In Memory of Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
†5 October 2011Now Reading
The Adventures of Tintin
The Black Island
Tony Blair - A Journey.
Hutchinson (2010)
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho.
Vintage Books, NY (1991)
Ernest Hemingway - Hemingway Short Stories.
The Folio Society, London (1986)
Monthly Archives: October 2011
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922
The Leatherbound Edition (right); The Standard Edition (Left) “Everything lovely, we go to the front tomorrow, we’ve been treated like kings.” The following sentence was written ‘on a postcard from a son to his father towards the end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Books, General
Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway Letters Project, Volume 1
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New Books for Christmas – Folio Society
The Folio Society are offering some new books for this Christmas with some offered at a discount of 20% (I believe only for members). The Christmas Catalogue contains a mix of newly published books, books published last year and a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fine Edition, Folio Society
Tagged Andrew Lang, Books, Carlo Collodi, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Christmas Catalogue, Douglas Adams, Fermat’s Last Theorem, Fine Edition, Folio Society, Folk Tales of Britain: Legends, In a Glass Darkly, Patricia Highsmith, Pinocchio, Ripley, Sheridan Le Fanu, Simon Singh, The Crimson Fairy Book, The Folio Society Calendar 2012, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Your Amazon.com order of “Steve Jobs” has shipped!
I received an e-mail yesterday from Amazon.com on my order made on October 6th, 2011, of Steve Jobs—a biography by acclaimed author, Walter Isaacson (author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life which I have in a publication by The Folio Society and Kissinger: A … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Books, error, Steve Jobs;, Walter Isaacson
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Some interesting things from the Folio Society [updated]
These are good times to be a member of The Folio Society. I am quite happy that the Production Director on the Limited Editions Programme, Mr Joe Whitlock Blundell has started a blog discussing future limited editions and their progress … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, British Library, facsimile, Fine Edition, Folio Society, Gulliver's Travels, Joe Whitlock Blundell, Limited Edition, National History Museum, Royal Geographical Society, Scott Polar Research Institute, Scott's Last Expedition, The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, The South Polar Times
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What’s the meaning of life? – Siri on iPhone 4S
What’s the meaning of life? — Siri on iPhone 4S Check out Siriously Weird here
Dickens 2012
Next year, marks the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth–February 7th, 1812, and we’re joining in for the fun to celebrate ye olde Dickens’ 200th birthday. There is a website up marking the celebration: Dickens 2012, which explains that: Dickens 2012 is … Continue reading
The Folio Society publishes Gulliver’s Travels LE
A new limited edition—Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. The Folio Society—Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, purports to be the account of a voyage by a surgeon and captain, Lemuel Gulliver. In fact, this biting … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Fine Edition, Folio Society, Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift, Limited Edition
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Remembering Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
I must confess that upon reflection, I am very fortunate to live in the times that we do. I have experienced and followed Apple Computer to have become Apple Inc.; seen the launch of the multicoloured iMacs in 1998 that … Continue reading
