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Albert Dekker stars as Alexander Thorkel, a mad scientist who pursues a fantastic experiment deep in the Peruvian jungle. He uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including humans, reasoning that if people were one-tenth their normal size, there would be ten times as much food to go around. When fellow scientists penetrate his jungle retreat, the paranoid Dr. Thorkel shrinks them down to size to protect his secret, even killing one of them to demonstrate his power. Here is a link to the movie trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSqylxm3jo
Will Garth, the author of the novel based on the movie, is a house pseudonym. Authorship is often misattributed to Henry Kuttner because of his shorter magazine version from the film script published in “Thrilling Wonder Stories.” The actual author of the novel is likely Alexander Samalman.
This scarce twenty- page pamphlet tells the story of the Dakotas last winter buffalo hunt in 1880-1881. The hunting party consisted of 60 Sioux Indians and the story is told by Reverend Thomas Lawrence Riggs (1847-1940), the only white man in the group and an active participant in the hunt. Rev. Riggs, who was a missionary among the Indians, talked their language from childhood. He provides an inside view of the customs and laws that controlled the hunting of big game, sharing in the humor and hard work of the Sioux Indians during the hunt.
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.
"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
Second 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.
100th Anniversary Edition
Brussels Motor Show
Autosalon Brussel
Salon de l'Auto Bruxelles
Brussels - Belgium
January 2023
The somewhat faded gilt-embossed image on the front cover is the American Crystal Palace built in Bryant Park, New York for the 1853 World’s Fair.
The “Book of the World: A Family Miscellany for Instruction and Amusement” was edited by Dr. [Thomas] Gaspey [1788-1871]. John Weik and Charles Wieck published the first volume in 1852 and John Weik alone published the second volume in 1853 (not shown here). The first volume contains 48 full-page engravings, 35 of which are colored. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors. This took time and great skill as the color was applied to the plate itself.
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.
A 1980s book of fables with wonderful illustrations by Arnold Lobel.
Fables.
Written and Illustrated by Arnold Lobel
Published by Scholastic Inc; First Edition (1980)
“Cutting through the earth in an extraordinary burrowing device, David Innes and Abner Perry fear they may be incinerated in the planet's fiery core. Instead, they come upon Pellucidar - a savage, primordial world hidden several hundred miles beneath the earth's crust. There in an eerie, subterranean realm of vast oceans, lush jungles, and eternal noon, they encounter primitive humans and their beautiful, courageous queen, Dian.
“At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional ‘hollow earth’ land of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a four-part serial in ‘All-Story Weekly’ from April 4-25, 1914.” [Source: Goodreads.com]
Excerpt:
“But when I saw these sleek, shiny carcasses shimmering in the sunlight as they emerged from the ocean, shaking their giant heads; when I saw the waters roll from their sinuous bodies in miniature waterfalls as they glided hither and thither, now upon the surface, now half submerged; as I saw them meet, open-mouthed, hissing and snorting, in their titanic and interminable warring I realized how futile is man’s poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature’s incredible genius.”
The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. The publishers stated their hopes that the publication would match or supplement the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
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.
"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
Release a Jinn from a bottle – according to legend – and he becomes your slave. But Zongri was an unusual Jinn – evil, malicious, and thoroughly angry at having been kept imprisoned for thousands of years. Instead of thanking young Jan Palmer for freeing him, he cursed Jan – with the curse of “eternal wakefulness.”
Jan had enough trouble in his own world. Meek and bookish, he stood accused of murder, and no one would believe him innocent. But his trouble more than doubled as the curse sent him into another world every time he fell asleep. In this other existence, he had a separate identity – that of Tiger, swashbuckling adventurer and warrior against the ruling demons. The odds were against him everywhere – and he could die in either world at any moment!
After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, L. Ron Hubbard developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first expounded in book form in May 1950. He subsequently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals as part of a new religious movement that he called Scientology.
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.
