which was first published Christmas 1936. It was initially an eight-page, penguin book size leaflet. Six further issues were produced before the war. One edition 'First War Number' was produced early in 1940. However, due to paper rationing the magazine was not published after this until ...
In May 1970 the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands was celebrated in the King's Library of the British Museum with an ex hibition of Dutch clandestine printing. The books shown were part of the considerable collection assembled in the intervening years by Miss Anna Simoni...
THE THREE HUNTING HORNS by Mary Fitt Published by Penguin previously asMain series:301(crime) Date:December 1940 THE MURDERS IN PRAED STREET by John Rhode Published by Penguin previously asMain series:98(crime) Date:June 1937 NATIONAL VELVET by Enid Bagnold ...
All publication dates where known apply to the UK. The fiction highlight this spring has got to be Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which is the author’s first novel in ten years since Americanah. Ripeness by Sarah Moss will be published in May and is set in 1960s Italy and ...
Certain seminal works were published before the Second World War but which have had a major influence since the war were set aside. That list would certainly include: Karl Barth: Credo Marc Bloch: Feudal Society Martin Buber: I and Thou Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process Si...
All things old China - books, anecdotes, stories, podcasts, factoids & ramblings from the author Paul FrenchJust Published… Chiang Yee and his Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950 Edited by Paul Bevan, Anne Witchard, and Da Zheng This book, Chiang Yee and ...
Reportedly only 2,011 copies of this book were published making it an extremely rare find and particularly so in a collectible jacket and inscribed by the author. TB00569 $900.00 After you have checked off each book you wish to order (a mouse click in the small check box just above the...
A lot of my reading in 2021 has involved catching up on books published in 2020 or earlier, particularly among non-fiction. Hungry by Grace Dent and Bookworm by Lucy Mangan were among my favourite memoirs this year, and take a nostalgic look at the authors’ childhoods defined by food and...
This is the first missing number of the Specials. A new book was announced for October 1938 (on back cover of S9) as S.O.S. to Democracy by C. Denby Miller, but was never published. A February/March 1940 list of Penguin Books also shows S23 as Palestine by Commander Fletcher, but...
Notable among these is modern sword-and-sorcery author Schuyler Hernstrom, whose collection of short stories,The Eye of Sounnu, was published by DMR Books. The collection contains a wonderful story called “Mortu and Kyrus in the White City,” which features northland, pagan barbarian (Mortu)...