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My latest purchase, bought simply because I am really starting to explore Fred Allen, one of the best of the old time radio comedians. Now, largely forgotten, he seemed to be quite a force for 20 years or so. In searching for his books I found this one, which he wrote the intro to. H. Allen Smith seems to have been hugely popular during the war, a journalist whose anthology of writing - Low Man on A Totem Pole - gave him enough money to work the rest of his life on his own terms. At the moment discovering Fred Allen is work enough, but I will file H. Allen Smith as someone to explore at some future date.
The book collects two science fiction novels, “The Legion of Time” and “After World’s End,” which originally appeared in the magazines Astounding and Marvel Stories.
Sailing out of Sydney Harbour in 1950.
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.
Contents page.
There's another spread page with the end of the content.
The layout seems to be quite basic but the structure is whown in the back cover of the dustjacket (a preview here)
1947; Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Dust jacket edition Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff's uitgeversmaatschappij NV te Leiden. inside is stated: Printed and made by Arnoldo Mondadori in Verona ( Italy)
Together with Tauchnitz Editions, The Albatross Modern Continal Library where the first publishers who had succes by selling paperbacks in Europe. They began to lose business when Penguin and Pelican took sales away from both of them. The international copyright conventions and legal problems plagued both Tauchnitz and Albatross, and neither survived.
[Source: The Book of paperbacks by Piet Schreuders]
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All the girls are here. Who brought the wine? Whisky? Let's board our yacht and pour a wee dram or glass so to celebrate Girls' Day Out…………………..
The novel was inspired by a 1949 case of demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student at Georgetown University. As a result, the novel takes place in Washington D.C. near the campus of Georgetown University. It's a classic work and the basis for the horror movie, "The Exorcist," directed by William Friedkin and starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, and Jason Miller. Released in 1973, the film was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 2 of them for best sound and best writing.
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The Exorcist steps in Georgetown became famous for being featured in the film. The stone steps at the corner of Prospect St NW and 36th St NW leading down to M Street NW were padded with 1/2"-thick rubber to film the death of the character Father Karras. Because the house from which Karras falls was set back slightly from the steps, the film crew constructed an extension with a false front to the house in order to film the scene. The stuntman tumbled down the stairs twice. Georgetown University students charged people around $5 each to watch the stunt from the rooftops.
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Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the beloved family pet of the Joe Cambers of Castle Rock, Maine, and the best friend ten-year-old Brett Camber has ever had. One day Cujo pursues a rabbit into a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. What happens to Cujo, and to those unlucky enough to be near him, makes for a terrifying story by master of horror Stephen King and is the basis of a 1983 film.
Volume 4 contains the stories “The Body Politic,” “The Inhuman Condition,” “Revelations,” “Down, Satan!” and “The Age of Desire.” "The Body Politic" was filmed in 1997 as "Quicksilver Highway," a TV movie featuring two tales of terror told by a traveling showman. One tale was by Clive Barker and the other by Stephen King.
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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
Hoke Moseley was really getting into the “cold cases” he’d been assigned – and then Commander Bill Henderson dropped into Hoke’s office and told him to let his beard grow for a couple of days. Henderson couldn’t say why, only that Major Willie Brownley, the division chief, had something up his sleeve.
Hoke went back to puzzling out what an electronic garage door opener might have to do with a three-year-old murder. But the major’s request nagged at him. What was so secret? And on top of that, when he got home he discovered that the man who just bought the house across the street was a fellow he had put away for murder – and there he was, out on parole, sitting on his lawn staring at Hoke’s house.
Hoke soon found out what the beard was for – at least as much as the major wanted to tell him. At a ramshackle crossroads south of Miami, Hoke was stripped of all identification – money, wallet, gun and even his false teeth – and sent south to the migrant farms where rumors of slavery and murder had become impossible to ignore. From this point on, Charles Willeford, author of “Miami Blues,” “Cockfighter,” and a dozen other novels, spins a bizarre and brutal story.
