Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Some Offtrail S.H. Sime illustrations for Lord Dunsany, Part 2 of 2

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In the early 1920s, G.P. Putnam's Sons became Dunsany's publisher on both sides of the Atlantic. Most of the books had different dus...
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Thursday, August 8, 2024

"Breakfast Makes Us Britons": A William Hope Hodgson Letter Discovered

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William Hope Hodgson married Bessie Gertrude Farnworth in Kensington, London, on 26 February 1913, and the newlyweds soon settled in Sanary,...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Some Offtrail S.H. Sime illustrations for Lord Dunsany, Part 1 of 2

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S.H. Sime's full-page illustrations for the books of Lord Dunsany run from The Gods of Pegana (1905) through My Talks with Dean Spanley ...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Where do You Get Your Ideas? Lloyd Alexander responds

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It must have been in the late 1970s that I read Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles (five novels, plus occasional shorter pieces collec...
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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Ray Bradbury on Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

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In 2023, Jonathan R. Eller edited and published a thick volume Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury , which I'm just get...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

Dunsany on His Early Stories

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In 1917, the John W. Luce Company of Boston published a "Gift Edition," a boxed edition of six volumes of his early stories. One s...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

The First Edition and Early Printings of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

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[updated 8 September 2024]  Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published by Alfred A. Knopf of New York on 18 Sep...
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