Space Travel (1958)

 

Another great children's book re-scanned. The 4th and last book in the series is especially full of beautiful paintings.

Ley, Willy. Illustrated by Polgreen, John. Space Travel. Poughkeepsie, NY: Guild Press. (44 p.) 1958.

Space Stations (1958)

 

Another re-scanning project book. The "adventure in Space" books with Willy Ley and John Polgreen are some of the best space art books from the 1950s. So this is a chance to show you some "better" scans of this beautiful art. I really don't have much to add except that copios of these books are widly available and worth finding.  

Here are some links to other blog postings about these books:

https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/09/man-made-satellites-1957.html

https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2015/09/satellites-artificiels-man-made.html

Ley, Willy. Illustrated by Polgreen, John. Space Stations. Poughkeepsie, NY: Guild Press. (44 p.) 1958.

Satellites in Outer Space (1960)

We start off July with a set of early 1960-1962 children's books. Most of the illustrations were in black and white but are still impressive for their beauty. 

One of the earliest children's book by Isaac Asimov.  The illustration of satellites by John Polgreen are especially beautiful.

Asimov, Isaac. Illustrated by Polgreen, John. Satellites in Outer Space. New York: Random House. (79 p.) 1960.

 I had never seen this illustrations of the size of these early satellites scaled to a human.

Lunchbox (196?)

John Polgreen paintings on a 1960s? lunchbox. I owned this as a child.

Satellites Artificiels (Man-made Satellites) (1958)

A late summer re-run of sorts.

This is the French edition of Man-made Satellites (1957) which I blogged about almost exactly 5 years ago in 2010 in my 200th Blog post. (this one is number 462!)


http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/09/man-made-satellites-1957.html

The 4 book Adventure in Space series was translated into French and Spanish. But I can still not get enough of the incredible John Polgreen paintings used to illustrate these books.