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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]
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 . . .
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.
The book features seven stories by the long-time editor of Astounding Science Fiction. They are all set in the far distant future amid technologies way more advanced than our own. The tales describe the perils we are inevitably exposed to in a universe indifferent to our lives, our progress, or our extinction. Campbell foresees humans bred for specific characteristics, watches their fight for freedom from interstellar invaders and bears witness to the rule of the Machine and to mankind’s sudden loss of memory.
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.)
“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.
I used to love Beverly Cleary books.
Henry and Ribsy.
Written by Beverly Cleary
Illustrated by Louis Darling.
Published by: McLeod (1954)
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 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.
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.
My wonderful sister gave me her only Deuce Gorgon. I think he's from the first edition. Thank you sis. Oh and she also gave me this cute Gus.
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.
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).
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
"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.]
In the 1970s, when I was travelling a lot for work, I started reading Nevil Shute novels – and became so ‘addicted’ that I read everything he ever wrote. He described his characters as ‘ordinary people doing extraordinary things’. And none more so, perhaps, than Keith Stewart, the central character in Trustee from the Toolroom, published in 1960 shortly after the author’s death. Here was an ordinary man from Ealing (a suburb of London), a small-time engineer, who found himself the trustee of his 10-year-old niece, committed to a 2,000-mile voyage across the Pacific in a small yacht, searching for a legacy of lost diamonds.
For me, there’s also a local link. The hardback first edition, seen here, was printed by the Windmill Press in Kingswood, Surrey – very near to Banstead, where I lived in my early years. The Press was set up by Frank Doubleday, chairman of William Heinemann publishers, and among its authors were not only Shute, but luminaries such as Graham Greene, John Steinbeck, HG Wells, John Galsworthy, Somerset Maugham, Monica Dickens and John Masefield.
The Press stood in extensive grounds in Kingswood. It opened in 1928 and ceased operations in 1997.
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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."
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.
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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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.
This 1970s book, Don't Lick the Chopsticks, contains a collection of Chinese recipes are not only delicious but easy to make.
Cover to Don't Lick the Chopsticks: The creative, harmonious Ma family Chinese cookbook.
Harper & Row 1973 First edition
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.
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.
“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.
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)
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.
This is Arthur C. Clarke’s first science fiction novel and the jacket art is by Chesley Bonestell. The premise is that Mars has been surveyed but not fully explored and that Martin Gibson, a famous science fiction writer, is traveling there as a guest of the crew of spaceship Ares. Gibson arrives and given a tour of the place. He learns of secret plans to make Mars self-sufficient and the atmosphere breathable for humans. The most ambitious project involves the ignition of the moon Phobos and its use as a second sun. Gibson also encounters never-before-seen Martian creatures when he is forced down in a dust storm on a trip to a remote research station. Hard to believe this story was written before humans had achieved spaceflight.
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:
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)
“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.
Bononcini, Giovanni [1670 AD -1747 AD], Astartus an Opera as it was Perform'd at the Kings Theatre for the Royal Accademy. London: J. Walsh and J. Hare, [1721], First Edition, 2 leaves, 81 pages, engraved throughout, table of songs and advertisement. Size: folio (34.2 x 22.8cm). Condition: early inscription ("Giv'n to ye Musick-Club by Mr. Professor Goodson Aug: 30 1722") and stamp of 'Musical Society Oxford' to title, Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II C 45") to verso of title, manuscript Dolmetsch Library label affixed to head of spine with translucent adhesive tape, old manuscript labels to upper cover ("21"; "915 V"), contemporary marbled boards, red morocco label gilt to upper cover ("Astartus"), with later endpapers (watermarked "1804"), cracked at lower hinge, old ink stains to outer edges, covers worn. RARE. The last copy we have traced at auction was sold at Sotheby’s on 9 December 1999 (lot 42). LITERATURE: RISM B 3557 and BB 3557; Smith and Humphries, no.191. A revised version of Bononcini's original opera of 1715 was premiered at the King's Theatre in London in November 1720. It was one of only two London operas for which Bononcini, Handel's great London rival, published the overture and arias.
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.
"Pleasant little family party at Mr. Pecksniffs" by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne).
Quoting from the book (page 42):
“This,” said Mr. Pecksniff rising, and looking round upon them, with folded hands, “does me good. It does my daughters good. We thank you for assembling here. We are grateful to you with our whole hearts. It is a blessed distinction that you have conferred upon us, and believe me” – it is impossible to conceive how he smiled here – “we shall not easily forget it.”
“I am sorry to interrupt you, Pecksniff,” remarked Mr. Spottletoe, with his whiskers in a very portentous state; “but you are assuming too much to yourself sir. Who do you imagine has it in contemplation to confer a distinction upon you sir?”
A general murmur echoed this enquiry, and applauded it.
“If you are about to pursue the course with which you have begun sir,” pursued Mr. Spottletoe in a great heat, and giving a violent rap on the table with his knuckles, “the sooner you desist, and this assembly separates, the better. I am no stranger sir, to your preposterous desire to be regarded as the head of this family, but I can tell you sir –”
[Note: Pecksniff, one of the biggest hypocrites in fiction, and Spottletoe, married to old Martin Chuzzlewit's niece, both have designs on old Martin's money.]
Nombre: Bumblebee
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: TF Prime Beast Hunters
Clase: Deluxe
Año: 2013
Número de adquisición: 637
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Name: Bumblebee
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: TF Prime Beast Hunters
Class: Deluxe
Year: 2013
Number in Collection: 637
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)
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.
Hello Google users!
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.
"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