Barbed wire from a prison in Israel where the British imprisoned and executed Jewish terrorists. Now a bookcover; BORDER INTERROGATIONS Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Volume 6 contains the stories “The Life of Death,” “How Spoilers Bleed,” “Twilight at the Towers,” “The Last Illusion,” and “On Jerusalem Street” (a postscript). "The Last Illusion" was filmed in 1995 as "Lord of Illusions."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN1RToUAOQg

The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.

Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]

“Everybody is a book of blood;

Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”

Clive Barker

Should be a fun read. Borgias, etc.

“Since the appearance of this book over fifty years ago the world has been taking Tom Sawyer to its heart. In no other story has the soul of a boy been better realized than in this record of a boy’s life in a little town on the Mississippi. In it you will find the characters whose names are known in nearly every home in the country – Tom, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, and others who make this book live from generation to generation.

“Besides being a hilarious story ‘Tom Sawyer’ immortalizes the daily life of picturesque Missouri in the early part of the nineteenth century. Most of the adventures of Tom and Huck Finn actually occurred, some of them to Mark Twain himself during his boyhood.” [From the dustjacket]

Illustrated with scenes from the David O. Selznick photoplay, featuring Tommy Kelly as Tom Sawyer.

Printed at the Fanfare Press this is typical of the 'look' of Gollancz's books for many years - designed to be bold and stand out on bookstalls and in shops. Designers included some of the luminaries of contemporary typography - Stanley Morison, Ernest Ingham, Bethold Wolpe as well as Fanfare's own studio.

The Voyage of the Waltzing Matilda by Philip Davenport 1953.

The newly-wed Philip and Roz Davenport, sailed around a major part of the World in a small 46’ Bermudian Cutter with a 53’ mast, leaving Sydney Harbour on October 1950. The cutter had just been constructed in Tasmania for the three adventurous Sydney brothers: Jack, Philip and Keith Davenport, who had all seen service as bomber pilots during World War 2 with the Royal Australian Air Force. Accompanying the 32 year-old Philip, and his wife Roz, was his brother, Keith and a sailing friend, Don Brown.

The Waltzing Matilda, named after a popular Australian folk song, visited New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Uraguay, and Brazil along the way before finishing in London in late 1951.

Published by Hutchison of London. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 232 pages 14cm x 22cm.

trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18517571 Roz Davenport’s interview about the journey from the (Sydney) Sunday Herald 30th November 1952.

Jacket art uncredited. Collins Crime Club hardcover (1951).

First published 1947.

Jacket art by M.B. Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited first edition hardcover (1949).

Features The Survivors (first published 1949; translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert) and Black Rain (first published 1946; translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury).

The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):

"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.

"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."

FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978) alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine – published from 1972 to 1989.

FILE magazine Summer-1978 General Idea

General Idea: FILE megazine, vol 4, issue 1, summer 1978 (the “1984: A Year in Pictures” issue), edition of 3,000 copies.

FILE MAGAZINE VOL 4 NO 1 (SUMMER 1978). Toronto: General Idea, 1978

35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers. A single number from General Idea's art periodical where the trio published conceptual, mail and intermedia art including the GI's own work - often with a homoerotic element. This number has GI's "General Idea flees the burning pavilion in 1984" and several articles on Miss General idea 1984. One slight crease on the back cover and front lower-right corner and spine wear and, as ever, browned internal newsprint pages else VG+. Scarce.

1978

FILE Megazine ("1984: A Year in Pictures," Vol. 4, #1, summer 1978)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1978

Publisher:General Idea, Toronto

Book Condition: VG+

35 X 27.5cm, 64pp plus pictorial wrappers

GENERAL IDEA 1969-1994

An alternative to the Alternative Press, legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine --published from 1972 to 1989--

Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson of General Idea lived and worked together for 25 years. Partz and Zontal died in 1994. AA Bronson continues to work under his own name

The General Idea Archive is now on deposit at the National Gallery of Canada. You can access the finding aid here:

national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc112.html

In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole, an organization devoted to collecting, publishing and distributing artists' books, multiples, audio and video.

