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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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“We’re just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have and we just weren’t the kind that could have it. [I]t’s a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That’s what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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)
Today, illustrator Mahlon Blaine (1894-1969) is pretty much unknown, but in the roaring 20s and the early 30s his work was published in everything ranging from children’s books and mainstream magazines to erotic portfolios. Though phenomenally popular back then, his output declined sharply over time and, by 1969, he died penniless and mostly forgotten.
Blaine was a master of erotic and grotesque illustrations, reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. He did paintings but he is best known for pen and ink drawings. “Nova Venus” features 38 of his decadent and erotic (by 1930’s standards) pen and ink drawings with a Creation theme. They are tipped to peach color mounts and assembled loosely in a green cloth portfolio, along with two pages of text, a title page and a limitation page. My copy is the first edition published in 1938, limited to 300 copies and signed by the artist.
"Tales of a Long Afternoon" is a vintaeg 1980s book that pairs five Max Bolliger fables with fantastical illustrations with Jindra Capek. After four animals tell fables which hurt the feelings of their animal friends, the lion tells a fable which heals everyone.
Tales of a Long Afternoon.
By Max Bolliger
Illustrations by Jindra Capek.
Published by Dutton Juvenile; 1st American ed edition (October 5, 1989)
When someone begins a killing spree on Napoleon's personal sentries, captured British agent Alan Hepburn finds himself forced not only to assist with the investigation but also to match wits with the Emperor and his chief of police, the wily Fouche.
I am currently working on a replica of Shakespeare's 1623 folio. Bound in calf leather, the cover features a Cambridge panel design (bound in the style of Paul Tronson, Master Bookbinder) with hot blind tooling. The leather was hand-dyed using a combination of vegetable dyes, aniline dyes and tattoo inks. The text block was sewn on recessed cords with hand-wound headbands and laced-in covers. An oxford hollow with false raised bands was used for the spine.
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Credits: Project inspired by and created in the style of Master Bookbinder, Paul Tronson.
This book collects five of H. G. Wells' short stories: The Crystal Egg, The Star, A Story of the Stone Age, A Story of the Days to Come, and The Man Who Could Work Miracles.
A motion picture based on The Man Who Could Work Miracles was produced in 1936. The saying that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" is fairly demonstrated in the last 4 minutes of the film:
“The Ship that Sailed to Mars” began as a story for the author’s son. So, it seems only fitting that Timlin would mine images from his own childhood. He was born in 1892 in a coal-mining town called Ashington, which sits along the North Sea in Northumberland, England’s northernmost county. He grew up at the water’s edge, so ships would have figured prominently in his imagination.
“The Ship that Sailed to Mars” is the story of an Old Man who has long dreamed of sailing to Mars “by way of the Moon and the more friendly planets.” So, he sets about designing and building a ship with the help of several crones, the Elf King’s best metal-worker, and fairies. The ship is not a fantastical rocket ship but an old-fashioned sailing ship made of lightweight wood “from the grove of a friendly gnome.” The crew sets sail at sunset and, along the way, they encounter all manner of creatures, primordial monsters, sinister storms, Eden’s own serpent with jewels for eyes, benevolent air sprites, and a planet populated entirely by pirates. At last, they spy “the tiny Orb that was the Wonder World of Mars.” Upon landing, the Old Man and his companions meet with a warm welcome. They are wined and dined and taken on a tour through the Fairy City. Soon, though, the Old Man from Earth, who becomes the champion of a fair Princess, must complete an impossible task.
[Source: www.baumanrarebooks.com/blog/the-ship-that-sailed-to-mars/]
The book contains 48 pages of text in Timlin's calligraphy and another 48 pages containing his colored illustrations. Only 2000 copies were printed, including 250 copies for distribution in America under the Frederick A. Stokes imprint.
This vintage 1960s hardback children's book by Janosch makes a strong case against war. The story is about Bollerbam, a gunner and bodyguard of King Bimbam of Margarine. Bollerbam is the key combatant in an armed conflict until a peace-loving bird, failing to dissuade him, grants him the one wish... Janosch, born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931) is a German children's author and illustrator.
