A vintage Astronaut used as the cover of the 1958 first edition of Robert A. Heinlein’s book “Have Space Suit – Will Travel” art is by the late American Illustator Ed Emshwiller
Image sourced from Flickr User Glen Mullaly’s Flickr Photo Stream – http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenmullaly/ not just an avid collector of gorgeous vintage Illustration but a talented artist himself www.glenmullaly.com
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A little more on the book here: http://is.gd/Z9UF I’ve also added the B&W illustration, a fantastic costume design I reckon.
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This crops out the edge of the lunar landscape and the blackness of space, visible at the top of the cover, which may have been perceived as a graphic device. It’s not.
Yeah Andrew I actually cropped the original Scan thats here http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenmullaly/536860832/ I haven’t seen the original book, thought of course would like to…..
Oh and there’s this too…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenmullaly/536860828/in/photostream/
[...] above illustration (by Ed Emshwiller) is from the 1958 novel Have Space Suit – Will Travel by Robert Heinlein. The [...]