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The Public and Private Life of Books.
edited by Jason Camlot & J.A.Weingarten.
Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University Press, [may] 2o22. ISBN 978177112568o.
6 x 9, 76 sheets white bond folded to 3o4 pp in 19 signatures of 4 sheets each & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers with 3/4" black cloth appliqué head- & tailbands in 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 straw cambric-covered boards printed black letterpress spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in matte PVC white dustjacket with 3-7/8" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover sculpture by Brian Dettmer; photographer unacknowledged.
13 contributors ID'd:
Cameron Anstee, Nicholas Bradley, Jason Camlot, Anna Dysert, Sherrin Frances, Emily Kopley, Alberto Manguel, James Maynard, Linda Morra, Meaghan Scanlon, Andrew Stauffer, Bart Vautour, J.A.Weingarten.
includes:
i) jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books: The Small-Press Bookstore as Library and Archive, by Cameron Anstee (pp.21o-226; prose in 5 parts with passing reference to Lefler p.214 in part
–3. Room 3o2 Books (pp.214-219))
Left to Right, Top to Bottom: 1. Antique French Spools of Thread, 2. Low Volume Bundle, 3. Liberty Chevron Quilt, 4. Lace Pillow Cases 5. Lumimarja-Marimekko Fabric, 6. Blue and White Irish Chain, 7. White Work Bee Embroidery Kit, 8. Vintage Blue and White Quilt, 9. White Blankets, 10. grey and white herringbone quilt., 11. Custom Baby Quilts, 12. modern low volume blue cross quilt, 13. Churn Dash Quilt, 14. Green Improv Quilt, 15. Low Volume Cushion 16. Tali's Quilt
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Eurobook, [1978]. Reprint. Hardback with pictorial dustjacket. 156 pages including index. ISBN 0856540293. Condition: Good.
This book tells the stories of the old gods and heroes of Europe. These are the gods the Vikings worshipped before the coming of Christianity: one-eyed Odin and Thor, the thunder god, Tyr, Frey and Freya, Loki the mischief-maker and many others. The Viking explorers spread their stories far and wide and the gods are still remembered here in many place names and in the days of the week.
The story starts when King Gylfi of Sweden journeys to the home of the gods to find out the secrets of the univers. Once there, he discovers not only how the world was made, but also learns about the exciting adventues of the gods and heroes and about the evil monsters they fight to overcome.
Twenty-four colour paintings and over fifty line drawings bring the people and events in the stories to life and a full colour map shows the world the Viking knew.
The career of the distinguished type designer, prolific dustjacket artist and scholar, recognised by his v&a exhibition at 75, & reissued as a prelude to his centenary celebrations in 2005. The Merrion Press. Cover design by Phil Cleaver and Sue Shaw.
This is essentially a complete reprint of the 1980 catalogue published by the V&A, with a new introduction by John Bodley.
by Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee.
Don Mills, Muppetmusic/manufactured by CBS Records Canada, 1983. issued in 2 variants:
a) CC-7985o; 11-7/8" black vinyl 33-1/3 RPM phonodisc with 4" circular white bond labels printed 4-colour process offset, in 12 x 12 plain clear matte plastic dustjacket in 12-1/4 x 12-1/4 white glossy-covered brown cardboard sleeve printed 4-colour process offset;
b) CCT-7985o; black gridded plastic 4o min.CrO2 audiocassette, both sides printed gold spongeprint, with 4-1/16 x 4 white rectogloss card J-card, 6 panels, printed black offset both sides with 3-colour process addition recto, in 2-3/4 x 4-1/4 x 5/8 plain hinged clear plastic CBS box.
cover graphic unacknowledged [Michael Frith?].
musicians unacknowledged [Michael Francis (Guitar), Dave Goelz (vocals), Jim Henson (vocals), Richard Hunt (vocals), Bernie LaBarge (guitar), Bob McLaren (drums), Kathryn Mullen (vocals), Jerry Nelson (vocals), Frank Oz (vocals), Ray Parker (keyboards), Karen Prell (vocals), Dick Smith (percussion), Tom Szczesniak (bass), Steve Whitmire (vocals)].
