adm

Ian Fleming – James Bond’s First Edition Books: Identification Guide

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908 – 1964) was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his […]

Ian Fleming – James Bond’s First Edition Books: Identification Guide Read More »

Jane Austen – First Edition Books: Identification Guide

Jane Austen

Jane Austen (December 1775 – 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen’s plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works

Jane Austen – First Edition Books: Identification Guide Read More »

Henry David Thoreau – First Edition Books: Identification Guide

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau’s books, articles,

Henry David Thoreau – First Edition Books: Identification Guide Read More »

Brian Aldiss – First Edition Books: Identification Guide

Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE (1925 – 2017) was an English writer and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss, except for occasional pseudonyms during the mid-1960s. As a child Aldiss discovered the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction. He eventually read

Brian Aldiss – First Edition Books: Identification Guide Read More »

Easton Press – The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

Easton Press

Easton Press, a division of MBI, Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a publisher specializing in premium leather-bound books. In addition to canonical classics, religion, poetry and art books, they publish a selection of science fiction and popular literature. The Easton Press uses a number of elements of older publishing and book-binding styles, including gilt

Easton Press – The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Read More »

Lord Dunsany – First Edition Books: Identification Points

Lord Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878 – 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, published mostly as Lord Dunsany. Over 90 of his books, mainly fantasy, appeared in his lifetime; his original work and compilations have continued to appear. They include several hundred short stories, and many plays, novels, and essays.

Lord Dunsany – First Edition Books: Identification Points Read More »

Pablo Picasso – The Great Depression to MoMA exhibition Artworks: 1930–1939

Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937

During the 1930s, the minotaur replaced the harlequin as a common motif in his work. His use of the minotaur came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol, and it appears in Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. The minotaur and Picasso’s mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter are heavily featured in his celebrated

Pablo Picasso – The Great Depression to MoMA exhibition Artworks: 1930–1939 Read More »

Pablo Picasso – Neoclassicism and Surrealism Artworks: 1919–1929

Pablo Picasso, 1921, Nu Assis S'essuyant Le Pied (Seated Nude Drying Her Foot)

In February 1917, Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Italy. In the period following the upheaval of World War I, Picasso produced work in a neoclassical style. This “return to order” is evident in the work of many European artists in the 1920s, including André Derain, Giorgio de Chirico, Gino Severini, Jean Metzinger, the

Pablo Picasso – Neoclassicism and Surrealism Artworks: 1919–1929 Read More »

Scroll to Top