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Window of Taschen bookstore with display of newly-published large-format book of Annie Leiboviitz portraits. Scarlett Johansson as centerfold.
In the Victorian age most book owners felt that any book worth keeping deserved to be rebound, usually in some form of leather to become part of a personal library. This copy of "Through the Looking Glass...," which was re-bound in leather, retains the original publisher's binding inside.
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1872) was published seven years later and is set some six months later than the earlier book. This time Alice enters a fantastic world by stepping through a mirror. “Through the Looking Glass” is not quite as popular as “Wonderland” but it does include celebrated verses such as “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and episodes involving “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and “Humpty Dumpty.” The book features fifty in-text illustrations by John Tenniel.
The author, Lewis Carroll, is a pseudonym for Reverend Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) who was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was awkward and is said to have had a crippling stammer around other adults. But around children the stammer melted away as he told them his nonsensical stories. He was a brilliant and imaginative artist whose “extravagantly absurd” stories and witty wordplay appealed to young people.
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).
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
Engraving of a duck and a pheasant from the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, prepared from 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.
American Magician Harry Kellar (1849-1922) presented large stage shows during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, performing extensively on five continents. He was a predecessor of Harry Houdini and was often referred to as the “Dean of American Magicians.” One of his most memorable stage illusions was the levitation of a girl advertised as the “Levitation of Princess Karnack.” Kellar would claim the woman onstage, sleeping on a couch, was a Hindu princess, who he would levitate and then move a hoop back and forth around the woman’s body to prove she was not being suspended. The levitation was a marvel of the age and “the crowning achievement of Mr. Kellar’s long and brilliant career,” according to Buffalo writer John Northern Hilliard.
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.
Quoting from the book (pages 52-53):
The person on the sofa, who appeared to have a cold in his head, gave such a very loud snort, that he startled me.
“Are you arrested for much, sir?” I inquired of Mr. Skimpole.
“My dear Miss Summerson,” said he, shaking his head pleasantly, “I don’t know. Some pounds, odd shillings, and half pence, I think, were mentioned.
“It’s twenty-four pound, sixteen, and sevenpence ha’penny,” observed the stranger. “That’s wot it is.”
“And it sounds – somehow it sounds,” said Mr. Skimpole, “like a small sum?”
The strange man said nothing, but made another snort. It was such a powerful one, that it seemed quite to lift him out of his seat.
Here is how John Keel’s “Jadoo” is described on the dust jacket:
From the Upper Nile to the lower Ganges and the Roof of the World in Tibet, John Keel traveled in search of Jadoo – the black magic of the Orient – and had some of the most fantastic experiences ever to appear on the printed page. Everywhere he went he hunted down the mystics, lamas, jadoo-wallas and fakirs, befriending them and ferreting out their secrets. He learned how to do the Indian Rope trick, be buried alive, to charm snakes, walk on water and stick pins into himself without bleeding. He discovered the truth behind bearded cobras, two-headed snakes, trees growing out of the ground in a matter of minutes, X-ray eyes that can see through blindfolds and other “supernatural” phenomena.
But Mr. Keel also found magic with no logical explanation. As skeptical as the rest of us, he is still puzzled by the Tibetan monk who sat in his cell and knew immediately of an occurrence in a village many miles away, and the lama he interviewed who sat cross-legged in midair balanced only on a staff.
Just as fascinating as the magic are Mr. Keel’s incredible adventures in the East. In Baghdad he played Russian Roulette with “the most dangerous man in Iraq,” witnessed the religious rites of devil worshippers in an underground temple and investigated the manufacturing of mummies out of fresh corpses. He met Tenzing, the Sherpa guide, lost his car in a raging waterfall, and hunted down the “Abominable Snowman” in the Himalayas. He was almost crushed to death by a camel, bitten by a cobra and set upon by cutthroats.
What he saw and did will astonish readers with a taste for the bizarre. Here is really off-beat adventure, told by an engaging, unpredictable author.
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.
Drink: Lactose-free flat white
Food: The Sunday Breakfast @ Tilley's Devine Cafe
Book: The Allingham Minibus by Margery Allingham (my copy is the 1973 first edition, Chatto & Windus)
Best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and one of the most influential figures in human history, Charles Darwin established that all species of life on earth descended over time from common ancestors through a process that he called natural selection. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book “On the Origin of Species.”
Darwin’s second book on evolutionary theory, “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,” was published in 1871. In this work Darwin applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the dominant role of women in choosing mating partners, and the relevance of evolutionary theory to society. [Source: Wikipedia]
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)
Vol. II, First 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.
"The arrow, aimed with care, lodged in the lion's spine."
This is the fifth novel in the Tarzan series. Tarzan knows where the gold of fabled Atlantis is hidden and outlaws are determined to get their greedy hands on it.
