“I sometimes think I might have made a writer if only I could have resisted adjectives. Adjectives have been my downfall. I wake with a headache, swearing that I won’t touch a drop of adjective again.”
Marmaduke Dixey (Geoffrey Howard) “Hell’s Bells” (1936)
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Line diagram of an early, hand cranked, three-person submarine, on a wavy blue background with the caption "NOT this submarine" outlined in turquoise below.
Sometimes it seems like Tom Swift's submarine is this basic... but apparently it isn't. Find out more at 1pm NZDT
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An old book is open to a two-page spread featuring a wide array of sea monsters. Black and white woodcut.
Sea monsters from Munster's Cosmographia, mid-late 1500s. With a kind of steampunk-looking whale, a tree with duck fruits, and a hapless sailor tossed about by a giant lobster. #oldbooks #rarebooks #earlyprintedbooks
Every page of this #largeformat #illustrated 1900 #book of the #Psalms of #David is #decorated! First page is separated, but present. Front hinge badly broken. $40. #Booksky #asis #Bible #religion #Christianity #LouisRhead #oldbooks #prettybooks
Will Tom Swift start his treasure hunting journey today? Join me at 1pm NZDT to find out!
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Listening to more adventures on a wet and windy day sounds like a plan- 1pm NZDT. See you then!
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This 1877 #biography of #English #artist #JMWTurner has damage to a couple of pages. #Colour and #B&W #illustrations. $50. #asis #art #prettybooks #Booksky #painter #oldbooks
A man with a large backpack strides through a swamp full of mushrooms, and twining vegetation as imps and strange creatures look on.
A woman guides two children through a swamp full of grasping vines, clawlike branches, and lurking creatures.
Me emerging from the Pacific Northwest winter into the sunny days of spring. Or maybe it's an illustration by Robert Lawson of The Pilgrim's Progress. #oldbooks #illustration #kidlitart #kidlit
We present a selection of Adam Naruszewicz's works, entitled "Poezye," in three elegant volumes with a dignified portrait of the author on the frontispiece, edited and published in 1835 by Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz
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Woohoo- adventures and inventions! Join me at 1pm NZDT for the best Tom Swift story: submarines, competitions, treasure?
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This large 1893 #adventure #book about #Alaska is #illustrated with #B&W #photos and #drawings. Page edges waterstained. The #author previously led the last major #expedition in search of evidence of the #FranklinExpedition. $25. #Booksky #asis #FrederickSchwatka #exploration #FirstNations #oldbooks
Black and white woodcut image featuring a leafless tree full of birds of many kinds. An owl or hawk devours a smaller bird in the background, while a peacock struts in front. A river with fish winds into the distance, and hills and stony outcrops are in the distance.
The 5th day of creation, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, also called the Liber Chronicarum. I like how the proud peacock struts along in front of it all! #oldbooks #rarebooks
I will try not to rant today! Come listen to more old children's stories of Uncle Wiggily avoiding scary situations at 1pm NZDT
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A shelf of books that have cracked and peeling spines. They were all printed in the 80s and have been read by multiple generations of nerddddds
The shelf they're hating on the most (I have to find all the books in the series' so it's not complete yet) is this one because these are very yellowed and the spines are breaking. But I love these books and think they look nice 😭 Am I wrong? Are they gross?? 3/3 #booksky #oldbooks
Cumbria Book Festival 10am-3pm Saturday 21st March Solway Hall Whitehaven - We will be there! #booksky #bookfestival #michaelmoonsbookshop #cumbriabookfestival #findingnewhomesforoldbookssince1970 #whitehaven #oldbooks #antiquarianbookshop
I do hope Uncle Wiggily has some fun adventures this time. All that danger is no good for his rheumatics! Join me at 1pm NZDT to find out
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A photo of old books, all with green spines.
Pretty books for St. Patrick's Day.
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A very fancy hummingbird with green body, orange crest, orange shoulder tufts with green spots, and green and orange tail perches on a curved branch in this hand-colored print.
From The Natural History of Humming-birds by Scottish naturalist Sir William Jardine. This is Trochilus Ornatus, the Tufted-Necked Hummingbird/Tufted Coquette. #birds #oldbooks #rarebooks #naturalhistory
Will his adventures all be trying to escape or will there be some fun? Join me at 1pm NZDT for more story time
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#Wil Doolittle finds that a simple name in an old book can make us investigative #journalists and #detectives.
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If you've always dreamed of learning to play #whist, this lovely little 1893 #book will help! It has an #ArtNouveau cover, and all page edges are #gilt. The title page is one of the prettiest we've seen! $30. #Booksky #littlebooks #prettybooks #cardgames #games #hobbies #oldbooks
Illustrations of several birds in the rail family. Several are black with blues and greens in their feathers, one is lighter colored with iridescent gray wings, and their large clawed feet are prominent.
Watercock, Purple Gallinule, Azure Gallinule, Allen's Gallinule From Rails of the World, by S. Dillon Ripley, illustrated by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. #birds #rails #oldbooks
Buy this #scarce early #20thCentury #ChildrensBook for the #animal #illustrations by #AEKennedy, who also illustrated most of #AlisonUttley's #books! $30. #Booksky #WildAnimals #art #OldBooks
Post to blog : Smartphonography Club : The Boundless Library of Jinbocho
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#ElizabethBarrettBrowning was born on this day in 1806. We have a #book of her last #poems, and a 2-volume set of her #letters: www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #poetry #oldbooks #prettybooks #BritLit
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Wonderful day to explore the 4000+ interesting #books on our #website, and buy a few: daveshootsbookseller.com Save the shipping and the exchange if you pick up your order in West #SaintJohn! We also #ship worldwide at our cost. #Booksky #LocalHistory #NewBrunswick #oldbooks #PrettyBooks
This ca. 1880 #poetry #book by #OliverGoldsmith features both gold and silver #gilt on the cover, and gilt page edges. #Illustrated by #HammattBillings (who was also an #architect). It could be yours for only $15! #Booksky #PrettyBooks #OldBooks #DesertedVillage #poems
This 1929 #LargeFormat edition of #JamesFenimoreCooper's #Deerslayer features 9 stunning #ColourPlates by #NCWyeth! Slight #oldbooksmell. $50. #Booksky #literature #art #ChildrensBooks #FirstNations #oldbooks #PrettyBooks
