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A little bull pup lost in the snow.
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Nipper, the Little Bull Pup.
Written by Dorothy K. L'Hommedieu
Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse
Published by J.B. Lippincott Co; 1965 (originally published 1943)
Alexander Herrmann was the youngest of sixteen children born to the German couple Samuel and Anna Herrmann. Samuel Herrmann was a physician who, it is said, occasionally performed throughout Europe as a conjurer. Alexander’s older brother, Carl (Compars) Herrmann who was 28 years older than Alexander, left medical school at an early age to pursue a successful career as a magician. He served as a role model and inspiration for young Alexander. Carl took his young brother on a tour throughout Europe and Russia and taught him the art of magic, including advanced sleight-of-hand techniques, and Alexander was a brilliant and willing student. By the time they arrived in the United States in 1860, Alexander was seventeen and his adroitness and dexterity soon rivaled that of his famous brother.
Carl introduced Alexander to American audiences as his successor and Alexander performed an amazing “card throwing” act. He could scale a card into the lap of any spectator who raised his hand, bounce cards off of the rear wall of the largest theater and scale the cards all the way to the back of the theater, which made a big impact on the people in the cheaper seats.
Alexander began his independent career as a magician in 1862, brought his own show to London in 1871 and began a three-year stretch at Egyptian Hall as Herrmann the Great. As he got older, he came to resemble his brother Carl. Carl wore an imperial beard and handlebar moustache, and his hair was thinning. Alexander had a full set of curly hair, a thick goatee and a moustache with upturned ends. Even though they resembled each other, Alexander developed his own distinct, magnetic personality. Carl’s humor was sly and he presented his magic in a mysterious manner; he was from the old school of magic. Alexander's performance style, on the other hand, was to interweave comedy with his magic. He was a humorist who aimed to make his performances a joyous occasion. [Source: Wikipedia]
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
One of forty-nine photographs in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1970).
Big Eagle (c. 1827-1906) was the leader of a band of Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux in Minnesota. He and his band took part in a Sioux uprising in 1862. [Source: Wikipedia]
Quoting Dee Brown (pp. 38-39):
“During the ten years preceding the Civil War, more than 150,000 white settlers pushed into Santee country, thus collapsing the left flank of the once ‘permanent Indian frontier.’ As the result of two deceptive treaties, the woodland Sioux surrendered nine-tenths of their land and were crowded into a narrow strip of territory along the Minnesota River. From the beginning, agents and traders had hovered around them like buzzards around the carcasses of slaughtered buffalo, systematically cheating them out of the greater part of the promised annuities for which they had been persuaded to give up their lands.
“‘Many of the white men often abused the Indians and treated them unkindly,’ Big Eagle said. ‘Perhaps they had excuse, but the Indians did not think so. Many of the whites always seemed to say by their manner when they saw an Indian, ‘I am better than you,’ and the Indians did not like this. There was excuse for this, but the Dakotas (Sioux) did not believe there were better men in the world than they. Then some of the white men abused the Indian women in a certain way and disgraced them, and surely there was no excuse for that. All these things made many Indians dislike the whites.’”
From the back cover:
The river rolled silently, powerfully, mute witness to the greed and murder on her surface, where men fought savagely for plunder.
But the Big Missouri's pilots knew her as their friend, their home and their job.
This is the story of their battle for freedom . . . the story of Kirby Trent, who wasn't afraid . . . and of beautiful Judy Greene, who fought beside him.
When the fight was finished, the river ran red, but it ran free.
This is plate 27 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 Chimes” is Dickens’ second Christmas book, the first being “A Christmas Carol.” It continues his social commentaries on the poor. Structured similarly to “A Christmas Carol,” the main character, Trotty, witnesses an alternative future through a series of visions and ultimately is given a second chance to put things right. “The Chimes” was a bestseller in its day, but has since been eclipsed by “A Christmas Carol.” “The Chimes” is illustrated with thirteen engravings by artists John Leech, John Tenniel, Richard Doyle, Daniel Maclise and Clarkson Stanfield.
In all, Dickens wrote five Christmas books: “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “The Chimes” (though dated 1845 it was released in December 1844), “The Cricket on the Hearth” (1845), “The Battle of Life” (1846), and “The Haunted Man” (1848).
“So Young . . . So Evil”
“Theona was so young to be so evil but only her sister Kit, who looked enough like her to be her twin, knew what rottenness lay below Theona’s luscious blonde beauty. Now at nineteen Theona had become involved in the ugliest scandal of her entire life and Kit felt duty bound to extricate her. ‘YELLOW HEAD’ is the staccato-paced story of Kit’s hopeless struggle to save her wanton, love-crazy sister from self-destruction at any cost – even at the cost of the man she loves.