Read about FILE Megazine in Artforum here:

www.aabronson.com/art/gi.org/artforum.htm

General Idea, Fluxus, Mail Art, Ray Johnson and the importance of Art Magazines as the forerunners of Social Networking:

The first issues of FILE, the publication launched in April 1972 by the Toronto-based group General Idea (comprising artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal), leave a different, less sober impression than previous magazine-based Conceptual art projects. Lifting its name and logo from the most famous (and popular) postwar US glossy, Life, FILE clearly anticipated a strategy that today is an everyday youth-cultural ploy: namely, logo-busting, an ironic game with the powerful markers of consumer culture, a small act of semiotic subversion whereby one borrows power from the public side of capital--and momentarily uses it against itself.

For the better part of a century artists have been using the format of the periodical to create and disseminate their work. Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Void, another iconic work, was published in the artist’s broadsheet publication Dimanche, which was sold at Parisian newsstands in 1960. Artists' magazines were integral to numerous important movements, such as Conceptual Art, Mail Art, Performance Art, Intermedia, Concrete Poetry, Neo-Dadaism and Fluxus.

The name Fluxus was originally coined by George Maciunas for the title of a magazine of experimental notation that he had hoped to produce.

For the uninitiated, a simple distinction suffices: the “artist periodical” is a primary source and an “art magazine” is a secondary one. That is to say, whereas an art magazine features reproductions and documentation of artwork as illustrations, the artist periodical is an alternative site for the realization of art works rather than their review.

Like their cousins, artists’ books and multiples, artists’ periodicals were intended to be easily distributable, affordable and accessible. And now – much like artists’ books and multiples – they can be difficult to track down and often costly. Complete sets of FILE megazine can sell for upwards of $5,000. Depending on the issue, a single copy of Aspen magazine might sell for the same price. Putting together complete collections piecemeal is the artworld equivalent of collecting a complete set of baseball cards. Critical discourse, too, has been hard to come by; apart from a few key articles, very little has been published on the subject of artists’ magazines.

Publications by General Idea:

THIS IS A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS DESIGNED AND EDITED BY GENERAL IDEA

(Note: FILE Megazine was published by Art Official Inc. in varying edition sizes ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 copies)

A Side note about A.A. Bronson: He wrote …

Mail art was expanding exponentially as ….

Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is set during the Spanish civil war and tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. The setting of the story is less important than Hemingway's treatment of the themes of love, death, honor and commitment.

The dust jacket on Franz Polgar’s “The Story of a Hynotist” describes the book as follows:

This is the life story of “The Amazing Polgar,” as he is called by thousands of audiences from coast to coast. And amazing the life-story is, from Polgar’s youth when he narrowly escaped burial alive to the present and his “Fun with the Mind” program on television.

It is estimated that Polgar has hypnotized a million people. He has been employed by a college football team to give hypnotic relaxation. He has given hypnotized subjects water and told them it was champagne whereupon the “champagne” produced a state of artificial intoxication but no hangover. Once a girl whom he had hypnotized on a tour was transfixed on a New York street simply by looking at a poster of his face – and he was summoned to release her from her trance.

Polgar also has a prodigious photographic memory and in this book he tells amusingly of his memory feats.

To cap these strange powers, he has a telepathic gift. Very often he tells an audience: “Hide my check. If I can’t find it through a mental guide, you keep it.” And he always wins this bet.

Born in Hungary, Polgar attracted the notice of Ferenczi, the psychoanalyst, who wrote Freud about the young hypnotist. Freud invited Polgar to Vienna and for a while he attended Freud’s classes. But the man he learned most from was a seedy Professor Nemeti in Budapest. Polgar earned a PhD in Psychology from the University of Budapest. Later his path crossed that of Hanussen who was afterwards notorious as Hitler’s astrologer, and he gives an interesting account of Hanussen’s tricks.

Coming to America, Polgar had to start at the bottom as a waiter in speakeasies where he “read” customers’ minds. For small fees he gave hypnotic shows but finally he got a big start at San Francisco and from then on he has been a headliner in entertainment.

In an important chapter he tells about the persuasion method he uses in hypnotizing people. He also discusses the advances hypnotism has made in therapy and other scientific applications.

“The Story of a Hypnotist” is more than a personal narrative. It is a quick survey of hypnotism as a science from the experiments of Mesmer to hypnotic therapy today.

