A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982

A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982
Author: Terry Seymour
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1467870145

The total number of Everyman's Library volumes that still survive somewhere in the world exceeds 70 million. Since the inception of the Library in 1906, nearly 1200 unique volumes have been published, constantly placing the world's greatest books before a large public. A few of these titles proved unpopular and were never reprinted. But most were reprinted dozens of times, packaged in numerous ways, and benefited from updated editorial work and book design over the last century. Terry Seymour has studied and researched every aspect of this great mass of books. He now captures and distills this knowledge in A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982. A critical feature, of course, is to update the various collecting factoids that have emerged since 2005 when his Guide to Collecting Everyman's Library was published. The meat of the new book, however, is the Bibliographical Entries section. Each volume that has ever been printed receives its own entry, detailing every printing, each dust jacket variation, any new introductions, updated scarcity numbers, and all relevant notes. Typically an entry contains at least six lines of information, but often much more. In essence, each entry is a story written exclusively about each volume. Armed with this resource, collectors and booksellers can know reliably everything about the Everyman's Library volume that sits on their shelf or is ready to be purchased or sold. They will see how a book fits into the total printing history of that title, and be able to describe and value the book with precision. To further enhance the value of this book, color images illustrate all of the key collecting points. An extensive index of editors, translators and artists is now included. Not just a solo effort, the Printing History has been vetted by other expert collectors, ensuring greater accuracy and comprehensiveness.

The Spirit of Yellowstone

The Spirit of Yellowstone
Author: Judith L. Meyer
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2003-06-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1461663962

Yellowstone National Park's famous geysers, exotic landscape, and beautiful wildlife partially explain its enormous popularity, but there is something more to the Yellowstone experience—a powerful spirit to the place that is more than the sum of its parts. This fascinating history of America's favorite national park shows how that spirit has endured over Yellowstone's 127-year existence. Meyer shows that Yellowstone has consistently evoked awe in different generations of Americans, even as our attitudes toward nature have changed over the years. That awe is also captured in photographer Vance Howard's evocative images, which, alongside historic photographs and other early artistic interpretations of the Park's wonders, support Meyer's view that Yellowstone's unique sense of place makes it worth preserving not only for its ecological value but for its lasting importance in American culture.

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0415234409

One-volume reference work on the first twenty-five years of the cinema's international emergence from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.

Storytelling in Yellowstone

Storytelling in Yellowstone
Author: Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826341174

Whittlesey shares tales of "the great Geyserland" as told by the earliest tour guides of America's first and most unique national park.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998

The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998
Author: Robert Famighetti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 982
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780886878214

This book includes the year in review, economy and business, computers, science and technology, noted personalities, sports, vital statistics, and more.

Left to Chance

Left to Chance
Author: Steve Kroll-Smith
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477303847

How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with raw existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.