05 March 2012

POD Cover of the Month: The Sky Pilot



Tutis Classics' edition of Ralph Connor's nineteenth-century novel about nineteenth-century settlers and ranchers in the foothills of nineteenth-century Alberta. At the centre of it all is Arthur Wellington Moore, a modest missionary come to convert cowboys. In the 1921 film adaptation he was played by tragic Hollywood figure John Bowers.


Some good soul has uploaded the entire thing to YouTube:



First edition:

The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills
Chicago: Revell, 1899

Runner up:


Tutis' take on The Man from Glengarry, the story of Ranald Macdonald, a nineteenth-century logger  who grows into manhood with the aid of a pious woman and the mighty Ottawa River.

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01 March 2012

Freedom to Read Week: Under the Hill


Under the Hill
Aubrey Beardsley, completed by John Glassco
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959

An elegant favourite, in both appearance and content, I've written about Under the Hill here and in my biography of John Glassco. There will be few words today... just some images of a work that was seized and destroyed by French authorities. This is one of roughly 1500 copies that escaped the flames.






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