edited by Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf.
ISBN
0271016906 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271016914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xxiv, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-327) and indexes.
Summary
"Moore compiled her commonplace book during the American Revolution, carefully selecting works of poetry and prose that she and her friends most enjoyed reading and wanted to remember. Contained are 126 works of prose and poetry by at least sixteen different authors, mostly women....Moore's Book is the richest surviving body of evidence revealing the nature and substance of women's intellectual community in British America" [from the publisher]
Warne's picture puzzle toy book. : Comprising The house we live in. Our holidays. The nursery play book. Holiday fun. : With twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim
Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden. ;
Scribner, Welford and Co.,
Date of Publication
[1869]
Physical Description
[12] leaves, [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm
Notes
"This volume contains four distinct subjects, with upwards of eight hundred figures represented in blank spaces. These have to be filled up by the careful cutting out of the coloured pictures from the keys, and their insertion in the blank spaces of the respective books."--preface, second leaf.
v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --
"When historian Alfred "Alf" Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974-77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf's highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857-61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf's style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike. " [from Amazon.com]