17 contributors ID'd:
Phil Balsam, Michael Francis, Dave Goelz, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Bernie LaBarge, Dennis Lee, Bob McLaren, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, "B.P. Nicol", Frank Oz, Ray Parker, Karen Prell, Dick Smith, Tom Szczesniak, Steve Whitmire.
Nichol contributes:
i) MUCK AND GOO, music by Phil Balsam; performers as above (1:1o, side 2 track 3)
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• Fraggle Rock Sing-Along Book Vol. 1, 1983
• LOS FRAGUEL, RCA, 1984
• 2nd cassette edition, Columbia Records, 1987
• Fraggle Rock Soundtracks test pressing, 2o16
• THE BEST OF Jim Henson's FRAGGLE ROCK, Enjoy The Toons, 2o16
• ____ Think Geek variant
• ____ picture disc variant, Enjoy The Toons, 2o16
The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0170
Photo by Donna Robertson.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
New York Las Vegas Tokyo 2008
Blurb Standard Landscape Hardcover ImageWrap (with custom dustjacket) book. 180 pages.
See the cover here.
Two works from a Uniform Edition.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle 1859–1930, British adventure, detective, and historical novelist.
‘Sir Nigel’, 1st ed. 1906; this Uniform edition 1947, John Murray Ltd.
Ryder, cover art – possibly John Ryder, 1917-2001, book designer.
‘Micah Clarke’, 1st ed. 1889; this Uniform Edition 1948, John Murray Ltd.
Philip Simmonds, active as dustjacket artist from at least 1933, but no other information available.
Detail of dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig for Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. Norfolk, Conn: New Directions c1933. PS3537.T323 T5 1933
First edition, with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. 8vo., publisher's heavy grain decorated beige cloth. A near fine copy in like dustjacket, bright, clean and fresh. Housed in a tailor made leather spined case. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:
"For Jules and Joyce and also Joan with love John Steinbeck."
Beneath the signature is one of Steinbeck's irreverent flying pig sketches (or "Pigasus" if you prefer), generally an indication that the recipient of his presentation was a close and valued friend,or someone he held in high esteem. In this case it was Jules Buck, and Joyce Gates, with their young daughter, Joan. Jules Buck started out as John Huston's camerman for his wartime documentaries (”Winning Your Wings", "Let There Be Light" etc.) and then grew into an influential producer, both in the US and abroad. Although having a sketchy working relationship with Huston, they reportedly fell out over Huston's anti-Semitic behaviour (Huston later referred to Buck as "My body servant" which is obviously super healthy). He collaborated with Steinbeck on the screenplay of what would end up as Elia Kazan's "Viva Zapata", although uncredited, and later produced "The Killers", "The Naked City" etc. before shifting to Europe to escape the Hollywood witch hunts, founding a production company with Peter O'Toole (Keep Films) and producing such wonders as "Under Milk Wood", "The Day They Robbed The Bank of England", "Lord Jim" and "What's New Pussycat" Joyce Gates was an actress in various small, often uncredited, roles in movies like "Kismet", and their daughter Joan is a notable journalist, writer, and all round renaissance woman by all accounts; at one point the London correspondent for Warhol's "Interview" magazine, the only American to have been editor-in-chief of French Vogue, and the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Life and Hard Times of a Teenage London Society Girl.", later published in "The Pump House Gang." She started studying acting in 2002, and appeared in Nora Ephron's "Julie and Julia", later writing about the experience of auditioning for Ephron. She fell from grace after Vogue published a decidedly lightweight and grievously ill timed interview with Asma al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad. Frankly they seem fascinating, but basically the point is that Steinbeck knew them very well, and liked them, and inscribed his sad, slow, strange, dust-bowl novel to them. A really gorgeous and interesting association copy of an undeniably great book.
London: Astragal Books, [1976]. Hardback with pictorial dustjacket. ISBN 0851391133. Unpaginated.
