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"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.)
John Dover Wilson - Life in Shakespeare's England
Pelican Books A143, 1949
Cover Illustration: An Elizabethan Huntsman from Turberville's Noble Arte of Venerie, 1576
Dust Jacket Art by J. Allen St. John,
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
Called from his home in the African jungle to great adventure, Tarzan of the Apes summons his Waziri spearmen and joins the Jason Gridley expedition to seek the arctic opening in the earth's surface that leads to the inner world of Pelucidar. Sailing by airship, they glide almost imperceptibly from the world that we know to the strange and terrifying land that lies beneath the earth's crust. There, where time does not exist, where neither Tarzan's jungle lore nor the charts of scientists are of any use as guides they face the problem of rescuing an American adventurer who is held captive by the bloodthirsty Korsars.
Here, on land and sea and even in the air, lurk unknown perils. Tarzan is carried off in the talons of a ferocious bat-like creature to its mountain eyrie. Slashing his way through trackless forests and the dangerous swamps, outwitting his cruel human captors, Tarzan faces the most terrific encounters of his adventure - crammed life when, rescuing the beautiful Jana, known as The Red Flower, he falls into the hands of the reptile-men who, astride gigantic lizards, move with lightning speed and relentless ferocity to spread terror throughout the land.
Art by J. Allen St. John
Tarzan finds an outpost of European knights and crusaders from a "forbidden valley" hidden in the mountains. His lion ally Jad-bal-ja puts in an appearance late in the book.
Inscription November 1926; She by H. Rider Haggard. HC with dust jacket.
# Todays find of 27 December 2014
Quoting from the flap of the dust jacket:
“These adventures have never before appeared anywhere, and no other edition of this authorized book version is available. For the first time in book form the real story of Superman, including his thrilling adventures unraveling the Mystery of the Skeleton Ship.”
The following is from the foreword by Josette Frank, Staff Advisor, Children’s Book Committee, Child Study Association of America:
“Superman! Most of you who will read this book already know him… His fame has spread to the four corners of the earth. In South America, in China, in South Africa his broad shoulders and flying cape are a familiar symbol. His exploits are told in many tongues.
“Millions of boys and girls in America have acclaimed Superman, champion of right and justice, nemesis of evil-doers. Many who have followed his adventures with breathless interest have wondered about him: Where did he come from? Whence came his super-strength and marvellous powers? They have asked to be told the story of his origin – of his arrival on earth from a distant planet, of his boyhood and youth, of his first discovery of his super-powers, and of his dedication to the fight against the forces of evil. So here is his story, from the beginning.”
'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'
Danbo likes to read a chaper of this book each evening.
He then sleeps on it.
The cover of this edition of The Hobbit reproduces Tolkien's own dustjacket design for the first edition.
A classic recommended for children of all ages and far easier than ploughing through "The Lord of the Rings".
The story of the evolution of The Hobbit as a book and then on into The Lord of the Rings is also fascinating.
Noticed this news item today (9th June):
Article dated 4th June 2015:
The Hobbit first edition fetches £137,000 at auction
(The first cover lacked the sun and dragon in red.)
I used to have a beautiful copy of “The Wanderer” with a very fine dust jacket by Alvin Lustig. In a move a few years back it got “lost.” It was by far my favorite book in my collection...so I had to replace it. Unfortunately this tattered copy is the best I could get my hands on (or afford). Even the colors are significantly different (probably aging?)---more brown.
From the description on the dust jacket:
“This fascinating volume showcases tribal cultures around the world. With globalization, these societies are to be prized for their distinctive lifestyles, art and traditions. They live in close harmony with nature, now a rarity in our modern era.
“Jimmy Nelson not only presents us with stunning images of customs and artefacts, but also offers insightful portraits of people who are guardians of a culture that they – and we – hope will be passed on to future generations in all its glory. Nelson’s large plate field camera captures every intricate detail and fine nuance for posterity. What’s more, this splendid pageantry is set against a vivid backdrop of some of the world’s most pristine landscapes.”
