![]() ![]() ![]() Whichever hits the shops first is the “true” first edition while the other becomes the “first American edition” or “first English edition.” The value of a “true” first is typically always greater. Many titles were published virtually simultaneously in two places, for example, London, and New York. The location of publication is an often overlooked but important detail in a list of information about a collection of books. However, his Travels with Charley, first edition with dust jacket, is worth around $100. A first edition of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath in good condition is worth around $2,500. Additionally, some books by famous authors are better than others. Who wrote that?Ī book is more likely to appeal to collectors, and therefore be worth more, if you have actually heard of the book or its author. If you have one on a good book, treasure it and be sure to protect it with a plastic sleeve. This huge difference in value is largely due to the fact that more than 90% of dust jackets are destroyed, either deliberately or due to their ephemeral and fragile nature. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night with dust jacket is around $6,000. If there is one single thing that is a make or break for book value, it would be the dust jacket. Dust jackets, dust jackets, and more dust jackets! ![]() Scott (1896-1940), Tender is the Night, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934, first edition with dust jacket, sold for: $8,295 1. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Minor and sporadic foxing on very first pages. Fly leaf inscribed by previous owner and dated April 1927. Hinges starting, split along gutter on front endpaper. Some age-wear on binding with rubbing along joints and edges. Each color illustration is protected with a captioned tissue-guard. ![]() This work is profusely illustrated with 12 b/w in-text illustrations and 10 full-page color illustrations (including frontispiece). In this volume he covers the myths of: Circe's Palace Dragon's Teeth Jason and the Golden Fleece Theseus and the Minotaur Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegrante Seeds Antaeus and the Pygmies. In this exquisite children book, Nathaniel Hawthorne undertook the project of re-writing some of the most famous of the ancient Greek myths. Color frontispiece protected with a captioned tissue-guard. Original blue cloth with color pastedown on front cover and gold lettering on spine and front board. ![]() Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1921. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the seventh year of their pilgrimage, the monks undertake the “Great Marathon” of 52.5 miles a day every day for a year. After five years, they conduct a nine-day fast, after which their senses are heightened to such a degree that they can hear ash fall from an incense stick. They wear straw sandals and carry a knife at their waist, to be used to kill themselves should they fail to continue. The most devoted complete a 25-mile run every day for a thousand consecutive days. To these monks, the sacred is everywhere. ‘The monks call their practise of Tendai Buddhism kaihogyo, an extensive daily pilgrimage through the mountainous terrain that encompasses hundreds of remote shrines, sacred peaks, stones, forests, glades and waterfalls. The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei (John Stevens).The Man Who Walked Through Time (Fletcher).Born To Run (Christopher McDougall) one of my own favourite all time reads.Body, Mind and Sport (John Douillard) encourages breathing through the nose more than the mouth.Here is the complete list of books that Scott Jurek namechecks throughout Eat & Run in alphabetical order: I recently read and reviewed Scott Jurek’s excellent book Eat & Run.Sprinkled throughout this amazing book were many interesting book recommendations that I felt were too good not to share here with you. ![]() ![]() ![]() II Logical: Categories Analytics (Prior and Posterior) Interpretation Refutations used by Sophists Topica. They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics Great Ethics (Magna Moralia) Eudemian Ethics Politics Economics (on the good of the family) On Virtues and Vices. ![]() Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). ![]() Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347) subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. ![]() ![]() ![]() P.118 When US planners gather to make decisions for an upcoming operation, they generate courses of action. ![]() P.53 Innovations and creative thinking, in the view of the PLA, are the keys to victory in future war. JLJ - Thomas ponders translations of certain Chinese military publications and provides insight to the Chinese way of thinking in military (and ever more informatory) matters. This book intends to peel back the transformation process and uncover the impact of new modes of thought on several key segments of military development (culture, strategems, crisis management, deception, and reconnaissance among other elements) that digital age thought is affecting. This transformation has affected nearly every aspect of China's military from strategy to logistics to educational development. Transforming from a Mechanized to an Informatized Forceįoreign Military Studies Office (FMSO), Fort Leavenworth, KSĬhinese observations of warfare in the information age have resulted in a widespread transformation and metamorphosis of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from a mechanized to an informatized force. ![]() John L Jerz Website II Copyright (c) 2014 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her TED Talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure,” has been viewed over 4.6 million times.Īs a speaker, she is known for her provocative insight, conversational style and surprising wit. Orenstein is frequently sought-after as an expert by national media and has been featured on, among other programs, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Morning Joe, NPR’s Fresh Air and The PBS News Hour. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Orenstein has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Peggy Orenstein is an internationally-acclaimed expert on the challenges facing teens, college students - and their parents - as they come of age in today’s culture, She is the author of the New York Times best-sellers Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Don’t Call Me Princess, Flux and the classic SchoolGirls. ![]() Peggy Orenstein New York Times Best Selling Author, Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex ![]() ![]() Wilfrid later escapes, charged with seeking out the kings army and bringing them to rescue the city. Olbrecht is a traitor to the crown and has closed to city to the outside world and the kings forces. Wilfrid is imprisoned for stealing bread and under guard by Beppe and Anton, soldiers working for (but not necessarily invested in) the Margrave Olbrecht of Adigo. Starring the mysterious and slightly flirtatious Wilfrid, Knights Errant begins with a city under siege. Imprisoned in a city under siege, Wilfrid asks the important questions. ![]() ![]() Written and drawn by Jenn Doyle and published by Sparkler Monthly (through Chromatic press), the comic is a compelling story with a wide range of characters and a hook that keeps readers coming back for more. ![]() Knights Errant started with a desire for an inclusive queer fantasy novel and evolved into an compelling story about princes, prisoners, and medieval war. ![]() ![]() The Scottish-born writer, a journalist at The Observer for thirty years and the author of numerous books, possesses a polymathic breadth of interests and expertise. But, as ever with Ascherson, you never get mere history, and here he reflects deeply on the techniques of “coercive persuasion” in ways that illuminate our own “age of lies.” The most recent, in the December 2, 2021, issue, is “ Grand Illusion,” a review of The Confidence Men by Margalit Fox.Īt one level, this gives occasion for Ascherson to tell a ripping yarn about how two British POWs in World War I hoodwinked their Turkish captors into permitting their escape and for this attempt all they needed was not a wirecutter or a shovel, only a Ouija board. It was nearly three decades before there was a year in which he did not contribute at least one article, sometimes three or four. Since 1963, the inaugural year of the New York Review’s publication, Neal Ascherson has been one of its most prolific contributors. ![]() ![]() ![]() An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris-previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints and Madmen - Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies. Read full overviewįrom the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Shriek: An Afterword. ![]() An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris-previously chronicled in Jeff V. ![]() From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic Shriek: An Afterword. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zweig's account has been the definitive biography of Marie Antoinette since its publication, inspiring Antonia Fraser and the recent film adaptation. And in his account of ?The Revolution,' he describes her resolve during the failed escape to Varennes, her imprisonment in the Conciergerie and her final tragic destiny under the guillotine. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant world of the Trianon, and with her children. ![]() Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. International bestseller: ?The most influential biography of Marie Antoinette? (The Guardian), from the great twentieth-century writer Stefan Zweig ![]() |