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fmi trmm June 10 19C2 The Sunday Herald-Leader 65 Garrard Gold In Your Attic by Van Allen Bradley Congreve Novel Example Of Genuine Rarity Word Leaving Prompts Mail To Discover His Hidden Faults is "Good Lord! the ass supposed to say Thank yon Mr President! New Encyclopedia Has Astronaut Orbital Flight The terma "ran" and are used loosely In the rant book business and often too loosely In- the opinion of purist book dealers Purists feel that "scarce" Is generally preferable for all hard-to-find books and that should be reserved for those books that are sometimes described in dealer catalogs as "excessively" rare or scarce Such a rare book for example might be the first edition of William Congreve's novel of which there are only four copies known The last copy to appear for sale in America was collector A Edward Newton's which brought $300 at auction in 194L Its title page reads: INCOGNITA: OR LOVE AND DUTY RECONCIL'D A NOVEL (rule) Licens'd Decern b- $2 1ML (rale) LONDON Printed for Peter Buck at the Sign of the Temple near Temple Bar la Fleet-street 1962 The title-page text is framed In double rules The original bind ing is sheepskin Have Yon A Have "Yon A Question JD: The rare first issue of the first edition of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" (New York 1851) has a red binding and orange end papers Them are several other colors of end papers known the least desirable being white Fine copies of the first edition sell for $500 or mom at retaU Mrs Prices referred to in this column are retail values Dealers pay less of course roughly 50 per cent of retail value is about all you can expect to obtain from a dealer This is fair considering the nature of the rare book business Miss LS: The scarce first issue of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" (New York 1936) bears the date "May 1936" on the copyright page A fine copy in the dust Jacket is worth around $30 to $35 at retail Mrs FSJ: Your Lew (New York 1880) is a first edition first issue if it has a dated title page a six-word dedication the Wife of My pages of ad vert is-ments at the end of the book and a light blue binding with floral decorations The words Now Abides with Me" were added to the dedication in later Issues of the book A fine copy for the first issue is worth $150 of more at retail Miss GN: The first edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarsan of the Apes" (Chicago 1914) Is scarce and sells at retail for $10 to $50 if in fine condition DMC: There is no hard-and-fast rule for identifying first editions A general rule of thumb is that if tbs date on the title page is the same as the copyright date the chances are the book is a first edition There are many exceptions however Dr FN: Your Joseph Hodgson's Cradle of the Confederacy" (Mobile 1876) is a first edition of a acarce book A fine copy should retail at around $25 Miss and others: In listing books (either for this column or for book dealers) please give the following information: Title author date of publication (from title page) place (from title page) copyright date (from back of title page) description of binding description of condition (Selected reader questions will be answered in this column Address: Van Allen Bradley in care of The Herald-Leader) scrutiny a pitiless and torturing examination by microscope searrhlight ray the blond pressure the pulse the cardiogram of the inner man the spirit and the mind He is seen from the point of view of his mixed heritage He is pictured through tlie eyes of the young woman with whom he had an affair at college of the various men who either ask him for a Job or elevate him to his present position of friends of acquaintances of associate of office help of the former wives of the girls with whom he spent his spare evenings after Julie left of Julie herself never take enough time off from thinking about yourself to know how anyone else feels" one of his loves accuses him bitterly and In i cornered into a blunt consideration of secret determination to everything ttie way 1 want it" Scope Is Boundless Though there is enough in these pages to make two or three novels the scope Is bound less after til pattern set by Lawrence DurrcII Richard Hughes and others he envisages a work three times the length of this with "The Generation of Adam" as owral! title and two more upcoming bonks at the Well" and "The Banks of Jabbock" However enthusiastic a reader feels he hesitates to say what he thinks about a work still so Immensely incomplete and a work furthermore professedly autobiographical Bid the tragedy of man's irreconcilable public and private lives is already gripplngly clear the tale is told with a mastery of tlie nmelst's craft there is a richly various cast and the promise is bright Rogers COLLIER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA Louis A Shores Editor to Chief CroweO-CoUler Publishing Co $29650 to $536 (de- pending on binding) Keeping up with the world Is not the simple task of a few years ago since any published report may well be outdated before the Ink dries but