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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Lesbian Romance: Loving the Heartland-Lesbian Romance Contemporary Romance Novel 1.4. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 5, No. 8. Pulp magazine. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. (Last monthly issue until 9/47; bi-monthly in between) Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Star Shepherd" (novelet) by William Brengle (Howard Browne); rear cover by Malcolm Smith for "Warriors of Other Worlds: Callisto" (Feature) by Morris J. Steele (house pseud.). Includes "World Beyond Belief" (novelet) by William P. McGivern; "Chariot of Death' (novel) by Don Wilcox; "Phantom Command" by Leroy Yerxa; "You Can't Kid Lefty Feep" (novelet) by Robert Bloch; "Dinky Winky Woo" by Harold Lawlor; "Fairy Tale" (novelet) by Tarleton Fiske (Robert Bloch). Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "A New 'Glider' Bicycle"; "What 'Ticks' Inside You?"; "The Parachutist's Freefall"; "Romance of the Elements"; "Tangled Lives"; "Alchemy"; "Storehouse of the Body"; "Thumbnail Planet History"; "Vignettes of Famous Scientists: David Brewster"; "Manganese for 'Chickie's" Bones"; "Introducing the Author: Tarleton Fiske"; "Reader's Page"; "The Miracle of Carbon". Letter from Chad Oliver. Illustrated by Magarian, Malcolm Smith, Ronald Clyne, H. W. McCauley, Robert Fuqua, Virgil Finlay, and Rod Ruth. Rubbing; creasing; scuffs and scars; dampstains; tape; date on front in pencil.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Sol Korby, Harry J. Schaare, Robert McGinnis, George Jones (Illustrated by); William Gregory (Art Editor); Marion Davis, Soren Noring, et al. (Associate Art Editors); George Calas, Jr. & Katherine Kelleher (Art Research) (illustrator). 1st Edition/Volume 3, 1976. 574 pp. Stated first edition! Vol. 3, 1976 issue only! Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page center. An Ex-Libris copy. Dust jacket suffers moderate wear with a few minor cuts and tears around edges, and in some places.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 85, No. 4. Bedsheet-sized pulp. Edited by Donald Kennicott. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops ("These United States - Vermont). Includes "The Sergeant, the Sikh and the Holy Man" (short novel) by John & Ward Hawkins; "The Queen's Gambit" (short novel) by William Brandon; "Beyond the World's Rim" by Ross De Lue & George Kentra; "A Hair of the Bashaw's Beard" by Frederick & P. G. Bell; "Time to Kill" by Wilbur S. Peacock; "The Girl at the Granada" by Norman A. Fox; "Jewels Have a Long Life" by H. Bedford-Jones; "Fraulein Hannelore" by Ib Melchior; "Flapjacks for Nellie" by Verne Chute; "Return, O Captain!" by Bertram Atkey; "Mountain Men" by Mark J. Boesch; "Rigged for a Beating" by Joel Reeve; "Richard the Dragon-Hearted" by John E. Harbaugh; "The House on the Casey" by Ray Nafzinger. Stories of Fact and Experience: "Jap Bait" by Richard A. Shafter; "The Dog Watch" by Fairfax Downey; "Spy Work Ahead" by Lt. Cmdr. Richard M. Kelly. Special Features: "Rugged Duty" by Richard Hakluyt; "The Interloper - A Quiz" by Ed Dembitz; "How's Your Hand - A Quiz" by Helen Pettigrew; "Who's Who in This Issue". Illustrated by Cleveland Woodward, Manning De V. Lee, James Ernst, Raymond Thayer, Maurice Bower, John Fulton, Charles Chickering, L. R. Gustavson, John McDermott, Pat Denman, and John Costigan. Old tape on spine and short piece at upper ead edge; tanning.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 5, No. 8. Pulp magazine. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. (Last monthly issue until 9/47; bi-monthly in between) Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Star Shepherd" (novelet) by William Brengle (Howard Browne); rear cover by Malcolm Smith for "Warriors of Other Worlds: Callisto" (Feature) by Morris J. Steele (house pseud.). Includes "World Beyond Belief" (novelet) by William P. McGivern; "Chariot of Death' (novel) by Don Wilcox; "Phantom Command" by Leroy Yerxa; "You Can't Kid Lefty Feep" (novelet) by Robert Bloch; "Dinky Winky Woo" by Harold Lawlor; "Fairy Tale" (novelet) by Tarleton Fiske (Robert Bloch). Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "A New 'Glider' Bicycle"; "What 'Ticks' Inside You?"; "The Parachutist's Freefall"; "Romance of the Elements"; "Tangled Lives"; "Alchemy"; "Storehouse of the Body"; "Thumbnail Planet History"; "Vignettes of Famous Scientists: David Brewster"; "Manganese for 'Chickie's" Bones"; "Introducing the Author: Tarleton Fiske"; "Reader's Page"; "The Miracle of Carbon". Letter from Chad Oliver. Illustrated by Magarian, Malcolm Smith, Ronald Clyne, H. W. McCauley, Robert Fuqua, Virgil Finlay, and Rod Ruth. Creasing; tanning.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 256 pages. Welcome to The Club -- Golf's Valhalla -- where al l that's necessary for admission is an intense love of the game. Here you'll watch the greatest players replay their victories.a nd their defeats.as they search for golf's hidden and seemingly inaccessible meaning. Like W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe -- the basis for the movie Field of Dreams -- Follow the Wind is sports fantasy at its finest and most poignant. A young man following an errant shot into the woods emerges on a totally unfamiliar golf course. The first person he encounters is the legendary Ben Hogan , feverishly practicing for something special. As Links weaves h is tale, introducing such golfing greats as Walter Hagen, Bobby J ones, Alister MacKenzie, and the famous nineteenth century Scotti sh champions Old and Young Tom Morris, he recreates the most mome ntous events in golfing history and captures the magic that has l ured millions to the fairway. For fans of Harvey Penick's books a nd for everyone who has searched for inspiration on the golf cour se, Follow the Wind offers the satisfaction of a perfect shot tha t soars for the flagstick. Editorial Reviews From Publishers We ekly Attorney Links's first novel is a sports fantasy concerning a mythical golf course that hosts all the greats in the history o f the game. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Revi ew Alix Madrigal San Francisco Chronicle An.otherworldly paean to the game of golf.all put together with a winning sweetness a nd a true love for the game. Washington Post Book World A lush m agical fantasy.golf fans will relish. Harvey Penick Bo Links certainly knows his golf, and he shows it in a story that reflec ts the best the game has to offer. Robert Trent Jones [Follow th e Wind has] so cleverly captured the romance, the folklore, and t he mysticism of the game that I couldn't put it down.[it] hooke d me and I had to play the full 18! Ben Hogan The man was so sic k so long, and fought it so successfully, that I think we have fi nally discovered the secret of Jone's success. It was the strengt h of his mind. Tommy Bolt Somebody asked me once, Who's better - - Nicklaus or Hogan? Well, my answer was, I saw Nicklaus watch Ho gan practice, but I never saw Hogan watch Nicklaus practice. Abo ut the Author Bo Links is an attorney and an avid golfer and phot ographer. His pictures have been published in various magazines, including Golf Journal and GolfWeek. He lives in Mill Valley, Cal ifornia. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved . Chapter 1 Even with the benefit of hindsight it is difficult t o explain exactly how I found the place. I stumbled upon it years ago, and although the passage of time has worn down the grooves of my memory, I can still recall many of the details. I was bare ly twenty years old as I threw my clubs over my shoulder and set out for Lincoln Park Golf Course, which sits on the very northwes t tip of San Francisco. Lincoln is a little bit of a golf course, a mere freckle on the great body of the game. If it were a rubbe r band stretched to its limit, the elastic would snap at fifty-th ree hundred yards. That's all it is, just a kick-in putt compared to places like Medinah, Oakmont, and Winged Foot. They will nev er play a United States Open Championship at Lincoln Park. But th en again, those of us who have negotiated Lincoln's hills and scr aped shots off her bare lies don't care about that. The course is vivid in our memories for its tumbling terrain and its rock-hard fairways and concrete greens. Most important of all, we remember Lincoln Park because it is where we grew up. At Lincoln you can 't fly a shot in tight or watch the ball suck back to the hole. I have learned from experience that the best way to get around the place is to let your pitch shots bounce a little; you have to pu nch the thing at the flag, forcing the ball to dance the dance of a hungry rabbit, bobbing and weaving as it hops.