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"The Zabajaba Jungle."
Written & Illustrated by William Steig, First Edition 1987
Everyone's favorite nanny as seen in "Mary Poppins in the Park."
Written by P. L. Travers.
Illustrated by Mary Shepard
Published by Harcourt Brace, 1952. First Edition.
From the back cover:
She Grew Up Too Fast . . . She was young, blonde and beautiful -- a smoldering package of feminine dynamite in a body too mature for her years . . . She was one of the crowd who grew up too fast, who defy death for the casual "thrill" of it, who are out for "kicks" at any price . . .
Disturbing and boldly realistic, "Hot Rod Gang Rumble" is an incisive portrait of a "hot rod club" -- and the slick chick who stirred it to violence and destruction!
See "Hot Rod Rumble," an Allied Artists release starring Leigh Snowden, Richard Hartunian and Wright King.
“OPAR. . . the Atlantean colony in the heart of Tarzan’s Africa.
“OPAR. . . in the words of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a hidden city of ‘gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks.’
“OPAR. . . is the starting point of this fabulous novel of twelve thousand years past, when Africa had an inland sea and a high civilization bloomed along its forgotten shores, when lost empires flew their time-vanished banners, and deeds of daring were commonplace.
“Philip José Farmer, chronicler of TARZAN ALIVE, teller of fabulous histories, presents here the first great novel of HADON OF ANCIENT OPAR, whose claim to a throne launched him upon an adventure in the grand style of the great masters of fantasy. Fully illustrated by Roy Krenkel!” [From the back cover]
Kind of an atmospheric take on this famous Paris Book emporium . . . . .
"Paris is a city filled with spectacular sights. But tucked away on the Left Bank, in the shadow of Notre Dame, there sits a ramshackle English-language bookshop which any literature-loving tourist will be almost certain to make a beeline for ". . . . . .
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This makes me smile.
Puss in Boots.
Written by Kathryn Jackson.
Illustrated by J. P. Miller
Published by Simon and Schuster (1952 First Edition)
In this book, Professor Wormbog, who has collected all manner of fantastical creatures from A to Y, keeps looking for the Zipperump-a-Zoo. He looks everywhere and discovers how hard it is to find one — unless the Zipperump-a-Zoo wants to find you!
Professor Wormbog in Search of the Zipperump-a-Zoo.
By Mercer Mayer
Published Golden Press 1976 First Edition
From the Introduction on the first page:
SCIENCE-FICTION WITH A DIFFERENCE
Have you ever wished your life were more serene? More tranquil? And if you were granted the one proverbial wish, would absolute peace be your request? Better not commit yourself until you've had a look at the completely tranquil world of "The Haunted Future!"
Or maybe you might have wished for eternal life, a chance to escape into the fourth dimension. Sounds good, doesn't it? Until you read "Damnation Morning" -- and then you can scratch that one off your list too.
But perhaps your wants are simpler. Maybe just a chance to solve the unsolvable? You've got it in "The Number of the Beast." In fact, whatever it is you want in the way of a surprising imagination-tingling short story -- a dash of fantasy, a drop of horror, a glimpse of the unknown -- you'll find it in Fritz Leiber's new collection THE MIND SPIDER AND OTHER STORIES.
"The Man in the High Castle" takes a glimpse into an alternate history and what life may have been like had the Allied Powers lost WWII. As noted in the comments section below, the book has been adapted by Amazon into an original series that is scheduled for release on November 20, 2015. Here are links to the TV trailers:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzayf9GpXCI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjs8xVaAC98
In addition to 44 published novels, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, eleven popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
Anatole and his adorable family
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Anatole and the Cat.
Written by Eve Titus
Illustrated by Paul Galdone
Published by Doubleday and Co. 1957
Detail from a 1950s book in which Alice and Martin Provensen use their imaginative illustrations to tell their version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic collections of writing and poems.
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"Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses" Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.
Golden Press, 1951. Twelfth Printing. (1962)
Colorful cover to "Siegfried the Mighty Warrior" by Maria De Vivanco. Illustrated by Lazlo Gal
Published by Golden Press; First Edition (1968)
The "Golden History of the World" contains fabulous illustrations by Cornelius DeWitt.
