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the25centpaperback · 20 days

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The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien, cover by Barbara Remington (1965)

#1960s #barbara remington #j r r tolkien #paperback #vintage #book #fantasy #the lord of the rings #houghton mifflin #ballantine books

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 5 months

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Lin Carter (editor) - New Worlds For Old - Ballantine - 1971 (cover art by David Johnston)

#witches #old ones #occult #vintage #new worlds for old #ballantine books #adult fantasy #worlds of wonder #14 steps #lin carter #david johnston #1971 #fantasy

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thehauntedrocket · 9 months

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Vintage Paperback - Alchemy And Academe by Anne McCaffrey

Ballantine (1980)

#Fantasy #Anne McCaffrey #Paperback Cover #Paperback Art #Alchemy And Academe #Ballantine Books #Ballentine #Vintage #Art #Wizards #1980 #1980s #80s

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 8 months

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𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔙𝔞𝔲𝔩𝔱 𝔬𝔣 ℌ𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝔠𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔟𝔶 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔨 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔷𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔞

#The Vault of Horror #Frank Frazetta #cover art #cover #vault of horror #comics #comic #comic art #painting #illustration #1964 #60's #60s #Ballantine Books

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vintagerpg · 1 year

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Believe it or not, this is the cover of the first paperback edition of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride (1974). The hardcover first edition has a nice scene of a countryside and a castle, but this painting by Ted Coconis…is not that! I would love to read the brief he got. The front and back cover illustrations of the 1977 edition by Norman Green are much more in line with the actual story (though the tagline of “A Hot Fairy Tale,” is not, at least to my reading). I also included the 1992 paperback in blue because of the maps. They both have fold-out maps, but the blue one’s map is referred to as “inferior” which is true, but also amusing. Whatever the quality, the map is great. I love a fold-out map and this is one of the best I have encountered.

The novel (written but the same guy who wrote the Marathon Man, of all things) is essentially the same as the film, to an almost unnerving degree. There are bits that have more (more background for Fezzik, more nightmares for Buttercup), the biggest being Inigo and Fezzik’s descent into the Zoo of Death to retrieve the body of the Man in Black. Mostly, it is nearly impossible to separate the fairy tale portion of the book from the film. It even does the “Mawidge” gag. I will say that in the book, more characters sound like Jewish people from New York City (I always thought Billy Crystal’s Miracle Max was a sore thumb in the film, but it turns out he is actually a tonal hold-out).

The main difference is the frame. Goldman is the sick kid, but the discovers that when his father read the original book to him, he left out all the boring parts, so this is presented as his edit, “the good stuff version” that will hopefully appeal to his own (fictional) son. Like the film, Goldman butts into the narrative (in red text in the original paperback) to offer meta-commentary about the book, the publishing world and his own (fictional) hapless life. Its…weird. But good!

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #roleplaying game #Novel #Ballantine Books #William Goldman #Princess Bride #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons

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atomic-chronoscaph · 9 months

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art by David Mattingly (1982)

#david mattingly #80s sci-fi art #science-fiction novels #lester del rey #cover art #outpost of jupiter #attack from atlantis #rocket jockey #the mysterious planet #ballantine books #1980s #1982

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transistoradio · 1 year

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Four early-70s Ballantine paperbacks by and about H. P. Lovecraft, with wraparound cover art by Gervasio Gallardo.

#h. p. lovecraft #ballantine books #august derleth #lin carter #cthulhu #cthulhu mythos #paperback covers #weird fiction #gervasio gallardo

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misforgotten2 · 6 months

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A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #401

Cover by Ben Shahn -- 1959

#cover art #book cover #1959 #paperback #vintage paperbacks #1960s #1960's #science fiction #sci fi #scifi #ballantine books #ephemera

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pulpsandcomics2 · 11 months

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The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Ballantine, 1963)

#science fiction novel #barsoom #warlord of mars #ballantine books #edgar rice burroughs

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datascatvislorturlough · 3 months

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The mental count of my Star Trek books has been off for a while. It's not off by a few, either. I thought I had approximately 320 Star Trek books in my library. The updated count is a bigger number than I thought, and a much smaller gap to 400 than was originally assumed.

I have 379. That is nearly 40% of the general definition of a library...

I also recently found out one of my books is signed by J.M. Dillard!