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Aug 22

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Today would have been Ray Bradbury’s 105th birthday and we are pleased to be celebrating his many contributions to science fiction and fantasy.

“Dandelion Wine,” published in 1957, is his semi-autobiographical novel. This copy is a first edition, signed by Bradbury - with a sketch of a dandelion.

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Aug 13

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Today we are celebrating the legendary life of “the father of science fiction,” H. G. Wells.

The author of The War of the Worlds (1898), The Time Machine. An Invention. (1895), The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance.(1897), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), and many more, Wells was a pioneer in Scientific Romance, which is now known as Science Fiction.

H. G. Wells was born September 21, 1866 and died on this day in 1946.

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Jul 22

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Where the likes of Kant, Tolkien, Dickens, Churchill, and Faulkner all meet.

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Jul 3

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“When I was alive and had a human heart, I did not know what tears were” from Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Tales.

From the large-paper limited first edition, number 21 of 75 copies, signed by Oscar Wilde and the publisher, David Nutt (London, 1888)

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Jun 9

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From the fourth edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (London, 1833).

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Jun 9

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Serving as Supreme Command of the Allied Forces in Europe, Eisenhower gave this message to the troops before D-Day.

The message is printed and signed in every copy of the signed limited first edition of “Crusade in Europe.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (Garden City, 1948)

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