Garth Bentley Editor (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 48 Pages With Glossy Paper; Numerous B/W Illustrations. Pages Staple Bound; Moderate Page Wear; No Markings; Green Faded Soft Covers With Black And White Lettering; Moderate Shelf Wear; Some Rubbing And Minor Smudging. Issue Contains: Safeguarding Your Interests; Fabrics For Furniture; Eras Of Elegance; How To Sell Quality; The Eternal Triangle; Efficient Rockers With Seng Springs; Odd Facts About Furniture; Effective Sales Letters, Etc. Rare Vintage Copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Seng Handbook -Furniture Facts editor Garth Bentley; softcover, spiral bound. 80 year anniversary issue.Seng Company. Good reference for the furniture, antique collector, dealer etc "some cover wear, good condition" Published by Seng, Chicago, IL, 1940.

Spiral Bound. Condition: Very Good. 158pp. Light cover wear and soiling. Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of Service to the Furniture Industry 1874- 1949. X10.

Chicago: The Seng Company, copyright 1954. 176 pages. Many small illustrations of furniture, fabrics, grains, details. 6.75x5", printed stiff paper, metal rings. Revolving Rockers, Maple Furniture, Modern 'Still in Transition', 'Contemporary' & 'Functional', Modern Metal Furniture, Recliners, Plastic & Synthetic Fabrics, Sofabeds, Dinette Tables, Sectional Sofas, &c. Cover delaminating, edge worn, G.

Spiral bound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is a small format paperback book with cardstock covers and a spiral binding. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There are a couple of penciled notes on the inside front cover of the book. "Wendelin Seng, the founder of Seng Company, left Bremen in 1856 at the age of 27. Following his involvement in various other businesses in the Chicago area, Wendelin began making upholstered furniture. This line of work led him to open a metal parts company which would become Seng Company in 1874. Twenty years later, the Seng Company was incorporated, its main plant and offices located at 1450 North Dayton Street, Chicago, Illinois." (from Wikipedia).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Henry Richard van Dongen (cover); Jack Gaughan, Cindy (Smith), Roy Hunt, Marvin Bryer, Dan Adkins (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Ronald L. Smith, 1956. First edition. September, 1956, whole number 50, issue number 16 under the name "Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser" (which is the last name for the famed sci-fi / fantasy fanzine, which was also published under the earlier names "Fantasy Advertiser" and "Science Fiction Advertiser", though the primary focus was always Science Fiction.) Ron Smith became the Editor/Publisher with the November, 1954 issue, which was also the first under this name. Octavo, stapled illustrated wraps, a whopping 72 pp. - thick, for this fanzine. Near Fine. Small chip top right front and another middle left back (see scans), and that's about it. Not much toning to the contents at all; bright, tight and nearly flawless. This September of 1956 issue is certainly one of the best produced in the entire sequence; Ron Smith was really feeling his oats at this time. Featured are "Weird Tales in Retrospect" by August Derleth, and part 3 of Lin Carter's astonishingly intensive research into the of actual books mentioned by H.P. Lovecraft in his stories. Bless him for the energy he spent. A plethora of great illustrations grace this issue, perhaps more than any other issue (of this or any sci-fi genre fanzine of the era, one would guess): H.R. Van Dongen's cover is joined by a bunch of Jack Gaughan illustrations, plus some by each of Dan Adkins, Cindy (Smith), and Marvin Bryer, plus cartoon illustrations by "Miller" and Dave Jenrette - all managed by Art Director Cindy Smith. Other articles include "Randall Garrett's Memo to E.A. Robinson", Larry T. Shaw's "The Baker Murder Case", Lin Carter's poem "The Return of the Fairies", Edmond Hamilton's "Time Traveling in Ohio", a Jonathan Hoag poem reprint, courtesy of George Wetzel, "To the Grand Canyon of the Ohio", William F. Nolan's "Dark Souls in Jeopardy" (a short modernistic three-act play), Garth Bentley's "Complaint of the EM", and illustrated humor by Dave Jenrette, "People to Avoid at a Convention", as a tri-fold foldout. Also, of course, the original meat of the fanzine, the book reviews, here handled mostly by Carter, Robert Silverberg, and Charles Freudenthal. Even some of the seemingly-now-out-of-date book ad from sellers. Pretty much the peak of fanzine-ism. Collector gold, and scarce as hen's teeth. Please review scans. l-pr1.