“Called from his home in the African jungle to great adventure, Tarzan of the Apes summons his Waziri spearmen and joins the Jason Gridley expedition to seek the arctic opening in the earth’s surface that leads to the inner world of Pellucidar. Sailing by airship, they glide almost imperceptibly from the world that we know to the strange and terrifying land that lies beneath the earth’s crust. There, where time does not exist, where neither Tarzan’s jungle lore nor the charts of scientists are of any use as guides, they face the problem of rescuing an American adventurer who is held captive by the bloodthirsty Korsars.
“Here, on land and sea and even in the air, lurk unknown perils. Tarzan is carried off in the talons of a ferocious bat-like creature to its mountain eyrie. Slashing his way through trackless forests and the dangerous swamps, outwitting his cruel human captors, Tarzan faces the most terrific encounters of his adventure-crammed life when, rescuing the beautiful Jana, known as The Red Flower, he falls into the hands of the reptile-men who, astride gigantic lizards, move with lightning speed and relentless ferocity to spread terror throughout the land.” [From the blurb on the dust jacket]
Joe Haldeman is uniquely qualified to edit a collection of science-fiction alternatives to war. His novel "The Forever War" (1974), a novel of future warfare, was based on his experience as a foot soldier in Vietnam. It won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science fiction novel. He asked ten science fiction writers to consider the problem of war, and whether there might be a solution to it, and this is what he got:
POUL ANDERSON - Warfare by formalized political assassination.
ISAAC ASIMOV - Peace and freedom through cybernetic regimentation.
BEN BOVA - Surrogate warfare via machine-induced illusion.
GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER - Soldier as actor; actor as soldier.
HARLAN ELLISON - A god-beast to teach a terrible lesson.
JOE HALDEMAN - Privately-sponsored nuclear blackmail.
HARRY HARRISON - Destroy poverty, not people.
DAMON KNIGHT - A visitor from Aquarius gently wrecks the world.
WILLIAM NABORS - Peace as the ultimate venereal disease.
MACK REYNOLDS - Captain Joe Mauser slugs it out for dear old VTT, Inc.
1947; Fantastische Vertellingen by Edgar Allen Poe. Dust Jacket edition published by Contact publishers Amsterdam.
1963; The Clocks by Agatha Christie. Hard cover edition with dust jacket. Cover by G.C. (?) stands for George Chrichard (thanks 54mge )
From the blurb on the dustjacket:
This fourth novel in the Mars Series centers around the adventures of Carthoris, the son of John Carter, who made himself Warlord of Mars. Thuvia, daughter of a Martian Emperor, is kidnapped by an unsuccessful suitor for her hand. When Carthoris learns of the abduction he sets out to the rescue and many and startling are the adventures he encounters. There are battles with the terrible green men of Torquas, and with the even more fearsome deathless archers -- creatures of the imagination who can be evoked by the power of will.
This is a story which, once started, will be eagerly followed to the very end.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
"Since George Washington signed the first patent in 1790, close to four million inventions have been patented in the United States. (Note: the number of U.S. patents as of April 7, 2015 was nine million.) Among the three hundred plus devices described in this book -- and often illustrated from original patent papers -- are:
* An automatic baby-burper that frees the parent of a chore and the baby of gas.
* A parakeet diaper.
* An automatic housepainter that moves along the sides of a building, and a driverless lawn mower that shuts itself off and garages itself.
* An alarm clock that squirts the sleeper in the face.
* A rifle with a curved barrel for firing around corners.
* A gold or platinum trap for catching tapeworms.
* A golf ball that sends out a smoke signal when it lands to help its owner locate it.
* An anti-bicycle-thief device that sends a long, sharp needle into the rear end of anyone making off with the bicycle.
"Some of these 300-odd inventions never got beyond the paper stage. Some became famous, and made their inventors wealthy. But renowned or obscure, simple or complex, straightforward or bizarre, all are fascinating.
"Stacy V. Jones writes The New York Times "Patents of the Week" column. During World War II he was a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. He also worked on public information at the Department of Commerce in the Eisenhower administration.
"A member of the National Press Club since 1941, Mr. Jones has written a monthly page of inventions for "Science Digest" for more than ten years. He has worked as a newspaper reporter in Seattle, Detroit, Washington, D.C. and New York, and as a correspondent for Liberty magazine."
