Pierre albert leroux biography books
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First edition. First English edition of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title. Colonial Issue. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, 6, vi, 122 pp., double column, illustrated from frontispiece and two plates by Cyrus Cuneo and drawings, advertisement for the "Daily Mail" Sixpenny Novels which lists the first 53 titles with this being title number 54 in the series. Well-preserved copy of Leroux's seminal "locked room" mystery, an important, early cornerstone of the genre. "The amateur detective in The Mystery of the Yellow Room and several later Leroux novels is Joseph Rouletabille, who has become a cub reporter for a Paris newspaper at the age of sixteen. Only two years have passed when the events of the novel take place, making him one of the youngest sleuths in adult mystery fiction. The case concerns Mademoiselle Strangerson, who had retired to bed in the room of the title. Her cries for help attract her father and a servant, who break down the locked door to find her bleeding and near death. The window is closed and barred, and she is alone in the room. A famous Surete detective, Frederic Larsan, investigates the case, but it is a young Rouletabille who finally solves it" (Pronzini & Muller, p.475). First serialized in the French periodical L&
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This exhibition in the Milstein Exhibition Centre at Cambridge University Library celebrates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris and shows some of the books that were published mainly in France, after August 1944 and before the end of 1946, on the subjects of the Second World War, the German occupation of France starting in 1940, and the country’s liberation by the Allies in 1944-1945. The books are from the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection, donated to Cambridge University Library and still being added to, which is the definitive collection of French books from this period on these subjects. The exhibition opens on May 7 and runs until October 11, 2014.
Beautiful books began to be published immediately after the liberation of Paris in August 1944 even though the war was still being fought in France. Once Paris was free and the Vichy government had collapsed there was no longer censorship, and it is the immediacy of this response and the quality of the books themselves that makes this period so interesting for the history of the book. The wide availability of fine, handmade papers at the end of the war is one of the discoveries of this collection.
Many of the volumes are association copies with important dedications, but it is
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