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Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
I thoroughly enjoy the ink's interaction with the page in this image.
Look around and see the excess in splotching and the wicking of ink into the fibers. The paper itself has such great texture.
Background information on how I had access to these treasures at www.flickr.com/photos/breal/sets/72157594487752093/
A heavily clipped dust cover of Vienna by Stephen Spender, and a very rare review slip from Faber & Faber dated 8 November 1934.
Vienna is a long poem in praise of the 1934 uprising of Austrian socialists; it's also the city where Spender lived for some years. The poem runs to 30 pages and is set in four chapters: Arrival at the City; Parade of the Executive; The Death of Heroes; and Analysis and Statement.
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Class C1 : Tribute to Colin Chapman : Lotus 75 years (1948-2023)
Antwerp Concours 2013
"Great Cars, Great Scenery"
Kasteel Belvédère
Wijnegem - Antwerp
Belgium
September 2023
A first edition book printed in 1958 as part of a Ladybird series into different modes of transport. Later called the 'Recognition Series' and this was the first book of that series.
This one relating to the types of Loco's operating on the British Railways at the time it was printed. It features 62 pages of hand illustrated trains and information about them on the opposite page.
It is a look into the past as all of the engines are steam trains except the last two which are (for the time) modern diesel engines.
The book is part of series 584 and cost 2/6 at the time.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
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Nombre: Arcee
Afiliación: Autobot
Línea: Prime First Edition
Clase: Deluxe
Año: 2011
Número de adquisición: 480
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Name: Arcee
Allegiance: Autobot
Line: Prime First Edition
Class: Deluxe
Year: 2011
Number in Collection: 480
This 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]
The story is accompanied by some 175 illustrations by Dan Beard. Hollywood put its own spin on the story with a 1949 musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Nombre: Arcee
Afiliación: Autobot
Línea: Prime First Edition
Clase: Deluxe
Año: 2011
Número de adquisición: 480
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Name: Arcee
Allegiance: Autobot
Line: Prime First Edition
Class: Deluxe
Year: 2011
Number in Collection: 480
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
justlovefestival.org
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
justlovefestival.org
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
justlovefestival.org
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Inscription 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.
Inscribed handwriting James Scott.
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, 1170 pages this volume. 26cm x 21cm.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Nombre: Ultra Magnus
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Transformers Prime RID
Clase: Voyager
Año: 2013
Número de adquisición: 558
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Name: Ultra Magnus
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Transformers Prime RID
Class: Voyager
Year: 2013
Number in Collection: 558
“The Gift” was an annual literary anthology published in a gift book format for the years 1836, 1837, 1839, 1840, and 1842-1845. Each book was published by Carey & Hart of Philadelphia in the fall of the year prior to the date given in the title, so that The Gift for 1836 was actually issued in October of 1835. Five of the gift books include new tales by Edgar Allan Poe – “Manuscript Found in a Bottle” (1836), “William Wilson” (1840), “Eleonora” (1842), “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1843), and “The Purloined Letter” (1845).
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.
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.
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
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Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
justlovefestival.org
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Grab your boots and spurs and get ready for some Wild West Adventure!
Code Of The West By Zane Grey was published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1934.
The interior of this hardcover novel is clean and still snug and features Blue cloth boards and spine in excellent shape. The charming brightly colored illustrated dust jacket is in lovely condition as this is an ex-library copy and is covered in Mylar.
Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6.75" - 7.75" tall.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
From the Introduction:
“This book was in the making in 1966 and most of the photographs were shot then. The late Bruce Lee intended to publish this book years ago but decided against it when he learned that martial arts instructors were using his name to promote themselves. It was quite common to hear comments like: “I taught Bruce Lee” or “Bruce Lee taught me jeet kune do.” And Bruce may never have seen or known these martial artists.
“Bruce didn’t want people to use his name to promote themselves or their schools with false pretenses. He didn’t want them to attract students this way, especially the young teens.
“But after his death, his widow, Linda, felt that Bruce had contributed so much in the world of martial arts that it would be a great loss if the knowledge of Bruce would die with him. Although the book can never replace the actual teaching and knowledge that Bruce Lee possessed, it will enhance you, the serious martial artist, in developing your skill in fighting . . .”
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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.
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
justlovefestival.org
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
justlovefestival.org
Just Love Festival is back and better than ever! The first edition started and ended strong and we're looking forward to the next two. Check out highlights from Just Love Festival Edition 1 now!
justlovefestival.org
"An unmanned probe fires sampling rockets at the Moon's surface to test its structure and composition. Note the antennae for sending data back to Earth. In the background another probe takes off after having made a soft landing on the Moon's surface. (Martin Information Services)"
The book presents the best information, ideas and assumptions on the conquest of the moon as of 1958. The authors, who were experts on missiles and space flight, tell how the moon would be approached, first with instrumented probes and then with man himself as a payload. Fascinating conjectures, based on the latest scientific findings, show what life on the moon might be like, how men would build a base there, how they would explore the moon, and how they would push on from there to further explorations of outer space.