The first American edition of “The Phantom of the Opera” is illustrated with a color frontispiece and four double-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne (1861-1929). The book’s author, Gaston Leroux (1868-1927), was a French journalist and writer of detective fiction. Though this is his most famous novel, he also authored a popular series of “locked room” mysteries including The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black. But The Phantom of the Opera is, by far, his most influential novel and the basis of many film adaptations, beginning with Lon Chaney Sr. in 1925, as well as the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, one of the most successful of all time.
In the Introduction to his book “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin” Houdini says:
“This book is the natural result of the moulding, dominating influence which the spirit and writing of Robert-Houdin have exerted over my professional career. My interest in conjuring and magic and my enthusiasm for Robert-Houdin came into existence simultaneously. From the moment that I began to study the art, he became my guide and hero. I accepted his writings as my text-book and my gospel. What Blackstone is to the struggling lawyer, Hardee’s “Tactics” to the would-be officer, or Bismark’s life and writings to the coming statesman, Robert-Houdin’s books were to me.
“…When it became necessary for me to take a stage name, and a fellow player, possessing a veneer of culture, told me that if I would add the letter ‘i’ to Houdin’s name, it would mean, in the French language, ‘like Houdin,’ I adopted the suggestion with enthusiasm. I asked nothing more of life than to become in my profession ‘like Robert-Houdin.’”
That is high praise indeed! But the rest of Houdini’s book is not so flattering. It exposes his hero and the source of his name as a thief and fraud. Houdini judges Robert-Houdin harshly after discovering that a number of the effects that he claimed to have invented were not invented by him at all. Houdini uncovered the evidence only after a great deal of research. He even offered a prize of $250 if anybody could name a book that had taken as much time, energy, travel and money, “with such authentic data regarding real magical inventions.” He traced the origins of some effects decades, even a century before Robert-Houdin.
Houdini built a strong case against his former hero. Effects that Robert-Houdin claimed to be his own invention were almost identical to effects invented by earlier magicians. Could he have reasonably believed himself to have created those effects? No one can know for sure. Robert-Houdin didn’t devote anywhere near as much “time, travel, energy and money” as did Houdini in researching the effects, so he may well have believed them to be his own. In any case, Houdini’s book was roundly castigated, especially in France, the home of Robert-Houdin.
Houdini could have avoided the controversy if he had simply called the book the “The History of Magic” instead of “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin.” It contains a great deal of historical research into the illusions and effects of magic. The effort that went into it was considerable. But, it seems, Houdini wanted the public to know of his disenchantment with his former hero who he, in effect, accuses of stealing and lying.
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 29cm x 42cm.
Car: Lotus Emira V6 First Edition.
Engine: 3456cc V6.
Power: 400 BHP.
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 June 2024.
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.
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)
In 1987, the Bachman novel The Running Man inspired the Paul Glaser film of the same name. King insisted that his name not be on the credits, and the screen credit for the film went to Richard Bachman. [Source: Wikipedia]
“David Copperfield” is one of Dickens’ most popular and critically acclaimed novels. The story follows David’s life from childhood to maturity and many of its elements follow events in Dickens’ own life, especially in the early chapters describing David’s provincial upbringing. The story is filled with vivid characters such as Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber, the Pegottys, and eccentric Aunt Betsey and it ranks as the finest of Dickens’ works. “Of all my books,” Dickens wrote in the preface to the 1867 edition, “I like this the best… like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.”
Publisher Bradbury & Evans first released the story in monthly parts from May, 1849 through November, 1850, and in book form in 1850. The text was embellished with full-page, black & white engravings by H. K. Browne (“Phiz”). Subscribers who wished a hardcover edition for their libraries would either purchase a copy from the publisher when available or have the serial parts bound into book form, often in leather.