“Unfolding against the tough, realistic background of a mushrooming West Coast town, itself threatened by powerful forces of vice and corruption, this novel breathes life and warmth into an unforgettable story of love, loyalty and murder – a story that could only have been written about – and for – our times.” [From the back cover]
“Scratch the Surface . . .”
“Two exquisitely lovely sisters, as alike as identical twins on the surface – so utterly different inside! Theona – wanton, cruel and provocative. And Kay “[sic]” – warm, reserved, desirable. Brill O’Hearn thought he knew which sister he wanted – until he discovered that, by falling in love with one, he had become doubly susceptible to both!
“Here is the raw, shocking story of two warm-blooded women whose desire for the same man stirs up that deepest rivalry of all, a rivalry between sisters, where blood ties are forgotten and all restraints removed as the age-old animal, struggle for a mate, erupts in uncontrollable viciousness and passion.” [From the Intro inside the front cover]
[Note: The pulps paved the way for mass-market erotica, normalizing stories that flirted with taboo. Both genres were often dismissed as "low brow" or "trash," yet they tapped into real emotional and psychological currents -- especially around gender, power, and desire.]
From the back cover:
In this new John Faulkner novel, the ribald, hilarious, bewildered Jones Peabody takes his lusty place with Jeeter Lester of "Tobacco Road" and the unforgettable creations of Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck.
You will howl with delight over the female problems of Jones Peabody, of the Government Man, of Uncle Good and his "girls," of Ex-Senator, and a list of earthy, uninhibited males and females such as you have never met before on earth or in heaven.
Heyward and Alice took their way together towards the distant village of the Delawares."
"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]
Fantasia is Walt Disney’s animated orchestral masterpiece and untold youngsters were introduced to and inspired by its music. This companion volume to the motion picture has many color images from the film. The musicians whose works are featured in both the motion picture and the book include Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Dukas, Ponchielli, and Stravinsky. Actual musical phrases are printed decoratively throughout the book together with illustrations by Disney artists. Leopold Stokowski conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in the score of the motion picture.
Fantasia is divided into seven parts, each built around a well-loved musical work. In the first part Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is visualized in a whirl of brilliant abstractions. The second part is Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite with the Russian Dance performed by orchids and thistles and with tropical fish swimming sinuously through the exotic Arabian dance. Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice comes next, starring Mickey Mouse in his greatest dramatic role.
Sections four and five are built on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. In the sixth part ostriches, hippos, and elephants, in ballet dresses reminiscent of Degas, dance to the music of the Dance of the Hours from Ponchielli’s opera La Gioconda.
The seventh and final section represents the triumph of good over evil. In the opening – Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain – Satan and the dark spirits of the night perform a stormy danse-macabre. Then, as the music fades into Schubert’s Ave Maria, the forces of darkness are routed, the church bells ring, and Fantasia is brought to a close in streaming sunlight.
The cover of a 1962 first edition of Tomi Ungerer's classic children's book "The Three Robbers." : )
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:
"Deep into the heart of the oceans' unexplored subworlds goes one lonely ship -- a new kind of submarine -- with a handpicked crew bent on solving a 300-year-old riddle.
"But the surging ocean deeps take the powerful ship and hurl it like a toothpick miles deeper than any living man has ever penetrated before: for the ocean hides secrets as unknown as those of deep space. Far below the surface of the Earth's seas the handful of men uncover a wonder and release a terror . . ."
John Coleman Burroughs (1913-1979) was born in Chicago, the son of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, and of his first wife, Emma Centennia Hulbert. Jack became an author in his own right and a professional artist who went on to illustrate his father's books beginning in 1937.
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
During the early 1950s, Ballantine Books was one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy. Beginning with “The Space Merchants” (#21) by Frederik Pohl and C.M Kornbluth, Ballantine published paperback originals by major science fiction authors including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon, John Wyndham and many others. Ian Ballantine who with his wife Betty Ballantine founded Ballantine Books in 1952, announced that he would offer trade publishers original titles in two simultaneous editions, a hardcover “regular” edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, low-priced “news stand” edition for mass market sale. So, these Ballantine paperbacks were true first editions.
"A Picture History of India" is a richly illustrated history book that was originally published in Britain by the Oxford University Press as part of the Oxford picture histories. I love the elephant illustration on the cover.
An adorable herd of hippos from "The Secret Hiding Place." It's the story of a grumpy little hippo who just wants to be left alone already.
The Secret Hiding Place.
by Rainey Bennett.
Published by The World Publishing Company; Children's Book Club edition (1961)
"The amazing story of a beautiful girl who was thrown, helpless and alluring, into a world of lustful, savage men!"
Illustration on the back cover of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition Program Booklet.
