For a misprint, the title is rather artfully positioned.
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I agree....I was thinking that if the title had been entirely within the Guardian portal, without covering up Spock's left eye, it would have been a neat variant. As it is, some people probably thought it was just a variant.
The World of Star Trek, with the signatures, did arrive today. I ended up being completely Trek-shocked!
Here is the page in its entirety:
Susan Sackett
Gene Roddenberry
David Gerrold
James Doohan
Grace Lee Whitney
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
George Takei
I am theorizing that someone at a con bought the book from a vendor and then had it signed by all of the guests. Then carefully packed it away unread. The seller I bought it from may have purchased it from an estate sale, with no one knowing the significance. For someone with no knowledge of Trek whatsoever, perhaps the thought was that the signatures were just from friends or something. But, imagine: selling this for $10. The additional $4.58 that I paid was shipping and tax. Well, St Patrick's Day is almost here, I am 1/2 Irish, and James Doohan's signature is in green. And a four-leafed clover fell out into my lap from an old coin book from the 60s that I bought a while back.
Anyhow, I plan to do a little research and see if I can turn up which con it might have been that was attended by those 8. From the look of the signatures of Gene, Bill, and Len, I think it might have been in the 70s, pre-TMP.
In any case, this has been a very amazing and unexpected experience!
Wednesday so: comics.
Thanks.
I contacted Susan Sackett and she said it's probably more likely that whoever had it acquired the autographs over time, rather than at a single con. Considering availability, conflicting schedules, etc, I think she's right. From the con programs that I saw in my research last night, I didn't turn up one con with all 8 present at once.
I think that the fantastic state of preservation made it seem like everyone might have signed it at one event. After further consideration, I think whoever had it was simply mighty careful when transporting it to and from events. And then the great storage in all the years since. It looks like everyone signed it yesterday!
The Price of The Phoenix, 2nd printing, average worn condition....much elevated by Grace Lee Whitney's autograph inside the front cover. An awesome rescue for $1.04.
New arrivals for this week, both of them "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"-related:
LaLaLand's revised and expanded soundtrack on twin CDs; and the 1980 German translation of the novelization.
TMP Remastered soundtrack and German TMP novelization by Ian McLean, on Flickr
LaLaLand's revised and expanded soundtrack on twin CDs; and the 1980 German translation of the novelization.
TMP Remastered soundtrack and German TMP novelization by Ian McLean, on Flickr
New arrivals for this week, both of them "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"-related:
LaLaLand's revised and expanded soundtrack on twin CDs; and the 1980 German translation of the novelization.
TMP Remastered soundtrack and German TMP novelization by Ian McLean, on Flickr
Just now bought a copy of that German novelization.
Scarce UK edition of The Star Trek Quiz Book....with funky rendition of the Enterprise. 
Scarce UK edition of The Star Trek Quiz Book....with funky rendition of the Enterprise.
With an Imperial Star Destroyer for a saucer, apparently.
Scarce UK edition of The Star Trek Quiz Book....with funky rendition of the Enterprise.
Ah, that's by the late Peter Elson - his art graced the covers of many a British edition of classic SF novels.
See more here: https://www.peterelson.co.uk
Thanks for posting! You kept me from embarrassing myself!
I was about to say it was by Eddie Jones (aka S. Fantoni), who did hundreds of covers for German sci-fi "hefte" like Terra Astra, including covers for translations of the Blish Star Trek adaptations. Several of his German Trek covers were recycled by Bantam as the covers of Star Trek books in the USA. Jones went on to do "Trek-adjacent" cover art for several of the Best of Trek series (some of which got recycled onto the German covers of early Star Trek novel translations. Thus the circle is complete!
)Elson and Jones and even Foss were sometimes doing quite similar work back in the day.
I am sucker for the clunky/weird starship knock-offs! Always wanted to model that one in 3D.Scarce UK edition of The Star Trek Quiz Book....with funky rendition of the Enterprise.
Thanks for posting! You kept me from embarrassing myself!
I was about to say it was by Eddie Jones (aka S. Fantoni), who did hundreds of covers for German sci-fi "hefte" like Terra Astra, including covers for translations of the Blish Star Trek adaptations. Several of his German Trek covers were recycled by Bantam as the covers of Star Trek books in the USA. Jones went on to do "Trek-adjacent" cover art for several of the Best of Trek series (some of which got recycled onto the German covers of early Star Trek novel translations. Thus the circle is complete!
Elson and Jones and even Foss were sometimes doing quite similar work back in the day.
I remember those chunky Enterprises very well... Perhaps what an early 70's re-imagining of Star Trek might have looked like!
That art always put me in mind of the pre-TOS ship designs from the Spaceflight Chronology book...
That's one that ended up on a German book (reversed and with the BG changed to blue):I remember those chunky Enterprises very well... Perhaps what an early 70's re-imagining of Star Trek might have looked like!
That art always put me in mind of the pre-TOS ship designs from the Spaceflight Chronology book...
And I agree, I have a soft spot for those weird "not-quite-Star-Trek" covers.
I don't speak German, but "Das Silikonmonster" has to be the episode "The Devil in the Dark", right?
And "The Lights of Zetar" is pretty obvious. But I have no idea which episode "Der Asylplanet" represents.
Seems to be "Asylum Planet," so probably "Whom Gods Destroy."
Got mine today (ordered yesterday via Amazon). I have to add it to my book collection excel list.
This is part of my collection, too.
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