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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]

 

Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is set during the Spanish civil war and tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. The setting of the story is less important than Hemingway's treatment of the themes of love, death, honor and commitment.

Guarini, Giovanni Battista [1538 AD – 1612 AD], Il Pastor Fido The Faithfull Sheperd, IL/ PASTOR FIDO,/ The faithfull Shepherd./ A PASTORALL/ Written in Italian by BAPTISTA/ GUARINI, a Knight/ of ITALIE./ And now Newly Translated out of/ the ORIGINALL./[Printer’s device]/ LONDON,/ Printed by R. Raworth, M DC XLVII. . London, R. Raworth, MDCXLVII (1647), first edition of this translation.

The image is from the 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93, by J. W. Powell, Director, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896. The description which follows summarizes the detailed information accompanying the image in the report.

 

Short Bull was active in the Ghost Dance religious movement of 1890, and had traveled with fellow Lakota Kicking Bear to visit the movement's leader, Wovoka. The two were instrumental in bringing the movement to the Lakota living on reservations in South Dakota.

 

On the last day of October, 1890, Short Bull gave an address to a large gathering of Indians near Pine Ridge, in which he said that as the whites were interfering so much in the religious affairs of the Indians he would advance the time for the great change and make it nearer, even within the next month. He urged them all to gather in one place and prepare for the coming messiah, and told them they must dance even though troops should surround them, as the guns of the soldiers would be rendered harmless and the white race itself would soon be annihilated.

 

Following the murder of Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890, Short Bull was imprisoned at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. On his release in 1891, Short Bull joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, and made several trips to Europe with the show. Short Bull died in 1923 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

 

This British edition contains 220 Illustrations by Dan Beard.and preceded the American edition by a few days. It is Mark Twain’s time travel novel. In it, Yankee engineer Hank Morgan from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to medieval England and the court of King Arthur. Hank fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician—and soon uses his Yankee ingenuity and knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English with such feats as demolition and fireworks. He attempts to modernize the society, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and a censure against him by the Catholic Church, which grows fearful of his power.

 

Twain wrote the book as a satire of romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, and severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor. [Source: Wikipedia]

 

Hollywood put its own spin on the story with a 1949 musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_yJBUaNnpY

 

Mughal Emperor's tomb in Delhi.

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.

 

More on Humayaon's Tomb (Humayun) here:

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Home of Lord John Russell. 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.

 

From the book "Uncle Remus: His Songs & His Sayings" by Joel Chandler Harris. NY: D. Appleton, 1881. 1st Edition

 

“Uncle Remus” is a collection of animal stories, songs, and folklore from African-Americans in the South. Uncle Remus is a former slave who serves as a storytelling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him. Br’er Rabbit is the main character of the stories, a likable character, prone to tricks and trouble-making, who is often opposed by Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear.

 

The stories have inspired at least three feature films. The first and best known is Walt Disney’s “Song of the South,” released in 1946. The film combined live action with animation and it starred James Baskett, a vaudeville and radio actor, as the unforgettable Uncle Remus. The film's depiction of black former slaves, and of race relations in Reconstruction-Era Georgia, has been controversial since its original release, with a number of critics – at the time of its release and in later decades – describing it as racist. Consequently it has never been released in its entirety on home video in the United States. [Source: Wikipedia]

 

Who can possibly forget this song from the film:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY

 

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]

 

From the book "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1911). 1st American ed. The book is illustrated with a color frontispiece and four double-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne (1861-1929).

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Mark Twain penned the following inscription on the inside front cover: “Dear Mrs. Doubleday: This book has wandered into my hands, & as it is too delicate & pretty for a person like me, & just right for a person like you, I wish to beg you to take it. With the affectionate regards of a long-time friend – to wit S. L. Clemens. New York, Xmas 1906.”

 

The recipient was undoubtedly the naturalist Neltje Doubleday, the wife of his good friend the publisher Frank N. Doubleday. Merle Johnson, in his “A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain,” states that this book was “published anonymously August 20, 1906… for the author…Copies of the work were distributed privately to the author’s personal friends and public acknowledgement of authorship was withheld until after his death.”

 

With sales of about 200 million copies, “A Tale of Two Cities” is the biggest selling novel in history. It began as weekly installments from April 30, 1859 to November 26, 1859 in Dickens’ literary periodical titled “All the Year Round.” It depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the French revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.

 

Chapman & Hall published the novel in 8 monthly parts (July – December 1859) and in book form that same year and commissioned Hablot K. Browne [Phiz] to create full page illustrations for the story. It was the last of Dickens’ books to be illustrated by Hablot K. Browne.

 

Mars (1895), Mars and its Canals (1906), Mars as the Abode of Life (1908), & The Evolution of Worlds (1909)

 

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]

 

Wide-eyed little kittens from 1955's “The Summer Noisy Book” by Margaret Wise Brown.

Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard

The film “Edge of the City” (1957) was bold for its time, in its depiction of an interracial friendship between two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter played by John Cassavetes, and Tommy Tyler, a freight car loader played by Sidney Poitier. Their growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a vicious bully and racist played by Jack Warden. The movie trailer shows the tense and often violent confrontations between these characters:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3_S_4ql5c

 

All 12 special edition (genteiban / tokusouban) volumes of Shugo Chara! The manga series has ended, so this is the COMPLETE set! Yaaay! ...and also the three volumes of Shugo Chara!-chan.

