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Alan Shepard, Jr. (1923 – 1998) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person and the first American to travel into space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit. Ten years later, at age 47 and the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the lander to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. He became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only astronaut of the Mercury Seven to walk on the Moon. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. [Source: Wikipedia]
Deke Slayton (1924 – 1993) was an American World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office. [Source: Wikipedia]
A second Listener Anthology
June 1970 to May 1972. Edited by Karl Miller, with contributions
from
Patricia Beer
Martin Bell
Alan Bennett
John Betjeman
Jim Biddulph
John Bierman
Caroline Blackwood
Roy Bradford
Asa Briggs
Brigid Brophy
Anthony Burgess
Peter Campbell
John Carey
Kenneth Clark
John Crawley
Charles Curran
Rene Cutforth
Donald Davie
Francis Dillon
Misha Donat
William Empson
Alisdair Fairley
Barry Fantoni
Andrew Forge
Roy Fuller
P. N. Furbank
Mark Girouard
Lord Goodman
Graham Greene
Germaine Greer
John Grigg
Stuart Hall
Paul Hamburger
Ian Hamilton
William Hardcastle
Seamus Heaney
Stuart Hood
John Horgan
Brenda Horsfield
Ivan Illich
Dan Jacobson
Clive James
D. A. N. Jones
Edmond Kapp
Hans Keller
Frank Kermode
Keith Kyle
Philip Larkin
Marghanita Laski
F. R. Leavis
Alasdair Macintyre
Derek Mahon
Michael Mason
Derwent May
Richard Mayne
Mary McCarthy
Gavin Millar
Enoch Powell
Returning of Issue by Henry Reed
Christopher Ricks
Christopher Serpell
B. F. Skinner
Daniel Snowman
John Taylor
Hugh Trevor-Roper
E. S. Turner
Huw Wheldon
Anthony Whitby
Phillip Whitehead
Raymond Williams
Bill Williamson
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Richard Wollheim
Francis Wyndham
John Glenn is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States Senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. John Glenn returned to space on October 29, 1998, at age 77, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. [Source: Wikipedia]
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
From the back cover:
"Two short novels by the greatest of all fantasy adventure writers -- creator of immortal tales of the jungle and on Mars."
Here is adventure -- BEYOND THIRTY
"The United Americas had been isolated for hundreds of years while the rest of the planet was wracked by incessant warfare. The Commander of an American ship patrolling the Eastern sea frontier on 30 degrees West longitude is cast adrift with three seamen by a treacherous fellow officer. The four men reach the coast of England to find a land of blasted cities. Saber toothed tigers of a new species and giant wolves have decimated the surviving naked savages. Battle and adventure on the Continent make this an exciting escape to the future."
More adventure -- THE MAN-EATER
"A huge African lion, how he was captured and brought to the United States, and his unwitting help in serving the cause of justice. Typical jungle adventure made famous by Edgar Rice Burroughs."
A second Listener
Anthology
Edited by Karl Miller
This book draws on what has been published in the Listener since 1970. It includes, therefore, much of the best journalism, criticism and broadcasting of the last two years.
There are important groups of contributions on, for instance, Ireland and public service broadcasting, but the book follows the pattern of the paper and every department is represented.
