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[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Edwin Diamond - The Science of Dreams - MacFadden-Bartell - 1968

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

Steam swirls in tangled wisps of desire and uncertainty in this 1962 pulp edition of Luxury Nurse by noted American romance novelist Peggy Gaddis (1895-1966), published in New York by the Macfadden-Bartell Corporation. Originally published by Arcadia House as Magic in May in 1956, Luxury Nurse revolves abound a tangle of love interests. Nurse Sally Sinclair is dating Dr. Garry Linton, but does she love him? Sally is called out to care for the petulant 19-year-old Lisa Cannon at her affluent family's Azalea Cottage on Sea Island, Georgia. Lisa, “the season’s most successful and most popular debutante,” is recuperating from a serious mental breakdown, but her "high-strung disposition and self-pity made her as unpleasant to be with as she was lovely to behold," leading to strained relations between patient and nurse.

Local cad Thorne Cooper wants to marry Lisa, mostly for her money, and Lisa enjoys stringing him along. Soon, however, both Sally and Lisa begin to fall another local, the kindly Allen Blaisdell, who has built a miniature village on the island with the assistance of a community of disabled vets (seriously). This toy village imparts a kind of Lilliputian fantasy element to life on this exclusive island resort.

There's more to the story, but why bother. In the end, Lisa recuperates along with an inexplicable change in personality, winning the heart of Allen Blaisdell (with good riddance to Thorne). Nurse Sally returns to Dr. Garry, falling "into his arms as naturally, as beautifully as a homecoming bird comes into its nest at sunset” -- Gag!!

The last few paragraphs concerning the mutual affection of Lisa and Allen end with uncomfortable metaphors of cattle branding: Allen "put up a tough fight," and Lisa "had to run him down and hog-tie him," but she finally "got my brand on him at last. . . . he didn't have a chance once I'd marked him as mine." In response, Allen kisses her "golden head" and orders her to "Stop behaving like a bold little hussy." Oh, just . . . really?! Please!

Peggy Gaddis Dern was a dedicated and highly successful writer of romance fiction, especially nurse romances. She loved writing, and Wikipedia quotes her as saying "It's a sort of drug, for which I hope no one ever finds a cure." The cover art is by the prolific American illustrator Robert Maguire (1921-2005), who illustrated many of our nurse romance covers, including Nora was a Nurse, also by Peggy Gaddis, which we posted about earlier in this series.

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· 12 June 2021 ·

Jim Nabors rehearsing ‘’Panis Angelicus,’’ Latin for the ‘bread of the angels’ in the Roman Catholic Mission Church of St Jude in Sylacauga, Alabama. Courtesy of TV Radio Mirror. © Macfadden-Bartell Corporation, September 1966. From personal collection.

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A devout Roman Catholic until the day he died, Jim Nabors had always been God-fearing but, ‘Jim had drifted away from his faith at some point in his adolescence,’ so reported TV Radio Mirror, September 1966. He stopped attending church services and wandered about aimlessly through his teen years without any religious affiliation. Guilt-stricken for having turned his back on his parents’ sacrifices, he wanted so desperately to find God, but could not find Him within the walls of Protestant Christianity, of which he obtained no immediate spiritual satisfaction. His parents, who believed in the importance of weekly church attendance but did not believe in imposing a particular faith upon their children so long as they maintained a sense of God in their lives, readily blessed him to carve his own path, to let him find God through his independent and trying spiritual journey, apart from Methodism. ‘Yet, a grim depression gripped him… His heart was empty, too, with an emptiness that needed more than human love and fulfilment.’

His eldest sister, Freddie, was the first in her family to convert to Roman Catholicism when she married into an Italian-American family. His sister’s conversion only mildly influenced his decision—his sister, who was a member of Sylacauga’s then-only Catholic church, encouraged him to sing in the choir for a Christmas pageant during one cathartic holiday. ‘I’m not Catholic,’ he hesitated, but the local Catholic priest eased his worries by welcoming him with open arms. That priest was the son of a Syrian Jewish father and a Lebanese Christian mother, also a former Methodist, Father Mac Paul Abraham. Nabors cited, ‘He changed my life.’

Upon his return to Sylacauga one winter evening, Nabors quietly approached Father Abraham with a special request to convert him. The Father strongly advised he take instruction in Roman Catholic studies. Through sheer dogged determination to welcome God back into his life, he completed weeks of instruction during breaks from filming The Andy Griffith Show, attending Bible study, and taking up night courses in scripture and Latin, too. Some would say he studied to such a degree of obsession that it’s a wonder he didn’t quit acting to become a priest. In the mid-’60s, during a show hiatus from Gomer Pyle, Nabors wanted to be closer to God, and closer still. He found Him again in a Catholic Church in California. ‘For from another direction life suddenly took on meaning,’ he relayed. ‘I’d taken to slipping into the back of St Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Hollywood, just to listen to the Mass.’ Ultimately, it was the prolific Los Angeles Reverend, Paulist Father Ellwood ‘Bud’ Keiser who converted him. Now spiritually uplifted and purified, he felt one step closer to God, and more loved and accepted than he ever felt before. ‘I repented and if my heart was truly contrite, He showered me with mercy and love and forgiveness. God set me free.’

