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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. First edition of poet Elinor Wylie's fantastic Orientalist romance, her first novel, inscribed to Sinclair Lewis. The narrative follows an indolent English bride's travels across the East through a comic pastiche of eighteenth-century fictional clichés: "a Supreme Councillor returning to Bengal once had the audacity to send a glass of champagne and a magnificent pineapple to her cabin, with his respectful queries as to her welfare; only this personage's obvious senility prevented Gerald from giving him a glance over the card-table which would have curdled his blood forever against the most torrid suns of India." This copy of Jennifer Lorn was presented in the month of publication to Wylie's friend and mentor Sinclair Lewis, "who persuaded her that writing fiction was the way to earn money." The novel received bewildered but respectful reviews from contemporary critics. Lewis himself approved of her first effort: "At last, a civilized American novel." See E.H.…
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Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza. Complete Herein in Three Books. Illuminating episodes in the lives of the Hon. Gerald Poynyard and his Bride
by Wylie, Elinor; [Lewis, Sinclair]
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Jeu de la Grande Roue de Paris
by [GAMES]; Universal Exhibition of 1900
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Paris: Simonin Cuny, 1900. Striking table game published on the occasion of the Universal Exposition of 1900, the world's fair held in Paris to celebrate progress in science, industry, and the arts. The game board features the fair's engineering marvel, the Grande Roue de Paris, the largest Ferris wheel ever constructed. Based on the classic "jeu de l'oie," or game of the goose, this game replaces the traditional sixty-three landing squares with spaces corresponding to the forty carriages of the Grande Roue. The spaces depict monuments, including the Louvre and Eiffel Tower; scientific achievements like the train and automobile; scenes of sports and amusements; and fates to avoid: death, prison, the dentist's chair! Five additional spaces are located outside the wheel, for a total of 45 landing squares. Printer Simonin Cuny specialized in children's games, puzzles, and toys, often drawing inspiration from current events. In 1904, the firm joined four other printers of amusements to form Les Jeux et…
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John Brown's Raid. A Picture History of the Attack on Harper's Ferry, Virginia
by Graham, Lorenz; [Brown, John]
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[New York]: Scholastic Book Services, 1972. First edition of this richly illustrated account of abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, part of Scholastic's Firebird Books series, which centered the experience of Native Americans, African-Americans, immigrants, and others whose stories were often sidelined (or omitted altogether) in American history textbooks. Although Harper's Ferry is the climax of the narrative, Lorenz Graham places Brown's crusade to end slavery in the context of the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Law, Bleeding Kansas, and the rise of the larger abolitionist movement, including portraits of all twenty-one members of Brown's "army" and documenting Brown's last words on his walk to the gallows. The book concludes with the image of a crudely printed ballad sheet carried by Union troops during the Civil War, less than two years after Brown was hanged: "John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave, / His soul's marching on!" A…
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Jude the Obscure
by Hardy, Thomas; [Clodd, Edward]; Macbeth-Raeburn, Henry (illustrator)
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London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1896. First edition of Thomas Hardy's controversial final novel, the eighth volume in his uniform series of Wessex Novels, accompanied by a letter to his friend Edward Clodd reporting his progress on the work. The story of a stonemason whose higher aspirations are brutally crushed, Jude the Obscure was the subject of immediate backlash: "his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small." Hardy's attack on class snobbery and compulsory marriage, and his sympathetic portrayal of a family created out of wedlock, so outraged readers that he abandoned the writing of novels altogether, turning to poetry in his final decades. Tipped into this copy is a four-page letter, dated September 2, 1894, sent by Hardy to his longtime friend, banker and man of letters Edward Clodd. Hardy regrets not seeing more of Clodd that summer, and confides that "the announcement in the D. Chronicle represents me as being considerably more advanced than I am with the tale [of Jude the…
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