Clifford Geary
Clifford N. Geary was an American illustrator of science fiction, especially Robert A. Heinlein's "juvenile series" published by Scribner's from 1948 to 1956, and of popular science.
Many of his Heinlein illustrations are done in a reversed-ground white-on-black style. Alexei Panshin's acknowledges Geary's contribution to this important element of the Heinlein oeuvre, calling his work
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
Space Cadet, 1948Red Planet, 1949Farmer in the Sky, 1950Between Planets, 1951The Rolling Stones, 1952Starman Jones, 1953The Star Beast, 1954Time for the Stars, 1956The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, 1959
Margaret O. Hyde
Atoms Today & Tomorrow by Margaret O. Hyde, revised edition, McGraw Hill, 1959Exploring Earth and Space by Margaret O. Hyde, McGraw-Hill, 159 p., various years 1957-1967Where Speed is King by Margaret and Edwin Hyde, McGraw-Hill, 1955, 1961
Other
Signal Hill by Edward A. HerronClara Barton, Red Cross Pioneer by Alberta Powell Graham, New York: Abingdon Press, 1956Science the Super Sleuth by Lynn Poole, McGraw Hill, 1954Your Trip into Space by Lynn Poole, McGraw-HillThe Hideout Club by Frank Reilly, Rinehart, 147 p., 1948The Magic Bat by Clem Philbrook, Macmillan, 1954The Real Book About Space Travel by Hal Goodwin, Garden City Books, 1952