#doubleday & company

[garadinervi]

Audre Lorde, Solstice [from Between Our Selves (1976)], in Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature, Edited by Roseann P. Bell, Bettye J. Parker, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1979, pp. 375-376

#graphic design #poetry #book #audre lorde #roseann p. bell #bettye j. parker #beverly guy sheftall #doubleday & company #anchor books #doubleday anchor books #1970s

[uwmspeccoll]

Publishers' Binding Thursday

Today we visit a volume that looked familiar to me right when I first saw it. This is Her Father's Daughter by Hoosier writer, photographer, and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924), published in 1921 by Doubleday, Page & Company. The book's front matter is highly illustrated, in a way very similar to that of another Gene Stratton-Porter book in our collection that I have posted about before in this series—The Keeper of the Bees. That book was decorated by American artist and mystery novel author Lee Thayer (1874-1973), who I suspect may have also done the decoration in this volume, though I haven't been able to confirm that suspicion.

The cover is simple but pretty, with the title in a lovely serif font with a particularly swoopy R and yellow flowers. The frontispiece is by English painter and illustrator Dudley Gloyne Summers (1892-1975). The decorative endpapers and other front matter depict various nature scenes.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Publishers' Binding Thursday #Her Father's Daughter #Gene Stratton-Porter #Lee Thayer #Doubleday Page & Company #Dudley Gloyne Summers #decorated endpapers #frontispieces

[prettybindings]

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel, Introduction by Christopher Morley.

#vintage books #old books #beautiful books #walt whitman #art #lewis c. daniel #chrisopher morley #doubleday doran and company #1940 #leaves of grass

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Godfrey Turton - The Devil's Churchyard - Doubleday & Company - 1970

#witches #worshipers #occult #vintage #the devil's churchyard #doubleday & company #godfrey turton #1970 #novel

[wolfythoughts]

2012's 5 Star Reads!

2012’s 5 Star Reads!

Last year I decided to dedicate a separate post from my annual reading stats post to the 5 star reads of the year.  I not only thoroughly enjoyed assembling that post, but I also still go back to it for reference.  It’s just useful and fun simultaneously!  Plus it has the added bonus of giving an extra signal boost to the five star reads of the year. Please note that if the 5 star went to a book…

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#a dog named slugger #acacia 1 #acacia: the war with the mein #ann brashares #atlanta #bell bridge books #best of #best of 2012 #best of list #blackstone audio #book publishing company (TN) #brian k. vaughan #dark life #dark life 1 #david anthony durham #diet for a new america #doubleday #fantasy #harvard university press #image comics #isaac marion #jaonne stpaniak #joe dominguez #john robbins #kat falls #leigh brill #list #penguin books #PublicAffairs #random house

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Cover detail from Engine Summer. John Crowley. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Jacket by Gary Friedman.

#gary friedman #engine summer #john crowley #books #book covers #library books #book #book cover #science fiction #science fiction books #scifi #cats #design #detroit public library

[dduane]

High Wizardry feels so much like a 'finale' I've often wondered if, when you finished writing HW, at the time that you thought it was the conclusion. Did time pass and you suddenly realize 'oh, I've got more stories to tell here, turns-out,' or did you simply put YW aside at the end of HW knowing you'd come back to it later when time and scheduling or other matters allowed? I mean the gap between HW and AWA isn't very long, but the jump from AWA to TWD is quite long indeed.

When I finished High Wizardry, the last thing on my mind was ending the series. (Though there's been a rumor for many years that originally "there were only going to be three books." I have no idea where that came from.) I knew then, as I'd known from when I finished So You Want To Be A Wizard, that there was a lot more story to tell.... even if I wasn't sure about where to go next.

What was on my mind, though, when I was working on that book in 1988 or thereabouts, was that the series might not have a chance to continue any further at that publisher.

