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Excerpt from the Preface of the book:
"The author of the present volume is not an opponent of spiritualism -- on the contrary, he was brought up from childhood in this belief; and though, at the present writing, he does not acknowledge the truth of its teachings, nevertheless he respects the feelings of those who are honest in their convictions. At the same time he confidently believes that all rational persons, spiritualists as well as others, will heartily indorse this endeavor to explain the methods of those who, under the mask of mediumship, and possessing all the artifices of the charlatan, victimize those seeking knowledge of their loved ones who have passed away. As a great New York lawyer once said, it was not spiritualism he was fighting, but fraud under the guise of spiritualism.
"Owing to the fact that the author has for many years been engaged in the practice of the profession of magic, both as a prestidigitateur and designer of stage illusions for the late Alexander Herrmann, and has been associated with Prof. Kellar, he feels that he is fitted to treat of clever tricks used by mediums. He has attended hundreds of seances both at home and abroad, and the present volume is the fruit of his studies."
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).
One of forty-nine photographs in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970).
White Horse (c. 1840-1892) was a chief of the Kiowa who attended the council between southern plains tribes and the United States at Medicine Lodge in southern Kansas which resulted in the Medicine Lodge Treaty. Despite his attendance at the treaty signing he conducted frequent raids upon other tribes and white settlers. [Source: Wikipedia]
“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 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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With sales of about 200 million copies, “A Tale of Two Cities” is the biggest selling novel in history. It began as weekly installments from April 30, 1859 to November 26, 1859 in Dickens’ literary periodical titled “All the Year Round.” It depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the French revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.
Chapman & Hall published the novel in 8 monthly parts (July – December 1859) and in book form that same year and commissioned Hablot K. Browne [Phiz] to create full page illustrations for the story. It was the last of Dickens’ books to be illustrated by Hablot K. Browne.
Woodcut from 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. A competitor to 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.
woodblock print by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (Taiso; 月岡 芳年) (1839-1892), dated 1885; from my collection.
Soga Goro Tokimune sees a hototogisu before exacting his revenge on his father's killer. The song of the hototogisu, a type of cuckoo, is a symbol of the transience of life, it's song thought to call spirits to the next world. The father of Goro Tokimune and his brother Juro Sukenari had been murdered by a cousin, and while Juro was adopted by another man Goro Tokimune was sent to be a monk at a temple. One day, he and his brother reunited and exacted their revenge on their father's killer. Both brothers were killed in the aftermath, however. Thus, while everyone died, honor was restored in the end.
Number 9 from the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (月百姿).
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
In 1954, Ellison decided to write about youth gangs. To research the issue, he joined a street gang in the Red Hook, Brooklyn, area, under the alias "Phil 'Cheech' Beldone". His subsequent writings on the subject include the novel Web of the City/Rumble, the collection The Deadly Streets, and part of his memoir Memos from Purgatory. [Source: Wikipedia]
A lovely 1940s version of Rudyard Kipling's tale accompanied with charming illustrations by F. Rojankovsky.
How The Camel Got his Hump
By Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by F. Rojankovsky.
Published by Garden City Publishing (1942)
“Tarzan and the Lost Empire,” the twelfth in the series of Tarzan books, was first published as a serial in Blue Book Magazine from October 1928 through February 1929. The story involves a lost remnant of the Roman Empire that Tarzan and a young German find hidden in the mountains of Africa. The book is notable for the introduction of Nkima, Tarzan’s monkey companion who appears in a number of later Tarzan stories. It also reintroduces Muviro, first seen in “Tarzan and the Golden Lion,” as sub-chief of Tarzan’s Waziri warriors.
With sales of about 200 million copies, “A Tale of Two Cities” is the biggest selling novel in history. It began as weekly installments from April 30, 1859 to November 26, 1859 in Dickens’ literary periodical titled “All the Year Round.” It depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the French revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.
Chapman & Hall published the novel in 8 monthly parts (July – December 1859) and in book form that same year and commissioned Hablot K. Browne [Phiz] to create full page illustrations for the story. It was the last of Dickens’ books to be illustrated by Hablot K. Browne.