The contributors are:
Patricia Beer
Martin Bell
Alan Bennett
John Betjeman
Jim Biddulph
John Bierman
Caroline Blackwood
Roy Bradford
Asa Briggs
Brigid Brophy
Anthony Burgess
Peter Campbell
John Carey
Kenneth Clark
John Crawley
Charles Curran
Rene Cutforth
Donald Davie
Francis Dillon
Misha Donat
William Empson
Alisdair Fairley
Barry Fantoni
Andrew Forge
Roy Fuller
P. N. Furbank
Mark Girouard
Lord Goodman
Graham Greene
Germaine Greer
John Grigg
Stuart Hall
Paul Hamburger
Ian Hamilton
William Hardcastle
Seamus Heaney
Stuart Hood
John Horgan
Brenda Horsfield
Ivan Illich
Dan Jacobson
Clive James
D. A. N. Jones
Edmond Kapp
Hans Keller
Frank Kermode
Keith Kyle
Philip Larkin
Marghanita Laski
F. R. Leavis
Alasdair Macintyre
Derek Mahon
Michael Mason
Derwent May
Richard Mayne
Mary McCarthy
Gavin Millar
Enoch Powell
Henry Reed
Christopher Ricks
Christopher Serpell
B. F. Skinner
Daniel Snowman
John Taylor
Hugh Trevor-Roper
E. S. Turner
Huw Wheldon
Anthony Whitby
Phillip Whitehead
Raymond Williams
Bill Williamson
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Richard Wollheim
Francis Wyndham
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
A historical perspective of the Kon-Tiki Expedition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki
A party crossing the Snowy River near Dalgety. After this photograph was reproduced (in reverse) on the dustjacket of 'Discovering Monaro' by W.K. Hancock, Mrs. Una Lukins wrote to the Library and identified the man at the rear of the group as her late uncle by marriage, Charlie Findlay.
(Ferguson Collection at the National Library of Australia)
Author: Edgar Mittelholzer
Published: London: Ace Books, 1959
Curator notes on book content: This is first volume of Mittelholzer’s trilogy of the founding of Guyana, often referred to as the Kaywana trilogy after the matriarch of the dynasty whose history paces with that of the colony. The action effectively begins with the marriage of the mixed race Amerindian Kaywana to the first of the van Groenwegels in 1616 and traces their bloody and violent ascent to power and privilege through to 1764, focusing on the brutal and fearless granddaughter of Kaywana, Hendrickje. Shaped by the historical events of this first century of the life of the colony, the process of moral deterioration and increasing brutality of the family, their sexual depredations and sadistic treatment of their slaves, provide a dark commentary on the nature of colonial origins.
Collection: H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies. University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives.
Rights: This image and associated curatorial notes have been provided for research, study and education purposes. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Library does not claim exclusive ownership of the copyrights to all the original documents. Additional permissions may be required from the holder of copyrights in the original document. For more information, please contact the UIC Library at lib-spec@uic.libanswers.com
Link to UIC Library catalog: i-share.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uic/Record/UICdb.1778455
For more images from the collection, visit collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/uic_car
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady” is a comic novel, first published in 1925. It is one of several famous novels published that year to chronicle the Jazz Age, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby.” Loos was inspired to write the book after watching a sexy blonde turn intellectual H. L. Mencken into a lovesick schoolboy. Mencken, a close friend, actually enjoyed the work and saw to it that it was published. Originally published as a magazine series in Harper's Bazaar, it was published as a book by Boni & Liveright in 1925 and became a runaway best seller, becoming the second best selling title of 1926 and earning the praise of no less than Edith Wharton who dubbed it "The Great American Novel."
A 1928 silent film based on the novel was co-written by Anita Loos and released by Paramount Pictures. No copies are known to exist, and it is now considered to be a lost film. The Broadway version “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” starring Carol Channing as Lorelei Lee was mounted in 1949. It was made into a film with Jane Russell as Dorothy Shaw and Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee in 1953. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Profiles in Courage” is a 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators throughout the Senate's history. The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity because of their actions. It begins with a quote from Edmund Burke on the courage of the English Statesman, Charles James Fox, in his 1783 attack upon the tyranny of the East India Company in the House of Commons. The book focuses intensely on mid 19th century antebellum America and the efforts of Senators to delay the Civil War. “Profiles…” was widely celebrated and became a best seller. John F. Kennedy is credited as its author and while it is acknowledged that he had supervised what was written in the final draft, there are credible allegations that most of it was the work of his speechwriter, Theodore Sorensen. [Source: Wikipedia]
Wrecked on Raroia Reef near Tahiti.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
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.
