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Never mind the quality - feel the width.

This is a dinky little series of small hardbacks that set out to show every plane used during the war in ten volumes. They show actual photos rather than recreations, except for the covers.

I loved these two - they aren't story books. Instead they depict the actual planes. My father burnt my copies because I wouldnt stop reading them.

I read my copies to rags and only re-collected them forty years later.

I was fascinated by the sheer range of planes used during WWII.

Air Ace was a black and white British digest sized comic. I still have the first 60 issues or thereabouts.

I've always loved aircraft and collected various books, models and comics down the years. I still have a handful of these Franklin Mint die cast replicas.

Oh yeah, we got you whipped, buddy - as long as we dont post anything else under #10!

Great stuff everyone and thanks to the OP for such a simple but brilliant topic! Incredible variety of items on display, full of verve and eccentricity. I'm really enjoying the fact that this thread makes me ask, what's worth showing the guys? Including things I havent looked at in yonks. Here is the Limited Editions Club Duo The Time machine/War of the Worlds by you-know-who. Fantastic illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini!

Great colors for an issue that is prone to being washed out.

That's a wonderful copy for the given grade!

An extremely tough book in grade - lovely copy!

Amazing to think that it is fully 50 years since it was published! In 1978, jack Kirby was commissioned to create some production designs for a planned movie version. The designs were then intended for Sciencefictionland, a theme park in Colorado to be based on the movie . It would include computer controlled rides, billboard sized holograms, levitating cars operated by voice command, and a bullet train from Japan - a sort of Expo for kids presenting new technology purely for entertainment. Revenues from Sciencefictionland would bankroll the movie. The venture collapsed because of some dubious real estate deals in purchasing the 1000 acres it would utilize.... .... then, a CIA agent named Antonio Mendez purloined the movie -script and Kirby's production designs in order to establish a bogus film company called Argo Productions, leading to the exfiltration of 6 U.S. nationals holed up in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran. If that sounds familiar, it's because it formed the basis of the movie Argo. There is now talk of a new cable TV series of Lord of Light being produced by Universal...

I could wish FH had used more of the Planet Stories covers as inspiration for the comics.

This bookshelf is mainly evolution, but on the left is the Folio Society facsimile edition of Robert Hooke's amazing Micrographia from 1665.

I met something similar once in a village near Kolkata. I woke up after a siesta to find us face to face. Boy can they move fast! Boy can I scream like a girl!

As a kid the National Geographic's at my grandad's house were my introduction to astronomy and natural history and the reason I remain keenly interested in them to this day. Old copies of NG also provide us today with retro visions, revealing just how much knowledge has advanced in the intervening decades. https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/vintage-dinosaur-art-new-look-at.html

Here are two books by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky that were turned into Russian films. Roadside Picnic became 'Stalker', and the Ugly Swans retained the same title. 'Stalker' is fairly well known, but I think 'Ugly Swans' is far the better movie, and (unlike 'Stalker') does full justice to the book.

and it's a doozy

Or paper over the cracks at the very least.

To answer would be counter productive.