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Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
The first edition of the parkrun at Seaton. Saturdays 0900 from now onward. Watch out at the pinch point near the start, with people running through in both directions after a while.
Conditions were a little challenging for photography with mist and drops of rain.
The novelist Ernest Hemingway once remarked that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” and other writers such as poet T. S. Eliot and African American novelist Ralph Ellison have added their acclaim. Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, worked for eight years on the story of an outcast white boy, Huck, and his adult friend Jim, a runaway slave, who together flee Missouri on a raft down the Mississippi River in the 1840s. The book has been controversial since the day it was published, opinions ranging from “the book is a masterpiece” to the book is “trash and suitable only for the slums.” The free-spirited and not always truthful Huck narrates the colorful stories in the book in his own coarse and ungrammatical voice. He shows a lack of respect for religion and adult authority and repeatedly uses the “n” word. Some readers view the book as satire and consider it a powerful attack on racism. Others believe it contributes to a “racially hostile environment” and are offended by the language and the portrayal of the slave Jim. In spite of it all, Huck Finn remains the Great American Novel to the many people who have read it and loved it.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Close call!
We shot several lots of cool old books this afternoon while the crisp fall days are still hanging on and the light is just perfect.
A quick bit of Google research at my desk showed me that the dark blue book with the orangy title to be no ordinary used book, but a genuine 1927 first edition copy of Sinclair Lewis's famous work; Elmer Gantry!
In the first edition, the first letter of Gantry looks like the letter "C" and it's worth a nice chunk of change. Cool!
Who'da thunk it?
rii joins anouk. she is wearing a kelly (barbies daughter) dress that i just got for her. both of them are pink and girly even though i normally don't like that ;), but it's cute!
So, how does the figure measure up in the final analysis? I do like it. Maybe not $60 like it, but I do. I think the biggest problem is that this is a kid's toy that Hasbro tried to market as a collector's toy. Had this thing just hit the market as a $40 Leader Class figure rather than an Amazon Exclusive super figure, there would have been a lot less bitching. As it is, I don't regret buying it (unless it does drop down to $40, then I'll feel like an ass :P)
The novelist Ernest Hemingway once remarked that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” and other writers such as poet T. S. Eliot and African American novelist Ralph Ellison have added their acclaim. Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens, worked for eight years on the story of an outcast white boy, Huck, and his adult friend Jim, a runaway slave, who together flee Missouri on a raft down the Mississippi River in the 1840s. The book has been controversial since the day it was published, opinions ranging from “the book is a masterpiece” to the book is “trash and suitable only for the slums.” The free-spirited and not always truthful Huck narrates the colorful stories in the book in his own coarse and ungrammatical voice. He shows a lack of respect for religion and adult authority and repeatedly uses the “n” word. Some readers view the book as satire and consider it a powerful attack on racism. Others believe it contributes to a “racially hostile environment” and are offended by the language and the portrayal of the slave Jim. In spite of it all, Huck Finn remains the Great American Novel to the many people who have read it and loved it.
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.
The first edition of the parkrun at Seaton. Saturdays 0900 from now onward. Watch out at the pinch point near the start, with people running through in both directions after a while.
Conditions were a little challenging for photography with mist and drops of rain.
The first edition of the parkrun at Seaton. Saturdays 0900 from now onward. Watch out at the pinch point near the start, with people running through in both directions after a while.
Conditions were a little challenging for photography with mist and drops of rain.
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.
The first edition of the parkrun at Seaton. Saturdays 0900 from now onward. Watch out at the pinch point near the start, with people running through in both directions after a while.
Conditions were a little challenging for photography with mist and drops of rain.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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.
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.
My husband, the best gift-giver EVER, gave me an inscribed, autographed, first edition copy of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Julia's been my idol for ages and ages, so this was incredibly poignant to me.
There's a second birthday gift he gave me in here that you can't see, though--I took the photos with my new Nikon 35mm f1.8.
OMG! He hit a home run this year. Grand slam, outta the park.
Nombre: Bumblebee
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: Kre-O
Año: 2012
Número de adquisición: 523
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Name: Bumblebee
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: Kre-O
Year: 2012
Number in Collection: 523
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.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
By Stephen King
Edition 1979
The Viking Press, New York
Condition:Good
Details: Dust jacket in tact-slight tears on edges
Purchase @: www.etsy.com/listing/96120431/the-dead-zone-by-stephen-ki...
