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Dust jacket blurb:
"Because she was the way she was -- big, beautiful, and sexy -- there was no way on Earth Shara Drummond could become a professional dancer, in spite of her soaring genius. No way on Earth . . . but the zero-gravity environment of the orbiting Skyfac gave her the chance to create a new dimension in dance. She took that chance, though it meant catering to the whims of a perverse millionaire and being permanently exiled from her home world. And when the aliens appeared, a menacing swarm of lights from the depths of space, it was Shara who saw the only way to communicate with them -- with one last dance that repelled the threat and made her forever one with the void.
"Shara's legacy was a unique school of dance, free of the pull of Earth's gravity, in which her sister Norrey and her embittered lover Charlie explored new frontiers of movement and feeling , , , and unknowingly prepared themselves for an incredible ordeal and an unimaginable destiny.
"Stardance is a major novel of passion and adventure, of biting irony and tenderness, at once briskly entertaining and deeply moving."
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.
"In Darkest Africa (1890) is Henry M. Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. At the turn of that century, the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. With the accounts of great explorers like Stanley, readers became thrilled by stories of African expeditions and longed to follow in the footsteps of these explorers. In 1888, Stanley led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. The two volumes that compose 'In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria' are his account of what happened." [www.biblio.com/in-darkest-africa-by-stanley-henry-m/work/...]
Nick Charles is an alcoholic former private detective who retired when he married Nora, a wealthy Nob Hill heiress. Hammett reportedly modeled Nora on his longtime partner Lillian Hellman, and the characters' boozy, flippant repartee on their relationship. (The novel also mentions that Nick was once a Pinkerton detective, as was Hammett.)
The novel is considered one of the seminal texts of the hard-boiled subgenre of mystery novels, but the chief innovation distinguishing it from previous Hammett works such as "The Maltese Falcon" or "The Glass Key" was its relative lightness and humor. It is nearly as much a comedy of manners as a mystery, and the story tumbles along to the sarcastic banter of Nick and Nora as a reluctant and jaded Nick is dragged into solving a sensational murder, cheered on by the fascinated thrill-enjoying Nora.
[Source: Wikipedia]
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.
In this story by Ezra Keats, Peter is trying hard to learn how to whistle. But sometimes necessity is the best teacher, and Peter learns this when little Willie goes missing. Ezra Keats' charming collages make this a most wonderful mid century story book.
From the back:
It was obvious she had nothing on beneath the old cotton dress and that she didn't care a damn.
Lee was just looking at her. She could see what he wanted. I could feel the collar of my shirt choking me.
"She ought to be against the law," Lee said slowly and shakily.
"She is," I said. "And her father would kill you."
While rare old books often have great monetary value, many modern first editions can also fetch thousands of pounds. And here is one such example, from the Senate House Library’s collection in London. It’s a page from The Carpet People, a comic fantasy novel by 17-year-old Terry Pratchett, published in an edition of 3,000, priced £1.90 (!) in 1971.
But here’s the thing: the illustration here is drawn and hand-coloured by the author himself. What’s more, this is one of only two where additional pen and ink strokes were added by Pratchett.
I didn't know that Pratchett was an illustrator as well as a renowned writer. What a privilege to see, close-up, one of only two books that exist anywhere in the world.
This is the true first edition of the book, preceding the American edition by some 3 months. The novelist Ernest Hemingway once remarked that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” and other writers such as poet T. S. Eliot and African American novelist Ralph Ellison have added their acclaim. Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, worked for eight years on the story of an outcast white boy, Huck, and his adult friend Jim, a runaway slave, who together flee Missouri on a raft down the Mississippi River in the 1840s. The book has been controversial since the day it was published, opinions ranging from “the book is a masterpiece” to the book is “trash and suitable only for the slums.” The free-spirited and not always truthful Huck narrates the colorful stories in the book in his own coarse and ungrammatical voice. He shows a lack of respect for religion and adult authority and repeatedly uses the “n” word. Some readers view the book as satire and consider it a powerful attack on racism. Others believe it contributes to a “racially hostile environment” and are offended by the language and the portrayal of the slave Jim. In spite of it all, Huck Finn remains the Great American Novel to the many people who have read it and loved it.
