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Post by severance on Mar 5, 2018 13:47:41 GMT
Don't intend to compile any sort of checklist for this publisher, as it would number in the hundreds if not thousands, and besides I haven't got that many but I do want to highlight the odd author that is of interest to me if no one else! In the 'Down the Back of the Vault' thread last year CroMagnonMan mentioned the work of cover artists Barbara and Eileen Walton - who worked largely for Fontana and Robert Hale. I only have one example of Eileen Walton's work, but it is a real beauty. Wade Wright - Blonde Target Published by Robert Hale in 1966 - cover art by Eileen Walton Wade Wright was the pseudonym of John Wright (1933-2008) a native of South Africa. "Blonde Target" was the fifth book to feature the private detective Bart Condor and all were only published in hardback by Robert Hale: "Suddenly You're Dead" - 1964 "Blood in the Ashes" - 1964 "A Hearse Waiting" - 1965 "Until She Dies" - 1965 "Blonde Target" - 1966 "Two Faces of Death" - 1970 Wright created another detective called Paul Cameron, and Robert Hale published at least 4 between 1967 and 1973.
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Post by cromagnonman on Mar 6, 2018 11:09:11 GMT
The Walton sisters really were fab, weren't they Sev. Sadly I have far far less of their work than I would like. Labouring heavily for a library specialist like Hale as they did had the consequence of making their best work hard to acquire now and correspondingly expensive when it is available. Barbara did exceptional covers for the John D Macdonald and James Hadley Chase titles issued by Hale which add a real premium to their value. And she did fantastic work too for Berkeley Gray at Collins. Here's a rather more affordable example of her work:
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Post by helrunar on Mar 6, 2018 16:09:26 GMT
Thanks for that beautiful scan, Cro. I looked the book up online (I enjoy buying books about Witchcraft, both the religion and various fantasy versions) and a copy sold recently on Amazon UK for around 80 pounds. Oh well.
I'm hoping you mean some of the actual art survived from the Robert Hale work. I was horrified a few weeks ago when a friend mentioned to me that a lot of the original paintings done for US pulp mags wound up literally pulped because the publishers would keep the original art--I suppose because they had paid for the physical object, not just right of use. And then periodically all these gorgeous creatures would get tossed in dumpsters when the firms were clearing out their storerooms. Nobody realized back mid-centuryish that there would ever be a very healthy market for this beautiful work.
So, anything that has survived I regard as something of a miracle.
Thanks again, H.
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Post by cromagnonman on Apr 24, 2018 17:07:09 GMT
Thanks for that beautiful scan, Cro. I looked the book up online (I enjoy buying books about Witchcraft, both the religion and various fantasy versions) and a copy sold recently on Amazon UK for around 80 pounds. Oh well. I'm hoping you mean some of the actual art survived from the Robert Hale work. I was horrified a few weeks ago when a friend mentioned to me that a lot of the original paintings done for US pulp mags wound up literally pulped because the publishers would keep the original art--I suppose because they had paid for the physical object, not just right of use. And then periodically all these gorgeous creatures would get tossed in dumpsters when the firms were clearing out their storerooms. Nobody realized back mid-centuryish that there would ever be a very healthy market for this beautiful work. So, anything that has survived I regard as something of a miracle. Thanks again, H. I would like to think that Hale - being the small family run firm that it is - was, and is, more considerate of its cover artists than most larger concerns, and that the Walton sisters had their original art returned to them. But then I'm an incorrigible romantic; truth is, I just don't know. Would be nice to think that all those hundreds of beautiful canvases still exist somewhere. What an extraordinary exhibition might be mounted from them. Anyway, here's another amazing piece of work which I've only just discovered. Not representative of her usual style at all, but as such all the more of a testament to the incredible versatility and talent of the marvellous Barbara Walton. Just how funky and groovy is this.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 24, 2018 18:42:52 GMT
Beautiful. Published 1969.
cheers, H.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 24, 2018 20:15:09 GMT
Just beautiful.
Thanks for posting.
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Post by severance on May 30, 2018 10:20:46 GMT
Robert Martin was a prolific writer for the 1940's pulps such as Dime Detective and Black Mask, but when that market began to dry up he made the transition into full length novels publishing 22 novels between 1951 and 1965 - 14 under his own name and 8 under the pseudonym of Lee Roberts. Many of his novels were based on his earlier pulp material, such as his most successful work, Little Sister, which went through six printings at Gold Medal. Robert Hale published many of his novels, in fact his last 4 were published in the U.K. first with U.S. paperback editions eventually appearing in the 1970's. The following list is as concise as I've been able to research, with the dates being of first publication rather than Robert Hale publication: Robert MartinDark Dream - 1951 Sleep, My Love - 1953 Tears for the Bride - 1954 The Widow and the Web - 1954 The Echoing Shore - 1955 Just a Corpse at Twilight - 1955 Catch a Killer - 1956 Hand-Picked for Murder - 1957 Killer Among Us - 1958 A Key to the Morgue - 1959 To Have and to Kill - 1960 She, Me and Murder - 1962 * A Coffin for Two - 1962 * Bargain for Death - 1964 * Lee RobertsLittle Sister - 1952 The Pale Door - 1955 Judas Journey - 1956 The Case of the Missing Lovers - 1957 Once a Widow - 1957 If the Shoe Fits - 1959 Death of a Ladies' Man - 1960 Suspicion - 1964 * * - first published by Robert Hale
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Post by severance on Mar 5, 2019 12:19:17 GMT
Douglas Sanderson, though born in the U.K. in 1920, moved to Canada after the War, where several of his novels were set. Eventually he settled in Spain, where he died in 2002. Although he only wrote just over 20 novels, they're spread over three different names - Sanderson, Malcolm Douglas and Malcolm Brett - and several have appeared under different titles in different countries. For Robert Hale, Sanderson published four novels that I know of: "Lam to Slaughter" - 1964 "Black Reprieve" -1965 "No Charge for Framing" - 1969 "A Dead Bullfighter -1975 Douglas Sanderson - Black Reprieve Published by Robert Hale in 1965 - Cover art by Eileen Walton
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