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The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective StoriesISBN 0486203883 (0-486-20388-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories'Book summary:This collection reprints eight of Freeman's best Dr. Thorndyke stories, "The Case of Oscar Brodski," "A Case of Premeditation" and "The Echo of a Mutiny" are among the outstanding examples of a form which Freeman created, the inverted detective story. In these stories the reader is presented with the complete "perfect" murder from beginning to end. The real heart and thrill of the story, however, begins when Dr. Thorndyke enters the case and from a few, almost minute, clues begins to spin a convincing web of evidence. "The Mandarin's Pearl," "The Blue Sequin," "The Moabite Cipher" and "The Aluminum Dagger" are stories of scientific detection. Every device used in these stories was previously tested by the author through microscope and chemical analysis, through inventive reconstruction of murder weapons, etc. They emerge as some of the most remarkable wit-testers ever written. As a special feature of this collection, "31 New Inn," the story that established the character of Dr. Thorndyke, is reprinted for the first time since its original publication. [via]
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Best Ghost Stories of Algernon BlackwoodISBN 0486229777 (0-486-22977-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood'Book summary:"If a ghost is seen, what is it interests me less than than what sees it?" Thus Algernon Blackwood describes his fascination with human beings' ability to sense invisible powers and stirrings in the universe, a fascination he developed most famously in his stories about mystical, ineffable encounters with nature. This collection, selected by renowned scholar of the supernatural, E. F. Bleiler, is an excellent sample of Blackwood's work, including 12 of his best ghost stories and a crime story as well. Blackwood is acknowledged today as the author who made the ghost story into a respectable literary form. [via]
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Best Ghost Stories of J S LefanuISBN 0486204154 (0-486-20415-4)
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The Best Tales of HoffmannISBN 0486217930 (0-486-21793-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Tales of Hoffmann'Book summary:Ten of Hoffmann's greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand Man," and 6 others. Edited and corrected by E. F. Bleiler. Features 7 drawings by Hoffmann.[via]More editions of The Best Tales of Hoffmann:
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The Book of TeaISBN 0486200701 (0-486-20070-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Tea'Book summary:That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:
Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.
A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via]More editions of The Book of Tea:
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Essential German GrammarISBN 0486204227 (0-486-20422-7)
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Essential Japanese GrammarISBN 0486210278 (0-486-21027-8)
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Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil WarISBN 0486227316 (0-486-22731-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War'Book summary:Mathew Brady's chief photographer during the early days of the Civil War, Gardner produced unforgettable pictures, among them Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, and Lee's surrender at Appomattox. One hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken, this collection is also a dramatic record of American history.[via]More editions of Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War:
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose BierceISBN 0486207676 (0-486-20767-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce'Book summary:23 modern horror stories by American master. "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Damned Thing," 21 more. "These pieces are not dated, nor are they lacking any of the narrative elements necessary to attract and hold the attention of anyone interested in the horror genre." - SF Booklog. [via]
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Ghost Stories and MysteriesISBN 0486207153 (0-486-20715-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Stories and Mysteries'Book summary:Mystery and supernatural fiction by writer many consider the greatest ghost story writer of all time. "The Room in the Dragon Volant" (the finest historical mystery of the Victorian era) and "The Evil Guest"; also "The Murdered Cousin," the first sealed-room story known. Most stories unavailable elsewhere.[via]More editions of Ghost Stories and Mysteries:
Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryISBN 0486227588 (0-486-22758-8)
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Great Cases of the Thinking MachineISBN 0486233359 (0-486-23335-9)
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Mother Goose in HieroglyphicsISBN 0486207455 (0-486-20745-5)
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Mother Goose's MelodiesISBN 0486225771 (0-486-22577-1)
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Supernatural Horror in LiteratureISBN 0486201058 (0-486-20105-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'Book summary:This is a lively and opinionated historical essay on supernatural literature written during 1924 through 1927. Indispensable to horror fans (even for those uninterested in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction) for its superb plot summaries and subjective assessments, the book is a short history of horror from folk tales, ballads and myths of the Middle Ages, through the Gothic novel, Victorian ghost story, and American "pulp" writers. It is especially good on Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Machen, and William Hope Hodgson, and includes Lovecraft's views on what makes a good horror story. E. F. Bleiler, renowned scholar of supernatural fiction, provides the introduction. [via]
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Three Prophetic Science Fiction Novels of H.G. WellsISBN 048620605X (0-486-20605-X)
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