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Quoting from the dust jacket:
"CONAN THE BARBARIAN: born on a battlefield in Cimmeria, fathered by a blacksmith, his people northern barbarians. His life was spent wandering the world of the lost and legendary Hyborian Age, through civilized lands and waste places, a thief, pirate, mercenary, leader of outlaws and wild tribes, penniless adventurer. At the age of forty he seizd the throne of Aquilonia and became a great king. CONAN: the savage and enduring creation of Robert E. Howard.
" 'Red Nails' is the third volume in the authorized edition of Conan edited by Karl Edward Wagner and supervised by Glenn Lord, trustee of Robert E. Howard's estate. 'Red Nails' assembles the authentic versions of three of Howard's greatest Conan stories: 'Shadows in Zamboula,' 'Beyond the Black River,' and the long novelette 'Red Nails.' These first appeared in 'Weird Tales' during the flowering of the pulps in the 1930s. Since Howard's tragic suicide in 1936, no one has written tales of such magnitude. Also in this volume is Howard's own masterful essay on the world of Conan, 'The Hyborian Age.'
"In 'Beyond the Black River,' we find Conan in the employ of the governor of Conajohara, defending the settlement on the westernmost frontier of civilization. The town of Velitrium and the protecting Fort Tuscelan are under attack by the Picts, a barbarian tribe whose land the settlers have taken. But it becomes apparent that their real enemy is the wizard Zogar Sag and his demon spirits. In a struggle to the death, Conan prevails over Zogar's hideous manifestations.
"In 'Shadows in Zamboula' Conan falls into the hands of a mercenary inn-keeper who drugs and sells innocent guests to a nearby tribe of cannibals. But ever-alert Conan outwits everyone, rescues a beautiful damsel from the tribe's hungry clutches, and feeds them the inn-keeper in her place. The alluring lady, who is really the Princess Nafertari, is in trouble and implores Conan to help her. For her favors, Conan fights a deadly duel with the evil Lord Totrasmek and his grotesque minions.
" 'Red Nails' chronicles Conan's adventures in the demon-haunted city of Xuchotl and his encounter with Valeria, the fiery adventuress.
"Robert E. Howard was one of the giants of the pulp era. During his short career he wrote hundreds of stories for the pulp magazines: westerns, pirate stories, detective tales, fantasies, science fiction, boxing tales, and adventures of all kinds. His most famous creations, however, are his heroic 'Sword & Sorcery' adventures, featuring such great heroes as King Kull, Solomon Kane and Conan. In these tales he created a new genre of popular fiction and spawned a host of famous imitators, including Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, and L. Sprague De Camp. Conan lives on in paperback, in the successful Marvel Comics adaptations, and in the numerous continuations and pastiches by various authors. Howard's stories have been reprinted separately in many editions and collectively in more than thirty volumes."
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“I, Robot” is a collection of nine science fiction short stories which originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are woven together as Dr. Susan Calvin tells them to a reporter (the narrator) in the 21st century. Though the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics.
The short story “Runaround” in the “I, Robot” collection is where Asimov first introduced his Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
No printing Date; Onbekende Dader by Mr. A. Roothaert. Cover art by Rein van Looij and Ben Mohr. Dutch pocket book with dust Jacket
A casual walk down a farm path in a quiet Wisconsin town leads an archaeologist into the Pleistocene era and he uncovers an interstellar mystery from before recorded time. In short order, the time trails in the quiet town of Willow Bend become the focus of global attention, government scrutiny and the target for an unprecedented solution to overpopulation. Time-traveling turns into big business and big trouble.
For Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 336/365
One of my favourite books for 25 years. Rumi was a 13th-Century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. As I age I've stopped having an allergic reaction to the religious aspects. So I can simply enjoy reading the whole thing now. I'm rereading it and finding new beauty I don't remember.
Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.
Novelist Billy Magee makes a bet with a wealthy friend that he can write a 10,000 word story within 24 hours. He retires to a summer mountain resort in the dead of winter and locks himself in, believing he has the sole key. However he is visited during the night by a rapid succession of other people (melodrama stock types), including a corrupt politician, a crooked cop, a hermit, a feisty girl reporter and a gang of criminals, etc., none of whom have any trouble getting into the remote inn: there appear to be seven keys to Baldpate.