George R. Stewart - Storm
Bantam Books 155, 1948
Cover Artist: Denver Gillen
Issued in 1944 by Infantry Journal/Penguin Books it was reissued in 1948 by Bantam with a dust jacket over the original book when Ian Ballantine left Penguin to form Bantam Books
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
It was just a godforsaken mountainside but no place on earth was richer in silver. The Comstock Lode. For a bustling, enterprising America this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town.
But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future.
(What is the Comstock Lode? It is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States. It was discovered in 1859.)
selection of pages from a book I made a few years ago...
perfect bound hard back (foil blocked spine) with an extremely touchable and nice smelling scrim PVC for the dust jacket / wraparound cover
Otto McGavin is peacefully idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in its mission to protect human & nonhuman rights. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as one of its twelve Prime Operators for its secret service, the TBII. The TBII wants him as a spy, thief & assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederacion, which simply uses immersion therapy & hypnotic personality overlay for Otto's training, then sends him out in deep cover, encased in plastiflesh, on a variety of dangerous missions on a number of bizarre worlds. But for him, it's a different matter: what he has to witness & what he's forced to do take a terrible toll. Always he returns to his original self--his conscience stabbed by the memory of all those he'd killed in the service of interstellar harmony.
[Source: www.goodreads.com/book/show/362801.All_My_Sins_Remembered
By Jean-Claude Forest. Published by Eric Losfeld. Hardcover, 60 pages. 2nd print. Note: 1st appearance of Barbarella.
The adventurers made landfall in Tahiti after their shipwreck and rescue.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
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.
Final Major Project
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complete guidelines for the rebrand of Qatar Airways.
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indepth and exact ratios and sizes
A photo of Frederic Brown is on the cover. 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."
John Glenn is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States Senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. John Glenn returned to space on October 29, 1998, at age 77, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. [Source: Wikipedia]
CANADIAN LIFE AND LETTERS 1920-70 SELECTIONS FROM The Canadian Forum.
edited by J.L.Granatstein & Peter Stevens.
Toronto, University Of Toronto Press, [december] 1972. issued in 2 variants:
a) ISBN o-8o2o-19o9-9; 1o-3/16 x 7-3/4, 1o6 sheets ivory bond folded to 17 signatures of 6 sheets each & a final of 4, sewn pearl in 7 stitches & glued into plain black wove endpapers & 1o-3/8 x 8 brick-red cloth-textured paper-covered boards, interiors all except 4 pp printed black offset, front cover only printed black offset & goldfoil letterpress, in plain clear acetate dustjacket with 3-3/4" flaps;
b) ISBN o-8o2o-6168-o; 1o-3/16 x 7-3/4, 224 sheets ivory bond perfectbound in brick-orange/white laminate wove card wrappers, all except inside covers & 4pp printed black offset with goldfoil letterpress addition to front cover & spine.
