Studebaker was the only nationally-known wagon manufacturer to survive the transition from horses to horsepower. In the early 1930's, during the Depression, the First was passed, allowing Labor Unions to...
"If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double," an editor once remarked, "it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos’ and the New Testament as ‘The...
SOME DEFINITIONS TO CONSIDER: To a Book Collector, a First Edition means a copy from the First Printing of the First Edition. (“Impression” is usually synonymous with “Printing.”) To a Publisher , a First...
The FIRST thing my Father did upon returning home from World War II was to marry my Mother. The SECOND thing he did was buy a HENRY J. And believe it or not, I think I had that distinctive grille imbedded into...
GONE WITH THE WIND, written by Margaret Mitchell and published in 1936, is set in the Old South during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an...
"Intellectual Snob" probably would not have been a descriptive phrase with which William Frank Buckley Jr., would have disagreed -- for both his writing and speaking styles used erudition, wit, and uncommon...
The famous singing von Trapp family, portrayed in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound Of Music and in the motion picture based on that musical play, were similarly unlike."Doesn't make sense,"you may say?...
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, (22 May 1859 to 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. The Holmes books are generally considered a major innovation...
The book titled "Anthony Dare" is author Archibald Marshall's first in a series of books about Anthony Dare. Many believe that the Anthony Dare series is somewhat autobiographical about the real life of the...
"Allah!" With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR. To offset the effects of this disaster,...