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She wanted to turn herself into money – any kind of money.
“Confidentially, she’s a tramp,” he said. “But she’s beautiful, lush as a marshmallow sundae, and with the morals of an alley cat. Maybe it was being spoiled rotten while she was growing up. Maybe it was in her all the time. The fact remains she’s just a five-letter word – and it ain’t woman.”
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1872) was published seven years later and is set some six months later than the earlier book. This time Alice enters a fantastic world by stepping through a mirror. “Through the Looking Glass” is not quite as popular as “Wonderland” but it does include celebrated verses such as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and episodes involving “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and “Humpty Dumpty.” The book features fifty in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
Using art based on designs for the film by Maurice Maeterlinck, The Blue Bird, Brian Wildsmith tells his 1970s version of this story, which has two children searching for the blue bird of happiness. : )
Wikipedia: "Brian Wildsmith (born 1930) is a painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for his ABC. In all his books the illustrations, usually in brilliant color, have been as important as the text. For his contribution as a children's illustrator Wildsmith was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966 and 1968."
“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century. The book expresses details of the history of American expansionism from a point of view that is critical of its effects on Native Americans. Published at a time of increasing American Indian activism, the book has never gone out of print and has been translated into 17 languages.
The title of the book is taken from the final phrase of a twentieth-century poem titled “American Names” by Stephen Vincent Benet. The full quotation – “I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.” Although Benet’s poem is not about the plight of Native Americans, “Wounded Knee” was the location of the last major confrontation between the U.S. Army and Native Americans. It is also the vicinity of where Crazy Horse’s parents buried his heart and some of his bones after his murder in 1877. [Source: Wikipedia]
Subtitled: "A Rationalization and Extrapolation Of The Split-Level Continuum."
From the back cover:
"HANK HAD A FEELING HE WASN'T IN KANSAS ANYMORE . . . Hank Stover was one of two people in the world who knew that Oz really existed, but he never expected to go there. He never expected his plane would be forced down by a green cloud that April day in 1923. Nor that he would meet the witch who had befriended his mother. Nor that she would be so beautiful . . ."
From the back cover:
His Lawyer Said: "Our society is on trial today as well as Frank Crowley . . ." Why?
The District Attorney Said: "The mistake Crowley made was that he taught a woman to hate . . ."
The Judge Said: "If the evidence is true, what does it mean?"
The Psychiatrist Said: "I think the boy is a moral imbecile . . . but I feel that he killed without the slightest premeditation."
What made this youth with a spoiled child's face a wanton killer, one who killed without conscience or remorse, killed in rage against a world he could neither understand nor accept?
From the back cover:
THEY'D TRIED TO DESTROY JESS CORY. NOW IT WAS HIS TURN.
When Cory had been stuck with that bad murder rap, some of the town's "solid citizens" had moved in and taken everything he had. Now it was seven years later, and Cory was back with a score to settle.
Meanwhile, his enemies had become the most powerful, ruthless men in town. They knew Cory was coming, and they were ready for him.
But Cory had friends -- the "losers" who, like him, had been taken by the "big honchos." Together, they were going to make things pretty hot for those crooked bastards . . .
The “Nuremberg Chronicle” is an illustrated world history that follows the story of humankind related in the Bible, from Creation to Last Judgment. It was written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel in the city of Nuremberg and is one of the best-documented early printed books – an incunabulum – and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Durer. The large workshop of Michael Wolgemut, then Nuremberg’s leading artist, provided the unprecedented 1,809 woodcut illustrations. Albrecht Durer was an apprentice with Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489, so may well have participated in designing some of the illustrations for the specialist craftsmen who cut the blocks.
Approximately 400 Latin and 300 German copies of the Chronicle survived into the twenty-first century. Some copies were broken up for sale as decorative prints. The larger illustrations in the book were sold separately, often hand-colored in watercolor. Many copies of the book are also colored, with varying degrees of skill; there were specialist shops for this. The coloring on some examples has been added much later.
