Critical text
Found in 3310 Collections and/or Records:
Firsts. No.1., 2000
Contains an essay "Paris in the Twenties; Part One: Where the World Came to be Modern" in which the Dada movement in Paris in the 1920's is discussed. The essay contains quotations from prominent writers, artists and musicians of the period and reproductions of relevant books published about this post WWI period in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.1., 2002
Firsts. No.1 / Kathryn Smiley, editor., 2001
This is the second decade of publication of the periodical. This issue is dedicated to the black expatriates writers and musicians in Paris in the 1920's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.2., 1999
This issue includes a critical and biographical essay by William F. Nolan, "The Many Lives of Norman Mailer." Vic Zoschak, Jr. contributes an article, "The Power of Access" concerning booksellers access to the Internet, its use as a place to interact with colleagues and customers and its impact on the book world. Robin H. Smiley writes about the Internet auction site,eBay, in his essay "The Internet Follies or Dancing on eBay." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.2., 2000
This issue deals mainly with colleting the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Paris in the 20's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.2., 2001
This issue features the life in publishing of Charles Scribner Jr. Also featured are essays on Esquire magazine and Ernest Hemingway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
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.