a new edition of Encyclopedia" include! events so current the echoes are still being heard Figuratively speaking the Ink is still the final (24th) volume containing index and bibliography la stiR to preparation Typical of the up-to-date timeliness is a report in the lengthy spare section of Glenn's orbital flight a few months ago Equally impressive to the detailed coverage of it new nations and its political and aconomic changes Began Work In early 1959 the editorial staff of Cdllier's and a specialty selected group of 134 outside authorities began work on a thorough revision of the entire content The authorities were instructed to recommend necessary replacements additions deletions and updating To assure objectivity the editors called upon reviewers who had not previously been associated with the Encyclopedia This operation was undertaken in addition to Collier's annual program of "continuous revision" The results of the artide-by-article review appear for the first time in this 1962 edition The Encyclopedia has been enlarged from 20 volumes and the number of words has been to-creased by a third A map program was developed by Rand McNally cartographers and 1450 new maps have been added A significant number of the photographs and drawings also appears for the first time many of them to color Among more than 4400 statesmen scientists religious leaders authors and educators who contributed to the edition are President Kennedy Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter Dr Paul Dudley White Margaret Mead Robert Graves and a host of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners Regional and local interest are supplied by such contributors as Dr Clark and Dr A Klrwan University of Kentucky Department of History Dr Dickens Admirers Schedule Meeting In US By JERRY BUCK WHITE This 111 nitration by Leonard Slooevsky from "The White House by Nanette Kutaer an unusual presentation of the growth and changes in the White House for young people tea years old and up It is a series of Vignettes part poetry part narrative and part dramatic dialogue How Four Men Expressed Their Sweeping Theories THE HANDS OF ESAU by Hiram Haydn Harper $750 What asks Walton Herrick is wrong with Walton Herrick? From late winter 1953 to early fall tall handsome sue- cessful but Industriously introspcc- cessful but Industriously lntrospcc tive hero considers hia problem keeps you reading with keeps you reading more interest than you have expected an author to be able to arouse and sustain for a solid 784 pages I From the point of view of the -man in the street or (he usual reader or the novelist who hov- James McCfinkry former head of English at Moreliead now at Cornell University and the late Grant Knight of the UK Department of English Dr Keith Hollingsworth of Wayne University in Detroit listed to the Humanities Section of the advisory board formerly taught at Berea College Scores Big The worth of an encyclopedia Is determined primarily by the reliability of its contributors and the completeness of its text Collier's scores big in both categories Articles are sufficiently detailed to cover the subject yet never padded to indulge the' whims and prejudices of the contributing author Topical algebra and music for are so thoroughly documented and detailed as to represent virtual study courses for the layman In Journalistic parlance a picture is worth its weight in words If this be true Collier's is loaded: The Encyclopedia with some 17000 illustrations is the best Illustrated reference set available today And this is but one of numerous features which give this 1962 edition a rating of superior Henry Hornsby religion without bigotry of charity without coldness of universal philanthropy and human kinahip" His admirers not only collect and read and reread the complete works of Dickens but also everything that has been written about him At the conference sessions today die speaker is Edward Wagenknccht author of Man Charles Dickens" Sunday a Dickens commemorative service will be held at Arlington Street Church in Boston and In the evening there will be a symposium on Present and Future Directions of Dicken Criticism" Taking part will be George Ford author of "Dickens and Hia Reader" Edgar Johnson author of "Chari Dickens: Hi Trendy and HUlls Miller author of Dicken The World of Hia and Syl-vera Monod author of "Dickens Homancier" Monday will he devoted to a tour of historic Cambridge Mass with a tea at Longfellow House There will be a farewell supper at which a bust of the author will be presented to Fellowship officials It will be added to the Fellowship's headquarters House" at 48 Doughty Street London where (he author wrote ana or two of bis early novels Nixon Book Gaining Doubleday reports that Crises" by Richard Nixon is steadily gaining in rate of sale A third fainting of the controversial bod: has been ordered When delivered the now printing will mean that 110700 copies of "Six Crises" are in circulation On Reading Although the reading of books may not bo essential for virtue health or happiness those who do read books will never understand why some