Books Collection (page 13)

Buchan / Mr Standfast
MR STANDFAST The third in the series of Richard Hannays adventures

Mariner, Wondrous Cold
The ship enters the icy waters near the South Pole: And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold

Chaucer, the Monk
The Monk on horseback, riding with spurs

Boy in Bed with Soldiers
The Land of the Counterpane: " When I was sick & lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, & all my toys beside me lay, To keep me happy all the day."

R L Stevenson / Poems
To Auntie: " Chief of our aunts - not only I, But all your dozen nurselings cry..."

Goethe / Sorrows Werther
Werthers first sight of Charlotte (Lotte)

Battle of Salehieh
Though not listed in any of our reference books, the battle of SALEHIEH is almost certainly an incident of Napoleons ill-fated Egyptian campaign, near Jerusalem

Dickens / The Chimes
Trotty Veck - a poor ticket porter whose outlook is converted from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Years Eve

Dickens Gurney Photo
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens at his desk in 1867

Jungle Book / Kipling
Baloo the bear, Kaa the snake, Bagheera the panther & the elephants

Martians Invade New York
Martian raiders using a terrible weapon of concentrated sunlight attack the city of New York

THE DAPPLE GREY by Nat Gould

Virgil / Georgics / Corydon
Corydon pines for Alexis

Frontispiece / De Molina
PARTE TERCERA DE LAS COMEDIAS DEL MAESTRO TIRSO DE MOLINA Title page of the first edition

Jackdaw of Reims
JACKDAW OF REIMS Monks and choirboys gather round the little Jackdaw unsure of what to do

Orczy - Sir Percy Hits
SIR PERCY HITS BACK - a Scarlet Pimpernel novel

Cooking from a Book - 2
Add half a cup-full of chopped onions

Henry Fielding / Tom Jones
A scene from the novel

Carroll / Alice / Trial
The trial of the Knave who (allegedly) stole the jam tarts, before the King of Hearts, acting as judge, and the Queen of Hearts

Long John Silver / Cover
The cover of a hardback edition

Crusoe Title Page 1719
Title page of the first edition

Alice, King, Rabbit, Hatter
The Hatter, with Alice, the White King, the Rabbit Messenger and the Lion

Alice and the Red Queen

Pan / Woodward / Hook& Croc
Captain Hook falls into the jaws of the crocodile

The Time Machine
THE TIME MACHINE The Time Traveller arrives... sometime in the future

Steam Book Press / 1877
Steam printing press machinery for printing books - reading a page which has just come off the machine

Hatter Running
The Hatter, tea and bread in hand, runs off without his shoes

Alice / Lobster Dressing
The Lobster at his toilet

Father William / Headstand
FATHER WILLIAM Does a headstand

Alice & Puppy
Alice (shrunk) with the puppy

Bill the Lizard
BILL THE LIZARD Pops out of the chimney

Alice Watches Rabbit
Alice watches the White Rabbit disappear down the hallway

ALICE / DRINK ME
ALICE SHRINKS AND STRETCHES Alice finds the bottle labelled Drink Me

Books / Carroll / Jabberwock
The Jabberwock

Restif - Flying Man
Victorin, the flying-man, takes to the air

Tom. Water Baby. Kingsley
Tom sits upon a rock watching the moonlight on the rippling river

Oliver Chez Fagin
Oliver with Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Bill Sykes and Nancy

Oliver Meets Fagin
Oliver is introduced to the respectable old gentleman - actually Fagin, the head of a gang of thieves

Hound of Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes / Pipe
HIS LAST BOW Holmes is employed by the government to foil the German spy Von Bork

Holmes & Watson / 1893
THE FINAL PROBLEM Holmes shows Watson his bleeding knuckles, incurred in the fight against Moriartys evil network

Carroll / Alice Stretches
Alice Stretches at the Neck

Sir Thomas More
SIR THOMAS MORE English statesman and author and his household

Hoffmann / Shooting Man
THE STORY OF THE MAN THAT WENT OUT SHOOTING " At last he stumbled at the well, head over ears, & in he fell. The hare stopp d short, took aim, & hark!"

La Guerre dans Mars (The War on Mars), by Arnould Galopin. The evil Zapatos attack the benevolent Megacephales. From Aventures Fantastiques d un Jeune Parisien

Don Quixote relives his past glories
A scene from Cervantes novel Don Quixote -- the hero of the title relives his past glories, surrounded by objects from his travels. To dream the impossible dream

Wells / Things to Come
the Shape of Things to Come

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