Publication: The Human Termites

Publication: The Human TermitesPublication Record # 41830
Author: David H. Keller, M.D.
Date: 1979-00-00
Publisher: P.D.A. Enterprises
Pub. Series: The David H. Keller Memorial Library
Pub. Series #: 2
Price:
$5.00^?$: US dollar
Pages: 80
Format:
ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.
Type: NOVEL
Cover: The Human Termites by Dixie Adkins
Notes:
- First Edition (over) Limited to approximately 1,000 copies. [This Publication Record].
- No printing date in pamphlet. Dated to copyrights 1979. Verifier copy signed Jan 1980.
- No ISBN in/on pamphlet.
- Pricing from dialogue on back cover.
- The Human Termites (including illustrations on pages 18, 40, and 58) copyright © 1929 by G.P., Inc.
- The Human Termites (including illustrations on pages 2, 23, 55, 57, 62, and 78) copyright © 1939, 1940 by Better Publications, Inc.
- Frank R. Paul illustrations reproduced by arrangement with Forrest J. Ackerman (agent), 2495 Glendower Ave., Hollywood, CA 90027.
- Introduction and new illustrations copyright © 1979 by Patrick H. Adkins and Dixie Adkins.
- The David H. Keller Memorial Library, Volume Two.
- Cover art signed "Dixie" at bottom right art. ©1979 at bottom center art.
- "A 1929 Science Fiction Extravaganza" as subtitling on title page and front cover.
- P. D. A. Enterprises as printed numerous times in book.
- "Introduction by Patrick H. Adkins" on title page.
- "Illustrations by Frank R. Paul & Dixie Adkins" on title page.
- "-Volume Two-" (over) "The David H. Keller Memorial Library" on bottom of title page and bottom front cover.
- David H. Keller as Pulp Writer An introduction by Patrick H. Adkins.
- Introduction: The Editor at Work has Introduction above and in smaller case. No direct crediting, but "Note" at bottom left last page of essay which thanks "Paul Spencer for invaluable original research and assistance in in the preparation of this article". Thus Patrick H. Adkins. Includes dialogue between Keller and Gernsback. Start has list of omissions and location and censorship deletions (1929) by page number.
- Adam Fry and Hans Souderman, character illustrations are without signature, but the second is credited on copyright page (by page number).
- Foreword has inset Dedication, both are separately attributed to David H. Keller, M.D. Foreword is a prefatory attribution for the story with editorial commentary (as printed). Dedication is a short appreciation to Maurice Maeterlinck, author of The White Ant. Separately listed because of connection to the new introductory material.
- Apparatus for the Detection of Substratum Communication Among Termites is from Science, June 21, 1929, [Vol. LXIX, No. 1799] with notation directly beneath. Unclear if this was orignal material or editorial material inserted. Possibly it is all art as there is an art credit for the page, but that art is not signed.
- David H. Keller, M.D. is not separately credited, large "B" at bottom right portrait. [2] is a duplicate.
- Interior art is by year given on copyright page. Not all were so listed.
External IDs:
- Bleiler Gernsback: 746
- LCCN: 80112906
- OCLC/WorldCat: 6448514

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1 • The Human Termites (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Dixie Adkins
2 • The Human Termites • (1940) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
3 • The Human Termites (title page) • interior artwork by Dixie Adkins
5 • David H. Keller as Pulp Writer • essay by Patrick H. Adkins
9 • Introduction: The Editor at Work • essay by Patrick H. Adkins
16 • Adam Fry • (1929) • interior artwork by uncredited
17 • Foreword (The Human Termites) • (1929) • essay by David H. Keller, M.D.
17 • Dedication (The Human Termites) • (1929) • essay by David H. Keller, M.D.
18 • The Human Termites [2] • (1929) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
19 • The Human Termites • novel by David H. Keller, M.D.
23 • Apparatus for the Detection of Substratum Communication Among Termites • (1929) • essay by Alfred E. Emerson and Robert C. Simpson
39 • The Human Termites [3] • (1929) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
40 • David H. Keller, M.D. • (1929) • interior artwork by uncredited
46 • The Human Termites • interior artwork by Dixie Adkins
51 • The Human Termites [2] • interior artwork by Dixie Adkins
55 • The Human Termites [4] • (1940) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
57 • Hans Souderman (reprint) • (1929) • interior artwork by uncredited
58 • The Human Termites [5] • (1929) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
59 • David H. Keller, M.D. [2] • (1929) • interior artwork by uncredited
62 • The Human Termites [6] • (1940) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
78 • The Human Termites [7] • (1940) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul

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Publication: The Human Termites

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