#ballantine

[willowgifsdaily]

"You did good, kid."

COMMANDER BALLANTINE & JADE CLAYMORE Willow (2022-2023)

[hooperdrivestheboat]

1948 Ballantine Beer Thanksgiving ad

[vintage-rm]

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson - Farthest Star - Ballantine - 1975

[slvershdws]

"Every hand's a winner, and every hand's a loser, and the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep."

An old cowboy giving some advice to a young one.

[wordfromoursponsor]

"Maybe we have to wait till the war is over and television comes from around the corner before we can all have this particular 'something better.'" (1943)

[kilianromero]

Ballantine Ale & Halloween (1955)

[station451]

Another absolute banger by Richard Powers, this time on Walter M. Miller Jr.'s novella collection Conditionally Human. Published by Ballantine in 1962, this would have been the followup to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.

The overall composition is a stunning use of the paperback scale (a little larger than 5x8, so slightly bigger than a postcard or a 90s Kodak photo print.) On a much larger cover, like a hardback book, it might look a little sparse, but on hardcover's smaller (and cheaper) sister, it is allowed to make a heck of a statement with its simplicity. As with many of the books in my collection, I am also drawn to the gorgeous orange and fuchsia color scheme.