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Books Time Lords have read.

Thanks again for the reference images, Nate. I wonder what that book was originally. It looks like someone put a piece of masking tape across the title (fancy-looking title logo?) to cover it up and then scribbled something onto the tape. Can't quite tell what that bit in the middle of the cover is; it looks like a (possibly) silvery blob of sorts.

Dino.
 
Well, after this post : http://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?topic=7230.0 , I'm revisiting the series and finding more books that I missed the first time around.

The Dead Planet 1963 Season 1 Story 2 Episode 1

Two new Books:
1 The Doctor's Notes :
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The Doctor puts his notebook down on top of the Food Machine

2 Food Machine Menu
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Scarfwearer said:
I seem to recall Cushing's Doctor reading a comic in one of the sixties dalek films. Does that count? (not exactly a book, as such...) Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot.

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At the very beginning of the first Dalek film. It was The Eagle, most famous today for Dan Dare.

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Scarfwearer said: "I seem to recall Cushing's Doctor reading a comic in one of the sixties dalek films. Does that count? (not exactly a book, as such...)"

Then, perhaps, he would also have been interested in this particular edition of "The Time Machine":

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I once owned a copy of this particular issue. Sadly, I sold it... along with a large stash of others, "DC" mostly... for five dollars... when I suddenly decided I was too old for comics at the age of sixteen. And, unfortunately, though I had once been dedicated to collecting hardbound copies of Wells' literary works, I never obtained a single-bound version of "The Time Machine". I had to remain satisfied with it as part of my copy of a single volume publication of all his short-stories. Well... at just under a hundred pages, it was considered a short... and, anyway, would have made for a very slim volume compared to most of Wells' other novel works.

Well, I bring this up mainly because it returns to where this thread ( and, honestly, this whole entire genre ) began, namely H.G. Wells. Especially given the fact that it's still the year of his 150th birthday anniversary ( September 21, 1866 )... for just a few more days. A fact which, as far as I've been able to  tell, has gone largely unnoticed by the general public.

Strange... and sad... especially given that Wells had such a knack for prophetic vision. Especially in such eerily-anticipatory short-stories as "The Story of the Last Trump". Anyway... well... trying to avoid a pointless post... so I guess the best is to just get on with it and try to cloud judgment on that issue as much as possible...

So, speaking of comics and the Doctor... and I've searched this thread and found no reference to it... though, perhaps that's because it's just too obvious...

... at the beginning of "The Rings of Akhaten" he is seen reading a copy of "The Beano", Summer Special 1981.

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I'd post a full cover-picture, but it's google-found easily.

One more thing?... Since the Doctor is occasionally given to quoting Lewis Carroll ( I think it was during Peter Davison's tenure that he said something along the lines of "Like Alice, I always try to believe six impossible things before breakfast." ) shouldn't a copy of "Alice in Wonderland" be included in this compilation? I have no idea whether or not the book actually appeared physically in the series.

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EDIT: Sorry. I'll switch emphasis between the two, then... not entirely eliminating the former, of course, because the operational word, here, is "yet".

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warmcanofcoke said:
Amazing Work Dino - I tried to see if I could get a better image from the Episode to help.
I took 23 screen caps in the space of the three seconds it appears on screen and aligned and stacked the images in Zerene and then aligned and stacked them in photoshop and then made a composite of the two to make this image.
http://s394.photobucket.com/user/wa...ey/EncyclopediaGallfreya_zps9225c195.jpg.html

this is the best result I could manage.


It is hard to tell if that copper color is an effect of the light or the color of the label.
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How could we have missed this?
 
The Rescue 1965 Season 2 Story 11
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(The Doctor is examining the rock and making notes)
DOCTOR: Oh, my writing gets worse and worse. Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear. Well, undoubtedly we’ve landed on the planet Dido. How remarkable. Well, I must say. it’ll be rather nice to meet these friendly people again after all these years. Fancy landing back here again. I wonder if I were to tell Ian that it was deliberate, whether he’d believe me or not? Oh no, of course, I was asleep. Oh, pity, pity, pity.
 
Been out of it for a few days, but now that I'm playing Catch-me-up, thank you for all of those great screen grabs, Nate! I especially like the one with Hartlell's Doctor looking at that note pad. Those are still readily available almost everywhere. I even found one on my bookshelf while weeding through things. Can't say whether the cover is screen accurate since we don't see Hartnell's note pad cover, but the size looks about right.

Keep those great references coming!

Dino.
 
Just to fill in some details:  the 'History of the Time War' is a circa ~1880 illustrated John Eadie bible.  These were printed in Wales with several different leather cover designs.  I can't give you an exact date because none is printed, however the Welsh family in my copy signed the first item in the Marriage/Family register in June of 1880.

In fact, the 'Power of Kroll' is another illustrated Eadie Bible with an angular front piece instead of the rounded spade version used for the Time War.  If you keep looking on eBay and rare book dealers you can spot both versions every couple of months or so.

I have a rather special copy with one of Nick Robatto's cold cast resin plaques on the front - and I've slowly been collecting Doctors in order to sign in the squares for the 'portrait gallery' under original head-sketches by my artist friend who is currently drawing the Third Doctor comic for Titan.  So far I have 1 (aka William Russel in Big Finish), 2 (Frazier Hines in big finish), 4, 5, 6, War, and two Masters (Roberts/Missy).  Every Doctor so far has loved it, and Colin Baker actually stopped his line at Gallifrey One last year to research the family and the city they signed in Wales on his iPad for about 15 minutes.

--Brian
 
too_many_cars said:
Just to fill in some details:  the 'History of the Time War' is a circa ~1880 illustrated John Eadie bible.  These were printed in Wales with several different leather cover designs.  I can't give you an exact date because none is printed, however the Welsh family in my copy signed the first item in the Marriage/Family register in June of 1880.
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Yup! It's the National Comprehensive Family Bible, printed by John G. Murdoch and Co Ltd  in London. The company was founded in 1871 as a printer and publisher. Mine doesn't have a specific date either and the family registry information was completely blank in mine. But here's a couple of pics from inside of the bible.

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