Drink: Coffee
Food: Shortbread biscuits
Book: Verdict of 13: A Detection Club Anthology (1979 first edition, Faber & Faber, jacket art by Peter Branfield)
I found this for $2 at a recent book fair. It's fantastic, with short stories from Christianna Brand, Peter Dickinson, Patricia Highsmith, Dick Francis, Julian Symons, P. D. James, Ngaio Marsh, Celia Fremlin, H.R.F. Keating, Michael Innes, Gwendoline Butler, Michael Gilbert and Michael Underwood.
This is Verne’s most popular novel and it was first translated from French to English for the American and British markets. This American edition from James R. Osgood has 54 inserted plates with illustrations by A. de Neuville and L. Benett. It was printed in London from the plates of Sampson Low’s British edition which came out a few weeks earlier, in November 1873. James R. Osgood is also credited with the first English-language edition of the novel. Osgood published it in the summer of 1873 in a small pocket-sized format with just one illustration, called “The Tour of the World in 80 Days.”
Robert Dietrich - Be My Victim
Dell Books First Edition 106, 1956
Cover Artist: Arthur Sussman
Robert Dietrich is a pseudonym of E. Howard Hunt
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 first-edition VHS release of Ferdinando Baldi's "Gold Snake" (1966) sports a simpler cut-n-paste back cover and came packaged in the small box format. The film, dealing with underhanded doings related to atomic secrets, clearly attempted to cash in on the James Bond craze. The same director gained more "regional" fame for his "Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission" (1988), which used P'yongyang to stand in for Hong Kong (?). Extremely rare tape nowadays.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
The dashboard inside my brothers 2020 Ford Kuga ST-Line First Edition 2.5L Duratec PHEV (Plug in Petrol/Electric Hybrid) Crossover SUV.
I had a brief test drive of this and to be honest, the technology and operation of this vehicle was a bit overwhelming.
Note the slot on the facia above the steering wheel That's for the pop up HUD (Head Up Display).
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“Pirates of Venus” is the first book in the Venus series and was first published in six installments in Argosy magazine in 1932 and in book form two years later. The novel contains elements of political satire aimed at communism and there are fantastic creatures, amazing landscapes, picturesque kingdoms with strange customs, a resourceful hero with telepathic abilities, and, of course, a beautiful and strong-willed princess. Carson Napier, the hero of the story, is on a journey to Mars, misses the red planet by a wide margin and crashes on Venus, a water world called Amtor by its humanlike inhabitants. And it’s there that many new adventures begin. “Pirates of Venus” is generally considered one of Edgar Rice Burroughs best books from the 1930s. [Source: Wikipedia]
Fifteen stories of fantasy and horror from Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), one of the most prolific writers of horror stories in the history of the genre. In his lifetime, he wrote over 150 stories, at least a dozen novels, two plays and quite a few children’s books. Authors who have been influenced by his work include H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Evangeline Walton, Ramsey Campbell, George Allan England and Frank Belknap Long. Henry Miller chose Blackwood’s “The Bright Messenger” as “the most extraordinary novel on psychoanalysis, one that dwarf’s the subject.”
The fifteen stories in “Pan’s Garden” are: “The Man Whom the Trees Loved,” “The South Wind,” “The Sea Fit,” “The Attic,” “The Heath Fire,” “The Messenger,” “The Glamour of the Snow,” “The Return,” “Sand,” “The Transfer,” “Clairvoyance,” “The Golden Fly,” “Special Delivery,” “The Destruction of Smith,” and “The Temptation of the Clay.” The stories hadn’t appeared elsewhere and were original to this collection. They are unified by the theme of the Elements of Nature.
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.
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
This first-edition VHS tape, released by Samboo, hit store shelves way back in 1984. The edgy shocker tells the tale of some Stanford University (!) buddies who go on berserk rampages some 10 years after dropping some bad acid. Its flip-side-of-the-hippie-era tone may have endeared it well with the Korean censors. Very rare.
“The Jungle Book” by English author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is a collection of short animal stories with moral lessons that Kipling may have written for his daughter who died at age six in 1899. The stories appeared in magazines in 1893-94 and came out in book form from MacMillan Publishers in 1894. Kipling was born in India, spent the first six years of his childhood there and returned as an adult to work there for about six-and-a-half years. He put into his stories everything he knew about the Indian jungle, the best known of which are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned boy, Mowgli, who is raised by wolves. Other famous stories in the collection include “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” a heroic mongoose, and “Toomai of the Elephants,” a tale of a young elephant handler.
