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George Inn (Rye) August newsletter

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Beastery

A Folkestone writer and artist have made a book on mythical and literary books, from the pegasus and the Minotaur to vampires and Frankenstein's Monster. A less than serious version this book is written by Paul Wimsett and illustrated by Anne Wimsett...

Harry Clarke / Fairy Tales

first edition Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales, quite a high starting bid of $280, but it does look nice......

TFI The Weekend

Bit of a choppy working week, but now two days respite. Which is nice. So, off to see the family in a few minutes, hence being up and about at this time.Quiet night in last night, Brand new Rebus on TV, lots of swearing for an ITV show I thought, the...

Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

See this ebay auction, loads of really good scans of Harry Clarke illustrations there, worth checking out out just for those, even if you don't bid... In fact, please don't bid, because I might.There is a much later reprint available, that's too high...

Hot weekend

Had a good week, lots going on at work, including the aforementioned rowing trip and picnic meeting in Hythe, very nice, then also a Harry Potter themed barbecue at work (I'm still plodding through the audiobook, don't tell me how it ends), and a pub...

Back on ebay again

This copy of Anderson's Fairy Tales keeps cropping up, now listed again at only 2 quid, it keeps getting cheaper... It's not one I really like, the cover is off putting, but maybe I'll have it this time. Inside it's all illustrated by Harry Clarke....

Harry Clarke Good Housekeeping

This is nice, a Harry Clarke illustration in Good Housekeeping, to accompany a feature called "Women Voters & the Death Penalty". Nice, but a bit of a pricey start.Good Housekeeping volume 6 nos. 1-6; September 1924 to February 1925. Contains Clarke'...

Women Voters & the Death Penalty

Here's another unusual one;Good Housekeeping volume 6 nos. 1-6; September 1924 to February 1925. Contains Clarke's double page illustration to "Women Voters & the Death Penalty". Publishers green cloth. 290 x 210mm. Numerous other illustrated article...

Harry Clarke re-listing

Ebay's been a bit quiet for Harry Clarke illustrated books just recently, but this one's just been re-listed. It's not a particularly early one, an 11th impression from 1933, but it does have a full set of colour pictures. I was watching it when it h...

Tales of mystery and imagination

No family tree updates for a little while, though I'm off to investigate The Grants of Winterbourne Stoke again in case I missed anything before, one of my great great great grandfathers is there. In the mean time, here's a smashing super rare copy o...

Charles Perrault fairy tales, in Dutch

Illustrated by Harry Clarke, Check it out here...Henry "Harry" Patrick Clarke (1889-1931), born in Dublin, began his work life first at an architect's office and then as an apprentice at his father's stained glass art firm. He studied art at the Dub...

Ireland's Memorial Records 1914-18

A book, with decorative borders by Harry Clarke:Ireland's Memorial Records 1914-18; vol. 3, DOV to GYV; 8 decorative borders by Clarke, repeated throughout the volume; 384pp, 290 x 200mm; decorated soft wrappers; Naval & Military Press n.d. 1st thus;...

Another Harry Clarke on Ebay

This signed copy of Faust just went for $600 - copies do go for thousands on ABE.I didn't mention it as I was thinking of bidding on it, but it got a bit rich for me....

Wintersmith

I see not only that there's a new Terry Pratchett book out, but that Amazon have changed their URLs, so they now have the author and title at the beginning of them... this is GOOD for them, for getting a page listed higher in some search engines etc,...

Oh dear what's happened to the style then?

Been playing with PhpGedView while I had some time to play with PHP (which might help me with work) and genealogy things(which probably won't). It's "skinnable", but only sort of, it needs some hacking to integrate it in this site, and in the process...
Rated 6.36/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Yep, I'm going to be in trouble

Jim wanted it when I told him about it, I said hold on and see what it goes for and we'll know what sort of amount we should bid next time... he'd have paid more than that, we might have got it. I did mean to check in again but I forgot.There's one i...

Bidding's started on Faust

Faust, illustrated by Harry Clarke, a first edition I think from 1925. I love the pictures on this one.Faust. illustrated by Harry Clarke. Translated by Bayard Taylor. DE LUXE EDITION. All illustrations are complete, and in excellent condition. Thoug...

I don't want it now, I can't afford it

I went a bit mad pushing the price up for fun, and now I might get stuck with it, gah... As you say I'm sure there will be more bids at the end, surprising there were any bids before me actually.UPDATE: praise be I've been outbid, I couldn't really a...

Harry Clarke on Ebay

Just searching on a whim and I found this Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Harry Clarke. This is Harry Clarke who is Clare's great grand uncle, no blood relation to we Clarkes, but now part of my family. The book must have just been put on...

Another scorcher

Maybe it's the nice weather, but every day this week I've not been able to sleep properly, not at night, and not on the train, bah.Plans for the weekend? I'm looking forward to a visit from the family, taking them to Escondido for lunch and then out ...

Jamie Theakston, Jodie Kidd and Vanessa Feltz

Lagering it up with Natasha Kinski, Molly Sims and Lady Victoria Hervey at yet another free bash.....don't they get sick of it?