![]() ![]() ![]() I first read these poems as a teenager and can testify to their evocative power. Lovecraft? Don’t immediately dismiss the idea. Lovecraft: An Annotated Edition, edited by David E. Lovecraft (Hippocampus)įungi from Yuggoth, by H.P. Cobden-Sanderson resolutely dumping boxes of his beloved Doves Type into the Thames. Other chapters discuss early mapmaking, Benjamin Franklin’s printing business, William Blake’s visionary art, the advent of copyright law and - my favorite - the history of the Doves Press, which culminated in T.J. The first describes, in considerable detail, how Marino Massimo de Caro - former director of the Girolamini Library - recently forged a copy of Galileo’s “Sidereus Nuncius” (The Starry Messenger) that almost fooled the experts. Still, these “irreverent stories” are worth the effort. The Romneys certainly know their subject - Rebecca has worked for Bauman Rare Books and appeared as a book specialist on the History Channel’s “Pawn Stars”- but they write in a slangy, brash style that some readers may find hard to take. Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories From Book History, by J.P. Why? How? Read “Strange Bird” to find out. Even more remarkably, this British-funded publisher with Jewish ties, operating out of Paris, was allowed to sell its books in Hitler’s Germany. In the 1930s, the Albatross Press dominated the European market for English-language paperbacks, bringing out bestsellers, classics of modernism and even controversial works such as “ Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” Initially in competition with the plain (not to say ugly) Tauchnitz Editions, Albatross’s elegant, color-coded softcovers eventually inspired the design of early Penguin Books. Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich, by Michelle K. "Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich (New Directions in Narrative History," by Michele K.
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