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Greenwich: Gold Medal Books/Fawcett Publications, 1962. First Gold Medal Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. Good. 160 pages. Stamp inside front cover. An Original Gold Medal Coll… Mehr…
Greenwich: Gold Medal Books/Fawcett Publications, 1962. First Gold Medal Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. Good. 160 pages. Stamp inside front cover. An Original Gold Medal Collection [stated]. Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 - September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote science fiction. His writing career lasted 60 years, including more than 30 years in television and film. He began his professional writing career immediately after graduation, aged 17. Best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent. While he started emulating Lovecraft and his brand of cosmic horror, he later specialized in crime and horror stories working with a more psychological approach. Bloch was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter and a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general. He won the Hugo Award (for "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served as president of the Mystery Writers of America (1970) and was a member of that organization and of Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Count Dracula Society. In 2008, The Library of America selected Bloch's essay "The Shambles of Ed Gein" (1962) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime. THIRTEEN TALL TALES OF CHILLING POSSIBILTY. We have heard about E.S.P. but the clash of a skeptical physical scientist and the psychic-sensetive admirer of his ugly daughter in Try This for Psis will exceed the most dreadful suspicions... We have read of psychiatric methods, but Comfort Me, My Robot shows what might happen when psychotherapy is administered by and Adjustor... We are accustomed to the visits of foreign ambassadors, but Block that Metaphor concerns a bizarre visitor with alien thought processes... In Wheel and Deal the products on offer are 'Okay Used Females, One Owner' - part of the auto-erotic industry... These and other disturbing fantasies await discovery in this mind-bending collection by Robert Bloch, inventor of a thousand possible tomorrows. A good solid collection, with perhaps more of a leaning towards SF than some of Bloch's other books. All the stories (with one exception from 1948) are the product of the 1950's, which is clear due to the cautionary nature of several of the stories concerned with individualism, intellectualism and the Red Threat. Some great tales to be found here, all containing the humor and twists that Bloch is known for. Try this for Psis: A psychic gets involved with the daughter of a scientist who is hell-bent on disproving the existence of all things ESP related. The resulting demonstration of the psychic's powers quickly degenerates into a drunken farce; Comfort Me, My Robot The role of psychiatrists is now taken by Adjustors, who work along the lines of allowing their patients to use robots in releasing tensions in carefully planned 'psycho-dramas' - for instance a man may relieve all his tension by murdering a robotic double of his wife. Of course, this being Bloch, everything goes horribly wrong; Talent, A mysterious orphan has an amazing talent for mimicry, especially when he takes his subjects from the silver screen. He is suspected of several film related deaths, but nothing too terrible occurs until he sees his first SF monster movie...Great fun, this one; The Professor Plays It Square, A professor and his assistant con a couple of card sharps using extra sensory powers; Block That Metaphor, An alien ambassador, devoid of emotion and prone to take things literally, causes the innocent comment 'I wish I had her fingers' (directed towards a pianist) to have unpleasant consequences; Wheel and Deal, Robot ladies sold in an environment much like a used car lot. Plenty of rather lame jokes about bodywork and the like. A much better look at the love/ automobiles/women area can be found in Charles Beaumont's 'A Classic Affair'... but hell, there's room for both!; You Got To Have Brains, A lone nutter is building a spacecraft in an attic. It becomes apparent that you need brains to figure out how to power it. Literally, You Could Be Wrong, Harry Jassop is becoming more and more aware about the non-reality of things he had presumed solid. From scripted quiz shows to presidential speeches, to news stories - and eventually his own surroundings and the people around him...Egghead, A 'jock' goes undercover to infiltrate objectionable elements in his college. Very 50's, very pointed; Dead-end Doctor, Starts off with a play on what is reputedly one of the shortest SF stories ever written* and goes on to tell the tale of the last psychiatrist, who finds a new lease of life treating malajusted robots; Change of Heart, A short traditional horror story. A man falls in love with a watchmakers daughter. After a brush with death, there is something different about her. Her heart ticks; Edifice Complex, A rather naughty