Wernher von Braun’s rocket team was one of the most influential technological forces in the 20th century. The von Braun team forever changed warfare with its 200-mile-range V-2 missile. Despite the constant allied bombing of Germany during World War II which cut supply lines and forced manufacturing operations underground, the scientists and engineers on von Braun’s team refined and developed their work to the point that, when they arranged their surrender to the Americans at the end of the war, von Braun announced that he had a rocket on the drawing board that could fly from Germany to New York. Little wonder, then, that the rivalry was so keen between the U.S., Russia and Britain to gain their services.
After World War II, von Braun’s rocket team created the first long-range ballistic missiles for the U.S. They worked on the Explorer program that resulted in the first American satellite to orbit the Earth. And within a decade they developed and built the huge 363-foot-tall Saturn rocket that sent man to the Moon.
The book “The Rocket Team” provides insight into the wartime growth of rocketry and tells how the men were brought to the U.S., and established first at White Sands, NM, and then at Hunstville, AL. Included, too, is a chapter on the development of post-war Soviet rocketry, based on the work of the members of the von Braun team who chose to go East instead of West.
One of the many books published by the prolific Odhams Press of London and this book demonstrates numerous ways to make various gifts - for women, men, children and the home - using a variety of skills and DIY knowledge. It is not dated but has a real post-WW2 feel given the styles and designs and, at a time of austerity, when such gifts were popular.
The cover is by Eileen M. Evans (1921 - 2006), the British graphic designer and artist who, with Reginald Mount, formed the Mount/Evans Design Studio at about this time. Evans, who had graduated from the London Reimann School in 1939, was noted for her wartime poster work. The illustration shows some of the items that the book included instructions to make; a doll, a lampshade and a cushion.
edited by Daniel Fischlin.
Dordrecht (Netherlands), Kluwer Academic Publishers, [december] 1994. ISBN o-7923-2833-7.
6-3/16 x 9-1/2, 86 sheets white bond folded to 344 pp in 12 signatures (1o of 8 sheets, 1oth of 2, 11th of 4) sewn white in 11 doublestitches & glued into plain white heavy bond endpapers & 6-3/8 x 9-5/8 blue linen paper-covered boards with approx.7/8" white cloth appliqué head~ & tail bands, spine only printed gold foilstamp, interiors all except 15 pp printed black offset, in 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 white claycoat dustjacket with 3-1/2" flaps printed yellow & navy offset recto only.
cover unacknowledged.
21 contributors ID'd:
Joann Blais, David L.Clark, M.Luneau De Boisjermain, Charlene Diehl-Jones, Albrect Dürer, Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier, Toby Avard Foshay, Andre Furlani, Judith Scherer Herz, Hans Holbein, Veronica Hollinger, Hubert J.Levine, Federico Garcia Lorca, Bruce Murphy, Martha J.Nandorfy, bpNichol, Ori Apollinis Niliaci, William Shakespeare, David Thomson, Harry Vandervlist.
