by Andrew Martin (2009)
It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next assignment. It's not so much the prospect Scarborough in the gloomy off-season that bothers him, or even the fact that the last railway man to stay in the house has disappeared without trace. It's more that his governor, Chief Inspector Saul Weatherhill, seems to be deliberately holding back details of the case - and that he's been sent to Scarborough with a trigger-happy assistant. And when Jim encounters the seductive and beautiful Amanda Rickerby a whole new personal danger enters Jim's life...
Joan Hiatt Harlow
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise. Includes historical notes.
Mike Schafer and Brian Solomon
"This illustrated history examines the evolution of the mighty "Pennsy" from a disparate group of early horse-car lines into a twentieth-century transportation giant sprawling across 10,000 route miles in 13 of the nation's most populous states."--Dust jacket. "This hardcover edition of the original soft cover volume consists of all new photography from numerous collections. ... We introduce this hardcover edition of the first book in the Railroad Color History Series. We have updated and corrected the text and inserted all new photography and artwork ... [with] extra coverage of the railroad's vast locomotive fleet, with separate chapters for PRR steam, electric locomotives, and diesels."--Page 6- 7.
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compiled with a foreword by Ernest Jerome Hopkins
Contains: One of the missing -- A baffled ambuscade -- The affair at Coulter's Notch -- A son of the gods -- One kind of officer -- A tough tussle -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Chickamauga -- The coup de grâce -- One officer, one man -- The story of a conscience -- Parker Adderson, philosopher -- An affair of outposts -- Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general -- A horseman in the sky -- The mocking-bird -- George Thurston -- Killed at Resaca -- Three and one are one -- Two military executions -- The major's tale -- A resumed identity -- A man with two lives -- The other lodgers -- A bivouac of the dead
Pierre Louÿs
This was "the only only complete English version extant" of a novel originally in French about a courtesan living in ancient Alexandria. The book is lavishly illustrated, but is sloppy in other ways. For instance, every time there is a full page illustration (and there are many) the page numbering skips, and the margins of the page are not evenly wide. This is the kind of book that you had to cut the pages with a knife before you could read it. You could call the story erotica, but it is no worse than The Decameron or Chaucer. It must have been pretty hot reading in 1906. The book has a page stating "This Edition on Large Paper is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No......" but nobody bothered to fill in the number, so I would guess that more than 1,000 of these were printed.