Letter Forrest Ackerman (14 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One Page Typed Letter, Photocopy, Demanding That They Stop Using Ackerman's Nmame In Connection With Monsterland, Also Requesting Payment And Noting That They Shortchanged Him. Also Requesting Return Of Imagi-Miovies #2 And 3.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original Letter. Letter, Typed, 2 Pp., Typed Signature "Kris", "Here Is One, I Hope You'll Agree, Of My Almost Readable Stories. Any Changes You Want In It, As Always, I'll Be Overjoyed To Hatch Out.At Any Rate, I Am Convinced That I Can Never Write Successful Pulp. I Ain't Got That Much On The Ball. The Little Clipping Annotated By You Sits Placidly On The Ice Box.".

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 2 Pp Copy Of Typescript, Unsigned, Dated 25 Oct 92, "Remember Me? Across A Gulf Of 60 Years?.".

No Binding. Condition: Good. Original Letter. Typed Letter, Signed, Two Pages, 19 April 1947, From Nigel Lindsay To Forrest Ackerman, On His British Fantasy Library Letterhead. "Received Your Note From Ted [Carnell].The Stapledon Titles By The Way Are "Death Into Life" . And Cost 7 1.2S Each. Sorry About The Delay . I'm Trying To Locate Some Good Second-Hand Material For You, But No Luck So Far. " (Signed As "Nigel"). Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Original Document. 1 Pp Letter From Ackerman On His Illustrated Voice Of The Imagi-Nation Letterhead, To Larry Ashaw, 14 Mar 1942. ".Your Letter Leads Off The Next Vom" [#22, May 1942]. [And Discussing Printing Services That Ackerman Could Assist With]. Typed, Not Signed (File Copy). Per The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, " Us Author And Editor Lawrence Taylor Shaw (1924-1985), An Active Sf Fan From The Early 1940S And A Member Of The Futurians; Married To Lee Hoffman 1956-1958. His Fanzine Destiny's Child Is Best Remembered For The 1945 Issue Carrying Damon Knight's Critical Attack On That Year's Astounding Serialization Of A E Van Vogt's The World Of ? (August-October 1945 Astounding; Rev 1948). Beginning With "Secret Weapon" For Fantasy Book In 1948 As By Terry Thor, Shaw Published Some Sf Stories Into The Early 1950S, But Was Primarily Known For His Editorial Work. He Was Associate Editor Of If From May 1953 To March 1954. In 1955 He Became Editor Of Infinity Science Fiction (1955-1958), Which Grew To Be One Of The Leading Sf Magazines Of Its Period; And He Later Started A Companion Title, Science Fiction Adventures (1956-1958). When Both Magazines Failed In 1958, He Turned To Editing In Other Fields, Including The Media Magazine Monsters And Things (1959) And Arguably Its Companion - Which Included Some Fiction - Monster Parade (1958-1959). He Also Edited The Non-Sf Cars: The Automotive Magazine, In Whose August 1960 Issue Algis Budrys Began An Opinion Column Titled "Chipping Gears" As By Jeffries Oldmann. In 1963 Shaw Gave Up Magazine Work And Came Back To Sf As Editor For Lancer Books (1963-1968), Where He Built A Successful Sf Line And Edited The Anthologies Great Science Fiction Adventures (Anth 1963) And Terror! (Anth 1966). He Subsequently Worked For Dell Books (1968-1969) And American Art Enterprises (1969-1975), Founding Major Books For The Firm. In 1975 He Began To Work As A Literary Agent, But This New Career Was Hampered By Poor Health. He Received A Special Hugo In 1984.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Single Page Typewritten, Signed Letter Transmitting "Your 10% Of Heavy, Heavy". Author Mentions "A Few More Stories Coming Up With Lowndes- Actually Lost Count. I'm A Little Dazed By It All.He's Taking Them This Way, So I Guess I'll Just Keep Writing Stf And Sending It To You [Handwritten:] And Over-Quota Non-Stf. [Typed:] I'm Dieting And Using Chlorofil." (Sic) Yours, Jim. P. S. Oh Yes, Evidently Lowndes Is Using Some More Of My Stf- An "Off-Trail" Story Such As He Has Used Lately In His Detectives By Merwin, George H. Smith, Etc. " Undated But Circa 1950'S?