The Golden History of the World
by Jane Werner Watson.
Cornelius DeWitt (Illustrator)
Published by Golden Press; First Edition edition (1955)
Quoting from the book (page 492-493):
He took a few turns up and down, and sunk upon the sofa. “I get,” he repeated gloomily, “so tired. It is such weary weary work!”
He was leaning on his arm, saying these words in a meditative voice, and looking at the ground, when my darling rose, put off her bonnet, kneeled down beside him with her golden hair falling like sunlight on his head, clasped her two arms round his neck, and turned her face to me. O, what a loving and devoted face I saw!
“Esther, dear,” she said very quietly, “I am not going home again.” A light shone in upon me all at once.
“Never any more. I am going to stay with my dear husband. We have been married above two months. Go home without me, my own Esther; I shall never go home any more!” With those words, my darling drew his head down on her breast, and held it there. And if ever in my life I saw a love that nothing but death could change, I saw it then before me.
Car: Lotus Emira V6 First Edition.
Engine: 3456cc V6.
Power: 400 BHP.
Year of manufacture: 2022.
Date of first registration in the UK: 7th December 2022.
Place of registration: Not kmown.
Date first MOT due: 6th December 2025.
Date of last V5 issued: 30th January 2023.
Date taken: 1st June 2024.
A cloud of mist and vapor hang in the air as an armada of killer whales surface to breath while they swim close to shore near Lime Kiln State Park on San Juan Island, Wash., in July 2004. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Dean Koepfler)
From the back cover:
He Was Big . . . And Strong . . . And All Man . . .
And there wasn't a woman in the county that didn't know it. When Troy Bannock walked down the street, in his tight, faded blue jeans, one thing was damn sure -- the girl that got him would have herself a real man.
He was a farm boy, but he hated the land that took a man's body and heart away from him and gave him only enough to barely stay alive.
And there was more than just a body to Troy. He had brains they said, and a burning desire to get out of the dry, dusty, hot, one-horse town and make something of himself.
But with all of his manliness, Troy was still only a boy -- young, heedless, standing at the crossroads of life, full of the hungering of the flesh that could lead him to disaster . . .
This is plate 19 in Gaspey’s “Book of the World,” which contains 35 full-page, hand-colored engravings. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors.
“The view from the garden was beautiful – and tempting.”
From the back cover:
REVENGE FOR SINNERS
She performed the lowest act she could think of, just to spite her errant husband. As a result a whole family was dragged to the very depths of depravity by a brutal man who used raw sex as a weapon of revenge. Included in his plans was Nono, the beautiful and tantalizing daughter whose poolside antics left nothing to the imagination.
This is plate 20 in Gaspey’s “Book of the World,” which contains 35 full-page, hand-colored engravings. Colored engravings of that period were virtually always colored by hand with water colors.
Drink: Coffee
Food: Lamingtons
Books: Recent finds!
Before She Kills by Fredric Brown (a 1984 publication featuring six of Brown's detective pulp stories from the 1940s and 60s).
Found for $3 at an opportunity shop.
The Gloomster by Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson (2011 first UK edition, Faber & Faber).
Found for 50 cents at a used bookstore.
Thunderball by Ian Fleming (1961 first edition, Jonathan Cape).
Rescued from a book pile my father-in-law was getting rid of.
The Narrowing Circle by Julian Symons (1954; my copy is the 1985 reissue by Macmillan).
Found for $7.25 at a used bookstore.
A happy, round sheep as seen in "The Sheep of Lal Bagh" by David Mark, illustrated by Lionel Kalish. Published by Parents' Magazine Press; First edition (1967)
Cover Art by John Bach,
The story of a lonely man who accumulated wealth but disowned his family, and who left a legacy of nonsense products that are still sold today (e.g. rubber chocolates, dribble glass, snake can). Samuel Sorenson Adams' world was filled with tricks, jokes and magic. His unusual company, known worldwide as S. S. Adams, has plied its trade in pranks and tricks since 1906.
