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Wonders of Space Travel (1954)

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A re-run again. I mentioned this one briefly about a year ago but thought I would share some more scans with you.
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/03/scientific-wonders-1953-wonders-of.html

These were booklets that were enclosed as extras in Lion magazine. This 1954 one reused a lot of the Bonestell and Freeman illustrations from the Collier's magazine series.

Some were re-paintings of famous images.

A lot of very beautiful art for such a small booklet. It even had this great color "center-fold".

I apologize for the lack of posts. there have been a lot less new items in my collection and I haven't had time to do more scans of some of the older ones. Maybe summer will re-inspire me. Here are a couple more pages:

Really beautiful images even if re-printed from another source.

Brainseep: Time Masters (Les Maitres du Temps)

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"Time Masters(Les Maîtres du temps) (1982, René Laloux and Mœbius)

Moebius

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Out of This World

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Fantasy Ink: Steve Ditko: Out of This World

3-D Spacescapes (1964)

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This is a spectacular book of punch-outs of the surfaces of other planets. It takes the space art and makes it 3-D. Because the book itself is 15" x 10" some of the images are harder to share. Also since I did not want to assemble this beauty you can only get part of the effect. What blows me away about this book is the impressionistic approach to showing the surface of these other planets.

As you see each page is huge with lots of images so I scanned part of the page so you can see some of the spaceflight vehicles and plans.

It is part of the Hammond "Construct-o-kit" books. Hammond was a map and atlas company that as their part of the space age created a number of spaceflight images as to be used in introductions to atlases and as maps.
Construct-o-kit 3-D spacescapes. By Sonya Rubin Fish. C. S. Hammond, Inc. 1965-02-18 (in notice: 1964)

Other uses of the Hammond images are found in these blog posts:

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-from-my-room.html (the poster in the background)

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/05/space-mans-new-frontier-1962.html

Some of my favorite images include these of a moonbase and a lunar lander.

There is almost no text in this book except this information page. Like other punch-out books this one encourages a child to imagine what the future might bring.

FRANK R. PAUL: FATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION ART

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FRANK R. PAUL: FATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION ART is a modern volume published by Castle Books (New York) that contains a comprehensive history, critical essay and huge gallery of one of the most beloved SF artists. Contributors include ARTHUR C. CLARKE, SAM MOSKOWITZ and FORREST J. ACKERMAN.



Original artwork for LIFE ON NEPTUNE, from the back cover of FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, March 1940.



Artwork erroneously credited as appearing on the cover of WONDER STORIES, June 1931. According to the book SCIENCE FICTION ART - THE FANTASIES OF SF by BRIAN ALDISS this was actually the cover for SCIENCE FICTION, December 1939 and depicted a scene from PLANET OF THE KNOB HEADS by STANTON A. COBLENTZ.

First Vacation on the Moon / Premieres Vacances Sur La Lune (1967)

First Vacation on the Moon / Premieres Vacances Sur La Lune (1967)

OK as promised your "First Vacation on the Moon". This is a very interesting French book that seems to have been published using photographs from a space flight movie of the time. I will welcome any corrections to my guesses since my French is very poor.

Heimer, Marc. Premières Vacances Sur La Lune. Paris: Presses de la Cité, #2 p., 32 cm. 1967

What makes it especially interesting to me is the photographs of a child visiting the Moon. This is very much like 'You Will Go to the Moon (1959) but with photographs of the Moon.

The other topic of interest is the Moonbase they visit. This is probably just the design from the film but it gives the book the sense of it being a visit to a real place.

I have not been able to find out very much about the book but did find this quote:

'In 1967, Mark Heimer, inspired by images from the film 'Luna' the Lennaoutchfilm, imagine the holidays out of the ordinary for a small boy in the 'First Holiday on the Moon' "

I have tried to find out more about 'Luna'. It may be the 1965 Russian film that was released in Europe as 'La Lune'

Having never seen the film I really like the models and details they used for the moonbase.

As a collector I get kind of blasé about having found all the books out there. I have dabbled in finding original books from other countries but having poor language skills has limited me to tripping across them. This one is an astrofuturism classic.

I also like some of the details shown like the hydroponics room:

There is also what looks like a monorail and an electromagnetic launching system for return to orbit:

This book is a visual treat. It even has the classic image of how when you walk on the Moon gravity lets you do some fun tricks.

It happily crosses that line between what is fantasy and what might be reality one day.