Here is a link to the first American edition:
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The image is from the 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93, by J. W. Powell, Director, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896. The description which follows summarizes the detailed information in the report.
All the songs are adapted to the simple measure of the dance step. As the song rises and swells the people come singly and in groups from the several tipis, and one after another joins the circle until any number from fifty to five hundred men, women, and children are in the dance. Each song is started in the same manner, first in an undertone while the singers stand still in their places, and then with full voice as they begin to circle around. At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes. At such times the leaders sometimes deliver short addresses or sermons, or relate the recent trance experience of the dancer.
The dancers themselves are careful not to disturb the trance subjects while their souls are in the spirit world. Full Indian dress is worn, with buckskin, paint and feathers. No drum, rattle, or other musical instrument is used in the dance, except sometimes by an individual dancer in imitation of a trance vision. In this respect particularly the Ghost Dance differs from every other Indian dance. With most tribes the dance was performed around a tree or pole planted in the center and variously decorated. On breaking the circle at the end of the dance the performers shake their blankets or shawls in the air, with the idea of driving away all evil influences. All then go down to bathe in the stream, the men in one place and the women in another, before going to their tipis.
“An Indian History of the American West”
The photo on the dust jacket is of a Navaho warrior of the 1860’s by John Gaw Meem. Jacket design by Winston Potter.
From the blurb on the dust jacket flaps:
Traditional texts glory in our nation’s western expansion, the great conquest of the virgin frontier. But how did the original Americans – the Dakota, Nez Perce, Utes, Poncas, Cheyenne, Navaho, Apache, and others – feel about the coming of the white man, the expropriation of their land, the destruction of their way of life? What happened to Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Cochise, Red Cloud, Little Wolf, and Sitting Bull as their people were killed or driven onto reservations during decades of broken promises, oppression, and war?
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” is a documented account of the systematic plunder of the American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century, battle by battle, massacre by massacre, broken treaty by broken treaty. Here for the first time is their side of the story. We can see their faces, hear their voices as they tried desperately to live in peace and harmony with the white man.
With forty-nine photographs of the great chiefs, their wives and warriors; with the words of the Indians themselves, culled from testimonies and transcripts and previously unpublished writings; with a straight-forward, eloquent, and epic style “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” presents a unique and disturbing history of the American West from the Indian point of view.
Dee Brown has written fifteen books on Western American history. Now, a librarian at the University of Illinois, he has spent years researching and writing this important work.
From the back panel of the dust jacket:
“The whites told only one side. Told it to please themselves. Told much that is not true. Only his own best deeds, only the worst deeds of the Indians, has the white man told.” -- Yellow Wolf of the Nez Perce.
“We never did the white man any harm; we don’t intend to . . . We are willing to be friends with the white man. The buffalo are diminishing fast. The antelope, that were plenty a few years ago, they are now thin . . . When they shall all die we shall be hungry; we shall want something to eat, and we will be compelled to come into the fort. Your young men must not fire at us; whenever they see us they fire, and we fire on them.” -- Tonkahaska (Tall Bull) to General Winfield Scott Hancock
“The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was . . . The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man’s business to divide it . . . I see the whites all over the country gaining wealth, and see their desire to give us lands which are worthless . . . The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the measure of our bodies are the same. Say to us if you can say it, that you were sent by the Creative Power to talk to us. Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit. If I thought you were sent by the Creator I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me. Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who has created it. I claim a right to live on my land, and accord you the privilege to live on yours.” -- Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph) of the Nez Perce.
Although Leni Riefenstahl's documentary film about the 1936 Berlin Olympics, called “Olympia,” has become an acknowledged classic, her book of photographs, “Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf” (Beauty in the Olympic Games), is less known but no less spectacular. Sometimes Riefenstahl relied on poses modeled on the antique Greek ideal… But far more original were her depictions of superbly athletic bodies soaring gracefully through the air and knifing effortlessly through the water. Riefenstahl applied certain devices characteristic of the new German photography – strong diagonals, tight croppings, and bird's-eye and worm's-eye views. No longer was the camera an earthbound witness; it took to the air and the water with the athletes. (Source: William A. Ewing, “The Body”).
