Critical text
Found in 3298 Collections and/or Records:
Firsts. No.2., 2002
Contains an essay "So You Want to Be a Bookseller" by David Gregor. the essay disclaims 10 myths of bookselling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.3., 1998
Firsts. No.3., 1999
Firsts. No.3., 2000
Firsts. No.3., 2001
This issue concentrates on book collecting in the British Isles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.4., 2001
Katherine Smiley contributes an essay "Packing to Ship" that instructs how to safeguard books in transit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.4 / Vonnegut KJr., 1998
Features a bibliography of books by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.5., 1998
Features books relating to the American West. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.5., 2000
This issue deals mainly with the works of Upton Sinclair. Elizabeth Felicetti contributed an essay, "A Coming-of-Age Collection," in which she includes Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.5., 2001
Firsts. No.5/May., 1999
Includes essays on western landscape photographers, collecting Jim Harrison and the art of Russell Chatham. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.6., 1998
Features detective stories and writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.6., 1999
Firsts. No.6., 2000
This issue deals mainly with the works of Ellery Queen, whose identity was actually the writing partners Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.6 / Bradbury R., 2001
William F. Nolan contributed a lengthy essay entitled, "Ray Bradbury; Space-Age Legend." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.7., 1999
Includes essays on post-colonial Indian literature and Victorian women novelists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.7., 2000
This issue deals mainly with the works of Robert C. Howard, author of "Conan the Barbarian" among other pulp fiction novels. An essay by editor Robin H. smiley describes the restoration of a first edition copy of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.7., 2001
Firsts. No.7-8., 1998
Features the work of Mark Twain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.