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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
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The Judas Rose (Native Tongue, #2)
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 45 (March/April 2022)
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Projections
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About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community
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Native Tongue Trilogy
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Moby Dick: Deluxe Facsimile Edition: or the Whale
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Best of 2020
In a chaotic year unlike anything I’ve ever experienced, books have remained a stabilizing force in my life: they can both calm and intrigue, bring challenge and joy. Here are 15 of my favorite rare books I sold at my company Type Punch Matrix amid the ups and downs of a difficult year.
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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1817
This is the 1817 third edition of Austen’s best loved novel, the first ed
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“Of course, everyone reads novels, not just women, and not just younger women. But they were most often criticized as dangerous for that particular demographic, who were considered so impressionable that they were susceptible to imitating what they read.”
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“The historian Randolph G. Adams said, “Each generation has to rewrite history for itself—and sometimes from the same sources used by previous generations.”
― Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
― Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
“. . . the critics who shaped our modern idea of the novel in English so frequently dismissed women writers that the systematic excising has a name. It’s called the Great Forgetting. Only Austen survived that period . . .”
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
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“We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.”
― On Balance
― On Balance
“[Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.”
― New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
― New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
