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Karel van Mander, Het Schilder-Boeck (Haarlem: Paschier van Wesbusch, 1604), first edition in two volumes with added illustrations, 21 x 16.7 x 5.8 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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.
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
"It seemed scarcely bearable to leave such delightfulness."
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.
“The Space Merchants” has been very popular and has sold heavily since its original publication in 1953. It takes a satirical look at consumerism in a world where governments exist only to ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Through aggressive advertising, the public is deluded into thinking that the quality of life is improved by all the products on the market even though the most basic elements, like water and fuel, are incredibly scarce.
During the early 1950s, Ballantine Books was one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy. Beginning with “The Space Merchants” (#21) by Frederik Pohl and C.M Kornbluth, Ballantine published paperback originals by major science fiction authors including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, John Wyndham and many others. Ian Ballantine who with his wife Betty Ballantine founded Ballantine Books in 1952, announced that he would offer trade publishers original titles in two simultaneous editions, a hardcover “regular” edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, low-priced “news stand” edition for mass market sale. So, these Ballantine paperbacks were true first editions.
Although the first appearance of Richard Matheson’s “I Am Legend” was in this modest paperback, it became the basis for 3 subsequent motion pictures: “The Last Man on Earth” (1964) with Vincent Price, “The Omega Man” (1971) with Charlton Heston, and “I Am Legend” (2007) with Will Smith. It was also the inspiration behind George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” (1968). The concept of a worldwide viral apocalypse giving rise to zombies originated in Matheson’s book.
From "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving. London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Rackham Trade Edition.
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
An uncommon paperback with a lurid whipping cover and a bit of propaganda at a time when America was battling the Commie menace.
1944 March; A Short History of the Army and Navy by Fletcher Pratt.. First Edition with twenty-four Maps. Infantry Journal.
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.
The play is an original comedy in three acts and four scenes. After a try-out run at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston from September 26, 1955, it opened at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on October 13, starring Jayne Mansfield, Walter Matthau and Orson Bean. Directed by the author and produced by Jule Styne, it closed on November 3, 1956 after 444 performances.
The play is a Faustian comedy about a fan magazine writer who sells his soul to the Devil (in the guise of a literary agent) to become a successful screenwriter. The character of Rita Marlowe (played by Jayne Mansfield) is a vapid blonde sex symbol, an exaggerated lampoon of Marilyn Monroe (who had starred the previous year in the film version of Axelrod's play "The Seven Year Itch"). The surname Marlowe is an homage to 16th century playwright Christopher Marlowe, who wrote the 1604 drama The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, the plot of which served as the inspiration for Axelrod's play.
[Source: Wikipedia]
George Axelrod, born in New York, is probably best known for “The Seven Year Itch” – his first Broadway comedy – which ran for almost three years, toured very successfully, flowered in translation all over the world, and eventually was made into a movie – with this iconic scene:
The astronauts who have signed the page are Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton. Gus Grissom, who was also a Mercury astronaut, died tragically in the Apollo I Command Module on January 27, 1967 when it caught fire during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy.
The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1. They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963. Alan Shepard was the second person and the first American to travel into space. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first person to travel into space.
The story of the macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program of the Mercury astronauts and the equally fearless approach of test pilot Chuck Yeager was the basis of a book by Tom Wolfe (1979) and a movie by Philip Kaufman (1983). Both are titled “The Right Stuff.” Here is a link to the movie trailer:
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.
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Q-PyZxZjw
“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.
This is a 1940s lovely version of Rudyard Kipling's tale accompanied with charming illustrations by F. Rojankovsky.
When the smooth-skinned rhinoceros steals a cake from the Parsee (``from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendor'') he gets his just desserts--that is, cake crumbs deposited inside his skin. The itch causes him to rub and rub himself against a tree, until he becomes as wrinkled as we know him today.
Born in Philadelphia, R. Crumb is one of the pioneers of underground comics and the author of many of them. Written and drawn when he was 19, The Yum Yum Book is a fractured fairy tale that incorporates parts of traditional yarns such as Jack & the Beanstalk and The Princess & Her Frog Suitor.
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 is Great Britain’s tribute to America’s first walking stiff. “It’s Alive. It’s Alive. It’s Alive!”
“The Gift” was an annual literary anthology published in a gift book format for the years 1836, 1837, 1839, 1840, and 1842-1845. Each book was published by Carey & Hart of Philadelphia in the fall of the year prior to the date given in the title, so that The Gift for 1836 was actually issued in October of 1835. Five of the gift books include new tales by Edgar Allan Poe – “Manuscript Found in a Bottle” (1836), “William Wilson” (1840), “Eleonora” (1842), “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1843), and “The Purloined Letter” (1845).
An Orange County resident, Douglas Corrigan, besides helping to build Lindberg's Spirit of St Lous, was famous for after a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach.
Doug was a customer when I worked at Garden Photo in Santa Ana in the early 80's. Picked this book up a few days ago.