For many years London Transport and its predecessor companies such as the Metropolitan Railways, along with many other railway and transport undertakings, were avid publishers of such walking guides. Indeed so serious were LT that they actually employed a walks manager to collate the variosu routes and to ensure they were kept up-to-date in the changing world of suburban development around outer London.
The idea was to stimulate off-peak and weekend travel on the services and as this jacket notes the starting (and end) points of all the walks were reached by either Underground, bus or coach services. At the time the London Passenger Transport Board operated a vast network of Underground services along with red 'Central' area, green 'Country' area bus services, Green Line coaches, tram and trolleybus services that spanned not just the current London boundaries but that ran out into neighbouring counties. It was, at a time of low car ownership, marvellous territory for such rambles and indeed, although many of the 'inner' area walks are now less rural, thanks to the Green Belt planning legislation that beginning in the 1930s but accelerated in the post-WW2 years many of the walks described in this booklet are still possible today.
The jacket also describes other LT publications that shared the same design characteristics of this walking guide and included the "Serious Pleasures" series some titles of which are now highly collectable. By the time of this edition of the booklet the Green Line Coach Guide and Underground Timetable books, along with "district" timetables, had undergone a re-design initiated by Christian Barman, the Board's PR manager, and are legible and often delightful works of typographical design.
As well as the typefaces and typography seen here, oddly not of which is in Johnston, the Board's own typeface, is the vignette on the cover. This is by no less than Eric Ravilious who produced the three woodcuts for the three booklets in the series and this, the third, is of two cows in a rural landscape.
This is an old-fashioned pulp novel in which humans race off to save the Galaxy from conquest by an aggressive alien empire. Super weapons come into play and great battles are fought. But, in the end, the aliens prevail. They defeat the earthmen who then attempt to take control of the alien empire from within, by being better administrators.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery . . .
The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner" is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
"The Confessions of Nat Turner" is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; it also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, William Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations -- and hopes -- which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who had held his people in bondage.
A native of the Tidewater region of Virginia, William Styron grew up not far from Southampton County, where Nat Turner's revolt took place. The story of Nat Turner was the subject of the first novel that the author wanted to write, and he has maintained a special interest in American Negro slavery ever since. He has written three other novels, "Lie Down in Darkness," "The Long March," and "Set This House on Fire."
No Date; De Gouden Kus [ Die Goldene Kuss ] by Stefan Doerner. Great cover art by Ron Lesser. Translation of German Writer. Dutch hardcover with dustjacket.
No Date; Zonde op Wielen [Sin on Wheels] by Loren Beauchamp [Robert Silverberg]. Cover art by Moriën.
no printing date; The Cat and the Canary by John Willard. Hard cover with dust jacket, artist unknown.
Harry Blackstone (1885-1965) was a famed stage magician and illusionist of the 20th century. He began his career as a magician in his teens and was popular through World War II as a USO entertainer. He was often billed as The Great Blackstone. Known for his thick shock of hair, he was in the model of courtly, elegant predecessor magicians like Howard Thurston and Harry Kellar, and the last of that breed in America. He customarily wore white tie and tails when performing, and he traveled with large illusions and a sizable cast of uniformed male and female assistants. For a number of years he toured in the Midwest, often performing throughout the day between film showings.
Books carrying Harry Blackstone's byline were ghostwritten for him by his friend, Walter B. Gibson, who also created, in 1941, the comic book Blackstone the Magician Detective and the 1948-49 radio series, Blackstone, the Magic Detective. (Walter B. Gibson also created the pulp hero “The Shadow” for which he wrote under the pen name Maxwell Grant).
In 1985, on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, Harry Blackstone, Jr., also a famous magician, donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. the original floating light bulb -Thomas Edison designed and built it - and the original Casadega Cabinet, used in the "Dancing Handkerchief" illusion. This was the first ever donation accepted by the Smithsonian in the field of magic.
Foundation and Empire was the second book in Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Decades later, Asimov wrote two further sequel novels and two prequels. Later writers have added authorized tales to the series. The Foundation Series is often regarded as one of Isaac Asimov's best works, along with his Robot series.
