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My Tussle with the Devil was not seen as a mainstream book, most likely due to its unusual genre and the amount of skeptics that did not believe it was written by the ghost of O. Henry. One advertisement, however, was found in The Bookman Advertiser,…

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This item consists of an 1869 review of Little Women published by The Athenaeum, and a review of a biography about Luisa May Alcott from The Independent, which elegantly discusses Alcott’s writing, primarily Little Women. Together the two reviews…

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This group of advertisements is found at the end of the first edition of Little Women, part second found in Manhattan College’s Fales Collection. Two pages of the advertisements list some writings by Jean Ingelow, a fellow nineteenth-century female…

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Alfred K. Knopf considered his Borzoi Books to be of special value. According to Random House, Alfred K. Knopf was interested in publishing books by “the most distinguished writers of the day” and “he wanted to present their work in the most…

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The photograph was taken place as Zoe was waiting outside to try to get water and food from Bella Thorne. A group started to form and they put barricades up around the back entrance (where everyone had originally entered) and then the one girl who…