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A MacFadden-Bartell Book, [c1965 Fleetway], NY paperback edition 1967. Backcover reads in large print: Witchcraft Murder...Mutilated Corpse on Altar. The British TV series, Sexton Blake starring Laurence Payne, made it's debut in 1967. Although the detective was enormously popular in England via books, films(silent & sound) and radio series, he didn't seem to translate well to American audiences.
'The intimate affairs of a burlesque star' - Art by Rudy Nappi .
Gene Harvey was a pseudonym used by Jack Hanley.
Shiver and Shake / Heft-Reihe
> Creepy Creations / The three legged Eyeball
(art: Paul Williams)
IPC Magazines Ltd.
(London / England; 17. August 1974)
ex libris MTP
1957; Day of the Ram by William Campbell Gault. Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. Nice detail on the backcover
[center]: Henry Holiday's backcover illustration (1876) to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.
[upper left]: Allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610) of Queen Elizabeth I at Old Age with allegory of Death and Father Time.
[lower left]: Allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610) as above: Mirror view, converted to black&white (in order to focus on shapes).
[right]: Allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610) as above: Some segments rearranged in an attempt to understand Henry Holiday's way to quote from this painting. Into the large image on the right side I inserted the mirror view of the Bellman's face (from the front cover of Carroll's poem).
The pictorial quotations by Henry Holiday in his illustrations may help to interpret The Hunting of the Snark. I think, Holiday understood Carroll well. And Carroll seemingly got afraid a bit that his poem was too dark: "And if I have written anything to add to those stores of innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to look back upon without shame and sorrow (as how much of life must then be recalled!) when my turn comes to walk through the valley of shadows." (Carroll's Easter Greeting, 1876)
(Holiday's illustration also is available in a scaleable format for posters: SVG and PDF.)
In the Victorian age most book owners felt that any book worth keeping deserved to be rebound, usually in some form of leather to become part of a personal library. This copy of "Through the Looking Glass...," which was re-bound in leather, retains the original publisher's binding inside.
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1872) was published seven years later and is set some six months later than the earlier book. This time Alice enters a fantastic world by stepping through a mirror. “Through the Looking Glass” is not quite as popular as “Wonderland” but it does include celebrated verses such as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and episodes involving “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and “Humpty Dumpty.” The book features fifty in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
The author, Lewis Carroll, is a pseudonym for Reverend Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) who was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was awkward and is said to have had a crippling stammer around other adults. But around children the stammer melted away as he told them his nonsensical stories. He was a brilliant and imaginative artist whose “extravagantly absurd” stories and witty wordplay appealed to young people.
Animal Babies, written by Kathryn and Byron Jackson with illustrations by Adele Werber, Little Golden Books, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1947.
Many of the pages in this copy have been colored on with crayon, pen and pencil by "BABYLION THE BUSY," which is scrawled in a childish hand inside the front cover (I'll have to scan it!). Still, it's a lovely little find.
The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu, ( 紫式部 )
Translated by Royall Tyler
1182 pages
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