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| Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By a Lion: A Cautionary Tale
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Hilaire Belloc. Mini Grey, illus.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: pop-up book.
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| ISBN: 9780375859700. Daedalus Item Code: 20569 |
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| As much for adult fans of Edward Gorey as it is for children 8 and up with a sense of ironic humor, this mock cautionary tale by Hilaire Belloc, originally penned in 1907, is set perfectly with Mini ... (Read More)
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| John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
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Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: slipcased.
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| ISBN: 9780300096613. Daedalus Item Code: 31842 |
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| (Winner of the ILAB Prize for Bibliography from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) This immense two-volume account presents the controversial career of John Payne Collier, a ... (Read More)
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| Jumpers
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Tom Stoppard.
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| Publisher: Faber & Faber. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780571179831. Daedalus Item Code: 22529 |
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| Between his Tony Award–winning plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Travesties, Tom Stoppard penned this 1972 satire of academic philosophy, originally starring Michael ... (Read More)
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| Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend
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Harold Schechter.
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| Publisher: Ballantine. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780345476814. Daedalus Item Code: 21858 |
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| The author of The Devil's Gentleman returns to the sinister shadows of gaslit New York City in this gripping true-crime account, beginning in 1841 with the last moments of the life of ... (Read More)
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| Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
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Harold Schechter & Kurt Brown, eds.
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| Publisher: Everyman's Library. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307700933. Daedalus Item Code: 19294 |
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| This is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems on the deadly subject of murder, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound musings on death and sex, crime and punishment, by such ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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| Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
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Colm Toibin.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780330520959. Daedalus Item Code: 24022 |
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| The author of Booker Prize–shortlisted fiction like The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, Colm Tóibín is also renowned for such essay collections as Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives ... (Read More)
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| Laocoon: An Essay upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486443874. Daedalus Item Code: 04204 |
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| Originally published in 1766, German philosopher and critic Gotthold Lessing's seminal tract is a turning point in the study of Western art. In this essay on the origins, forms, and influences of ... (Read More)
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| Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville
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Witold Rybczynski.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780743235969. Daedalus Item Code: 92408 |
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| Here the Vincent Scully Prize–winning architect and critic who penned A Clearing in the Distance and the Governor General's Award winner Home: A Short History of an Idea looks at the ... (Read More)
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| Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your Life
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Charlotte Higgins.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061547423. Daedalus Item Code: 10586 |
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| It wasn't just heated floors, hot baths, aqueducts, and paved roads that the Romans did first and best, says classics scholar Charlotte Higgins; they were also experts at the art of love. From the ... (Read More)
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| Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
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Mary Lee Settle. Anne Hobson Freeman, ed.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393057324. Daedalus Item Code: 01959 |
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| Two years before her death in 2005, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award founder Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for 50 years." The ... (Read More)
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