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"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.
Back illustrations of a first edition of "Rascal," an American classic tale about a mischievous racoon written by Sterling North.
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)
Page from: "The Family of Woman." Editor: Jerry Mason
Published Grosset and Dunlap and the Ridge Press; 1979
Printed in Italy
This cute vignette is from the 1960s first edition of "Three to Get Ready," lovingly illustrated by Mary Chalmers.
Three to Get Ready.
Written by Betty Boegehold
Illustrated by Mary Chalmers
Harper and Row; first edition (1965)
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 ". . . . . .
www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/9643855/Turning-the-p...
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 . . .
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
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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.
“How often will the Laws of Chance make a wish come true? Suppose you could overcome the Laws of Chance and make every wish happen the way you want it to?
“In a bombed-out U.S.A., overrun by a horde of unseen enemies operating from space ships, a lone scientist finds himself designated as the protector of the few remaining men, women and children. How he saves these people and himself by overcoming the Laws of Chance and through the use of radioactive material, makes one of the most fascinating science fiction novels, written by one of the most popular of pseudo-science writers.” [From the Introduction]
Pearl smuggler Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) finds romance with Linda Grahame (Ava Gardner) just before the start of World War II. He proposes to her, and she accepts. However, when the Japanese attack Singapore in 1942, the church where she is waiting to marry him is bombed; Gordon searches frantically in the wreckage, but cannot find her. He is forced to sail away on his schooner.
After WWII, he returns to Singapore to recover his hidden stash of pearls and to search for his sweetheart who disappeared during the Japanese attack.
"Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long skinny arm, in derision."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
“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]
Colorful cover to "Siegfried the Mighty Warrior" by Maria De Vivanco. Illustrated by Lazlo Gal
Published by Golden Press; First Edition (1968)
"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
The book “Peter and Wendy” was first published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in the U.K. and Charles Scribner’s in the U.S.A. The book contains a frontispiece and 11 half-tone plates by artist F. D. Bedford, the first pictures of Peter Pan, Wendy and their exploits in Neverland.
Although Peter Pan appeared as a character in two earlier books, “The Little White Bird” (1902) and “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” (1906), “Peter and Wendy” (1911) remains J. M Barrie’s most famous work. It introduces a new and far more memorable cast of characters including Peter Pan himself who is now a bit older. He is no longer a baby but a mischievous boy who can fly. The book tells of his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. These characters and their story have been with us now for over a century and were the subject of a classic animated Disney movie in 1953.
Drink: Coffee
Food: Raspberry melting moment biscuits
Book: Brand X by Christianna Brand (my copy is the 1974 first UK edition hardcover with dust jacket, Michael Joseph Ltd; found for $AUD3.00 at a book fair)
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)
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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 . . ."
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 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."
So I’ve been looking to buy a Rollei 35 camera for some time and my delay was due to my criteria. It had to be black and made in Germany. Recently I came across two cameras that met this and purchased them both for a decent price. This is the second one and it has the original smaller lock for the back (or base), it is uncommon.
Lighting by Marcel.
Please respect copyright. Do no use without written permission.
“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.
Car: Lotus Emira V6 First Edition.
Engine: 3456cc V6.
Power: 400 BHP.
Fuel: Petrol.
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 September 2024.
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.
“I, Robot” is a collection of nine science fiction short stories which originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are woven together as Dr. Susan Calvin tells them to a reporter (the narrator) in the 21st century. Though the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics.
The short story “Runaround” in the “I, Robot” collection is where Asimov first introduced his Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
“Their arrows flew together, marvellous shots, each finding its prey.”
Illustration by N. C. Wyeth for the 1917 David McKay edition of “Robin Hood” by Paul Creswick.
"He hesitated a moment; and then catching the light and senseless form of Alice in his arms, the subtle Indian moved swiftly across the plain towards the woods."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"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/]
See if you identify all these cars by adding notes on them! OR perhaps which is your favourite...
All these are the FE series, or First Edition cars, which first appeared in HotWheels mainline (every year)
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 . . .
I hope your Monday is as lovely as this.
"The Zabajaba Jungle."
Written & Illustrated by William Steig, First Edition 1987
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.
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!
"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
"A flaring torch was burning in the place, and sent its red glare from face to face and figure to figure, as it waved in the currents of air."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
So I’ve been looking to buy a Rollei 35 camera for some time and my delay was due to my criteria. It had to be black and made in Germany. Recently I came across two cameras that met this and purchased them both for a decent price. This is the second one and it has the original smaller lock for the back (or base), it is uncommon.
Lighting by Marcel.
Please respect copyright. Do no use without written permission.
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]