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20 septembre 2023

Bibliography of 19th Century Children's Series Books with price guide

 



Cary Sternick

A bibliography of 19th Century
Children's series books with price guide

Self publication
Tomball, Texas, U.S.A.
over 800 pages, 2003
no ISBN




Introduction
Values
Dating your book
Book description

Publishers
Imprints
Lee and Shepard Publisher's series

Author index
Color pictures

Bibliography

Book title index
Publisher index





14 juin 2023

Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



Michael L. Cook

Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Greenwood Press
Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
824 pages, 1983
ISBN : 0-313-23310-1




Preface
Acknowledgments
Symbols and terminology
Introduction

The magazines in profile
Overview of foreign magazines
Book clubs in profile

Appendix A : Magazines by category
Appendix B : Key writers in the Golden Age
Appendix C : Chronology
Appendix D : American true-detective magazines
Appendix E : Canadian true-detective magazines
Appendix F : Sherlock Holmes Scion Society periodicals
Appendix G : Other periodicals of interest to the collector
Selected bibliography
Index
Contributors




 

02 mai 2023

The Flash Press : Sporting male weeklies in 1840s New York

 


Patricia Cline Cohen
Timothy J. Gilfoyle &
Helen Lefkowitz
in association with the
American Antiquarian Society

The Flash Press
Sporting male weeklies in 1840s New York

University of Chicago Press
Chicago, U.S.A.
280 pages, 2008
ISBN : 978-0-226-11234-3




Part I. The Flash Press
     1. Beginnings : Rivalry and satire
     2. Sexual politics
     3. Trials and tribulations
     4. Legacies

Part II. Flash Press excerpts
     1. Purposes
     2. Libertinism
     3. Brothel life
     4. Heterosexuality
     5. Gossip, vituperation, and blackmail
     6. Racism, anti-amalgamation
     7. Homosexuality
     8. Indictments
     9. Sports and Theater in the Flash world
     10. The illustrations of John H. Manning

Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index


11 juillet 2018

My father , the pornographer




Chris Offutt

My father, the pornographer
A memoir

Atria books
New York, U.S.A.
262 pages, 2016
ISBN : 978-1-5011-1246-1




Dedicated to... (a list of Andrew J. Offutt pseudonyms)

31 Chapters (without titles)
Acknowledgments
Andrew J. Offutt Timeline
Andrew J. Offutt Bibliography



07 juin 2016

Fandom Harvest




Terry Carr

Fandom Harvest

Laissez Faire Produktion AB
Solna, Sweden
192 pages, 1986
ISBN : 91-7648-056-9

(illustrations by Grant Canfield)




Introduction,
     by Robert Silverberg

Fantastuff
Inn a mist
The fan who hated quotecards
Trufan's blood
Forever and fandom
Another Pygmalion
Perchance to dream
Fandom Harvest
The Hieronymus fan
The fastest ham in the west
Basic research is not dead
Buddha with a light bulb
Confessions of a literary midwife
Jeff Wanshel called me on the phone the other night
Census of wonder
Jack Gaughan : the pro
The fannish i
The infinite Beanie
Instant Karma
Fansprach
You've come a long way, Baby

Unsolicited afterword
     by John-Henri Holmberg
Illustrator's credits




The Futurians




Damon Knight

The Futurians

The story of the great Science Fiction
"Family" of the 30's that produced
today's top SF writers and editors

John Day
New York, U.S.A.
276 pages, 1977
ISBN : 0-831-98288-2




Foreword

1. "Save Humanity with science and sanity"
2. "...it was so heavy he had to spend four cents in mailing it"
3. "If he wants to kill himself..."
4. "Piggish indifference and ingratitude..."
5. "...ears that had long since shrivelled into uselessness"
6. "A country yokel, just what we expected"
7. "That's five cents, Isaac"
8. "My God, ears !"
9. Like the remnants of an exploded planetoid
10. "There she is, the little mother of science fiction"
11. "Let D. and E. be fricasseed and fried !"
12. "...and then, in 1941, I would have been killed in the war"
13. In some underground way I think he did know - had always known

Appendix : Four Futurian songs
Index 




03 juin 2016

Kinderen van Holland




Saskia de Bodt

Kinderen van Holland
Het beeld van Holland
in Amerikaanse kinderboeken

d'jonge Hond & Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Harderwijk, Netherlands
96 pages, 2009
ISBN : 978-90-89100-98-6



1. Beelden van Holland
          De clichés en hun voor geschiedenis of Hoe Hans Brinker de toon zette
2. "Als de stad vol Stuyvesants had gezeten..."
          Historische beelden van Holland
3. "Rozig en tastbaar"
          Het beeld van de Hollandse volkscultuur in Amerikaanse kinderboeken
4. "Goede gunst !" "Donder und Bliksen !"
          Het dagelijks leven in Nederland
5. Een barst in het beeld
          Nederland en de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Nawoord
Noten
Bibliografie
Besproken illustraties



02 février 2016

Pulpografia



Juri Nummelin

Pulpografia

Amerikkalaisia kioskidekkareita
suomeksi 1936-89

Suomen Dekkariseura Ry
Helsinki, Finland
304 pages, 2000
ISBN : 951-98602-0-7



Lukijalle

Kolikkolehdistä taskukirjoihin - pulp-kirjallisuuden historiaa
     Pulp fictionin lähtölaukaus
     Pulp-lehtien lajityyppejä
          Lännenkirjallisuus
          Tieteiskirjallisuus
          Kauhukirjallisuus
          Seikkailukirjallisuus
          Rikoskirjallisuus
     Pulp-lehtien häviö
     Lehtien muuttuminen
     Kioskikirjojen synty
     Kioskikirjojen lajityyppejä
     Uusia virtauksia
     Pokkarivillitys muissa maissa
     Suomeksi julkaistu pulp fiction
     Pokkareita suomeksi

Kirjailijat
Lähdeluettelo
Liitteet
Henkilöhakemisto


21 avril 2015

Weird Tales in the thirties



Reginald Smith

Weird Tales in the thirties

Privately published by the author
Santa Ana, California, U.S.A.
42 pages, 1966
no ISBN


Weird Tales in the thirties
( no chapters )


The Weird Tales Story



Robert Weinberg & others

The Weird Tales story

Fax Collector's editions
West Linn, Oregon, U.S.A.
X + 134 pages, 1977
ISBN : 0-913960-16-0


Preface

1. A brief history
2. Farnsworth Wright,  by E. Hoffmann Price
3. Why Weird Tales ?
4. The stories
      The Baird issues
      The Wright issues
      The McIlwraith issues
5. Recollections of Weird Tales by :
      Frank Belknap Long 
      Greye La Spina
      H. Warner Munn
      Robert E. Howard
      Edmond Hamilton
      Wallace West
      Manly Wade Wellman
      Carl Jacobi
      Robert Bloch
      Robert Barbour Johnson
      Lee Brown Coye
      Joseph Payne Brennan
6. Cover art
7. Interior art
8. Beginnings and ends
9. Out of the Eyrie
10. Competition
11. A brief resurrection