Riefenstahl’s film “Olympia” documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics may be viewed on youtube:
Olympia Part 1: Festival of Nations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLnGqMoNXRI
Olympia Part 2: Festival of Beauty
One of forty-nine photographs in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970).
Little Big Man was a fearless and respected warrior who fought against efforts by the United States to take control of the ancestral Sioux lands in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory. He also fought at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. [Source: Wikipedia]
Quoting Dee Brown (p. 283):
“. . . About three hundred Oglalas who had come in from the Powder River country trotted their ponies down a slope, occasionally firing off rifles. Some were chanting a song in Sioux:
The Black Hills is my land and I love it
And whoever interferes
Will hear this gun.
“An Indian mounted on a gray horse forced his way through the ranks of warriors gathered around the canvas shelter. He was Crazy Horse’s envoy, Little Big Man, stripped for battle and wearing two revolvers belted to his waist. ‘I will kill the first chief who speaks for selling the Black Hills!’ he shouted. He danced his horse across the open space between the commissioners and the chiefs.
“Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses and a group of unofficial Sioux policemen immediately swarmed around Little Big Man and moved him away. The chiefs and the commissioners, however, must have guessed that Little Big Man voiced the feelings of most of the warriors present. General Terry suggested to his fellow commissioners that they board the Army ambulances and return to the safety of Fort Robinson.”
This retro happy-go-lucky cover for the cult Canucksploiter fave "Screwballs" (1983) features the film under the title of (roughly) "Comedy Joy". The "Porky's"-style romp hit the Korean shelves via the very rare DaeYoung label only once. There was never a reissue.
One of forty-nine photographs in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970).
Chief Joseph (1840-1904) led his band of Nez Perce when they were forcibly removed by the United States federal government from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon onto a significantly reduced reservation in the Idaho Territory. Violent encounters with white settlers in the spring of 1877 culminated in those Nez Perce who resisted removal, including Joseph’s band and an allied band of the Palouse tribe, to flee the United States in an attempt to reach political asylum alongside the Lakota people, who had sought refuge in Canada under the leadership of Sitting Bull.
At least 700 men, women, and children led by Joseph and other Nez Perce chiefs were pursued by the U.S. Army in a 1,170-mile (1,900 km) fighting retreat known as the Nez Perce War. The skill with which the Nez Perce fought and the manner in which they conducted themselves in the face of incredible adversity earned them widespread admiration from their military opponents and the American public, and coverage of the war in U.S. newspapers led to popular recognition of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce. [Source: Wikipedia]
Quoting Dee Brown (pp. 318-320):
“. . . white settlers were encroaching upon the valley, with their eyes on the Nez Perce land. Gold was found in nearby mountains. The goldseekers stole the Indians’ horses, and stockmen stole their cattle, branding them so the Indians could not claim them back. White politicians journeyed to Washington, telling lies about the Nez Perces. They charged the Indians with being a threat to the peace and with stealing the settlers’ livestock. This was the reverse of the truth, but as Joseph said, ‘We had no friend who would plead our cause before the law council.’
“Two years after the Great Father (President Ulysses Grant) promised Wallowa Valley to Joseph’s people forever, he issued a new proclamation, reopening the valley to white settlement. The Nez Perces were given “a reasonable time” to move to the Lapwai reservation. Joseph had no intention of giving up the valley of his fathers, but in 1877 the government sent the One-Armed-Soldier-Chief, General Howard, to clear all Nez Perces out of the Wallowa area.”
Sometimes I wish I had eight arms too....
Illustration from a vintage children's book: "The Adventures of Captain William Walrus" 1972 - Illustrations by Giannini.
A wonderful small 1950s children's book about a giraffe who tries to attend an elementary school for a day, which is not easy with such a long neck. Utterly charming illustrations throughout.
The Giraffe who went to School.
