Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be a change in this year's Red Book concerning the smokers and the dinner. Not only will there appear pictures of the dinner and one of the smokers, but there will also be printed photographs of the Entertainment and Dinner Committees...
...Book will cost much more to publish than that of any previous year, the rough estimate of the cost being $3,200 to $3,300. This increase in cost is the result of the many cuts and photographs to be printed. Over fifty snapshots will be printed this year--nearly three times as many as the number used last year...
...Book will be bound this year in the same limp red leather binding as that used last year. The cost of the book will also be the same, $1.50 for members of the Freshman class, and $2 for all other persons...
...inscribed copy of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a valuable copy of the first authorized American edition of the book. It was published by Charles Scribner's of New York in 1886. The real interest in the book, however, centres about the inscription. Stevenson gave the volume in 1886 to his dear friend and collaborator in his dramatic works, William Ernest Henley. Four plays were written by the two writers, but most of the plays of Stevenson were unsuccessful. The four works were "Admiral Guinea," "Bean Austin," "Macaire," and "Deacon Brodie." The inscription Stevenson wrote on the fly-leaf...
...copies were struck off of "The Beach of Falesa," and these were used only for purposes of copyright. The book, which is cheaply bound, was recently sold at auction in London for $800. A few years later, however, Stevenson incorporated the story, with "The Bottle Imp" and "The Isle of Voices," into "Island's Nights Entertainments." The edition of ten was the only ever printed of "The Beach of Falesa" as a separate volume. It was published by Cassell and Company of London in 1892, and has many variations from the narrative as it appeared in the later collection. Many...