Magee gets no work done, instead being drawn into hijinks and eventually foiling a plot by the crooks to get a huge amount of money from the hotel safe that is earmarked for a city street railroad deal and falling in love with the reporter. He observes derisively that all of these complicated incidents and characters are ones that he has written over and over again. Just before midnight, he finds out that everyone is an actor hired to perpetuate a hoax, orchestrated by Magee's friend to keep him from completing the story.
In the epilogue, the inn is empty, and a typewriter is clattering upstairs: Magee has finished his story before midnight and won the bet. He reveals that nothing had happened during the 24 hours; all the preceding melodrama, including the actors and hoax, constitute the contents of the story.
First published in 1913, “Seven Keys to Baldpate” was so popular that George M. Cohan quickly adapted it as a hit Broadway stage play of the same name. Over the next seventy years, the novel was made into seven films with the same title and at least two others under different names. Beginning in 1925, more than 10 years after “Baldpate,” Earl Derr Biggers had even greater success with a series of novels featuring the inscrutable Chinese detective, Charlie Chan. [Source: Wikipedia]
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues.
The story is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan kidnapping a regal princess of Vendhya (pre-historical India) and foiling a nefarious plot of world domination by the Black Seers of Yimsha. Due to its epic scope and atypical Hindustan flavor, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales. It is also one of the few Howard stories where the reader is treated a deeper insight on magic and magicians beyond the stereotypical Hyborian depiction as demon priests. [Source: Wikipedia]
Quoting from the dust jacket:
"Written in the 1930s as a serial for 'Weird Tales,' the famous pulp magazine, 'Hour of the Dragon' is the only novel by Howard featuring his greatest creation, Conan the barbarian. This powerful novel of violent adventure has spawned many imitations in the genre over the years, including a series of best-selling paperbacks which, in imitation of Howard, continued the adventures of Conan.
"Conan is at the pinnacle of his career in this story, having roamed the imaginary prehistoric world of Hyboria and, with native cunning and sheer force, fought his way to the throne of Aquilonia. He is the archetype of the invincible warrior: tough, fearless and incredibly strong.
"As the novel opens, King Conan is captured by the magic of the evil sorcerer Xaltotun, whom Conan's enemies have raised from the dead, after three thousand years, for the express purpose of removing Conan from the throne. Conan's armies are so unprepared to battle Xaltotun's sorcery that they are routed on the battlefield and Aquilonia is conquered.
"Conan is secretly released from prison by a slave girl who loves him, and he fights his way out of the dungeon catacombs to freedom, defeating a giant murderous ape who blocks his way. In the course of his escape, he overhears a secret meeting and learns that the source of Xaltotun's power is a mysterious jewel, the Heart of Ahriman, which Xaltotun's allies have stolen from him to insure their control over him.
"Conan resolves to track the jewel across the barbaric landscape of Hyboria, destroy Xaltotun and regain his kingdom."
1974; Worms of the Earth by Robert E. Howard. Cover art and illustration by David Ireland. Hard cover with dust Jacket edition Donald M. Grant.
This was the first collection of Robert E. Howard’s work to appear. Apart from the title story – perhaps Howard’s best novel in the genre – this omnibus collection contains stories about Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, Conan, and King Kull, as well as many earlier tales. The collection contains 21 stories – many of novelette-length – a complete novel, 2 poems, an article on “The Hyborian Age,” and appreciations by E. Hoffmann Price and H. P. Lovecraft.
Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) was born in Texas and spent his life there. He was surprisingly versatile in his writing. He wrote not only weird and Western fiction, but also sporting fiction and weird, adventurous poetry, and he had every intention of invading the field of serious regional fiction and non-fiction, and was amassing data to that end when death interrupted his plans. Howard’s Achilles’ heel was his devotion to his mother; in an access of violent grief at her death, he shot and killed himself on June 11, 1936.
