‘Guests raved about her dinner.’ This late 1930s cookbook from Spry Vegetable Shortening tickles my fancy. Sadly, it appears that Spry lost the vegetable shortening… Read More »What Shall I Cook Today? Spry Vegetable Shortening
Me and Dr. Mrs. ICftES have returned from our trip to Hawai’i. But this is not the place for travel pics. Instead, you get related… Read More »I’m a Barbie Dude in a Barbie World
This little dude likes a good book. Photo by Grasons
I think I owned all of those, except the newer Player’s Handbook. I still have the oldest core books, but I think I sold Unearthed… Read More »Coals to Newcastle
Buying a book on survival techniques from a dead guy.
Bradbury obviously is known more as an author than an artist, but this is a signed print of a painting he made apparently back in… Read More »Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury
That’s right. Father, because all the rest are about women. OK, the friend one might be more ambiguous in gender, but with those flowers? I… Read More »One of these things doesn’t belong
A curious find and something that elevated itself to receive the bought! tag. As did a thing or two that spouse-of-the-website uraniumgirl will likely post… Read More »Soviet Baloney
A curious old sign. Looks old. Must be valuable. Rawson’s handbook dates from the 1880s! Alas, it’s a modern reproduction. Sad trombone. Decorative value only.… Read More »Get it? It’s a hand book.
Valentino was one of the first big matinee idols of the Silent Era. His death in 1926 cemented his image. He might be dead, but… Read More »The sheik’s bookplate