This is the first magic book to have photographic plates as illustrations throughout the text, a total of 31 plates.
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did
shrink;
Water, water, every where
Nor any drop to drink."
William Andrew Pogány (1882-1955) was born in Hungary, studied art in Budapest, and worked in Paris briefly before moving to London in 1905 where he worked as a book illustrator for ten years. He moved to New York in 1915 and had success as a book illustrator and designer of stage sets and hotel interiors. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one of Pogany’s best-known books. It is a bold artistic experiment in unifying text and images. Every page is elaborately decorated in Pogany’s distinctive style, which attempts to create a printed version of a medieval illuminated manuscript. He was responsible for the beautiful calligraphic text, green and mauve page decorations and borders, and the many black and white drawings and tipped-in plates in full color.
“Captains Courageous” is a coming-of-age tale of fishing off the New England coast. It is the story of Harvey Cheyne, a spoiled rich kid, who stumbles overboard an ocean liner and is rescued by fisherman Manuel Fidello off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and brought aboard a small fishing boat. There he meets Disko Troop, captain of the fishing boat, who refuses to take the young man back to port but agrees to take him on as part of the crew against Harvey’s wishes. Over the course of the novel, Harvey befriends the captain’s son Dan and has some sense knocked into him. Dan helps the arrogant, overly pampered Harvey become a hard-working, self-reliant man at sea.
“Captains Courageous” is also an excellent portrayal of life in the Gloucester fishing fleet of Massachusetts, written while the newlywed Kipling lived in Vermont. Although Kipling lived in Vermont several years and was married to an American this is his only novel with entirely American settings, themes and major characters. The American edition of the book is dedicated to James Conland, M.D., of Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Conland had brought the Kiplings elder daughter into the world and had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet. It is he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester.
Considered one of the great sea novels of the 19th century, “Captains Courageous” was made into an excellent Victor Fleming film in 1937 starring Freddie Bartholomew (Harvey Cheyne), Spencer Tracy (his rescuer Manuel Fidello),
Lionel Barrymore (Captain Disko Troop) and Mickey Rooney (Dan Troop).
With 43 illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz (H. K. Browne).
Charles Dickens' first novel.
Dickens was working as a Parliamentary reporter and a roving journalist at age 24, and he had published a collection of sketches on London life as “Sketches by Boz.” Publisher Chapman & Hall was projecting a series of "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour. There was to be a club, the members of which were to be sent on hunting and fishing expeditions into the country. Their guns were to go off by accident, and fishhooks were to get caught in their hats and trousers, and these and other misadventures were to be depicted in Seymour's comic plates. They asked Dickens to supply the description necessary to explain the plates and to connect them into a sort of picture novel that was fashionable at the time. He protested that he knew nothing of sport, but still accepted the commission.
Only in a few instances did Dickens adjust his narrative to plates that had been prepared for him. Typically, he led the way with an installment of his story, and the artist was compelled to illustrate what Dickens had already written. The story thus became the prime source of interest and the illustrations merely of secondary importance. Seymour provided the illustrations for the first two installments before his suicide. Robert William Buss illustrated the third installment, but Dickens did not like his work, so the remaining installments were illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) who illustrated most of Dickens' subsequent novels. The installments were first published in book form in 1837. [Source: Wikipedia]
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
In this, the fifteenth book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan series, Tarzan faces Soviet agents seeking revenge and a lost tribe descended from early Christians practicing a bizarre and debased religious cult. The story first appeared as a serial in the Blue Book magazine from October, 1931 through March, 1932.
“The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” features 8 stories including the title story that appear here for the first time in book form. The title story, a depiction of the universality of hypocrisy, ranks among the finest of Mark Twain’s short stories and has been acclaimed his masterpiece.
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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Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off to a nature clinic to be tuned-up to his former state of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet regime – and thereby upsets the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary, more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh.
Willy Ley (1906-1969) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight both in Germany and in the United States. He was a rocket designer and co-founder of the world’s first rocket airfield in Berlin. In 1935, he fled Nazi Germany for Great Britain and then the United States.
Willy Ley also enjoyed writing about the mysteries of natural history and was one of the early chroniclers of cryptozoology. He wrote about Sea Serpents, Yeti and the possibilities of living dinosaurs. He also suggested that some legendary creatures (e.g. the Sirrush, the Unicorn and the Cyclops) might have been based on real species (or the misinterpretation of certain animals or their fossils or remains).
Many of his articles published in journals, newpapers and magazines were on cryptozoological topics. The German book “Drachen Riesen” (Dragon Giants) appears to be the German edition of Willy Ley’s “Dragons in Amber: Further Adventures of a Romantic Naturalist,” first published in the UK in 1951. It is an early example of Ley’s cryptozoological writings where he describes strange animals from yesterday and today and makes amazing connections between science and legend. He writes about extinct animals and animals from the distant past that are still living in hidden corners of the earth.