“He was,” wrote H. P. Lovecraft, “above everything else, a lover of the simpler, older world of barbarian and pioneer days, when courage and strength took the place of subtlety and stratagem, and when a hardy, fearless race battled and bled, and asked no quarter from hostile nature.”
Hannes Bok (1914-1964) is one of a handful of fantasy illustrators from the pulp magazine era, along with Virgil Finlay and Edd Cartier, whose work is just as popular today as it was in the 1940s. He made his professional debut in the pages of Weird Tales in late 1939, but he began dabbling in fantasy and science fiction art as early as 1930. He did considerable pulp magazine work throughout the 1940s, and was active as a book illustrator and painter in the late 1940s and early 1950s, contributing to such publishers as Arkham House, Shasta, Fantasy Press, and Gnome Press.
1932; The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy. Hardcover with dust Jacket published by Cassell and Company Limited London.
Sometimes I come across HC's and can't refuse
1935 1e print; The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett with dust Jacket. published by Penguin as number 14.
This is a reprint of two classic works, "Houdini's Escapes" (1930) and "Houdini's Magic" (1932). These books provided the most complete description available of Houdini's feats and how he performed them. Walter Gibson prepared them after Houdini's death in 1926, from the magician's private notebooks and with the assistance of his widow, Beatrice, and of Bernard Ernst, then president of the Society of American Magicians.
"It will soon become apparent to the reader that, although Houdini was daring, he never took an uncalculated risk. He would not accept a challenge unless he was sure he could meet it. He was physically fit, an athlete, and a strong swimmer. Yet his assistants were poised to rescue him if he didn't surface on schedule from an underwater box. A dozen less careful performers have been drowned, or seriously injured, because they attempted this feat without sufficient knowledge, or without taking the necessary precautions." -- Milbourne Christopher
Author Walter B. Gibson, after completing "Houdini's Escapes and Houdini's Magic" in the early 1930s, turned to fiction writing, creating the famed pulp hero of Lamont Cranston, also known as the Shadow. Under the pen name of Maxwell Grant, he wrote novel-length stories for "The Shadow Magazine" for more than fifteen years. These novels were adapted for the Shadow radio program and, today, they have been reprinted in paperback and hardcover editions. Under his own name, Walter Gibson has written many other books in the fields of magic, games and the occult.
Front panel of the dust jacket with scenes from the movie.
“A great American story, together with 12 other tales, formerly published as THE LONG VALLEY. The story from which the Technicolor film was made, starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Peter Miles and Sheppard Strudwick. A Republic Picture – Directed by Lewis Milestone. A Charles K. Feldman – Lewis Milestone Production.
“’The Red Pony’ is one of Steinbeck’s finest stories and the title story of this volume. It is one of thirteen magnificent stories, almost all set against the background of the Salinas Valley that Steinbeck has preempted as his literary domain. Here we see once more the paisanos of ‘Tortilla Flat,’ the barley-ranch hands of ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the agricultural workers of ‘In Dubious Battle’ – the farm boys, the idlers on the wharves of Monterey, the simple people of the land so profoundly brought to life in all of Steinbeck’s work.
“Contained in this volume are: ‘The Chrysanthemums,’ the ‘White Quail,’ ‘Flight,’ ‘The Snake,’ ‘Breakfast,’ ‘The Raid,’ ‘The Harness,’ ‘The Vigilante,’ ‘Johnny Bear,’ ‘The Murder,’ ‘St. Katy the Virgin,’ ‘Red Pony’ (3 Parts), ‘The Leader of the People.’
“Some of the finest work that the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ has ever produced has been in the short story or novelette form. Always a superb craftsman who leans to economy of words and directness and concreteness of impression, Steinbeck often includes in a single tale as much material as another author would spread thinly throughout a novel.”
[From the blurb on the dust jacket]
It began when retired tailor Joseph Schwartz was walking down a street in Chicago, past the Institute for Nuclear Research. He raised one foot in the twentieth century; he lowered it in Galactic Era 827, the victim of an odd accident inside the Institute involving an experiment with crude uranium.
Schwartz awoke to a strange world -- he was still on Earth, but at a time when all the planets of the Galaxy were inhabited, and the people of Earth were outcasts, suffering vindictive discrimination because their tiny world was radioactive. Then, strangely, he found himself the only man who could avert an impending cosmic disaster. But Schwartz, homesick and confused, wasn't sure he even cared!
no date; The Dark Eyes of London by Edgar Wallace. unknown Artist. Hardcover with dust Jacket edition.
The Dark Eyes Of London is a crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace which was first published in 1924. An unbalanced doctor and his brother murder a series of wealthy men to benefit from their life insurance policies, using a charity for the blind as a front for their activities. The persistent Inspector Holt of Scotland Yard is soon on their trail. It was based on an earlier short story The Croakers which Wallace had written.
my first blurb book is a collection of photographs of rome, venice, cinque terre and florence.
hardcover with dustjacket
standard landscape 10x8
160pages
“Passage to Marseille” is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was based on the 1942 novel “Men Without Country” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of “Mutiny on the Bounty.” “Passage to Marseille” is one of the few films to use a flashback, within a flashback, within a flashback, following the narrative structure of the novel on which it is based. The film opens at an airbase in England during World War II. Free French Captain Freycinet tells a journalist the story of the French pilots stationed there. The second flashback is at the French prison colony at Cayenne in French Guiana while the third flashback sets the scene where the lead character, Jean Matrac, a newspaper publisher, is framed for a murder to silence him. [Source: Wikipedia]
Superb action and adventure as patriots resist fascism from Devil's Island and on shipboard against Vichy agents and Nazi dive bombers. Along with Bogart, the film stars Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Claude Raines.
No printing date; De verdwenen zadeltassen [Some must Die] by Gil Brewer. Twincover or swipe of Gold Medal 409 by Raymond Johnson.
Montpelier, Idaho is home to the wonderful National Oregon California Trail Center. They are a very community-oriented organzation and I visit there often. A huge collection of western history books was donated to them recently so they built a little reading room out of barn wood to display the books in one corner of the gallery space. They added a couple of comfortable easy chairs, some reading lights, and tables where the books can be enjoyed, but so far there are no arrangements to borrow them. This photo is probably less than 5% of the collection. I enjoyed looking through the collection and plan to spend more time there.
Membership in the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) is open to any person who has completed at least one orbit of the Earth in space in a spacecraft. ASE is currently comprised of over 400 flown individuals from 37 countries.
Italian director Lucio Fulci is best known for such horrors as "The House by the Cemetery," "The Beyond," "Zombie," "City of the Living Dead," "The Psychic," "The New York Ripper," and other stomach churning masterpieces..
I'll upload one pic of each pages every day.
My copy have no dustjacket... and the spine is damaged on the top, like the corner too. But inner pages are very fine. You'll see.
Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter, May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children’s writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance. He was a 1926 graduate of Harvard University with a master’s degree in English. He found a contradiction in his own plight in a racist society: He is black and a poet.
Cullen’s first collection of poems “Color,” published in 1925 while he was still at Harvard, celebrates black beauty and deplores the effects of racism. It is written in a careful, traditional style and includes “Heritage” and “Incident,” probably his most famous poems. The book contains illustrations by Art Deco artist Charles Cullen (no relation to the poet). The book was a landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. [Source: Wikipedia].
Fantasia is Walt Disney’s animated orchestral masterpiece and untold youngsters were introduced to and inspired by its music. This companion volume to the motion picture has many color images from the film. The musicians whose works are featured in both the motion picture and the book include Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Dukas, Ponchielli, and Stravinsky. Actual musical phrases are printed decoratively throughout the book together with illustrations by Disney artists. Leopold Stokowski conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in the score of the motion picture.
Fantasia is divided into seven parts, each built around a well-loved musical work. In the first part Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is visualized in a whirl of brilliant abstractions. The second part is Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite with the Russian Dance performed by orchids and thistles and with tropical fish swimming sinuously through the exotic Arabian dance. Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice comes next, starring Mickey Mouse in his greatest dramatic role.
