OldMod67 2nd Feb 2020 | | BookJ. D. Salinger - Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters And Seymour: An Introduction (1994) | 'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters' first published in the New Yorker, 1955
'Seymour - an Introduction' first published in the New Yorker, 1959
First published together in book form in USA by Little,Brown 1963
First British edition by William Heinemann 1963.
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OldMod67 2nd Feb 2020 | | BookIan Hamilton - In Search Of Salinger (1998) | This book had a 'difficult birth' that's worth reading up on, if the world of publishing interests you. To start with, it isn't the book Hamilton wanted to write; that was J. D. Salinger : A Writing Life.
But Salinger was far from happy.
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OldMod67 2nd Feb 2020 | | BookReg Gadney - Kennedy (1983) | This book is based on Reg Gadney's screenplay for a seven part (BAFTA winning) TV series, starting Martin Sheen as JFK.
Jacket front: © Black Star,New York. Photo: Art Rickerby.
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OldMod67 1st Feb 2020 | | BookShirley Jackson - The Haunting Of Hill House (1977) | No credit for cover art on rear either....
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OldMod67 31st Jan 2020 | | BookMatthew White - The Official Prisoner Companion (1988) | Originally published in the United States of America by Warner Books Inc.
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OldMod67 31st Jan 2020 | | BookJohn Culhane - Walt Disney's Fantasia (1987) | Title page also lists Abradale Press / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York. This imprint presented 'reprints of backlist favorites designed to sell at popular prices.... to the same high standard' Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc 100, Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.10011
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OldMod67 31st Jan 2020 | | BookGeoffrey Stokes - The Beatles (1981) | This was also issued in a new dustjacket, with a foil effect centre panel, stating '25th anniversary special'. The anniversary was 25 years since 'the Fab Four hit number 1 in the pop charts with Please Please Me' (contentious issue with some, don't get me started!) The ISBN was kept the same, as were the mauve boards under the jacket. Credits still stated 'cover design by Andy Warhol! Retail price in 1988 was £8.95
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OldMod67 31st Jan 2020 | | BookPhilip B. Kunhardt Jr. - LIFE In Camelot (1988) | Cover price $40.00
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OldMod67 31st Jan 2020 | | BookMatthew Smith - JFK: Say Goodbye To America (2004) | Foreword by Jim Marrs. Note: Reverse of title page lists ISBN 1840188251.
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OldMod67 21st Jan 2020 | | BookJules Verne - Around The World In Eighty Days & Five Weeks In A Balloon (2002) | First combined Wordsworth edition published 1994. The 2002 edition featured a cover design by Robert Mathias. The cover illustration, Ballooning Over the Cotswolds by Maggie Rowe.
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OldMod67 17th Jan 2020 | | BookKaren Thompson Walker - The Age Of Miracles (2012) | I first read this in proof, which due to the subject matter, had its timely publication on The Longest Day....
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OldMod67 17th Jan 2020 | | BookH. G. Wells - The Crystal Egg & Other Stories (2017) | Contents:
The Crystal Egg
The Cone
The Country of the Blind
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
A Story of the Stone Age
The Star
The Red Room
In the Abyss
The Plattner Story
The New Accelerator
A Slip under the Microscope
The Stolen Bacillus
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
The Lord of the Dynamos
The Grisly Folk
The Door in the Wall
The Diamond Maker
Under the Knife
The Sea-Raiders
The Purple Pileus
The Truth about Pyecraft
Jimmy Goggles the God
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
The Argonauts of the Air
Miss Winchelsea's Heart
A Vision of Judgement
The Land Ironclads
The Flying Man
In the Avu Observatory
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist
A Deal in Ostriches
Through a Window
The Temptation of Harringay
The Beautiful Suit
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OldMod67 15th Jan 2020 | | BookH. G. Wells - The Time Machine & Other Works (2017) | When The Sleeper Wakes was revised in 1910 and retitled The Sleeper Awakes.
The Chronic Argonauts is a prototype of The Time Machine, published in serial form (three parts) in 1888.
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OldMod67 15th Jan 2020 | | BookYevgeny Zamyatin - We (2017) | This translation first published by Hesperus Press Ltd in 2009. Revised edition first published by Alma Books Ltd. in 2017, reprinted 2018.
Translation, introduction and notes © Hugh Aplin, 2009, 2017.
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OldMod67 11th Jan 2020 | | BookJames Kahn - Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (1983) | Cover price : U.K. £1.25
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OldMod67 11th Jan 2020 | | BookChristopher Kininmonth - The Travellers' Guide To Sicily (1965) | Text © Helga Greene and Herbert Spencer 1965. Photographs © Herbert Spencer 1965.
General Editor: Judith Greene. Cover price 25s net.
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OldMod67 11th Jan 2020 | | BookRick Raphael - The Thirst Quenchers (1966) | Cost to club members at the time of this publication was 8s (including 1s postage and packing) for each choice in receipt ; alternatively, you could send 48s for six choices. The club was still based at 10-13 Bedford Street, London, W.C2
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OldMod67 31st Dec 2019 | | BookRichard Matheson - The Best Of Richard Matheson (2017) | Contents as follows:
Introduction by Victor LaValle (©2017)
Stories:
Born of Man and Woman (1950)
Prey (1969)
Witch War (1951)
Shipshape Home (1952)
Blood Son (1951)
Where There’s a Will (written with Richard Christian Matheson) (1980)
Dying Room Only (1953)
Counterfeit Bills (2004)
Death Ship (1953)
Dance of the Dead (1954)
Man with a Club (2003)
Button, Button (1970)
Duel (1971)
Day of Reckoning (1960)
The Prisoner (2001)
Dress of White Silk (1951)
Haircut (2006)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1962)
The Funeral (1955)
Third from the Sun (1950)
The Last Day (1953)
Long Distance Call (1953)
Deus ex Machina (1963)
One for the Books (1955)
Now Die in It (1958)
The Conqueror (1954)
The Holiday Man (1957)
No Such Thing as a Vampire (1959)
Big Surprise (1959)
A Visit to Santa Claus (1957)
Finger Prints (1962)
Mute (1962)
Shock Wave (1963)
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OldMod67 30th Dec 2019 | | BookRichard Matheson - The Best Of Richard Matheson (2017) | Cover art : Daniel Danger
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OldMod67 28th Dec 2019 | | BookDaniel Keyes - Flowers For Algernon (1987) | Cover Illustration by Grahame Baker. Cover price £3.50 net. Printed in Finland by Werner Soderstrom Oy. First published in hardback in Great Britain 1966 by Cassell Ltd.
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OldMod67 24th Dec 2019 | | BookRichard Matheson - I Am Legend (1999) | Cover Illustration by Jim Thiesen
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OldMod67 16th Dec 2019 | | BookCynthia Lennon - John (2005) | I've only read it the once. Afterwards it was a while before I put a Lennon record on....
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OldMod67 15th Dec 2019 | | BookSusan Hill - The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories (2017) | Printer's Devil Court also published as a stand-alone novella, HB (2014)
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OldMod67 10th Dec 2019 | | BookRansom Riggs - The Conference Of Birds (2020) | Front cover photograph from the collection of Billy Parrott.
Jacket design by Lindsey Andrews.
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OldMod67 9th Dec 2019 | | BookSylvain Neuvel - Sleeping Giants (2016) | Page count taken from uncorrected proof copy.
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OldMod67 7th Dec 2019 | | BookJ. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit [Graphic Novel] (1991) | More detail: Illustrated by David Wenzel. Adapted by Charles Dixon, with Sean Deming.
First published in three comic volumes by Eclipse, 1989. One volume edition, also by Eclipse, followed in January 1990. First one volume edition in UK by Unwin, 1990.
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OldMod67 7th Dec 2019 | | BookBarbara Strachey - Journeys Of Frodo (1981) | First published by Unwin Paperbacks 1981. Reprinted 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989.
Retail price in 1989, £6.99
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OldMod67 7th Dec 2019 | | BookJ. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (1979) | This entry copy acquired December 1979.
Pricing detail :
United Kingdom £0.85
Australia $2.50 (recommended)
Canada $2.75
Typeset in 10 on 11 point Times and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham. © George Allen Unwin (Publishers) Ltd. 1979.
Unwin Paperbacks, 40, Museum Street, London, WC1A 1LU
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OldMod67 3rd Dec 2019 | | BookJ. Meade Falkner - Moonfleet (1962) | Front and rear cover opened reveals full image, by F.R. Exell (unsigned)
Fly title contains the note 'For all readers from 9 upwards, especially boys'
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OldMod67 25th Nov 2019 | | BookHilaire Belloc - Selected Cautionary Verses (1964) | For reference, my 1971 edition lists pricing on rear as follows:
United Kingdom 25p. 5/-
Australia $0.75
New Zealand $0.75
South Africa R0.60
Canada $1.15
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