152 contributors ID'd:
Milton Acorn, J.Ansel Anderson, Patrick Anderson, David Andrade, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Edward Arthur Beder, H.E.Bergman, Norman Bethune, Paul Bidwell, Earle Birney, George Bowering, S.W.Bradford, F.A.Brewin, David Bromige, B.R.Brooker, Jean Burton, Douglas Bush, Malcolm H.V.Cameron, Dalton C.Camp, C.H.Carlisle, Frank Carmichael, H.M.Cassidy, A.J.Casson, A.G,Christopher, J.B.Conacher, Ramsay Cook, Alan Creighton, Richard De Brisay, Louis Dudek, "C.L.E", G.V.Ferguson, Robert Finch, Eugene Forsey, Paul Fox, W.R.Frost, North Frye, Hugh Garner, John Glassco, Fergus Glenn, Huntly K.Gordon, King Gordon, Helen Gowans, J.L.Granatstein, J.H.Gray, Donald Grover, G.M.A.Grube, Ralph Gustafson, Lawren Harris, Louise Smith Harvey, David Helwig, Gad Horowitz, J.Swinyard Huxley, Jean Inglis, Mary Quayle Innis, A.Y.Jackson, Pauline Jewett, Franz Johnston, J.A.Keith, Leo Kennedy, Carlyle King, Watson Kirkconnell, A.M.Klein, Raymond Knister, R.H.Knowles, R.S.Knox, Curt Lang, Laurier L.Lapierre, Irving Layton, Felix Lazarus, A.L.Levine, Dorothy Livesay, Arthur Lower, Malcolm Lowry, J.E.H.MacDonald, Thoreau MacDonald, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Angus MacInnis, Grace MacInnis, L.A.MacKay, Millar McClure, E.W.Mandel, Anne Marriott, David McFadden, J.R.McLean, Marshall McLuhan, Eugene McNamara, Carlton McNaught, Kenneth McNaught, John Meisel, T.B.Miller, David Milne, Roland-Gilles Mousseau, H.Blair Neatby, bpNichol, Alden A.Nowlan, Padraig O Broin, Michael Oliver, ichael Ondaatje, P.K.Page, Henry Paul, John Porter, E.J.Pratt, A.W.Purdy, Herbert F.Quinn, Martha Champion Randle, James Reaney, Escott M.Reid, J.Addison Reid, Florence Rhein, L.J.Rogers, Malcolm MacKenzie Ross, Abraham Rotstein, "Rufus II", Edward Sapir, Carl Schaefer, F.R.Scott, Glen Siebrasse, C.B.Sissons, David W.Slater, John Smalacombe, Donald V.Smiley, A.J.M.Smith, Raymond Souster, Graham Spry, Paul Standing, M.H.Staples, Peter Stevens, Miller Stewart, R.G.Stewart, Fred Swayze, Colleen Thibaudeau, [--?--] Thompson-Hardy, W.Stewart Thomson, Lionel Tiger, Frank H.Underhill, F.H.Varley, A.Vixen, Miriam Waddington, Patrick Waddington, Melville H.Watkins, Phyyllis Webb, Hans Werner, Gavin White, J.F.White, A.S.Whiteley, Joyce Wieland, Milton Wilson, S.F.Wise, Henry Wise Wood, J.S.Woodsworth, James Wreford.
Nichol contributes:
i) to islands rowaboats stand on (p.386; concrete poem)
Setting out from Callao Harbour, Peru.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
A historical perspective of the Kon-Tiki Expedition: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki
By Quentin Reynolds.
Landmark Books were a series of history books published in the 1950's for children. I loved reading them as a kid, but got most of them from the library where the had dull covers without dustjackets. I've been picking some up at thrift shops. I really enjoy the cover art, and since I seem to barely be able to make a dent in my monthly upload limit, I'm sharing them with you.
November 2012: A fresh new polyester dust jacket cover has replaced the worn-out polypropylene one from THIS photo (must have photo open to use this link).
Update (Dec 2016): This book has now circulated 108 times and still looks pretty good. Polyester dust jacket covers really do a good job at protecting books, unlike our experience with polypropylene covers (as per the link above).
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
Floating the large balsa logs through the Equadorian jungle to the Pacific coast 1947.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl 1950.
A team of Norwegian adventurers, led by Thor Heyerdahl, set out to drift a raft made of forest materials, from Equador to Polynesia, to test Heyerdahl’s theory that the Polynesians originated in South America.
The Kon-Tiki almost made the original destination, however was wrecked on the Raroia Reef off Tahiti.
Published by Allen & Unwin, London (1950 first English translation). Brown boards embossed with the Tiki symbol, and with illustrated dustjacket, 230 pages, 15 x 22cm.
Munich-New York: Prestel, [1998]. First edition. Hardback witth pictorial dustjacket. Colour frontispiece. ISBN 3791319914. Oversize. 116 pages with 32 full-colour and 48 black-and-white illustrations. . This book's only flaw is an inch long tear in its dustjacket at the base of the spine.