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 352 pages. New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with a new series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks. n nJeremiah Gallow is just another construction worker, and that's the way he likes it. He's left his past behind, but some things cannot be erased. Like the tattoos on his arms that transform into a weapon, or tha t he was once closer to the Queen of Summer than any half-human s hould be. n nNow the half-sidhe all in Summer once feared is dra gged back into the world of enchantment, danger, and fickle fae - by a woman who looks uncannily like his dead wife. Her name is R obin, and her secrets are more than enough to get them both kille d. A plague has come, the fullborn-fae are dying, and the dark an swer to Summer's Court is breaking loose. n nBe afraid, for Unwin ter is riding. n nGallow and Ragged nTrailer Park Fae nRoadside Magic nWasteland King n nFor more from Lilith Saintcrow, check o ut: n nBlood Call (e-only) n nBannon and Clare nThe Iron Wyrm Af fair nThe Red Plague Affair nThe Ripper Affair nThe Damnation Aff air (e-only) n nDante Valentine Novels nWorking for the Devil nDe ad Man Rising nDevil's Right Hand nSaint City Sinners nTo Hell an d Back n nDante Valentine (omnibus) n nJill Kismet Novels nNight Shift nHunter's Prayer nRedemption Alley nFlesh Circus nHeaven's Spite nAngel Town n nJill Kismet (omnibus) n nA Romance of Arquit aine Novels nThe Hedgewitch Queen nThe Bandit King n nEditorial R eviews n n*04/20/2015 nSaintcrow's urban fantasy series launch is expertly crafted with heartbreak and mistrust, far darker and lo velier than the title suggests. Widower Jeremiah Gallow--a half-h uman, half-Sidhe former armormaster to the Sidhe queen of the Sum mer Court--is living a carefully mortal life as a construction wo rker in our world. He's unaware of a plague sweeping through the Summer Sidhe, possibly sent by the lord of Unwinter. When Robin R agged, also half-Sidhe, dodges an Unwinter knight and seeks shelt er in a rundown bar, Jeremiah can't help but notice her, and her resemblance to his dead wife unexpectedly draws out his protectiv e instincts. Robin, a rare Realmaker (someone who has the ability to make objects that have unfading enchantments), is the queen's chosen courier for the newly discovered plague cure. But when th e queen takes Robin's adopted child as her new plaything, Robin b argains for the boy's life, setting off a chain of events that wi ll bring about open war between the Summer and Unwinter courts. S aintcrow's artful, poignant descriptions remain with the reader l ong after the tale's end, as does the persistent sense of dark, u nsettling unease. Agent: Miriam Kriss, Irene Goodman Literary. (J une) n- Publishers Weekly n nTrailer Park Fae is what you'd get i f you mixed a Bourne film, a political thriller, and a weepy Life time movie about abusive, drunken trailer park fathers together, and shook vigorously.-B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog on Trailer Park F ae n nLilith Saintcrow spins an incredibly imaginative and delici ous tale with vivid language and a story you will not be able to put down. I loved every minute!-Darynda Jones on Trailer Park Fae n nA true faery story, creepy and heroic by turns. Love and hope and a touch of Midsummer Night's Dream. I could not put it down. -Patricia Briggs on Trailer Park Fae n nSaintcrow deftly mixes hi gh-minded fantasy magic with rough, real-world rust using prose t hat veers between the beautiful and the bloodcurdling. Honestly, I wish I'd written it.-Chuck Wendig on Trailer Park Fae n nUnique , twisted, lovely, and raw. Just fabulous.-Faith Hunter on Traile r Park Fae n nSaintcrow's urban fantasy series launch is expertly crafted with heartbreak and mistrust, far darker and lovelier th an the title suggests. Saintcrow's artful, poignant description s remain with the reader long after the tale's end, as does the p ersistent sense of dark, unsettling unease.