“One of the most attractive and beautiful features of the Exposition will be the electrical illumination. By an entirely new system of flood lighting a soft, restful, yet perfect light will pervade the courts at night, revealing in wonderful clearness the facades and walls of the palaces and the natural colors of the shrubbery and flowers. By peculiar and novel lighting devices the statuary and mural paintings will be made to appear with even heightened effect. Concealed batteries will project powerful yet softened rays of light that will cause tens of thousands of specially prepared glass ‘jewels,’ hung tremulously upon the towers, to flash and scintillate like great diamonds, emeralds and rubies. At a point on the bay shore will be erected apparatus that will weave in the night sky auroras of ever-changing color. Altogether the spectacle will be interesting and wonderful and never to be forgotten.” [Accompanying description]
A 1930s children's book all about dogs. Of course I could not resist...
The Dog Book.
Witten by Albert Payson Terhune
Illustrated by Diana Thorne
Published by Saalfield Pub. Company; First edition (1932)
Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Treatise on Painting,” the most important treatise on art to be written during the Renaissance, was actually compiled by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo’s pupils, around 1540. It circulated widely, first in separate manuscripts and later in printed books, and for centuries it was thought to have been written by Leonardo himself. Artists, scientists, and scholars including Galileo, read it avidly as an authoritative record of Leonardo’s thoughts. In the 19th century, when the artist’s original notes became available, scholars realized that the text poorly reflected Leonardo’s sophisticated ideas. The text was very influential nonetheless. For better or worse, it was the primary source for disseminating Leonardo’s art theory in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century.
[Source: www.treatiseonpainting.org/]
ADAPTED FROM
COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN
“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”
“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
Receiving the Marine Corps’ full cooperation, including the use of facilities and personnel at Naval Base San Diego and NAS North Island, provided the authentic settings Capra required. A total of 28 aircraft were at Capra’s disposal and with the benefit of using actual aircraft, Capra did not have to rely on “process shots” or special effects which was the standard of the day, although dangerous crash scenes and a mass night takeoff were staged using studio miniatures. [Source: Wikipedia]
(Frank Capra would later direct such classics as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.)
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An adorable drawing from the 1940s children's book "Susannah the Pioneer Cow," illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham
Susannah the Pioneer Cow.
Written by Miriam Evangeline Mason.
Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham
Published by Macmillan Co (1941)
From the book “Flight: An Epic of the Air” by Irwin R. Franklyn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929). First Photoplay Edition, with scenes from the film.
“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation. [Source: Wikipedia]
This is plate 7 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.
Quoting from the book (page 31):
. . . I still remained before the fire, wondering and wondering about Bleak House, and wondering and wondering that yesterday morning should seem so long ago. I don’t know where my thoughts had wandered when they were recalled by a tap at the door.
I opened it softly, and found Miss Jellyby shivering there, with a broken candle in a broken candlestick in one hand, and an egg-cup in the other.
“Good night!” she said, very sulkily.
“Good night!” said I.
“May I come in?” she shortly and unexpectedly asked me in the same sulky way.
“Certainly,” said I. “Don’t wake Miss Clare.”
She would not sit down, but stood by the fire, dipping her inky middle finger in the egg-cup, which contained vinegar, and smearing it over the ink stains on her face; frowning the whole time, and looking very gloomy.
From the back cover:
VENGEANCE!
Jonathan Fontaine swore it . . . in the smoking remains of his homestead, over the charred, mutilated body of his young daughter.
He had gone East but now was back in Arizona with a specially equipped rifle. And he had a fresh lead on the Indian -- the one who had worn a necklace of human fingers and The Iron Shirt.
"Hondo" is a 1953 Warner Bros. Western film directed by John Farrow and starring John Wayne and Geraldine Page. The screenplay is based on the July 5, 1952 Collier's short story "The Gift of Cochise" by Louis L'Amour. The book "Hondo" was a novelization of the film also written by L'Amour, and published by Gold Medal Books in 1953. The supporting cast features Ward Bond, James Arness and Leo Gordon.
The shoot went over schedule, and Farrow had to leave the production as he was contractually obligated to direct another movie. The final scenes featuring the Apache attack on the circled wagons of the Army and settlers were shot by John Ford, whom Wayne had asked to finish the film; Ford was uncredited for this work. [Source: Wikipedia]
From the back cover:
"When I read Louis L'Amour exciting novel I knew I had to play Hondo Lane in a motion picture. In the man Hondo, I found the very spirit of the old West.
"I hope, in my new movie, HONDO, I have portrayed some of his high courage, quiet strength and resolute honor."
-- John Wayne
"John Wayne did capture Hondo's great qualities, in James Edward Grant's excellent screen play. Read this fine novel -- then see John Wayne's 3D movie, HONDO."