Sections four and five are built on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. In the sixth part ostriches, hippos, and elephants, in ballet dresses reminiscent of Degas, dance to the music of the Dance of the Hours from Ponchielli’s opera La Gioconda.
The seventh and final section represents the triumph of good over evil. In the opening – Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain – Satan and the dark spirits of the night perform a stormy danse-macabre. Then, as the music fades into Schubert’s Ave Maria, the forces of darkness are routed, the church bells ring, and Fantasia is brought to a close in streaming sunlight.
1964 First Print March 1964; You only life twice by Ian Fleming. Dust Jacket by Richard Chopping. Nice find on a sunday market !
Cover reveal for Detective Tom Stone - A Nitty Gritty Christmas. Look for a mid-August book release. This is a sneak peek at the dust jacket for the first book in the Tom Stone Series. Written by Don Simkovich and Lon Casler Bixby. Check out the Tom Stone FaceBook page -https://www.facebook.com/TomStoneDetectiveStories/
That's quite a heartening title! Not sure I can fully endorse it though (because my own experience has proved otherwise).
Illustration by Nicolas Bentley.
Art by J. Allen St. John.
This is the fifth novel in the Tarzan series. Tarzan knows where the gold of fabled Atlantis is hidden and outlaws are determined to get their greedy hands on it.
[subtitle] A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties.....by Noel Riley Fitch......
It just arrived in the mail, used and slightly torn on the dust jacket, but entirely tightly bound. I’m pleased to have it to hold as my own.
I was inspired to acquire it, after Flickr friend Kathy recommended TIME WAS SOFT THERE, the Shakespeare & Co reincarnation used book shop also in Paris, but a later time. I am almost through, ebook from Amazon, and then I had this nagging deja vue feeling, that I had encountered a similar not identical movie with an older Burt Reynolds (Julie Christie and the young Chaplin girl).....Not like Boogie Nights but it has a few erotic turns in this movie script. It is free (with ads) on YouTube, named SNAPSHOTS........ In this movie someone was trying to buy him out for the Amsterdam real estate (not Paris), but a man with a past the main character.
Thinking of Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, lovely story, not exactly a bookstore, but magic in an earlier era always a winner.
Walter Gibson was an accomplished magician as well as an author. Under the Street & Smith house name of Maxwell Grant, he created and wrote 282 of the 325 novels about the most famous crimefighter to battle evil-doers in the pages of pulp magazines -- "The Shadow."
"The World's Best Book of Magic" opens with a brief account of the history of magic, and then explains the underlying principles of deception, giving a full description of the art of misdirection upon which all magical tricks and illusions are founded.
The first section contains more than a hundred simple tricks that could be performed by anyone with little practice. Then follow explanations of sleight of hand, small tricks to be presented with the aid of special apparatus, and the secrets of platform magic. The final section explains lesser known tricks. Walter Gibson based his book upon his knowledge and experience as an instructor in sleight of hand and as a professional magician.
1967; Have this one on me by James Hadley Chase. Hard cover edition with dust Jacket. unknown Artist
"She rode a little white horse beside him, utterly scornful of the risk."
Captain Athelstan King is a secret agent for the British Raj at the beginning of the First World War and the book describes his adventures among the (mostly Muslim) tribes of the north with the mystical woman adventuress Yasmini and the Turkish mullah Muhammed Anim. It deals with the possibility that Turkey might try to stir Muslims into a jihad against the British Empire. The novel was originally serialized in “Everybody’s Magazine” in nine parts from May 1916 illustrated by Joseph Clement Coll. It was published in book form in November 1916. [Source: Wikipedia]
ADAPTED FROM
COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN
“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”
“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
Receiving the Marine Corps’ full cooperation, including the use of facilities and personnel at Naval Base San Diego and NAS North Island, provided the authentic settings Capra required. A total of 28 aircraft were at Capra’s disposal and with the benefit of using actual aircraft, Capra did not have to rely on “process shots” or special effects which was the standard of the day, although dangerous crash scenes and a mass night takeoff were staged using studio miniatures. [Source: Wikipedia]
(Frank Capra would later direct such classics as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.)