Robert E. Howard’s science fiction novel “Almuric” was first published in book form by Ace Books in 1964.

www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/14299195641/in/album-7...

It was originally a three-part serial that began with the May 1939 issue of Weird Tales.

www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/14324857774/in/set-721...

The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn. He transports through space to a world known as Almuric to hide from the law after a deadly altercation with a corrupt politician. While there he battles wild beasts and ape-like humanoids and becomes known as the Iron Hand due to his physical strength and fighting skills.

The mentalist Joseph Dunninger (1892 – 1975) was one of the pioneer performers of magic on American radio and television, appearing on radio starting in 1943 and on television in the 1950s and 60s. He had a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who could prove that he used confederates or “stooges” and to any medium who could produce by psychic or supernatural means any physical phenomena that he could not reproduce by natural means.

edited by Margaret Atwood.

2nd edition (1st issued in 1982) with corrections. Toronto, Oxford University Press, [july] 1983. issued in 2 variants:

a) ISBN o-19-54o396-7: 128 sheets ivory bond folded to 16 signatures of 8 sheets each sewn white in 9 stitches & glued into plain white kraft endpapers & 5-11/16 x 8-3/4 navy-painted cloth-covered boards printed gold letterpress spine only, interiors all except 5 pp (ii, xx, xxvi, xlii, last) printed black offset, in 5-3/4 x 8-3/4 white semiglossy dustjacket with 3-1/2" flaps, printed 4-colour process & metallic gold offset recto only;

b) ISBN o-19-54o45o-5: 5-3/8 x 8-1/2, 26o sheets ivory bond perfectbound in glossy PVC ivory card wrappers, all except inside covers & 5 pp (as (a) above) printed black offset with 3-colour process & metallic gold additions to covers.

cover graphic by David Milne.

122 contributors ID'd:

Milton Acorn, Patrick Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Ken Belford, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, E.D.Blodgett, Roo Borson, George Bowering, Marilyn Bowering, Elizabeth Brewster, Robert Bringhurst, Wilfred Campbell, Bliss Carman, Leonard Cohen, Victor Coleman, Don Coles, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Frank Davey, Christopher Dewdney, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Mary Di Michele, Don Domanski, David Donnell, William Henry Drummond, Louis Dudek, Ronald Everson, Brian Fawcett, Douglas Fetherling, Robert Finch, R.A.D.Ford, Gail Fox, Gary Geddes, John Glassco, Artie Gold, Oliver Goldsmith, Phyllis Gottlieb, Eldon Grier, Kristjana Gunnars, Ralph Gustafson, Robert Hayman, Charles Heavysedge, David Helwig, Daryl Hine, Paulette Jiles, E.Pauline Johnson, George Johnston, George Jonas, D.G.Jones, Lionel Kearns, A.M.Klein, Raymond Knister, Robert Kroetsch, Archibald Lampman, Patrick Lane, Irving Layton, Dennis Lee, Douglas LePan, Kenneth Leslie, Charles Lillard, Dorothy Livesay, Malcolm Lowry, Pat Lowther, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay Macpherson, Charles Mair, Eli Mandel, Daphne Marlatt, Anne Marriott, Tom Marshall, Sid Marty, Seymour Mayne, John McCrae, David McFadden, Don McKay, Barry McKinnon, Alexander McLachlan, David Milne, Rona Murray, Susan Musgrave, John Newlove, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Standish O'Grady, Michael Ondaatje, P.K.Page, Marjorie Pickthall, E.J.Pratt, Al Purdy, James Reaney, Charles G.D.Roberts, Dorothy Roberts, Theodore Goddridge Roberts, Joe Rosenblatt, W.W.E.Ross, Charles Sangster, Duncan Campbell Scott, F.R.Scott, Frederick George Scott, Robert Service, Robin Skelton, A.J.M.Smith, Raymond Souster, Francis Sparshott, Joseph Stansbury, Andrew Suknaski, Anne Szumigalski, Sharon Thesen, Colleen Thibaudeau, John Thompson, Peter Van Toorn, Miriam Waddington, Fred Wah, Bertram Warr, Wilfred Watson, Tom Wayman, Phyllis Webb, Anne Wilkinson, George Woodcock, J.Michael Yates, Dale Zieroth.

