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Fantasite, v. 1, issue 6, November-December 1941
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because it is possible for any fan to have the same thing. They are merely the science fiction yarns I have collected from several thousand issues of a hundred different non-stf magazines and hand bound together after extracting them from the magazines. Not being blessed with a square acre of room space in which to keep my books and magazines, and not overly caring for love and detective and western stories as a permanent possession, I take apart my Argosies, my Cosmopolitans, Blue Books, Short Stories, Clues, etc., etc., ad infinitum, save the science fiction and fantasy, and throw away or give away the rest. A few years ago, after saving such excerpts for a decade, I toted the whole mess down to a book binder, after arranging the authors in alphabetical order, and had them stapled together in books from one to one-and-a-half inches thick. The covers are board covered in a thin imitation leather, held firmly to the book by gummed linen, with heavy kraft end papers. On the front cover of each volume is stamped in gold FANTASTIC FICTION, and on the back edge, the number of the volume. It cost about 55 cents per book to have this done. Expensive, yes, but a fine looking set as I see it now upon my shelves. Well worth the investment. Why not you? ********************************** Another anonymous novel recently to come my way is titled MAN ABROAD: A YARN OF SOME OTHER CENTURY, and was published by the G. W. Dillingham Company of New York, in 1887. In the main a political satire (as were most fantasies of that period) it nevertheless contains a great deal of amusing fantasy relating to the troubles and squabbles which arise between the planets, after the Solar System has been colonized by the peoples of Earth. For Poe fans, I heartily recommend a beautiful little volume POE'S TALES: A SELECTION, boxed and done in boards and half leather by Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters, in 1922. And without comment, but with tongue in cheek, I give the following, also by the Roycrofters: It is the publisher's review: "The Doctors, by Elbert Hubbard. -- Bound in human hide, lined with iodoform gauze, sewed with catgut and flavored with formaldehyde. "A satirical play. Some jokes and much grim humor and satire by the Fra on subjects of vivisection, vaccination, and the treatment of the insane. This book is different." Well, make of it what you will. ------------------------------------ "Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies --" Casilda's Song in THE KING IN YELLOW By Robert V. Chambers... ----------------------------------- Again let me suggest one of the most economical, simplest ways for the fan with not too much money (and aren't we legion?) to obtain the better things in book fantastic and at little cost. The way is through the circulating libraries. These little drug-store bookstalls are in business for the sole purpose of making money, and it is a strange, never-to-be-understood commentary on human quirks, that fantastic books do not earn money for circulating libraries; with the exception of a rare fav by Burroughs, Cummings and Merritt, it is rare if such a book is rented twice in three months. So, seeing such a book on the shelves, it is a ten to one shot in his favor that, if the fan will offer a quarter or a half-dollar for it, his offer will be eagerly snatched up... Try it some time. It actually works. ------------------------------------ BACK ISSUES OF MARVEL TALES, 25c each. We have on hand a limited number of copies of the March-April issue of Marvel Tales, and are letting them go at this low price. (March-April 1925 we meant to say) Remit orders to Frances Blomstrand, Associate Editor, 504 W. 3rd St. Hastings, Minn.
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because it is possible for any fan to have the same thing. They are merely the science fiction yarns I have collected from several thousand issues of a hundred different non-stf magazines and hand bound together after extracting them from the magazines. Not being blessed with a square acre of room space in which to keep my books and magazines, and not overly caring for love and detective and western stories as a permanent possession, I take apart my Argosies, my Cosmopolitans, Blue Books, Short Stories, Clues, etc., etc., ad infinitum, save the science fiction and fantasy, and throw away or give away the rest. A few years ago, after saving such excerpts for a decade, I toted the whole mess down to a book binder, after arranging the authors in alphabetical order, and had them stapled together in books from one to one-and-a-half inches thick. The covers are board covered in a thin imitation leather, held firmly to the book by gummed linen, with heavy kraft end papers. On the front cover of each volume is stamped in gold FANTASTIC FICTION, and on the back edge, the number of the volume. It cost about 55 cents per book to have this done. Expensive, yes, but a fine looking set as I see it now upon my shelves. Well worth the investment. Why not you? ********************************** Another anonymous novel recently to come my way is titled MAN ABROAD: A YARN OF SOME OTHER CENTURY, and was published by the G. W. Dillingham Company of New York, in 1887. In the main a political satire (as were most fantasies of that period) it nevertheless contains a great deal of amusing fantasy relating to the troubles and squabbles which arise between the planets, after the Solar System has been colonized by the peoples of Earth. For Poe fans, I heartily recommend a beautiful little volume POE'S TALES: A SELECTION, boxed and done in boards and half leather by Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters, in 1922. And without comment, but with tongue in cheek, I give the following, also by the Roycrofters: It is the publisher's review: "The Doctors, by Elbert Hubbard. -- Bound in human hide, lined with iodoform gauze, sewed with catgut and flavored with formaldehyde. "A satirical play. Some jokes and much grim humor and satire by the Fra on subjects of vivisection, vaccination, and the treatment of the insane. This book is different." Well, make of it what you will. ------------------------------------ "Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies --" Casilda's Song in THE KING IN YELLOW By Robert V. Chambers... ----------------------------------- Again let me suggest one of the most economical, simplest ways for the fan with not too much money (and aren't we legion?) to obtain the better things in book fantastic and at little cost. The way is through the circulating libraries. These little drug-store bookstalls are in business for the sole purpose of making money, and it is a strange, never-to-be-understood commentary on human quirks, that fantastic books do not earn money for circulating libraries; with the exception of a rare fav by Burroughs, Cummings and Merritt, it is rare if such a book is rented twice in three months. So, seeing such a book on the shelves, it is a ten to one shot in his favor that, if the fan will offer a quarter or a half-dollar for it, his offer will be eagerly snatched up... Try it some time. It actually works. ------------------------------------ BACK ISSUES OF MARVEL TALES, 25c each. We have on hand a limited number of copies of the March-April issue of Marvel Tales, and are letting them go at this low price. (March-April 1925 we meant to say) Remit orders to Frances Blomstrand, Associate Editor, 504 W. 3rd St. Hastings, Minn.
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