In "Babar's Fair", Babar and his friends organize a fair for all the animals. This is the 1954 first edition with wonderful French-style handwritten text.
An ethereal scene from "The Moon Singer."
Written by Clyde Robert Bulla
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman,
1969 First Edition
“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.
Frank Herbert's celebrated science fiction novel "Dune" was first published as a three-part serial "Dune World" in the December, 1963 - February, 1964 issues of Analog (formerly Astounding Science Fiction).
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The Chilton Company, which was better known for automotive manuals, put out the novel in book form in 1965. "Dune" was the basis for a less-than-stellar film directed by David Lynch in 1984, an Emmy-winning TV miniseries written and directed by John Harrison in 2000 and a popular 3-D video game in 2001.
“Foundation” is the first book in Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, which has since been expanded to over a dozen books set in the Foundation Universe and written by such authors as Orson Scott Card, Harry Turtledove, Greg Bear, David Brin, Gregory Benford and Asimov himself who wrote two prequels and two sequels some thirty years after his original trilogy.
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]
From the back cover:
ASSASSIN! THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE CALLING NEIL TANNER.
TANNER - the man who single-fistedly quashed a student takeover and tongue-lashed its leaders into silence at a turbulent school-board showdown.
TANNER - the man who had never flown a plane, yet took the stick when a pilot died in midair and landed safely.
TANNER - the man whose blunt business sense had won him a place in a Senator's inner circle.
TANNER - had he blown a hole in the heart of the man millions of Americans revered? Had he killed Senator Stanton? Could he have been the assassin?
Doc Stoeger, owner and editor of the Carmel City Clarion, hopes that before he dies he can put out just one exciting issue of the Clarion. Closing up the forms on Saturday’s issue, he crosses the street for a drink at his favorite tavern. It is as though he had fallen into a rabbit hole, landing in another world where Vorpal Blades, Jabberwocks and Bandersnatches are real as they were to Alice on the other side of the looking glass.
Doc feels quite at home with these unconventional goings-on, being an authority on the works of Lewis Carroll, but murder, bank-robbing, night-driving metropolitan gangsters and a “haunted” house never figured in Doc’s understanding of Carroll’s world. Wonderland became Murderland, with no holds barred.
The "Jabberwock" is a fanciful creature from the wacky mind of Lewis Carroll, who described it in his book "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There." The Jabberwock has "jaws that bite," "claws that catch," and "eyes of flame." John Tenniel, the book's illustrator, brought it too life and his rendering looks pretty much like the cover illustration on Brown's book:
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From the back cover:
RIVER MEN and YOUNG GIRLS
She was spawn of the river, nursed by it, reared by it . . . and like it, she was beautiful, tantalizing, tempestuous. The Mississippi was her life . . . and the men of the big river her fair game, on whom she practiced he womanhood.
For a while she was queen of the waterfront docks, and as imperious and demanding as any queen. Joe, a riverman whose love was as crude and turbulent as the Mississippi itself tried in vain to conquer her. Frank, as sly, as insidious as the river chewing at a sand bank, sought to bind her in his own way. But she laughed at both of them, and at any other man who hoped to match the hold only the mighty Mississippi had over her, body and soul . . .
Then a man came along who opened a new vista, offered a new life . . . and love and the river fought a battle for her passion that almost tore her apart . . .
This is plate 6 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.
The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.
Tom Canty has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales – Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, Tom is nearly caught and beaten by the Royal Guards; however, Edward stops them and invites Tom into his palace chamber. There the two boys get to know one another, fascinated by each other's life and their uncanny resemblance; they were born on the same day. They decide to switch clothes "temporarily". The Prince momentarily goes outside, quickly hiding an article of national importance (which the reader later learns is the Great Seal of England), but dressed as he is in Tom's rags, he is not recognized by the guards, who drive him from the palace, and he eventually finds his way through the streets to the home of the Canty's. There he is subjected to the brutality of Tom's abusive father, who he manages to escape from, and meets one Miles Hendon, a soldier and nobleman returning from war. Although Miles does not believe Edward's claims to royalty, he humors him and becomes his protector. Meanwhile, news reaches them that King Henry VIII has died and Edward is now the king..
