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As stated in the title, I uploaded the replacement cover today. The replacement cover is now under review by Amazon. Approximations of the front covers (current at top, replacement at bottom) are shown below. If the new cover is approved … Continue reading →

Below is a front-cover design for my forthcoming book on Professor Hoffmann’s short fiction. I put this together back in June, and at that time I believe my intention was that it would basically be a placeholder. But it turns … Continue reading →

For years now, I have had the intention and hope of publishing a book about Professor Hoffmann’s contributions to periodicals, with a focus on his short stories. I am finally about to issue such a work! The current title is … Continue reading →

If you are looking for Plymouth Place on an old map of Chicago, and cannot find it, here are some tips.  These suggestions apply to old maps, probably from around 1895 to around 19o5. Much before that or after that, … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in a previous post, I intend to change the cover design of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase. I will probably upload the replacement design sometime on Thursday, though that is just an estimate. And I am not sure how … Continue reading →

Note:  I am now starting to number this particular series of posts dealing with James McKinney, the address 73 Plymouth Place, and Plymouth Place in general.  This post is the fifth in the series. [This refers to a series that … Continue reading →

(August 8, 2023 Note:  I have made a few slight revisions and stated an additional thing or two, mainly to make things more clear.) In the preceding post, I outlined some information regarding the 73 Plymouth Place address that is … Continue reading →

As stated in the title of this post, I hope to change the cover of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase. The new front-cover will likely look very much like this: This change may take place at any time, but it is likely … Continue reading →

August 5, 2023 Introductory Note: This post takes a long time to say very little. The main thing of interest is that there was a guy named Andrews with a business address of 73 Plymouth Place (same basic address of … Continue reading →

This is more or less a continuation of my previous “Brief and Pleasant” post. So, anyway, as may or may not be clear from that preceding post, I have had two previous blogs that were largely devoted to the S.W. … Continue reading →

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 →

US Amazon link for The Wizard’s Tower. US Amazon link for Rethinking S.W Erdnase.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I am excited to announce that I have recently (within this past week) published my own edition of The Wizard’s Tower, by Professor Hoffmann (Angelo J. Lewis). It’s a lengthy work of fiction by Hoffmann that has remained almost unknown to … Continue reading →

In my most recent post, I discussed the Modern Magic extract that appeared in the January 10, 1876, issue of The Boys of New York. In this post, I’ll talk briefly about the Modern Magic extract that appeared in the … Continue reading →

Here is a fact that I think few other people (if any) are aware of, as of the time I am posting this: Portions of Modern Magic appeared in a New York publication titled The Boys of New York, in … Continue reading →

I’m pretty sure that new discoveries regarding Professor Hoffmann’s works still remain to be made, more than a century after his death in late 1919. In my next post, I’ll talk about a discovery I made recently, which was quite … Continue reading →

Thanks for visiting! This blog has been dormant for I don’t know how long! Probably since not long after the most recent post, which was eons ago. This is just a quick post. I need to through the posts below … Continue reading →

One of the main difficulties that exists in connection with the S.W. Erdnase authorship problem is that which I alluded to in an earlier post. Here I will state clearly why the identity of S.W. Erdnase will (probably) never be … Continue reading →