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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.
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From "Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. First American Edition
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.
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/]
Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. In 1894, he chose Flagstaff, Arizona as the home of his new observatory, the now famous Lowell Observatory. For the next fifteen years, he studied Mars extensively, and made intricate drawings of the surface markings as he perceived them. He was particularly interested in the canals of Mars, as drawn by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who was director of the Milan Observatory. Lowell published his views in three books: “Mars” (1895), “Mars and Its Canals” (1906), and “Mars As the Abode of Life” (1908).
Lowell’s works include a full account of the “canals,” single and double, the “oases,” as he termed the dark spots at their intersections, and the varying visibility of both, depending partly on the Martian seasons. He theorized that an advanced but desperate culture had built the canals to tap Mars’ polar ice caps, the last source of water on an inexorably drying planet.
While this idea excited the public, the astronomical community was skeptical. Many astronomers could not see these markings, and few believed that they were as extensive as Lowell claimed. In 1909 the sixty-inch Mount Wilson Observatory telescope in Southern California allowed closer observation of the structures Lowell had interpreted as canals, and revealed irregular geological features, probably the result of natural erosion. The existence of canal-like features was definitely disproved in the 1960s by NASA’s Mariner missions. Today, the surface markings taken to be canals are regarded as an optical illusion.
Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last decade of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, a hypothetical planet beyond Neptune. In 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, working at the Lowell Observatory, discovered Pluto near the location expected for Planet X. Partly in recognition of Lowell's efforts, a stylized P-L monogram – the first two letters of the new planet's name and also Lowell's initials – was chosen as Pluto's astronomical symbol.
Although Lowell's theories of the Martian canals are now discredited, his building of an observatory at the position where it would best function has been adopted as a principle for all observatories. He also established the program and an environment which made the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh possible. Craters on the Moon and on Mars have been named after Percival Lowell. He has been described by other planetary scientists as "the most influential popularizer of planetary science in America before Carl Sagan". Lowell is buried on Mars Hill near his observatory. [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.
"Who are you? Are you a ghost?"
Burnett’s story of a sickly and unloved 10-year-old orphan who finds joy and happiness in her secret garden is a classic of English children’s literature and one of Burnett’s best-known works.
An 1859 1st Edition On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin seen in the Reading Room of the Strozier Library Special Collections at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
To see more images of this book including a signed note by the author, go here: View 408: On The Origin of Species.
Told as a first-person narrative, the story is about a young soldier named Juan "Johnnie" Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military service branch equipped with powered armor. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species on Klendathu known as "the Bugs". “Starship Troopers” won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960. It was also given the Hollywood treatment in 1997:
"The thriving City of Eden, as it appeared in fact" by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne).
Quoting from the book (page 288)
“Here’s a ugly old tree in the way, sir,” he observed, “which’ll be all the better down. We can build the oven in the afternoon. There never was such a handy spot for clay as Eden is. That’s convenient, anyhow.”
But Martin gave him no answer. He had sat the whole time with his head upon his hands, gazing at the current as it rolled swiftly by; thinking, perhaps, how fast it moved towards the open sea, the high road to the home he never would behold again.
Not even the vigorous strokes which Mark dealt the tree, awoke him from his mournful meditation. Finding all his endeavours to rouse him of no use, Mark stopped in his work and came towards him.
“Don’t give in, sir,” said Mr. Tapley.
“Oh, Mark,” returned his friend, “what have I done in all my life that has deserved this heavy fate?”
[Note: Young Martin Chuzzlewit, grandson of Martin Sr and protagonist of the story, and Mark Tapley have come to America to seek their fortunes. Young Martin buys a piece of land in a settlement called Eden, which is in the midst of a malarial swamp.]
“The Woman Chaser” features the wild and sordid escapades of first-time film director Richard Hudson in 1950s Hollywood. It was adapted for the screen in 1999 and the tone is film noir. Here is a clip in which Hudson (played by Patrick Warburton) gives his guitarist named Flaps a pep-talk before he plays the musical score to Hudson’s film, “The Man Who Got Away.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi1wcsy-Bq4
Charles Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Beside “The Woman Chaser,” film adaptations have been made of Willeford's “Cockfighter” and “Miami Blues.” According to crime novelist Lawrence Block, "Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard for what anyone else thought." [Source: Wikipedia]
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 back cover:
Juvenile Delinquents on a Joy ride to Tragedy!
