The Black Wheel

New York: New Collectors' Group. Very Good+. 1948. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies. This is copy 901. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the scarce dust jacket. This copy includes the canceled copyright information on the copyright page, and is State A according to Currey - with the title on three lines on the front cover. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and fraying to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The front and rear pastedown pages have several strips of tape residue where a former owner had taped down the dust jacket. "Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta Publishers, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, which was learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. Bok shared one of the inaugural 1953 Hugo Awards for science fiction achievement (best Cover Artist). " (from Wikipedia) .