Tom, posing as the prince, tries to cope with court customs and manners. His fellow nobles and palace staff think "the prince" has an illness which has caused memory loss and fear he will go mad. They repeatedly ask him about the missing "Great Seal", but he knows nothing about it; however, when Tom is asked to sit in on judgments, his common-sense observations reassure them his mind is sound.
As Edward experiences the brutish life of a pauper firsthand, he becomes aware of the stark class inequality in England. In particular, he sees the harsh, punitive nature of the English judicial system where people are burned at the stake, pilloried, and flogged. He realizes that the accused are convicted on flimsy evidence (and branded – or hanged – for petty offenses), and vows to reign with mercy when he regains his rightful place. When Edward unwisely declares to a gang of thieves that he is the king and will put an end to unjust laws, they assume he is insane and hold a mock coronation.
After a series of adventures (including a stint in prison), Edward interrupts the coronation as Tom is about to celebrate it as King Edward VI. Tom is eager to give up the throne; however, the nobles refuse to believe that the beggarly child Edward appears to be is the rightful king until he produces the Great Seal that he hid before leaving the palace. Tom declares that if anyone had bothered to describe the seal he could have produced it at once, since he had found it inside a decorative suit of armor (where Edward had hidden it) and had been using it to crack nuts.
Edward and Tom switch back to their original places and Miles is rewarded with the rank of earl and the family right to sit in the presence of the king. In gratitude for supporting the new king's claim to the throne, Edward names Tom the "king's ward" (a privileged position he holds for the rest of his life). [Source: Wikipedia]
The book features 192 illustrations by Frank T. Merrill, John Harley and L. S. Ipsen.
Met "Gus the Firefly." This fun little fellow was created by P. D. Eastman for the 1958 book "Sam and the Firefly."
This book from Arkham House collects four bizarre novels by British author William Hope Hodgson, their first printing in the USA. They are “The Boats of the Glen Carrig” (1907), “The House on the Borderland” (1908), “The Ghost Pirates” (1909), and “The Night Land” (1912). Primarily the romanticist, Hodgson could not overcome a strong predilection for the weird. A thread of romance creeps into even “The House on the Borderland,” perhaps his best work and one of the most unforgettable weird-scientific novels ever written. “The Night Land” which was subtitled “a love tale” is a weird fantasy story of the world millions of years in the future.
William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) was the son of an Essex clergyman who left home early in life to spend eight years at sea, a circumstance that profoundly influenced his writing career, for his best weird tales were written about the sea. When World War I broke out, Hodgson was granted a commission in the 171st Brigade at Royal Field Artillery. He fought at Ypres and, in the following year, he distinguished himself for bravery by the part he played to help stem the onslaught of a superior German force. Not long after, while on duty in the dangerous post of observation officer of his Brigade, he was killed by a shell.
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.
Reel of Death by Roger Simons (1970 first edition hardcover with dust jacket, Geoffrey Bles Ltd, cover art by C. W. Bacon).
I found this at least 15 years ago in a secondhand shop. It was $2.
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.)
Robert Bonfils was the art director and cover artist for the San Diego-based Hamling Organization during the sixties and seventies and, for a decade, he worked exclusively for them. He produced some of his best covers during this period. The books were published under imprints such as Nightstand Books, Leisure Books, Adult Books, Candid Readers, Companion Books and other lines within the Hamling group. Before then, he produced book covers for the Chicago-based Merit Books and Newsstand Library and Las Vegas’ Playtime Books. He retired from doing cover art in the mid seventies, but he remained active as a painter of fine art in San Diego. Bonfils covers are now incredibly popular and sought after by book collectors, particularly fans of what is called “good girl art” (or GGA).
"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