book lists, book reviews. In this issue, the offerings are from editor Roy Squires, Morris Scott Dollens with a self-illustrated piece, "Evolution of Science Fiction Art", Arthur J. Cox ("Astounding's Science Fiction: Some Changes in Form"), and reviews by Malcolm W. Ferguson, Clyde Beck, Russell A. Leadabrand, Carolyn Gaybard, George D. Martindale, and Neil Barron of such titles as The Moon is Hell (Joseph W. Campbell, Jr.), Renaissance (Raymond F. Jones), Rogue Queen (L. Sprague de Camp) and The Green Hills of Earth (Robert A, Heinlein).and of course much else - all focused on science fiction, fantasy and horror, by intent, but mostly on Science Fiction by execution at this time. L-pr1.