Delacorte Books / Dell Publishing had been acquired by Doubleday in 1986. This was nothing like the gobbling-up of publishing houses by media giants with which we're now way too familiar. But rumors started stirring immediately that (to use the equally familiar, euphemistic phrase) "economies would have to be made" as part of the acquisition. And sure enough, they were. Dell (or its new corporate overlords) quickly started "letting go" many of its newer or less-profitable writers, to allow the company to concentrate on older, better-selling, more profitable names.

As one of the newer kids on the block, I was one of the first of the numerous writers let go. So was Jane Yolen (and ffs, who throws Jane Yolen overboard??! It's sheer fucking idiocy). But at least I'd known for a while which way the wind was likely to blow, and I was ready for it. In High Wizardry I'd concentrated on tying off all the currently hanging issues, so that readers wouldn't find themselves dealing with a corporately-manufactured cliffhanger. It's possible some of that air of finality manifests itself in HW's "tone of voice."

The Young Wizards books were then homeless in the US (in terms of any new ones coming out). But the first three books then went into print in the UK, in their Transworld / Corgi editions, starting in 1991; and they were still there when A Wizard Abroad was ready to go to press a couple of years later. That's why AWAb's first tradpub edition was from the UK, as a Young Corgi paperback; and its first US and hardcover appearance was from, of all places, the US SF Book Club—always historically a good friend to the series—with a fab cover by David Cherry. Abroad would not see a US edition again until Harcourt's Magic Carpet imprint brought it home to join its older, newly reprinted "siblings" in 1997.*

...And as for that long pause between AWAb and The Wizard's Dilemma: with the best will in the world, even an enthusiastic new publishing house will put on the brakes for a bit until a newly acquired series proves itself. Fortunately, at Harcourt it did. Dilemma came out there in 2001: and there the books remain. But their history's been repeatedly punctuated by the uncertainty that's the constant companion of midlist writers always looking ahead to the next corporate acquisition... and wondering whether they'll survive the next round of "economies."

As John Watson's been heard to say: "I'm never bored." :)

HTH!

*The timing of this sequence of reissues is possibly what started the hilarious rumor that the Young Wizards novels were ripoffs of, uh, some other writer's wizard concept. (shrug) Not my fault if some people can't read copyright dates. :)

#Young Wizards meta #High Wizardry #A Wizard Abroad #The Wizard's Dilemma

[lonestarflight]

"The SST: Here it comes, ready or not.

Traditionally new transport aircraft have been adapted from military versions for civilian use. But with the US/SST, a switch may give the USAF an Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft (AMSA) based on a civilian expenditure of billions in research and development funds. Here, Air Force & Space Digest artist Gordon Phillips shows how military SST would look during midair re-fueling operation.

by Don Dwiggins, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968"

Artwork by Gordon Phillips

Posted on Flickr by Numbers Station: link

#Boeing 2707-100 #Boeing 2707 #2707-100 #2707 #Supersonic Transport #SST #Supersonic Passenger Airliner #Cancelled #Lockheed C-5 Galaxy #C-5 #Cargo Plane #United States Air Force #U.S. Air Force #US Air Force #USAF #inflight refueling #1960s #my post

[historicalbookimages]

🥕 Home vegetable gardening from A to Z Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & company, 1918.

#biodiversity #old books #nature

[haggishlyhagging]

Jan - Jun 2024 Reading List

In Progress:

Daly, Mary. Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978.

Koedt, Anne, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone, eds. Radical Feminism. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973.

Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Miller, Elizabeth, ed. Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century. Mason, MI: Tidal Time Publishing, LLC, 2021.

Raymond, Janice G. Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women’s Freedom. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

Completed:

Atkinson, Ti-Grace. Amazon Odyssey. New York: Links Books, 1974.

Barrett, Ruth. Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation. Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 2007.

Criado Perez, Caroline. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. New York: Abrams Press, 2019.

Dworkin, Andrea. Woman Hating. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974.

Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.

Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to De Beauvoir. New York: Columbia U.P., 1973.

