Clifford N. Geary is an American illustrator, noted for illustrating science books and science fiction novels, especially Robert A. Heinlein's "juvenile series" published by Scribner's from 1948 to 1956. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988 was an American Novelist and Science fiction Writer. "Heinlein juveniles" is a phrase that refers to the twelve novels written by Robert A Charles Scribner's Sons is a publisher The firm published Scribner's Magazine for many years
Many of his Heinlein illustrations are done in a remarkable reversed-ground white-on-black style.
Geary was raised in the Boston area and was educated at the Massachusetts School of Art. In later life he lived in Brooklyn and the Adirondacks. His book illustrations were sometimes credited to "Clifford Geary".
Books illustrated
By Geary
- Ticonderoga: A Picture Story, by Clifford N. Geary, David McKay Company, New York, 50 p.
Heinlein
Margaret O. Space Cadet is a 1948 Science fiction novel by Robert A Heinlein about Matt Dodson who joins the Space Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System Red Planet is a 1949 Science fiction novel by Robert A Heinlein about students at boarding school on the planet Mars. Farmer In The Sky is a 1950 Science fiction novel by Robert A Between Planets is a 1951 Science fiction novel by Robert A Heinlein, originally serialised in Blue Book magazine The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom is a 1952 Science fiction novel Starman Jones is a 1953 Science fiction novel by Robert A Heinlein about a farm boy with an Eidetic memory (photographic memory The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extra-terrestrial Time for the Stars is a Science fiction Novel by Robert A Heinlein published by Scribner's in 1956 as one of the "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" is a Novella by Robert A Hyde
- Atoms Today & Tomorrow by Margaret O. Hyde, revised edition, McGraw Hill, 1959
- Exploring Earth and Space by Margaret O. Hyde, McGraw-Hill, 159 p. , various years 1957-1967
- Where Speed is King by Margaret and Edwin Hyde, McGraw-Hill, 1955, 1961
Other
- Signal Hill by Edward A. Herron
- Clara Barton, Red Cross Pioneer by Alberta Powell Graham, New York: Abingdon Press, 1956
- Science the Super Sleuth by Lynn Poole, McGraw Hill, 1954
- Your Trip into Space by Lynn Poole, McGraw-Hill
- The Hideout Club by Frank Reilly, Rinehart, 147 p. , 1948
- The Magic Bat by Clem Philbrook, Macmillan, 1954
- The Real Book About Space Travel by Hal Goodwin, Garden City Books, 1952
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