by Dale Dalenberg | Feb 10, 2018 | Antique Book Reports
Modern police procedurals are generally found on television shows of the C.S.I. variety. Actors who are too “hot” to really be cops and detectives stand around making quantum leaps of deductive reasoning in a few lines of dialogue, arriving at conclusions...
by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 2, 2018 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Facsimile of the 1895 monograph detailing, in rather too florid language for modern readers, some technical aspects of Thomas Edison’s first movie studio and the devices for capturing and playing back some of the first moving pictures. The most fascinating part...
by Dale Dalenberg | Dec 27, 2017 | Antique Book Reports
Now that we are going on 18 years into the 21st Century, the music of the 20th Century seems almost classic, encompassing a spectrum from Late Romanticism to Modernism to “Post-modernism” to the latest avant garde. To make sense of it all, and to be prepared to...
by Dale Dalenberg | Dec 5, 2017 | Dalenberg Library Gallery
Wings is a novelization of the screenplay for the movie of the same title. This Grossett & Dunlap edition from 1927 features publicity stills from Paramount Pictures. Therefore, it is a full-fledged movie tie-in edition, as we would call it today. The film, a...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 14, 2017 | Antique Book Reports
Winsor McCay is a giant among early comic strip artists, famous for the epic scenery of Little Nemo in Slumberland, and famous as an early animator on Gertie the Dinosaur and The Sinking of the Lusitania. A kind of a trial run for Nemo was McCay’s 1904-1911 strip...
