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This book contains a history and anthology of science fiction in the popular magazines from 1891 to 1911. The year 1891 ushered in a "golden age" of magazines. Continuing up to the onset of World War I, this period saw an unparalleled flourishing of high quality, general interest magazines at a price nearly everybody could afford. Science fiction stories played a crucial role in the success of these magazines, and, not surprisingly, within the pages of "The Strand," "Pearson's Magazine, "The Blue Book," "Hampton's Magazine," "The Argosy," "The Red Book,"The Black Cat," and similar publications can be found some of the finest treasures of science fiction writing.
Published in 1958 by William Heinemann – with whom, interestingly, the copyright rests. Cover design was by Donald Green.
And for anyone who knows the plot, here's the Hotel Sevilla, which features in the novel.
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These retro horror goodies are among the thousands still kicking around Seoul - a place still packed with VHS tapes ;-)
Details of a Ship's Rigging.
Copperplate engraving from the First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, or Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, founded in 1768 and printed in 1771. 3 Volumes, this is Volume 3.
The largest encyclopedia of general knowledge published to date, with contributions by leaders in their fields.
Printed for Bell and Macfarquhar, Edinburgh. Original half leather binding, 970 pages this volume. 26cm x 21cm.
From "Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. First American Edition
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
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Book: Falling Star by Patricia Moyes (1964 first edition by Collins Crime Club; bought for $2 from a recent book fair)
From "The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. First American Edition
The image is from the 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93, by J. W. Powell, Director, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896. The description which follows summarizes the detailed information accompanying the image in the report.
By December 1890, the Ghost Dance had generally been discontinued on the reservations except at Sitting Bull’s camp on Grand River and Big Foot’s camp on Cheyenne River. The presence of troops had stopped the dances near the agencies. Everything seemed to be quieting down and it was now deemed a favorable time to forestall future disturbance by removing the ringleaders.
On December 12, the military order came for the arrest of Sitting Bull and arrangements were made between Colonel Drum and Agent McLaughlin to attempt the arrest. At daybreak on Monday morning, December 15, 1890, the Indian police and 43 volunteers under command of Lieutenant Bull Head surrounded Sitting Bull’s house. They found him asleep on the floor. He was aroused and told that he was a prisoner and must go to the agency. While dressing, Sitting Bull began abusing the police for disturbing him. Many of his followers, perhaps 150, congregated about the house outside. On being brought out, Sitting Bull became greatly excited and refused to go, and called on his followers to rescue him. A desperate fight ensued, shots were fired and Sitting Bull along with several police was killed.
The book contains nine “what if” stories. They roam freewheeling across the galaxy from Earth to Prxl, and across time from the early campaigns of Napolean to a day in the future when organized crime meets its Waterloo. What if you were shipwrecked alone on a strange planet? Or, what if you saw the stars changing places? Or, what if the last woman on Earth said she wouldn’t marry you if you were the last man on Earth – which you happened to be? In such funny yarns as PI IN THE SKY and NOTHING SIRIUS, Brown shows how humorous science fiction can be, and in COME AND GO MAD, how terrifying.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
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The Lancia Stratos HF (Tipo 829), widely and more simply known as Lancia Stratos, is a car made by Italian car manufacturer Lancia. The HF stands for High Fidelity. It was a very successful rally car, winning the World Rally Championship in 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. In 1894, he chose Flagstaff, Arizona as the home of his new observatory, the now famous Lowell Observatory. For the next fifteen years, he studied Mars extensively, and made intricate drawings of the surface markings as he perceived them. He was particularly interested in the canals of Mars, as drawn by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who was director of the Milan Observatory. Lowell published his views in three books: “Mars” (1895), “Mars and Its Canals” (1906), and “Mars As the Abode of Life” (1908).
Lowell’s works include a full account of the “canals,” single and double, the “oases,” as he termed the dark spots at their intersections, and the varying visibility of both, depending partly on the Martian seasons. He theorized that an advanced but desperate culture had built the canals to tap Mars’ polar ice caps, the last source of water on an inexorably drying planet.
While this idea excited the public, the astronomical community was skeptical. Many astronomers could not see these markings, and few believed that they were as extensive as Lowell claimed. In 1909 the sixty-inch Mount Wilson Observatory telescope in Southern California allowed closer observation of the structures Lowell had interpreted as canals, and revealed irregular geological features, probably the result of natural erosion. The existence of canal-like features was definitely disproved in the 1960s by NASA’s Mariner missions. Today, the surface markings taken to be canals are regarded as an optical illusion.
Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last decade of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, a hypothetical planet beyond Neptune. In 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, working at the Lowell Observatory, discovered Pluto near the location expected for Planet X. Partly in recognition of Lowell's efforts, a stylized P-L monogram – the first two letters of the new planet's name and also Lowell's initials – was chosen as Pluto's astronomical symbol.
Although Lowell's theories of the Martian canals are now discredited, his building of an observatory at the position where it would best function has been adopted as a principle for all observatories. He also established the program and an environment which made the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh possible. Craters on the Moon and on Mars have been named after Percival Lowell. He has been described by other planetary scientists as "the most influential popularizer of planetary science in America before Carl Sagan". Lowell is buried on Mars Hill near his observatory. [Source: Wikipedia]
David, dwarfed by the chair in which he sits down to dinner at the coaching inn on the London Road, seems clearly out of place. It is the boy’s first meal at an inn. The waiter appears benign enough, “twinkling-eyed, pimple-faced, with his hair standing upright all over his head.” But he is yet another child-exploiter who is about to trick David out of his dinner.
“David Copperfield” is one of Dickens’ most popular and critically acclaimed novels. The story follows David’s life from childhood to maturity and many of its elements follow events in Dickens’ own life, especially in the early chapters describing David’s provincial upbringing. The story is filled with vivid characters such as Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber, the Pegottys, and eccentric Aunt Betsey and it ranks as the finest of Dickens’ works. “Of all my books,” Dickens wrote in the preface to the 1867 edition, “I like this the best… like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.”
Publisher Bradbury & Evans first released the story in monthly parts from May, 1849 through November, 1850, and in book form in 1850. The text was embellished with full-page, black & white engravings by H. K. Browne (“Phiz”). Subscribers who wished a hardcover edition for their libraries would either purchase a copy from the publisher when available or have the serial parts bound into book form, often in leather.
Einstein writes four lines of verse in German on the front endpaper:
"This life is bizarre and unsound
It looks clearer written down
The urgencies that in the dark are touched
Don't frighten others very much."
From the book "American Photographers and The National Parks" by Robert Cahn & Robert Glenn Ketchum. NY: Viking Press, (1981). First edition
"This book was the natural outgrowth of a photographic exhibition sponsored by the National Park Foundation that chronicled the interrelationship of landscape photography and the national park ethic in the United States. It has taken four years to research and assemble the exhibition and prepare the book for publication . . ." [Quoting from the Acknowledgments]
The book contains 111 full-page photographic plates and over 200 smaller images in a catalog at the back. The book features works by 33 photographers including Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham, Lee Friedlander, John K. Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Eliot Porter, Edward Weston . . . just to name a few.
Vintage first edition book, Tales from Grimm retold by Sarah K. Wright, published in 1945 by E.P. Dutton. Illustrations (by Roberta Paflin).
This British edition contains 220 Illustrations by Dan Beard.and preceded the American edition by a few days. It is Mark Twain’s time travel novel. In it, Yankee engineer Hank Morgan from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to medieval England and the court of King Arthur. Hank fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician—and soon uses his Yankee ingenuity and knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English with such feats as demolition and fireworks. He attempts to modernize the society, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and a censure against him by the Catholic Church, which grows fearful of his power.
Twain wrote the book as a satire of romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, and severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor. [Source: Wikipedia]
Hollywood put its own spin on the story with a 1949 musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
From "Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. First American Edition
Canton (Guangzhou) in southern China.
Woodcut from The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. The publishers stated their hopes that the publication would match or supplement the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
"In Darkest Africa (1890) is Henry M. Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. At the turn of that century, the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. With the accounts of great explorers like Stanley, readers became thrilled by stories of African expeditions and longed to follow in the footsteps of these explorers. In 1888, Stanley led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. The two volumes that compose 'In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria' are his account of what happened." [www.biblio.com/in-darkest-africa-by-stanley-henry-m/work/...]
Men Into Space was an American science-fiction television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col. Edward McCauley, who was in each of the 38 episodes in the series. Props were occasionally futuristic (such as a forerunner of today's real-life LCD TVs) but the show's earthly clothing and environs, including automobiles, telephones and other machines, were decidedly 1950s. The spacecraft and moonscapes were greatly influenced by the paintings of Chesley Bonestell and by the early designs of rocket pioneer Wernher Von Braun. Every episode is now available for viewing on Youtube:
Group of Islands in the Bay of Bengal, former British colonial territory and prison colony, featured in Sir Arthur Conal Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery "Sign of the Four".
The Illustrated News of the World – First Edition 1858.
‘The Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages’ was a new publication with the strong visual emphasis of numerous large woodcuts to illustrate local and world events, and also featuring a number of fine steel engravings of eminent persons. A competitor to the existing illustrated magazines:- The Illustrated London News and Punch Magazine .
Published by Illustrated News of the World, The Strand, London. Annual bound collection, red cloth boards 338 pages 42cm x 29cm.
The Tithe War by Doreen Wallace ( Mrs R. H. Rash )
For non-payment of tithe stock valued at £702 was impounded on Feb 6th 1934 on her husband's farm, Wortham, Norfolk
A novelist expresses with force & clarity the case against tithes
My copy of The Tithe War by Doreen Wallace. First Edition, Victor Gollancz, London 1934.
My little book records the biased observations of a tithepayer under notice of distraint. I make no claim to omniscience, broad-mindedness, or even good temper; I have, however, about as much of each of these desirable qualities as any titheowner with whom I have yet come into contact. I have, in addition, a grievance, for I am experiencing the oppression of the Tithe Laws. And I have an inspiration: the courage and conviction of my fellow soldiers in the Tithe War.
- Doreen Wallace, Wortham Manor, Suffolk. November 1933. (Foreword to her book The Tithe War)
In the 1930s, agriculture in England experienced a deep depression, and it was very hard to make the land pay. The Church of England had undergone much modernisation over the previous century, but even so, there were still parishes where the tithe system meant that even small landowners were legally obliged to contribute a proportion of their income to the church for the upkeep of its incumbent. This was the case even if they were not Anglicans, which in Suffolk many were not. In addition, many of the smaller landowners were supporters of the Liberal Party, but the governing Conservative Party, which many of the larger landowners supported, stood foursquare behind the Church in the matter.
If the landowners refused to pay, the courts could enforce tithe seizures by bailiffs, who in many cases would take goods valued at far more than the unpaid tithes.
The Elmsett Tithe Memorial recalls such an incident, just one of many, in which possessions were seized from the home of a land owner in lieu of payments to the Church. It reads 1934. To commerate the Tithe seizure at Elmsett Hall of furniture including baby's bed and blankets, herd of dairy cows, eight corn stacks and seed stacks valued at £1200 for tithe valued at £385.
Charles Westren, the farmer in question, had refused to pay his tithes to the church. After the seizure, he set up this monolithic concrete memorial on the edge of his land facing into the gateway of Elmsett church, so that anyone leaving a service would be reminded of the injustice of the system. Westren eventually emigrated to America during the Second World War. The legal abolition of the tithes system in England and Wales was set in motion after the War, the system coming to a final end in the 1970s, by which time very few tithes were still collected because of the cost of doing so.
However, it is salutary for us to recall that the tithe controversy has lingered well into the collective folk memory of modern Suffolk. The tithe protesters received strong support from, among others, the writers Henry Williamson and Doreen Wallace, who would later recall the events in her book The Tithe War, both of whom had small farms in East Anglia.
Their articles in London newspapers had the effect of drumming up considerable discussion, and both writers' sympathies with the British Union of Fascists encouraged that organisation to support the tithe protesters.
The writer George Orwell documented the struggle in his novel A Clergyman's Daughter, as did Henry Williamson in A Norfolk Farm. People in this part of East Anglia gave strong support to the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s, who were vocal in their support for the tithe rebels. Ronald Creasy, a local farmer, was elected as a British Union councillor for Eye, principally on the issue of the tithe protests.
In 1934, Doreen Wallace and her husband Rowland Rash refused to pay their tithes for Wortham Manor farm. For sixteen days, some fifty members of the British Union of Fascists surrounded the farm to stop the court's bailiffs gaining access to remove goods. They were confronted by lines of police drafted in from Ipswich, and then many were arrested on a technicality and carted off to prison in Norwich. Hard to imagine, now. The events are remembered by a memorial similar to that at Elmsett in a country lane near Wortham Manor.
Johnny Smith is an ordinary young man with a talent for teaching and a new girl. As he takes Sarah to a carnival, life looks good. But a few hours later an accident slams Johnny Smith into a coma that will last four and half years, and a lot can change in four and a half years.
When Johnny wakes up, his girl, his career, and his youth are gone. But the tragedy of his loss is nothing compared to the horror of his gain. For Johnny Smith can now scan the minds, the pasts, and the futures of certain others through a single touch. It is a gift he does not want and a fate he cannot escape.
King's creepy story was the basis of a 1983 movie starring the equally creepy Christopher Walken.
Robert Bonfils was the art director and cover artist for the San Diego-based Hamling Organization during the sixties and seventies and, for a decade, he worked exclusively for them. He produced some of his best covers during this period. The books were published under imprints such as Nightstand Books, Leisure Books, Adult Books, Candid Readers, Companion Books and other lines within the Hamling group. Before then, he produced book covers for the Chicago-based Merit Books and Newsstand Library and Las Vegas’ Playtime Books. He retired from doing cover art in the mid seventies, but he remained active as a painter of fine art in San Diego. Bonfils covers are now incredibly popular and sought after by book collectors, particularly fans of what is called “good girl art” (or GGA).
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From "Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" by Richard Wagner. New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. First American Edition
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Book: Murder First Class by Leonard Gribble (1946; my copy is the 1946 first Australian edition by The Shakespeare Head, with dust jacket art by Raymond Johns)
Vol. III, Second Series, First edition.
Originally written as newspaper journalism, “Sketches by Boz” is the public record of Dickens’ apprenticeship. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and were originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836, including the “Morning Chronicle,” the “Evening Chronicle,” the “Monthly Magazine,” the “Carlton Chronicle” and “Bell’s Life in London.” Fist published in book form in 1836, the whole work is divided into four sections: “Our Parish,” “Scenes,” “Characters,” and “Tales.” Dickens’ writings are enhanced by the regular inclusion of illustrations by George Cruikshank to highlight key scenes and characters.
This is Mark Twain’s time travel novel. In it, Yankee engineer Hank Morgan from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to medieval England and the court of King Arthur. Hank fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician—and soon uses his Yankee ingenuity and knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English with such feats as demolition and fireworks. He attempts to modernize the society, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and a censure against him by the Catholic Church, which grows fearful of his power.
Twain wrote the book as a satire of romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, and severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor. [Source: Wikipedia]
The story is accompanied by some 175 illustrations by Dan Beard. Hollywood put its own spin on the story with a 1949 musical comedy starring Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
From the book "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). First edition. This is the first book that tells the story of Peter Pan, Wendy and their exploits in Neverland along with the now familiar cast of characters that includes Captain Hook, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and Tiger Lily.
Doctor Ox (French: Le Docteur Ox) is a collection of short stories by Jules Verne, the only collection of short stories published in his lifetime. It consists of four varied works by Verne:
1. "Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's Experiment," 1872), illustrated by Lorenz Froelich. Dr. Ox runs a large-scale experiment on the effect of oxygen on plants, animals and humans. He secretly pumps higher levels of oxygen in a Flemish town which causes accelerated growth of plants and aggressiveness in animals and humans.
2. "Maître Zacharius" ("Master Zacharius," 1854), illustrated by Théophile Schuler. This is a Faustian tragedy about the clockmaker Master Zacharius whose overpowering pride leads to his downfall.
3. "Un drame dans les airs" ("A Drama in the Air," 1851), illustrated by Émile-Antoine Bayard. This short story foreshadows Verne’s first novel, “Five Weeks in a Balloon.” Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The unexpected passenger intends to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and the pilot’s life.
4. "Un hivernage dans les glaces" ("A Winter Amid the Ice," 1855), illustrated by Adrien Marie and Barbant. A search party heads North to find the crew of a missing ship and ends up fighting the bitter cold and trying to survive a bitter rivalry.
The collection also includes a preface by Pierre-Jules Hetzel and a story, "Quarantième ascension au mont Blanc" ("Fortieth Ascent of Mont Blanc"), written by Verne's brother Paul and illustrated by Edmond Yon.
This book collects 22 of Ray Bradbury’s tales that first appeared in The New Yorker, Collier’s, the Saturday Evening Post, Mademoiselle, the American Mercury and other magazines. They run the gamut from fantasy and witchcraft to lost childhood and nostalgia.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Algis Budrys’ first novel “False Night” is a post-apocalyptic tale set after most of America's population has been wiped out by a plague.
From the book "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1911). 1st American ed. The book is illustrated with a color frontispiece and four double-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne (1861-1929).
Quoting from the book (page 197):
Meanwhile, Mr. Pickwick had been wheeled to the Pound, and safely deposited therein, fast asleep in the wheelbarrow, to the immeasurable delight and satisfaction, not only of all the boys in the village, but three fourths of the whole population, who had gathered round in expectation of his waking. If their most intense gratification had been awakened by seeing him wheeled in, how many hundred-fold was their joy increased when, after a few indistinct cries of “Sam!” he sat up in the barrow, and gazed with indescribable astonishment on the faces before him.
[Note: Samuel Pickwick is a retired businessman and the protagonist, founder, and chairman of the Pickwick Club. Pickwick, along with his friends Tupman, Snodgrass, Winkle, and his servant Sam Weller, travel around England in search of adventure. Pickwick is one of Dickens’ most beloved characters and his story propelled Dickens to literary stardom.]
“The Ship that Sailed to Mars” began as a story for the author’s son. So, it seems only fitting that Timlin would mine images from his own childhood. He was born in 1892 in a coal-mining town called Ashington, which sits along the North Sea in Northumberland, England’s northernmost county. He grew up at the water’s edge, so ships would have figured prominently in his imagination.
“The Ship that Sailed to Mars” is the story of an Old Man who has long dreamed of sailing to Mars “by way of the Moon and the more friendly planets.” So, he sets about designing and building a ship with the help of several crones, the Elf King’s best metal-worker, and fairies. The ship is not a fantastical rocket ship but an old-fashioned sailing ship made of lightweight wood “from the grove of a friendly gnome.” The crew sets sail at sunset and, along the way, they encounter all manner of creatures, primordial monsters, sinister storms, Eden’s own serpent with jewels for eyes, benevolent air sprites, and a planet populated entirely by pirates. At last, they spy “the tiny Orb that was the Wonder World of Mars.” Upon landing, the Old Man and his companions meet with a warm welcome. They are wined and dined and taken on a tour through the Fairy City. Soon, though, the Old Man from Earth, who becomes the champion of a fair Princess, must complete an impossible task.
[Source: www.baumanrarebooks.com/blog/the-ship-that-sailed-to-mars/]
The book contains 48 pages of text in Timlin's calligraphy and another 48 pages containing his colored illustrations. Only 2000 copies were printed, including 250 copies for distribution in America under the Frederick A. Stokes imprint.
Published by William Heinemann in 1957, this is one of John Steinbeck's lesser known books. It's described as a "fabrication", a "good-natured satire" and a "delightful extravaganza about French politics and various other matters".
The jacket design is by Osbert Lancaster and the book was published by the Windmill Press in Kingswood, Surrey.
I was such a child, and so little, that frequently when I went into the bar of a strange public-house for a glass of ale or porter, to moisten what I had had for dinner, they were afraid to give it to me. I remember one hot evening I went into the bar of a public-house, and said to the landlord:
"What is your best -- your very best -- ale a glass?" For it was a special occasion. I don't know what. It may have been my birth-day.
"Twopence-halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning ale."
"Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head to it."
The landlord looked at me in return over the bar, from head to foot, with a strange smile on his face; and instead of drawing the beer, looked round the screen and said something to his wife. She came out from behind it, with her work in her hand, and joined him in surveying me. Here we stand, all three, before me now. The landlord in his shirt sleeves, leaning against the bar window-frame; his wife looking over the little half-door; and I, in some confusion, looking up at them from outside the partition. They asked me a good many questions; as, what my name was, how old I was, where I lived, how I was employed, and how I came there. To all of which, that I might commit nobody, I invented, I am afraid, appropriate answers. They served me with the ale, though I suspect it was not the Genuine Stunning; and the landlord's wife, opening the little half-door of the bar, and bending down, gave me my money back, and gave me a kiss that was half admiring and half compassionate, but all womanly and good, I am sure. [page 116]
“David Copperfield” is one of Dickens’ most popular and critically acclaimed novels. The story follows David’s life from childhood to maturity and many of its elements follow events in Dickens’ own life, especially in the early chapters describing David’s provincial upbringing. The story is filled with vivid characters such as Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber, the Pegottys, and eccentric Aunt Betsey and it ranks as the finest of Dickens’ works. “Of all my books,” Dickens wrote in the preface to the 1867 edition, “I like this the best… like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.”
Publisher Bradbury & Evans first released the story in monthly parts from May, 1849 through November, 1850, and in book form in 1850. The text was embellished with full-page, black & white engravings by H. K. Browne (“Phiz”). Subscribers who wished a hardcover edition for their libraries would either purchase a copy from the publisher when available or have the serial parts bound into book form, often in leather.
“Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote four westerns over his career. “The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County” was first published in Thrilling Adventures (March, April, May, 1940) as "The Terrible Tenderfoot." There were two other working titles "That Damn Dude" and "The Brass Heart." Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. published the first book edition in September 1940. The dust jacket and interior illustrations were done by the author's son, John Coleman Burroughs.” [The quote is from a summary by David Bruce Bozarth].
A chapter-by-chapter summary may be found at the ERB Summary Project website: