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Edwin Rolfe (September 7, 1909 – May 24, 1954) [1] was an American poet, journalist, Spanish Civil War veteran, and screenwriter. He has been dubbed "the poet laureate of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion" – the group of Americans who fought alongside the Spanish Loyalists against the Nazi-backed forces of Francisco Franco and his Nationalist faction.
In 1938, Epstein used this account to open Pickwick Book Shop, which he named after the 1836 Charles Dickens' book The Pickwick Papers. [ 1 ] Pickwick Book Shop was a three-story bookshop located at 6743 W. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and was immensely popular with film and literary insiders, as well as the general public.
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Clark Library), is a library affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles.It holds books and manuscripts with particularly many regarding English literature and history from the 17th-19th century, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siècle, and fine press printing.
Larry Edmunds Bookshop is an independent bookstore located at 6644 W. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California that specializes in film, television, and theater. . Containing more than 20,000 books, 6,000 original posters, and 500,000 photographs, [1] it is the last of many bookstores that once lined Hollywood Boulevard [2] [3] and was declared by film critic and historian Leonard Maltin ...
The Bookshop is a narrative overview of the history of independent bookstores in the United States. Each chapter focuses on a different bookstore, describing its history, contributions to its local community, and eventual decline. There are intermissions throughout the book looking at the bookselling industry more broadly.
Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, biographer of Pancho Villa and Ernesto "Che" Guevara as well as a crime novelist, in Mexico City on Feb. 10, 2017.
The 304-page hardcover book without dust jacket, composed from the vast Civil War pictorial archive Time-Life had assembled over the decades, did feature the Time-Life Books logo on its cover and spine, and former Time-Life Managing Editor Neil Kagan (who was featured as such in the above referenced C-Span documentary) and Consultant Brian C ...
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