Vintage Hardcover - Nineteen Century German Tales by Angel Flores (Ed.)
Art by Edward Gorey
Anchor (1959)
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Feathursday Pheasants!
This week we bring you a few Pheasants from around the world as published in the 1936 publication Pheasants Their Lives and Homes by the eminent zoologist and explorer William Beebe, published in Garden City, N.Y. by Doubleday, Duran & Company under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, where Beebe was director of the Department of Tropical Research.
In 1910, Beebe led a major, 17-month, worldwide expedition for the New York Zoological Society to document the world's pheasants. "The urgency of this journey sprang from the fact that the members of this most beautiful and remarkable group of birds are rapidly becoming extinct, so that the record of their habits and surroundings, which is important to understanding their structure and evolution, will soon be lost forever."
The resulting publication was the 4-volume A Monograph of the Pheasants, published in London by H. F. Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1922. The abridged version, Pheasants Their Lives and Homes, first came out in 1926. This is the 1936 edition. The images shown here are by naturalist artists Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Henrik Grønvold, Henry Jones, Charles R. Knight, and George Edward Lodge.
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Vintage Hardcover - The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Art by Edward Gorey
Doubleday (1963)
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George Polya [Pólya György], (1945), How To Solve It. A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, Doubleday Anchor Books, Garden City, NY, 1957, Second Edition
(on the way of André Azevedo)
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Gloria Swanson and Andy Warhol at the book launch party for Harold J. Kennedy's "No Pickle, No Performance" at Doubleday bookstore in New York City on July 18, 1978.
Photos by Ron Galella
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THE PERFUME THIEF, WWII espionage with #transman representation in a beautifully evoked Paris setting via Doubleday.
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Mystery Novels and Short Stories - September 1939 (Doubleday).
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Octavia E. Butler - Mind of My Mind - Doubleday - 1977 (jacket illustration by Jan Esteves)
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The Doubleday Book of Interior Decorating by Alex Kornfeld (1965)
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Lost In The Funhouse (1968)
John Barth
Doubleday
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Deal Announcements: May 2023
Adult Fiction
NYT staff writer Elizabeth Harris‘s HOW TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, about two gay siblings whose lives are upended when one decides to run for office—as a Republican, to Rachel Kahan at William Morrow, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2025, by Brettne Bloom at The Book Group (world).
Rose Black‘s TIL DEATH DO US BARD, a queer light fantasy pitched for fans of LEGENDS & LATTES and Our Flag…
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Vintage Hardcover - What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Art by Edward Gorey
Anchor (1954)
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Staff Pick of the Week
Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1846) was a prolific Canadian-American author and wildlife artist, who was also one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America. Woodland Tales is a reflection of his interests in the natural world, consisting of short stories about animals and the seasons. He split the book up into parts that he labeled as “Things to see in Springtime” or “Things to see in Wintertime,” with matching short stories. Throughout the book you can find many of his illustrations.
I was shelving something else when I found this book on accident, and I’m glad I opened it. The illustrations and stories vary between feeling like it’s something out of a fairy tale to something more scientific, such as a field guide. As a nature-lover myself, this book was a great find!
This particular edition is the 1922 printing of the book, originally published in 1921 by Doubleday, Page & Company In Garden City, N.Y. Another interesting thing about the book is the curious details I learned about Doubleday when researching it. For instance, during the relocation of the firm to Garden City in 1910, some of their operations were done out of a train station! The founder Frank Nelson Doubleday either ghost wrote or edited John D. Rockefeller’s autobiography, and he was also friends with Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Another interesting thing to note is that one of the company’s partners, Walter Hines Page, was also the ambassador to Great Britain during World War I. The Doubleday company and later its then president and CEO Nelson Doubleday, Jr., the grandson of the founder, owned the New York Mets baseball team from 1980-2002. What quirky little things to learn!
Beginning in the late 1980s, Doubleday began a series of mergers, becoming a a division of Random House in 1998 and merging with Knopf Publishing Group in 2009, which today is part of Penguin Random House. I ended up learning more about the publisher than about the author or title, but that’s the rabbit hole one goes down sometimes when selecting a staff pick!
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-- Sarah W,. Special Collections Undergraduate Intern
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Frank Frazetta Orn Cover Painting "Tyrannosaurus Rex" Original Art (Doubleday, 1969)
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Isaac Asimov
"The Foundation Trilogy"
(Doubleday, 1951)
Hardcover with jacket
Including:
-Foundation
-Foundation and Empire
-Second Foundation
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