Nichol contributes:

i) Two Words: A Wedding (prose, pp.428-429)

ii) Gorg, a detective story (prose, p.429)

also includes:

iii) INTRODUCTION, by Margaret Atwood (prose in 6 numbered parts, pp.xxvii-xxxix; passing reference to Nichol in pt.5, "Much has been written about the Canadian cultural 'renaissance'", p.xxxviii)

The prediction on the rear panel is close. Yuri Gagarin had already been born and was 22 years old when the book was published. He was the first person to journey into outer space, aboard the Vostok spacecraft, and was born in 1934. He completed an orbit of the earth on April 12, 1961.

This book from The World Publishing Co. is just one of several popular books that, together with magazine articles, TV shows and movies, explored the possibility of space travel and sparked children's imaginations during the 1950's. So, in May 1961, when John Kennedy proposed a trip to the moon and back by the end of the decade, no generation was more eager and better prepared for the journey than the children of the 50's. Many of them would go on to become space pioneers and make their childhood dreams come true. May the dreams never die.

Jacket art by Mick Brownfield. Book design by Christopher Scott. Treasure Press hardcover (1986). First published 1977.

The best illustrations from over a century of crime fiction.

Do not stand at my grave and weep is a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye. Although the origin of the poem was disputed until later in her life, Mary Frye's authorship was confirmed in 1998 after research by Abigail Van Buren, a newspaper columnist.

Married Charles Plucker and had 4 children

Dutch; Danny slaat geld uit de vrouwen by Loren Beauchamp. Cover art by Moriën.

Volume 5 contains the stories “The Forbidden,” “The Madonna,” “Babel’s Children,” and “In the Flesh.” "The Forbidden" was filmed in 1992 as "Candyman," a murderous soul with a hook for a hand who is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOnN4M9wB0s

The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.

Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]

“Everybody is a book of blood;

Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”

Clive Barker

Final Major Project

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complete guidelines for the rebrand of Qatar Airways.

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Sound Barrier – The story of high-speed flight, by Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery 1953.

Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery were test pilots who flew never-before tested aircraft in the jet age.

Published by Cassell & Co. London. 118 pages 13cm x19cm with dustjacket.

The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):

"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.

"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."

This book contains a history and anthology of science fiction in the popular magazines from 1891 to 1911. The year 1891 ushered in a "golden age" of magazines. Continuing up to the onset of World War I, this period saw an unparalleled flourishing of high quality, general interest magazines at a price nearly everybody could afford. Science fiction stories played a crucial role in the success of these magazines, and, not surprisingly, within the pages of "The Strand," "Pearson's Magazine, "The Blue Book," "Hampton's Magazine," "The Argosy," "The Red Book,"The Black Cat," and similar publications can be found some of the finest treasures of science fiction writing.

Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” The image on the front panel of the dust jacket has a Franciscan monk in front of a Peruvian rope bridge. The book tells the story of the fictional collapse of an Inca-made rope bridge in Lima, Peru, at noon on Friday, July 20, 1714. The novel recounts the event and its memorial as well as Brother Juniper’s six-year effort to chronicle the stories of the 5 victims of the collapse, with flashbacks to the victims’ lives and the events that led up to their deaths.

Michael Massimino Returns to Earth

Hartriono B. Sastrowardoyo

Astronaut and Franklin Square native Mike Massimino had his first spaceflight this past March. While orbiting the Earth 350 miles up, he saw a bit of heaven. "Just looking at the Earth was so beautiful. What I got to enjoy more than looking at the Earth during the day was looking at the stars and the Earth during our night passes. All the stars are these perfect points of light. That was just incredible. It was heaven."

Dr. Massimino brought some of the heavens down to the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Wednesday, July 12th, as the first speaker in the Museum's lecture series. He presented the Museum with a flown flag, mission patch, and dustjacket for the book "Takeoff! How Long Island Inspired America to Fly." He also showed a video about his STS-109 flight, a mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. It was a homecoming in another way for Massimino. In the early 1980s, he was a volunteer at the Museum.

This was his third appearance in the area in a week. The previous Saturday, he presented a flag and pennant to the engineering school of Columbia University, where he was graduated in 1984 with a BS in industrial engineering, and also took part in a parade in Franklin Square as the guest of honor. Following his appearance at the Museum, Massimino threw the first pitch in the Mets-Yankees game on Saturday, June 15th.