The ride began one wild night when a bunch of young hoodlums, hot for fast thrills, stole a souped-up hardtop and lashed out on a trail of violence that terrorized the town --
* A sedan was wrecked . . .
* A youth beaten up . . .
* A whole family threatened . . .
* A woman murdered . . .
See YOUNG AND WILD, an Esla Production, a Republic presentation starring GENE EVANS, SCOTT MARLOWE, CAROLYN KEARNEY
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.
Jasper Maskelyne (1902-1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. His “Book of Magic” describes a range of stage tricks, including sleight of hand, card and rope tricks, and “mind-reading” illusions. A 1937 Pathé film, “The Famous Illusionist,” was made of Maskelyne, looking dapper and apparently eating a boxful of razor blades, one at a time.
Jasper Maskelyne was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered, however, for his entertaining accounts of his work for British military intelligence during the Second World War. His exploits in the camouflage unit during the war are described in David Fisher’s book, “The War Magician” (1983), and in Maskelyne’s own book , “Magic: Top Secret” (1949). Book reviewer Peter Forbes writes that “the flamboyant magician’s contribution was either absolutely central (if you believe his account and that of his biographer) or very marginal (if you believe the official records and more recent research).” [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is a link to David Fisher's book "The War Magician:"
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335 bhp @ 4.800-6.500 rpm
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89th Geneva International Motor Show
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A combination of circumstances and a mishap of war stranded Tarzan in the mountains of Japanese-held Sumatra nearly two and one-half years after the invasion. Here, in company with American fliers, natives, Dutch guerrillas, a Chinese, a Dutch girl, and the granddaughter of a Borneo head-hunter, he found a full scope for his jungle-trained senses.
Sumatra is approximately the size and shape of California. And right there all similarity ends. This island sprawls across the equator. Its great forests, its lush jungles, its mountainous backbone are the abode of such an aggregation of savage life as may not be found in an area of similar size anywhere else in the world.
There are elephants, rhinoceroses. bears, wild dogs, tigers, orangutans, monkeys, wild cattle, cobras, pythons, and Japanese, just to name a few. There are native collaborationists and bands of Dutch outlaws. The stage was already set for high adventure and the other actors were already there when Tarzan arrived.
The close companions who shared these adventures with him were a pilot from Oklahoma City, waist gunners from Brooklyn and Texas, a ball turret gunner from Chicago, a radio man from Van Nuys, California, a Chinese, a Dutch reserve officer, a Eurasian girl, and blonde Corrie Van der Meer, the daughter of a Dutch Sumatran planter. Viewing the diverse racial origins of this aggregation, their friends of the Dutch guerrillas dubbed them "The Foreign Legion."
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.
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”).
Isaac Newton’s name is nowhere to be found on the title page, indicating the first issue of this most famous book in optics in English. It 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.
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:
This first edition copy still has its original dust jacket! Dust jackets were used as early as 1830. After WWI they were often designed by prominent artists and became a great marketing tactic. This one was created by John Held Jr, who also designed many covers for Life Magazine in the Jazz Age.
Location: Special Collections, MSEL
Kenneth Roberts (1885 – 1957) was an American author of historical novels. Roberts worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction and "Trending Into Maine" is an homage to his native state. He often wrote about his native state and its terrain, also depicting other upper New England states and scenes. For example, the main characters of "Arundel" and "Rabble in Arms" are from Kennebunk (then called Arundel), the main character of "Northwest Passage" is depicted as being from Kittery, Maine with friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the main character in "Oliver Wiswell" is from Milton, Massachusetts.
American artist N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, "Treasure Island," was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Beside his many illustration plaudits, NC Wyeth is famous for being the father of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
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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.
Kenneth Roberts (1885 – 1957) was an American author of historical novels. Roberts worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction and "Trending Into Maine" is an homage to his native state. He often wrote about his native state and its terrain, also depicting other upper New England states and scenes. For example, the main characters of "Arundel" and "Rabble in Arms" are from Kennebunk (then called Arundel), the main character of "Northwest Passage" is depicted as being from Kittery, Maine with friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the main character in "Oliver Wiswell" is from Milton, Massachusetts.
American artist N. C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945) was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. The first of these, "Treasure Island," was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Beside his many illustration plaudits, NC Wyeth is famous for being the father of artist Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
[Source: Wikipedia]
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
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.
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin died just shy of his Vostok 1 mission's seventh anniversary, on March 27, 1968, when the MiG-15 fighter jet that he and instructor Vladimir Seryogin were piloting on a routine training flight went down outside a small town near Moscow. Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first man to leave a spacecraft and float in the open vacuum of space, has worked for years to learn what led to Gagarin's death. He finally gained permission and spoke about the details in an interview released on Friday, June 14, 2013, by the state-funded Russia Today (RT) television network.
"We knew that a Su-15 [fighter jet] was scheduled to be tested that day, but it was supposed to be flying at the altitude of 10,000 meters [33,000 feet] or higher, not 450-500 meters [1,480-1,640 feet]," Leonov told RT. "It was a violation of the flight procedure."
A new declassified report confirmed that an unauthorized Sukhoi (Su-15) supersonic jet flew dangerously close to Gagarin's MiG-15. “The two jets must have been no less than 50 kilometers apart." Leonov said.
"While afterburning the aircraft reduced its echelon at a distance of 10-15 meters [30-50 ft] in the clouds, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and thus sending it into a tailspin — a deep spiral, to be precise — at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour [470 miles per hour]," Leonov said in the television interview. “Now, a jet can sink into a deep spiral if a larger, heavier aircraft passes by too close and flips [the jet] over with its backwash. And that is exactly what happened to Gagarin. That trajectory was the only one that corresponded with all our input parameters," Leonov told RT.
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.
Timely detail of a vintage children's book illustration: "Katy and the Big Snow" is a charming 1940s children's story book by Virginia Burton. Katy the snowplow finally gets her chance to shine when a blizzard blankets the city and everyone is relying on Katy to help dig out.
Katy and the Big Snow.
Written & Illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton
Published by: Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston First edition (1943)
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
An imaginative reconstruction of history and legend, "A Search for the King" is an idealistic adventure, a medieval tapestry, woven with richness and color. It is the story of the troubador Blondel's search for Richard the Lion-Heart, held prisoner by Duke Leopold after one of the Crusades. From castle to castle, across the face of Europe, Blondel journeys, singing his ballads, encountering giants and dragons and enchanted forests, as he follows the trail of the King.
Philip Jose Farmer wasn’t afraid to step over lines in the 50’s and 60’s. “The Image of the Beast” was Farmer’s first novel for Essex House and his first novel with explicit sex. It is a very good read.
Essex House was based in Los Angeles and specialized in highbrow erotica. Many new publishing houses sprang up after the U.S. Supreme Court finally permitted the open publishing of adult fiction. Essex House was one of the best, though short-lived (1968-1969). Its young editor, Brian Kirby, also edited the books of the sister imprint, Brandon House. Many Essex House novelists were young serious writers (several of them poets) who used scenarios drawn from sf and fantasy as settings for their stories. About half of the 42 titles published by Essex House were sf/fantasy. They include novels by Richard E. Geis, David Meltzer, Michael Perkins and Hank Stine, along with Philip Jose Farmer. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction at www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/essex_house]
Quoting from the book (page 74):
Mr. Tupman no sooner heard this avowal, than he proceeded to do what his enthusiastic emotions prompted, and what, for aught we know, (for we are but little acquainted with such matters,) people so circumstanced always do. He jumped up, and, throwing his arm round the neck of the spinster aunt, imprinted upon her lips numerous kisses, which after a due show of struggling and resistance, she received so passively, that there is no telling how many more Mr. Tupman might have bestowed, if the lady had not given a very affected start and exclaimed in an affrighted tone, –
“Mr. Tupman, we are observed! – we are discovered!”
[Note: Tracy Tupman is a member of the Pickwick Club and a traveling companion of Mr. Pickwick. He has a weakness for the fair sex which leads to several misadventures.]
This early Arkham House anthology of works by H. P. Lovecraft includes such fantasies as "The White Ship" and the novel, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," and such horror stories as "The Moon Bog," "The Unnamable," and the novel, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." There are poems and collaborations and revisions by Lovecraft, including "The Diary of Alonzo Typer," "The Curse of Yig," "The Mound," "The Horror in the Museum," and others. To the writings by Lovecraft himself have been added a "Cthulhu Glossary," by Francis Laney, designed to summarize what is known about the fabled beings and places of Lovecraft's monumental creation, the "Cthulhu Mythos."