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A hallucinatory novel from the late Brian Aldiss. Published in 1969 by Faber and Faber. I'm re-reading it now for the first time in 25 years. I have a lot of first editions of his books plus a signed copy of The Twinkling of an Eye. He was a good writer. I liked his work a lot. Goodbye Brian.

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!

 

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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!

 

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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!

 

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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!

 

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"In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America “Uncle Tom's Cabin” exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on 'the Southern way of life.' Whatever its weakness as a literary work -- structural looseness and excess of sentiment among them - the social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than of any book before or since." (Source: Printing and the Mind of Man).

 

When Abraham Lincoln met its author at the White House in 1862, he is said to have exclaimed, “So this is the little lady who made this big war?” For Harriet Beecher Stowe, the battle against slavery was a God-ordained crusade to cleanse the United States of an evil affront to humanity. Stowe presented her story in the style of popular works of the day, melodramatically and with religious undertones, but the themes of the novel – the breaking up of families, violence, the naive idea of a return to Africa – are historically significant. Stowe had not only witnessed incidents like the ones described in her novel, but had long been concerned about slavery, having read the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Louis Clark, as well as the abolitionist tracts.

 

When the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850, Stowe began writing “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” It first appeared in serial installments in the abolitionist newspaper “The National Era.” Boston publisher John P. Jewett published the novel in book form on March 20, 1852, two installments before the conclusion of the serial in “The National Era.” The initial printing of the book sold out immediately upon publication and the book went through continual reissue for years. The book eventually sold more copies in the 19th century than any other book except the Bible. The Fugitive Slave Act, in combination with her book, were arguably the catalysts for the Civil War, as even Lincoln implied upon meeting Stowe.

 

This guy has a pretty awesome transformation sequence - great engineering. I'm not a huge fan of Bayformers (the Michael Bay movie version of The Transformers), but I really like the Transformers: Prime show. It seems to strike a nice balance between Bayformers and G1.

 

I'm glad Hasbro made this Voyager Class version of Optimus, because I really didn't like the design of the Deluxe Class one... Still waiting for Megatron!

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While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon" -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty. The book was turned into a movie, also called Lost Horizon, by director Frank Capra in 1937. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.

 

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Sarah visits her potential first edition of Salinger.

Sidney Paget is best known as the creator of the popular image of Sherlock Holmes which influenced interpretations of the detective in nearly all subsequent films, plays and books. In all, Paget illustrated one Holmes novel and 37 Holmes short stories for the publisher, George Newnes.

Nombre: Vehicon

Afiliación: Decepticons

Línea: Transformers Prime First Edition

Clase: Deluxe

Año: 2012

Número de adquisición: 574

 

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Name: Vehicon

Allegiance: Decepticons

Line: Transformers Prime First Edition

Class: Deluxe

Year: 2012

Number in Collection: 574

 

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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!

 

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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!

 

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Early examples of the famous and popular Ian Allan "ABC" series these for the locomotives of the Great Western Railway. Ian Allan was employed by the Southern Railway and with some 'official' backing (and some opposition!) he compiled and personally published the first ABC, for the Southern, in 1942.

 

His second publication was that for the Great Western Railway, seen here in a plain cover, and that is dated August 1943. The foreword notes that due to wartime shortages of staff regretably the publication has not been checked officially by the GWR but Allan was keen to issue it and the matching volumes for the LMSR and LNER he had in preparation. Later editions began to have covers with scraperboard/Windsor Board illustrations - latterly many were by artist A. N. Wolstenholme but these ealry examples appear uncredited.

 

It is slightly remarkable that these were issued in wartime conditions what with paper and printing ink shortages and, in the early years, some official concern I suspect about the publication of even basic information regarding such a vital part of the war effort. Ian Allan went on to great success in post-war years tapping into a readership of younger people as well as of older 'train spotters' for whom such railway and transport activities were highly popular pastimes.

Jordantimes on King Hussein Funeral, inside pages

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?

 

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!

 

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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!

 

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Leaving their reservation under such leaders as Geronimo, the Apache Indians, in the period 1882-86, took refuge in the Sierra Madre Mountains, and from this stronghold raid the settlements in Mexico and Arizona.

 

From "The Book of the American Indian" by Hamlin Garland. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. 1st ed

Sidney Paget is best known as the creator of the popular image of Sherlock Holmes which influenced interpretations of the detective in nearly all subsequent films, plays and books. In all, Paget illustrated one Holmes novel and 37 Holmes short stories for the publisher, George Newnes.

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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I kept promising my friend that I would take some photos of my late father's fountain pen collection, but I kept procrastinating on doing so. Then I discovered some old photos that my father took.

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.

 

"Who the dickens 'Boz' could be

Puzzled many a learned elf,

Till time unveiled the mystery,

And 'Boz' appeared as Dickens's self."

 

Dickens took the pseudonym from a nickname he had given his younger brother Augustus, whom he called "Moses" after a character in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. This, "being facetiously pronounced through the nose," became "Boses", which in turn was shortened to "Boz".

 

[Source: Wikipedia]

Pretty much all the whisky in the world comes from five countries. This is the debut bottling of the first single malt from Mackmyra, the first whisky distillery in Sweden. I’m not sure how many other bottles apart from this one even exist in the US (not many on my whisky forum have it in their cabinets). Mike was generous enough to safeguard this little guy all the way from Sweden. Here it is before making the journey.

"In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America “Uncle Tom's Cabin” exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on 'the Southern way of life.' Whatever its weakness as a literary work -- structural looseness and excess of sentiment among them - the social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the United States was greater than of any book before or since." (Source: Printing and the Mind of Man).

 

When Abraham Lincoln met its author at the White House in 1862, he is said to have exclaimed, “So this is the little lady who made this big war?” For Harriet Beecher Stowe, the battle against slavery was a God-ordained crusade to cleanse the United States of an evil affront to humanity. Stowe presented her story in the style of popular works of the day, melodramatically and with religious undertones, but the themes of the novel – the breaking up of families, violence, the naive idea of a return to Africa – are historically significant. Stowe had not only witnessed incidents like the ones described in her novel, but had long been concerned about slavery, having read the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Louis Clark, as well as the abolitionist tracts.

 

When the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850, Stowe began writing “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” It first appeared in serial installments in the abolitionist newspaper “The National Era.” Boston publisher John P. Jewett published the novel in book form on March 20, 1852, two installments before the conclusion of the serial in “The National Era.” The initial printing of the book sold out immediately upon publication and the book went through continual reissue for years. The book eventually sold more copies in the 19th century than any other book except the Bible. The Fugitive Slave Act, in combination with her book, were arguably the catalysts for the Civil War, as even Lincoln implied upon meeting Stowe.

 

Nombre: Bumblebee

Afiliación: Autobot

Línea: Prime First Edition

Clase: Deluxe

Año: 2011

Número de adquisición: 479

 

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Name: Bumblebee

Allegiance: Autobot

Line: Prime First Edition

Class: Deluxe

Year: 2011

Number in Collection: 479

 

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