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Sarah Bernhardt and her world
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Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr's thrilling mystery novel. A woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witnesses who, impossibly, detect no foul play. For more than a century, this baffling murder lies cold in the files of Scotland Yard until it is discovered by Detective-Superintendent John Cheviot, who yearns to apply modern scientific policing to the grisly old case. He is about to get his chance. Taking a cab to Scotland Yard, Cheviot steps out in front of Old Scotland Yard and sees a beautiful woman beckoning him. Suddenly it is 1829 and Cheviot is a member of the newly organized London police force. He might now have an opportunity to solve the most puzzling murder in the Yard's history, but in a time before fingerprints and ballistic analysis, he will find police work to be far more baffling and brutal than he is used to.
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With line & flower : a printer's specimen book showing matrix slides used in casting metal rules and decorative border material : the slides were collected and these examples of their use and the explanatory comment were
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"This volume is the fourth in a series of printer's specimen books showing types and decorative units gathered and used in my printing office over the past more than fifty years. It features, almost exclusively, Linotype border slides, used in casting five-inch long strips of letterpress printing material"--Pages 16-17
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Employees - Neff, Don
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1 item: single-sheet bio, headed "To Smoke..."Re Neff biography," -- "Don Neff joined The Times in April, 1961, after working more than three years in the Hollywood bureau of United Press International..."
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Arnold was a prolific writer and published copiously for more than fifty years. His articles appeared in all of the leading scientific journals in his field. He delivered innumerable lectures before scientific societies. In 1914 he delivered a series of lectures at the University of Chicago. In 1915 he delivered another series at Harvard and a third at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Venture : the traveler's world v. 2, no. 1
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This collection contains 101 issues of periodicals with content written by or about the British author Evelyn Waugh between 1923 and 2010, with the bulk of the items dating from 1930 to 1965. 76 of the items contain articles or stories by Waugh. The remaining 25 items contain reviews of his books and articles about him. More than fifty periodical titles are represented, ranging from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines in England and the United States. The collection inventory below contains entries listing the periodical title, volume and issue number, date, publisher and publisher location, article title, page numbers, author of the Waugh-related pieces, and, when applicable, the item's number in A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh (Whitston Publishing Company, 1986) by Robert Murray Davis, et al.
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Great railroad stories of the world
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This first inclusive collection of railroad stories recaptures the romance of the rails for the reader who may have forgotten it in this era of jet propulsion. It runs the entire gamut from the early masters of the story - Dickens, T.E. Lawrence, and Hauptmann - to the more modern writers in the field, such as A.W. Somerville and Frank L. Packard. Here we have stories, not only by such writers as William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe, and Marquis James, but also by such recognized specialists as Jack McLarn, W.E. Hayes, Octavus Roy Cohen, Douglas Welch, and Lucius Beebe. Among these enthralling tales is that of the famous Confederate train stolen by Northern freebooters during the Civil War; tales of humor and tragedy on the railroad; exciting episodes involving dynamiting of trains and bridges; thrilling wreck scenes; and stories with a more romantic modern flavor--Adapted from jacket.
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