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Vintage Vinyl RIFLE CASE Medium 42-44 Zipper Opens Wide - eBay (item 310117445353 end time Jan-24-09 18:18:25 PST)This vintage rifle case with a vinyl outer covering and flannel lining is marked, "EO 13408 Medium 42-44" and "John R. Maffeo" and "T". The zipper runs all the way along one side and one-third of the other side for very easy access.
The brown vinyl has faux leather finish with a wrinkled look. The tan vinyl has a pebbled faux leather finish. The lining is orange flannel with padding behind it. There are two handles, one short, the other can go over your shoulder and snaps down when not in use.
1982 Italian Version BLADE RUNNER POSTER Two-Sheet XLNT - eBay (item 310117434065 end time Jan-24-09 18:12:00 PST)This Blade Runner two-sheet poster was produced in Italy in 1982 by Rotopress-Roma. They changed the headline year from "2020" to "Anno 2019." It's in excellent condition with one small hole where creases meet and minor edge crumpling here and there. No pinholes.
We've had the poster for about 25 years, bought from a dealer. The poster shows Rick Deckard, Rachel and replicant Roy Batty against a night-time city background. We'll mail it rolled in a box by UPS or FedEx.
1982 E.T. Extra-Terrestrial LUNCH BOX, THERMOS Aladdin! - eBay (item 310116991509 end time Feb-18-09 18:09:44 PST)This E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial lunch box and thermos is an embossed and colorful tin litho lunch kit with a plastic thermos. It's marked, "©1982 Universal City Studios, Inc. All right reserved. Aladdin Industries, Incorporated, Nashville, Tenn. 37210 U.S.A."
Some kid used it a lot. There's a butterfly sticker on one corner and loss of finish on many high spots and all around the corners and edges. Inside the lid there's some rust in the edge bends. The handle could use a detailed cleaning. The thermos is in very good condition.
Vintage Ferris Wheel PHOTO TREE Display Stand 6 Frames! - eBay (item 310116504953 end time Jan-20-09 18:18:20 PST)This vintage wood and metal photo tree turns like a Ferris wheel to keep your photos upright for viewing one by one. The six polished wood frames can hold photos front and back. Just slide them in one side. Collect and display your favorite snapshots in great style. I see no maker's mark.
The photo tree stand is in very good condition with slight marks here and there on the wooden frames. One has a repaired corner chip you have to look close to see. The metal has a nickel finish. The wood has a reddish cast.
If you have more than twelve favorite photos, no problem. Each wooden frame will hold up to 1/4" thickness, so you can easily slide many photos into each and swap out which ones you want to display.
Swiveling Black Leather BUCHEIMER CLARK HOLSTER, Loops! - eBay (item 310115563582 end time Jan-16-09 18:42:29 PST)This stiff black leather holster is marked on the back, "B72, Bucheimer Clark, Valencia, Calif., B7A-6472, Pat. 3,200,022." It has a slot for your belt, twelve cartridge loops, safety strap, and it unsnaps to swivel for sitting. I don't know what handgun model fits into the six-inch by four-inch pocket.
It's very thick and stiff. There are some scuffs and minor marks here and there, wrinkles and small cracks in the safety strap. Good for lots more use.
A PITTSBURGH ALBUM 200 Yrs Photos Bicentennial Keepsake - eBay (item 310115335233 end time Jan-15-09 18:57:41 PST)This big soft cover picture book is titled A Pittsburgh Album 1758-1958, Two Hundred Years of Memories in Pictures and Text compiled, written and edited by Roy Stryker and Mel Seidenberg. This copy is from the Third Printing, July 1959, Copyright 1959, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. There are so many great photos it was really hard to choose which to scan.
From "A Word of Explanation..."This book was born of an affection for and pride in a city.
A city of endless contrasts...of subtle charm, of earthy homeliness that has its own beauty; of citizen apathy and dissonance, but of even greater vitality, enterprise and unity when needed. A city perhaps not endowed with the refinements and graces of other places that come to mind, but persistently trying to attain these things, however hard their attainment. A city that refuses to be counted out, always managing somehow to summon its people's strength to fight back from adversity and to overcome natural handicaps...and to become a better city in so doing.
The pages of Pittsburgh's 200 years, speaking eloquently of such characteristics, are filled with fascinating events and personalities. Too many, regrettably, to be framed within these covers.
This book offers a sympathetic glance at the past and some of the people who lived it--through the eyes of some of the artists, illustrators, photographers, writers, and historians, many still living, who helped to preserve it.
The book has been purposely limited in scope that it might be made available, not as a major, studious work of history, but rather as a simple, inexpensive keepsake of this Bicentennial Year, somewhat after the fashion of one circulated 100 years ago for the Centennial (see page 19).
We, the sponsors listed below, are happy to make possible this publication as a public service contribution to the Bicentennial observance. Net proceeds from its sale will go the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, for use in further its work, which deserves wider recognition.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Radio Station WWSW
Television Station WIIC
Herbick & Held Printing Company.
It's in very good condition with minor wear.
Borden Mem Ed THE SHIP OF ISHTAR A. Merritt, Finlay Art - eBay (item 310115558746 end time Jan-16-09 18:19:09 PST)This 1949 Borden memorial edition hard cover of The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt comes with the original dust jacket. It was published six years after Merritt's death. The dust jacket back has a photo of the author with a tribute to him by Forrest J. Ackerman. The book has five wonderful Virgil Finlay illustrations.
From the front dust jacket flap:A classic of fantasy that transports the reader back sixty centuries to mystery and romance beyond compare. The hero, John Kenton, received a queer block unearthed in the ruins of Ancient Babylon. It is inscribed with a record of Sargon of Akkad.
An unaccountable conviction possesses Kenton that the stone imprisons some hidden wonder. He strikes it--and as it disintegrates, a miniature craft of elfin enchantment burgeons forth. And as the motes from the cloud of dust envelop him he undergoes a metamorphosis; is projected onto The Ship, where he encounters Sharame--willow-lithe, flame-slender...goddess, temptress, woman.
The ensuing adventures in the long and long ago cast a thrall over the reader with their vivid action and unparalleled beauty. A novel limned in lapis lazuli, that will hold you ensorcelled with the word wizardry and evocative imagery of A. Merritt, the Lord of Fantasy.
About the author:His reputation has not stood well over the years among speculative fiction fans and critics (with the singular exception of The Ship of Ishtar, a universally hailed classic of the fantasy genre), but at one time he was a major influence on H. P. Lovecraft, and highly esteemed by his friend and frequent collaborator Hannes Bok, by then a noted SF illustrator. Merritt's stories typically revolve around conventional pulp magazine themes: lost civilizations, hideous monsters, etc. His heroes are gallant Irishmen or Scandinavians, his villains treacherous Germans or Russians (depending on the politics of the time) and his heroines often virginal, mysterious and scantily clad. What sets Merritt apart from the typical pulp author, however, is his lush, florid prose style and his exhaustive, at times exhausting, penchant for adjective-laden detail. Merritt's fondness for micro-description nicely complements the pointillistic style of Bok's illustrations, and often serves to highlight and radicalize the inherent fetishistic tendencies of pulp sf.
This came from Wikipedia and there's more. Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Merritt
The book is in excellent condition with foxing on page edges and age-darkened end papers.
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