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The Hemingway reader

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Description: "The selections are arranged chronologically ... chosen mainly to give variety and balance ... they represent a body of work that has changed the course of storytelling and given new cadences to the language."--Foreword, page xi.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1953.
Call number: 444817a
Creator: Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0684151642; 9780684151649; 0023534001; 9780023534003; 0684172291; 9780684172293; 0684102412; 9780684102412
Provenance: Gift of Mary Eleanor Bissell Estate, May, 1963.
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Selections from Xi you ji, a novel sometimes attributed to Wu Cheng'en. "Tripitaka, whose pilgrimage to India is the subject of the story, is a real person, better known to history as Xuanzang."--Page 7.

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Adirondack stories

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"Several of the characters in these stories, as well as much of the material and nearly all the locales, were come by in the summer of 1931 during a stay in the Adirondack Mountains in the company of Nathanael West. For some while prior, he'd been trying to complete the revision of his second book, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' and I'd been trying to write 'The Water Wheel,' my first. ... On our return to New York in September, West invited me to put up at the Sutton--as a non-paying guest, of course--and of course I accepted. I remained there for the better part of six months, during which time the first five of these stories were written. Under my then name, Julian L. Shapiro, they were published in 1932, three of them in Pagany and two in Contact, and apart from a few descriptive pieces that had appeared in the Paris vanguard magazines Tambour and The New Review, they're my earliest printed work. ... I have taken another name since those days, but I've not seen fit to tamper with the stories. ... I have changed after forty-five years, I suppose ... but the stories have not been touched"--From foreword, dated 6 April 1976.

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Morrill inks

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"The illustrations in this book show results obtained from a selection of representative black and colored inks manufactured by this Company in keeping with the highest standards of modern printing. To viceable a variety of subjects has been chosen and the use of paper, screen and ink has been considered in connection with each; only nationally known papers, for instance, having been selected. ... At the bottom of each page is a block with solid and various screens for convenience in matching and a brief summary of certain properties of each ink which have been determined from experience or by laboratory test"--From foreword.

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A general map of the middle British Colonies, in America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode Island ; of Aquanishuonigy, the country of the Confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio & Thuchsochruntie their deer-hunting countries, Couchsachrage and Skaniadarade, their beaver-hunting countries ; of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain ; exhibiting the antient & present seats of the Indian Nations / published by Lewis Evans at Philadelphia ; corrected and improved with the additions of the line of forts on the back settlements ; by Thos. Jefferys Geographer to the King

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This issue is identical to 18221 except that the imprint lower right has been changed from 1775 to "Publish'd as the Act directs, 15 June 1775." This issue found in the "American Atlas" of Sayer and Bennett of 1775. Note Sayer & Jefferys appear on the map, Sayer & Bennett on the Atlas. Pownall protested the use of this plate, Sayer & Bennett removed it from the 1776 Atlas. Submap: A sketch of the Remaining part of the Ohio R., &c. MS note: 18222. Prime meridian: London, Philadelphia. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Stamped: XI. MS notes: Shelve with #18212 Evans, Lewis ; #18222.

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The devil in velvet

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Cambridge professor of history Nicholas Fenton, in the England of 1925, makes a bargain with the devil and is sent back in time to London in 1675 to solve a murder that is about to take place, in the body of Sir Nick Fenton. Fenton soon finds himself in love with the intended victim, Sir Nick's wife Lydia, and resolves to alter the course of history by preventing her murder.

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