space pilot picks up a young lady and ventures to a planet where he happens to know that the natives pay in diamonds in return for sacrificial victims. Once there, they see only what appear to be empty huts, but the pilot still goes along with his plan, only to find he had got several of the details very wrong indeed; and Constant Reader, An entire planet is conscious, and defends itself by bringing to life various characters from some books onboard the spacecraft that lands on it., Gold Medal Books/Fawcett Publications, 1962, 2.5, Wynnewood, PA: The author, 1962. Typescript for the first edition. Quarto, 150 pp. (rectos only). Plain brown folder. Very good. There is a listing for this in the copyright publication list but it was never issued. Richard Wehterill was a fascinating individual. He start his professional life in management training for the big railroad companies back in the 20s. He soon came to a epiphany relating to human behavior that he called "Humanetics." "In the 1920s the late Richard W. Wetherill was given insight into a law of behavior existing in nature and impacting peoples daily affairs without their awareness of its existence. As a result of conforming with that natural law, Wetherill was able to pursue several successful careers in his nearly seventy adult years as a teacher, training executive, author and management consultant. Wetherill called the law of behavior, the law of absolute Right: Right action gets right results, whereas wrong action gets wrong results. The law clearly establishes that right begets right and wrong begets wrong. In the 50s and 60s he was lumped into the New Thought Movement but really his philosophy is Buddhist in orientation. He published his first book (wherein he coined the term Humanetics) in 1952 titled "The Tower of Babel." As the years went on the word 'Humanetics' was adopted by companies and other movements so it was changed to Right-Action Ethic. They are active to this day. "In 1946, Mr. Wetherill resigned from the Budd company and became a management consultant so that he could work with smaller corporations and help them grow which they all did. For the next 13 years the Weidemann Machine Company used his consulting services, during which time the company grew steadily. During his career as a management consultant, he also wrote three books under the general title, The Dynamics of Human Relations. Each was a how to book: How To Succeed with People, How To Get Your Ideas Across, and How To Get Leadership and Influence. The three books were published on the same day in 1949 by D. Van Nostrand Co., New York and Toronto. They were placed in U.S. Military Libraries all over the world. In January 1952 Wetherill published the first book outlining his behavioral study which he called humanetics. The book was titled Tower of Babel, and later in the year, his second book on humanetics, Truth Is Power, was published. The Right-Action Ethic grew out of the humanetics study. In 1954, Mr. Wetherill delivered a number of lectures on management principles for the Cadillac Motor Car Division of General Motors Corporation, and in 1958, he conducted a week-long series of lectures for the Plant Management Training Division of the General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan. In 1958, Mr. Wetherill retired from his career as management consultant to devote himself full time [to his teachings]" (E. Marie Bothe). With his insistence on ethics and a higher power/creator is is somewhat surprising that the AA movement never adopted his teaching., The author, 1962, 0, Ford Books, 2001-03-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed. Hardcover with DJ, Signed by the Author First Edition Ford Books 2001 408 pages. Fine, in a VG DJ. Rich maroon cloth boards with gilt titles - corners sharp. Minor shelf/edge wear, edge toning and edge wrinkling to DJ - now in mylar. DJ did its job and took all the abuse while protecting the actual book. Signed by the author on the half-title page. No other writing - all pages are clean and unmarked. *** NOTE: This is the TRUE First Edition published by Ford Books NOT Wayne State University Press. 175 photographs. 13 chapters, epilogue, 4 appendices, references and index. Pick a good model and stay with it," Henry Ford once said. No, he was not talking about cars; he was talking about marriage. Was Clara Bryant Ford a "good model"? Her husband of fifty-nine years seems to have thought so. He called her "The Believer," and indeed Clara's unwavering support of Henry's pursuits and her patient tolerance of the quirks and obsessions that accompanied her husband's genius made it possible for him to change the world. Clara is newly revealed in accounts and documents gleaned from personal papers, oral histories, and archival material never made public until now. These include receipts and recipes, diaries and genealogies. This biography of Clara Bryant Ford was one of several books written by Ford R. Bryan, a cousin of Henry Ford, who died on May 14, 2004, the day after his 92nd birthday. A superb Signed First Edition in a VG DJ. ISBN-0814329985. LOC SSM-08, Ford Books, 2001-03-01, 4<