Nichol contributes:
i) "blue" (poem, p.262; 3 lines, the opening poem to the martyrology book 5, quoted in full in (see iii3C) below)
also includes:
ii) Introduction: Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality, by Daniel Fischlin (prose essay, pp.1>37; in 4 parts, Nichol referenced in pt:
–4, Saying the Thing Which Is Not (pp.22>26; quotes: Joann Blais, David L.Clark, Jacques Derrida, Toby Avard Foshay, Judith Scherer Herz, Veronica Hollinger, Homer, John Keats, Herbert J.Levine, Bruce Murphy, Socrates, Jonathan Swift, Leonardo Taran, Walt Whitman; Nichol referenced pp.25>26 & in 3 quotes by David L.Clark from:
––A) Introduction (p.25; see (iii1) below)
––B) An Introduction (p.25; see (iii1)below)
––B) An Act of Desperation (p.26; see (iii7)below))
iii) Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: de Man, Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism, by David L.Clark (prose essay, pp.259>3oo; in 9 parts with epigraphs by Ferdinand De Saussure & Martin Heidegger:
–1) Introduction: de Man's Denegation (pp.259>261; quotes: Douglas Barbour (p.261, from bp Nichol: in memoriam), Walter Benjamin, Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, Hans-Jost Frey, Fredric Jameson, Marc W.Redfield)
–2) The Death of the Author (pp.261>262; quote: bpNichol, Hour 18: 12:35 to 1:35 a.m., line 13 (or 32), with added initial cap)
–3) A Dream of Dismemberment (pp.262>264; epigraph by Jorge Luis Borges; other quotes from William Blake, William Caxton (as epigraphed in the martyrology book 5), Jean Cocteau (as epigraphed in the martyrology book 5), Matt Cohen, bpNichol, Stephen Scobie, including:
––A) After Reading the Chronology, by bpNichol (p.262)
––B) The Martyrology, by Stephen Scobie (p.262)
––C) "blue", by bpNichol (p.262; in full (see (i) above)
––D) dear bp, by Matt Cohen (p.263)
––E) the martyrology book 5 chain 1, lines 963>964))
–4) A Terror Glimpsed: La Folie de Saussure (pp.264>268; quotes: Matt Cohen (from dear bp, p.265; paraphrased & suggested attributable to Nichol), Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, Ferdinand De Saussure, Hans-Jost Frey, Martin Heidegger, Carol Jacobs, Barbara Johnson, Julia Kristeva, Kevin Newmark, bpNichol (from the martyrology book 5 chain 3, line 759), Friedrich Nietzsche, Marc W.Redfield)
–5) A Maze of Messages: Nichol after de Man (pp.269>275; quotes: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Culler, Paul De Man, T.S.Eliot, Wlad Godzich, Sylvère Lotringer, Steve McCaffery, Kevin Newmark, bpNichol, Leon S.Roudiez, Stephen Scobie, William Shakespeare, including:
––A) Steve McCaffery, The Paragram (pp.269, 294)
––B) Steve McCaffery, The Scene of Witz (p.274)
––C) bpNichol, the martyrology book 5 chain 1 (lines 366, 566>567, part of 521>523 (respatialized) p.27o; 366>367, 371>376 (respatialized) p.275)
––D) the martyrology book 5 chain 2 (line 188, p.271)
––E) bpNichol, the martyrology book 5 chain 3 (lines 35>5o, p.27o; part of line 4o, p272; lines 2o4>21o, p.274)
––F) Stephen Scobie, The Martyrology (p.271))
–6) Scrapped Script and a New Saint Axe (pp.275>288; quotes: M.H.Abrams, Walter Benjamin, D.M.R.Bentley, Cynthia Chase, Matt Cohen, Paul De Man, Jacques Derrida, Ferdnand De Saussure, Hans-Jost Frey, Rodolphe Gasché, Carol Jacobs, Fredric Jameson, Immanuel Kant, Heide Kreuger, Sylvère Lotringer, Gabriel Moyal, Kevin Newmark, bpNichol, Marc W.Redfield, Friedrich Schiller, Stephen Scobie, including:
––A) Matt Cohen, dear bp (p.28o)
––B) bpNichol, After Reading The Chronology (p.277)
––C) bpNichol, "as there are words i haven't written" (part of line 5>15, 16, p.28o
––D) bpNichol, the martyrology book 5 chain 3 (part of line 759, p.281)
––E) bpNichol, the martyrology book 5 chain 11 (lines 149>186, pp.278>279)
––F) bpNichol, "The Optophonetic Dawn" (p.283)
––G) Stephen Scobie, The Martyrology (p.289)
–7) An Act of Desperation (pp.289>291; quotes: Theodor Adorno, Matt Cohen (from dear bp, p.289), Paul De Mann, Immanuel Kant, bpNichol ("as there are words i haven't written", lines 3>5, 15>16 as epigraph, p.289))
–8) "I wish to thank Professor Kevin Newmark for his generous" (notes, pp.291>297)
–9) Works Cited (bibliography, pp.297>3oo))
From the dust jacket:
Prof. Ewart Masters spends his convalescence, following a car accident, at the home of his nephew Jason Masters, pursuing his studies of ancient civilizations, during which he makes startling discoveries about the hidden city beneath the Yorkshire moors. His search to unravel the mystery of the green figurines, his efforts to assess the impications of Robert Krug's manuscript, lead ultimately to Devil's Pool and the surviving world of Lh'yib, culminating in a series of dream-like adventures as he wanders through the nightmare corridors of his new environment. "Beneath the Moors" is primarily Gothic in atmosphere, its brooding mystery and stark terror occasionally relieved by bits of quiet charm and subtle humor.
