Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration

  • Written by Joseph Wrzos
  • ISBN: 9781613470008
  • Format: Hardcover, 460pp
  • Publish Date: October 1, 2012
  • Dimensions: 8" x 12"
  • Original Price: US$225
  • Genre: Non-Fiction Art
  • Publication Type: Collection
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About
Joseph Wrzos (b. 1929), an associate editor at Gnome Press, has also edited both Amazing Stories and Fantastic; Best of Amazing (1967); August Derleth’s In Lovecraft’s Shadow (1998) and New Horizons (1998); co-edited Seabury Quinn’s Night Creatures (2003); and, most recently, for Centipede Press, Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration (2012).

The signed limited edition has sold out With over 450 pages, and a large, 8 × 12 size, this collection covers the entire artistic career of Hannes Bok ainstakingly edited by Joseph Wrzos, with essays and memoirs on Bok by Ray Bradbury, Stephen Fabian, and many others, this book features over 600 illustrations.

Many come from the pulps and pulp covers ur color section features all of Bok's known dustjackets and the largest collection of Bok paintings ever published, including many works that have never before been printed Key works also feature detail views.

Rinted on heavy paper, with printed cloth panels, ribbon markers, and a printed cloth slipcase, the edition is limited to 200 copies for sale and is signed by most contributors The book is printed using stochastic screening with five inks, resulting in unparalleled clarity and color reproduction his page is for the signed and slipcased edition, which is limited to just 200 copies for sale, and which will be shipping in August 2012.

It is signed by Joseph Wrzos, Stephen Fabian, Bob Eggleton, Jill Bauman, Jason Eckhardt and Stephen Hickman here are also signatures by Ray Bradbury and Hannes Bok, but these are facsimile, or printed, signatures It is nice to have a Bok signature, and you will understand that due to his age and health, Mr Bradbury was just not able to sign and we felt it rude to even ask f you are interested in the oversize deluxe edition, please click here for more information.


Edition Details
  • Limited to 200 copies.
  • Signed by most contributors.
  • Edited by Joseph Wrzos.
  • Introduction by Ray Bradbury.
  • Loaded with gorgeous full-page, full-color prints.
  • Printed slipcase, ribbon markers, head and tail bands, image inlay on front panel, printed cloth rear panel, gorgeous black suede cloth.
  • Gorgeous dustjacket.

Contents:
  • Preface (Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration)
  • Hannes Bok: A Remembrance
  • Hannes Bok: An Appreciation
  • Hannes Bok: An Appreciation
  • Hannes Bok: An Appreciation
  • Hannes Bok: An Appreciation
  • Hannes Bok: An Appreciation
  • Weirditties of Science
  • A Brief Autobiography
  • Hannes Bok Looks at Fantasy Art and Illustration
  • Letter (Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration)
  • Letter (Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration)

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