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[mudwerks]

Eric North's 1955 sci-fi thriller The Ant Men - This MacFadden-Bartell edition has art by Jack Faragasso 

[the25centpaperback]

Cities of Wonder, edited by Damon Knight, cover by Jack Faragasso (1971)

Jack Faragasso was a long-time cover artist working mainly in the science fiction and romance genres, and later a prominent art teacher and author of several instructional books. As of this writing his web site (http://www.faragassoart.com/) is still accessible, although much of his art is no longer available on the site.

Editor, critic, and fiction writer Damon Knight is best known these days for his short story "To Serve Man," which was adapted for the Twilight Zone TV series. It's the story of alien visitors to Earth and the humans who attempt to translate what they presume to be their holy book. It ends with the memorable line: "It's a cookbook!"

[everythingsecondhand]

Terror In The Town, by Edward S. Aarons (Macfadden-Bartell, 1968).

From eBay.

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Empire Of The Atom by A. E. van Vogt Macfadden Bartell Books (1970) This novel is a fix-up of the first five of van Vogt's Gods stories which originally appeared in Astounding magazine. The cover artist is Jack Faragasso. . Overall Good Condition, Good Spine With Some Wear, Binding Tight, Pages Look Good . . . #empireoftheatom #aevanvogt #paperbacksciencefiction #sciencefiction #fiction #instabooks #bookstagram #instabookstagram #paperback #bookcollector #bookstore #science #scifi #instabook #bookaddict #bookishlove #bookish #library #fixupnovel #jackfaragasso #macfaddenbartell #scifiart #syfy #scifibooks #macfaddenbartellbooks #macfaddenbartellsciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfi_6IrlYc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ray Stanley - The Hippy Cult Murders - Macfadden-Bartell - 1970

[everythingsecondhand]

Murder Is Absurd, by Patricia McGerr (Macfadden-Bartell, 1969).

From eBay.

[everythingsecondhand]

The Voice On The Telephone, by Mildred Davis (Macfadden- Bartell, 1969).

From Ebay.

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Check out all the recent PKD books I added to the webstore. Link in bio! The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick Macfadden-Bartell Books (1971) Here’s a hard to find edition of The Three Stigmata. In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch. Cover art by the always popular Jack Faragasso. . Overall Good Condition, Great Spine With No Creases, Binding Tight, Pages Look Good, Wear To Cover As Shown, Previous Owner Wrote Name Or Address Small On Back Of Front Cover And Stamped The First Page With That Info . . . #thethreestigmataofpalmereldritch #philipkdick #paperbacksciencefiction #sciencefiction #fiction #instabooks #bookstagram #instabookstagram #paperback #bookcollector #pkd #science #scifi #instabook #bookaddict #bookishlove #bookish #phillipkdick #drugs #jackfaragasso #macfaddenbartell #scifiart #syfy #scifibooks #macfaddenbartellbooks #macfaddenbartellsciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CI34JIjgk81/?igshid=1y16q7t7a120q

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Way Station by Clifford D. Simak $8 Macfadden Bartell Books (1969) The 1964 Hugo Winner for Best Novel. This is a very clean copy. Nice cover art by Jack Faragasso. . Overall Excellent Condition, Great Spine With No Crease, Binding Tight, Pages Look Excellent . . . #waystation #clifforddsimak #cliffordsimak #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CDea_ARgari/?igshid=mib5z8z1pjfq

[paperbacksciencefiction]

The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick $14 Macfadden-Bartell Books (1971) Here's a hard to find edition of The Three Stigmata... In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch. Cover art by the always popular Jack Faragasso. . Overall Fair Condition, Slight Lean To Spine, Page Look Great, Binding Tight, Wear To Cover, Slight Liquid Marks On Back Of Cover . . . #thethreestigmataofpalmereldritch #philipkdick #pkd #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRYb_XA9i9/?igshid=1a49trjwsi3yg

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Way Station by Clifford D. Simak $8 Macfadden Bartell Books (1969) The 1964 Hugo Winner for Best Novel. This is a very clean copy. Nice cover art by Jack Faragasso. . Overall Excellent Condition, Great Spine With No Crease, Binding Tight, Pages Look Excellent . . . #waystation #clifforddsimak #cliffordsimak #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBxkJLAI8X/?igshid=1gm4uf60zalp9

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Time And Stars by Poul Anderson $6 Macfadden Bartell Books (1970) This book appears to have been read only once, and is in excellent condition. This is an excellent collection of short stories, including the Hugo award winning No Truce with Kings, about a future feudalistic America at war with itself and dealing with an emergence of telepathic powers amongst some people. The cover art is by Jack Faragasso. . Overall Excellent Condition, Excellent Spine, Binding Tight, Pages Look Excellent . . . #timeandstars #poulanderson #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxowHLARvm/?igshid=m4oty7gtmnhy