BangZoom Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 Atlantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 thanks, the UNZ listing didn't come up for me (I've seen other pulps from them), but bookmarked home page and will explore. The poem only so so, but hey. UNZ didn't have Mar 47 with SAC poem 'On a Weird Planet'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 thanks, the UNZ listing didn't come up for me (I've seen other pulps from them), but bookmarked home page and will explore. The poem only so so, but hey. UNZ didn't have Mar 47 with SAC poem 'On a Weird Planet'... I can take a photo of it if you want to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 Continuing along with our undersea adventures... We don't want to forget "The Green Girl" by Jack Williamson which was originally published in the March and April 1930 issues of Amazing Stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) Well, if you could, please, show us 'On a Weird Planet', I'll try not to ask for more (now!). Edited January 24, 2015 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) Atlantis - by Clark Ashton Smith Above its domes the gulfs accumulate. Far up, the sea-gales blare their bitter screed: But here the buried waters take no heed— Deaf, and with welded lips pressed down by weight Of the upper ocean. Dim, interminate, In cities over-webbed with somber weed, Where galleons crumble and the krakens breed, The slow tide coils through sunken court and gate. From out the ocean's phosphor-starry dome, A ghostly light is dubitably shed On altars of a goddess garlanded With blossoms of some weird and hueless vine; And, wingéd, fleet, through skies beneath the foam, Like silent birds the sea-things dart and shine. Edited January 24, 2015 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I definitely have to find the time to scan something… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) USPS tracking says this has arrived in California for Monday delivery. Frank Aubrey is Francis Atkins, who also wrote as Fenton Ash. As Ash he authored a series of ‘boy’s adventure’ (old UK term) books, including ‘A Trip to Mars’, and ‘The Black Opal’, the latter set in the Sargasso Sea. Even more than Atlantis the Sargasso held my imagination as a child since it contained relics from all eras… Well, ‘Queen’ sets Atlantis in the Sargasso, and also seems not written more specifically for children, so I’d thought about picking up the ‘Opal’, but decided this should be first. A Queen of Atlantis by Frank Aubrey Lippincott 1900 illustrated by D. Murray Smith. Cover scan is seller’s pic, interiors gleaned from web. Queen may mark the end of my Atlantis quest (‘less BZ finds something HOT). Since mushroom jungle input was slowing my 2015 goal was to add some late-19 early-20C hardbacks to the collection, not necessarily to go compulsively underwater. The Atlantis angle was a way to get started… Edited January 24, 2015 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 What is the "mushroom jungle input"? Looks like a great book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I love my jacketed books, but the scattering of 'nekkid' oldies gives the shelves a gravitas (my Sargasso shelves) that well reflects my collecting tastes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I love them both – maybe you could just keep all the original cloth hardcovers on one side, not mixed with the more recent dust jacketed ones… That‘s usually what I do when I sort my books and magazines: I try to be strictly cronologic, or have a mixture of chronologic approach and historical/thematic one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 ah, putting things in order would just reveal the many gaps and huge holes. my internal cataloging more tidy. but I'll admit that sometimes after spending an hour looking for a comic in my few randomly-filed stacks I am tempted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaillant Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I just realized you were a regular contributor to the Comic Book Marketplace! I bought the first issues when they came out, and immediately felt how good the publication was but never get around to read them. I still have them all in my "comics essays" box and I will eventually dig them out at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) Edited January 24, 2015 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodan57 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 If I walked into a home and saw these bookshelves, I'd be looking forward to a glass of good beer or wine and an evening of interesting conversation. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 good to hear, and yes, I'm always up for a few weird words. and my wife keeps a bottle around. you can let me know if you're hereabouts or visiting Sonoma County CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 thanks, the UNZ listing didn't come up for me (I've seen other pulps from them), but bookmarked home page and will explore. The poem only so so, but hey. UNZ didn't have Mar 47 with SAC poem 'On a Weird Planet'... Weird Tales (March 1947) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 I definitely have to find the time to scan something… I'm looking forward to it. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Congrats on finding another great book for your collection. Did you know that the story was originally serialized in the February - August 1899 issues of Argosy? USPS tracking says this has arrived in California for Monday delivery. Frank Aubrey is Francis Atkins, who also wrote as Fenton Ash. As Ash he authored a series of ‘boy’s adventure’ (old UK term) books, including ‘A Trip to Mars’, and ‘The Black Opal’, the latter set in the Sargasso Sea. Even more than Atlantis the Sargasso held my imagination as a child since it contained relics from all eras… Well, ‘Queen’ sets Atlantis in the Sargasso, and also seems not written more specifically for children, so I’d thought about picking up the ‘Opal’, but decided this should be first. A Queen of Atlantis by Frank Aubrey Lippincott 1900 illustrated by D. Murray Smith. Cover scan is seller’s pic, interiors gleaned from web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 That's a great looking collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
