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Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine). [12] 1963, London: Collins Crime Club, April 29, 1963, hardcover; 1964, New York: Bantam #F2731, February 1964 ...
Victor Contoski (born 1936, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American writer and university professor of Polish descent, best known for his science-fiction chess story Von Goom's Gambit, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966.
The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson.
The list also includes one book that won two categories: Romance queen Emily Henry's "Funny Story" was readers' pick for both "Best Romance" and "Best Audiobook," which was a newly introduced ...
Her published works include Queen's Gambit (2013), The Girl in the Glass Tower (2016) and the critically acclaimed thriller The Poison Bed (2018). In 2024, a revised edition of Queen's Gambit was published as Firebrand to mark the release of the novel's adaption into a major motion picture, starring Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr and Jude ...
The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes and starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson and a large ensemble cast. [1] The screenplay was by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove , based on the 1889 novel The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne .
The Uncanny X-Men #266 (Aug. 1990) is the first in-story appearance of Gambit, even though another book featuring him was published prior to it by mistake. [10] Cover art by Andy Kubert and Pat Brosseau. Gambit Volume One (1993) and Gambit Volume Two (1997) explored the character's mysterious past and his ties to the New Orleans Thieves' Guild.
Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction ...