True first editions of Little Women and Little Men in the publisher's original cloth.“I plod away, through I don't enjoy this sort of thing. Never liked girls, or knew many, except my sisters, but our queer plays and experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it... Sent twelve chapters to Mr. N [Thomas Niles, her editor at Roberts Brothers]. He thought it dull; so do I. But I work away and mean to try the experiment; for lively, simple books are very much needed for girls, and perhaps I can supply the need.” - Journals of Louisa May Alcott, 1868.Another...
U.S. Gov’t Recall Alerts Readers: These Books May Shock You!
Beware the Water Garden of Doom.In what may be a category first, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a voluntary recall of nine books, in concert with their publisher.Consumers should stop reading these books immediately unless otherwise instructed, and contact Oxmoor House for a full refund.“About 951,000” copies of these books, on shelves from January 1975 through December 2009 for between $13 and $35, are currently in circulation, posing a threat to personal and residential safety. No fires, shocks, burns, injuries or deaths of any nature, including disbelief, have yet been reported as a result of these...
An Illustrated Checklist of the Railroading and Western Americana Books of Lucius Beebe, Bon Vivant
The following are books on railroading and Western America by Lucius Beebe, or Lucius Beebe and his partner, Charles Clegg. Read Book Patrol's feature, Lucius Beebe: Bon Vivant Book Man.1. High Iron: A Book of Trains. (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938).2. Highliners: A Railroad Album (New York: Bonanza Books, 1940).3. Trains in Transition (New York: Bonanza Books, 1941).4. Highball: A Pageant of Trains ( New York: Bonanza Books, 1945)5. The Narrow Gauge Railroads of Colorado (Railway & Locomotive Historical Society BulletinNo. 671, August 1946).6. Mixed Train Daily: A Book of Short-Line Railroads. (Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1947).7. Virginia City &...
“Luscious” Lucius Beebe: Bon Vivant Book Man
“Lucius Beebe, who was larger than life, is dead. The famous author suffered a heart attack shortly after his ritual morning Turkish bath in his Hillsborough winter home yesterday” (obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 4, 1966)."If anything is worth doing it is worth doing in style, and on your own terms, and nobody's Goddamned else's!" - Lucius Beebe.“I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini...
Partisanship Goes Retail: Book Store Slaps Conservative Hands
Rough political partisanship, having now officially supplanted baseball as America's favorite pastime, has raised its feral literary head and, like the pixilated elephant who walked through the wrong door and wound up in a donkey show, is making an obscene ass of itself.True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy is getting the treatment usually associated with Karl Rove in his Nixon dirty tricks days, and a book store has had to lay down the law and order:"CONSERVATIVES! PLEASE STOP FLIPPING OVER AND DEFACING THE BOOKS ABOUT LIBERAL POLITICIANS. THIS BOOKSHELF IS NOT YOUR BLOG"Now, lest Conservative readers of Book Patrol have...