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From the back cover:
MAX BESH WAS ONE TOUGH APACHE. THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN HIM MAD.
Max Besh, movie stunt man and full=blooded Apache, was having quite a vacation in Las Vegas. He'd won six grand at the crap tables and he'd gotten himself a curvy young dancer for companionship. Next thing he knew, he was looking down the barrel of a .38 and somebody was riding off with the cash and the girl.
What the kidnappers didn't realize was nobody pulls that kind of trick on Max Besh. They eluded police and crossed the Mexican border, but they couldn't shake the angry Indian on their trail.
Even if it took a shootout, Max Besh was going to get his money and his woman back -- in that order.
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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"Mark begins to be jolly under creditable circumstances" by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne).
Quoting from the book (page 88):
He rose early next morning, and was a-foot soon after sunrise. But it was of no use; the whole place was up to see Mark Tapley off: the boys, the dogs, the children, the old men, the busy people and the idlers: there they were, all calling out “Good by’e, Mark,” after their own manner, and all sorry he was going. Somehow he had a kind of sense that his old mistress was peeping from her chamber window, but he couldn’t make up his mind to look back.
“Good by’e one, good by’e all!” cried Mark, waving his hat on the top of his walking stick, as he strode at a quick pace up the little street.” Hearty chaps them wheelwrights – hurrah! Here’s the butcher’s dog a-coming out of the garden – down old fellow! And Mr. Pinch a-going to his organ – good by’e sir! And the terrier bitch from over the way – hie then, lass! And children enough to hand down human natur to the latest posterity – good by’e boys and girls! There’s some credit in it now. I’m a-coming out strong at last. These are the circumstances as would try a ordinary mind; but I’m uncommon jolly; not quite as jolly as I could wish to be, but very near. Good by’e! good by’e!”
[Note: Mark Tapley is one of my favorite Dickens characters -- strong, handsome, cheerful, good-humored.]
I used to love Beverly Cleary books.
Henry and Ribsy.
Written by Beverly Cleary
Illustrated by Louis Darling.
Published by: McLeod (1954)
A first edition printing of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species or more completely: On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Wow. Think about it! From the rare book collection at the National Tropical Botanical Garden hdq. (visited by appointment only). Somehow, seeing this book in it's first edition was pretty dang special. Then I started thinking about the rest of the photos in this trip to Kauai... cliff jumpers, pool parties, reptillian sea turtles (been around for over 150 million years!), surfers, native birds decimated by mosquitoes. tourists hanging out of helicopters and so on. I wonder what Darwin would write about today? Kauai, Hawaii
Have I ever mentioned how much I adore elephants?
From:
Jungle Animals.
Witten by Frank Buck
Illustrated by Roger Vernam
Published by Random House; First edition (1945)
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Rackham Trade Edition.
“Bleak House” opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of “Jarndyce and Jarndyce,” in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. “Bleak House,” in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A “great Victorian novel,” it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical novel about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River in a fictional town called St. Petersburg, inspired by the author’s hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. The novel was an immediate success and soon brought the author fame and wealth. Not even “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” considered by many to be Mark Twain’s masterpiece, can match the popularity of Tom Sawyer, which has outsold all of Twain’s other works. It is where we first meet Tom Sawyer’s mischievous, pipe-smoking buddy, Huck Finn, and other memorable characters, including Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher (Tom Sawyer’s true love), Joe Harper (Tom’s friend and fellow traveler), Muff Potter (falsely accused of murder) and Injun Joe. We accompany young Tom on many adventures, from whitewashing a fence and pining for Becky Thatcher to rafting on the Mississippi, exploring a cave and hunting treasure.
The book features some 200 illustrations by True W. Williams and it was first published in London in June 1876, a rather odd circumstance for this uniquely American novel. Mark Twain was more popular in England than in the United States back then, and he may have been eager to get his book into the marketplace for copyright protection. In any case, the first American edition didn’t issue until six months later. The American Publishing Company of Hartford published it in early December 1876, just in time for Christmas.