-- The Editors
“Captains Courageous” is a coming-of-age tale of fishing off the New England coast. It is the story of Harvey Cheyne, a spoiled rich kid, who stumbles overboard an ocean liner and is rescued by fisherman Manuel Fidello off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and brought aboard a small fishing boat. There he meets Disko Troop, captain of the fishing boat, who refuses to take the young man back to port but agrees to take him on as part of the crew against Harvey’s wishes. Over the course of the novel, Harvey befriends the captain’s son Dan and has some sense knocked into him. Dan helps the arrogant, overly pampered Harvey become a hard-working, self-reliant man at sea.
“Captains Courageous” is also an excellent portrayal of life in the Gloucester fishing fleet of Massachusetts, written while the newlywed Kipling lived in Vermont. Although Kipling lived in Vermont several years and was married to an American this is his only novel with entirely American settings, themes and major characters. The American edition of the book is dedicated to James Conland, M.D., of Brattleboro, Vermont. Dr. Conland had brought the Kiplings elder daughter into the world and had been a member of the Massachusetts fishing fleet. It is he who took Kipling to explore the wharves and quays of Boston and Gloucester.
Considered one of the great sea novels of the 19th century, “Captains Courageous” was made into an excellent Victor Fleming film in 1937 starring Freddie Bartholomew (Harvey Cheyne), Spencer Tracy (his rescuer Manuel Fidello),
Lionel Barrymore (Captain Disko Troop) and Mickey Rooney (Dan Troop).
and not one of those crazy religious ones, but an awesome one.
Chuck Palahniuk is my favorite writer. these are all of his books that he has written. an that is my leg with three of his book covers tattooed on me. i remember watching fight club for the first time and thought the movie was amazing, then i picked up the book and it changed my life. i haven't read pygmy yet but that is next after i finish fugitives and refugees.
soon my entire right leg will be filled with all of his books and quotes and hopefully one day i could meet him again and show him.
p.s. both the survivor and snuff tattoo need to be touched up
From the back cover:
Blaize Carew was an ex-cowpoke who traded his saddle for a sheepskin. He thought he was ready for a peaceful life. But as soon as Blaize tried to set himself up as a doctor in Kicking Horse, he found the countryside rocking with a blood-hungry feud. Every small farmer for miles around was battling for his life against the ruthless power of the big ranchers and a corrupt deputy sheriff. And when Blaize chose to fight with the farmers, he got his warning:
"YORE TIME IS COMIN', CAREW!"
Blaize Carew had never run in his life. This two-fisted medic welcomed a battle to a finish, even though six-gun death waited for him at every turn of the trail!
This is a wonderful 1970s book by the great Arnold
Lobel about different types of imaginary and fantastical birds such as the Ice-Cream Cone Coot and the Shuttercluck.
"The Journey of Pietari and his Wolf" is a children's book about Pietari, a young child of ageless wisdom, who leaves his magical home in the primeval Meadow to help the Kind Wolf find the Heaven Wolf, his twin brother.
The Journey of Pietari and his Wolf.
by Kaarina Helakisa.
Published by La Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; First edition 1991
For this book, Ray Bradbury creates an ingenious framework for tying together a collection of short stories. The Illustrated Man is a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos, which isn’t so unusual in 2014 but was quite weird and disturbing in the 1950s. What’s even weirder is that the tattoos come alive and each proceeds to unfold its own story. This book has remained in print since its publication in 1951, testimony to the broad appeal of Bradbury’s work.
1898 edition of Tom Sawyer. Duplicate of 1875 first edition. Not in good shape unfortunately. I think I got it for $3.
The little opossum on this cover is just too cute.
"Just the Thing for Geraldine"
written by Ellen Conford and illustrated by John Larrecq;
Published by Little Brown & Co; First Edition (1974)
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.
“A girl delinquent leads a teen-age gang to violence – and tragedy!”
From the back cover:
“The Beat Generation”
It started at a wild beach party – with emotions rising to a fever as the bonfire leaped in the darkness, and the hot jazz pounded out of the phonograph . . .
And it ended in the cold, early hours of the morning, when mayhem and robbery led to STARK VIOLENCE – and TRAGEDY!
The powerful, pulsating story of a teenage gang of jet-propelled kids who felt they had no future, nowhere to go – who were out for any fast kicks they could get in cheap liquor, violence and destruction . . .
An honest, unforgettable novel of that small segment of our youth – the new “Lost Generation” – tragically destroying themselves in the search for something, someone to belong to!
See “Juvenile Jungle” – a Republic presentation starring Corey Allen, Rebecca Welles and Richard Bakalyan.
End papers from a wonderful children's book containing simplified Aesop's Fables illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Aesop's Fables (Classic Illustrated Editions)
Illustrated by Jeremy Pinkney
Published by Chronicle Books, First edition 2000
"As soon as this slight salutation had passed, Montcalm moved towards them with a quick but graceful step, baring his head to the veteran, and dropping his spotless plume nearly to the earth in courtesy."
"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]