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H o b o s & M o o n s h i n e
Handmade in Texas.
Silversmith.
Screenwriter.
Nicholl Finalist.
Rare book hunter.
www.hobosandmoonshine.com
Handmade in Texas.
Silversmith.
Screenwriter.
Nicholl Finalist.
Rare book hunter.
www.hobosandmoonshine.com
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS
Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.
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April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
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A grateful shoutout to @lairdbarron.bsky.social... rereading the Isaiah Coleridge books for the umpteenth time provides cold candlelight with which to push back these Stygian nights & days.
(Mabel Minerva says hello & Godspeed with your continued healing.)
@jessicamace.bsky.social
(Mabel Minerva says hello & Godspeed with your continued healing.)
@jessicamace.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A grateful shoutout to @lairdbarron.bsky.social... rereading the Isaiah Coleridge books for the umpteenth time provides cold candlelight with which to push back these Stygian nights & days.
(Mabel Minerva says hello & Godspeed with your continued healing.)
@jessicamace.bsky.social
(Mabel Minerva says hello & Godspeed with your continued healing.)
@jessicamace.bsky.social
Some of the books in this hoard are not terribly old, but still interesting.
This 1922 ed of "History Of The Donner Party" has a pasted in obituary for the daughter of Capt Donner... the last surviving member of the party.
Plus three contemp Donner Party monument-related postcards.
💙📚 #bookhistory
This 1922 ed of "History Of The Donner Party" has a pasted in obituary for the daughter of Capt Donner... the last surviving member of the party.
Plus three contemp Donner Party monument-related postcards.
💙📚 #bookhistory
February 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Some of the books in this hoard are not terribly old, but still interesting.
This 1922 ed of "History Of The Donner Party" has a pasted in obituary for the daughter of Capt Donner... the last surviving member of the party.
Plus three contemp Donner Party monument-related postcards.
💙📚 #bookhistory
This 1922 ed of "History Of The Donner Party" has a pasted in obituary for the daughter of Capt Donner... the last surviving member of the party.
Plus three contemp Donner Party monument-related postcards.
💙📚 #bookhistory
Very much am fascinated by the scientific/historical knowledge we once possessed.
Published in 1849, this "Atlas, Designed To Illustrate Mitchel's Edition Of The Geography Of The Heavens" incl 24 star charts + illos of various star nebulae & "remarkable objects in the heavens".
💙📚 #bookhistory
Published in 1849, this "Atlas, Designed To Illustrate Mitchel's Edition Of The Geography Of The Heavens" incl 24 star charts + illos of various star nebulae & "remarkable objects in the heavens".
💙📚 #bookhistory
February 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Very much am fascinated by the scientific/historical knowledge we once possessed.
Published in 1849, this "Atlas, Designed To Illustrate Mitchel's Edition Of The Geography Of The Heavens" incl 24 star charts + illos of various star nebulae & "remarkable objects in the heavens".
💙📚 #bookhistory
Published in 1849, this "Atlas, Designed To Illustrate Mitchel's Edition Of The Geography Of The Heavens" incl 24 star charts + illos of various star nebulae & "remarkable objects in the heavens".
💙📚 #bookhistory
As early as the mid-1700s, and becoming more common by the early-to-mid-1800s, book spines were backed w recycled newspaper or other waste paper. You can see it here, where the 3/4 leather binding has become so brittle, it literally fell off on my table, revealing old newsprint ads.
💙📚 #bookhistory
💙📚 #bookhistory
February 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As early as the mid-1700s, and becoming more common by the early-to-mid-1800s, book spines were backed w recycled newspaper or other waste paper. You can see it here, where the 3/4 leather binding has become so brittle, it literally fell off on my table, revealing old newsprint ads.
💙📚 #bookhistory
💙📚 #bookhistory
Always a joy to flip thru antique books. Not just for the smell, but for what you may find between the pages, left behind long ago.
This particular book is full of pressed four-leaf clovers.
💙📚 #bookhistory
This particular book is full of pressed four-leaf clovers.
💙📚 #bookhistory
January 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Always a joy to flip thru antique books. Not just for the smell, but for what you may find between the pages, left behind long ago.
This particular book is full of pressed four-leaf clovers.
💙📚 #bookhistory
This particular book is full of pressed four-leaf clovers.
💙📚 #bookhistory
Here are pages 2-3 of "The Theft Of A God", something of a lost or forgotten pulp adventure story by a 21-year-old Upton Sinclair that does not seem to exist online or in a published collection.
And I'm really liking the idea of uploading the whole thing to the Gutenberg Project.
#bookhistory 💙📚
And I'm really liking the idea of uploading the whole thing to the Gutenberg Project.
#bookhistory 💙📚
January 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Here are pages 2-3 of "The Theft Of A God", something of a lost or forgotten pulp adventure story by a 21-year-old Upton Sinclair that does not seem to exist online or in a published collection.
And I'm really liking the idea of uploading the whole thing to the Gutenberg Project.
#bookhistory 💙📚
And I'm really liking the idea of uploading the whole thing to the Gutenberg Project.