-Publish.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 4, No. 7. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. Cover art by J. Allen St. John for "The Eagle Man" (novel) by Don Wilcox. Includes "The Return of the Hun" by William J. Brittain; "The Weird Doom of Floyd Scrilch" by Robert Bloch; "The Traitor" by Arthur T. Harris; "Vitality for Murder" by Richard O. Lewis; "Safari to the Lost Ages" (novelet) by William P. McGivern; "The Mystery of Shaft 13" by Robert Moore Williams; "Duncan's Dreadful Doll" by P. F. Costello [William P. McGivern]; "Hokum Hotel" (novelet) by David Wright O'Brien; "Men Scared of Nothing" by E. K. Jarvis [Robert Bloch]; "Headlines for Tod Shayne" by August W. Derleth. Features: "The Editor's Notebook"; "Forecast"; "Land-Going Fish"; "Can We Foretell the Future?"; "Men Are Fumble-tongues - Says Science"; "Romance of the Elements"; "Introducing the Author" (Arthur T. Harris, noted as an undisclosed pseudonym); "Reader's Page"; "Correspondence Corner"; "Zeus, The Thunder God" (illustrated on rear cover by Frank R. Paul. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John, L. Raymond Jones, Russell Milburn, Robert Fuqua, Swan Studios, Inc., Ned Hadley, Magarian, and Rod Ruth. Creasing; standard wear and tear; tanning; marks in pencil on rear; bumps and dings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1859 first edition For Sale at Friends' Book-Store, 304 Arch St. (Philadelphia) 4 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches tall full leather bound, 130 pp. Apparently original covers quite worn, with rubbing, bumping and edgewear. Cracking and chipping to spine and to both front and rear joints, though they appear to have been glued at some point and all holds quite firmly. Soiling and staining to margins of prelims, contemporaneous owner names to front free-endpaper, including original 1860 owner Anne J. Price, and subsequent nineteenth century owners Susan H. Jones and Stephen Paschall. Some ink offsetting from these owner names, and a bit of marginal staining, to the title page. A few pages with light pencil marginal tick marks. Otherwise, apart from a few instances of minor foxing, clean, bright and unmarked. ~III~ [1.0P] A revision and reissue of the 1808 Quaker 'advices,' a snapshot of the ethos of this faith tradition in the mid-nineteenth century. Among the topics covered: books ('it is earnestly recommended to every member of our religious Society, that they discourage and suppress the reading of plays, romances, novels, or other pernicious books'), burials, civil government, conduct and conversation ('let your words be few and savoury'), days and times, defamation, gaming, love and unity, meetings for worship, moderation and temperance, oaths, parents and children, parties ('such practices we believe are of very hurtful tendency'), plainness, poverty, schools, slavery ('having with sorrow observed that in some parts of our country this shameful practice is still continued'), spirituous liquors, sufferings, trade and war.

Condition: Minor rubbing, VG. orig.boards Minor rubbing, VG. 23x15cm, xiii,239 pp Contains Introduction + 15 papers. Includes: D. Forgacs "The Politics of Modernism"; D. Norbrook " 'Safest in Storms': George Wither in the 1650s"; R. Weimann " 'Authority' in Calvinism: The Spirit Betwixt Scripture & Polity"; E. Hall "The Ass With Double Vision: Politicising an Ancient Greek Novel"; C. Chambers "Unity Theatre"; P. Holland "Communities: British Theatre in the 1980s"; A. Sinfield "Closet Keynesians: Dissidence &Theatre"; J. Chothia "Dramatising Strife: Working Classes on the English State"; Christopher Hill "Liberty Outside the Law"; J. Lucas "Love of England: Patriotism & the Making of Victorianism"; M. Joannou "Reclaiming the Romance: Ellen Wilkinson's 'Clash' & the Cultural Legacy of Socialist- Feminism"; V. Kiernan "Massinger: Mourner of an Unborn Past"; E. Duncan- Jones "Marvell, Milton & Trajan's Column"; I.-S. Ewbank " 'O Cunning Texture to Enclose Adultery': Sexuality & Intertextuality in Middleton's ' Hengist, King of Kent' "; A. Croft "The End of Socialist Realism: Margot Heinemann's 'The Adventurers'".

