Queries on editions of Dickens and detective stories
A reader asks for guidance on where to find clear edition sets of Dickens and lists of humorous prose and detective tales. The column recommends publishers like Dodd Mead Scribner Houghton Mifflin Appleton and others, lists several humor anthologies with availability notes, cites recent detective titles, and notes no known Howard Fielding short story collection. It also includes Berkshire inquiries about historical English and American works with auction value estimates and a request for appraising a 1678 State Trials volume bound in calfskin.
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Dickens
Howard Fielding
Dodd, Mead & Co
Charles Scribner's Sons
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
D. Appleton & Co
Doubleday, Page & Co
T. Y. Crowell & Co
Harper & Brothers
J. B. Lippincott Company
Philadelphia
E.P. Dutton & Co
Cyclopedia of
Humor of
America
American
G. . Jacobs & Co
Monarch Book Company
Chicago
Werner & Co
East Nineteenth Street
Sherlock Holmes
A. Conan Doyle
Art Thorne
G. Berton
Dodd, Mead
G. W. Dillingham Company
New York
Berkshire
England
de Wae Thoyras
N. Tindal
London
James and
John Knapton
George Washington
Sparks
Boston
Gouverneur Morris
Jared Sparks
Paul de Rapin
Rapin- Thouras
William II
Wesel
Nicholas Tindal
Robert Pawlet
Bible
Chancery Lane
Fleet Street
Tryal
Wm. Staley
Robert Green
Henry Berry
Lawrence Hill
Edmund Berry Godfrey
Titus Oates
Earl of Clarendon
Oates
Answers from Readers on Hannah More and Horace Otto
A reader’s note references Hannah More’s The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and the author’s birthplace, with a discussion of published copies and readers’ bookmarks. Other letters cite Sir Walter Scott bookplates, a Dobson poem, Susan Coolidge’s Eastor Song, and Horace Seymour Keller’s dog poem, plus a Musketeers ending query and Horace Odes.
Intrigue Over a Beautful Young Girl For Louis XIV
A fragmentary excerpt recounts a plot to seize a young betrothed girl for the reigning king Louis XIV. A duel with Porthos’s son reveals Aramis, prompting a dramatic departure. The text critiques the work as inauthentic, citing library catalogues and misattributions. It includes a poem by Mary K. Field about maternal grief and children.
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Louis XIV
Joel
Porthos
Aramis
Goves
Belle Isle
Dumas
Columbia Library
Mercantile
Bloomingdale
New York Public Library
Readers seek poems and authors in Watchung area column
A public notice from readers across New Jersey requests help locating authors and full texts of various poems. Names include E M Rhodes, John Shirley, Henry Anderson, and others. Items include What poems about Liberty tree, Scenes of Childhood, The Vampire, The Marble Preacher, and poems about a squirrel, a Jewish boy, and a ship of Love, with several partial lines quoted.
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John
Shirley
Liberty
Henry A. Anderson
Blackwood
Parker & Watson
National
Wholesale and retail books and magazines advertised
An advertising page lists vast stock in multiple languages, including chess and financial reference works. It cites buyers for catalogues and lists, with contact details across New York and other states. Multiple notices seek specific historical books and manuscripts, with various prices and publishers.
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Herman
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