Famous Fantastic Classics #2
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Overview:
- Title: Famous Fantastic Classics #2
- Author: uncredited
- Year: 1975
- ISBN-10: 091396011X
- Publisher: FAX Collector's Editions
- Price: $5.00
- Pages: 128
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Famous Fantastic Classics #2
- Notes:
- New text material copyright 1975 by Fax Collectors Editions, Inc.
- Cover Art Copyright 1975 by Michael William Kaluta. There is a black and white reproduction of the cover on page 1. It has a FAX Collectors Editions ribbon below it. The Front cover below the art has a blurb about the contents.
- "The Stagnant Death" by H. Bedford-Jones copyright 1938 by the McCall Company. No record of separate renewal.
- "The Radio Flyers" by Ralph Milne Farley copyright 1929 by The Frank A. Munsey Company. No record of separate renewal.
- No pricing in/on book.
- "These books are published in Limited editions only" from the back cover.
- Back cover has subscription offer of six books for $25.00.
- Introduction is an essay on these stories and the publishing hopes of the series.
- "Illustrated by John Clymer, Austin Briggs and the XVIIIth Century cartographer De L'Isle". This in small print under a large splash title banner "'Trumpets From Oblivion' series 'The Stagnant Death'". This is over a drawing of old masted ships. Immediately below the picture is the 'Illustrated by' credits. The inference is that this covers page 6 through page 20 only. Two clear 'Clymer' signatures on pages 13 and 16.
- No illustration attribution for 'The Radio Flyers' segment of the publication.
- From the apparent look of the illustrations, they come from the original magazine material.
- Reginald3 credits Robert Weinberg as editor.