Ronson
@bookfella.bsky.social
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
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
Beautiful!
And by odd chance, I pulled this book two days ago...
And by odd chance, I pulled this book two days ago...
February 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Beautiful!
And by odd chance, I pulled this book two days ago...
And by odd chance, I pulled this book two days ago...
1948 -> 1962, lots of additional writing to turn this into "Something Wicked This Way Comes"!
February 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
1948 -> 1962, lots of additional writing to turn this into "Something Wicked This Way Comes"!
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
How's about a railroad engineer text published in 1867, with notes written by the student, during the time of the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad...?
💙📚 #bookhistory
💙📚 #bookhistory
January 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
How's about a railroad engineer text published in 1867, with notes written by the student, during the time of the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad...?
💙📚 #bookhistory
💙📚 #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 💙📚
Almost forgot, last thing I do tonight before getting horizontal.
January 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Almost forgot, last thing I do tonight before getting horizontal.
Sterling gerbera daisy earrings, in progress.
January 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sterling gerbera daisy earrings, in progress.
December 28, 2024 at 12:33 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
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
"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.📚💙
"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
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".
December 14, 2024 at 8:05 AM
December 14, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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?
Is this the world we want to live in?
December 4, 2024 at 6:07 AM
Is this the world we want to live in?
Thankee kindly! That dragonfly (and its two sibs) were born of me being creatively stuck one day, and needing to try something new, which resulted in this fella with the injured right wing tip.
December 3, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Thankee kindly! That dragonfly (and its two sibs) were born of me being creatively stuck one day, and needing to try something new, which resulted in this fella with the injured right wing tip.