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Over the years The Easton Press has published a number of book series including The Greatest Books Ever Written, [1] [2] Masterpieces of American Literature, The Library of American Presidents (also known as: The Library of the Presidents), [3] The Library of American History, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides, Library of Fly-Fishing Classics, Signed Modern Classics, [4] and The Masterpieces of ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Robert Barnard was born on 23 November 1936 at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.He was educated at the Colchester Royal Grammar School and at Balliol College, Oxford.. He spent five years (1961-1965) as an academic in the English Department at the University of New England, at Armidale, New South Wales, in Australia.
Sinclair called The Brass Check "the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written." [2] The University of Illinois Press released a new edition of the book in 2003, which contains a preface by Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott. The text is also freely available on the Internet, as Sinclair opted not to copyright the text in an ...
Banned in the US in 1821 for obscenity, then again in 1963. This was the last book ever banned by the US government. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [279] [280] [127] See also Memoirs v. Massachusetts. Candide: Voltaire: 1759 1959 Novel Seized by US Customs in 1930 for ...
Robert Daley (born 1930 in New York City) [1] [better source needed] is an American writer, journalist, and former New York City Police Department officer. He is the author of 31 books, six of which have been adapted for film, and a hundred or so magazine articles and stories.
ISBN 0-940064-03-0 (trade ed); 0-940064-01-4 (boxed/deluxe ed, 250 copies signed). Note: This book was designated "Volume One" but in fact no further volumes of the series were published, leaving a number of the Lefty Feep stories uncollected. Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Underwood-Miller, 1987, 3 vols).