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Nicholas Monsarrat - Depends What You Mean By Love
Signet Books 1092, 1954
Cover photo of Nicholas Monsarrat by Daniel Farson
A hefty $70.00 dollars in 1956 would get this mid-level Kodak rangefinder kit. (That's about $590.00 dollars in todays market.) The Signet series replaced the Kodak 35 series as the second tier group in Kodak's popular lineup.
It was a pretty good deal, (not the best, but pretty good.) The radioactive thorium oxide lens is a unit focusing, 46 mm, f/3.5 Kodak Ektanon, 3-element coated wonder. The shutter is a Kodak Synchro 400 that has speeds from 1/5 to 1/400 second .
The top deck includes a film exposure guide for Kodachrome, Ecktachrome, and Plus X. The suggested apertures are calibrated for 1/50 of a second. It's located atop a giant rewind wheel that covers the width of the camera - surprisingly functional and easy to use.
The shutter must be cocked manually, and the shutter release is a lever on the front of the camera. Focus is by the "old style" button. There is a depth of field scale on the face of the camera next to the aperture ring.
The combination of Bakelite, aluminum, and chromed, (stamped steel,) components makes for a surprisingly sturdy little camera. Film advance is by lever and is ratcheted. M & X flash synch are provided for. M works the Kodalite attachment that screws to the body. X works an adapter that also screws to the body in place of the flash attachment.
This kit is complete: box and plastic insert, two flash heads, instructions, adapters, and camera. The camera is in better than good condition. It runs as it should and has a quiet and precise shutter. Focusing and winding are smooth. It's gathered some bits of dust, some surface dulling and tarnish that need a good cleaning and waxing. Sounds like a winter project to me.
Signet Ring bearing the family Seal.
From the age when letters were sealed with a small blob of molten sealing wax impressed with the family seal.
G-g-grandfathers ring c1850.
18 carat gold and peridot or olivine ring engraved with angel wings and sword..
Produced from 1958 to 1962, the Kodak Signet 80 was the last serious rangefinder Kodak made. It was an interchangeable lens camera: in addition to the 50mm lens, 35mm and 90mm lenses were available. It had a unique film take-up mechanism that did not require a film spool. Designed by Arthur Crapsey, it was a striking example of mid-century design aesthetic.
By Robert Reid, 1810 (exterior) and William Stark, 1812-13 (interior) with staircase by W H Playfair, 1819 and William Burn, 1834. Symmetrical, 3-storey and basement, 19-bay Classical purpose-built library.
Outstanding, little altered Neo-Classical library of nave and aisles design with bays separated by fluted Corinthian columns and decorative metal anthemion balustraded balconies. Shallow saucer dome above with painted frieze. Semi-elliptical coffered ceiling. Dentilled and finely carved decorative cornice. Stained glass window to W installed in 1889 by James Ballantine for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Stair hall with Ionic and Corinthian columned screens and coffered dome.
The Signet Library is an outstanding example of 19th century Classical architecture with one of the finest Neo-Classical interiors in the country. The entrance elevation at Parliament Square is a well-detailed unified façade, which is continuous with the front façade of 2-11 Parliament Square by Robert Reid. The internal decorative scheme is exceptional with opulent ornamentation and intricate detail in both libraries and in the stair hall. The coffered ceiling and central dome are particularly notable.
The library building was originally conceived as having one library on the ground floor for the Writers to the Signet, with the upper floor library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates. Robert Reid designed the exterior, but William Stark (1770-1813) was asked to complete the interior decoration as both the Faculty of Advocates and the Writers to the Signet preferred his designs to those of Reid. Shortly after the building was completed in 1822, the Faculty of Advocates decided to build their own separate library to the South of this one and the upper storey was sold to the Writers to the Signet for £12,000. When the 2 libraries came under the same ownership, William Burn designed a grand imperial stair to connect the two. This new staircase incorporated a Corinthian-columned screen by William Playfair which had been part of the previous entrance hall.
Signet convertible with a Barracuda grille. Back in the day, I put a Barracuda grille on my parent's 1966 Valiant V-200 4 door. Gave it a slightly sportier look.
Signet for a design center. Artist Hans Schlegerm. Great Britain. From Gebrauchsgraphik No. 6, 1966. Blogged at Aqua-Velvet.
Alexandre Dumas: The man in the iron mask.
Signet Books 1998.
6th printing.
Movie tie-in starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John
Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne and Gérard Depardieu.
Richard M. Garvin and Edmond G. Addeo: The Fortec conspiracy.
Signet 1969.
Cover art by Mitchell Hooks.
1960 - 50th Print; I, The Jury by Mickey Spillane. Cover art by James Avati. Published by Signet 1789.
"James Avati was pushed into making 7 reissue of Mickey Spillane's lurid and phenomenally successful mysteries in a style so different one wouldn't recognize it as his."
[Source page 48 of The paperback art of James Avati by Piet Schreuders & Kenneth Fulton]
Enjoy !
Cover art by James S. Avati (his second cover for this title) for Signet #1479, "Place Called Estherville" by Erskine Caldwell, 5th printing, November, 1957. Original painting sold for $4,182.50 on August 16, 2010 at Heritage Auctions
Gore Vidal - Three
Signet Books T2131, 1962
Cover Design uncredited
Photo of Gore Vidal by Roger Moore
Three by Gore Vidal:
Williwaw
A Thirsty Evil
Julian the Apostate
TITLE: The Green Hills of Earth
AUTHOR: Robert A. Heinlein 1907-88
TYPE: paperback collection
PUBLISHER: Signet S1537
COPYRIGHT: 1951
ISBN:
EDITION: 4th
PUB DATE: June 1958
PAGES: 176
COVER PRICE: $.35
COVER ARTIST: Stanley Meltzoff
ISFDB: No
RATING:
INDEX: 0378c - Green Hills of Earth - RAH - 005 – IFB
Contents:
13 • Delilah and the Space-Rigger • (1949) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
24 • Space Jockey • (1947) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
40 • The Long Watch • (1948) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
53 • Gentlemen, Be Seated • (1948) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein (aka Gentlemen, Be Seated!) [as by Robert Heinlein ]
62 • The Black Pits of Luna • (1948) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
74 • "It's Great to Be Back!" • (1947) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
90 • "—We Also Walk Dogs" • (1941) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
111 • Ordeal in Space • (1948) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
125 • The Green Hills of Earth • (1947) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
135 • Logic of Empire • (1941) • novella by Robert A. Heinlein
QUOTE: “One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Culpability: All images are from publications owned by CW. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by CW. No entry indicates information was not available from book.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.