In the early 1970s one magazine stood out from the hundreds of publications which poured from the underground press. It was called The Country Bizarre and appeared seasonally in 11 issues filled with a peculiar patchwork of country matters ranging from conservation, folklore and craftwork to nature stories, poems and pictures. The magazine ceased publication in 1972 to enable the editors, Andy Pittaway and Bernard Scofield, to write their famous craft book Country Bazaar. In response to many requests for back-issues of the original magazine, from people who want to complete their collection or who never saw the magazine when it first came out, this is the first complete set of Country Bizarre Nos1-11 ever to appear and the editors hope it will give you as much pleasure as their book.
119459 DAUMIER, Honore.
HUMOURS OF MARRIED LIFE.
Introduction, catalogue & notes by Professor Philippe Roberts-Jones.
Boston Book & Art Shop. 1968. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 161pp. b/w plates. Fine. 1st ed.
$36.00 AUD plus postage.
by Barbara Caruso.
Paris, Presspresspress, 199o. 2o copies.
2-1/2 x 2, 2 sheets white Erasable Bond & white mimeo bond endsheet folded to 12 pp & stapled into plain white mayfair card wrappers in black construction paper dustjacket with 1-3/8" flaps, outside dj covers only & interiors all printed black rubberstamp rectos only except last leaf printed verso.
by bpNichol.
Toronto, Coach House Press, [february] 1967. a stated 5oo copies numbered in brown letterpress on colophon sheet.
6 fascicules in 7-1/2 x 8 x 9/16 heavily-textured mauve card slipcover glued to 2 brown boards with 2 white glossy card labels fornt & rear, 6-1/16 x 6-9/16 printed black & blue offset:
1) BORDERS ; 7-1/4" circular black vinyl 33-1/3 RPM flexidisc with 2-1/2 x 2-1/2 white gummed bond labels printed black & lime offset on each side, in 7-1/2 x 7-5/8 white rectogloss card folder with 5-3/8" inner lip glued down at left, a further 3/8" lip at right folded & glued to make a,pocket, covers & inside flaps printed black (silkscreen?) over light olive finish, interior contents printed black letterpress; cover photo by Andy Phillips;
2) COLD MOUNTAIN a kinetic poem/sculpt for eventual distruction ; 4-1/4 x 4, 5 sheets white wove folded to 2o pp but with centersheet reversed (folded at foreëdge), side-stapled twice in selfwrappers, interior sheets graduated sizes (4-1/4 x 15/16, ~ x 1-5/8, ~ x 2-7/16, ~ x 3-7/16), all printed blue offset rectos only, rear half versos only;
3) JOURNEYING & the returns ; 4-3/4 x 7-13/16, 28 sheets dark grey coarsewove perfectbound in plain blue mayfair board wrappers glued at spine into dark grey coarsewove dustjacket with 3-1/2" flaps, jacket printed black & blue offset recto only (flaps black only, rear cover blue only), interiors printed offset in sections of grey (7pp), turquoise (4pp), olive (6 pp), green (1opp), cobalt (12pp), bluegrey (11pp), acnowledgements olive & Coach House logo red, with Margaret Avison's A Letter, 4 x 7-3/16 white textured parchment card broadside printed black offset, laid in; cover photograph by Andy Phillips;
4) Letters Home ; 7-1/2 x 7-9/16, brown kraft pocket printed red offset recto only with 13 fascicules:
--a. "answer"; 7-3/8 x 3-1/4, cream manila card broadsheet printed black offset with lower right corner clipped diagonally;
--b. "bp"; approx.4-15/16 x 4-1/4, die-cut silver mylar-faced black mayfair card broadsheet;
--c. "Drrrrrrrrrrr"; 6-1/8 x 4-13/16, single sheet grey textured card foldd at right to form a 3-13/16 front flap, printed red, blue & black offset recto only;
--d. "milkmmiillkkmmiillkk"; 4 x 7-9/16 white chromecoat card broadside printed cream offset;
--e. Mind trap; 6 x 7-1/2 white chromecoat card broadside printed black offset;
--f. "orgy"; 7-1/4 x 7-11/16 purple peterborough broadside printed offset in metallics copper, cherry, purple & blue;
--g. "OWL"; 6-1/2 x 4-1/16 white glossy card broadside printed orange, red, turquoise & black offset;
--h. "pane"; 4-3/8 x 5-15/16 blue mayfair card broadside printed turquoise & cobalt offset;
--i. "precarious"; 11 x 14 brown wove broadside printed black offset, compound folded twice to 5-1/2 x 7;
--j. "O BENT SEVER HALL"; 13 x 7 olive laid broadside printed blue offset & folded to 6-1/2 x 7;
--k. to a Loved One; 5-5/8 x 7-15/16, cobalt bond broadside printed pink offset & compound folded twice to 5-5/8 x 4, in approx.6 x 4-1/2 cobalt bond envelope with triangular gummed flap top rear, printed pink offset recto only; concrete poem beginning "dear deanna";
--l. towards a poetry of shy sounds; 3-1/8 x 5-1/16, single sheet pale green herringbone safety paper folded twice vertically to 6 pp leaflet with 2-5/16" front panel, all except center panel verso printed black offset;
--m. "turnips are"; 3 x 7 orange peterborough card broadside printed black offset;
6. WILD Thing ; 3-1/8 x 2-1/8, 24 sheets red mayfair card folded to 96 pp in 12 signatures of 2 sheets each, bottom-stapled in copper, all printed black offset rectos only except 2nd & 3rd & last 5 leaves;
7. "Acknowledgement for previous presentation of these works to"; 6-5/8 x 3-11/16 canary mayfair board broadside printed brown letterpress.
cover photo by Andy Phillips.
other contributions by Stan Bevington, Wayne Clifford, Victor Coleman, Dennis Reid, Kog Reid, Clark Steabner & others unID'd.
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* please see individual fascicles for complete contents
I've posted here before about recycled paper and card being used in the publishing industry because of paper shortages (Kellogg's) and here's another, even more astonishing, example of recycling. This time it's the dust jacket. On the outside it's the mild mannered, pious, non-fiction After Confirmation but its secret inner identity is The Iron Way, an adventure novel sporting a cover featuring ruffians with a gun beating up a railway signalman.
The inside is here:
I spotted this second-hand selection in Pitlochry Station Bookshop. The Companion Book Club was well-known in Britain in the 1950s. My father had a membership and a new book arrived each month. I don't know if he ever read any of them but eventually I took an interest. Apart from the Gerald DurrelIs, I don't recognise any of the titles here but it's the dust jackets which stick in the memory and scream 1950s. (By the 1960s, each book had a jacket specially designed for it.)
Dustjacket cover of "The Master Passion" by Halliwell Sutcliffe, written in 1926. This edition is published by John Long Ltd. of London, as part of their 2s Net Series in 1927.
Halliwell Sutcliffe was a prolific author who wrote over 40 books between the 1890s and 1930s. Many of his novels are historical romantic dramas set in the Yorkshire Dales (including a series set in Haworth, renamed as the fictional Marshcotes). He was born in Thackley in April 1870. At the time the family was living at Cross Roads, but then moved to Bingley. He was educated at Bingley Grammar School (where his father was headmaster) then at King's College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics. He married Mabel Cottrell of Twickenham in 1904, they had two sons, and lived in Embsay then Linton-in-Craven. It was here that Sutcliffe died in January 1932, aged 61. He was passionate about the outdoors, becoming the first president of the West Riding Ramblers' Federation, and his ashes were scattered on his beloved moors.
The book is from the personal collection of History Society member Tim Neal and was scanned on behalf of the Society in May 2019.
The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition. Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0174
Photo by Donna Robertson.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
(dustjacket)
From the children's book written by Margaret Cousins, published by Random House. Illustrations are provided by the superb Fritz Eichenberg
A fruit favored worldwide (and thought of as a vegetable) that, like the apple, has been promoted and altered by commerce over the centuries, in the process extending broadly the range and scope of its appeal. Withall, the homegrown heirloom varieties still boast the best flavor and satisfaction quotient!! However you get yours, enjoy!!
polaroid poems, found texts, visions & collaborations records of a journey thru Scotland & England May 1978.
by Steve McCaffery & bpNichol.
Toronto, Aya Press, september 1979. 733 copies issued in 4 variants:
a) 6oo numbered trade copies, ISBN o-92o544-1o-X;
b) 1oo numbered copies signed in black marker, ISBN o-920544-11-8;
c) 26 unique lettered & signed "deluxe" copies as described below, ISBN o-92o544-12-6;
d) 7 unique "hors commerce" (deluxe) copies with pages from Abstract Runes 1-7 distributed through the edition (uninspected).
5-1/2 x 8-3/4, 32 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded to 128 pp in 8 signatures of 4 sheets each, sewn pearl in 3 double-stitches withb5-3/8 x 8-3/4 zephyr leaf tipped to 2nd leaf recto & glued with approx.9/16" yellow & light blue cloth applique head- & tailbands into plain black mayfair card endpapers & 5-13/16 x 9-1/8 white & green cloth-covered boards with green morocco leather spine, spine & cloth/leather seams printed gold letterpress, interiors all except 14 pp printed black offset with green additions to 14 pp, in 6-1/16 x 9-7/16 x 1 brown board box covered with 5 sheets black mayfair card & printed gold letterpress front only; the tipped in sheet printed various coloured marker holograph (yellow, blue) by McCffery & Nichol; lettered by Glynn Davies in black in at colophon, signed in black ink by McCaffery, Black marker by Nichol.
cover unacknowledged.
other contributors ID'd:
Kenyon Cox, Robert Gamble.
in 3 sections: McCaffery, McCaffery/Nichol, Nichol.
Nichol contributes:
i) BALLOONS, with Steve McCaffery (tipped in leaf; unique manuscript, BALLOONS 1-26, distributed throughout the variant ediion)
ii) IN ENGLAND NOW THAT SPRING collaborations in england & scotland may 1978, with Steve McCaffery (pp.67-93; in 3 parts:
--1. SIX GLASGOW TEXTS (pp.69-75; sound poetry score in 6 parts:
----a. "leisurely yes/no" (p.7o)
----b. "fFPPP" (p.71)
----c. "CT N DTTD LN" (p.72)
----d. "STRS DST" (p.73)
----e. "HZT F L" (p.74)
----f. "H X" (p.75))
--2. IN ENGLAND NOW THAT SPRING (pp.77-85; poem in 9 parts:
----a. "In England now" (p.77; 3o lines)
----b. "Seven brown fiddleheads" (pp.78-79; 46 lines)
----c. "gulls & ducks at the head of Windermere" (pp.79-8o; 36 lines)
----d. "a future called Ruskin" (pp.8o-81; 46 lines)
----e. "On the top of hills she weaves a thread" (pp.81-82; 37 lines)
----f. "Above Ambleside the water falls" (pp.82-83; 21 lines)
----g. "Thought has so many branches" (p.83; 14 lines)
----h. "Stone in a stream" (p.84; 16 lines)
----i. "To force speech through" (pp.84-85; 34 lines))
--3. MUSHY PEAS: SIX LONDON TEXTS 12 MAY 78 (pp.87-93; sound poetry score in 6 parts:
----a. "ali" (p.88)
----b. "OOOOOOWWWEEEEFFFFF" (p.89)
----c. "KNLDGCTNMLSSNDNG" (p.9o)
----d. "PPPRA" (p.91)
----e. "WWDPLSM" (p.92)
----f. "NG" (p.93)))
iii) THE WORLD BEYOND: poems given & found in England may 1978 (pp.95-123; poetry in 7 parts:
--1. FOUND: VISION (p.97; 5 lines)
--2. from THE MARTYROLOGY BOOK V: CHAIN 2 (pp.98-1o1; 15o lines (ie "roadside ravens north into Scotland" (later becomes lines 1381-15o7 of the martyrology book 5: chain 3)))
--3. THOMAS GRAY'S VISIN AT ULSWATER (p.1o2; 4 lines)
--4. ECCENTRICITIES AMONG THE RICH (p.1o2; 8 lines)
--5. Man in Lakeland (p.1o3; graphic in 2 parts:
----a. "Boundary of the National Park", by Robert Gamble (map)
----b. Man in Lakeland (graphic))
--6. IN LAKELAND (pp.1o5-116; in 4 parts:
----a. IN LAKELAND I (pp.1o5-1o8; in 12 parts:
------1. "eight Lakeland forests" (p.1o5; 8 lines)
------2. "larch" (p.1o5; 1o lines)
------3. "an inseparable companion" (p.1o6; 2 lines)
------4. "sheep farms" (p.1o6; 11 lines)
------5. "the mouth of the Deep level" (p.1o6; 3 lines)
------6. "no noteworthy events" (p.1o6; 5 lines)
------7. "pure white" (p.1o7; 6 lines)
------8. "the ancient skills of the river" (p.1o7; 3 lines)
------9. "radically change the landscape" (p.1o7; 7 lines)
------1o. "circles" (p.1o7; 8 lines)
------11. "shape" (p.1o8; 7 lines)
------12. "the tree stem" (p.1o8; 9 lines))
----b. IN LAKELAND: II (pp.1o8-111; in 8 parts:
------1. "more glass than wall" (p.1o8; 4 lines)
------2. "Ravenglass Glannaventa" (p.1o9; 7 lines)
------3. "It wore horns or wool, and travelled on the hoof" (p.1o9; 9 lines)
------4. "an enchanted fortress in the air" (p.1o9; 6 lines)
------5. "place-names" (p.11o; 9 lines)
------6. "the simple needs of the practical farmer" (p.11o; 7 lines)
------7. "twilight descends" (p.11o-111; 11 lines)
------8. "the Keswick pencil factories" (p.111; 11 lines))
----c. IN LAKELAND: III (pp.111-114; in 9 parts:
------1. "the River Eamont" (p.111-112; 15 lines)
------2. "first or second century B.C." (p.112; 6 lines)
------3. "another race of men" (p.112; 11 lines)
------4. "confluence of the river" (p.112-113; 12 lines)
------5. "the familiar Bode" (p.113; 6 lines)
------6. "remote from the turmoil of the world" (p.113; 2 lines)
------7. "the majesty and wildness of the native forest" (p.113; 7 lines)
------8. "spoil heaps" (p.113-114; 6 lines)
------9. "54 feet" (p.114; 9 lines))
----d. IN LAKELAND: IV (pp.114-116; in 9 parts:
------1. "the impression of a structure casually thrown together" (p.114; 3 lines)
------2. "an interesting continuity in the general plan" (p.114; 3 lines)
------3. "the impact of" (p.115; 7 lines)
------4. "the unique atmosphere of working" (p.115; 9 lines)
------5. "a brief account" (p.115; 5 lines)
------6. "gossip and unaccustomed company" (p.115; 3 lines)
------7. "new discoveries will be made" (p.116; 3 lines)
------8. "the central theme" (p.116; 1o lines)
------9. "a century and a half after Wordsworth" (p.116; 5 lines)))
--7. from THE MARTYROLOGY BOOK V: CHAIN 0 (pp.117-123; 232 lines (ie "the road drops down" (later becomes lines 1o33-12o2 of the martyrology book 5: chain 1 ))))
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- the deluxe editions lack the dustjacket & its illustration, lettering & flap text
- the deep greens used for graphics underlaying texts interfered enough with their readibility to warrant a 2nd edition in 1984 with pale green backgrounds
From the book subtitle, one could get the impression that there might be something ... well, a wee bit sinister about ownership and control of the media. But no, surely not! Especially not in this country, which has, after all – right in the First Constitutional Amendment – a guarantee that government will not interfere with freedom of the press. Not to mention that this is also one of the countries with the most deeply ingrained traditions of seeing a free press as a critical part of the democratic process.