Der Lotus Emira ist der letzte Lotus mit reinem Verbrenner-Motor. Er erhielt Vier- und Sechszylinder-Motoren. Die First Edition mit V6 hat einen Preis von 95.995 Euro und kam im Frühjahr 2022 auf den Markt.
The Lotus Emira is the last Lotus with a pure combustion engine. It received four and six-cylinder engines. The First Edition with V6 has a price of 95,995 euros and came onto the market in spring 2022.
Drink: Coffee
Food: Banana chic chip muffin
Book: Fatal Relations by Margaret Erskine (my copy is a well used lending library edition of the 1955 Hammond, Hammond & Company first edition)
View of Canton to illustrate a story on the Battle of Canton of 1857-1858.
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. 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.
“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]
This is Screamin' Angus. He is a new member of the family too. He definitely stands out in the crowd ;D
This is a delightful book in which well-known illustrator William Wiesner created images to a Wilhelmina Harper text from 1918. The cautionary tale is about what happens when a ittle girl disregards her mothers warning and wanders off in the jungle...
First Edition, 1967.
“Vincent Di Fate is regarded as one of the world’s foremost illustrators of futuristic themes. In nearly thirty years, Di Fate has produced more than 3,000 published works of science fiction, astronomical, and aerospace subjects for such diverse clients as IBM, “Reader’s Digest,” the National Geographic Society, CBS, and NASA. He has received numerous awards, including a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. His work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions, and is included in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C . . .” [Excerpt from the author’s bio on the dustjacket]
The centre touchscreen thingy 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.
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“Then Sir Bleoberis Brake His Spear Upon Sir Gareth” (Image caption)
The illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover are where this 1932 edition of King Arthur truly shines. Schoonover, a student of Howard Pyle and a member of the Brandywine School, brought dramatic, romantic, and emotionally rich visuals to the book. His illustrations elevate the text, adding a layer of mythic grandeur and visual storytelling that distinguishes this edition from others. The book includes five color plates, including a vividly illustrated cover. It’s often sought after by collectors for its aesthetic and historical value rather than its literary uniqueness.
Schoonover’s illustrations often feel like frozen moments from a larger story. He had a gift for capturing action mid-motion—a knight’s sword raised, a horse rearing, a gaze locked in tension. His work invites the viewer to imagine what came before and what’s about to happen. His illustrations elevate Frith’s simplified prose into something more mythic. His images amplify the text’s emotional resonance, making the legends feel timeless and deeply human.
"This seraph-band, each wav-
ed his hand:
It was a heavenly sight!
They stood as signals to the
land,
Each one a lovely light;
"This seraph-band, each wav-
ed his hand,
No voice did they impart --
No voice; but oh! the silence
sank
Like music on my heart."
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.
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".
The novel “Web of the City” was originally bought by Walter Fultz, an editor at the small independent publishing company Lion Books. The company went out of business before it could publish the novel, so it was sold to Pyramid Books. Pyramid changed the name to “Rumble” and published it in 1958, while Ellison was a Private in the army. The first Ellison knew of the title change was when he received a copy of the book (with other volumes) to review. . . In 1975, Pyramid reprinted the novel with the author's original title, "Web of the City." [Source: Wikipedia]
“She” originally appeared as a serial in London’s weekly “Graphic” magazine between October 1886 and January 1887, with illustrations by E. K. Johnson. Longmans, Green and Co. first published the story in book form in 1887 but without any illustrations. Then an illustrated version of the book came out in 1888 with 32 illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H. M. Kerr.
“She” is a bizarre tale of a lost African civilization, a 2,000-year-old queen, and the intrepid Englishmen who seek her. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the ebony box left him by his father, long since dead. Within the box is a strange silver chest, which contains a letter from the elder Vincey and an ancient potsherd, inscribed with a fantastic story by Amenartas, an Egyptian princess, more than 300 years before the birth of Christ.
Amenartas’ charge to her descendants – the sixty-seventh of whom is Leo Vincey – is to avenge her lover Kallikrates, who was slain by the queen who knew no death. As Leo learns from his father’s letter, several of Vincey’s forebears had indeed set out on such a mission – but none had ever succeeded in finding the mysterious white queen, “She-who-must-be-obeyed.”
