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“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 book "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). First edition. This is the first book that tells the story of Peter Pan, Wendy and their exploits in Neverland along with the now familiar cast of characters that includes Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and Tiger Lily.
"A Brand New Story About THE FAMOUS BUMSTEADS"
An original novel based on the famous newspaper strip "Blondie". With seventeen minutes in which to catch his bus, Dagwood leaps from bed and begins to dress. He nicks himself with the razor, breaks his shoestring, scalds the lining of his mouth while drinking his coffee, and lands smack in the mikkle of a small riot in the bus. Then, wondering if something there might help to explain what's been happening to his day, he opens his paper to Your Daily Horoscope.
Car: Lotus Emira V6 First Edition.
Engine: 3456cc V6.
Power: 400 BHP.
Fuel: Petrol.
Year of manufacture: 2022.
Date of first registration in the UK: 7th December 2022.
Place of registration: Not kmown.
Date first MOT due: 6th December 2025.
Date of last V5 issued: 30th January 2023.
Date taken: 1st September 2024.
“A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowers, human ostriches, strong men, etc. by Houdini.”
“Rebecca” is Du Maurier’s first and most popular book, which opens with a truly memorable line: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” The book is arguably the most famous and well-loved gothic novel of the 20th century. The story begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, is swept off her feet by the rich and dashing 42-year-old widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. After a brief courtship, she agrees to marry him and, after the wedding and honeymoon, accompanies him to his mansion in Cornwall, the beautiful West Country estate Manderley.
It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife, Rebecca, will cast over their lives – presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave. The sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who was profoundly devoted to the first Mrs. de Winter, continually attempts to undermine the new Mrs. De Winter psychologically.
The story was made into a haunting film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders, and Judith Anderson. It was Hitchcock’s first American project and it won two Academy Awards, including Best Picture, out of a total of 11 nominations. Olivier, Fontaine and Anderson were all Oscar nominated for their respective roles. Here is a link to the movie trailer:
Cover Art by Will Owen,
"Our Magic" is one of the classic works in 20th century conjuring literature. It is two books in one. Nevil Maskelyne writes on the theory behind magic (one of the first treatises on this subject) and David Devant offers twelve detailed routines of magic complete with all nuances and subtleties.
David Devant (1868-1941), an English magician and film exhibitor, was a member of the Maskelyne & Cooke Company and performed regularly at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London. He is revered by magicians as an inventor and performer whose stature led to him being invited three times to participate in Royal Command Performances. He was droll, engaging and a master of grand illusion and platform magic. Among Devant’s signature routines was his “Magic Kettle,” which produced, on demand, any alcoholic beverage called for by the audience.
Nevil Maskelyne (1863-1924) was the son of noted stage magician, John Nevil Maskelyne. Following his father’s death, he continued his father’s work at the Egyptian Hall in London. He also worked in the area of wireless telegraphy and was a competitor and public detractor of Guglielmo Marconi in the early days of radio. On one occasion he hacked into Marconi’s demonstration of wireless telegraphy, and broadcast his own message, hoping to make Marconi’s claims of “secure and private communication” appear foolish. Maskelyne was the father of Jasper Maskelyne, who continued the family tradition of professional magic. [Source: Wikipedia]
A cute scene from "Mei Li" by Thomas Handforth. It is the second book to ever be awarded the Caldecott Medal for Illustration. Published in 1938 by Doubleday, it tells the story of a girl named Mei Li who attends the Chinese New Year festivities with her brother San Yu and is burdened with the task to prove that there are activities for girls, too.
Mark Twain penned the following inscription on the inside front cover: “Dear Mrs. Doubleday: This book has wandered into my hands, & as it is too delicate & pretty for a person like me, & just right for a person like you, I wish to beg you to take it. With the affectionate regards of a long-time friend – to wit S. L. Clemens. New York, Xmas 1906.”
The recipient was undoubtedly the naturalist Neltje Doubleday, the wife of his good friend the publisher Frank N. Doubleday. Merle Johnson, in his “A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain,” states that this book was “published anonymously August 20, 1906… for the author…Copies of the work were distributed privately to the author’s personal friends and public acknowledgement of authorship was withheld until after his death.”
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Rackham Trade Edition.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Mars' Earth-born Emperor battles for survival. Mars is at peace for the first time in generations but its old warlord is still alive and a hidden race of Martians makes itself known, adding to the complexity of the situation threatening that peace. In the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Red Men of Mars” is the third installment in the Clayton Drew quartet. “Emperor of Mars,” “Warrior of Mars,” and “Goddess of Mars” are the other installments.