Another one of my 10/10 favorites, great charactures in this book, first published in 1928. The dustjacket on my copy is a bit tatty!
This is the book that introduced readers to Norman Bates, his knife-wielding Mother and a horrifying shower scene at the Bates Motel. The story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film of the same name. Here is Hitchcock's take on that infamous shower scene:
Lee de Forest (1873-1961) was an American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio", and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures. He had over 180 patents, but also a tumultuous career — he boasted that he made, then lost, four fortunes. He was also involved in several major patent lawsuits, spent a substantial part of his income on legal bills, and was even tried (and acquitted) for mail fraud. His most famous invention, in 1906, was the three-element "grid Audion", which, although he had only a limited understanding of how it worked, provided the foundation for the development of vacuum tube technology. [Source: Wikipedia]
In “The Mastermind of Mars,” Ulysses Paxton, a long-time admirer of John Carter, is transported to Mars and materialized in the courtyard of Ras Thavas, a deranged, fanatical scientist. Ras Thavas finances his perverted experiments by performing brain transplants for wealthy Martians wishing to obtain young and beautiful bodies. But Thavas makes the mistake of stealing the body of Paxton’s love, Valla Dia, setting off a bloody chain reaction of violence and intrigue across the sands of the crimson planet.
In “A Fighting Man of Mars,” Hadron of Hastor, one of John Carter’s finest warriors, takes to the field of battle to avenge a devastating attack on a Martian airfleet and return a missing princess to her throne. His adventures in the ancient dry sea-beds of Mars, his comradeship with the brave warrior-woman Tavia, and their struggle together against the green hordes of a cunning monarch make this a science fiction classic. [From the blurb on the dustjacket]
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Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) was an American artist who specialized in fantasy and science fiction themes. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential illustrators of the 20th century, and his distinctive style has inspired generations of artists and filmmakers.
Frazetta began his career as a comic book artist, working on titles such as Buck Rogers, Li'l Abner, and Vampirella. He gained fame for his cover paintings of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, and John Carter of Mars, among other pulp fiction characters. He also created posters for movies such as What's New Pussycat?, Mad Monster Party?, and The Gauntlet. In 1983, he collaborated with animator Ralph Bakshi on the film Fire and Ice, based on his original characters and designs.
Thirty-four of the best short stories by Damon Runyon, the Bard of Broadway, including six never-before published in book form. The book also includes “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown,” the original story that became Samuel Goldwyn’s 1955 movie musical “Guys and Dolls,” starring Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson, Jean Simmons as Sarah Brown, Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, and Vivian Blaine as Adelaide. The movie was also based in part on “Pick the Winner,” the chronicle of the long-distance romance of Nathan Detroit and his ever-loving fiancée.
