Gabriele Blackburn
The Science and Art of the Pendulum: A Complete Course in Radiesthesia

This 77 page soft cover book was copyright in 1983 by Gabriele Blackburn. This is the third printing August 1987. Gabriel Blackburn is the author, spiritual healer and clairvoyant.
This course emphasizes the practical use of the pendulum in maintaining a state of health by determining the underlying causes of disease. The ancient art of the pendulum, now called Radiesthesia, or Psionic healing, opens many new fields of research, and when learned correctly can be an invaluable source of self-help. With Radiesthesia the pendulist can determine the need for vitamins, minerals, and supplements on a daily basis; also which remedies and dosage to use when ill.

No international shipping, which saved me the trouble of not bidding on it. But we're all family.

George C. Blackburn
Where The Hell Are The Guns?, A Soldier's Eye View Of The Anxious Years 1939-44 
No picture
McClellan, 1997, 1st printing. HC.  

Housebuilding - A comprehensive and accurate for everyday people. Great art work, that gives wonderful information w/o being too technical for the layman. Over 400 step-by-step illustrations by the author. With the aid of Illustrated Housebuilding anyone who can read and hold a hammer will be able to build a house - and have fun doing it. Book in vg condition with a good dustcover, 8.5 by 11 format w/155 pgs.

He has also published a book on furniture which I would like.

From the dust jacket:
"For the amateur woodworker interested in making his own furniture, here is the perfect guide and an invaluable source book.
Precise instructions and hundreds of detailed, explicit drawings are used to describe the construction of eight basic pieces of furniture: pine box bookcase desk box chest side table dining table cabinet side chair.

Illustrated Furniture Making is primarily concerned with giving practical guidance, but it is also organized to help the woodworker develop sound techniques and understand the basic principles involved.

I like Henry's books, although I have only managed to but one, Normandy Picturesque. I have now accumulated so much Henry Stuff that it is time for a page of his own. click here

(3rd May 2001)
Normandy Picturesque, by Henry Blackburn. With numerous Illustrations. First American From Second London Edition. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co. 1873. Author's Edition. This book is in good shape. Cover has minor wear. The illustration in the second photo is "A Toiler of the Sea". Buyer pays shipping and handling

Jack E. Blackburn

James Blackburn

Jeannie Blackburn Moran
Twin Souls

John Blackburn
A Scent of New-Mown Hay

1958 A Scent of New-Mown Hay By John Blackburn..His 1st NOVEL W/DUSTJACKET M.S. MILL COMPANY and WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY, NEW YORK.
same John? (6th May 2001)

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Blackburn, John. Broken Boy. New York, Lancer Books #73-475, (1966), 1st Lancer printing. Paperback, 173 pages (+ 3 pages of ads). This book is in very good+ condition with tiny chips to some extremities, few light creases, and the date in ink on the front free end paper.

Recently, British Book World called it: "The best John Blackburn book, but alas... also the most scarce" Perhaps OUR LADY OF PAIN is the most scarce of all the modern horror books.
This is a hardbound copy (with dustjacket), published by Jonathan Cape Booksellers of London; first edition 1974; near Fine condition; both jacket and book are VG+ (never released in the United States); when copies of this book surface in the collector's market, they usually sell for $175 - $400!
Dedicated to Christopher Lee who apparently suggested the story. A contemporary sex and horror tale based loosely on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathori, a "real vampire," and her twisted relationship with a disbarred plastic surgeon.

It will be interesting to work out just how many Johns there are.

You are bidding on a near mint copy of the #1 edition of John Blackburn's "WEB OF EVIL" from November, 1993. A great and now hard-to-find underground/profusely illustrated comic.

This turned out to be rather too explicit for general display.

Another rude effort from John

Jolly R Blackburn
Knights of the Dinner Table

KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE - Tales From The Vault, Volume Two. This 68 page new book is a complete compilation of all the Kodt strips appearing in Magazines: 1997 thru 1998 by Jolly R. Blackburn. Published by Kenzer and Company.

Joyce Blackburn
Suki and the Invisible Peacock

Here is the Silver Anniversary printing of Joyce Blackburn's "Suki and the Invisible Peacock. This book was originally publishes in 1965 and reissued in 1996. Joyce Blackburn also wrote three other Suki stories, numerous other books and won the Georgia Governor's Award in the Humanities. The reading level is approximately third grade. This book is in mint condition.

Suki is the youngest of an American Japanese family and she has few friends and quite an imagination! She is befriended by an invisible peacock and together they learn they are valuable despite their differences. Suki then performs a courageous act and wins a new friend.
There is also
Suki and the Magic Sand Dollar by Blackburn, illustrated by Stephanie Clayton,  Suki and the Old Umbrella

There seem to be quite a few Joyce books, so I'll gather them here without comment.

Juditha Blackburn
The Home Dressmaker's Guide

pub by Blackburn Co., Indianapolis,1919, 117pp, softback  

Julia Blackburn
Daisy Bated in the Desert - A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines

The book and the dust jacket are in fine condition. The book was published in 1994. The author is Julia Blackburn. The full title of the book is: Daisy Bated in the Desert - A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines. In 1913, when she was fifty four years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost thirty years. She left a detailed record of her life in her letters, her published articles, her book The Passing of the Aborigines, and in notes scribbled on paper bags, old railway timetables, and even scraps of newspaper. But very little of what this strange woman tells about herself is true. For there were no boundaries separating experience from imagination; she inhabited a world filled with events that could not have taken place, with people she never met. In the book, the author explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Mrs. Bates says she was most happy. There are meetings with the Aborigines and white who knew her of about her, and slowly the facts of her life are allowed to emerge. But what makes this book so extraordinary is the way, almost imperceptibly, the author fuses her own imagination and experience with that of Daisy Bates, until she seems to be recalling this other life as if it were her own, until she is able to bring us the feeling of sitting in a tent near a railway line, staring across a red desert, where the boundary between experience and imagination disappears.