So, who could be the subject of a book that sounds a whole lot like a big, smoking exposé?
Well, lo and behold, it’s none other than “our” very own media baron. That is, the owner (among many other media around the country) of the Huntsville Times. Or what’s left of it these days, anyway. I’ll simplify just a bit for the sake of keeping the story semi-short. The subject of the book is one Samuel Newhouse Jr., who goes by “Si,” at least among those who know him. His company, of which the Huntsville Times is just one little piece, is called Advance Publications. The company actually belongs to the Newhouse family, having been founded by Samuel I. Newhouse in 1922.
Anyway, that tome has been on my bookshelf for a number of years. I read most of it at one point and then forgot about it. Flipping through it again recently brought back the same mixed emotions as before, none of them positive or optimistic. That is, mixed emotions about the whole subject of newspapers, journalism and the media in general, but particularly the printed types. Once upon a time they seemed to fit pretty nicely into the idealist world view I had as a college student, majoring in journalism. I thought of the media as an essential information resource, an appealing career field, an admirable institution. Having a strong and free press was even one of the reasons why one could see our country as something like a bright, shining City on the Hill.
But of course, that was before I became familiar with media barons like the Newhouse family or Rupert Murdoch. Before I put in several years working for the Huntsville Times. Now, I agree with the view which that cover blurb suggests, that the media are just another type of big, fat cash cow. There may be some residual brightness, shine and glitter, but only from the millions and billions of dollars that can be milked from them by savvy owners and managers.
BookCover for the Swedish edition of Peter Temples "Truth". Hardcover with dustjacket. Three color printing, Hexachrome yellow, Silver 877 and matte black.
From Publishers Weekly:
The death of a nameless prostitute in a glitzy Melbourne high-rise is the first in a series of crimes that Insp. Stephen Villani discovers are all tied to protecting the interests of the city's elite in this brutal tale of corruption, greed, and revenge from Australian author (and Ned Kelly Award–winner) Temple (The Broken Shore). Burdened by a shaky marriage and an increasingly rebellious teenage daughter while trying to stay afloat in Melbourne's treacherous political climate, Villani doesn't know where to turn. The discovery of three savagely tortured men with ties to one of the city's biggest crime bosses only adds another layer to the already twisted case, and makes Villani question eve-rything he thought he knew about the line between cop and criminal. Temple's elliptical storytelling—the past and the present are often interchangeable—fits the slippery subject of deeply ingrained police corruption and one man's determination to uncover the truth. (May)
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The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0172
Photo by Donna Robertson.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
The Disciples of Cthulhu - Second Revised Edition with an introduction by Robert Bloch - A Classic Collection of Cthulhu Mythos Stories - Edward P. Berglund, Editor (Call of Cthulhu Fiction - A Chaosium Book); Great Irish Tales of Horror - A Treasury of Fear edited and introduced by Peter Haining; Vampires (dustjacket illustrated by Edward Gorey) - Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories edited by Alan Ryan; Masters of the Macabre - An exclusive collection of classic horror stories by some of the world's greatest literary masters... Contents: The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving, The Cobweb by Saki, The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe, The Hand by Guy de Maupassant, The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson, A Ghost Story by Mark Twain, Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker, The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy, The Ghostly Rental by Henry James; High Spirits - A Collection of Ghost STories by Robertson Davies
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London: Bloomsbury, [1998]. ISBN 0747538492. Hardback with pictorial dustjacket, not price-clipped, no P. O. marks. Number line 19 20 18. Harry, Ron and Hermione have returned to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their second yea. (But Harry and Ron only just made it - they missed the Hogwarts Express and had to get there in a flying car ...!) Soon the threesome are immersed in the daily round of Potions, Hebology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Quidditch. But then horrible things stat happening. Harry hears evil voices. Sinister messages appear on the wall. But nothing can prepare the three friends for what happens next ... Reviews from young readers on the back foldover of dustjacket and handwritten ones are printed on tthe last pages of the book.
Weight 325g
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SMILE will be in stores February 2, 2010. Published by Scholastic/Graphix.