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...Pirates. The first Hardy book to carry a U.S. imprint was his third novel, Under the Greenwood Tree. This was pirated by Henry Holt in 1873-i.e., it was copied from the original London edition without so much as a by-your-leave. Holt, however, immediately wrote to Hardy, explaining what he had done and promising that "you shall participate in the profits." This was high-class publishing in the 18703. Until international copyright became effective at the end of the 19th Century, publishers on both sides of the Atlantic (especially on this side) simply took whatever they liked...
...publishers, wrote from Sauk City, Wis., to ask whether he had anything on hand. The presiding genius of Arkham House is 3 7-year-old Sauk City-born August Derleth, an avid writer of supernatural tales himself. Derleth has brought out upward of a dozen books under the Arkham imprint, all of them dealing with ghostly matters. Among his latest books, under another imprint: Who Knocks?, a Derleth-edited anthology subtitled Twenty Masterpieces of the Spectral for the Connoisseur...
...N.A.M] uses facts and logic even if it's bad logic, and your N.A.M. spokesman gets up and begins to talk about Bolshevism, the American Way, and the evil forces that are out to ruin the country; and all that old-style . . . hogwash goes out with the imprint of the N.A.M. and the apparent sanction of American industry...
...Verdict. Allied air power, the board found, brought German economy to "virtual collapse." It made possible the success of the Normandy invasion. It left an imprint on the German nation which "will be lasting...
...Emperor died in 1862, so the story goes, his favorite concubine Yehonala sent a eunuch to the imperial death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...