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Fairy tales set to prose in modern settings, with newspaper-style headlines as titles
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Image of an advertisement for Fairy Tales by Mabel F. Blodgett featuring a girl sitting with her chin on her hands and an open book on her lap; a doll lays at her feet.
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One painting book entitled Father Tuck's "Fairy Folk" Painting Book, Complete with Paints and Brush, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., of London, ca. 1907. This book is part of Father Tuck's Patent "Paintbox" Series. The front cover shows a leprechaun, or elf, seated and painting. Above the image are the remnants of six watercolors--red, yellow, blue, pink, green and brown--on slips of paper. The front cover and the book's pages are cut away in oval shapes around the watercolors. Illustrations of other painting books in the Father Tuck's Series are shown, which lists this book as No. 2571. Nine color images from various folk tales and children's stories, including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Robinson Crusoe, appear within the book. Blank pages were meant to be used for copying. (The owner has used them for unrelated pencil and watercolor work.) All the illustrations are signed by Mabel Lucie Attwell. A ms. note "$8- 6448, 8 Lucie Mabel Atwell (sic) plates" appears on the front cover. The initials "V.W." appear inside along with the name "Vera W.".
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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive ...
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A set of six giclée prints printed in 2023 of art created from 2015 to 2018 by artist John LaMacchia and illustrators Daniel (Dan) Cole and Peter David Scott. Each print includes images of birds reminiscent of John James Audubon's illustrations in Birds of America (1827) but are set in modern natural environments that have been littered by humans with garbage and plastic waste such as helium balloons, convenience store bags, prescription pill bottles, syringes, six-pack rings, and other examples of packaged goods and products. Titles include: Eastern Towhee (2015); Blue Jay (2016); Red Knot (2016); Double-Crested Cormorant (2016); Great Blue Heron (2016); and The Mourning Dove (2018). The prints are titled and labeled in cursive, and each print includes the edition number in the top-left corner, the printer's name in the bottom-left corner, and the illustrator's name in the bottom-right corner. Dan Cole is signed as the illustrator for five of the prints, and Peter David Scott is signed as the illustrator for one print, The Mourning Dove. The lower-right corner of each print also includes a chop (printer's mark) blind embossed with John LaMacchia's name and initials. This is the tenth edition out of the fifty that were printed.
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Three scrapbooks and two envelopes containing memorabilia about Robin Hood. Volume 1 contains ephemera with Robin Hood designs (cloth, posters, cardboard novelty toys), 2 View Master reels about Robin Hood, a pamphlet: "Historical gudie to English literature for use in schools and colleges", a folded poster of Walt Disney's 1952 live action film "The story of Robin Hood) and a press release about the film "Ivanhoe". Includes several hand-drawn cartoon drawings depicting scenes from Robin Hood tales. Volume 2 consists primarily of newspaper and magazine clippings dealing with the Disney 1952 film as well as "The adventures of Robin Hood" tv series starring Richard Greene, which aired in the US in 1955. Contains a set of black & white publicity photographs of the Disney film, color bubble-gum souvenir cards, Valentine's cards and other ephemera. Volume 3 is in a larger format than volumes 1-2. It contains an issue of Life Magazine (August 11, 1952) with an interview with Joan Rice regarding her role as Maid Marian in the 1952 Disney film. Also contains plates from "Webb's Characters & scenes from Robin Hood", a menu from Sherwood's Forrest Room restaurant; newspaper clippings and magazine articles and a TV listing for an animated Robin Hood show, dated 1971. Volumes 4 and 5 contain additional Robin Hood memorabilia: individual magazines issues on topics such as archery, Robin Hood themed restaurant menus, Royal Dalton Toby mug catalogs, and other printed items.
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