Venus and Mars captures the multiplicity of medieval life in a selection of high-quality colour eproductions of the most exquisite folios reproduced from the world-famous illuminated manuscript The Medieval Housebook, and is complemented by countless details in the accompanying text.
The Medieval Housebook, which sheds light on the beliefs and knowledge common to the period, was completed around 1480, and is particularly famous for the meticulous draftsmanship of the so-called Housebook Master.
Active in the Middle Rhine region, the artist portrayed his world with great sensitivity and wit, not only in the Housebook, but also in the many drawings, paintings and prints attributed to his hand.
Despite the outstanding quality of his work and the considerable influence his engravings, in particular, had on his younger contemporary Albrecht Durer, the identity of the Housebook Master and his patrons, however, still remain a mystery.
For over three hundred years this unique manuscript has been kept in the collection of the Princes of Walburg Wolfegg at Schloss Wolfegg near Ravensburg, Gerrmany.
The medieval manuscript includes a discussion on the art of memory, an astrological section with illustrations of the planets, jousting tournaments, gardens of love and courtly life as well as medicinal and household remedies. Chapters on mining and the art of war are also included, providing a fascinating insight into medieval technology.
All these facets of medieval life are analysed in Venus and Mars together with reproductions of some of the most exquisite folios.
When Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge was published in 1968, it caused ructions among critics and the establishment across the world. Its themes were transsexuality, feminism and sexual practices that the world couldn’t quite deal with, even in the Swinging Sixties. Some critics regarded the novel as nothing more than pornographic – and as a result, of course, it became a global best-seller.
Here in the UK, the book (dedicated, incidentally, to Christopher Isherwood) was heavily censored. But cannily, Vidal allowed its publication to go ahead – so long as the censored text was replaced by blank spaces. The publisher, Anthony Blond, agreed, and as a result the book became available to British readers. A brief foreword, dripping in sarcasm, states, “Wanting in every way to adapt to the high moral climate that currently envelops the British Isles, the author has allowed certain excisions to be made in the American text”.
I have a copy of that edition. This is the book cover… and here is a typical page of censored text, which literally ends mid-sentence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Moody_(author)
The Christian Science Monitor said:
"It is as honest writing as one could find. . . a book to make families glad of their closeness and warmer in it."
by Barbara Caruso.
[Ottawa], Room 3o2 Books, [4 may] 2o18. [7o copies].
2-1/2 x 2, 2 sheets white thin bond & white bond endsheet folded to 12 pp & stapled into white narrow-wale card wrappers in black strathmore dustjacket with 1-15/16" flaps, all printed black rubberstamp rectos only except last leaf & rear cover printed verso, front dj cover printed black rubberstamp thermograph.
a concrete poem dedicated "for bpNichol"
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- 1st edition, Presspresspress, 199o
This dramatic version of Moby Dick — Melville's novel which has claims to be considered among the world's prose masterpieces — was commissioned by the B.B.C., and presented on the air, with Sir Ralph Richardson as Ahab, in January 1947. To compress this vast novel into two and a quarter hours has involved drastic cutting. In particular those famous digressions about the history and technicalities of whaling, which to the enthusiastic lover of the novel are a great part of its fascination, have had to go. There has, however, been no need to diminish the great theme of Ahab's fanatical thirst for revenge, and his 'fiery hunt' of the white whale round two-thirds of the globe. By isolating in this version that great symbolic tragedy of a man's 'quenchless feud', Henry Reed has made an interesting contribution to radio drama, and has brought to it the insight and skill which have made him known as a poet.
by the author of
A Map of Verona
by Ben Watson.
London (England), Quartet Books Limited, 1994. ISBN o7o43-7o662.
