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postcard c1910

I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do, or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

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Unusual Art nouveau influence book cover 1905

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TeddyBoy Reads Only the Best

I would like all you humans to read this book on how sensible (and awesome) cats are.  (This is written by Brit anthropologist, John Bradshaw.) You do realize that for every dog on the planet, there are 3 cats? I rest my case.

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Art Nouveau Style Postcard postmarked Cockermouth 1902

The text in ink on the front “I hope you are all having a good time. Merry Xmas to everybody at “High Dyke” Love Sis

although it does not show on the scan the card is highlighted with gold ink 

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From Vanity Fair’s Dictionary for the Motion Pictures, March 1922

“Library, n.  The room wherein the butler finds the gentleman of the house murdered.”

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The Man among the Monkeys; or Ninety Days in Apeland To which are added The Philosopher and His Monkeys, The Professor and the Crocodile, and Other Strange Stories of Men and Animals. Leon Gozlan. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Paternoster Row, 1873. Illustrations, some by Gustave Dore. First edition in English.

First published in Paris by Michel-Levy in 1857 as Les Emotions de Polydore Marasquin. Social and Darwinian satire. Castaway becomes king of an intelligent race of monkeys.

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December 1930 Ladies’ Home Journal

Cover design by E M Jackson

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Charlotte Le Bon with architecture in “Couture Spells” for Madame Figaro, February 2017. Photograph by Dominique Isserman.

“Giambattista Valli Haute Couture. Robe de bal brodée en tulles de soie. Entièrement pavée de pastilles glitter.”

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Santa Claus on a Lark: And Other Christmas Stories. Washington Gladden. New York: The Century Co., 1890. Illustrations, some full page, by Victor Nehlig, Rudolph F. Bunner and others. First edition. 

Christmas stories by Gladden, a Congregational clergyman born in Pennsylvania. Includes an interplanetary tale, “A Christmas Dinner with the Man in the Moon,” with fine fantastic illustrations by Victor Nehlig.