Originalhardcover. Condition: Gut. 838 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - minimal berieben, Kopf- und Vorderschnitt leicht verschmutzt, Kratzer auf Kopfschnitt, sonst guter Zustand / minimally rubbed, head- and fore-edge slightly soiled, scratches on top edge, otherwise good condition. - TABLE OF CONTENTS Oscar Wilde and the Dreyfus Affair J. Robert Maguire Salesmen, Sportsmen, Mentors: Anonymity and Mid-Victorian Theories of Journalism Dallas Liddle Cultural Histories Old and New: Rereading the Work of Janet Oppenheim Peter Mandler, Alex Owen, Seth Koven, and Susan Pedersen REVIEW ESSAY Victorian Religion and the Decline of Britain John Kent BOOK REVIEWS Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, by Gillian Beer Regenia Gagnier Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760-1860, by Ann B. Shteir Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology, by Sally Shuttleworth Dianne F. Sadoff Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose, by Peter Melville Logan Athena Vrettos The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict, by Dagmar Kift Michael Pickering The Wheatstone English Concertina in Victorian England, by Allan W. Adas Nicholas Temperley Death in the Victorian Family, by Patjalland John R. Gillis Marshall Hall (1790-1857): Science and Medicine in Early Victorian Society, by Diana E. Manuel William Hughes British Idealism and Social Explanation: A Study in Late Victorian Thought, by Sandra M. den Otter Peter Nicholson Mortal Pages, Literary Lives: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Autobiography, edited by Vincent Newey and Philip Shaw Janice Carlisle Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman, by Marc Redfield Jonathan Loesberg Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction: Echo s Economies, by Jan B. Gordon Patricia Meyer Spaces The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction, edited by Barbara Leah Harman and Susan Meyer Hyungji Park Through the Northern Gate: Childhood and Growing Up in British Fiction, 1719-1901, by Jacqueline Banerjee Claudia Nelson Daily Life in Victorian England, by Sally Mitchell John R. Reed I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, by Francis Spufford Robert Eaglestone Dancing to History s Tune: History, Myth and Politics in Ireland, by Brian Walker Before the Famine Struck: Life in West Clare, 1834-1845, by Ignatius Murphy A People Starved: Life and Death in West Clare, 1845-1851, by Ignatius Murphy Joanna Bourke Democratic Royalism: The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861-1914, by William M. Kuhn Walter L. Arnstein The Making of Modern Bristol, edited by Madge Dresser and Philip Ollerenshaw J. V. Beckett William Morris, edited by Linda Parry Art, Enterprise and Ethics: The Life and Works of William Morris, by Charles Harvey and Jon Press William Morris: Art and Kelmscott, edited by Linda Parry Peter Stansky Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia: Reviving the Kustar Art Industries, 1870-1917, by Wendy Salmond Alan Crawford Frederic, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist, by Richard Ormond, Leonee Ormond, Christopher Newall, Stephen Jones, and Benedict Read Bridget Elliott Catholicism in Britain and France since 1789, edited by Frank Tallett and Nicholas Atkin Josef L. Altholz Equivocal Feminists: The Social Democratic Federation and the Woman Question, 1884-1911, by Karen Hunt Barbara Caine Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India, by Bernard S. Cohn Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: Discoveries" of India in the Language of Colonialism, byjyotsna G. Singh Philippa Levine One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad, by Geoffrey Galt Harpham Bruce Robbins On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World, by Peter Stansky Sara Blair Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction, by David Glover Stephen Arata Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Identity and Empire, by Stephen Arata Christopher Lane Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture, by Mark Crinson Chris Brooks COMMENTS AND QUERIES CONTRIBUTORS / CONTRIBUTORS TABLE OF CONTENTS "Marks of Race": Gypsy Figures and Eccentric Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Women s Writing Deborah Epstein Nord Educating Seeta: Philip Meadows Taylor s Romances of Empire Shuchi Kapila James Fitzjames Stephen: Liberalism, Patriotism, and English Liberty Julia Stapleton REVIEW ESSAY The Real Shaw Martin Meisel BOOK REVIEWS Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism, by Jennifer Green-Lewis Joss Marsh Art and the Victorian Middle Class: Money and the Making of Cultural Identity, by Dianne Sachko Macleod Julie F. Codell The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art, by Alison Smith Shearer West Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction, by William A. Cohen James Eli Adams H.D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence, by Cassandra Laity Helen Sword The Rhymers Club: Poets of the Tragic Generation, by Norman Alford Chris Snodgrass Charles Rennie Mackintosh, edited by Wendy Kaplan The Studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald, by Janice Helland Deborah Cherry British Women Fiction Writers of the 1890s, by Carolyn Christensen Nelson Ann Ardis Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism: A Future Feeling, by Alan Sandison Gordon Hirsch Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, by Garrett Stewart Andrew H. Miller The Victorian Social-Problem Novel: The Market, the Individual and Communal Life, by Josephine M. Guy Joseph W. Childers The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860, by Robert Gray Martin Hewitt Organised Capital: Employers.

