The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950 First edition PS3503 R167 M3 1950 Ray Bradbury’s second novel is a collection of interconnected stories about the exploration and colonization of Mars. In these stories he addresses racial prejudice, colonialism, the devastation of war,...
Poems of Childhood Eugene Field (1850-1895) New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1904 PS1667 P6 1904 Newspaperman Eugene Field was born in Missouri. His father, an attorney, successfully defended Dred Scott, a fugitive slave. Field’s mother died when he was six. He and his younger brother grew up in Amherst,...
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club… Charles Dickens (1812-1870) London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-37 First edition PR4569 A1 1836 With the publication of his first novel, the Pickwick Papers, twenty-five year old Charles Dickens became famous overnight. It was published in monthly parts and the author supplied the installments as...
A FAIRY GARLAND, BEING FAIRY TALES… Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) London: Cassel & Company, Limited, 1928 PZ8 F1685 1928 A collection of fairy tales translated from French into English, including Charles Perrault’s “Puss ‘n Boots,” d’Aulnoy’s “The Blue Bird,” and Hamilton’s “Mayblossom.” Edmund Dulac was a French-born, British-naturalized magazine illustrator, book...
Montesquieu claimed to have found the secret of Britain’s success in maintaining a stable government. He considered that the power of any state could be separated into three main parts: a legislative power to make the laws, an executive power to enforce them, and a...
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton (1642-1727) London, J. Streater, 1687 First edition QA803 A2 1687 The foundation work on dynamics and gravitation, this book was the culminating intellectual and scientific achievement of the Enlightenment. Although Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler had shown the way by describing the phenomena they observed,...
THANKSGIVING IN THE MARLAND FAMILY Boston: H. Hoyt, 1863 GT4975 T45 This children’s book suggests the importance of the spirit of giving as part of Thanksgiving Day. Source: Rare Books (OpenBook) Blog ...