Written & illustrated by Irma Wilde
Published by Wonder Books; First edition (1951)
This book is paperback sized (4-3/8" x 6-1/2") but with an inflexible board cover. As stated in the back cover blurb:
"Permabooks combine the virtues of handiness for the pocket and durability for the library shelf. They are selected with care to provide reliable books for education and recreation. Each has been printed from new plates and bound in boards with a special wear-resistant finish to add to its appearance and to prolong its life."
This hard cover format only lasted three years, with the publisher (Doubleday) switching to the standard paperback appearance in 1951.
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."
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Beneath her delicate beauty
Lurked the cruelty of a beast
This is the startling story of two beautiful women, different in most things, but bound by an unnatural obsession.
Persis, blonde spoiled daughter of wealth, and Carla, dark passionate penniless girl, had grown up together in the same household.
After a lapse of years, they came together again as grown women, socially mature but brutally primitive in their emotions – each seething with a hatred that knew no law when they fell in love with the same man.
This first edition release of "The Looking Glass War" (1970) sports the original Daewoo logo - the first of at least three iterations. The final one was all in English. Rare tape now.
William Andrew Pogány (1882-1955) was born in Hungary, studied art in Budapest, and worked in Paris briefly before moving to London in 1905 where he worked as a book illustrator for ten years. He moved to New York in 1915 and had success as a book illustrator and designer of stage sets and hotel interiors. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one of Pogany’s best-known books. It is a bold artistic experiment in unifying text and images. Every page is elaborately decorated in Pogany’s distinctive style, which attempts to recreate a medieval illuminated manuscript. He was responsible for the beautiful calligraphic text, green and mauve page decorations and borders, and the many black and white drawings and tipped-in plates in full color.
“Tom Sawyer Abroad” features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world’s greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. The story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn and is a sequel, set in the time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series, “Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” [Source: Wikipedia]
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 . . .”
De nieuwste Continental GT is wat mij betreft weer een geslaagd ontwerp. Wat meteen in het oog springt zijn de nieuwe koplampen die - en hiermee citeer ik Bentley even - ''geïnspireerd zijn op de starende blik van een tijger die zich klaarmaakt om een prooi te bespringen''. Juist ja..
Hoorn, Nederland
The latest Continental GT is, in my opinion, another successful design. What immediately stands out are the new headlights that - and I quote Bentley here - ''are inspired by the staring gaze of a tiger preparing to pounce on its prey''. Yeah, exactly..
Hoorn, The Netherlands
Kenteken / License plate:
Netherlands: HBJ-09-N
“Men called them Overlords
They had come from outer space—
they had brought peace
and prosperity to Earth
But then the change began.
It appeared first in the children
—frightening, incomprehensible.
Now the Overlords made their announcement:
This was to be the first step
in the elimination of the human race
and the beginning of—What?”
—Original back cover quote, paperback edition
During the early 1950s, Ballantine Books was one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy. Beginning with “The Space Merchants” (#21) by Frederik Pohl and C.M Kornbluth, Ballantine published paperback originals by major science fiction authors including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, John Wyndham and many others. Ian Ballantine who with his wife Betty Ballantine founded Ballantine Books in 1952, announced that he would offer trade publishers original titles in two simultaneous editions, a hardcover “regular” edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, low-priced “news stand” edition for mass market sale. So, these Ballantine paperbacks were true first editions.
This edition of the novel contains six color illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The book was first published in the US in 1966 under the title “The Garden of Evil” by Paperback Library. In 1988, it was adapted into a film by Ken Russell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Q-PyZxZjw
“The Lair of the White Worm” was Bram Stoker’s twelfth and last novel, published a year before his death. The novel, along with “The Jewel of Seven Stars, is one of his most famous after “Dracula.” It is a horror story about a giant white worm that can transform itself into a woman. Partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm from North East England, the White Worm in Stoker’s story is a large snake-like creature that dwells in a hole or pit and feeds on whatever is thrown to it. It is thought to reside in the house of Arabella March, a local lady and a suspect in numerous crimes that cannot be proven.
This is plate 30 in Gaspey’s “Book of the World,” which contains 35 full-page, hand-colored engravings. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors.
"Is it always right to be right?" by Warren Schmidt is a wonderfully illustrated book about the late 1960s' "generation gap", where differences in age, race and economic status created deep divides in the American public...(sound familiar?) The story has a happy ending after someone finally has the courage to say "I may be wrong" and the factions start working together.