Leo does succeed, and therein lies the spellbinding tale of SHE.
Two movies based on Haggard’s novel have been produced:
One in 1965 with Ursula Andress in the title role (www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqD7pkVyoOw)
And another produced in 1935 by Merian C.Cooper (of King Kong fame):
“Bleak House” was first published as a 20- episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the center of “Bleak House” is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, “Jarndyce and Jarndyce,” which came about because a testator has written several conflicting wills. In a preface to the 1853 first hardcover edition, Dickens claimed there were many actual precedents for his fictional case. One such was probably the “Thellusson v. Woodford” case in which a will read in 1797 was contested and not determined until 1859. Though the legal profession criticized Dickens's satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. [Source: Wikipedia]
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
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.
This book presents the librettos of the first two operas in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle accompanied by 34 color plates by Arthur Rackham. “The Rhinegold” is the first of the four operas that constitute Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung.” “The Valkyrie” is the second opera in the Ring. They were first performed together as part of the complete Ring Cycle on August 14, 1876 at Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and The Song of the Nibelungs, an epic German poem that tells the story of dragon-slayer SiegfrIed at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife’s revenge.
The final two operas in Wagner’s Ring, “Siegfried” and “The Twilight of the Gods,” were published in a separate volume in 1911 and were also illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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Gateway is a space station built into a hollow asteroid (or perhaps the dead heart of a comet) constructed by the Heechee, a long-vanished alien race. Humans have had limited success understanding Heechee technology found there and elsewhere in the solar system. The Gateway Corporation administers the asteroid on behalf of the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, New People's Asia, the Venusian Confederation, and the United States of Brazil.
Nearly a thousand small, abandoned starships are at Gateway. By extremely dangerous trial and error, humans learn how to operate the ships. The controls for selecting a destination have been identified, but nobody knows where a particular setting will take the ship or how long the trip will last; starvation is a danger. Attempts at reverse engineering to find out how they work have ended only in disaster, as has changing the settings in mid-flight. Most settings lead to useless or lethal places. A few, however, result in the discovery of Heechee artifacts and habitable planets, making the passengers (and the Gateway Corporation) wealthy. The vessels come in three standard sizes, which can hold a maximum of one, three, or five people, filled with equipment and hopefully enough food for the trip. Some "threes" and many "fives" are armored. Each ship includes a lander to visit a planet or other object if one is found. [Source: Wikipedia]
Christine is the story of a vintage 1958 Plymouth Fury that is possessed by supernatural forces. John Carpenter directed the film adaptation of King’s book:
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)
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)
The time is far enough into the future so that man has long been established on the Moon. Conducted tours for vacationers have become entirely common, and one of the high points of each tour is a cruise around the Sea of Thirst – a body of fine volcanic dust – in a specially designed vessel called the Selene. It’s an eerie voyage but one that is considered perfectly safe.
And then the old, dead Moon plays an appalling trick on the Selene, and there follows a most complicated and perilous rescue operation. How do you locate a small vessel buried beneath fifteen meters of dust in one of the craters of the Moon? If you find it, how do you rescue the passengers and crew? If you are on board, how do you feel and what do you do while brave men and expert technicians join forces, on your behalf, in a desperate race against time?
Hosteen Storm, an Amerindian, whose home planet Terra had been destroyed in an interplanetary war by the ruthless and nonhuman Xiks, was forced to seek a new life elsewhere. His Navajo Indian ancestry had endowed him with the rare trait of communicating with animals so that, during the recent war, he had become a Beast Master, one of a handful of scouts who commanded a trained and loyal animal team.
Arzor, the planet to which Storm emigrated, was like Terra in some aspects, but that was not his only reason for choosing it. Unknown to anyone else, he had another purpose – a mission of revenge – to face at last the man who had killed his father.
"Day after day, day after
day,
We stuck, nor breath nor
motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean."
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.