“Rapture Alley” by Whit Harrison (Harry Whittington)
THE SHOCKING STORY OF A GIRL WHO TOOK THE ROAD TO DOPE ADDICTION
From the back cover:
A SMOKE, A SNIFF, A JOLT . . .
Rapture For A Moment, Hell For A Lifetime . . .
Dope is no road to ecstasy, no matter what they say. It’s for defeated people . . . like Lora. Bitter, lonely people . . . like Lora. People who are tortured by forbidden love, who are in other people’s lives, who are at the end of their string, morally and emotionally . . . like Lora.
So Lora Took The Turn Into Rapture Alley . . . And Found It’s A Dead-End Street!
Swept along by a tide she could not buck, a fever of love she could not down, Lora was almost lost forever in the whirlpools of dope and degradation . . . until one little twist of fate showed her what she was in for. . . and why it was worthwhile to fight her way back.
A casual walk down a farm path in a quiet Wisconsin town leads an archaeologist into the Pleistocene era and he uncovers an interstellar mystery from before recorded time. In short order, the time trails in the quiet town of Willow Bend become the focus of global attention, government scrutiny and the target for an unprecedented solution to overpopulation. Time-traveling turns into big business and big trouble.
From the back cover:
"Coy Quillen," the man said. "Well, I'll be damned. You ain't very smart coming back to Texas. Folks around here heard you got killed at Gettysburg. Most allowed it was a good thing too. Yeah, I heard all about you. Turncoat!"
Quillen kept his voice even. "I fought for the Union because I believed in what they stood for. I'm back in Two Trees because it's my home."
The eyes that faced Quillen were cold and full of hate. "Well, that's real neighborly of you. Here's something for you to think about when you walk down the street and you can't see what's at your back. The South is whipped. And you helped. The only government in Texas is wearing uniforms just like yours. You're going to be real popular -- just like a sitting duck."
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Doughty’s short-lived magazine “The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports” is an important imprint in the history of American printing. It contained the first colored sporting prints made in America. Issued in monthly parts and published from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, “The Cabinet” featured articles on hunting, detailed descriptions of newly discovered flora and fauna, and some of the finest examples of early American hand-colored lithography. It was originally the work of the Doughty brothers, Thomas and John, with virtually all of the plates being the work of Thomas, who also founded the Hudson River School. But, by the spring of 1832, the partnership had broken up and Thomas had moved to Boston. An abbreviated third volume (not included here) lacked Thomas’ touch.
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
In just 20 cataclysmic months, Adolf Hitler had completed his lightninglike subjugation of virtually all of Europe. Now, he intended to reach his destiny in the east by invading America in the west. . .
What if Hitler had invaded America? This startling novel, written before Pearl Harbor, is the provocative answer.
In 1940, the Nazi war machine was ravaging Europe. Most Americans wanted no part of the foreign conflict, but wondered what might happen if we maintained our neutrality. When would Hitler finally be satisfied? Could the Wehrmacht conceivably attack the United States? Veteran journalist Fred Allhoff interviewed military experts of the day, and his informed scenario, serialized in "Liberty," sold more copies of that magazine than ever before in its publishing history.
"Lightning in the Night" assumes that England has fallen; America stands alone as the last bastion of democracy. By diplomatic coups and sheer bravado, the "Greater German Reich" annexes British, Dutch and French colonies throughout the Americas. Hitler acquires heavily fortified bases within striking distance of our Atlantic Coast . And then. . .
The action-packed plot follows Lt. Douglas Norton of Naval Intelligence and his fiancee Peggy O'Liam as they witness the siege of Seattle, the bombing of New York, and the fall of Baltimore. Tank warfare ranges across Pennsylvania; the Nazi flag is raised over Washington, D.C. The story moves from the pre-dawn Pacific to a concentration camp in Maryland; from a naval battle in the Straits of Magellan to the paratroop invasion of the Panama Canal -- until Adolf Hitler and the President of the United States confront each other across the peace table in Cincinnati. And yet many of Alhoff's prophecies are remarkably accurate, beginning with his forecast that war would actually begin with a Japanese attack on Hawaii! And his surprise conclusion, melodramatic and far-fetched by 1940's standards, today seems almost uncomfortably realistic.
