Rick Russell
Lifelong book, magazine scout and dealer author of guides to Books, magazines, prices and identification. Former editor of AB Bookman's Weekly.
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The Lies that BindAs per assignment, a Shakespearean Sonnet.
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Election Time ClerihewsA Clerihew is a four line biographical/satirical poem rhymed AABB with the subject's name in the first and last line, invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Herein some timely examples.
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Sestina - when She DancedSestina per Yahoo Assignment
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Stained Ice WindowA Tritina written per Yahoo Assignment
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Ice Tea and Old LoveA villanelle as per Yahoo assignment -
American Political AssassinsA survey of some American political assassins and their eventual disposition
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Antique and Vintage Recipes from America's MagazinesAs I go through vinage and antique magazines I run into and try out recipes. These are the best of them.
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Antique and Vintage Recipes from America's MagazinesAs I go through old magazines I frequently come across recipes and try the out. These are the best of them.
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Antique and Vintage Recipes from America's MagazinesAs I go through old magazines I find recipres to try. These are the best of them
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Antique and Vintage Recipes from America's MagazinesConvert the measurements of antique and vintage recipes into modern measurements
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Antique and Vintage Recipes from America's MagazinesAs I research and go through old magazines I find and try old recipes. These are the best of them.
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Antique and Vintage Recipes from America's MagazinesAs I go through old magazines in my antiquarian business I find old recipes and try them. These are the best of them.
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Dion Fortune from Beyond the GraveMoon Magic by Dion Fortune may be a book from beyond the grave
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Studies in Censorship - Ninety-Five ThesesMartin Luther offers a debate to his colleagues and it gets out of hand.
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Studies in Censorship - Moby DickMoby Dick was originally published without one controversial chapter
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Bibliography Arthur Machen in the Evening News 1910-1915Machen was a regular in The Evening News from 1910 through 1921, and his contributions have become very desirable in the collectors market.
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Bibliography the Collectible Editions of Arthur MachenA Bibliographical Listing of Arthur Machen's Collectible Editions
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Bibliography Arthur Machen in the Academy and LiteratureA listing of Arthur Machen's publications in The Academy and Literature
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Bibliography Arthur Machen in the AcademyLord Alfred Douglas acquired The Academy in early 1907 and was determined to improve it. An invitation to the New Bohemians literary circle brought him not only Machen, but Henry Savage and a young (23 year old) Richard Middleton as contributors
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Bibliography Arthur Machen in the Evening News 1916-1921Machen was a regular in The Evening News from 1910 through 1921, and his contributions have become very desirable in the collectors market.
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Studies in Censorship - Huckleberry FinnHuckleberry Finn opens America to regional literature and is banned.
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Studies in Censorship - Oliver TwistThe classic Dickens' character Fagin is seen as anti-Semitic and expurgated.
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Grosset & Dunlap - from Pirates to KingsStarting with John Lovell's plates Grosset and Dunlap made a major impact on American reading, writing and book collecting
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Notes on Book Collecting- George Gordon to James HoggAn obscure letter in an obscure publication showcases the stature of a nearly forgotten writer
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography First AppearancesA descriptive listing of the first appearances of Edgar Rice Burroughs in print
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography Miscellaneous FirstsCovering the Pellucidar Series and other Miscellaneous First Editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography TarzanA Bibliographical listing of the First Editions in the Tarzan Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography Science FictionA descriptive bibliographic listing of the Science Fiction First Editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Jack Kerouac in PeriodicalsA listing of Jack Kerouac's contributions to magazine and periodicals
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Notes on Book Collecting- James M. Barrie -- PiratesA Bibliographical essay covering the American pirate editions of the work of James M. Barrie
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M. P. Shiel BibliographyThe bibliographical information and identification of the collectible editions of M. P. Shiel
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John D. MacDonald Bibliography of PBOsBibliography of John D. MacDonald's paperback original publications with identifying points.
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John D. MacDonald Bibliography of Original AppearancesA list of the original appearances of stories, articles and novels by John D. MacDonald in periodicals.
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Studies in Censorship - the American MercuryMagazine editor H. L. Mencken challenges the Boston Watch and Ward Society after they ban his magazine in Boston.
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Studies in Censorship - HowlOne of the cornerstones of the beat movement is attacked and the publisher arrested.
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Notes on Book Collecting- the Vampire in FictionA survey of the seminal books and characters of vampire fiction.
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Notes on Book Collecting- Collecting Banned BooksHow to Form a Collection of Banned and Censored Material
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A Trinity of ShadowsThe books of Dashiell Hammet, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler translate into film noir.
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Notes on Book Collecting- Aubrey BeardsleyDespite am early death at the age of twenty-five Aubrey Beardsley was on of the most influential artists and illustrators of his time.
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Book Collecting Notes- Comstock Take on Shaw and MacfaddenAnthony Comstock may have bitten off more than he could chew with George Bernard Shaw and Bernarr Macfadden
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Studies in Censorship - the Kama Sutra of VatsyayanaSir Richard Burton and Sanskrit scholar Bhagvanlal Indraji create an English version of The Kama Sutra (Love Verses) of Vatsyayana a sacred Hindu text that gets Western censors in a lather.
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Studies in Censorship - Naked LunchWilliam S. Burroughs shocks the literary world and the censors and provides a platform for Publisher Barney Rossett to nail the old obscenity laws in a coffin.
