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The Kidder Murder of 29 June 1867 refers to the killing of United States Second Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Sherman County, Kansas, near Goodland, by a Sioux and Cheyenne war party. It was during the period of the Indian Wars on the western plains.
In June 1867 Kidder and his men were ordered to take dispatches from General William Sherman to Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer, camped on the Republican River in Nebraska. Lt. Kidder's party reached the encampment, but prior to their arrival, Custer had become restless and moved his force to the south, then to the northwest. When Lt. Kidder discovered Custer's force had departed, he seemed to have thought Custer moved south to Fort Wallace. En route to Fort Wallace, Kidder and his troops were killed by a Sioux and Cheyenne war party.
When Custer sent troopers to search for Lt. Kidder's party, they found a dead army horse on the trail, then signs of a running battle for a few miles along Beaver Creek. On 12 July, Custer's scout Will Comstock found the mutilated bodies of the Kidder party north of Beaver Creek in northern Sherman County, Kansas.
In his book, “My Life on the Plains,” Custer described his arriving at the scene of the massacre in these words: "Each body was pierced by from 20 to 50 arrows, and the arrows were found as the savage demons had left them, bristling in the bodies."
In 1967 "The Friends of the Library of Goodland Kansas" erected an historic marker in honor of the soldiers and scout, on land owned by Kuhrt Farms. [Source: Wikipedia]
This is the book that introduced readers to Norman Bates, his knife-wielding Mother and a horrifying shower scene at the Bates Motel. The story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film of the same name. Here is Hitchcock's take on that infamous shower scene:
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The Gauntlet Press published a 35th anniversary edition of the novel with Mother’s portrait on the cover:
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Another Australian writer whose works are now hard to find.
ill met by a fish shop on george street (1969 first UK edition, Hodder and Stoughton, jacket art by Ellen Raskin)
Night's Evil (1966 first US edition, Doubleday, jacket art by Larry Lurin)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1970 Horwitz paperback edition)
Jack London (1876-1916) was a maverick, macho young man who lived hard and dangerously and died at age 40, having written more than 50 books in 20 years. His most famous book, “Call of the Wild,” is a story set in the Yukon during the 1890’s Klondike Gold Rush, a place London was familiar with having himself spent time in the goldfields. Strong sled dogs were in high demand and the novel’s central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in California. Buck is stolen by his master’s gardener to settle some gambling debts and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog. He is forced to survive cruel treatments and fight to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Eventually, he becomes the property of outdoorsman John Thornton with whom he enjoys a deep rapport. When his new master is killed by Yeehat Indians, Buck gives in to his true nature, answers the call of the wild and emerges as a leader of a wolf pack.
“The War in the Air” is a classic tale of a future war written by Wells in 1907 and serialized in The Pall Mall Magazine the following year. It is notable for its prophetic ideas —in this case, the use of aircraft in warfare and the coming of World War I.
“The basic assumption behind the plot is that immediately after the Wright Brothers's first successful flight in 1903, all of the world's major powers became aware of the decisive strategic importance of air power, and embarked on a secret arms race to develop this power (there is a reference to the Wright Brothers themselves disappearing from public view, having been recruited for a secret military project of the US Government – as were other aviation pioneers in their own respective countries). The general public is virtually unaware of this arms race, until it finally bursts out in a vastly destructive war which destroys civilization.” [Source: Wikipedia]
The novel's hero is Bert Smallways, a "forward-thinking young man" and a "kind of bicycle engineer.” By accident he is carried off in a balloon and shot down over Germany where he stumbles upon a German air fleet just as it is about to launch a surprise attack on the United States. Bert is taken along on the campaign and becomes a witness as the Germans obliterate an American naval fleet in the Atlantic and engage in the aerial bombardment and destruction of New York City. The Germans then build an airbase at Niagara Falls. China and Japan now join forces and attack the western coast of the USA with their own secretly-built flying machines. The Asians then attack the Germans and, soon, the entire world is caught up in this madness. So begins the collapse of civilization.