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
My Dad is as bad, if not worse than me at keeping things in case they may become useful later on. He left a pile of things in my room
recently, including a copy of that week's Financial Times, on top of
which was a scribbled message on the back of an envelope:
'Lorna, of any use?
I liked this, particularly as it was unclear if he was asking if I was
of any use, or the pile of things. Of course, they were of no use at
all, but the fact my Dad had carefully selected them and then chosen to pass them to me made it hard to just discard them. I spent a while considering if they could in fact be of any use. They still weren't, but I decided I could perhaps make a book from the pages of the Financial Times. Reading through the vast columns of numbers and words that made no sense to me I began doodling on top of the print. I gradually covered all the numbers and words on nearly a whole sheet, which took me hours- all of Hitchcock's Rebecca; part one of a radio adaptation of My Cousin Rachel; Desert Island Discs with Joanna Lumley; The Archers omnibus; a programme on BBC2 called Cooking in the Danger Zone and an episode of Wife Swap.
This page from the Financial Times is amongst a few of a great many objects that I have formed an attachment to but have very little need for; featuring in a number of books presented here within my late Grandmother's coat.
Including the floor plan of an "Austin" motor caravan - a very early caravanette / camper van. Also two photographs of a motor caravan called "Aeroplane" - perhaps named for the wing-like extensions on the roof when pitched!
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Caravanning & Camping Out by J. Harris Stone
The author was the founder of The CaravanClub, in 1907. It's a very readable book, and depicts the very earliest days of caravanning when they were towed by horses and only a few hundred people (if that) had one. These early caravans bore most resemblance to the romanticised images of gypsy caravans of the past, although some looked like cottages on wheels! It's a fascinating read, and there are plenty of pictures. It evokes a lot of nostalgia for a time when there were almost no cars on the road and caravans like this could meander about the countryside and stop anywhere.
The book is old enough that there is no date in anywhere, so I searched about the net to find out about it. Google was in fact unsuccessful - it came up with a few reference to the revised 1931 edition, and an American 1914 edition, but not the one I have. To the British Library! After a few searches there, I pinned it down. It's a first edition, 1913, published by Herbert Jenkins, London (the publisher I knew, but not the date). This is the only reference I've been able to find to this edition on the net. Given that the few references to the 1931 edition I've seen are quoting $70-90 and the 1914 American editions are quoting $100 - $250, I would imagine this one is significantly more valuable... It's in pretty good condition too (although, having said that, one edge of the spine cloth has split from opening it to take the pictures :( oops! It was pretty fragile).
The text itself is out of copyright, and can be read in full here.
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.
So, yeah, there's no way to get around the biggest criticism of this figure; he's a shellformer whose truck parts make for a clunky, ugly-looking, not-at-all-movie-accurate backpack. Looks like he could fit a whole semester's worth of books in there and still have room for lunch. Also, the fuel tanks that hang off the back get in the way of the leg articulation, limiting the figure's articulation.
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.
"Oliver's reception by Fagin and the boys." Art by George Cruikshank.
“Oliver Twist” is Dickens’ second novel and it is full of greed, corruption and dark humor. Orphan Oliver Twist starts his life in a workhouse and is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets, which is led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
Dickens presents an unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid–nineteenth century. An early example of the social novel, Dickens satirizes the hypocrisies of his time, including child labor, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child laborer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences contributed as well. “Oliver Twist” is a good example of Dickens’ belief that the novel should do more than merely entertain.
Oliver Twist has endured as one of the most compelling child protagonists in fiction. His story has been the subject of numerous adaptations, for various media, including a highly successful musical play, “Oliver!”, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. [Source: Wikipedia]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogHwP0C5VY
Unlike most of Dickens’ novels, “Oliver Twist” was not issued in monthly parts. It did appear in “Bentley’s Miscellany” magazine from February 1837 through April 1839, but the three volume book edition was published complete in November 1838. The book included 24 engravings by George Cruikshank and identified the author as “Boz.” Dickens decided that he would no longer be known as “Boz,” but his decision was too late for the earliest copies, those published between November 9 and 16, 1838.
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.
"Here is an artist's conception of a manned lunar orbiter with glide Earth reentry and landing capabilities. A massive two-stage booster supports a small rocket powered vehicle. The gantry tower is designed to move away to permit a vertical take-off. (F. C. Durant III)"
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.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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:
I wonder if the book is worth $9,500 if it has all this stamped on the last page. I can't remember if I paid 50¢ for it oh so long ago...