5-3/4 x 9-1/8, 158 sheets ivory bond folded to 632 pp in 2o signatures (19 of 8 sheets, 19th of 6), sewn cream in 9 stitches & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers & 6-1/16 x 9-1/2 blue linen paper-covered boards printed silver foilstamp spine only, interiors all except 5 pp (ii, vi, viii, xxxiv, last page) printed black offset, in 6-1/8 x 9-1/2 white chromecoat dustjacket with 3-3/4" flaps printed black & deep turquoise offset recto only.
front cover photograph by Elliot Erwitt.
18 contributors ID'd:
Timothy Carey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Louis Cuneo, Electric Prunes, Elliot Erwitt, Jo Fell, Howard Kaylan, Jack Maher, Milt Rogers, Jim Sherwood, Marten Sund, E.H.Tull, Don Van Vliet, Edgard Varese, Mark Volman, Donald Roller Wilson, Frank Zappa, Gail Zappa.
includes:
i) Acknowledgements (pp.ix>x; with "all praise to jwcurry and Jonathan Jones for arriving at the last hour", p.x)
ii) Conceptual Continuity and the fans (pp.226>229; part 9 of 29 of Chapter 5, Bizarre to DiscReet, pp.2o8>283; curry/Room 3o2 Books referenced p.227)
iii) Bongo Fury (pp.284>291; part 1 of 1o of Chapter 6, Guitars, pp.284>31o; curry referenced p.289)
iv) Academia (pp.332>333; part 8 of 14 of Chapter 7, Läther; quotes: Bob Dean, Frank Zappa; Dean quote, pp.332>333, from interview by curry, referenced p.333)
v) Thing-Fish (pp.434>447; part 4 of 5 of Chapter 1o, Orchestras and Broadway, pp.421>456; curry quoted pp.435 & 445>446 (from Grammatrical Sabotage), referenced pp.436 & 444)
vi) Tuesday, by Ben Watson & Frank Zappa (interview, pp.533>551; part 5 of 7 of Epilogue: Going to Meet the Man, pp.533>553; curry referenced by Watson p.55o)
1946; In de woning der Geesten by Boekan Saja. Published by W. van Hoeve. Dutch hardback with dust jacket.
The Peace Arts Anthology.
edited by Daniel Brooks & Enda Soostar.
Ottawa, Peace Arts Publishers, [january] 1985. 6oo copies numbered 1-6oo in black ink at colophon, p.ii. ISBN o-77o9-o158-1.
6 x 8-15/16, 38 sheets ivory Domtar Carlyle Japan folded to 152 pp in 9 signatures of 4 sheets each & a 1oth of 2, sewn cream in 7 double stitches & glued with plain white light card endpapers & approx.1/2" black & white cloth appliqué head & tail bands into 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 black cloth-covered boards, spine & front cover only printed white letterpress, interiors all except 1o pp (i, iv, viii, xv, xvi, & last 5 pp) printed black letterpress, in 6-5/16 x 9-1/4 white glossy dustjacket printed black offset recto only.
cover photo by Peter Hendrickson.
44 contributors ID'd:
Robert Allen, John Baglow, Earle Birney, Bill Bissett, Jean-Claude Blouin, George Bowering, Daniel Brooks, Shelley Brown, Mick Burrs, L.Andrew Coward, Michael Dennis, Mary Di Michele, Margaret Dyment, Robert Eady, Mark Frutkin, Gary Geddes, Kevin Gildea, Gordon Gilhuly, Richard Harrison, Sharon Havrot, Peter Hendrickson, Tom Henighan, Doris Hillis, Robert Hogg, Joy Kogawa, Margaret Laurence, Anne Le Dressay, David Lewis, Blaine Marchand, Daphne Marlatt, Robin Mathews, Ward Maxwell, Susan McMaster, Bruce Meyer, Colin Morton, bpNichol, Robert Priest, Libby Scheier, Enda Soostar, Raymond Souster, Anne-Marie Theriault, Talking Turkey, Bronwen Wallace, Adele Wiseman.
Nichol contributes a poem:
i) Hour 16 3:35 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. (pp.24>27)