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1 Pp Letter Discussing Future Royalties To The Weinbaum Estate, And Ackerman's Donation Of All Of Weinbaum's Belongings To Temple University.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original Letter. Typed Signed Letter From Walt Sullivan To Forrest Ackerman. August 2, 1939. "I Am Planning On Publishing Something For The Fapa. The First Issue Will Concern The Convention. I Would Like To Know Your Opinion On The Exclusion Of Wollheim And The Other Five Futurians From The Hall.On My Way Back From The Convention [Walt Sullivan Is Not Listed Anywhere As An Attendee, But There Is This], We Stopped Off In Hagerstown And Talked Harry Warner Into Putting Us Up For The Night. Poor Harry! There Was Only Six Of Us. We Also Visited Leslie F. Stone . Her Husband Told Us That He Had Been In New York While The Convention Was In Progress And Met Hornig . I Will Be Going To College In Albuquerque N. M." (Signed "Walt (Chief Squatting Cow"). Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 4 Pp Copy Of Typescript, Unsigned, Dated 11 Nov 92, Veterans Day. ". I Can't Comprehend Your Holding A Grudge Since 1956 Over 1600 Word "Hadj" Being Reprinted In The New York Newspaper Courtesy Of My Anthological Eye.I've Been Forced To The Conclusion That I Provide Some Pathological Pleasure In Your Life, Someone You Can Really Hate Wholeheartedly." From The Ackerman Estate.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Original Letter. A 27 Line Typed Letter, Signed, From Sf Author/Editor/Scholar James Gunn. He Begins By Notring That He Is Collecting Illustrations For The New Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction, And Requests Any That Might Be Good For Ackerman's Article On "Fandom" In The Encyclopedia. He Also Requests Other Illustrations: 1. Films [Mentioning 27 In Particular], 2. Spaceships, From Films Such As Destination Moon, Star Trek And Close Encounters; 3. Examples Of Sf Special Effects Work, Particularly That By Ray Harryhausen; 4. Pictures Or Drawings Of Future Cities. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original Document. 1 Pp Carbon Of Letter From Ackerman On His Fantasy Foundation Letterhead, To Milt Howe At Rko, "Miss Eyde [Tigrina / Edith Eide Aka Edythe Eide / Lisa Ben] Has Mentioned To Me Your Interest In The Fact That The Fantasy Foundation Has A Copy Of The King Kong Pressbook, As Well As A Publicity Record On The Film. We Additionally Habve A Copy Of The Book, A Jigsaw Puzzle Put Out At The Time, And A Number Of Stills (Including Preliminary Sketches) And Newspaper Clippings. Please Feel At Liberty To Contact Me If You Would Like The Loan Of Any Of This Material At Any Time, Either Thru Miss Eyde Or Directly." Eide/Eyde Is Known Both As Ackerman Associate And Vom Contributor (And Unrequited Love) Tigrina, And As A Seminal Early Figure In Los Angeles Lesbian Publishing.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Original Letter. Three Page Letter Of 18 Dec 46, Typed, Signed "Erle". Highly Conversational And Revealing Letter Discussing Their Business Buying And Selling Books With Each Other. On Melvin Korshak's "Bookseller / Specialist In Fantasy Fiction" Letterhead With The 1713 E. 55Th Street, (Hyde Park), Chicago 15 Address. The Letter Sheds Light On The Work Of Making A Living In The Used Fantasy Book Trade; Korshak Refers To His Having Something Printed, Then Stapling The Loose Sheets With His Sons To Cut Expenses. Korshak Is Best Known For His Shasta Press, Including The First Book Publication Of Three Heinlein Classics And Bester's Award-Winning "The Demolished Man" , Which He Issued In Both Trade And Signed Editions. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Letter, Typed. One Page Carbon Of A Letter, Offering For Sale Kafka's "Metamorphiosis" [$2], Ewers "Vampire" [$3] And Ray Bradbury's Copy Of "King Kong" In Jacket [$5].

A letter written to his American literary agent regarding acquiring rights to literary property held by Standard Publications. Festus Pragnell (Frank William Pragnell, 1905-1977) was a British policeman and author of pulp fiction active mostly in the 1930s and 1940s. See Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 955. Old mailing folds, else fine. Pragnell letters are uncommon. (#165372).