Now collected in book form for the first time, together with the original "Liberty" illustrations, "Lightning in the Night" is a unique glimpse of the world of 1940 -- and a chillingly authentic account of the world that could have existed in 1945!
Jacket Art by Hal Siegel.
They Returned to a Cosmic D-Day!
“They had followed orders, reached the stars, and now were bound back for Earth with a visitor – a strange star-born being they thought would make an interesting curiosity back home. They did not suspect that in this creature they were bringing a spark that could set their planet aflame.
“Though they were to find themselves unwelcome strangers when they landed, their weird cargo proved their passport – until he escaped. And then to save their very lives, the star-travelers had to join the desperate search for the unearthly Saris Hronna, knowing that if they did not corner him first, it might mean the end, not only of themselves, but the Earth itself!
“Compounded of suspense and brilliant imaginative power, this new novel is jet-propelled for thrills and chills.” [From the Introduction]
"Working Cats" is a photography book filled with contemporary 1970s photographs of cats at .....(steel yourself) ..... at WORK. That's right, while your little kitty does nothing but lounge on the windowsill, other felines are actually earning their catnip.
Working Cats.
Terry DeRoy Gruber
First Edition 1979
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
Jed Cochrane headed the first space flight beyond the Solar System because a frustrated psychotic on the Moon happened to be the son-in-law of one of Jed’s bosses. Jed was an advertising man, a solidograph producer, director of the “Dikkipatti” Hour (rated among the top ten shows on at least three continents). What little he knew about space travel he had learned while doing research for one of his shows. And Jed was cynical – cynical about space travel in general, and about himself in particular. In short, he was the last man anyone with a logical mind would have selected for Man’s first flight into the depths of interstellar space.
Yet Jed Cochrane, heading for the Moon on orders of one of his bosses’ secretaries, not because he wanted to but because he was afraid he’d lose his job if he didn’t, landed feet first in the midst of the biggest discovery of several centuries. Accompanied by his own secretary, a psychiatrist, a writer, and two “tame” scientists, Jed went to the Moon to do a public relations job – to develop appreciation for an apparently useless scientific discovery made by his boss’s son-in-law. Jed found an angle and set to work – and in short order discovered he had a tiger by the tail – a huge, potentially dangerous, possibly benevolent tiger.
But to Jed everything was simply a “production” – even Operation: Outer Space!
Murray Leinster has written a delightful, slightly zany, somewhat cynical, yet amazingly convincing story of the first interstellar flight. His characters are three dimensional; the situations in which they find themselves are unusual but logical; the resulting tale is one you’ll read and reread with utmost enjoyment.
Thrills, chills and chuckles – all are here in the best science fiction book Murray Leinster has ever written – a book which is bound to win acclaim as one of the best S-F books of the year.
"Das arme Jesulein. Gemalt und geschrieben von Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo
Verlag - Josef Müller, München"
Mother's childhood Christmas storybook.
Written and illustrated by Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
First edition, 1931
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1931. A szegény Kisjézus.
Írta és illusztrálta: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Bohatta
Mamám gyerekkori karácsonyi mesekönyve
Kiadó: Josef Müller Verlag, München. Első kiadás
100th Anniversary Edition
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Brussels - Belgium
January 2023
From the back cover:
Again, Death Had Snatched Away Vivacious Nina!
The mad mastermind of malevolence had reclaimed the beauteous maiden he had so long held in thrall. . . until Jimmy Holm had wrested her from Death’s cadaverous grasp, lovingly taking her for his own. Now she was once more trapped in the weird web of the insane scientist-mystic, as that would-be destroyer of all civilization set out anew to wreak his wrath on the world. The trail led Jimmy through endless peril – constantly beset by the unimaginable monsters conjured up by Death’s macabre magic. . . by the compelling fury of the madman’s genius at mind control – to a desolate, portentous tomb in Egypt. . . where the lovers and Doctor Death dueled to an unbelievable and unforgettable climax!
