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Pan Demos, v. 1, issue 2, March 1949
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cognized their high degree of perfection as fine art. One, I remember, was sold to Dunninger, the Mentalist, who we were happy to number among our select friends and well-wishers. The profile view on page 57, was purchased by myself from Hannes, as well as the design for the title page. The small insert at the end of the Merritt work was a piece once done for Weird Tales, but which Hannes had not sold. New troubles developed when the production of the book began. The advertisement had appeared prior to the intended release of the book and some 180 persons ordered the book with full payment in advance. The printer who had agreed to publish the book, rejected the work and we were left without a printer in a city where such work was overabundant and a deadline was an unheard of thing. Finally, after a three months delay I succeeded in locating a printer who owned a French newspaper, who was willing, for a fancy price, to print the volume. Once he had secured the down payment, we were left to wait. Our book was left behind to be sandwiched in between issues of the regular work of his shop. The type face was a problem, we were forced to use a double column arrangement to save more than a third of the cost of typesetting which is the major cost in a small edition. Even the odd jobs which came into his shop were put ahead of our book. Finances for the printing and the places of the illustrations were exhausted, so the balance of the costs came from cash wedding gifts to my wife and myself. In the meantime, the select few of the fans were busy with a vengeance. The editor of one of the most affluent fan papers advised his followers to resist the ad as it was a scheme to milk unsuspecting fans of hard-earned money. The book was never to appear. A prominent fan club advised the same thing. We retired to our fortress, crowded to publish the book while interrupted by postal inspectors called in by fans, some of whom had not even ordered the book. 11
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cognized their high degree of perfection as fine art. One, I remember, was sold to Dunninger, the Mentalist, who we were happy to number among our select friends and well-wishers. The profile view on page 57, was purchased by myself from Hannes, as well as the design for the title page. The small insert at the end of the Merritt work was a piece once done for Weird Tales, but which Hannes had not sold. New troubles developed when the production of the book began. The advertisement had appeared prior to the intended release of the book and some 180 persons ordered the book with full payment in advance. The printer who had agreed to publish the book, rejected the work and we were left without a printer in a city where such work was overabundant and a deadline was an unheard of thing. Finally, after a three months delay I succeeded in locating a printer who owned a French newspaper, who was willing, for a fancy price, to print the volume. Once he had secured the down payment, we were left to wait. Our book was left behind to be sandwiched in between issues of the regular work of his shop. The type face was a problem, we were forced to use a double column arrangement to save more than a third of the cost of typesetting which is the major cost in a small edition. Even the odd jobs which came into his shop were put ahead of our book. Finances for the printing and the places of the illustrations were exhausted, so the balance of the costs came from cash wedding gifts to my wife and myself. In the meantime, the select few of the fans were busy with a vengeance. The editor of one of the most affluent fan papers advised his followers to resist the ad as it was a scheme to milk unsuspecting fans of hard-earned money. The book was never to appear. A prominent fan club advised the same thing. We retired to our fortress, crowded to publish the book while interrupted by postal inspectors called in by fans, some of whom had not even ordered the book. 11
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