Written between October 1845 and June 1846, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym ″Ellis Bell″; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of her siste...
On all the various New York Times best seller lists, very few books are published before January 2009. The institutional subscription will undoubtedly be important, but even that is constrained by in-person library use, inter-library loans, and the free terminal access in each library. Moreover...
This is the rare first edition as published by the late Jan Middendorp through his Druk Editions. It bears all the hallmarks of his eye for design — the black coated wired binding, the heavy embossed card cover, the use of color to underscore the text’s theme, the embedded booklet — ...
(also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published in...
Being the Second Part of the Adventures, Intrigues, & Amours of a Lady's Maid. Written by Herself. Never before Published. Embellished with Eight Engravings. London: Printed by J. Ryder, Porto Bello Passage, 1822 [c.1838] 12mo. 169pp. ...
This is the second part of my interview, published February 11, 1983. Television was killing the printed word in those days; had been since Howdy Doody started shilling for Wonder Bread. Seems almost like a quaint notion now, its dumbing down role famously usurped by social media, though I...
Norris: Forty-six Years: The Published Writings of Milo M. Quaife 1910-1955. Detroit: Algonquin Club, 1956. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as ...
SNCC is the subject of an important new book, THE SHADOWS OF YOUTH: THE REMARKABLE JOURNEY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS GENERATION by historian Andrew B. Lewis (Hill & Wang, 2009). Lewis draws on published and oral histories to paint a moving narrative history detailing the rise, fall, and afterli...
This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that ...
Iana, the first edition of this title was published in 1836. Barber, an illustrator and historian (1798-1885) was Connecticut's first popular historian creating one of the first travel guides of the state. Following the index (in the front of the book) is a hand colored, fold-out map ...