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration during the period between the 1930s and the 1970s. As a youth he became enamored with the possibilities of space exploration by reading the science fiction of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and from the science fact writings of Hermann Oberth, whose 1923 classic study, Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (By Rocket to Space), prompted young von Braun to master calculus and trigonometry so he could understand the physics of rocketry. From his teenage years, von Braun had held a keen interest in space flight, becoming involved in the German rocket society, Verein fur Raumschiffarht (VfR), as early as 1929. As a means of furthering his desire to build large and capable rockets, in 1932 he went to work for the German army to develop ballistic missiles. While engaged in this work, von Braun received a Ph.D. in physics on July 27, 1934.
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the “rocket team” which developed the V–2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II. The V–2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk. Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities. Before the Allied capture of the V–2 rocket complex, von Braun engineered the surrender of 500 of his top rocket scientists, along with plans and test vehicles, to the Americans.
In 1960, his rocket development center near Huntsville, Alabama transferred from the Army to the newly established NASA and received a mandate to build the giant Saturn rockets. Accordingly, von Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon.
Von Braun also became one of the most prominent spokesmen of space exploration in the United States during the 1950s. In 1970, NASA leadership asked von Braun to move to Washington, D.C., to head up the strategic planning effort for the agency. He left his home in Huntsville, Ala., but in 1972 he decided to retire from NASA and work for Fairchild Industries of Germantown, Md. He died in Alexandria, Va., on June 16, 1977. [Source: Marshall Space Flight Center at history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html]
Engraved steel plate portrait of Princess Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, to celebrate her marriage to Prince Frederick of Prussia 1858.
The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. The publishers stated their hopes that the publication would match or supplement the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
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.
Karel van Mander, Het Schilder-Boeck (Haarlem: Paschier van Wesbusch, 1604), first edition in two volumes with added illustrations, 21 x 16.7 x 5.8 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
“James Myers Thompson (1906-1977) was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.
Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in the New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.
Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism.
The writer R.V. Cassills has suggested that of all pulp fiction, Thompson's was the rawest and most harrowing; that neither Dashiell Hammett nor Raymond Chandler nor even Horace McCoy, author of the bleak They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, ever "wrote a book within miles of Thompson". [1] Similarly, in the introduction to Now and on Earth, Stephen King says he most admires Thompson's work because "The guy was over the top. The guy was absolutely over the top. Big Jim didn't know the meaning of the word stop. There are three brave lets inherent in the forgoing: he let himself see everything, he let himself write it down, then he let himself publish it."
Thompson admired Fyodor Dostoevsky and was nicknamed "Dimestore Dostoevsky" by writer Geoffrey O'Brien. Film director Stephen Frears, who directed an adaptation of Thompson's The Grifters as 1990's The Grifters, also identified elements of Greek tragedy in his themes.”
[From the Goodreads website at www.goodreads.com/author/show/7621.Jim_Thompson]
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This is a humorous 1960s book about a lion who is sick of being hunted and decides to take up arms himself, written by the great Shel Silverstein.
Brian Wildsmith's Circus picture book is a fabulous childrens' book filled to the brim with colorful two-page illustrations.
Published by Franklin Watts Inc. (1970) - First American Edition
Commissioner Yeh of Canton was deposed by the British in the Battle of Canton of 1857.
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.
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Shipwrecked Englishman Edward Prendick meets Dr. Moreau’s Beast Folk, comprising Leopard-Man, Hyena-Swine, Satyr-Man, Fox-Bear Witch, Dog-Man, Ape-Man and the Sloth Creature. The novel has been the source for no less than six movies, including a version in 1977 with Burt Lancaster and Michael York and one in 1996 with Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis and Ron Perlman. H. G. Wells in his 19th century novel anticipated the conversion of animals into human-like beings by way of vivisection. A little over a century later, the introduction of human DNA in an animal’s genetic code may be a feasible way of doing it, a scary prospect explored in the 1996 film.
This is a truly dumb story from these otherwise competent writers. A mysterious illness wipes out most of the world's women in a matter of weeks and all the men turn into a bunch of perverts who'll stop at nothing to get a woman. Give me a break!! I do like the cover though. It is far more appealing than the story within.
This book has 11 short stories by one of the best science fiction writers ever, Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). The stories were originally published in pulp magazines between 1949 and 1953 and most are great. One of them, “Sentinel,” is the basis for the movie “2001” and is way better than the movie. Another story, “Breaking Strain,” is about two crewmen trapped in a damaged spaceship with enough oxygen for only one to survive. The tension is palpable as each crewman tries to figure out when the other is going to kill him.
During the early 1950s, Ballantine Books was one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy. Beginning with “The Space Merchants” (#21) by Frederik Pohl and C.M Kornbluth, Ballantine published paperback originals by major science fiction authors including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, John Wyndham and many others. Ian Ballantine who with his wife Betty Ballantine founded Ballantine Books in 1952, announced that he would offer trade publishers original titles in two simultaneous editions, a hardcover “regular” edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, low-priced “news stand” edition for mass market sale. So, these Ballantine paperbacks were true first editions.