Title: end of a war
Author: Edward Loomis
copyright date: 1958
publisher: William Heinemann Ltd., London
edition / print date: first edition, 1958
genre: war / drama / fiction
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
A businessman and an eccentric scientist in Victorian England undertake a journey to the moon in a spherical spaceship coated with a gravity-defying paste called Cavorite. After arriving on the moon and cavorting in a lush, fast-growing jungle on its surface, the earthly visitors partake of a fungus that gets them drunk. As they hop about drunkenly, dodging giant beasts called “mooncalves,” they’re taken captive by insect-like inhabitants called Selenites and transported underground. The Selenites live in a rigidly organized hive society with an all-powerful head. The story mixes horror with humor and biting satire and was the basis for a rather good movie released in 1964:
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Wells’ story of The First Men in the Moon first appeared as a ten-part serial in The Strand Magazine (Nov. 1900 – August 1901) with illustrations by Claude Shepperson . The story appeared simultaneously in the USA as an eight-part serial in The Cosmopolitan Magazine (Nov. 1900 – June 1901) with illustrations by E. Hering. The Bowen-Merrill Co. of Indianapolis published the first edition of the novel in book form in 1901 with eleven of Hering’s illustrations. The British followed a month later with their own book edition from George Newnes in London with twelve of Shepperson’s illustrations.
The 19th and early 20th centuries are thought of as the golden age of magazines. Entire novels would often appear in magazines before publication in book form. Authors didn’t hesitate to submit their work for publication in the popular magazines of the day. It’s there that you will find classic works by such fine authors as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling , H. G. Wells and others.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It gained an infamous reputation for the overcrowded and harsh conditions under which officer prisoners from the Union Army were kept. Prisoners suffered from disease, malnutrition and a high mortality rate. By 1863, one thousand prisoners were crowded into large open rooms on two floors, with open, barred windows leaving them exposed to weather and temperature extremes.
From May through November 1864, 20-year-old Sergeant Major Robert H. Kellogg of the 16th Regiment Connecticut volunteers and most of his regiment were confined in Confederate prisons at Andersonville, Georgia and Florence, South Carolina. Upon entering the notorious Andersonville prison, Kellogg scribbled into his diary: “Our hearts failed us as we saw what used to be men now nothing but mere skeletons covered with filth & vermin.”
Robert Kellogg’s “Life and Death in Rebel Prisons” was published in 1865, right after the American Civil War while the horrors of that time were still fresh in the author’s memory. The book was based on his journal and the accounts of other Union Army prisoners. It details the harsh conditions and daily atrocities of life in Confederate prisons as well as some details of the war.
Just in time for the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations honoring the 60 year reign of Queen Elizabeth as the head of Britain's monarchy, this is a rare, in very good condition, First Edition of the charming biography "The Little Princesses" by Marion Crawford in which she recounts the seventeen years she was employed by the British Royal family as the governess to then Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
'Crawfie', as she was affectionately dubbed by 'Princess Lilibet', offers a first-hand account of daily life during her tenure as the girls’ formal and informal educator, starting in the early 1930s when Elizabeth was 5 years old (and Margaret was two) until 1948 when Prince Charles was born.
This book is full of wonderful stories about fascinating people. It was the first story ever told of the world behind the palace walls... an informal, yet intimate, portrait of everyday life in a happy, private family relayed with understanding and humor.
Features ...
+ 16 full pages of gravure illustrations,
+ More than 40 photographic images,
+ A two-page photo montage on the front and back inside covers include images of handwritten thank you notes by the princesses.
This is the first and only book published under the imprint “A Phantom Mystery.” The book was reprinted by Dell in 1952 with a new cover by Robert Stanley and the author's real name, Anthony Boucher:
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Nombre: Optimus Prime
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Kre-O
Año: 2012
Número de adquisición: 508
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Name: Optimus Prime
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Kre-O
Year: 2012
Number in Collection: 508
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.
Lee de Forest (1873-1961) was an American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio", and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures. He had over 180 patents, but also a tumultuous career — he boasted that he made, then lost, four fortunes. He was also involved in several major patent lawsuits, spent a substantial part of his income on legal bills, and was even tried (and acquitted) for mail fraud. His most famous invention, in 1906, was the three-element "grid Audion", which, although he had only a limited understanding of how it worked, provided the foundation for the development of vacuum tube technology. [Source: Wikipedia]
MFAMILY Erasmus Mundus, European Master in Social Work with Family and Children graduation ceremony of the first edition took place at ISCTE-IUL J. J. Laginha auditorium on august 3rd. Fotografia Hugo Alexandre Cruz.
Steel engraved portrait to celebrate the marriage of Princess Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria, to Prince Frederick William of Prussia.
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.
My handmade replica of Shakespeare's 1623 first folio is now complete. This book is bound in hand-dyed calf leather and features a gilt spine with false raised bands, Cambridge panel on covers (in the style of Master Bookbinder, Paul Tronson), blind tooled edges, and hand marbled paper on the insides of the covers. The text block was sewn on recessed cords which were also used to lace-in the cover boards.
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Credits: Project inspired by and created in the style of Master Bookbinder, Paul Tronson.
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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).
This is Burroughs' eighteenth novel in the Tarzan series. Tarzan battles a murderous society of Leopard Men when he and his monkey companion Nkima are taken captive by an African warrior.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.