Young Danny Cross couldn’t understand the telegram from the Security Commission ordering him home from college. He wondered whether it had anything to do with the reported “death” of one of America’s leading atomic scientists in a rocket explosion over White Sands. He was surprised that it was only another thorough security check and a change of security card – the vital “open sesame” to anyone living in the Alamogordo, New Mexico, of 1981.
But Danny noticed a change in the atmosphere at the proving grounds and in the communities where its scientists and technicians lived. As more and more atomic scientists disappeared in “rocket explosions” miles above Earth – explosions that failed to scatter debris under the sites of the accidents – the former camaraderie was replaced by an air of suspicion and foreboding. The continuing disappearances led Danny to conclude that a highly skilled scientific group had planned, constructed and was operating a space station that circled the Earth in secret. He suspected that even his father and mother planned to desert Earth’s laboratories for an extraterrestrial life.
Readers who regard H. G. Wells as strictly a writer of science fiction are sadly mistaken. This volume collects the best of H. G. Wells’ horror tales, including chillers about monsters (“The Strange Orchid,” “The Sea Raiders,” and “In the Avu Observatory”), black magic (“Pollock and the Porroh Man”), the supernatural (“The Plattner Story”) and some that are just plain creepy (“The Apple,” “The Red Room,” and “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham”).
I knew these were in the house somewhere ...
The first two volumes of LOTR, in the bootleg Ace paperback edition.
Cover illustrations by Jack Gaughan.
No date, but 1965 or so. 75 cents each.
These belonged to my sister. I don't know what happened to The Return of the King, and, after all these years, she probably doesn't know either.
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A delightful illustration from "Away Went Wolfgang," a 1950s tale set in Austria and told by Virginia Kahl. Wolfgang the excitable dog is to help pull the milk wagon, but things do not go as planned...
"Away Went Wolfgang."
Written and illustrated by Virginia Kahl
Published by Scribner (1954)
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Rackham Trade Edition.
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, "Tobacco Road" is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will someday descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them.
“Tobacco Road,” Caldwell’s third novel, was inspired by the terrible poverty he witnessed as a young man growing up in the small east Georgia town of Wrens. It was named one of the Modern Library’s 100 best novels of the 20th century.
“Back to the Stone Age” is the fifth novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ series set in the interior world of Pellucidar, a fictional hollow Earth. The story first appeared as a six-part serial in Argosy Weekly from January 9 to February 13, 1937 under the title "Seven Worlds to Conquer." This action adventure tale is populated by saber-toothed tigers, pterodactyls, mammoths (and the men who ride them), native warriors and, in typical Burroughs fashion, unexpected traitors and heroes at every turn. The artwork for the novel was supplied by the author’s son John Coleman Burroughs.
This is one of Arthur C. Clarke’s best novels. It has an irresistible theme – mankind’s first encounter with a visitant from the unimaginably remote depths of space and time.
A new celestial body appears in the outer reaches of our solar system in 2130. Believed at first to be an asteroid and named Rama by earthlings, it proves not to be a natural object at all. It’s a vast cylinder about 31 miles long and over 12 miles across, with a mass of at least ten trillion tons. It is moving steadily closer to the Sun. The five-thousand-ton spaceship Endeavour lands on Rama, and when Commander Bill Norton and his crew make their way into its hollow interior they find a whole self-contained world – a world that has been cruising through space for at least 200,000 years and perhaps for more than a million.
Norton and his crew have, at most, three weeks to explore Rama, which seems to be a dead world, though not without its perils. Then, in its own astonishing way, it proves to be very much alive and the perils intensify. Yet in the end homo sapiens pose the greatest menace.
If Morgan Freeman has his way, Rama will someday make its way onto the big screen:
Milwaukee-born author Jack Finney is best known for “The Body Snatchers,” a classic science fiction story and the basis for the 1956 movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and its remake in 1978 starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum.
Here is the pod-opening scene in the 1956 film:
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Here is the comparable scene in the 1978 remake:
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Jack Finney's story was first published in the USA as a paperback, Dell First Edition 42, and may have been inspired by Robert Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters." The latter had a similar premise - the invasion of mind-controlling parasites from outer space - and Heinlein's novel came out some 4 years earlier.
