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...and there are many! Maddy, the Forest Gatherer
picks up nuts and cones and berries to feed the animals...
Folklore Fairy Hat and Dress, by Princess51
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Een prachtig chique Continental bij het Van der Valk Hotel. Aan boord een 6.0 W12-motor die maar liefst 635 pk geproduceerd. Nieuwprijs? € 320.213,-
Oostzaan, Nederland
A beautifully chic Continental at the Van der Valk Hotel. On board a 6.0 W12 engine that produced a whopping 635 hp. Price? € 320.213,-
Oostzaan, The Netherlands
Kenteken / License plate:
Netherlands: XJ-332-N
n° 7 of 30
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Engine : Nissan
3.498 cc
V6
315 hp @ 6.800 rpm
Vmax : + 220 km/h
0-100 km : 3,8 sec
Museo dell'Automobile
Corso Unità d'Italia 40
Torino - Turin
Italia - Italy
January 2019
Drink: Coffee
Food: Buttersnap Biscuits
Book: Maigret's Christmas: Nine Stories by Georges Simenon (my copy is the 1977 first US edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Parked on Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut.
A lot of the boldly-spec'd, colorful exotics all seem to come from Florida. A lot of wealthy people in Greenwich have houses in Florida and they transport their cars back and forth depending on where they are. From what I've seen, you can find a bunch of cars on New York and Connecticut plates in Florida too.
"Avoiding the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas darted to his side, and passed his knife across the throat."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Drink: Coffee
Food: Cinnamon & Walnut Loaf
Book: The Van Dreisen Affair by Holly Roth (my copy is the 1960 first UK edition by Hamish Hamilton Ltd: it's an old Dymocks lending library edition with glued-on dust jacket)
Drink: Coffee
Food: Leftover birthday cake
Book: The Benevent Treasure by Patricia Wentworth (1956; my copy is the Hodder and Stoughton first edition with dust jacket art by Jarvis)
I have a large collection of children's fiction, this is a first edition from 1940 by one of my favourite authors, Gwendoline Courtney.
I photographed it for MM's 'imperfect' theme and then re-read the description and realised it didn't fit the brief. Luckily it fits for a 118 theme instead.
118 pictures in 2018 (15) vintage
Ace Books U.S. "first book publication" edition of 1964 with U.K. currency label (3/6). Once the property of The Alfred Morris Day Centre, 85 Clyde Street, London SE8. Found in flea market, Fuseta, Olhão, Algarve, Portugal.
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
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.
An illustration from "Among Us Cats" by W. E. Hill, a fabulous 1920s book. The stories inside focus on the eccentricities of life in the Jazz age life as seen through a cat-shaped lens.
Among Us Cats
by W. E. Hill
Harper Brothers 1926 First Edition
"Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result was, that both tottered on the brink of the precipice."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Drink: Coffee
Book: Halloween Party by Agatha Christie (1969; my copy is the 1972 Fontana first edition paperback with Tom Adams cover art)
1858 Redfield (NY) edition of Poe's Poetical Works. Full brown Morocco, gilt titles, raised bands, decorative stamping, 8vo.
This book is considered one of the top 10 books for a working library on magic. Though written over a hundred years ago it is still referred to by many great magicians today. The art of sleight of hand is thoroughly discussed pertaining to playing cards, coins, eggs, balls and other everyday items. Different types of apparatus are also explained with detailed illustrations.
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"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
The book is by an anonymous author and is the first magic book to have photographic plates as illustrations throughout the text, a total of 31 plates.
From the back cover:
"It was a grubby piece of land -- not our land, of course, we just leased it -- dry and rocky, the good soil slipping away fast every year. It was the kind of land where you had to get down on your hands and knees and sort of coax the cotton to come up out of the dirt.
"But that wasn't the worst. There was Pa. He was dirty, Pa was. Maybe he'd been digging too long; some of it came off on him, inside. And Mary, my half-sister. Every time she sidled over to me in the field, her dress sticking to her flesh, all hot and sweaty -- what was a guy supposed to do?
"Then one day someone got killed. And Pa and Mary let them put the blame on me. Just so they could smear some of their dirt on each other . . ."
Author Jim Thompson who thrilled Lion fans with his unforgettable "The Killer Inside Me," now reaches the knife-sharp peak of his powers. "Cropper's Cabin" is an original novel. It is also a magnificent one.
Happy Saturday from the Party Duck, as seen in 1964's "Never Tease a Weasel" book with illustrations by Denman Hampson.
From the back cover:
Down by the barn Mitch leaned against the rails of the mule lot. His brother's wife was standing very near, and he could smell the faint fragrance of her. She moved in close until the top of her head was under his chin. She turned her face up to his.
"Why don't you like me, Mitch?" she asked softly. The hot blood came up in him, roared in his ears, the way it did when he held his breath too long swimming underwater and the weight on his chest was choking him.
I bought first edition Kara on sale for $17.99 at Target today. Now I finally have all the sisters, feels like it took forever!
I love how all the Karas have different make up, and this Kara is one of the prettiest. I usually don't like purple-ish lips, but she wears it so well. :)
One of the maps on the very informative original endpapers of the first edition of "The Longest Day" by Cornelius Ryan. The maps are wonderful (4 of them) and they were not shown in subsequent reprints, to my knowledge.
Showing here the preparation areas in England for the multi-pronged invasion by ship and airplane, the destinations in Normandy/France, and the locations where the German occupation was based.
From the Introduction on the first page:
FLAW IN A FANATIC FUTURE
War and famine on earth had been abolished by Moral Reclamation, and now peace and prosperity were compulsory. And the Morec block committees, robot peeping-Toms, and youthful goon squads made sure everybody "enjoyed" it.
It was Allen Purcell's job as the new Director of Entertainment and Propaganda to keep the people in sober thought channels. Only someone was playing pranks -- publicly, secretly. Such humor was dangerous -- and the heretic had to be stopped at all costs! And then Purcell realized that the mad japer was familiar to him -- as familiar as his own face in the morning shave-mirror!
As frightening as Orwell's 1984, THE MAN WHO JAPED is a social satire on the world of tomorrow that is as timely as today.
Arnold Lobel's lovable Mr. Toad, looking none too happy about his bathing suit.
From "Frog and Toad are Friends" by Arnold Lobel,
Harper & Row; First Edition (1970)
Hilliar listed himself as the "author", but the only part he may have actually written was the small section on hand shadows (a reprint from his 1900 booklet). The rest was taken from Nelson Downs, his book for Howard Thurston, Hoffmann's "Modern Magic" (1876), "More Magic" (1890), Roterberg's "New Era Card Tricks" (1897) and material from Selbit's book with a similar name "The Magician's Handbook" (1901). According to a review of Hilliar's book by Paul Fleming, "It was not a good book."
[Source: Magicpedia at geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Modern_Magician's_Hand_Book]
(I like the little red devils on the cover anyway.)
Hank Janson, a pseudonym used by Stephen Frances, D. F. Crawley, Victor Norwood and others, was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 50s. The main character in Janson’s novels (of which there are over 200) is alternatively portrayed as a tough Chicago reporter or as an assistant to a private detective.