do sot How ean anyone bear to miss such incomparable sources of delight information understanding intellectual growth end vicarious experience? Orville Prescott 5 i I Genealogy Reprinted RNO GOVERNOR GARRARD OF KENTUCKY IUS DESCENDANTS AND RELATIVES AND A POSTSCRIPT ABOUT THE GARRARD FAMILY by Ansa Russell dea Cognets and Lauis dea Cognets Jr Privately printed $8 Anna Russell dea Cognets devoted the latter years of her life to a study of the genealogy of her family and an effort to preserve the Information for her children and future generations A took "William Russell and His Descendants" was a result appearing in 1884 and a second book "Governor Garrard of Kentucky His Descendants and was issued in 1896 Both were published "for the family" and in comparatively mall editions Mrs dea Cognets was the daughter of Col Thomas Allen Russell of Fayette County who at 16 had fought in the Battle of the River Raisin aid Sarah Lewis Garrard granddaughter of Gov James Garrard of Kentucky The two hooka covered both there branches of her ancestry Interest Continues Although the books long have been out of print tatereat in them has continued through the years not only in the family but among genealogists and students of Kentucky history Partly in response to this demand partly because of his own deep interest in the subject her grandson Louis des Cognets Jr of Princeton formerly of Lexington hat republished both of them adding to each an index and considerable information which he has compiled during a pfete painstaking effort to com the record They are a pair of reference volumes of considerably greater value than the usual genealogical works The Russell Family in Virginia" appeared lata In 1960 (when it was reviewed on this page) and the Garrard book has Just come from the press James Garrard hire dea Cognets relates was bran in Stafford County Virginia in 1749 and served in the militia during the Revolution and in the Virginia Legislature Moving to Bourbon County in 1768 he occupied a prominent position in the life of the Western territory served In several of the Danville conventions helped win statehood for Kentucky and wee a member of the Kentucky Legislature In 1796 he was elected governor and waa re-elected is 1800 under a new Constitution a circumstance that made him the oily governor ever to serve two consecutive terms Only three yean after Ms arrival in Kentucky ha built hi home Mount Lebanon which till standi near Paris He helped create the town of Paris for which he suggested the name He waa Baptist minister early in life but later became a Unitarian He also favored- a constitutional amendment excluding slavery from Kentucky One of Gov children was Gen James Garrard who fought in foe War of 1812 and notably in the Battle of the Thames and served in the state Legislature It waa hia daughter Sarah Lewis Garrard who in 1829 married CoL Thomas Allen Russell and it was their daughter Aims Russell who in 1856 married Dr Hypolite dea Cognets and in her later years wrote the two bOfllr Dr dea Cognets waa a native of Bretagne who came to New Orleans and then to Lexington when ha waa graduated from the Medical Department of Transylvania University and for a time waa a physician at Eastern State Hospital Louis dea Cognets Jr In hia "Postscript About the Garrard Family" has augmented the record correcting it in some respects and adding material which had escaped Mrs dea attention and has carefully appraised the data Interesting bits of Kentucky lore are scattered through both parts of the book Fur instance Mrs des Cognets mentions that the first pianoforte in the state waa made in 1801 at Frankfort by ooe John Goodman for Elizabeth a daughter of the governor And Mr dea Cognets quotes a letter written Ire Thomas Allen RusseiL describing anted Cassius day and Capt Brown in their famous knife and pistol fight at Russell Cave Tba book may be obtained from Louis des Cognets Jr PO Brat 163 Princeton N-J Breton Milward Hannan Station Story Is Told Brief History of Harman a nine-page pamphlet has been issued by the Johnson County Historical Society and the Paintavilla Herald as a meana of calling attention to the historical background of the Big Sandy region Matthias Harman a Pennsylvanian of German or Prussian extraction waa one of the men who hi the mid-1700 crossed the Allegheny Mountains and hunted In the territory that now is Kentucky In about 1755 the pamphlet relates he and hia associates built a "lodge" on (he Big 1 Sandy River and some 30 yean Hater a small fort there the I first settlement made in Eastern Kentucky The pamphlet also describes the capture of the pioneer heroine Jennie Wiley from her cabin near Station her captivity and eventual escape from the 'Indians It concludes with a plea for the restoration of Hannan Station as a historical attraction that be of untold value to the Big Sandy Valley" BM KUStcTlOOK STORES Cy ltd a jjj? 4 ft i -Vs 1 f'ty I HIRAM HAYDN era with Olympian omnipotence over his characters Walton seems to have about all a man could ask for He is a foundation executive who has just won popular applause for standing up to the