 

These are referred to as the "Special Editions" but they are limited availability, volume one is labeled "Limited Edition" (genteiban) and 2 ~ 12 are labeled "Special Edition" (tokusouban). Also, of course, they are all first editions (first printings).

 

*note: not to be confused with, volume 10 and 12's "Limited Editions" (which I did not waste money on) they seem to just be the regular editions paired with a limited dorama DVD.

 

I've since gotten #4 of shugo chara-chan! too lazy to do the update pic. :P

The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):

 

"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.

 

"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."

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.

Fifteen stories of fantasy and horror from Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), one of the most prolific writers of horror stories in the history of the genre. In his lifetime, he wrote over 150 stories, at least a dozen novels, two plays and quite a few children’s books. Authors who have been influenced by his work include H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Evangeline Walton, Ramsey Campbell, George Allan England and Frank Belknap Long. Henry Miller chose Blackwood’s “The Bright Messenger” as “the most extraordinary novel on psychoanalysis, one that dwarf’s the subject.”

 

The fifteen stories in “Pan’s Garden” are: “The Man Whom the Trees Loved,” “The South Wind,” “The Sea Fit,” “The Attic,” “The Heath Fire,” “The Messenger,” “The Glamour of the Snow,” “The Return,” “Sand,” “The Transfer,” “Clairvoyance,” “The Golden Fly,” “Special Delivery,” “The Destruction of Smith,” and “The Temptation of the Clay.” The stories hadn’t appeared elsewhere and were original to this collection. They are unified by the theme of the Elements of Nature.

 

This book contains a history and anthology of science fiction in the popular magazines from 1891 to 1911. The year 1891 ushered in a "golden age" of magazines. Continuing up to the onset of World War I, this period saw an unparalleled flourishing of high quality, general interest magazines at a price nearly everybody could afford. Science fiction stories played a crucial role in the success of these magazines, and, not surprisingly, within the pages of "The Strand," "Pearson's Magazine, "The Blue Book," "Hampton's Magazine," "The Argosy," "The Red Book,"The Black Cat," and similar publications can be found some of the finest treasures of science fiction writing.

From the back cover:

 

They rode like so many furies, leaving a trail of blood and destruction wherever they went, slaughtering every white man who crossed their path.

 

Their hatred never wavered, their thirst for vengeance never diminished. They were masters of the devilish art of cruelty and torture -- and in battle they asked no quarter and gave none.

 

These were the Apaches -- the human tigers -- who defied the U.S. Army for half a century in the untamed Southwest. And this is the real story of their incredible depredations and their ultimate defeat.

Engraving of mechanical devices from the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, founded in 1768 and printed in 1771. 3 Volumes, this is Volume 3.

 

The largest encyclopedia of general knowledge published to date, with contributions by leaders in their fields.

 

Printed for Bell and Macfarquhar, Edinburgh. Original half leather binding, 170 pages this volume. 26cm x 21cm.

 

Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy, was a very contentious book in its day, leading to a major court case based on an old law -- criminal libel. Fortunately the author Hardy won the case, which you can read about in his book The Hard Way.

 

I found the above List of Characters sheet in one of the first editions of the book that I own. Apparently many typed versions of this appeared in the 50s and 60s to help people identify the fairly light weight disguised names Hardy used.

 

Wikipedia Article on the Book

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.

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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.

The town of Corinth was substantially destroyed by a large earthquake in 1858. Woodcut from 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.

 

First edition of Thomas More's Utopia, published in 1516. Check out that map and alphabet!

This is the remake of the 1956 film based on Jack Finney's classic science fiction story. Here is the pod-opening scene in the original film:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLsjlmrQ6Mw

 

Here is the comparable scene in the remake (1978):

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=67mdeN5aL5M

 

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:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY

 

"The hermit crouched in the shadow of the rocks."

 

Here is what Arthur Conan Doyle says of this collection of his short stories:

 

"I have written 'Impressions and Tales' upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the same cover two styles of work which present an essential difference. The second half of the collection consists of eight stories, which explain themselves. The first half is made up of a series of pictures of the past which may be regarded as trial flights towards a larger ideal which I have long had in my mind. It has seemed to me that there is a region between actual story and actual history which has never been adequately exploited. I could imagine, for example, a work dealing with some great historical epoch, and finding its interest not in the happenings to particular individuals, their adventures and their loves, but in the fascination of the actual facts of history themselves. These facts might be colored with the glamour which the writer of fiction can give, and fictitious characters and conversations might illustrate them; but nonetheless the actual drama of history and not the drama of invention should claim the attention of the reader. I have been tempted sometimes to try the effect upon a larger scale; but meanwhile these short sketches, portraying various crises in the story of the human race, are to be judged as experiments in that direction." -- Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

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A wonderful 1960s book filled with fun sketches of Boston by Barbara Westman.

 

The Bean and the Scene.

by Barbara Westman.

Barre Publishers; First Edition (1969)

Found a 1960s book version of The Monkey King, the ancient Chinese tale, with wonderful mid century illustrations.

 

The Monkey King.

by Wu Ch'eng-en

Edited by Zdena Novotna

Translated by George Theiner

Illustrations by Zdenek Sklenar

Published by Paul Hamlyn; First English Edition edition (1964)

  

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