#personal reading list

[grlbts]

Westminster Records album covers designed by Rudolph de Harak

From 1959 to 1961, de Harak designed approximately 50 record album covers for Westminster Records. From its early beginnings, Westminster was known for its technically superior recordings which became extremely popular among a growing community of audiophiles, especially when the company began issuing stereophonic recordings in the late 1950s. With this work, de Harak allowed himself the opportunity to seriously consider the diverse worlds of hard, delineated geometry and soft, hand-drawn lines of ethereal forms and shapes. This was one of the first times in his career that he methodically attempted to reveal the “hidden order” within each of his projects – in this case a series of record album covers – by developing conceptual images that evoked the emotional and melodic essence of each musical composition.

For example, with his album cover for Sounds from the Alps, de Harak created three bold brushstrokes that were symbolic of the Swiss Alpine region, while simultaneously conveying melodious sound waves. In a similar approach, he created a dynamic composition of multi-coloured squares that functioned as a contemporary visual and emotional counterpoint to the Italian Baroque musical compositions of Antonio Vivaldi in Vivaldi Gloria, with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.

De Harak’s work for Westminster Records was his initial testing ground for his subsequent book jackets and covers for publishers such as Meridian Books, New Directions, Holt Rinehart & Winston, and Doubleday. Ultimately, this led to his pioneering tour de force – over 400 book covers for McGraw-Hill Paperbacks that reflected his detailed explorations of visual form through colour, typography, optical illusions and photography.

#rudolph de harak #graphic design #album covers #minimalism #modernism #de harak #westminster records

[garadinervi]

Carolyn Rodgers, The Poet's Vision, in How I Got Ovah. New and Selected Poems, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1975, pp. 68-69

#graphic design #poetry #book #carolyn rodgers #doubleday & company #anchor books #doubleday anchor books #1970s

[uwmspeccoll]

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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#feathursday #pheasants #Pheasants Their Lives and Homes #William Beebe #Doubleday #Duran & Company #New York Zoological Society #bird paintings #scientific illustrations #Louis Agassiz Fuertes #Henrik Grønvold #Henry Jones #Charles R. Knight #George Edward Lodge #wildlife artists #birds #birbs!

[heaveninawildflower]

Decorative front cover of ‘Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know’ by  Frederic William Stack.

Published 1909 by Doubleday, Page and Company.

NCSU Libraries

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#books #book design #wild flowers #decoration and ornament #decorative

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Frank G. Slaughter - Devil's Gamble: A Novel of Demonology - Doubleday and Company - 1977

#witches #gambles #occult #vintage #demonology #doubleday and company #1977 #frank g. slaughter #slaughters #devil's gamble #devil

[wellesleybooks]

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, amazingly there were two novels chosen for the award for fiction.

Pulitzer Awards for Books, Drama and Music

Fiction

"Demon Copperhead," by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

"Trust," by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Finalist:

"The Immortal King Rao," by Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton & Company)

Drama

"English," by Sanaz Toossi

Finalists:

"On Sugarland," by Aleshea Harris

"The Far Country," by Lloyd Suh

History

"Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power," by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)

Finalists:

"Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America," by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)

"Watergate: A New History," by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

Biography

"G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," by Beverly Gage (Viking)

Finalists:

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

"Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century," by Jennifer Homans (Random House)

Memoir or Autobiography

"Stay True," by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)

Finalists:

"Easy Beauty: A Memoir," by Chloé Cooper Jones (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

"The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir," by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)

Poetry

"Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020," by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists:

"Blood Snow," by dg nanouk okpik (Wave Books)

"Still Life," by the late Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)

General Nonfiction

"His Name is George Floyd," by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Viking)

Finalists:

"Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern," by Jing Tsu (Riverhead Books)

"Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction," by David George Haskell (Viking)

"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," by Linda Villarosa (Doubleday)

Music

"Omar," by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels

Finalists:

"Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)," by Tyshawn Sorey

"Perspective," by Jerrilynn Patton

#pulitzer prize #books #award winners #barbara kingsolver #demon copperhead #trust #hernan diaz #harper books #riverhead books #g-man #beverly gage #stay true #hua hsu #his name is george floyd #robert samuels #toluse olorunnipa #viking books #doubleday books