#bookhistory 💙📚
With care, thumbing thru the Argosy binders.
Here's an Aug 1900 pulp adventure story "The Theft Of A God" written by a 21-year-old Upton Sinclair, five years before he wrote "The Jungle".
The story does not appear to be online or elsewhere, in any form.
Not on HathiTrust either.
Hmm.
#bookhistory 💙📚
Here's an Aug 1900 pulp adventure story "The Theft Of A God" written by a 21-year-old Upton Sinclair, five years before he wrote "The Jungle".
The story does not appear to be online or elsewhere, in any form.
Not on HathiTrust either.
Hmm.
#bookhistory 💙📚
January 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
With care, thumbing thru the Argosy binders.
Here's an Aug 1900 pulp adventure story "The Theft Of A God" written by a 21-year-old Upton Sinclair, five years before he wrote "The Jungle".
The story does not appear to be online or elsewhere, in any form.
Not on HathiTrust either.
Hmm.
#bookhistory 💙📚
Here's an Aug 1900 pulp adventure story "The Theft Of A God" written by a 21-year-old Upton Sinclair, five years before he wrote "The Jungle".
The story does not appear to be online or elsewhere, in any form.
Not on HathiTrust either.
Hmm.
#bookhistory 💙📚
So I drove from Texas to Kansas yesterday to pick up a bin full of bound antique pulp magazines.
"The Argosy" was the first pulp magazine... most of these date to 1895-1907 or so, and given the lack of a public or university library bookplate, likely belonged in a private library.
#bookhistory 💙📚
"The Argosy" was the first pulp magazine... most of these date to 1895-1907 or so, and given the lack of a public or university library bookplate, likely belonged in a private library.
#bookhistory 💙📚
January 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
So I drove from Texas to Kansas yesterday to pick up a bin full of bound antique pulp magazines.
"The Argosy" was the first pulp magazine... most of these date to 1895-1907 or so, and given the lack of a public or university library bookplate, likely belonged in a private library.
#bookhistory 💙📚
"The Argosy" was the first pulp magazine... most of these date to 1895-1907 or so, and given the lack of a public or university library bookplate, likely belonged in a private library.
#bookhistory 💙📚
Sterling gerbera daisy earrings, in progress.
January 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sterling gerbera daisy earrings, in progress.
The first published chapters of "The War Of The Worlds"... or the first published short story of Samuel Clemens, as Mark Twain?
#bookhistory 📚💙
#bookhistory 📚💙
January 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The first published chapters of "The War Of The Worlds"... or the first published short story of Samuel Clemens, as Mark Twain?
#bookhistory 📚💙
#bookhistory 📚💙
"Sequel to The Spelling Book" (1st ed, 1831).
I lurv antique dictionaries.
Many of the definitions & pronunciations are wonderfully dated, and fascinating to explore.
"Atmosphere - the invisible, elastic fluid that surrounds the earth."
See also: fortune, hiccough, hideous.
📚💙
#bookhistory
I lurv antique dictionaries.
Many of the definitions & pronunciations are wonderfully dated, and fascinating to explore.
"Atmosphere - the invisible, elastic fluid that surrounds the earth."
See also: fortune, hiccough, hideous.
📚💙
#bookhistory
December 21, 2024 at 5:33 AM
"Sequel to The Spelling Book" (1st ed, 1831).
I lurv antique dictionaries.
Many of the definitions & pronunciations are wonderfully dated, and fascinating to explore.
"Atmosphere - the invisible, elastic fluid that surrounds the earth."
See also: fortune, hiccough, hideous.
📚💙
#bookhistory
I lurv antique dictionaries.
Many of the definitions & pronunciations are wonderfully dated, and fascinating to explore.
"Atmosphere - the invisible, elastic fluid that surrounds the earth."
See also: fortune, hiccough, hideous.
📚💙
#bookhistory
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We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
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December 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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"The Town-Ho's Story" was the world's intro to Ishmael, Captain Ahab & Moby Dick.
Published weeks before the novel "The Whale" was sighted in the UK -- and months before the book (now titled "Moby Dick") broke the surface in the US -- this is Ishmael's short tale of another doomed whaling vessel.📚💙
Published weeks before the novel "The Whale" was sighted in the UK -- and months before the book (now titled "Moby Dick") broke the surface in the US -- this is Ishmael's short tale of another doomed whaling vessel.📚💙
December 19, 2024 at 6:14 AM
"The Town-Ho's Story" was the world's intro to Ishmael, Captain Ahab & Moby Dick.
Published weeks before the novel "The Whale" was sighted in the UK -- and months before the book (now titled "Moby Dick") broke the surface in the US -- this is Ishmael's short tale of another doomed whaling vessel.📚💙
Published weeks before the novel "The Whale" was sighted in the UK -- and months before the book (now titled "Moby Dick") broke the surface in the US -- this is Ishmael's short tale of another doomed whaling vessel.📚💙
Photos next of the original printing of the Bradbury short story "The Black Ferris" that would years later become "Something Wicked Thus Way Comes"...?
