MOONBASE LIBRARY ADDITIONS: FINNLAND AND GERMANY

The Moonbase library has gone international! Blog friend and collector Arto has so kindly sent me this fabulous Finnish copy of the one and only MAN and Space 'LIFE' book: ULOS AVARUUTEEN. That's English, French and Finnish now in the bag! This is a 1972 reprint showing Valigursky's NOVA and BOOSTER ROCKET. The MEV and MOONBASE are missing from this later edition. I'll have to check my later UK edition to see if it follows suit. Can we get MAN AND SPACE in any more languages whilst we're about it?

Over Easter I was also lucky enough to recieve signed copies of two of iconic German space artist KLAUS BUERGLE's books. I wrote to the artist and he kindly signed my copy of DIE BEWOHNER DES GRUENEN PLANETEN with it's wonderful Scramble Bug cover. Herr Buergle also sent me a signed copy of his hardback monograph of paintings, which accompanies his exhibition currently running in Germany. I was thrilled to see that my favourite NUCLEAR FERRY-esque painting is the cover, together with a neat postcard too. I was very very chuffed. Very much a contemporary of Valigursky and McCall, you can see much more of his visionary work at RETRO FUTURISMUS. If I were producing SWORD toys nowadays I would ask Herr Buergle to do the boxart!