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Holmes & Watson / In LabTHE NAVAL TREATY Holmes busy with his chemistry apparatus at Baker St. watched by Dr. Watson
Tarzan & GorillaTarzan: the untamable
Dickens / Christmas CarolBob Cratchit with Tiny Tim, his crippled youngest son
Carroll / Alice / Q HeartsAlice & the Queen of Hearts: " Off with her head!"
Carroll Alice Drink MeAlice Holds the Bottle which Says drink Me on the Label
Carroll / Alice and PigALICE & THE PIG Alice carrying a baby pig
Hunting of the SnarkThe Landing of the Hunters
The War of the WorldsTHE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
Dorian Gray / Wilde / BooksDorian goes upstairs to the locked room where his portrait is kept
Hoffmann / Suck-A-ThumbTHE STORY OF LITTLE SUCK-A- THUMB The great, long, red-legg d scissor-man cuts off Conrads thumbs
Hoffmann / Inky Boys / StoryTHE STORY OF THE INKY BOYS The great Agrippa dips the boys in his enormous ink well
Alice and the Dodo -- the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble saying, " We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble"
Alice and the Cheshire Cat -- the grinning cat, with whom Alice has just had a conversation, fades away as it sits on a tree branch
The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, book coverTHE FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY, a book by Donald E Keyhoe. The cover shows two airline pilots sighting a flying saucer through their cockpit window
Rasselas and Imlac digging a tunnelRasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, together with his companion, the wise man Imlac, digging a tunnel in order to escape the Happy Valley and see what life is like beyond it
Three MusketeersThe Musketeers with Monsieur de Treville
UFO BookMichel CARROUGES, Les Apparitions de Martiens The incident depicted is the October 1954 encounter between Marius Dewilde and aliens at Quarouble, France Date: 1954
Noah Webster, the schoolmaster of the Republic. Date c1886 April 18
Dickens / Haunted / FpTHE HAUNTED MAN the unhappy haunted man of the title gazes into the fire, while his own ghost lurks behind him
David Copperfield / PhizDavid Copperfield frontispiece
Verne / Under the Sea20, 000 LIEUES SOUS LES MERS [20 000 leagues under the sea] The squid claims a victim
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Jack and Jill. Within four miles of London, the friends see the sun rising over St Pauls Cathedral. Date: 1914
Illustration, Clicko the pink cockatoo, sitting on his perch. Date: 1912
September. Back to work - back to school, back to books. Poster for WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy holding a book in his raised hand. Date between 1936 and 1940
Story of the CowboyTHE STORY OF THE COWBOY by Emerson Hough This is a non-fiction work by a well-known writer of Westerns, giving a detailed account of cowboy life. Date: circa 1930
Dickens / Christmas CarolBob Cratchit sliding on the ice at Cornhill on Christmas Eve Date: First published: 1843-44
Henry Newbolt / MorganSIR HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT English poet and man of letters
Peter Pan StatueHappy children dancing in a fairy ring around Sir George Framptons statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, which was erected on 1 May 1912
The Lost World / DoyleThe central lake, with plesiosaurs, pterodactyls and much else beside
Prehistoric MonstersTHE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (Edgar Rice Burroughs) The travellers submarine is attacked by prehistoric monsters
Lubbock / John / Graphic 84SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 1st BARON AVEBURY Liberal MP and writer of popular science books
Girl Reads StruwelpeterA young girl improves her sense of right and wrong by reading Struwwelpeter
Poe / Poem / The Raven / C19ThThe dazed & melancholy man believes the raven will leave him, as his " hopes have flown before."
OUR MUTUAL FRIENDMr. Venus surrounded by the trophies of his art
BAUM / 0Z - 2Title-page, featuring the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow
The Faerie QueeneThe Queene on her throne
Swan, Loves MiracleLOVEs MIRACLE (Annies Swan) He was only a clerk Devoted to work, But his life became lyrical Thanks to loves miracle
Dickens / Pickwick PapersSam Weller - Mr Pickwicks servant who councils his master with Cockney wisdom
Dickens / Pickwick PapersFront cover of the first issue with illustrations by Seymour, edited by Boz
Dickens / M. ChuzzlewitThe Life & Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Sarah (Sairey) Gamp, midwife, nurse and layer out of the dead, wearing an apron and a bonnet
Four Rc Doctors 16CThe four doctors of the Catholic Church: Augustine, Gregory, Jerome and Ambrose, sitting at a table with their books
Welles and Newsmen 1938Orson Welles speaks with newsmen, 30 October 1938, after the sensational broadcast of a dramatised version of the book by the Mercury Theatre, NY
Mrs Beeton Front CoverFront Cover of Mrs Beetons Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping
Peter Pan StatueThe Peter Pan statue was erected on 1 May 1912 in Kensington Gardens and sculpted by George Frampton. Peter Pan entered London along the Serpentine in the story
Western - Lonely TrailsTALES OF LONELY TRAILS by Zane Grey - moments that live in the minds of sportsmen
Village Church ChoirThree young women singing from hymn books in church
Kepler with Rudolf IIJOHANNES KEPLER German astronomer with Rudolf II