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...
Library Cats 45, Bookstore Cats 0
Before She Was Famous: A Rare Unretouched Photo of Stacks The Library Cat.Cats are drawn to quiet, solitary activity. Writers know that putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, is a magnet for Kitty more potent than fresh catnip. Same goes for knitting, sewing, drawing, paying bills, folding laundry, and, of course, reading. So no surprise libraries and bookstores often have felines in residence. Two recent news stories reveal a trend in the area of literary felines: while library cats bask in the spotlight, bookstore cats are an endangered species.The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois reports that the February...
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...
Fine Art Of Book Destruction On Display At Library
Books Destroyed In The Name Of Art.(Photo Courtesy Of Linda Thompson For The Missoulian.)The University of Montana's Mansfield Library will play host to a controversial art exhibit beginning January 7, 2010. "Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate" is an exhibit based on the deliberate destruction of books. A feature article on the exhibit in the January 3 Missoulian Online generated a firestorm of heated comments, pro and con. Roughly 4,000 books were rendered unreadable by over 100 artists to create the art works represented in the library's gallery. All of the books were donated by one man--known only by the initials "J.R."--in...