Massimino recalled that from an early age he wanted to be an astronaut. He showed a photo of himself, wearing a homemade spacesuit and carrying a Snoopy astronaut doll. "When I was in first grade, I had an elephant costume. My mom took it and made it into a spacesuit. Not a bad job." He then showed a photo of himself conducting one of the spacewalks and commented, "I couldn't tell my mother I liked this second spacesuit better than the first."

He continued, "I first thought about becoming an astronaut when I was 6 years old, when they were putting people on the moon. I thought it was really cool that people were going to the moon. I thought it was the most important and interesting thing going on. I still feel that spaceflight is the most important and interesting thing that we're doing, and that's why I'm doing it." He went on to say that later on, he went to graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the idea of making space as a career, as well as getting involved with space-related research. "It took me four tries to be an astronaut, but I finally succeeded after seven years."

"My family was very supportive of my work," he said, noting with a smile that he had promised his son a puppy after the launch. "We landed on the 12th and on the 16th we went to the pound." The hardest part? "The swimming requirements," Massimino replied. "I had learned to swim, but not the NASA way," he said, referring to the water survival courses. "My kids are better swimmers than I."

Massimino concluded, "Do the thing that you like the best. The best advice on how to be an astronaut is to find out what you would like to do if you can't be an astronaut. You may find yourself doing something else that you may like even more. You might not get what you sought out in the beginning, but it may be better than what you were looking for. Do what you love and things should work out."

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With Massimino's retirement from NASA in late July 2014, I realized I never posted the above photo. "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years" had just come out around the time I met him, and I tried unsuccessfully to get a signed copy from the National Air and Space Museum. Had I done so, Massimino would have been the 7th autograph in that book.

Instead, it would take until April 2011 and the Earth, Air, Ocean and Space: The Future of Exploration presentation at MIT in Boston before Massimino would sign my book.

Check out my snazzy 2002 NJ press pass and the pocket full of Sharpies. I did write an article for the local Franklin Square paper, which unfortunately has gotten lost over the years. I believe the above transcription, from the collectSPACE website, is an accurate rendering of what I wrote. (There is a typo: he appeared at the museum in June, not July.)

No date; Piccadilly by Arnold Bennett, Story of the Film Illustrated Edition. Cover art by E.L. The movie is a product of the British Studios at Elstree. Gilda Gray plays the dancer Mabel Greenfield and Jameson Thomas acts her lover Valentine Wilmot. Anna May Wong acts the exotic Chinese girl Shosho.

Can someone tell me the year the movie was released ?

Pictured on the dust jacket are field crickets, which Jean-Henri Fabre describes as follows: "Here is one of the humblest of creatures able to lodge himself to perfection. He has a home; he has a peaceful retreat, the first condition of comfort."

“Fabre’s Book of Insects” contains a great French entomologist’s charming essays about insects in real life, mythology and folklore. The book is a retelling of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ translation of Jean-Henri Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques.” The essays were reworked by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated with 12 full-color plates by Edward J. Detmold.

Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957) and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold (1883-1908) were prolific Victorian book illustrators. Although stunned by the death of Maurice in 1908, Edward threw himself into his work and became one of the most talented of illustrators, depicting animals and plants with an extraordinary understanding.

dustjacket

edited by Richard Kostelanetz.

New York, William Morrow And Company Incorporated, [december] 198o. issued in 2 variants:

a) ISBN o-688-o3616-3: "bound": 6 x 9, 223 sheets ivory bond perfectbound with plain robin's egg blue heavy bond endpapers into 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 plain ivory kraft-covered boards with 4" white cloth spinewrap printed shiny blue foilstamp & approx.1-5/16" white & slate cloth appliqué head~ & tail bands, interiors all except 7 pp (6, 8, 12, 24, last 3 pp) printed black offset, in 6-1/4 x 9-3/16 glossy PVC white bond dustjacket printed black, bright blue & pink recto only;

b) ISBN o-688-o8616-o, "pbk.": 6 x 9, 223 sheets ivory bond perfectbound into glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 7 pp (as above) printed black offset with bright blue & pink additions to outside covers.

cover text by Bliem Kern.

97 contributors ID'd:

Walter Abish, Jonathan Albert, Charles Amirkhanian, Beth Anderson, Douglas Barbour, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, Warren Burt, John Cage, Alissandru Caldiero, Archie Carr, Rosemarie Castoro, Geoffrey Cook, Michael Cooper, Philip Corner, Jean-Jacques Cory, Bruce Curley, Guy De Cointet, Charles Dodge, Jon Erickson, Raymond Federman, Camille Foss, Sheldon Frank, Fern Friedman, Kenneth Gaburo, Jon Gibson, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Anthony Gnazzo, Malcolm Goldstein, Mark Goodman, Glenn Gould, Courtenay P.Graham-Gazaway, Grion Gysin, Terri Hanlon, Lafcadio Hearn, William Hellerman, Scott Helmes, Dick Higgins, Eugene Jolas, Kevin Jones, Lionel Kearns, Bliem Kern, Jack Kerouac, Kenneth King, Christopher Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Lawrence Kucharz, S.J.Leon, Charles Levendosky, Annea Lockwood, Cindy Lubar, Alvin Lucier, Toby Lurie, Jackson Mac Low, David Mahler, Steve McCaffery, Aaron Miller, Frank Mitchell, Charles Morrow, bpNichol, Claes Oldenburg, John Oswald, Spirs Pantos, Michael Joseph Phillips, Pedro Pietri, Norman Henry Pritchard II, Faye Ran, Henry Rasof, Ernest Robson, Jerome Rothenberg, Steve Ruppenthal Patrick Saari, R.Murray Schafer, Arleen Schloss, Armand Schwerner, Juduth Johnson Sherwin, Mary Ellen Solt, Charles Stein, Gertrude Stein, Ned Sublette, Henry David Thoreau, Jose Garcia Villa, Else Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Lawrence Weiner, Larry Wendt, Jon Whyte, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, A.J.Wright, Nina Yankowitz, Karl Young, Harriet Zinner, Ellen Zweig.

Nichol contributes:

i) PARTICULAR MUSIC (sound poetry score, pp.33o>331; given as by the Four Horsemen; a different draft than that which appears in The Prose Tattoo)

ii) From Sound to Sense (prose essay, p.335; includes Nichol's Hiroshima (mon amour) in full)

iv) CONTRIBUTORS, by Richard Kostelanetz (pp.434>441; with capsule bios of the Four Horsemen (p.435) & Nichol (p.439) & references to Four Horsemen & Toronto Research Group under the entry for Steve McCaffery (p.438))

Title: Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar - vol 1;

Author: Peter V. Bruyns;

Publisher: Umdaus Press, Hatfield, South Africa;

Edition: first (2005)

Pages: VI + 330 (color);

Binding: hardcover in dustjacket;

Language: English;

Dimensions: 23,7 x 30,3 cm;

ISBN: 1-919766-37-5 (standard edition)

The newly-wed voyagers.

The Voyage of the Waltzing Matilda by Philip Davenport 1953.

The newly-wed Philip and Roz Davenport, sailed around a major part of the World in a small 46’ Bermudian Cutter with a 53’ mast, leaving Sydney Harbour on October 1950. The cutter had just been constructed in Tasmania for the three adventurous Sydney brothers: Jack, Philip and Keith Davenport, who had all seen service as bomber pilots during World War 2 with the Royal Australian Air Force. Accompanying the 32 year-old Philip, and his wife Roz, was his brother, Keith and a sailing friend, Don Brown.

The Waltzing Matilda, named after a popular Australian folk song, visited New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil along the way before finishing in London in late 1951.

Published by Hutchison of London. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 232 pages 14cm x 22cm.

trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18517571 Roz Davenport’s interview about the journey from the (Sydney) Sunday Herald 30th November 1952.

Philip Davenport’s account of his crash, capture and incarceration in a Gestapo prison in Norway in 1945:

www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/51/a3964151.s...

The older brother, Wing-Commander Jack Davenport, who helped fund and prepare the Waltzing Matilda, had a distinguished Air Force career, and won the DSO for his command of 455 Squadron.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._455_Squadron_RAAF

www.amazon.com/Jack-Davenport-ebook/dp/B0042JSPOI This biography also includes some details of the Air Force action of his brothers Philip and Keith.

He followed the military career with an equally distinguished business career, including directorship of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL Co).

The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):

"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.

"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."

This is a novel about the end of the world -- the destruction of the earth by man himself through his willful poisoning of the atmosphere, the land, the seas and rivers, and ultimately of the human race itself. The end does not come in a blaze of glory; it is relentless, agonizing suffocation in a polluted environment, and all of it the consequence of human folly. The ultimate catastrophe need never have occurred.

In "The End of the Dream," the last book Philip Wylie wrote before his death in 1971, he renews his warning of the dangers of pollution. He wrote it in the hope that it was not too late for constructive action to counter the menace.

Jacket by O'Brien. The Shakespeare Head hardcover (1946).

The novel concerns American Leif Langdon who discovers a warm valley in Alaska. Two races inhabit the valley, the Little People and a branch of an ancient Mongolian race and they worship the evil Kraken named Khalk'ru which they summon from another dimension to offer human sacrifice. The inhabitants recognize Langdon as the reincarnation of their long dead hero, Dwayanu. Dwayanu's spirit possesses Langdon and starts a war with the Little People. Langdon eventually fights off the presence of Dwayanu and destroys the Kraken. [Source: Wikipedia]

Title: Die Gattung MAMMILLARIA Monographie Band 2;

Author: Werner Reppenhagen;

Publisher: Steinhart (D);

Edition: first (1992);

Pages: 364 ~ 811 (color & b/w);

Cover: hardbound in dustjacket;

Language: German;

Dimensions: 25 x 17.8 x 3.4 cm;

ISBN: n/a.

Cover photo: Mammillaria wagneriana

by Jennifer Books & jwcurry.

Ottawa, Canadian Small Change Association, 14 august 1999. 46 unique copies numbered in black rubberstamp & signed in ballpoint, issued as '95 Hitlist Variety 43, this copy dedicated to Lefler.

approx.16 x 13, 15 leaves (one gatefold) japanese sewn white in 8 double stitches with head~ & tailstitches & tipped in plain brown kraft-backed silver foil dustjacket with 3-7/8 x 5-7/8 triptych cover window & plain 4-7/8 x 7-1/8 acetate panel over window in clear plastic photocorners, 31 pp printed rubberstamp over various found substrates with 42 colour photographs mounted in clear plastic photocorners throughout & one leaf white xerographic bond printed 4colour process photocopy glued in, the interior sheets as follows:

1) 14-1/4 x 13 "EXPLOSIVE A EXPLOSIF 1.1 1" railway placard printed orange & black offset both sides, with 4 x 1 photocopy order form (filled out in ballpoint) stuck on & 4 x 6 colour photograph glued on (front cover sheet)

2) approx.11-1/4 x 6 offwhite mayfair card cut & torn irregularly with found pencil graphic occupying all but the top 1/2" overprinted 4 colours rubberstamp recto/4 x 6 brown monochrome photograph mounted in photocorners with black rubberstamp verso

3) 14-3/4 x 11-3/8 offwhite bristol board printed black rubberstamp both sides with red addition recto, with 5 brown monochrome photographs mounted in photocorners (2 recto, 3 verso)

4) 12 x 16-1/2 white card broadside printed black offset (Durm-I Brooks, TEECHA STILL DEH TEECH, np, Jamup Productions, 1993) & folded roughly in half to form a 4 pp 8-1/4 x 12 signature, all printed black rubberstamp with 2 colour photographs mounted in photocorners, one to each inside page

5) 14 x 11 black & white found photograph printed black rubberstamp both sides with 3 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (1 recto, 2 verso)

6) 29 x 8-1/2 white-coated brown cardboard Application for Firearms Acquisition Certificate (F.A.C.) printed black offset & folded to 4 pp, 15-1/2 x 8-1/2 with a 13-1/2 x 8-1/2 gatefold, all printed black rubberstamp with 8 photographs (7 colour, 1 brown monochrome) mounted 2 to a page in photocorners

7) 16 x 1o torn white glossy, bottom half of 4colour offset poster Rambolette (Detroit, Saint Chateaux Galleries, 1987), printed black rubberstamp both sides with 6 colour photographs mounted 3 per side in photocorners