badgering of a congressional committee He was poor but has money: he came from a shabby parsonage and now inhabits an expensive home in a Connecticut suburb of New York City He has a wife his beautiful and some healthy intelligent children He has just been ottered the Democratic nomination for governor Iter Word First But the public well-being is the contrary of the private dilemma When he comes home at llie very opening of the novel to tell Julie lie is being urged to run for the i state's highest office she gets in i her word first "Walton I'm going to leave you" This sets him off on an exhausting search for those hidden faults which will explain her blunt rejection of what everyone else accepts what indeed everyone else applauds: the living image of achievement the Herrick whose ambition had driven him up and up to pinnacles beyond ordinary mortal reach Walton is not the first of his probing querying line Almost three centuries before a William Herrick had paused to his soul and take the soundings Now Walton gets the works It's a sort of clinical Best Sellers The weekly coast-to-coast surrey of leading booksellers by the Herald Tribune News Service shows the following books at the top of the best seller list The number to the right of each title indicates the number of weeks the book has qualified as a "Best Fiction SHIP OF FOOLS by Katherine Anne Porter Human race on a vovace to eternity (8) THE AGONY AND TIIE ECSTASY by Irving Stone Fictional biography of Michelangelo (63 1 FRANNY AND ZOOEY by Salinger Two stories of the Glass family (38) DEVIL WATER by Anya Seton English aristocrats and Virginia pioneers in the Jacobite uprisings (13 THE BULL FROM THE SEA by Mary Renault Further adventures of Theseus sequel to "The King Must (14' HORXSTEIVS BOY by Robert Trarer A Midwestern lawyer campaigns for the Senate (6) THE FOX IN THE ATTIC by Richard Hughes England and Germany between the two World Wars (16) A PROLOGUE TO LOVE by Taylor Caldwell A wealthy rise from an impoverished childhood (26' YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE by Herman Wouk Long saga of a successful novelist from the Kentucky hills (2 THE BIG LAUGH' by John O'Hara Hollywood in the 1930s HD Nonfiction CALORIES DON'T COUNT by Herman Taller New reducing plan 26i TIIE ROTHSCHILDS: A family portrait by Frederic Morton Two hundred years of a remarkable family (13) MY LIFE IN COURT by Louis Nizer Memoirs of a leading trial lawyer (28) IN THE CLEARING by Robert Frost New collection of poems (8) SIX CRISES by Richard Nixon Six rrucial episodes in his career 1 10) THE GUNS OF AUGUST by Barbara Tuehman Drama of World War I's initial campaign (16) SCOTT FITZGERALD by Andrew Turnbull A biography-memoir based largely on personal association (9 THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE: New Testament New translation (63) THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1960 by Theodore White Politics and personalities of an ejection year (46) A BRIDGE FOR PASSING by Pearl Buck Memoir of the year after the death of her husband (1) Puzzle Solution Ph 2-0639 Associated Press Writer For the first time since it was founded 60 years ago the Dickens a worldwide organization of admirers of the English author Charles la meeting to America The place to appropriate It Is Boston the first American city In which he aet foot and one of the few places to America that met with hia appnnraL Usually these conferences are held to England though ones or twice they have been to other European eitiea There are appropriate anniversaries to garnish the present occasion It waa 92 yean ago yesterday that Dickens' death occurred at hia home Gad's HID in Kent England Earlier this year on Feb 7 there waa the 150th anniversary of hia birth at Portsmouth England And It was Just 120 years ago that he made the first of his two visits to the United States First Visit The writer was only 30 years old on that first visit hut already had published half a dozen hooka He found American diatoms shocking loathed the Incessant tobacco chewing and pitting and was upset by the Invasion of his privacy He hated Negro slavery and more to the personal point waa unhappy about this refusal to take part to an international copyright agreement that would have assured him of American royalties But he made it dear that he adored Boston During hia second visit in 1867-88 he made the Parker House hia headquarters and the current meetings have WITH Charles Dickens reads to his two daughters The Dickens which reads works by and about this English author is meeting for the first time in America Ilerald-Leacler Crossword Puzzle 47 Hippodrome rraw 50 Tri 53 Musical syllable 05 Slangy ultimatum: 0 worda 88 Mine prod acta 80 rHfMng plants 60 Metal 01 Nuisance 63 Hangs fire 63 About: 3 words the same Parker House is their focal point The 'hotel maintain a Dickens Room in his memory The Dickens Fellowship is made up of English-speaking men and women whose purpose is to exemplify the teachings of the author and "to cultivate and diffuse the spirit which pervades 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