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
“Bambi: A Life in the Woods” by Felix Salten was originally published in Austria in 1923. Simon & Schuster’s 1928 edition is based on an English translation by Whittaker Chambers. The novel has since been translated and published in over 20 languages around the world.
The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest. The novel is considered a classic, as well as one of the first environmental novels ever published. Beside several live-action and stage adaptations, the novel was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Studios in 1942. [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is a link to the movie trailer:
Obituary: 'Lord Snowdon' by Stephen Bates, The Guardian, January 14, 2017 - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/13/lord-snowdon-obit...
from the back cover of London by Tony Armstrong-Jones. Designed by Mark Boxer. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1958. First edition.
One of forty-nine photographs in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970).
Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses (1836-1893) was a chief of the Oglala Sioux. He is known for his participation in Red Cloud’s War, as a negotiator for the Sioux Nation after the Wounded Knee Massacre, and for serving on delegations to Washington, D.C. Red Cloud’s War of 1866-1868 was the only Indian war to end in defeat for the United States and Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses served as an instrumental war leader during this conflict. [Source: Wikipedia]
From the back cover:
The Talbot men grew up wild in a wild country. They were power mad and land hungry.
Jim Dixon, who loved the Talbot girl, knew only one way to win her and survive. Match gun with gun, and life with life in a war where no quarter was asked, and none was given.
Drink: Coffee
Food: Apple Danish
Books: Purchased from a local used book store today.
Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley (1937; my copy is the 2012 Arcturus paperback)
Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Hugh Morrison (1964 first edition, Angus & Robertson)
The Other Side of the Clock: Stories Out of Time, Out of Place (1969 first edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company)
How Did They Die? by Norman and Betty Donaldson (1980; my copy is the 1983 Greenwich House hardcover)
The story takes place on the red planet sometime in the future when Mars is colonized by a group from Earth. The colonists find themselves with some of the problems that have been common to pioneers and colonists through the ages, and must fight to protect their liberties and independence. Thrilling adventures are in store for two boy colonists, Jim and Frank, and for Willis, a native volleyball-sized pet with the intelligence of a human child and a unique talent for sounds. At school, Jim and Frank uncover an evil plot by the unscrupulous administrator of Mars and they skate thousands of miles on frozen canals to warn their parents and the colony.
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
The A. C. Gilbert Company was once one of the largest toy companies in the world. Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961) founded the company in 1909 as a company that provided supplies to magic shows. Then, in 1911, Gilbert invented the Erector Set and introduced it two years later. Beginning in 1922, A. C. Gilbert made chemistry sets and other sets for budding scientists. Microscope kits came in 1934, then a line of inexpensive reflector telescopes. In 1938, Gilbert purchased the American Flyer, a struggling manufacturer of toy trains. Gilbert re-designed the entire product line, producing 1:64 scale trains running on O gauge track. After WWII, Gilbert introduced S gauge model railroad kits. Although these new trains were popular, Lionel outsold American Flyer nearly 2 to 1. Once the largest employer in New Haven, Connecticut, the Gilbert Company struggled after the death of its founder in 1961 and went out of business in 1967. American Flyer was sold to Lionel. The brand name on its Erector Set and microscope products was retained by subsequent manufacturers. [Source: Wikipedia]
This is the first one-volume edition 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.
Brian Wildsmith tells his version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collections using his wildly imaginative drawings. : )
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith.
Oxford University Press. (1966)
Also added to macro mondays - "Seven deadly sins" theme under Envy (green eyed monster) - not that my little Alfie is a monster ;)
This is the second book in Farmer's Riverworld series, a sequel to "To Your Scattered Bodies Go."
The planet was called Riverworld -- huge and mysterious, with one central river that flowed for countless thousands of miles from a hidden source to an unknown end. But worse than the violation of all known physical laws that the planet itself displayed was the mystery of how -- and why -- all humanity had been reborn along the shores of the great river. For reborn they were, every last soul, from the first prehistoric humans to the latter-day inhabitants of the Moon.