The premise of the series is that the mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology. Using the laws of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting 30 thousand years before a second great empire arises. Seldon also foresees an alternative where the interregnum will last only one thousand years. To ensure the more favorable outcome, Seldon creates a foundation of talented artisans and engineers at the extreme end of the galaxy, to preserve and expand on humanity's collective knowledge, and thus become the foundation for a new galactic empire. [Source: Wikipedia]
1946; The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts. When N.A.L. (New American Library) took over the American Penguin in 1948 they published 6 original penguin paperbacks but with brand new Dust Jackets.
These paperbacks were:
Penguin 503 Death of a Ghost
Penguin 538 The laughing Fox
Penguin 545 The talking Clock
Penguin 575 The Cask
Penguin 586 The Rasp
Penguin 618 The Perennial Border
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
Belief in spirits, both good and evil, is as old as the human race. "Spiritism," the modern development of the age-old desire to establish contact with the dead, is a nineteenth-century product and might well be labelled "Made in America." It is with Spiritism and its exponents in this country and England that Mr. Mulholland's book is concerned. Frankly and fairly the author describes the amazing lives and spiritistic experiences of such famous mediums as the Fox Sisters, founders of Spiritism, the Davenport Brothers -- Slade, Eusapia Palladino, Home, "Margery" and many others. Where there was evidence of trickery in their seances he tells what it was and how it was revealed.
Mr. Mulholland's chapter on mind-reading will be of special interest to those who have followed the recent sensational experiments in extra-sensory perception. Mr. Mulholland and skilled assistants also experimented in this field -- with amazing results. Other fascinating chapters deal with the "mechanics" of Spiritism -- an astounding chronicle of the clever devices that crooked mediums may purchase to deceive their audiences, a description of the experiences that mediums have had with the law and the various investigating committees of scientific bodies, and some unusual "personal experiences" of well-known men and women that tend to leave the whole matter unsolved. "Beware Familiar Spirits" has something on every page for every reader who has ever experimented with table tipping, ouija boards, mind reading -- or has ever thought he saw or heard ghostly manifestations.
John Mulholland for many years has been a close student of Spiritism. Internationally famous as a magician, and author of several books on that subject, his career has brought him in touch with many noted believers in spirits and practitioners of Spiritism as well as with such doughty disbelievers as the late Harry Houdini. His book is the product of long study and careful investigation. It does not pretend to say the last word on a matter which will never be decided, but it does tell in informative, detailed and immensely entertaining fashion the story of some of our best American spirits and how they were "raised."
Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is set during the Spanish civil war and tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. The setting of the story is less important than Hemingway's treatment of the themes of love, death, honor and commitment.
added to the BioSciences collection at the UC Libraries. It's great that cookbooks and the cultural history of world food is covered/collected/circulated by this library!
People who live in the community are able to purchase a university library card which confers most of the "privileges"; I got one as soon as I moved, and it more than pays for itself--from my perspective! Good in all 18 campus libraries.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
Beginning with Captain Ulysses Paxton's miraculous transference from the earth to Mars, you rush breathlessly from one marvelous adventure to another. Paxton's arrival, his fight with a Martian warrior, his meeting with Ras Thavas, the thousand year old savant, his learning the secret of human immortality, his falling in love with a beautiful Martian maid, his heroic fight in her behalf, his meeting with the War Lord of Mars and finally his marriage with the lovely Valla Dia, after many sensational battles and escapes in strange lands, these are but a few of the thrills in this marvelously conceived story.
In this, the eighth of Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu novels, Fu Manchu attempts to establish a dictatorship in the United States.
“SAX ROHMER: Who is this author who has created characters known wherever English is spoken? He was born in England, is dark and spare, looks a little like Sherlock Holmes. He has homes in London and Madeira, but lives much of the time in Egypt and Damascus.