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Notes on Book Collecting- Girolamo SavanarolaAn Essay on Book Burning
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Studies in Censorship - Mademoiselle De MaupinTheophile Gautier follows his own advice of art for the sake of art and love for the sake of love in a classic piece of decadent literature.
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Studies in Censorship - the GroupMary McCarthy's The Group excites censors worldwide.
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Studies in Censorship - Go Ask AliceAn Anonymous semi-fictional biography of a young drug abuser raises a lot of hackles
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Studies in Censorship - Religion Within the Limits of Reason AloneImmanual Kant's Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone is spectactually unpopular with the powers that be
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Studies in Censorship - Uncle Tom's CabinUncle Tom's Cabin has some surprising opponents
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Studies in Censorship - the Last Temptation of ChristThe Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis leads to the author's excommunication
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Studies in Censorship - CandideVoltaire creates and enduring and frequently banned classic
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Studies in Censorship - an American TragedyTheodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy prosecuted without the whole book allowed in evidence
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Studies in Censorship - the Land of the FreeThe Land of the Free: A history of the United States is challenged in California
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Studies in Censorship - the Hicklin RuleEnglish Magistrate Benjamin Hicklin defines obscenity in 1868
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Studies in Censorship - Madame BovaryCensorship of female infidelity is apparently obscene, while male infidelity is not
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Studies in Censorship - Birth Control ReviewAnthony Comstock fights Planned Parenthood, censoring their material in the mail and in the courtroom.
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Studies in Censorship - the Index of Banned BooksAlmost from its inception the Catholic Church has maintained a tradition of censorship
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Studies in Censorship - the Autobiography of a FleaThe seeming repressed Victorians supported a large undergound market in erotica
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Studies in Censorship - Peyton PlaceThe undercurrent of sexual tension in a novel was so strong it faced censorshipp even without explicit scenes.
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Studies in Censorship - Eros MagazinePublisher Ralph Ginzburg was convicted of obscenity based on his publication of Eros Magazine
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Studies in Censorship - Une Saison En EnferA teenager living with an older lover writes some of the best and most influential poetry ever published.
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Studies in Censorship - the Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBen Franklin's Autobiography was expurgated several times due to is candid attitude toward sex
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Studies in Censorship - Hit ManA 'How to" satire becomes legally responsible for murder
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Studies in Censorship - Last Exit to BrooklynHubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn raises censors' ire nearly everywhere it is distributed, vehemently in Britain.
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Studies in Censorship - Slaughterhouse-FiveA high school teacher is dismissed for teaching Vonnegut's book.
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Studies in Censorship - Memoirs of a Lady of PleasureFanny Hill becomes respectable in the middle of her third century
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Studies in Censorship - Regina V. ReidRegina v. Reid was the first case in which a publisher was prosecuted under English Common Law
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Studies in Censorship - Rex V. CurllA courageous publisher takes on the House of Lords and establishes the legal precedent for 'obscene libel'
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Studies in Censorship -Island Trees School DistrictA Long Island school district garners national publicity banning modern classics.
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Studies in Censorship -D.H.LawrenceD.H.Lawrence's descriptive language and unflagging self-examination draw the ire of censors
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Studies in Censorship -Les Fleurs Du MalCharles Baudelaire's poetry leads to his arrest, a fine, confiscation and a declaration that the book was an "outrage to public decency".
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Studies in Censorship -LolitaOne of the most celebrated novels of it's time tackles pedophilia
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Studies in Censorship -The Story of OA quiet literary editor writes one of the classics of erotic literature.
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Studies in Censorship -Wilhelm ReichWilhelm Reich becomes the first scientist censored in the United States
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Studies in Censorship -Whip AngelsA wife challenges a major surrealist writer at eroticism
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Studies in Censorship -Oedipus RexThe unacceptable subject
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Studies in Censorship -LysistrataOne of the most frequently banned plays is also one of the funniest.
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Studies in Censorship -Studies in the Psychology of SexHavelock Ellis publishes a major study on the psychology of sex.
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Studies in Censorship -My Life and LovesFrank Harris' autobiography becomes one of the most printed and censored books ever published.
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Studies in Censorship -The Black BookLawrence Durrell chafes at the restrictions placed on him by a British publisher and goes to France to publish his 'dirty book.'
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Studies in Censorship -The Goblet of FirePeople decry and censor Harry Potter Books, yet heavy Occult reading is just fine for the kiddies.
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Studies in Censorship -JurgenJ. B. Cabell's 'Comedy of Justice' becomes a double entendre in American courtrooms.
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Studies in Censorship - Women in LoveJohn Sumner and the Clean Book League challenge D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love
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Studies in Censorship - Le Tapis VertUnder an obscure law, one of the world's greatest paintings sits in the New York Custom House for eight years
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Studies in Censorship - the Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne's novel extramarital affair raises eyebrows for well over a century
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Studies in Censorship - the Anarchist CookbookPart joke, part serious comment, The Anarchist Cookbook stirred up a lot of reaction
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Studies in Censorship: Black Like MeHow the story of a man who changed his skin color became one of the most offensive, obscene and censored books in America.
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Studies in Censorship - on the Infinite Universe and WorldsOne of the first to contend the Earth is not the center of the universe, Giordano Bruno pays the price.
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Studies in Censorship - CandyVoltaire's Candide is reprised for the Twentieth Century to the same cacophony of censorship the original garnered.
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Studies in Censorship - Anti-Christ Coming. The Great in the SmallHow a satire of Napoleon the Third morphed into a Banned Book Classic
