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The Fifteen Most Recent Posts
- Today I uploaded to Amazon the replacement cover for Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
- Follow-up to the preceding post: This is the current version of the front cover for my book on Professor Hoffmann’s short fiction
- My first (I think) effort to promote my next book of theoretical interest to magic collectors: Professor Hoffmann’s Short Fiction: A Bibliographical Study of the Fiction of Angelo J. Lewis
- FROM SEPTEMBER 11, 2011: Plymouth Place, Part 6: Tips on finding Plymouth Place on old maps — and a discussion of streets in that area
- The cover chage on Rethinking S.W. Erdnase will probably take place Thursday or so
- FROM SEPTEMBER 11, 2011: Plymouth Place, Part 5: The importance of Plymouth Place, Chicago
- FROM SEPTEMBER 5, 2011: Some thoughts on Plymouth Place, Chicago, 1902 . . .
- Soon I hope to change the cover of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
- FROM SEPTEMBER 2, 2011: Regarding “73 Plymouth Place,” I found this information interesting. Not “super interesting,” but “fairly interesting.” I mean, “Andrews” is, after all, a fairly common name . . .
- A Brief and Pleasant Treatise on My Blogging, Continued . . .
- A Brief and Pleasant Treatise (and Unbalanced and Incomplete) on My Blogging History . . .
- Pinned Post: US Ordering Information for The Wizard’s Tower (by Professor Hoffmann) and Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
- Rethinking S.W. Erdnase: Another View
- Was Professor Hoffmann’s King Koko or the Pretty Princess and the Lucky Lover doomed by its own title?
- “Rejected” cover designs for the 2023 version of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
Monthly Archives: July 2023
A Brief and Pleasant Treatise (and Unbalanced and Incomplete) on My Blogging History . . .
NOTE 1: I will have to continue with this topic in the future. NOTE 2: Below I have not stated the web addresses of any of these blogs. The only ones mentioned below that are currently active are this current … Continue reading
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Pinned Post: US Ordering Information for The Wizard’s Tower (by Professor Hoffmann) and Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
US Amazon link for The Wizard’s Tower. US Amazon link for Rethinking S.W Erdnase.
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Rethinking S.W. Erdnase: Another View
I did something clever there, in the title of this post. I overlapped the titles of my two books about Erdnase, Rethinking S.W. Erdnase and S.W. Erdnase: Another View. But in all seriousness, I am rethinking my third edition of … Continue reading
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Was Professor Hoffmann’s King Koko or the Pretty Princess and the Lucky Lover doomed by its own title?
This will not be a comprehensive discussion of King Koko. I do, however, want to talk about certain aspects of the book from a bibliographer’s point of view (and from that of a book collector). The first edition was published … Continue reading
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“Rejected” cover designs for the 2023 version of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
My dear daughter, Elizabeth, created many images for possible use on the cover of the third edition of S.W. Erdnase: Another View and the 2023 version of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase. I liked a lot of those images quite a bit. … Continue reading
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Thinking about the putative printer of The Expert at the Card Table, on Plymouth Place
Back in April, I mentioned on the Erdnase thread of the Genii Forum that I was working on a reprint of S.W. Erdnase: Another View. I’m now almost at the end of my work on getting that out and for … Continue reading
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Much to my surprise, Rethinking S.W. Erdnase is now available on Amazon!
As recently as last night, I had assumed that the third edition of S.W. Erdnase: Another View would appear before my reissuing of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase. As I write this, it is now 12:27 a.m. on Friday, which to me is … Continue reading
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What did Stillman B. Jamieson look like?
The Jamieson-Higgins Co. was closely tied-in with James McKinney & Co., the presumed printer of S.W. Erdnase’s The Expert at the Card Table. McKinney printed some (possibly many) of the books published by Jamieson-Higgins, and, as is mentioned on the … Continue reading
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Golden Days for Boys and Girls and Professor Hoffmann’s The Young Wizard
In recent posts, I’ve talked about the Villanova University website (Falvey Library). In this post, I’ll explore that library’s digital holdings a little further. There I found that the library has a large number of digitized issues of Golden Days … Continue reading
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The Armchair Bibliographer 