#world book

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A most welcome addition to my library... Ad for the World Book Encyclopedia - 1956.

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If you give your kids socks and clothes for Christmas, they're gonna remember 1955 as the WORST Christmas ever!! So give them the gift of knowledge via a World Book Encyclopedia! And what kid wouldn't prefer 28 volumes of facts over a new dolly, or a Red Ryder Air Rifle, right? Someday your kids will thank you for giving them that World Book. Someday. Maybe. ...

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And their children grow up in a world of information filled with tumult and anxiety. And their children will grow up world with all the knowledge ever known and with ecological and climate disaster filled with drought, starvation, war, and despotism. And their children will have 50-50 chance of living to adulthood.

Life October 3rd 1949

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Field Enterprises Inc, 1957

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Since I am all out of After the Bomb books, how about we build on yesterday’s post with the Rifts World Book for England (1993), yea?

So, what we have here is the follow up to two pretty excellent Rifts sourcebooks – Vampire Kingdoms and Atlantis. If you compare England and the next World Book, Africa, to those two tomes, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Rifts had run out of ideas. They are flat as hell. England is the worse of the two, in no small part because a good portion of the book is dedicated to, you guessed it, another retelling of the King Arthur legend. Er, I mean, King Arr’thuu (gesundheit). This time, Merlin, the Lady of the Lake and Guinevere are actually imperialistic alien intelligences playing Arthur as a dupe. Its a Doctor Who plot gone terribly wrong.

I find Rifts books generally dense and confusing, but rarely boring, but that is exactly the word I would use for this book. Mutants in Avalon, this is not. There are druids but they don’t have magic. There are Time Wizards (is that a Doctor Who reference?). There is herbalism. There is, ah, the hell with it.

The art is nice though, as is true of most Rifts books. Kevin Long was a company-defining talent for Palladium.

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1953 World Book Encyclopedia ad