Sam Clemens is one who finds himself reborn on Riverworld, and with a shipload of reincarnated Vikings and a blood brother whose first life was spent hunting saber tooth tigers and mastodons, he has sailed the great river as he did the Mississippi of old. But his voyage comes to an untimely end when a great meteorite plunges into the stream and he is knocked unconscious. When he comes to, the mysterious aliens who for their own reasons established the Riverworld have contrived to repair all the damage caused by the disaster. Only now one new element has been introduced -- iron. And with iron at hand, Clemens can build his own paddle steamer, and on this fabulous riverboat he can make his epic journey to the headwaters of the river and the heart of the panet-sized mystery which is the Riverworld.
A television series loosely based on the Riverworld saga went into production for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001 but only the feature-length pilot episode Riverworld was completed. It was first aired in 2003. It used elements from "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat." In 2010, a 4-hour TV movie, Riverworld was produced and released by Syfy (formerly The Sci-fi Channel) in the US and by Studio Universal elsewhere, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. The protagonist is Matt Ellman, an American war reporter, played by Tahmoh Penikett. The main villain is Richard Francis Burton, although in the books he is the protagonist and is written more as a hero than a villain.
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
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
From the book "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1911). 1st American ed. The book is illustrated with a color frontispiece and four double-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne (1861-1929).
The “Nuremberg Chronicle” is an illustrated world history that follows the story of humankind related in the Bible, from Creation to Last Judgment. It was written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel in the city of Nuremberg and is one of the best-documented early printed books – an incunabulum – and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. The publisher and printer was Anton Koberger, the godfather of Albrecht Durer. The large workshop of Michael Wolgemut, then Nuremberg’s leading artist, provided the unprecedented 1,809 woodcut illustrations. Albrecht Durer was an apprentice with Wolgemut from 1486 to 1489, so may well have participated in designing some of the illustrations for the specialist craftsmen who cut the blocks.
Approximately 400 Latin and 300 German copies of the Chronicle survived into the twenty-first century. Some copies were broken up for sale as decorative prints. The larger illustrations in the book were sold separately, often hand-colored in watercolor. Many copies of the book are also colored, with varying degrees of skill; there were specialist shops for this. The coloring on some examples has been added much later.
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." So in creating his other crimefighting hero, "Norgil, the Magician," Gibson combined his talents as a mystery writer and a leading authority on magic. "Magic and mystery are so closely interwoven," he once wrote, "that it is hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins."
Stories about Norgil first appeared in pulp magazines such as "Crime Busters" and "Mystery Magazine" during the 1930's and 40's. Each story employs a famous stage illusion as a plot device, and Norgil is a solitary representation of several real-life magicians who made those tricks popular. These long-lost stories are collected here for the first time in book form.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
"Messiah" by Gore Vidal will arouse anger and resentment in many people, it will shock them as "The Way of All Flesh" shocked them when it was first published; it will arouse argument and controversy, such as raged around Huxley's "Brave New World" and Orwell's "1984;" it will grip people while they read it and it will make them think.
Brain washing has become a recognized weapon; will soul washing come next? Will all the isms besetting humanity drive it into the arms of a new Messiah? Can television, advertising copy and high pressure publicity by exploiting man's inward religious urge lead him to anything, even death in preference to life? Can this happen here? Can it happen now?
These are some of the basic elements which make "Messiah" by Gore Vidal an absorbing, frightening and stimulating experience. This extraordinarily imaginative novel has a story of motion and action told in simple, economic words; it satirizes men and techniques, ridiculous in themselves, yet sinister in their intent and singleness of purpose; it gives a horribly real and vivid picture of a world that may come.
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)
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 accompanying the image in the report.
