Jw Publications: 106 books

They worked hard, these men in secret places, their aim and object the conquest of space. Obstacles were many, not the least among them being a shortage of financial backing. But at last a day came when a guided projectile was launched on its journey into space. Only then did the worst snag of all become apparent...This is a extremely scarce, highly sought sci-fi classic

UPON the moonlit stillness came suddenly a far-off, muffled, crashing sound. Just once it came, then once again the stillness of the wilderness night, the stillness of vast, untraversed solitude. The Boy lifted his eyes and glanced across the thin reek of the camp-fire at Jabe Smith, who sat smoking...

A Harrowing Tale of the Pre-Civil War Era

That one stark naked side of the mountain which gave it its name of Old Bald Face fronted full south. Scorched by sun and scourged by storm throughout the centuries, it was bleached to an ashen pallor that gleamed startlingly across the leagues of sombre, green-purple wilderness outspread below. From...

The feeling that Professor Silas Orcutt, an American geologist, refers to early in this story, is one that every reader of this rugged and thrilling science fiction novel will share with him after the very first page. The professor, head of a party of five studying geological formations in the Central...

From the noted Scottish author and scholar: 66 tales about creatures of land, sea, and air. Adapted from stories originally told by Alexandre Dumas, Th ophile Gautier, Pliny, and others, they include The Adventures of Pyramus, Two Highland Dogs, The Ship of the Desert, The Otter Who was Reared by...

ALL the neighbors began to call him "Daddy Longlegs." And anyone might naturally think that he had lived in Pleasant Valley a great many years. But it was not so. Late in the summer Daddy Longlegs had appeared from nobody knew where. Although people often inquired where his old home...

lease of Venus Boy in 60 years! A loving revision of what Fantasy and Science Fiction named the best children’s science fiction book of 1955. With the original and never-before-published art from Richard Floethe. This revision has been authorized by the families of both the author and the illustrator....