In this novel, Edgar Rice Burroughs reincarnates the chariot races, the intrigues, the people, the sights and sounds of Imperial Rome. He paints a vivid picture of the life of Britannicus Caligulae Servus, the personal slave of mad emperor Caligula.
The cover art for the first hardcover edition is by Jeff Jones:
This book was one of the first color editions and the last Brer Rabbit collection published during the lifetime of the author, Georgia native Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908). Raised in poverty, Harris was an apprentice to a Southern newspaper as a teenager and he made friends with plantation slaves who passed along their stories. Harris hoped that the charming illustrations and his use of dialect in retelling these old black legends would “suggest a certain picturesque sensitiveness – a curious exaltation of mind and temperament (of the black man).”
The characters of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit are best known from the classic 1946 Disney movie, “Song of the South.” Here is a memorable scene in that movie:
From "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Art by W. W. Denslow. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill, 1900. 1st ed.
Few Americans are unfamiliar with this century-old children’s tale. A cyclone carries Dorothy from her home in Kansas into the magical Land of Oz where she meets the scarecrow, the tin woodman, and the cowardly lion. Their adventures looking for the Emerald City and the Wizard have become a permanent part of American popular culture. Baum’s work is illustrated by W. W. Denslow and features 24 inserted color plates and many black & white drawings. Denslow’s artwork was an obvious inspiration for the look and feel of the 1939 film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy.
Metropolitan Books originally published “Tarzan at the Earth’s Core” in 1930 with a dust jacket and interior illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Canaveral Press reissued the novel in 1962 with a new dust jacket and interior illustrations by Frank Frazetta. The novel is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ thirteenth Tarzan novel and the fourth in his series set in the interior world of Pellucidar. In response to a radio plea, Tarzan embarks on a mission to save David Innes, one of the scientists who discovered the interior world. Tarzan penetrates Pellucidar in an airship crewed primarily by Germans and his Waziri warriors. He is soon separated from the main force and must struggle for survival against the prehistoric creatures and peoples of the inner world.
Cover of a marvelous oversized 1940s children's book about the wonderful and weird animals living in jungles.
Jungle Animals.
Witten by Frank Buck
Illustrated by Roger Vernam
Published by Random House; First edition (1945)
Modern Magic by Professor Hoffmann (Angelo Lewis) was the first book in the English language to really explain how to perform feats of magic. The book contains advice on the appearance, dress and staging of a magician. It then goes on to describe many tricks with playing cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes, dice, cups and balls, balls, hats and a large chapter of miscellaneous tricks, including magic with strings, gloves, eggs, rice and some utility devices. The penultimate chapter describes large stage illusions, and the final chapter contains advice on routining a magic show, and more advice on staging.
So I’ve been looking to buy a Rollei 35 camera for some time and my delay was due to my criteria. It had to be black and made in Germany. Recently I came across two cameras that met this and purchased them both for a decent price. This is the second one and it has the original smaller lock for the back (or base), it is uncommon.
Lighting by Marcel.
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The complete title is “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures.”
The book contains a multitude of theories and experiments including the corpuscular theory of light , the experimental proof that all colors are contained in white light, a full explanation of the rainbow, and the first organized color circle with seven primary colors (illustrated with a figure of a color wheel used in some form in virtually all later art theory.) The book also includes 19 folding plates and an appendix with Newton’s first published mathematical works, in which he states that he invented the calculus in 1665-66; these are written in Latin and were dropped from later editions.
17 superb stories that go rocketing into space and out of time by the finest imaginative creators of science fiction.
Never Underestimate by Theodore Sturgeon -- When his wife told him that sex was hotter than science, the great scientist decided to perform an experiment -- in human chemistry.
What To Do Until The Analyst Comes by Frederik Pohl -- It wasn't habit forming; it couldn't . . .hum . . . hurt you, or . . .ah . . . make you sick. It just kept you from . . . oh . . . um . . .doing anyt. . h . .i . .n . .g
Strikebreaker by Isaac Asimov -- His job was different, so different that no one would touch him, talk to him, marry him --but 30,000 were willing to die for him.
--Just three samples of the unusual and ingenious tales awaiting you in "17 X Infinity."