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of a big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Damon Runyon (1880-1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer famous for his stories about New York City's colorful characters, which often included gangsters, gamblers, and showgirls. He developed a unique narrative voice, blending slang with formal speech to create a vivid portrayal of the city's underworld. His most famous collection of short stories, “Guys and Dolls” (1931), inspired the famous 1950 Broadway musical of the same name (which played for 1200 performances), and the subsequent film. Runyon's literary legacy includes over 700 stories, plays, and poems, which have been adapted into films such as “Lady for a Day” (1933) and “The Lemon Drop Kid” (1934).
A great time travel story with vivid descriptions of New York City in the winter of 1882. Jack Finney weaves a captivating story of Si Morley who embarks on a hypnotically-induced journey into the past to thwart an assassination plot. There he encounters busy streets with horse-drawn carriages, wagons and pedestrians, the El, the Dakota, the Statue of Liberty Arm, Central Park, and the colorful sleighs on the white streets of Manhattan, not to mention the love of his life. No story so clearly transports the reader to 1880’s New York City.
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.)
Beneath the Southern Cross, A Story of Eureka by Helen Palmer 1954.
A history of the Australian Goldfields of the 1850s, told through the eyes of a young boy growing up in the goldfields, including the Miners Revolt at the ‘Eureka’ Stockade. Illustrated by Evelyn Walters.
Published by FW Cheshire, Melbourne. Coloured dustjacket over light brown boards 104 pages 19cm x 13.5cm.
This copy signed by the author and includes an inserted handwritten letter from the author to Ian Turner, requesting a loan of a rare book.
The letter is here: www.flickr.com/photos/angeljim46/7240613018/in/photostream/
Helen Gwynneth Palmer 1917-1979 was an Australian left-wing social activist, teacher and writer. Ian Alexander H. Turner 1922-1978 was also a noted Australian social activist, lawyer and historian.
The Eureka Stockade was a revolt by Victorian miners in 1854 protesting against the imposition of miner’s licences and other constraints by the Victorian police troopers. The Stockade, led by a number of Irish miners was brutally put down.
A biography of Helen Palmer is here:
STORIES FOR PEDESTRIANS .
edited by Rikki Ducornet & Geoff Hancock.
Toronto, Aya Press, august 1984. ISBN o-92o544-35-5. 1ooo copies issued in 3 variants:
a) unknown # of proof copies, as described but on pink Champion laid in in pink wrappers;
b) trade copies as described;
c) [5o hardcover copies], 7-1/6 x 1o-1/2, 42 sheets folded to 164 pp in 21 signatures of 2 sheets each, sewn pearl white in 8 stitches & glued in plain grey byronic brocade endpapers & 7-5/16 x 1o-13/16 black cloth-covered boards printed grey (letterpress?) on spine only, in grey Champion laid dustjacket with 3-1/4" flaps printed black & blue offset recto only (flaps blank).
52 contributors ID'd:
Thérese Angebault, Margaret Atwood, Jean-Ethier Blais, George Bowering, Michael Bullock, Virgil Burnett, Roch Carrier, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Frieda Fuchs Davies, Glynn Davies, avid Donnell, Guy DuCornet, Rikki Ducornet, Sheila Fischman, Sylvia Fraser, Aimee Garn, Gilles Ghez, Geoff Hancock, John Hawkes, John Kelly, Maxine Hong Kingston, Basil Kingstone, Steven Kovács, Laura Kramer, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Charlot Lemoine, Charles Lillard, Gerald Lynch, Toby MacLennan, Robert MacMillan, Anna Masuda, Sarah McCoy, George McWhirter, bpNichol, Robert Priest, Sonia Renard, W.L.Riley, Edouard Roditi, Leon Rooke, Martha Rosler, Ramón Sepúlveda, Fraser Sutherland, Arne Svenson, Roland Topor, Mildred Tremblay, Jane Urquhart, Florence Vale, Jean Vandrotte, Martin Vaughn-James, David Young, Robert Zend.
Nichol contributes:
i) The Anus (prose, p.15o; in 7 parts:
–1) "It is an us – & yes we all have them."
–2) "My mother stuck a tube up it to give me an enema."