The ancestral home of the Nez Pierce in the Wallowa valley of northeastern Oregon was taken by the white man. Collision between the whites and Indians in the valley became more frequent, when a commission was appointed in 1876 to induce the Indians to give up the Wallowa valley and relocate to Lapwai reservation in Idaho. On May 3, 1877, U.S. Army General Howard held the first council with Chief Joseph and his followers at Fort Lapwai. Everything went smoothly toward a speedy and peaceful settlement when a single act of lawless violence undid the labor of weeks and precipitated a bloody war.
A band of white robbers attacked the Nez Pierce, ran off the cattle, and killed one of the party in charge. Joseph could no longer restrain his warriors and on June 13, 1877 – one day before the date that had been appointed for going on the reservation – the enraged Nez Pierce attacked the neighboring settlement on White Bird Creek, Idaho, and killed 21 people. The war was begun.
From "Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. First American Edition
Last of three Pop-Ups in the book.
Early pop-up book from the Disney studios featuring Mickey and the gang with the circus animals. The text Includes three color pop-ups and black & white illustrations throughout.
In “The Puppet Masters” secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space. The novel was originally serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction (September, October, November 1951). The book evokes a sense of paranoia later captured in the 1956 film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” which had a similar premise – the invasion of mind-controlling parasites.
Heinlein’s original version of the novel was cut by some 40,000 words because it was deemed too long and risqué for the market in 1951. In 1990, two years after Heinlein’s death, an uncut version was published with the consent of his widow. In this uncut version, the story begins with Sam, the hero of the novel, waking up in bed with a blonde whom he had casually picked up the evening before, without even bothering to learn her name. In the uncut version, the “puppet masters” discover human sexuality and embark upon wild orgies broadcast live on TV in the areas under their control. [Source: Wikipedia]
Graham, the central character of the novel, awakens into a troubled world after a two-hundred year slumber, much like Rip Van Winkle. The compound interest on his bank accounts has made him the richest man in the world and a very powerful one indeed. A trust known as the White Council used Graham’s wealth to establish a vast political and economic world order, which is now much hated by the people. Word spreads that the fabled sleeper has awakened and the people demand to see him. The Council, which rules the world in his name, prefers that he remain out of the way and places him under house arrest. He is liberated by revolutionaries and he soon learns the ugly truth about this new world, which persuades him to take part in the revolution.
The novel has plenty of action which more than makes up for the author’s socialist inclinations. It has engine-driven “aeroplanes” with 600-foot wing spans and smaller, nimbler “aeropiles,” it has a revolution and a counter-revolution, and there are battles fought in the air for supremacy.
Art by John Coleman Burroughs.
Deep in the heart of Africa rises a mighty cone-shaped mountain, an extinct volcano, in the huge crater of which lies "The Forbidden City of Ashair" where Atka, the cruel queen, rules: and Brulor, the false god, holds forth in his mysterious temple at the bottom of a great lake of crystal clearness.
To reach this inaccessible stronghold two safaris endure hardships and perils that bring death to some and high adventure to all. Love and hate and jealousy and intrigue play their parts in a battle of wits and endurance where courage and loyalty contend with duplicity, cruelty, superstition, and savagery.
One safari is bent on the rescue of the son of its leader from the clutches of Atka and the false god; the other, headed by a wily and unscrupulous oriental, seeks only The Father of Diamonds guarded by Brulor and his priests and Atka and her plumed warriors. There are hand-to-hand encounters with terrifying marine monsters among the wrecks of ancient galleys at the bottom of the great lake that spreads across the floor of the crater of Tuen-Baka.
“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. The two volume set shown here is one of the latter.
Published here before anywhere else are three stories by Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "A Descent Into the Maelstrom," and "The Island of the Fay."
Car: Lotus Emira V6 First Edition.
Engine: 3456cc V6.
Year of manufacture: 2022.
Date of first registration in the UK: 7th December 2022.
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Date taken: 17th September 2023.
"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 Müllerr Verlag, München. Első kiadás
A charming illustration in a 1960s book about children and their adventures during summer.
“The Summerfolk.”
Written & Illustrated by Dorothy Burn
Published by Weekly Reader Children Book Cl edition (1968)
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition