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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
In this classic nineteenth-century thriller, the respectable and mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes a loathsome character, the dark and evil Mr. Hyde. The author, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer whose most famous works are “Treasure Island” (1883), “Kidnapped” (1886), and “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1886). Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.
The “Jekyll and Hyde” story is commonly associated with the rare mental condition called “split personality,” often referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality. In this case, two personalities are within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil. The novel's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. [Source: Wikipedia]
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.
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.
Vintage first edition book, Tales from Grimm retold by Sarah K. Wright, published in 1945 by E.P. Dutton. Illustrations (by Roberta Paflin).
Pictured here are the stars of the play: Jayne Mansfield (as Rita Marlowe), Lew Gallo (as the Masseur), Walter Matthau (as Michael Freeman) and Orson Bean (as George MacCauley).
The play is an original comedy in three acts and four scenes. After a try-out run at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston from September 26, 1955, it opened at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on October 13, starring Jayne Mansfield, Walter Matthau and Orson Bean. Directed by the author and produced by Jule Styne, it closed on November 3, 1956 after 444 performances.
The play is a Faustian comedy about a fan magazine writer who sells his soul to the Devil (in the guise of a literary agent) to become a successful screenwriter. The character of Rita Marlowe (played by Jayne Mansfield) is a vapid blonde sex symbol, an exaggerated lampoon of Marilyn Monroe (who had starred the previous year in the film version of Axelrod's play "The Seven Year Itch"). The surname Marlowe is an homage to 16th century playwright Christopher Marlowe, who wrote the 1604 drama The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, the plot of which served as the inspiration for Axelrod's play.
[Source: Wikipedia]
George Axelrod, born in New York, is probably best known for “The Seven Year Itch” – his first Broadway comedy – which ran for almost three years, toured very successfully, flowered in translation all over the world, and eventually was made into a movie – with this iconic scene:
Giovanni Bartolomeo Bosco (1793-1863) was an Italian magician during the mid-19th century. He is best known for his adroitness with the famous Cups and Balls. When he was nineteen years old, he was drafted into Napoleon's Army. In 1812, Bosco was wounded during the Battle of Borodino by a Cossack lancer. He pretended to be dead as he noticed someone searching the dead bodies for loot. The looter went through Bosco's things while at the same time Bosco picked the looter's pocket. Bosco was taken prisoner in Siberia and entertained the other prisoners and the guards with his magic. After the war, he returned home to Turin in 1814, and studied medicine for a short time. Bosco went on to perform his magic for the ruler of Russia as well as the heads of state of Prussia, Sweden, and France. [Source: Wikipedia]
My latest addition to my collection, is a USA first edition of Giant`s bread in pretty good condition.
In the Introduction to his book “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin” Houdini says:
“This book is the natural result of the moulding, dominating influence which the spirit and writing of Robert-Houdin have exerted over my professional career. My interest in conjuring and magic and my enthusiasm for Robert-Houdin came into existence simultaneously. From the moment that I began to study the art, he became my guide and hero. I accepted his writings as my text-book and my gospel. What Blackstone is to the struggling lawyer, Hardee’s “Tactics” to the would-be officer, or Bismark’s life and writings to the coming statesman, Robert-Houdin’s books were to me.
“…When it became necessary for me to take a stage name, and a fellow player, possessing a veneer of culture, told me that if I would add the letter ‘i’ to Houdin’s name, it would mean, in the French language, ‘like Houdin,’ I adopted the suggestion with enthusiasm. I asked nothing more of life than to become in my profession ‘like Robert-Houdin.’”
That is high praise indeed! But the rest of Houdini’s book is not so flattering. It exposes his hero and the source of his name as a thief and fraud. Houdini judges Robert-Houdin harshly after discovering that a number of the effects that he claimed to have invented were not invented by him at all. Houdini uncovered the evidence only after a great deal of research. He even offered a prize of $250 if anybody could name a book that had taken as much time, energy, travel and money, “with such authentic data regarding real magical inventions.” He traced the origins of some effects decades, even a century before Robert-Houdin.
Houdini built a strong case against his former hero. Effects that Robert-Houdin claimed to be his own invention were almost identical to effects invented by earlier magicians. Could he have reasonably believed himself to have created those effects? No one can know for sure. Robert-Houdin didn’t devote anywhere near as much “time, travel, energy and money” as did Houdini in researching the effects, so he may well have believed them to be his own. In any case, Houdini’s book was roundly castigated, especially in France, the home of Robert-Houdin.
Houdini could have avoided the controversy if he had simply called the book the “The History of Magic” instead of “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin.” It contains a great deal of historical research into the illusions and effects of magic. The effort that went into it was considerable. But, it seems, Houdini wanted the public to know of his disenchantment with his former hero who he, in effect, accuses of stealing and lying.
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.
Mark Twain penned the following inscription on the inside front cover: “Dear Mrs. Doubleday: This book has wandered into my hands, & as it is too delicate & pretty for a person like me, & just right for a person like you, I wish to beg you to take it. With the affectionate regards of a long-time friend – to wit S. L. Clemens. New York, Xmas 1906.”
The recipient was undoubtedly the naturalist Neltje Doubleday, the wife of his good friend the publisher Frank N. Doubleday. Merle Johnson, in his “A Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain,” states that this book was “published anonymously August 20, 1906… for the author…Copies of the work were distributed privately to the author’s personal friends and public acknowledgement of authorship was withheld until after his death.”
“The Chimes” is Dickens’ second Christmas book, the first being “A Christmas Carol.” It continues his social commentaries on the poor. Structured similarly to “A Christmas Carol,” the main character, Trotty, witnesses an alternative future through a series of visions and ultimately is given a second chance to put things right. “The Chimes” was a bestseller in its day, but has since been eclipsed by “A Christmas Carol.” “The Chimes” is illustrated with thirteen engravings by artists John Leech, John Tenniel, Richard Doyle, Daniel Maclise and Clarkson Stanfield.
In all, Dickens wrote five Christmas books: “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “The Chimes” (though dated 1845 it was released in December 1844), “The Cricket on the Hearth” (1845), “The Battle of Life” (1846), and “The Haunted Man” (1848).
“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.
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First Edition Ordnance Survey Map of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1854 including Edinburgh Castle, St Giles Cathedral, Greyfriars Church, George Heriot's School and the Grassmarket.
Drawn by: Ordnance Survey
Format: ink on linen-backed paper
Image reference: SC944663
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Treatise on Painting,” the most important treatise on art to be written during the Renaissance, was actually compiled by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo’s pupils, around 1540. It circulated widely, first in separate manuscripts and later in printed books, and for centuries it was thought to have been written by Leonardo himself. Artists, scientists, and scholars including Galileo, read it avidly as an authoritative record of Leonardo’s thoughts. In the 19th century, when the artist’s original notes became available, scholars realized that the text poorly reflected Leonardo’s sophisticated ideas. The text was very influential nonetheless. For better or worse, it was the primary source for disseminating Leonardo’s art theory in Renaissance and Baroque Europe, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century.
[Source: www.treatiseonpainting.org/]
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.
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.
“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:
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.
Comets have a long history as bad omens and unwelcome visitors, but H. G. Wells’ novel “In the Days of the Comet” turns that silly superstition on its head. A comet enters the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrates, turning the nitrogen of the air into a healing gas that brings happiness, peace and generosity to even the most violent of humans.
It is interesting to note that Earth was destined to pass through the tail of Halley’s comet in 1910, just four years after the book’s publication. One of the substances discovered in the comet’s tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen. The astronomer Camille Flammarion claimed that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." His pronouncement led to panicked buying of gas masks and quack "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas" by the public. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Rescue of Jim.”
“Tom Sawyer Abroad” features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world’s greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. The story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn and is a sequel, set in the time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series, “Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” [Source: Wikipedia]
One of our finest presidents, Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind every time I visit a National Park. The full title of the book on the shelf is "Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains" (New York: Putnam's, 1899). The book contains over 50 illustrations including several by Remington. Roosevelt was both a hunter and a conservationist, and they are not inconsistent, something we seem to have forgotten in today's left/right, blue/red world.
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.
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).
From the Book "John Lennon In His Own Write." New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. First American edition.
Art by J. Allen St. John.
This is the fifth novel in the Tarzan series. Tarzan knows where the gold of fabled Atlantis is hidden and outlaws are determined to get their greedy hands on it.
