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Firearm heiress Sarah Winchester is convinced that she is haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she throws Source: Winchester
Firearm heiress Sarah Winchester is convinced that she is haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she throws Source: Winchester
We roundup the latest catalogs of rare books and ephemera from ABAA members for May 2016. Enjoy. CHARLES AGVENT 126 BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF POET WILLIAM MEREDITH — All 126 items in our new catalog… Source: New Catalogs: May 2016 | The New Antiquarian | The Blog of The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
oldbookillustrations: Crusoe loading his raft. From The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe…, by Daniel Defoe, London, Paris, New York, 1863. (Source: archive.org)
oldbookillustrations: The mysterious interview in Hyde Park. Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), frontispiece from Auriol, or The elixir of life, by William Harrison Ainsworth, London, 1898 (?) (Source: archive.org)
oldbookillustrations: He delivered them from their distress. Sydney Paget, from The tragedy of the Korosko, by Arthur Conan Doyle, London, 1898. (Image source: archive.org)
sourcingsherlock: Slaves to fashion: black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity by Monica L. Miller Duke University Press, 2009 – Art – 390 pages Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London… Read More
Her Kind by Anne Sexton I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind. I have… Read More “Her Kind” by Anne Sexton
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