![]() ![]() The final line, originally written as "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night," has not been changed. Nicholas" appears in the introduction on page 7 with the reindeer names "Donder and Blixen". 208 numbered pages plus 7 engraved publisher's ad pages, all clean and tight in the binding. Full page engraved frontispiece, engraved title page with the Clement Moore poem engraved as the border, and 14 other full page engraved plates, decorated capitals. Atlanta Georgia bookseller's small label to top of the front paste-down, penciled and small ink names to front and back free endpapers. Wear to the spine ends down to the board in places, and corners. Nicholas (’Twas the Night Before Christmas) Lyrics 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse The. Original red cloth, gilt decoration to spine, title and gilt Santa to front cover, blind decoration to border, blind to back cover. ![]() Published in "KRISS KRINGLE'S BOOK FOR ALL GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS". ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Of Rand's fiction, The Fountainhead is generally conceded to be her most important and enduring work, a passionate portrait of uncompromising individualism. This book's inscription, clearly referring to this, was presented about a half year prior to the film's release. In fact, the director wanted changes, but Warner supported the author and honored the contract. Rand sold the film rights to Warner several years earlier with the contractual proviso that she would provide the screenplay, which would be unalterable. His career spanned some 45 years, its duration surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls. ![]() January 7, 1949." The recipient, Jack Warner, was the co-founder, president, and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Warner - Thank you for your courage and for a magnificent picture - with my profound gratitude - Ayn Rand. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack L. First edition, first issue with first edition stated on the copyright page of the author's first major novel, as well as her first best-seller. ![]() ![]() It greets the specters that come back to haunt old and new love, previous and current incarnations of Europe, conscious and unconscious transgressions, and real and imagined betrayals, while investigating the cyclic nature of history and its reinvention by people in power. The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. ![]() As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. ![]() ![]() It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. ![]() ![]() Her "dual" nationality has given her a love for all things British and Texan, and she enjoys weaving both heritages through her stories. Lorraine was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, but soon after moved to Texas. She is the daughter of a British beauty (her mom won second place in a beauty contest sponsored by Max Factor® during which she received a kiss from Caesar Romero, (the Joker on the original Batman TV series) and a Texan who was stationed at Bovingdon while serving in the air force. No doubt because growing up, watching movies with her mom, she was taught that the best movies "won't half make you cry." Lorraine Heath has always had a soft spot for emotional love stories. ![]() Also writes Young Adult under Rachel Hawthorne, Jade Parker, and with her son as J.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death, written during his long hospitalization and published two days before his death in 1997, he portrayed both the excruciating minutiae of his life in the hospital, away from both his Paris home and any previously familiar means of motion, speech, or independence, as well as the ways in which he allowed his mind to take him far away from the suffering of his body, transporting him to places real and imagined, visited or only read-about, that he explored silently, letting his mind wander and venture off as he waited for the minutes of each day to tick by. Bauby’s mind was lucid, his thoughts were coherent, and-not being able to move or speak to express himself-his imagination was working overtime. The story is by now famous: in 1995, ELLE editor-in-chief Jean-Dominique Bauby had a stroke that left him experiencing “locked-in syndrome,” in which all voluntary muscles were completely paralyzed except for the ones that controlled the movements of his left eye. ![]() |