Or pics of the first printing excerpt from "The Whale", which would weeks later be published in the U.S. by its better-known title "Moby Dick"...?
Or pics of the first printing excerpt from "The Whale", which would weeks later be published in the U.S. by its better-known title "Moby Dick"...?
December 18, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Photos next of the original printing of the Bradbury short story "The Black Ferris" that would years later become "Something Wicked Thus Way Comes"...?
Or pics of the first printing excerpt from "The Whale", which would weeks later be published in the U.S. by its better-known title "Moby Dick"...?
Or pics of the first printing excerpt from "The Whale", which would weeks later be published in the U.S. by its better-known title "Moby Dick"...?
"The King In Yellow" by Robert Chambers.
My weathered, but cherished first edition.
Is there a "weird fiction sky" yet?
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@joerlansdale.bsky.social
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
@johnlangan.bsky.social
My weathered, but cherished first edition.
Is there a "weird fiction sky" yet?
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@joerlansdale.bsky.social
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
@johnlangan.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 4:17 AM
"The King In Yellow" by Robert Chambers.
My weathered, but cherished first edition.
Is there a "weird fiction sky" yet?
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@joerlansdale.bsky.social
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
@johnlangan.bsky.social
My weathered, but cherished first edition.
Is there a "weird fiction sky" yet?
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@joerlansdale.bsky.social
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
@johnlangan.bsky.social
What should I post photos of next?
Pages from the 1st edition of "The King In Yellow"...?
Or pages from the 1st publication of "The Monkey's Paw"...?
#booksky
#rarebooks
Pages from the 1st edition of "The King In Yellow"...?
Or pages from the 1st publication of "The Monkey's Paw"...?
#booksky
#rarebooks
December 17, 2024 at 1:28 AM
What should I post photos of next?
Pages from the 1st edition of "The King In Yellow"...?
Or pages from the 1st publication of "The Monkey's Paw"...?
#booksky
#rarebooks
Pages from the 1st edition of "The King In Yellow"...?
Or pages from the 1st publication of "The Monkey's Paw"...?
#booksky
#rarebooks
Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, from a 1931 printing of Oscar Wilde's "Salome".
December 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, from a 1931 printing of Oscar Wilde's "Salome".
One of my only regrets re tossing Twitter in the trash is I'm no longer able to reread exchanges I enjoyed.
Like a time K Sorbo posted something so dumb it demanded mockery, which I obliged, and personal writing hero @lairdbarron.bsky.social unexpectedly sorta leaned in the doorway with "Burn!"
Like a time K Sorbo posted something so dumb it demanded mockery, which I obliged, and personal writing hero @lairdbarron.bsky.social unexpectedly sorta leaned in the doorway with "Burn!"
December 16, 2024 at 3:09 AM
One of my only regrets re tossing Twitter in the trash is I'm no longer able to reread exchanges I enjoyed.
Like a time K Sorbo posted something so dumb it demanded mockery, which I obliged, and personal writing hero @lairdbarron.bsky.social unexpectedly sorta leaned in the doorway with "Burn!"
Like a time K Sorbo posted something so dumb it demanded mockery, which I obliged, and personal writing hero @lairdbarron.bsky.social unexpectedly sorta leaned in the doorway with "Burn!"
December 14, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Screenplay revisions complete & off to the producers.
Now comes that inevitable few hours of "okay now what?" as my noggin aimlessly wanders a bit & considers what to work on next.
A new story?
A new piece of jewelry?
Back to studying for my CDL?
Back to antique book inventory?
#WritingCommunity
Now comes that inevitable few hours of "okay now what?" as my noggin aimlessly wanders a bit & considers what to work on next.
A new story?
A new piece of jewelry?
Back to studying for my CDL?
Back to antique book inventory?
#WritingCommunity
December 12, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Screenplay revisions complete & off to the producers.
Now comes that inevitable few hours of "okay now what?" as my noggin aimlessly wanders a bit & considers what to work on next.
A new story?
A new piece of jewelry?
Back to studying for my CDL?
Back to antique book inventory?
#WritingCommunity
Now comes that inevitable few hours of "okay now what?" as my noggin aimlessly wanders a bit & considers what to work on next.
A new story?
A new piece of jewelry?
Back to studying for my CDL?
Back to antique book inventory?
#WritingCommunity
My fondness for vintage tools now extends to vintage shirts featuring vintage tools.
#TurnOnWithSnapOn
#1970s #1980s
#TurnOnWithSnapOn
#1970s #1980s
December 9, 2024 at 12:26 AM
My fondness for vintage tools now extends to vintage shirts featuring vintage tools.
#TurnOnWithSnapOn
#1970s #1980s
#TurnOnWithSnapOn
#1970s #1980s
Who has their Editing Moustache strapped on tonight?
Who is muttering "Editing Moustache...?" to themselves at this moment?
Who is muttering "Editing Moustache...?" to themselves at this moment?
December 6, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Who has their Editing Moustache strapped on tonight?
Who is muttering "Editing Moustache...?" to themselves at this moment?
Who is muttering "Editing Moustache...?" to themselves at this moment?
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December 3, 2024 at 6:39 AM