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Poèmes de Ronsard by composer Francis Poulenc , Couverture spécialment desinée pour l’auteur par Pablo Picasso

#sheet music cover #guitar #picasso

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Danger Hands “In” Could Mean Hands “Off”

#Danger #Warning #industrial illustration

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From the Saturday Evening Post’s March/April 1973 cover story on the artist Robert Charles Howe.

#irony #Richard Nixon #1970s #old magazines

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This cover!  I look at the cover, I read the description of the plot, and I think: !?!?, The cover captures the feel of a Dr. Who Episode so perfectly, that the particulars don’t really matter at all.  

“Mission To Magnus” by Philip Martin

This is a novelisation of a story that never materialized onto TV in the 1980s. Not so much a “missing episode” as one that never existed (yet). At 122 pages and that Target form factor, this book fits perfectly in the pocket for something to read on the train. It’s already good before word one as it features the sixth doctor, Peri, Ice Warriors and the scheming slug Sil (Vengeance On Varos, Mindwarp) interacting on a planet ruled by clairvoyant women. Philip Martin takes a Terrance Dicks approach penning a robust straightforward retelling of the program (or how it would have shown). You can almost hear the stinger sounds come every quarter on a cliffhanger, assuming this would have been a four-parter. The TARDIS gets good action, and we also meet another unmet Time Lord that went to school with the doctor wayback when.

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Edward Gorey cover for What Maisie Knew by Henry James 

#Gorey #Doubleday Anchor #1954 #1950s #cover art #1950s cover art #paberback

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Snappy, Up-to-the-Minute Clothing for High School Fellows

An advertisement for the Meier and Frank department store of Portland, OR.  This appeared in the March 1926 edition of The Spectrum, a publication by the students of Jefferson High School.

#meier and frank #portland #pdx #department store #1920s #advertising #1920sadvertising

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German calendar for 1950

#Mid-century illustration #1950s #Blackletter #bird illustration

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Beowulf the Geat sails toward Heorot— illustration by Bill Pesce

#Bill Pesce #Mid-century illustration #block print #beowulf

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Now is the Time to Love by John M. Drescher, designer, and year unknown

#Paperback cover #love

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I’ll take mine with extra Extrawurst.

Pickle your sausage, Guv'nor?

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Bookplate found in a 1947 book.

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The Denver Bar Coloring book, c. 1991

#Lawyers #Justice #Coloring

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Sarah Andersen rules.

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Leo Lionni cover for Stories by Katherine Mansfield. date unknown

#Leo Lionni #Lionni #old paperbacks #book cover

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How to Overcome Discouragement By J. Martin Kohe 1977 Designer/illustrator unknown

#1970s #cassette #self-improvment #discouragement

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Mid Century Coca Cola Santas from the back covers of December issues of The National Geographic.

#Coca Cola #Santa Claus #Old Magazines #1940s #1950s

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In the early sixties, Charles M. Schultz published a number of small, square books featuring a drawing and a facing caption. (The most famous of which is probably the book Happiness is a Warm Puppy).  These spreads are from Christmas is Together Time which runs the gamut from heart-warming, to humorous complaining, to existential dread.  

#1964 #1960s #Christmas