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Post by andydecker on May 15, 2019 11:33:39 GMT
The DAW catalogue is so well done, here a few more pictures.
This is a typical double spread. In 1984 Tanith Lee was maybe already on the height of her success. DAW was clearly moving into ever more fantasy and cutting down on the SF.
It is puzzeling that John Norman sold so well compared to, say, Philip K. Dick. Also these were the doorstoppers of their time. Not one under 480 pages of small print.
And here is P.K.Dick, to illustrate that the publisher also had some quality writers.
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Post by helrunar on May 15, 2019 14:59:02 GMT
Those scans are awesome, Andreas. Vielendank!!!
I find the whole John Norman GOR thing baffling. I was barely aware of the books at the time--I know I must have seen them, but for some reason, those books seemed to have a cloak of near-invisibility around them. I guess because none of the critics I tended to follow then, such as Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp, ever mentioned the author or his work. It was fascinating from a sociological perspective to read an article about the series that is posted here on a thread about the books. It might be on the "PHWOAR" board.
Steve
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Post by helrunar on May 15, 2019 15:01:19 GMT
There's a used bookshop near my office that has a couple of old spinner racks, specifically for display of vintage paperbacks. They all seem to live inside little plastic baggies now which I find distinctly odd. I go in there periodically just to absorb the atmosphere and look over whatever they have. In the Fine Arts section I saw some lovely books about Anglo-Saxon art.
cheers, Steve
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Post by jamesdoig on May 15, 2019 20:44:50 GMT
The DAW catalogue is so well done, here a few more pictures. Thanks for those, Andy - as you say, they're nicely done. By the way, when did you start getting those fanzines like Fantasy Newsletter/Review?
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Post by andydecker on May 16, 2019 17:36:22 GMT
The DAW catalogue is so well done, here a few more pictures. Thanks for those, Andy - as you say, they're nicely done. By the way, when did you start getting those fanzines like Fantasy Newsletter/Review? I had all forgotten about FN/FR:) . Really don't remember how I stumbled upon this. It was quite exotic in Europe. Maybe I saw an ad in one of bookseller Ziesing's catalogues. Or got an issues in a dealer's room in one of our yearly comic-cons where I spend too much money on the back-issues of X-Men. The first issue of FN/FR I got is #34 from 1981. I have it before me right now. It had quite a high class line-up. Karl Wagner, Mike Ashley, Darrell Schweitzer, Bill Warren, Douglas E. Winter. It seems to had a lot of support from the scene, both in form of articles and ads. I bought it till #93. I don't know why I stopped the subscription. Either overseas became too expensive or I lost interest. I know it never achieved the importance or the circulation of LOCUS, but I never knew how important the fanzine was in the US and England.
FR even printed my first (and only) article in a foreign publication, an overview of German SF in #64. It is credited to me alone, but that isn't correct. I co-wrote this with a friend, a translator and writer, who actually did most of the work. Can't remember why he wanted to remain anonym. Or how the contact with the editor Robert Collins came about. I guess I must have written him. I have a hazy recollection that they even paid for the piece.
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