This is the third book in Farmer's Riverworld series, a sequel to "The Fabulous Riverboat."
"The Dark Design" continues the adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Peter Frigate, and millions of others, from various times in the history of Earth, who have all been mysteriously resurrected on a strange planet known as Riverworld. Their problem is to find their way to the headwaters of the fabulous river, and to find the enigmatic beings who have accomplished their resurrection.
A television series loosely based on the Riverworld saga went into production for the Sci-Fi channel in 2001 but only the feature-length pilot episode Riverworld was completed. It was first aired in 2003. It used elements from "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" and "The Fabulous Riverboat." In 2010, a 4-hour TV movie, Riverworld was produced and released by Syfy (formerly The Sci-fi Channel) in the US and by Studio Universal elsewhere, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe. The protagonist is Matt Ellman, an American war reporter, played by Tahmoh Penikett. The main villain is Richard Francis Burton, although in the books he is the protagonist and is written more as a hero than a villain.
Deadly Welcome
Assignment: Ramona Beach, Florida -- a dangerous place to mix business and pleasure.
-- a high-tension mystery of a tough man on a tough assignment; a woman, impatient for the man who could melt her; a town that knew how to handle strangers and local girls who took up with them . . .
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
"Once there was magic in the world . . . . but hordes of selfish, short-sighted magicians have used the mana that moved the world, and the magic goes away. Even the most powerful spells are fast becoming futile, and so Orolandes, sad Achaean with half a sword, goes on a quest in search of the lost power.
But all of the gods and Fair Atlantis are dead. The creatures of spirit, the unicorns and centaurs, are dying. Soon all the sparkling things will be gone from the world and only clay will remain -- and those damned stupid barbarians with their damned stupid swords will win after all . . ."
"The Secrets of Cheating at Games of Skill and Chance."
When John Nevil Maskelyne first published "Sharps and Flats," in 1894, it became an instant classic. Soon the second edition came out and the book was to become one of the most desirable collectors' items for gambling researchers, scholars and collectors for gambling paraphernalia; especially those with an interest in crooked gambling and cheating with cards.
With the booming popularity of poker, gambling is at an all time high, and so is cheating. Nowadays people are most likely to resort to the internet to research a desired subject. Researchers of crooked gambling will undoubtedly find sites that offer in-depth information on that very subject, such as CARDSHARK Online. However, regardless of the subject that one studies, a serious researcher cannot ignore old sources that have been considered the classics for decades. "Sharps and Flats" was one of the first in-depth revelations of crooked gambling and cheating with cards and dice. This was at a time when such information was not widely available to the general public.
[Source: sharpsandflats.com/]
From the Introduction on the first page:
THE ONLY CERTAINTY WAS CONSTANT CHANGE
"My name is Greta Forzane. Twenty-nine and a party girl would describe me. I was born in Chicago, of Scandinavian parents, but now I operate chiefly outside space and time -- not in Heaven or Hell, if there are such places, but not in the cosmos or universe you know either.
"My job is to nurse back to health and kid back to sanity Soldiers badly roughed up in the biggest war going. This war is the Change War, a war of time travelers -- in fact, our private name for being in this war is being on the Big Time. Our Soldiers fight by going back to change the past, or even ahead to change the future, in ways to help our side win the final victory, a billion or more years from now . . . "
That's a bit of the opening of one of the most unusual, original, and downright entertaining science-fiction novels ever written. The 17th World Science Fiction Convention awarded it a "Hugo" as the best novel of the year -- and when you've read it, you'll find yourself in breathless agreement.
"In Darkest Africa (1890) is Henry M. Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. At the turn of that century, the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. With the accounts of great explorers like Stanley, readers became thrilled by stories of African expeditions and longed to follow in the footsteps of these explorers. In 1888, Stanley led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. The two volumes that compose 'In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria' are his account of what happened." [www.biblio.com/in-darkest-africa-by-stanley-henry-m/work/...]