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.
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 possibility explored in the 1996 film.
Shirley, James (1596-1666). The Opportunitie. A Comedy. London: Printed by Thomas Cotes for Andrew Crooke, [1640]. First Edition. Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Copyright 2023, James A. Glazier
“We catched a lot of the nicest fish you ever see.”
“Tom Sawyer Abroad” features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world’s greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. The story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn and is a sequel, set in the time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series, “Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” [Source: Wikipedia]
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.
Vol. III, Second Series, First edition.
Originally written as newspaper journalism, “Sketches by Boz” is the public record of Dickens’ apprenticeship. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and were originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836, including the “Morning Chronicle,” the “Evening Chronicle,” the “Monthly Magazine,” the “Carlton Chronicle” and “Bell’s Life in London.” Fist published in book form in 1836, the whole work is divided into four sections: “Our Parish,” “Scenes,” “Characters,” and “Tales.” Dickens’ writings are enhanced by the regular inclusion of illustrations by George Cruikshank to highlight key scenes and characters.
"Who the dickens 'Boz' could be
Puzzled many a learned elf,
Till time unveiled the mystery,
And 'Boz' appeared as Dickens's self."
Dickens took the pseudonym from a nickname he had given his younger brother Augustus, whom he called "Moses" after a character in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. This, "being facetiously pronounced through the nose," became "Boses", which in turn was shortened to "Boz".
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This fourth book in the Dune series takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy (Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune). It tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, savior of the planet Dune. Leto still lives but is no longer human. He has traded his humanity for virtual immortality by undergoing what will soon be a total transformation into the magnificent and enormous sandworm of Dune. He must live, for without his guidance the human race will surely go astray. Will his awesome sacrifice have been in vain?
This 1908 whodunit is the author’s first. Rachel is a middle-aged spinster who has had custody of her orphaned niece and nephew since they were children. Halsey and Gertrude are now 20 and 24, respectively, and they talk Rachel into renting a house in the country for the summer. The house they choose belonged to a bank defaulter who had hidden stolen securities in the walls.
The first night Rachel is there, there is a mysterious trespasser and something falls down the stairs in the middle of the night. After Halsey and Gertrude arrive on the second night, there is a murder, and Halsey and the friend he’s brought to stay disappear. Halsey returns a few days later, without his friend and without an explanation, but by then other strange goings-on have occurred to the dismay of the residents.
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).
The “Book of the World: A Family Miscellany for Instruction and Amusement” was edited by Dr. [Thomas] Gaspey [1788-1871]. John Weik and Charles Wieck published the first volume in 1852 and John Weik alone published the second volume in 1853 (not shown here). The first volume contains 48 full-page engravings, 35 of which are colored. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors. This took time and great skill as the color was applied to the plate itself.
In the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama,” and Larry Niven’s “Ringworld,” John Varley’s “Titan” is an astronomically huge wheel-shaped structure in orbit around the planet Saturn. Captain Cirocco “Rocky” Jones and her crew aboard the ship “Ringmaster” discover the awesome structure and, as they approach, they realize it is hollow and can only be an artifact of alien intelligence. Before they have a chance to establish orbit around it, it sends out tentacles, pulls the “Ringmaster” apart, and draws the crew deep inside its bowels. There they remain, isolated from one another, in a state of near-total sensory deprivation, while the alien intelligence works its mysteries on their minds.
After an unknown period of time, Rocky and her crew are disgorged into Titan’s incredible internal world – an organic fairyland which they share with centaurs, harpies, angels, mudfish, not-quite-kangaroos, whale-like things that sail through the sky and other products of some truly wild imagination. Though this world seems benign, almost a paradise, Rocky is too well trained to accept it at face value. She sets about to find her crew, re-establish her command, and find out what makes this place tick.
