Unknown]]> Photographs]]> Invaders of Earth was published in 1952 and edited by Conklin. It may have been a similar copy that Salive devoured. It contains short stories by writers such as Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. Van Vogt, Frederic Brown, and Murray Leinster, and titles such as ‘An Eel by the Tail’, ‘Not Only Dead Men’, ‘Invasion from Mars’, and ‘The Waveries’. After reading the contents, Salive was hooked. How could you not be?]]> Groff Conklin (editor)]]> Book covers]]> Astounding Stories of Super-Science, first published in January 1930 under the editorship of Harry Bates. This periodical remains the most influential, and longest running continuously published magazine in the history of SF fact and fiction. This issue of March 1930 is Salive’s earliest copy. It contains the classic Wesso cover and ‘Brigands of the Moon’ by Ray Cummings (1887-1957). Cummings, at one stage assistant to Thomas Edison, was one of the founding fathers of SF pulp genre and produced some 750 novels and short stories in his career.]]> Editor (Harry Bates)]]> Magazine covers]]> The World of Nulla-A being one of them.]]> A.E. Van Vogt]]> Book covers]]> Slan, was, according to P. Schuyler Miller, the novelist’s ‘first and most famous novel, perhaps his best.’ Salive might not have known that Slan was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction between September and December 1940.]]> A.E. Van Vogt]]> Book covers]]> Astounding Science (if in good condition) and a copy of Van Vogt’s Slan.]]> Hal Salive]]> Correspondence]]> Astounding, December 1941). Under the name Latham he wrote Five Against Venus (1952) a SF novel for children. He also scripted a series called Captain Video. The cover artwork is by Virgil Finlay.]]> Philip Latham]]> Book covers]]> Lonely-Planet-like guide, Mars, a full ‘not for the faint-hearted’ explanation of the Red Planet, fourth from the Sun, and ‘our most inhabitable planetary neighbour in the solar system.’ Murphy is co-founder of the Mars Society Australia.]]> Guy Murphy]]> Book covers]]> Split Infinity (1980), Book I of The Apprentice Adept, with its iconic fantasy emblem – the unicorn drawn by Rowena Morrill.]]> Piers Anthony]]> Book covers]]> Android Avenger was published as an Ace Double-back in 1965. The cover artwork is by Ed Valigursky.]]> Ted White]]> Book covers]]> Dune, was first published in 1965 by Chilton Books, a printing firm better known for publishing auto-repair manuals. This is a later British edition with cover artwork by Bruce Pennington.]]> Frank Herbert]]> Book covers]]> Hal Salive]]> Correspondence]]> Astounding/Analog magazine, John W. Campbell wrote SF stories, including Islands of Space, a space opera, which first appeared in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1931. This is a later Ace publication of 1956.]]> John W. Campbell]]> Book covers]]> Astounding Stories and Analog from 1937 until his death on 1971. Campbell is credited with shaping the Golden Age of SF, encouraging writers such as Isaac Asimov, Lester del Rey, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon and A.E. van Vogt.]]> Hal Salive ]]> Correspondence]]> The Vortex Blaster from Fantasy and Science Fiction Publications in New York and asked if they had any pre-1949 Astounding Stories for sale. Interestingly, he also asked for issues of Planet Stories, which was published between 1939 and 1955 and featured (in the main) interplanetary adventures. There are no copies of this magazine in the Salive Collection.]]> Edward E. Smith]]> Book covers]]> Hal Salive]]> Correspondence]]> Yandro, an influential SF fan magazine that was published ‘more or less monthly’ by Robert (‘Buck’) and Juanita Coulson, from Hartford City, Indiana. Yandro ran from 1953 to 1986 and was renowned for letters of comment and its book reviews: ‘Maker/A for Anything is repulsive, while Hell’s Pavement is patchwork…’. Salive subscribed to it and this copy – No. 153, c.1964 – is the earliest magazine in his collection. The title of Yandro came from the works of Manly Wade Wellman, who took it from the traditional folk song, ‘He’s Gone Away’.]]> Robert (‘Buck’) and Juanita Coulson]]> Magazine covers]]> Astounding led DeVore to invite Salive to visit – ‘half an hour from Ann Arbor’ – and of course, buy. At the 1967 prices Salive must have had a field day!]]> Hal Salive]]> Correspondence]]> Howard De Vore]]> Photocopies]]> Machineries of Joy (1964) with cover artwork by Joe Mugnaini.]]> Ray Bradbury]]> Book covers]]> Stranger in a Strange Land was an exception to this. While no copy of the latter is in Salive’s collection, he did own 32 other Heinlein titles.]]> Robert A. Heinlein]]> Book covers]]> Babel-17, Nova, and The Einstein Intersection, which won the Nebula Award in 1967. On display is the Ace first edition publication of The Einstein Intersection, with cover design by Jack Gaughan (1930-85).]]> Samuel R. Delany]]> Book covers]]> Jack Gaughan of Michael Kurland’s ‘Earth Errant’ is the only original illustration in Salive’s collection. On the back is a lot number and presumably Salive purchased it at auction sometime in the US. Kurland has written well over 40 titles, in both SF and detective fiction genres. This Gaughan image was done for the book, which was accepted then rejected by the publisher. Kurland’s story was eventually published by DAW as Tomorrow Knight (1976). Although the cover art for the DAW publication was done by Douglas Beekman, the interior art remained by Gaughan.]]> Jack Gaughan]]> Acrylic paintings]]> Chanur’s Venture is one of five in the Chanur novel series, shortlisted for a Locus Award in 1985.]]> C.J. Cherryh]]> Book covers]]> Star Trek, Battletech, and Mechwarrior: Dark Age. Her Well of Souls is part of The Lost Era novels and deals with Captain Rachel Garrett’s U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-C in the year 2336.]]> Ilsa J. Bilk]]> Book covers]]>