John Salts

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One crisis after another.

Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clark. Sixth printing, 1964. Font and back cover. The back cover has excerpts of book reviews from the L.A. Times, etc. It also has other books available from Ballantine Books. The front cover is described in another image description later.
The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock dust cover. It has a stained glass type image showing a man in apparent pain holding his head. There are other faces in the background.
Tarzan and the Leopard Men, copyright 1935, second printing 1970 by Ballantine Books. Cover art by Robert Abbett. Shows a Johnny Weissmuller-like man kneeling next to a black panther, both drinking out of a small stream. Which has nothing to do with anything in the book. The background is green undefined jungle foliage, with a red fern-like plant centered on the cover, behind Tarzan and the panther.
Cherry Valley Outdoor Games main stage from a distance. A large inflatable slide and concession tents, along with the elevated sound control booth block the view.
Tarzan and the Lion Man, 1934, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cover art by Frazetta (awesome as usual). Cover, spine, back cover, and title pages. This is not the best in the series, by far. Quite racist language in many places.
Gulliver of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold printed by Wildside Press, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, inside title pages and spine pictures. It is a good quality edition, well printed and bound with an unadorned blue cover. I don't recall it having a dust jacket.
Cover of Great Works of Joseph Conrad. Orange with a watercolor/drawing of Conrad's face by Leonard Baskin.
Picture of Panthro figurine from ThunderCats. He is standing near a window. The picture is a little blurry.
Assassin's Creed Rogue, by Ubisoft PC DVD cover. Has an assassin with a short knife and an odd rifle, with a ship (the Morgan) in the background.
Book spine: Cemetery World by Clifford D. Simak. Blue with no art. Hard cover. Dust cover removed.
Copyright page for Crooked House by Agatha Christie, Bantam Books collection edition. Includes the handle of a knife used to keep the page open.
Copywriter page of the Foundation Trilogy, showing dates of 1951, 52, 53 for each of the respective volumes. Published by Doubleday and Company.
One of the public rooms at the New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Great portraits.
New York Public Library front entrance on a winter's eve.
Cover art showing a well muscled man holding a pistol, and a well figured woman prone beside him, with four silver men in the distance. This does not correlate with any scene from the book.
Cover of The Great Nerve by Kevin J. Tracey, MD. White background with a blue twisting matrix pattern.
Back cover of Ringworld by Larry Niven.
Spine of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, 2022 William Morrow version.
Star Fleet Command Marines pin. Ca. 1987
Cover of Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny, 1970 Berkeley Medallion Edition.
A notice from "Evergreen" building company in front of a clearcut lot.
Property lot with 25 trees marked for removal in Fairfax VA.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas book cover. 1996 Modern Library edition.
Berserker by Fred Saberhagen cover. Second Ace printing, 1979.
A brown boathouse with a dock and flowers on Fourth Lake, New York in July 2025.
The Book Of Lost swords by Fred Saberhagen