–3) "We talked about it more than anything else down there." (quotes: Maw Nichol)
–4) "When I read my first porno comic I found the word poot."
–5) "I came out of the movie with some friends & there was a christian recruiting group singing hymns"
–6) "The bum isn't the anus."
–7) "I just thot "there's too many rymes in this place.""
Billy Mitchell was a professional soldier from the days of the Spanish War when he was the youngest officer in the American army. He was interested in aviation from its earliest beginnings. He was one of the first army officers to learn to fly, and at one time he got practically every aeronautical record in the world for the United States. He was instrumental in developing both military and commercial aviation in this country.
In his book “Skyways,” General Mitchell describes practical flight in simple, non-technical language. He covers all phases of aviation (as of 1930), including how the airplane is handled, the power plant, propeller and instruments, the weather as it affects flying, maps, photography and the type of men who make good aviators. He also describes flying fields and airways, aeronautical insurance and laws, the trend of aeronautical construction, and commercial and military aviation and aviation for sport, ending with a forecast of the future. The book features over seventy illustrations from photographs and drawings.
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Macro Mondays
Leather (very old dust jacket)
Cuir (très vieille liseuse en cuir)
Cuoio (vecchia sopracopertina)
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]
Collected for the first time in book form is the complete series featuring Manly Wade Wellman's occult detectives from the Golden Age of the Pulps: Judge Pursuivant, Professor Enderby and John Thunstone. Their battles against dark magic were originally chronicled in the pages of "Weird Tales" and "Strange Stories" between 1938 and 1951. Manly Wade Wellman began his writing career in New York City, where he drew upon the dark side of New York's night club scene and the native mysteries of the Northeast to create a convincing blend of magic and imaginative peril in twenty tales of three modern-day crusaders against supernatural evil.
Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant -- Huge of frame, renowned scholar, retired judge, and an authority on the occult, Pursuivant leaves his reclusive home in West Virginia to confront evil wherever it appears.
Professor Nathan Enderby -- Slender savant and unassuming authority on the supernatural, Enderby is aided by his sharp wits and his Chinese servant, Quong. His cabin in rural Pennsylvania is a fortress against the powers of black magic.
John Thunstone -- Hulking Manhattanite playboy and dilettante, a serious student of the occult and a two-fisted brawler ready to take on any enemy. Armed with potent charms and a silver sword/cane, Thunstone stalks supernatural perils in the posh night clubs and seedy hotels of New York, or in backwater towns lost in the countryside.
Their adventures preceded Sam and Dean Winchester's adventures on the "Supernatural" TV series by over 70 years. What's old is new again!
Dustjacket for Heinz Haber's Our Friend the Atom, 1956.
My scans, McCoy's explosive edit.
www.mediafire.com/file_premium/v124d5z8aqfgk88/Our_Friend...
When the required velocity and altitude were reached, the second stage of the Titan II-Gemini launch vehicle shut down. The spacecraft was then released to go into orbit around the earth.
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.
Fantasia Treasure hunters, REJOICE! Recently stumbled onto a small auction of a large estate and lots of books. Not one but TWO copies of the original Fantasia by Deems Taylor (first and second printings) and BOTH had their original dust jackets and nobody wanted 'those old things' - except us - and now they have a new home. Wanted to share this hard to find piece of Disney history - click on the 'original' size and ENJOY!
Fresh from the era of the Great Depression and the last year of World War II, this vintage blockbuster is one of the original 'live-your-best-life-now' types of books. It was written by Margery Wilson, a Hollywood silent film star-cum-director-cum-femininist-cum-etiquette expert who was widely admirely as one of the most gracious and well-poised women of her time.
Wilson offers wonderful advice in this book that's as spot-on today as it was back in the 30s, 40s and 50s when she had legions of female fans who bought her books, purchased her etiquette lesson guides, enrolled in her clases, and flocked to her speaking engagements.