“It is estimated that 5,000,000 people in America alone read each new novel he writes. His books have been the basis of dozens of plays and motion-pictures, and are now the basis of a great nationwide radio series. He is the most popular mystery writer in the world.” [From the back cover]
Fu Manchu was an international pop-culture phenomenon and one of the most widely recognized fictional characters of his time. The character's popularity exploded beyond books into silent and sound cinema, radio dramas, comic strips, and pulp magazines. He was portrayed on screen by major Hollywood stars such as Boris Karloff and Warner Oland.
While massively popular, the character was also highly controversial. Chinese student groups protested the novels and films as early as the 1920s and 1930s. By World War II, the U.S. government even ordered the holders of the Fu Manchu copyrights to cease all production of films and radio programs to avoid offending the Republic of China, which was an allied force during the war.
The character's legacy lives on in modern pop culture through the iconic drooping "Fu Manchu" mustache style and the inspiration he provided for comic book villains like Marvel's “Mandarin” and DC's “Ra's al Ghul.”
Set in London of 632 A.F. (“After Ford”), the novel portrays a futuristic society in which the individual is sacrificed for the state, science is used to control and subjugate, and all forms of art and history are outlawed. The novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, classical conditioning and psychological manipulation that combine profoundly to change society. Modern Library ranked “Brave New World” fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. [Source: Wikipedia]
From the dust jacket:
"The Bowl of Baal" is a period piece; a nostalgic, half-forgotten survival of the year 1916 when it appeared as a long serial in "All Around" magazine.
Larry O'Brien ventures into the unknown Arabian desert during the days of World War I. His discoveries are epic; an ancient hidden race, troubled by a conflict between two beautiful priestesses; a barbaric tribe of cave dwellers; and a monstrous saurian survival that represents a threat to all.
Robert Ames Bennett's first novel, "Thyra," a thrilling tale of a Viking lost race, was published in 1901. For many years Mr. Bennet was one of the southwest's most prolific authors, turning out historical, adventure, and western fiction.
Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve
Penguin Classics L9, 1950
Roundel drawing by William Grimmond
Checklist of new translations in Penguin Classics and editions in preparation.
Direct scan of a vintage dust jacket to the book, "Plants That Changed the World," by Bertha S. Dodge.
Jacket design by Civia Snow. First edition hardcover, Doubleday & Company (1980).
A Crime Club Selection.
1952 2nd Print; The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Hardcover edition with dustjacket by Hans Tisdall. Lovely colors !!
Dora Batty was a prolific commercial artist and designer - undertaking posters and product work for numerous highly regarded clients including London Transport, Poole Potteries and, here, the BBC. This dustjacket design, for their 1931 Year Book is a wonderful take on the BBC's 'logo', taken from their 'coat of arms' (or armorial device) with wings and lightning flashes acting as evidence of radio waves beaming out! As noted with regards to other BBC Handbooks the jazzy cover belies a rather staid book production inside!
Dr. Meacham is chosen along with other scientists by the inhabitants of the planet Metaluna to do research that will help save their dying planet. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Raymond F. Jones, which was first published as a serial in Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1952. When initially released, the movie was praised by critics for its special effects, well-written script and eye-popping color. But then, in 1996, the clowns at Mystery Science Theater got a hold of the film, edited it down and lampooned it in their own film, “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.” It’s been the subject of ridicule ever since, unjustifiably. “This Island Earth” is one of the better science fiction films of the 1950s.
Here is the movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZz2AeXca40
Here is the movie poster: www.flickr.com/photos/57440551@N03/14617556902/in/set-721...
From the Introduction:
“This book was in the making in 1966 and most of the photographs were shot then. The late Bruce Lee intended to publish this book years ago but decided against it when he learned that martial arts instructors were using his name to promote themselves. It was quite common to hear comments like: “I taught Bruce Lee” or “Bruce Lee taught me jeet kune do.” And Bruce may never have seen or known these martial artists.
“Bruce didn’t want people to use his name to promote themselves or their schools with false pretenses. He didn’t want them to attract students this way, especially the young teens.
“But after his death, his widow, Linda, felt that Bruce had contributed so much in the world of martial arts that it would be a great loss if the knowledge of Bruce would die with him. Although the book can never replace the actual teaching and knowledge that Bruce Lee possessed, it will enhance you, the serious martial artist, in developing your skill in fighting . . .”