Vintage Book Fan Gifts

Second screening, the early days.

'Colin, how quaint! A book!'

I'm allergic to parrots, so I got an aaaarrrrdvark.

Steve McQueen

Best before 65 million BC.

Instructions for Bow Tie Wearers

"I'm in children's books, myself."

'This book is so rare it's never been published.'

Bot Art: After Mary Cassatt

David Niven caricature

The Dandy

Adult Barbershop

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

I think you meant to huff 'n' puff at the next house over.

Trilby - 'Oh don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?'

'It's called a 'hat' -- you tip it to women instead of hitting them over the head with a club.'

Janet Leigh

Rudyard Kipling.

"Before I begin, I should issue a Tigger warning."

'Daddy says, 'Better drowned than duffers if not duffers won't drown'. Well, let's just hope social services don't hear about this.'

'Dauber Micawber'

Wangling War Films How To Make and Fake Them: II The Popular Film of a Taube soaring over Rheims Cathedral

Masked Ball

A gentleman giving some children a lesson in manners

I just bought a new Kindle Voyage. It's much better than my Kindle Paperwhite. Blasphemy, little buddy. A real man lugs around a paperback that he's milled from a fallen Redwood that he lifted off of a baby deer, before reuniting the fawn with its mother. I bought if off of Amazon. I didn't even use "one-click." I used the shopping cart and chose all the options manually. Almost as impressive. I keep it old-school.

Victorian Secret

"You've had dogs, cats, birds and even a pony. . . how come your only pets that survive are fish, Arielle?"

'Dang it! The gals out here leave little to a feller's imagination.'

Laurel and Hardy

Tea and Sugar Rationing

Elvis' autopsy

Man reading a tablet in library.

"I love your shadow, it's so retro."

"I'm curious. Who did murder me?"

"...Of course this is before he made it really big in cartoons"