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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3298 Collections and/or Records:

Firsts. No.2., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38644-40553
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2002

Firsts. No.3., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35694-37444
Scope and Contents

This issue concentrates on book collecting in the British Isles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Firsts. No.4., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35767-37524
Scope and Contents

Katherine Smiley contributes an essay "Packing to Ship" that instructs how to safeguard books in transit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Firsts. No.4 / Vonnegut KJr., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29742-31119
Scope and Contents

Features a bibliography of books by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Firsts. No.5., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29887-31274
Scope and Contents

Features books relating to the American West. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Firsts. No.5., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34044-35722
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Firsts. No.5/May., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33004-34625
Scope and Contents

Includes essays on western landscape photographers, collecting Jim Harrison and the art of Russell Chatham. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Firsts. No.6., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30006-31398
Scope and Contents

Features detective stories and writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Firsts. No.6., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34309-36004
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Firsts. No.6 / Bradbury R., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36107-37886
Scope and Contents

William F. Nolan contributed a lengthy essay entitled, "Ray Bradbury; Space-Age Legend." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Firsts. No.7., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32751-34340
Scope and Contents

Includes essays on post-colonial Indian literature and Victorian women novelists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Firsts. No.7., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34470-36167
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Firsts. No.7-8., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30373-31788
Scope and Contents

Features the work of Mark Twain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998