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Gunner and the Dumbo (first published in 1945) by Lieut. Dwight W. Follett, USNR, was written for his children at home. Gunner, a small black Boston terrier, is a flyer's mascot in a bomber in the...

H. G. Wells is well-known for his science fiction stories, from War of the Worlds to The Invisible Man, but he also wrote supernatural tales and strange fantasies. The stories run from the horrific...

British citizen Alexander Foote was recruited into a Soviet network of spies against Nazi Germany. Based in Switzerland, Foote was responsible for maintaining the network and forwarding information...

Chic Gaylord's Handgunner's Guide (first published in 1960) is the definitive manual on modern handguns and their use, written by a man who was a quick-draw record holder and an expert on combat...

This anthology collects a varied group of nineteen short stories where feet, hands, fingers, or toes make their mark: supernatural, psychological, or physical. Whether a haunting hand, a missing toe,...

M. P. Shiel died in 1947, but his dark imagination continues to influence writers and readers of weird and supernatural fiction today. These twelve stories demonstrate his talent for descriptive...

A reviled president, a politically-infused war, indecisive leadership, polarized partisan politics, war profiteering, foreign antipathy, and asymmetrical battle capabilities. . . . The War of 1812...

The horse is motion in physical form, and one of the favorite subjects of artists from all ages. In How to Draw Horses, John Skeaping offers notes on drawing the horse in its various modes of action...

Sydney R. Jones provides the artist with instruction and advice on drawing houses, including proportion, perspective, light and shade, and composition. Jones includes details on specific elements...

Norman Weaver provides a concise guide to drawing insects, with particular examination of anatomical peculiarities. Insects are everywhere, so there are plenty of available models, large and small,...

Frank A. A. Wootton offers good advice for artists wanting to try their hand at aircraft. Drawing planes (this book was published during World War II, so illustrations are from that period) is...

Vere Temple dives into the diversity of life found around ponds, from dragonflies and water beetles to salamanders and snails. She gives some notes on collecting specimens, and advice on artistic...

Cats are wonderful, if challenging, subjects for the artist. Mabel L. Greer provides instruction and inspiration for drawing the feline form. Published in 1940, this reprint brings back this expert...

Gregory Brown provides profiles of oak, elm, willow, apple, chestnut, and other trees for the artist who wishes to pursue trees as a subject. Brown begins with the basic elements: the branches,...

Vere Temple's guide to drawing wild flowers discusses the best methods for sketching them in their spring and summer varieties, along with the autumn berries and seedpods. Temple encourages the...

Under what circumstances is it not advisable to use a wood club in the fairway? What can be done to lessen the effect of the wind upon your shots? Is it ever sensible to use a putter from the short...

First published in 1949, this business classic (written by two men experienced in sales and advertising) melded practical business sense with the ignition for business success: imagination. The...

Homer Evans has a wacky group of friends who lead you all over Paris, up and down the Seine, through caf?s filled with celebrities, taxidermist shops, subway stations, the musty dens of Egyptologists...

Lilian Brown shares her early adventures with husband Barnum Brown (curator, American Museum of Natural History) on his paleontological expeditions to India and Burma. The focus here is not on...

The early Homer Evans mysteries were light-hearted frolics with crazy antics and cartoonish characters. One reviewer noted that The Mysterious Mickey Finn "has the delirious irresponsibility of a...

Invertebrata Enigmatica collects thirty classic sci-fi/fantasy short stories involving strange invertebrates. From giant arachnids to intelligent insects, the stories explore imaginative worlds where...

James Swinnerton (1875-1974) was a popular comic strip artist and a respected landscape painter. He began his professional comic art career for a Hearst newspaper in 1892, and is regarded as one of...

Dr. John Silence was Algernon Blackwood's most well-known character, investigating all manner of strange phenomena. In this collection, all six of the John Silence stories are brought together: A...

The Katzenjammer Kids first ran in a supplement to the New York Journal in 1897. It was created by Rudolph Dirks, inspired by an old German children's story, Max and Moritz. In 1912, Dirks took a...

Before King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, there was Charlemagne and his knights, chief of whom was Roland. L'?pine's story (with humor verging on satire) offers an often fantastical...

"In fashioning this life story of Elfego Baca we have made no attempt to set down in chronological order his deeds from birth to old age, but have been more concerned with those incidents which best...

Light Spirits collects 22 ghost stories of various shades: horrific tales, humorous jests, criminous masquerades, and emotional romances, all originally published for the entertainment of the late...

This volume brings together two classic ghost story collections. The first, Six Ghost Stories by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1919) is an antiquarian ghost story delight in the vein of M. R. James...

Herein an attempt has been made to correlate and condense more than two hundred historical tales and legends of lost mines. In some instances little more than a place is noted, in others, a short...

Lost gold mine stories are part and parcel of Old West folklore. Howard D. Clark regales readers with these stories of adventure and mystery from California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. This is a...