Graham, the central character of the novel, awakens into a troubled world after a two-hundred year slumber, much like Rip Van Winkle. The compound interest on his bank accounts has made him the richest man in the world and a very powerful one indeed. A trust known as the White Council used Graham’s wealth to establish a vast political and economic world order, which is now much hated by the people. Word spreads that the fabled sleeper has awakened and the people demand to see him. The Council, which rules the world in his name, prefers that he remain out of the way and places him under house arrest. He is liberated by revolutionaries and he soon learns the ugly truth about this new world, which persuades him to take part in the revolution.
The novel has plenty of action which more than makes up for the author’s socialist inclinations. It has engine-driven “aeroplanes” with 600-foot wing spans and smaller, nimbler “aeropiles,” it has a revolution and a counter-revolution, and there are battles fought in the air for supremacy.
Electric Drive
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Brussels - Belgium
January 2020
The crinoline craze taken to new heights of absurdity at the Turin Carnival .
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.
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 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 29cm x 42cm.
A short-lived early 60's publisher, Europa published a series of sleaze paperbacks with fold-out covers. Only about a half-dozen books from this publisher are known. It should not be confused with Europa Editions founded in 2005.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
“A Hopi child is torn from his parents and sent off to boarding school; white settlers encroach on the Cheyenne reservation, and the Cheyenne vow to fight to the death rather than give up their land; Howling Wolf witnesses the brutal murder of his brother and, when he protests, is in turn brutalized; after Sitting Bull’s triumph over Custer’s forces, he vows to fight to the death rather than submit to the white invaders.
“In these and other stories written from 1890–1905, Hamlin Garland sought to capture his vision of the spirit of the Native American Indian in transition. Based on ten years of visits to reservations in the American West, these stories are of interest for readers today in part because they illustrate a sincere and well-intentioned white reformer coming to understand a culture radically at odds with his own—and discovering in the process that his own culture is less “advanced” than he had supposed.” [Quote from the University of Nebraska Press for the 2005 paperback edition]
The text is accompanied by 35 full-page illustrations by Frederic Remington, most of which had first appeared in Harper's Magazine or Harper's Weekly during the late 1800's.
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.
I got these used, but really worth the price"
Yasmin Bratz 1st Edition - Jasmin
Yasmin Magic Hair 1st Editon - Gabriella
Dana Funk Out - Lilani
MH Yasmin and Dana didn't have their original clothes, Dana have part of those clothes, but i change the clothes for that pic
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century". [Source: Wikipedia]
In 1944 there appeared a book which quickly became the recognized source book in one of the most fascinating fields of human endeavor, Willy Ley's "Rockets." This original account went through three editions , and was followed by a revised and enlarged volume in 1947, "Rockets and Space Travel." It was further revised and enlarged in 1951 to include developments in rocket missiles for military uses and research purposes. That is the basis for the new title, "Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel."
Willy Ley (1906-1969) was a German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. [Source: Wikipedia]
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.
Shirley, James (1596-1666). The Opportunitie. A Comedy. London: Printed by Thomas Cotes for Andrew Crooke, [1640]. First Edition. Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Copyright 2023, James A. Glazier
First Tarzan Novel. Art by Fred J. Arting
From 1927 until the 1950's Grosset & Dunlap reprinted this title using a modified version of the original illustration by Fred J. Arting from a night-time black silhouette Tarzan to a daytime full-color Tarzan. Many Burroughs collectors believe the modification was done by G&D artist Paul Stahr.
Here is G&D's illustration for the reprinted edition:
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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.
“Bambi: A Life in the Woods” by Felix Salten was originally published in Austria in 1923. Simon & Schuster’s 1928 edition is based on an English translation by Whittaker Chambers. The novel has since been translated and published in over 20 languages around the world.
The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest. The novel is considered a classic, as well as one of the first environmental novels ever published. Beside several live-action and stage adaptations, the novel was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Studios in 1942. [Source: Wikipedia]
Here is a link to the movie trailer:
My brothers 2020 Ford Kuga ST-Line First Edition 2.5L Duratec PHEV (Plug in Petrol/Electric Hybrid) Crossover SUV during a plug in battery charge.
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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