The Dusty Bookcase

Hardscrabble; or, The Fall of Chicago Major [John] Richardson New York: Pollard & Moss, 1888 113 pages A forgotten novel about forgotten...

Figure It Out for Yourself James Hadley Chase [René Raymond] Toronto: Harlequin, 1957 Cover copy informs that the plot has something to do w...

Being an addendum to the recent post on  The Translation of a Savage  by Gilbert Parker. Hollywood has blessed us with twenty-three adaptati...

The Translation of a Savage Gilbert Parker London: Methuen, [ c. 1897] 240 pages I'm writing this after having spent several hours shove...

The Modern Library is very dear to my heart. I discovered the imprint as an illiterate Kindergartner looking through his late father's b...