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.
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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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."
The all digital instrument cluster in one of its many screen configurations 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 vehicle is in 'EV Now' electric only mode. Despite the battery at 3/4 charged, it only has an all electric range of 19 miles.
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From the back cover:
When playwright Tony Cross received a telegram from his best friend, Pete Salem, saying he was bringing home a bride, Tony expected her to be anything from an innocent virgin to a jaded socialite.
But when Donna Salem stepped off the train, Tony wasn't prepared for her sophisticated sensuality or the wave of infidelity she touched off.
Donna was fair game to every man in the community and Tony soon found himself drawn, irresistibly, into an affair that threatened his marriage and almost destroyed his best friend.
It took gambler Leo Manta's arrival to blow the lid off Donna's love games. When he turned up to put his claim on her, he touched off a scandal that rocked the whole community.
Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important, smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives of that Iceworld for a new and virulent narcotic...the most dangerous drug ever to come into their universe.
Now Sallman Ken wondered what manner of creature could exist on a planet so cold that sulfur was a solid, not a gas, and water actually existed as a liquid. But he wouldn't wonder for long, for Ken had to find a way onto the surface of that planet so he could locate the source of that deadly drug.
Great cover on the 1969 first edition of "Design with Nature," a classic book on design ecology by Ian L McHarg.
"Ian L. McHarg (1920 – 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture, city planning and public policy. His 1969 book "Design with Nature" pioneered the concept of ecological planning. It continues to be one of the most widely celebrated books on landscape architecture and land-use planning. In this book, he set forth the basic concepts that were to develop later in geographic information systems." Wikipedia
"Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye"
My other favourite quote of the book is "Dessine moi un mouton" :)
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]
John Carter is the protagonist and narrator of this inter-planetary adventure story, the eighth in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series. Barsoom is Burroughs’ fictional representation of the planet Mars. John Carter wages war against a guild of assassins and he, also, gets embroiled in the rivalry between two scientists who compete against each other to create an artificial brain-controlled spacecraft. The novel features full-page illustrations by the artist J. Allen St. John.
From May through November 1864, 20-year-old Sergeant Major Robert H. Kellogg of the 16th Regiment Connecticut volunteers and most of his regiment were confined in Confederate prisons at Andersonville, Georgia and Florence, South Carolina. Upon entering the notorious Andersonville prison, Kellogg scribbled into his diary: “Our hearts failed us as we saw what used to be men now nothing but mere skeletons covered with filth & vermin.”
Robert Kellogg’s “Life and Death in Rebel Prisons” was published in 1865, right after the American Civil War while the horrors of that time were still fresh in the author’s memory. The book was based on his journal and the accounts of other Union Army prisoners. It details the harsh conditions and daily atrocities of life in Confederate prisons as well as some details of the war.
“Life on the Mississippi” is a classic travel story by Mark Twain, which contains an account of his childhood experiences, as well as his life on the river as a steamboat pilot. It is his first-hand look at navigating the Mississippi by riverboat and the changes that came about after the Civil War. The book was written at about the same time as “Huckleberry Finn” and shares several themes with that classic. Huck Finn makes a lengthy cameo on pages 42–61, a story within the chapter detailing Huck and Jim's attempt to reach Cairo which does not appear in Huckleberry Finn, published two years later.
In September 1883, “The Atlantic Monthly” published a review of the book, in which the following was said: "The material offered by observations on the journey is various beyond enumeration, and much of it is extremely amusing. Hoaxes and exaggerations palmed off by pilots and other natives along the way upon supposed ignorant strangers; stories of gamblers and obsolete robbers; glimpses of character and manners; descriptions of scenery and places; statistics of trade; Indian legends; extracts from the comments of foreign travelers, -- all these occur, interspersed with two or three stories of either humorous or tragic import, or of both together."
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 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 in secret. He suspected that even his father and mother were planning to leave Earth for an extraterrestrial life. [Synopsis of “Rockets to Nowhere” by Lester Del Rey (1954)]
What could possibly be scary about a pet cemetery? Stephen King answers that question in spades with one of his scariest stories. He tells the tale of a family that moves into a small town in Maine and strange things start happening from day one. The two children are hurt in accidents and, soon after, the family cat is run over outside their new home. The cat is buried in the “pet sematary” in nearby woods where the town kids bury their dead animals. Now the paranormal story begins and soon all hell breaks loose.
"Pet Sematary" was adapted into a movie in 1989:
This edition of the novel contains six color illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The book was first published in the US in 1966 under the title “The Garden of Evil” by Paperback Library. In 1988, it was adapted into a film by Ken Russell.
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“The Lair of the White Worm” was Bram Stoker’s twelfth and last novel, published a year before his death. The novel, along with “The Jewel of Seven Stars, is one of his most famous after “Dracula.” It is a horror story about a giant white worm that can transform itself into a woman. Partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm from North East England, the White Worm in Stoker’s story is a large snake-like creature that dwells in a hole or pit and feeds on whatever is thrown to it. It is thought to reside in the house of Arabella March, a local lady and a suspect in numerous crimes that cannot be proven.
Parker in her box! Look at those cute Licca armsies! She has been out before, but her stock is still mounted in the box. Parco stock:
White boots
Pink & white bag
3 hologram-y stars, presumably to put in her hair.
Wee little blue mobile phone (to the right of her ear).
Clear stand.
White net stockings
White undies
Pink & blue paisley dress with gold waist chain attached.
I'm not sure, I don't think there was a collectors card in Parco.
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Treatise on Painting,” the most important treatise on art to be written during the Renaissance, was actually compiled by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo’s pupils, around 1540. It circulated widely, first in separate manuscripts and later in printed books, and for centuries it was thought to have been written by Leonardo himself. Artists, scientists, and scholars including Galileo, read it avidly as an authoritative record of Leonardo’s thoughts. In the 19th century, when the artist’s original notes became available, scholars realized that the text poorly reflected Leonardo’s sophisticated ideas. The text was very influential nonetheless. For better or worse, it was the primary source for disseminating Leonardo’s art theory in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century.
[Source: www.treatiseonpainting.org/]
“Carson of Venus” is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ third of four novels in the Venus series. They follow the fantastic adventures of earthman Carson Napier after he crash lands on Venus, a water world called Amtor by its humanlike inhabitants. This third book was written two years before the outbreak of World War II. So, it focuses on spies, intrigue and war and satirizes the Nazis and the Fascists with a political faction called the “Zani” and a character named “Muso” as a reference to Benito Mussolini. Illustrations for the novel were supplied by the author’s son, John Coleman Burroughs.
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.
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 bonnet stay. Disappointed to see on a vehicle that retails at around £35,000 it doesn't come fitted with self supporting bonnet struts. The engineers will no doubt tell you that there's no room for them to be fitted and the average owner never looks under the bonnet anyway..
Also note the orange cables. This represent that they carry very high voltages.
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“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.
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.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Treatise on Painting,” the most important treatise on art to be written during the Renaissance, was actually compiled by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo’s pupils, around 1540. It circulated widely, first in separate manuscripts and later in printed books, and for centuries it was thought to have been written by Leonardo himself. Artists, scientists, and scholars including Galileo, read it avidly as an authoritative record of Leonardo’s thoughts. In the 19th century, when the artist’s original notes became available, scholars realized that the text poorly reflected Leonardo’s sophisticated ideas. The text was very influential nonetheless. For better or worse, it was the primary source for disseminating Leonardo’s art theory in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century.
[Source: www.treatiseonpainting.org/]
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Rackham Trade Edition.
Though essentially a minor collection, “The Shuttered Room & Other Pieces” offers some illuminating footnotes to Lovecraft’s story, and adds to the list of Cthulhu tales the memorable title story and the haunting “Fisherman of Falcon Point.” The jacket art is by Richard Taylor.
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.
After a shower of blazing lights in the sky, a plague of blindness befalls the entire world and allows the rise of a deadly and seemingly intelligent species of plant. The novel was the basis for the 1962 British film "The Day of the Triffids" starring Howard Keel:
Quoting from the book (page 75):
Mrs. Pardiggle, leading the way with a great show of moral determination, and talking with much volubility about the untidy habits of the people (though I doubted if the best of us could have been tidy in such a place), conducted us into a cottage at the farthest corner, the ground floor room of which we nearly filled. Besides ourselves, there were in this damp offensive room – a woman with a black eye, nursing a poor little gasping baby by the fire; a man, all stained with clay and mud, and looking very dissipated, lying at full length on the ground, smoking a pipe; a powerful young man, fastening a collar on a dog; and a bold girl, doing some kind of washing in very dirty water. They all looked up at us as we came in, and the woman seemed to turn her face towards the fire, as if to hide her bruised eye; nobody gave us any welcome.