The contents of this book were taken from a short film of the same name by Lee Mishkin which was narrated by Orson Welles and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1970.
An adventure in the forest from "Mistress Masham's Repose" by T. H. White, iIllustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. Published by G.P. Putnam; First Edition (1946)
“David Copperfield” is one of Dickens’ most popular and critically acclaimed novels. The story follows David’s life from childhood to maturity and many of its elements follow events in Dickens’ own life, especially in the early chapters describing David’s provincial upbringing. The story is filled with vivid characters such as Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber, the Pegottys, and eccentric Aunt Betsey and it ranks as the finest of Dickens’ works. “Of all my books,” Dickens wrote in the preface to the 1867 edition, “I like this the best… like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.”
Publisher Bradbury & Evans first released the story in monthly parts from May, 1849 through November, 1850, and in book form in 1850. The text was embellished with full-page, black & white engravings by H. K. Browne (“Phiz”). Subscribers who wished a hardcover edition for their libraries would either purchase a copy from the publisher when available or have the serial parts bound into book form, often in leather.
Dickens is best known for issuing his novels in monthly installments, the book being completed in 20 parts. The last monthly issue was typically a double number comprising the two concluding parts, and included the engraved frontispiece, title page, table of contents, etc. that would allow the customer to have the whole bound up in book form.
From the back cover:
"Here is James Dean as he really was -- a restless, enigmatic artist in a passionate search for fulfillment, a reckless youth in a fatal race with destiny.
"William Bast knew James Dean better than anyone else ever has. When they first met -- during rehearsals for a student theater presentation of "Macbeth" at U.C.L.A. in 1950 -- they took an instant liking to each other and formed a friendship that was to endure until Dean's tragic death in 1955. The two shared lodgings for long periods in both Los Angeles and New York. Their early struggles -- Dean as actor, Bast as writer -- they experienced together: the ambitions, the study, the search for expression; the disappointments, setbacks, and sudden successes.
"William Bast comes from the middle West, as James Dean did. He was born in Milwaukee in 1931, attended the University of Wisconsin for a year, and then transferred to U.C.L.A. to major in Theater Arts. He now (i.e., 1956) lives in New York, and is engaged in the writing of television and motion picture plays, short stories and a novel. This penetrating biography is his first full-length book."
[ In 2006, the author William Bast wrote a second, more candid, book about his relationship with Dean entitled “Surviving James Dean." William Bast had a long, successful career writing for both film and TV and died on May 4, 2015]
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müller Verlag, München. Első kiadás
In a connected series of short stories, 28 in all, Bradbury chronicles the human colonization of Mars. The stories originally appeared in the science fiction magazines of the 1940s. The planet Mars is a strange and breathtaking world where humans don’t belong. They are escaping a troubled Earth and their arrival on Mars leads, eventually, to plague and conflict and to the near extinction of native Martians. But by the final chapters of the book – or as Bradbury describes it, “a book of stories pretending to be a novel” – the humans themselves face extinction. This is certainly one of Bradbury’s best works, which became the basis for a TV mini-series in 1980:
This massive late nineteenth century book on magic and stage illusions was compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins. It includes more than 400 illustrations and explanatory diagrams.
Car: Lotus Emira V6 First Edition.
Engine: 3456cc V6.
Year of manufacture: 2022.
Date of first registration in the UK: 7th December 2022.
Place of registration: Not known.
Date of last MOT: Not applicable.
Mileage at last MOT: Not applicable.
Date of last change of keeper: No previous recorded keepers.
Number of previous keepers: 0.
Date taken: 17th September 2023.
Image from a cute 1940s children's book about a forgetful little bear.
Forgetful Bear.
Written by Nancy Raymond
Illustrated by Frank Harper .
Published by Fideler Company, First Edition 1943
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
The Strange Child is a fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann paired with fantastical Lisbeth Zwerger illustrations. It tells the story of a magical that being comes into the unhappy lives of a brother and sister, leading them into a world of fantasy, adventure and danger.