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About meI have enjoyed reading since I learned to read in first grade. The first book I remember borrowing from the school library was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. I started buying and collecting books as a teenager and I have never stopped. My reading has, however, slowed down due to love and marriage, hockey, genealogy and family.

I have been a Boston University hockey fan for over two decades and I still enjoy watching the Terriers play, both at home and on the road. In 2005 BU started a women’s varsity program and I have also followed, supported and attended their games since the first one. I am looking forward to the continued improvement of both the men’s and women’s teams and many more seasons of watching and enjoying their games.

I have also been doing genealogical research for over 15 years, mostly on my wife’s family and my family. Of course, it is an impossible task; for every new ancestor you find there are two more to search for. I have yet to find any Mayflower ancestors, but I am not too disappointed, as have numerous ancestors who arrived as early as 1630 or so. I am also a descendant of Martha (Allen) Carrier, who was convicted of being a witch and hanged at Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.

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About my libraryI started reading SF as a young teenager and I have never stopped. SF books make up a large part of my library, but I also have a far amount of fantasy and mystery books. On the non-fiction side I have numerous books on ships, history and warfare, as well as biographies. I also have a large collection of school media guides, NCAA hockey guides, rules books, and college yearbooks in my library that I have obtained over the years to aid in my hockey research. My library also includes a fair number of genealogical books I have bought through the years.

GroupsBest Anthologies, Bostonians, Easton Press Collectors, Fans of Russian authors, Folio Society devotees, Richard III, Science Fiction Fans, Short Stories, The Last Cavalier

Favorite authorsIsaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Katherine Kurtz, H. Beam Piper, H. G. Wells, John Wyndham (Shared favorites)

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Thanks for the good info! I'll peruse the books you mentioned.

posted by PsibrReadHead at 4:36 am (EST) on Jul 18, 2011

Hi, Lucas
Got your name from the name that book post; I, too, am into genealogy. Are there any books you could recommend that are especially useful or websites other than Ancestry.com and FamilySearch and HeritageQuest? Also, how accurate do you find Ancestry.com as an aid in genealogical research? I find a lot of obvious errors as well as seemingly accurate threads. Do you go into the field for your research (county courthouses, churches, etc?) Any advice would be helpful. thanks.

posted by PsibrReadHead at 12:02 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2011

Sure...I love the EP one and when I compared it to the FS LE, I figured that the EP one had everything I wanted from the edition, and that I would be much more happy having the EP one and selling my LE for a more desirable edition. That was my thought. Dent also published a facsimile 20 years ago or so of the original as well that is pretty high quality, though certainly not of the EP beautiful leather.

posted by chase.donaldson at 5:45 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2010

Sorry, Sean, I have been meaning to let you know that the book arrived safely on Saturday - in absolutely perfect condition. Many thanks again for your very generous prize!

Ooshie

posted by Ooshie at 3:54 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2010

It arrived yesterday in fact in tip top shape. I just love it, especially the Beardsley illustrations! Many thanks.

posted by chase.donaldson at 11:21 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2010

Hi Lucas, I'll certainly take a look at the thread.
Cheers
ian

posted by ian_curtin at 10:34 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2010

What is the price of the box? I can at least pay for that

posted by chase.donaldson at 4:14 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2010

No bother at all, happy to be helpful.

Fiona

posted by HuxleyTheCat at 1:49 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2010

Hi there,

Thanks for the tip about an EP Civil War... I will investigate this

all the best

leopold

posted by lgreen666 at 8:02 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2010

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posted by vernefan at 5:56 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2010

Thanks very much for your reply. The Easton group is so generally inactive, I had given up hope of an answer. I shall certainly be interested now in getting this set.
All the best, Jonathan

posted by boldface at 5:34 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2009

You are so much neater at entering media guides than I am - are you scanning the covers or you've been able to find them on the team sites?

You may know this already but Dave Hendrickson writes Sci Fi in addition to covering Hockey East for USCHO.

posted by mwade at 4:02 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2008

Hi!
I saw you mention in a post over in the Christianity group that you're a descendent of Martha Carrier. Have you heard about a book comingout later this year called The Heretic's Daughter? It's a fictionalized account of Martha Carrier's life as seen through the eyes of her daughter, written by one of her descendents.

posted by makaiju at 11:38 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

I've received your book just today, and I need to thank you publicly for it.
I'll send you a note later, and something that I hope somehow reflects my gratitude. Thank you again.

posted by dtpena at 10:24 pm (EST) on Jul 1, 2008

Actually, the Arabian Nights sets I have are the Heritage Press 3 volume set designed and illustrated by Valenti Angelo from the 1960s, and the most recent Folio Society 6 volume version in the Powys Mather translation from a French translation of the original. The classic illustrations by Kay Nielsen are used, as well as newer illustrations by Grahame Baker, Debra Macfarlane, Roman Pisarev, Jane Ray and Neil Packer are used, and these are wonderful and in full color, though fewer in number than in the Heritage Press (black and white line drawings and ornamentation on virtually every page), and than in the Easton press multivolume edition, which uses a variety of illustrations from many sources (I haven't seen these volumes, only a flyer describing them).

I find the Powys Mather translation more readable and prefer it. I also prefer the Folio's full color illustrations, though I wish there were more--one for every tale would be nice! The Folio volumes are larger and heavier, but they are actually preferable to the Heritage Press for reading as the type is larger, the paper thicker, and each volume thinner than the three very fat Heritage Press books. The Easton Press version is in over 20 volumes which just seems to take up an unwarranted amount of shelf space.

posted by Django6924 at 11:21 am (EST) on Jun 7, 2008

Sean (sorry to have been calling you Lucas all this time!) -

I'm glad you found the info useful, and in turn thank you for the info on the different editions. How absolutely peculiar - THREE different editions? You're right though, that's surreal.

I'd still love to know what executive, in their infinite wisdom, decided it was a great plan to cut two of the books and use spine designs that don't match the books at all. I mean, I can't get a great view of the new spines, but it looks like the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Woodman, at very least, have been adapted from W. W. Denslow's illustrations for Wizard. Unfortunately, John R. Neill - who illustrated all the other books - worked in a very different style. So perhaps it helps to make the set look uniform, but it doesn't match the book interiors, so...yeah, I give up.

That said, the interiors do look beautiful, and going by the eBay listing of the second (I assume) edition they have reproduced the endpapers to DotWiz and ECity exactly, while MLand has no endpapers at all (the original edition had photographic ones). Based on that evidence I would guess they are using the '80s/'90s Books of Wonder facsimile editions after all - which would be confirmed if they all have Glassman afterwords. And those are beautiful editions, so you should be quite happy.

I'd be very curious to know if Wizard turns out to be slightly shorter than the other books. If not, they'll have had to add a slight top and bottom margin to match the height of the others. I believe that's what HarperCollins did when they took over Books of Wonder and immediately set about making the Oz facsimiles "uniform" (most obviously, changing the dust jackets to have uniform spines).

~S

P.S. Can you tell I've obsessed about Oz books for years and years and years? Like, since I was seven years old? ;)

posted by saroz at 11:43 pm (EST) on May 12, 2008

RE KRNPRNZ Wilhelm: pretty interesting read, it was hard for me to find. Thank goodness for the Internet!

posted by Ammianus at 8:04 am (EST) on Oct 18, 2007

A couple people here on LT have spoken highly of Piper: I've ordered a few more of his books from BookMooch and will have to re-acquaint myself and take another look.

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 10:48 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2007

When I saw your user name I knew you'd be a Space Viking fan!

posted by surly at 6:42 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2007