8) 16 x 1o torn white glossy, top half of 4colour poster Rambolette (see leaf 7), printed black rubberstamp both sides with 5 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (a composite of 2 recto, 3 verso)

9) approx.28 x 16 brown paper shopping bag, printed brown & black offset for an unidentifiable Vancouver store, roughly folded in 4 to approx.14 x 11 with 5" flap along bottom & fold at foreëdge,

overprinted black rubberstamp both sides with 3 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (1 recto, 2 verso)

1o) 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 sheet white ribbed card torn at top, printed black rubberstamp both sides with 2 photographs mounted in photocorners (black & white recto, colour verso)

11) 11-1/2 x 8-3/4 white mayfair card with found pencil & marker sketch by Meng Giang recto, printed black rubberstamp both sides with shaped colour photograph mounted in photocorners & torn white bond printed 4colour process photocopy glued verso

12) 13-1/2 x 8-1/2 speckled gold mayfair card torn at bottom with 2 x 3-1/2 white card glued recto printed green offset for Souris & Petitti Advertising/Communications, printed black rubberstamp bothnsides with red additions recto, with 3 colour photographs mounted in photocorners (2 recto, 1 verso)

13) 13-1/4 x 9-1/2 turquoise coarsewove ard torn at top, printed black rubberstamp both sides with 2 colour photographs mounted in photocorners, 1 per side

14) approx.11-3/4 x 11-1/2 unassembled cardboard box with 1'1/4" diameter circular window, printed black & gold offset for Joseph & Zane's The Classic Boxer Short ("The Most Comfortable Underwear You'll Ever Wear"), printed black & brown rubberstamp verso only & signed in blue ballpoint by Books & curry

15) 14-1/4 x 13 "EXPLOSIVE A EXPLOSIF 1.2 1" railway placard printed black & orange offset (rear cover sheet)

cover photograph: jwcurry

7 other contributors ID'd:

Jennifer Books, Meng Giang, Lance LaRocque, Mlina Lore, Gustave Morin, Gio Sampogna, Johan Teveldal

includes:

i) '95 HitList Variety 43, jwcurry (prose, Lefler cameo)

ii) for Peg E, jwcurry (rubbercut portrait of Lefler)

iii) Dedicatee Peggy lefler examines yet another cultural artifact at her table at home at 1357 Lansdowne Avenue in Toronto, perhaps as early as 2jul95, Gustave Morin (photograph, portrait)

iv) Peggy lefler at her table at 1357 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto, probably 6jul95, Gustave Morin (photograph, portrait)

v) Willowvale Park, Toronto, Peggy lefler as temporary park popcan pickupper, 9jul95, Gio Sampogna (photograph, portrait)

vi*) Willowvale Park, Toronto, jwcurry, Jana & Mlina Lore & Peggy lefler enable this triptych of tableaux vivants typical of the guerrilla stylee style o' still photography, characterized by such highcharge interelemental dynamics, 9jul95, Gio Sampogna (sequence of 3 photographs:

–1. curry, Jana, Mlina, Lefler [maybe amused];

–2. Jana (making a face), curry, Mlina, Lefler [maybe notso amused];

–3. Jana, curry, Mlina, Lefler [no, not amused])

vii*) Willowvale Park, Toronto, jwcurry, Jana Lore, Peggy lefler & Gio.Sampogna almost high on the hill, 9jul95, Gustave Morin (photo, portrait)

viii) Willowvale Park, Toronto, jwcurry & Peggy lefler, 9jul95, Gio Sampogna (photo, portrait)

ix*) Toronto, looking approximately E along Bloor Street from the Grace Street extension to Christie Street & beyond, gustave morin, jwcurry, Jana Lore, Peggy lefler & Mlina Lore all off from the extended shangbreak after celebratory ice cream, 9jul95, Jennifer Books (photo, portrait)

[note: all titling by curry.

asterisked photographs also appeared in Variation 34, 3 april 1997]

Edited by Ian Hamilton. London: Alan Ross, 1965. Pictured, top: Alun Lewis, Sidney Keyes, Alan Ross; middle: Hamish Henderson, Gavin Ewart, John Pudney; bottom: Paul Dehn, Roy Campbell.