After learning more about this plucky, confident and feminine feminist, I can easily understand why she had such a following and is still quoted and referred to today in various blogs by lovers of vintage living and popular, mainstream self-help authors alike.
Margery Wilson viewed her books as guides to what she called "joyous living". This book, her sixth, "How to Live Beyond Your Means," is absolutely priceless, and I'm not at all surprised that it's so scarce. I don't really want to give it up either! ...Hint, Hint... Get it before I change my mind!
“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.
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]
Author: W.M.W. Fowler
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Quiller Press Limited; Second edition (April 1, 2014)
First printing: 1965 (Excellent Press)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1900318296
ISBN-13: 978-1900318297
▶ Photo is the back cover of the 2014 edition
▶ Front cover: here.]
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"1 oz Hops
2 lbs Malt Extract
2 lbs Brown Sugar
1/2 oz Yeast
Put hops in linen bag. Boil in pot with 6 pints water for 1 hour.
Remove hops and stain.
Add malt to pot and stir until dissolved.
Add sugar and stir.
Transfer contents from pot to plastic pail. Add cold water to make 20 pints.
Add yeast. Let it ferment for 7 days.
Put 1 teaspoon of sugar in each bottle.
Leave corks loose for 24 hours.
Then tighten.
To darken and get better taste, add 3 tablespoons treacle to mixture."
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"W.M.W. (Bill) Fowler was born in July 1914 in Lacaster, England. RAF bomber pilot in World War II. Shot down over Munster, Germany, July 1941. Detained in varoius prison camps until moved to Stalag Luft 3 from April 1943. After the war, returned to England, to Eskdale, farming mink and daffodils. Countryman's Cooking, Fowler's culinary masterpiece was published in 1965. Fowler dedicated the book to his second wife, Slosh (Toni Richards), who encouraged his writing. He died in 1977."
▶ Review in The Telegraph (2004).
▶ Review by Gary Gillman at Beer et. Seq..
"A classic. [...] Very funny, rollicking and completely informal while being accurate about food itself, recipes and related details. [...] If you want to be entertained and learn some interesting facts about rural life in Britain before the modern welfare state and global village fused, get William Fowler’s book."
▶ Photograph of Fowler, from inner dustjacket of Countryman's Cooking reissue: here.
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“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]
Among the papers of the late R. H. Barlow were found Lovecraft's notes and beginnings for the seven stories which go to make up this collection -- all completed by August Derleth. The seven tales -- two novelettes and five shorter stories -- belong to virtually every period of Lovecraft's work -- from the early fantasies ("The Lamp of Alhazred"], through the New England pieces ("Wentworth's Day" and "The Peabody Heritage"), to the Cthulhu Mythos ("The Gable Window," "The Shadow Out of Space," and "The Survivor"). Taken together, these seven stories are a nostalgic backward look to the macabre world in which H. P. Lovecraft was supreme.
A beautiful girl with a terrifying past,
A murderous wild leopard stalking the city,
Driven by bizarre desire, the girl begins to change . . .
Cat People – Now a major motion picture from Universal
“From ancient tropical jungles to the throbbing heat of modern New Orleans, evil stalks its innocent victims. For those born of the cursed line of the cat people, there is no escaping a destiny too horrible to imagine. Irena Gallier is unknowing of her dark origins – her parents mysteriously died in her youth, and she has not seen her only brother since she was a child. But when she moves to New Orleans to live with her strange brother and his housekeeper, she feels the stirrings of something dangerous and unknown in her blood – a feeling fired by her love of the young zoo curator, Oliver Yates . . .
“A huge black leopard is loose in the city streets. No one sees it come or go, and its victims are torn to unrecognizable shreds. It stalks by night, and lonely young women are its exclusive prey.
“Irena, though, is strangely unafraid. She is drawn to the beast as one of her own soul, is pulled deeper and deeper into the terrors of her fate – a fate that even deep love may not be able to overcome.” [From the text on the dust jacket]