First Dublin Edition / First Irish Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. Small Octavo (17.5 cm x 11 cm). Collation complete: Volume I: 310 pages / Volume II: 321 pages / Volume III: 357 pages. [Few pages with misprinted numerals, as often the case, but all pages in order and complete]. Original, unaltered, 18th-century full leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. Very rare, complete set of the first Dublin Edition. Very good- condition with stronger signs of external wear but all three Volumes in firm, original condition. Lesions to the leather-covered-boards and some stronger rubbing to extremeties. Interior with only very few problems. All three Volumes used to have two endpapers before and after the text and some of these endpapers are torn or missing. Textblock in general very good with some very minor and only occasional staining only. In Volume I, tear to corner of page 101/102 and 135/136. Faded stain to only the outer margins of pages 239 to 310 (text never affected). Volume II with small tear to pages 21/22 / Volume III with lesion to page 281/282 and tear to corner 305. These all sound worse than they are and the set is still in very good- condition. From the library of the Meade family in Ballymartle, the titlepage of each Volume bears the name of Helena Meade. An extremely rare and highly collectable set of one of the rarest titles in english literature. "The seminal terror Gothic romance and the premier maiden-centered Gothic of the eighteenth century, Udolpho's vast influence in both its own time and ours can hardly be overestimated." [Source: Marshall B.Tymn - Horror Literature - A Core Collection and Literary Guide] Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 7 February 1823) was an English author and a pioneer of Gothic fiction. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining Gothic fiction respectability in the 1790s. Radcliffe was the most popular writer of her day and almost universally admired; contemporary critics called her the mighty enchantress and the Shakespeare of romance-writers, and her popularity continued through the 19th century. Interest has revived in the early 21st century, with the publication of three biographies. Radcliffe published five novels during her lifetime, which she always referred to as "romances"; a final novel, Gaston de Blondeville was published posthumously in 1826. At a time when the average amount earned by an author for a manuscript was £10, her publishers, G. G. and J. Robinson, bought the copyright for "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794) for £500, while Cadell and Davies paid £800 for The Italian (1797), making Radcliffe the highest-paid professional writer of the 1790s Her first successful novel was Romance of the Forest (1791). Ann Radcliffe led a retired life and never visited the countries where the fearful happenings in her novels took place. Her only journey abroad, to Holland and Germany, was made in 1794 after most of her books were written. The journey was described in her A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (1795). Jane Austen parodied The Mysteries of Udolpho in Northanger Abbey. Radcliffe did not like the direction in which Gothic literature was heading one of her later novels, The Italian, was written in response to Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk. Radcliffe portrayed her female characters as equal to male characters, allowing them to dominate and overtake the typically powerful male villains and heroes, creating new roles for women in literature previously not available. After Radcliffe's death, her husband released her unfinished essay "On the Supernatural in Poetry", which details the difference between the sensation of terror her works aimed to achieve and the horror Lewis sought to evoke. Radcliffe stated that terror aims to stimulate readers through imagination and perceived evils while horror closes them off through fear and physical dangers. "Terror and Horror are so far opposite, that the first expands the soul and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; the other contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them." Radcliffe was unique in that she was known for including supernatural elements but eventually giving readers a rational explanation for the supernatural. Usually, Radcliffe would reveal the logical excuse for what first appeared to be supernatural towards the end of her novels, which led to heightened suspense. Some critics/readers found this disappointing and felt duped. "Perhaps the most eloquent complaint against the trope was penned by Walter Scott in his Lives of the Novelists (1821 1824). Regarding Radcliffe s penchant, he writes: "A stealthy step behind the arras may, doubtless, in some situations, and when the nerves are tuned to a certain pitch, have no small influence upon the imagination; but if the conscious listener discovers it to be only the noise made by the cat, the solemnity of the feeling is gone, and the visionary is at once angry with his sense for having been cheated, and with his reason for having acquiesced in the deception." Some modern critics have been frustrated by her work, as she fails to include "real ghosts". This could be motivated by the idea that works in the Romantic period, from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century, had to undermine Enlightenment values such as rationalism and realism. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.