Corinth was the first to publish the Phantom Detective in book form. The pulp hero actually debuted in February 1933 in "The Phantom Detective Magazine"and continued until 1953 for a total of 170 issues. Wealthy Richard Curtis Van Loan is secretly the Phantom Detective, respected crime-solver and master of disguise and escape, along with his sidekick, Chip Dorian. The Phantom was the obvious inspiration for Batman (who first appeared in May 1939) and, like Batman, the Phantom had a Bat-Signal, a red beacon on the roof of the Clarion building.
Here is a look at the Phantom Detective in an original magazine appearance:
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This final collection of the miscellaneous writings of H. P. Lovecraft contains over a dozen poems, the provocative and controversial title essay, "Something About Cats," pieces from Lovecraft's little-known magazine, "The Conservative," the burlesque, "The Battle that Ended the Century," and notes for such famous stories as "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "At the Mountains of Madness," and "The Shadow Out of Time."
In addition, around half dozen stories by other hands, in which Lovecraft took part, either by revision or suggestion, are included. Among them are "The Invisible Monster," by Sonia H. Greene; "Satan's Servants," by Robert Bloch; "The Last Test" and "The Electric Executioner," by Adolphe de Castro; and "The Horror in the Burying-Ground," by Hazel Heald.
Finally, friends of Lovecraft have contributed to this volume certain studies and appreciations, such as the memoirs by Rheinhart Kleiner and Samuel Loveman; the remembrance by Sonia H. Davis, who was for some years the wife of H. P. Lovecraft; the addenda to "H. P. L.: A Memoir," by August Derleth; a portrait of Lovecraft as few people knew him, by E. Hoffmann Price; Fritz Leiber, Jr.'s study of Lovecraft's work; and poems in tribute by Vincent Starrett and August Derleth.
Martha Endell, Em'ly's friend, blames herself for Em'ly's running away. Martha looks wild as she stands muttering to herself. She screams and babbles: she compares herself to the river, which starts clean but then flows into the dirty city. David and Mr. Peggotty wait for Martha to calm down.
“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.
Best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and one of the most influential figures in human history, Charles Darwin established that all species of life on earth descended over time from common ancestors through a process that he called natural selection. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book “On the Origin of Species.”
Darwin’s second book on evolutionary theory, “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,” was published in 1871. In this work Darwin applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary ethics, differences between human races, differences between sexes, the dominant role of women in choosing mating partners, and the relevance of evolutionary theory to society. [Source: Wikipedia]
This book presents the librettos of the final two operas in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle accompanied by 31 color plates by Arthur Rackham. “Siegfried” is the third of the four operas that constitute Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung.” “The Twilight of the Gods” is the final opera in the Ring. They were first performed together as part of the complete Ring Cycle on August 14, 1876 at Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and The Song of the Nibelungs, an epic German poem that tells the story of dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife’s revenge.
The first two operas in Wagner’s Ring, “The Rhinegold” and “The Valkyrie,” were published in a separate volume in 1910 and were also illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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A short-lived early 60's publisher, Europa published a series of sleaze paperbacks with fold-out covers. Only about a half-dozen books from this publisher are known. It should not be confused with Europa Editions founded in 2005.
“The Chimes” is Dickens’ second Christmas book, the first being “A Christmas Carol.” It continues his social commentaries on the poor. Structured similarly to “A Christmas Carol,” the main character, Trotty, witnesses an alternative future through a series of visions and ultimately is given a second chance to put things right. “The Chimes” was a bestseller in its day, but has since been eclipsed by “A Christmas Carol.” “The Chimes” is illustrated with thirteen engravings by artists John Leech, John Tenniel, Richard Doyle, Daniel Maclise and Clarkson Stanfield.
In all, Dickens wrote five Christmas books: “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “The Chimes” (though dated 1845 it was released in December 1844), “The Cricket on the Hearth” (1845), “The Battle of Life” (1846), and “The Haunted Man” (1848).
This is an uncommon form of the many bindings on this book. The first edition sheets are in what may be a remainder paperback binding.
Wells coined the term “time machine” and is generally credited with popularizing the concept of time travel. Wells’ story transports the reader from Victorian England to a society 800-thousand years into the future for a close encounter with the childlike Eloi who live on the surface of planet Earth and the apelike Morlocks who live underground. The time traveler and narrator, an English inventor, tells a remarkable tale of his adventures in that distant future.