Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Mann's new novel, "Joseph and His Brothers," have so far been sold in Germany. Translations of it have already been arranged in Italian, Danish, Polish, Dutch and English. In this country the book will be published in the Spring. Alfred A. Knopf has just sent the manuscript to the printer, and Mr. Elmer Adler, noted typographer and designer, is at work preparing the jacket. "Joseph and His Brothers" is Thomas Mann's first novel since 1924, when "The Magic Mountain," was published...
Doubleday, Doran have accepted for spring publication the manuscript of "the most horrible psychological murder story the editors collectively or individually have ever read." Its beguilingly innocent title is "Harriet," and its author is a pleasant young English-woman, Elizabeth Jenkins...
...book was the fruit of a life-long friendship between the author and Charles M. Russell, the cowboy artist who died a few years ago. Russell encouraged Tucker to write his memoris and had planned to illustrate them, but his death prevented it. Tucker's manuscript was edited by Grace Stone Coates, who has done an excellent job of preserving the authentic tone of the old cowboy's own expression...
...German Scholar Constantine Tischendorf. According to monks of the monastery, Tischendorf took the Codex to Cairo pleading that he must study it in a warm climate. He went to the Russian Consulate and, thus on Russian soil, defied the monks to get their Codex back. Tischendorf gave the manuscript to Tsar Alexander II who reimbursed the monastery with a paltry $3,500. Last week Porphyries III, Archbishop of Sinai, detailed all this in a long, indignant cablegram to the British Museum. The Archbishop demanded the Codex back, or else "substantial recognition" of its loss...
...MANUSCRIPT MURDER-George Limnelius-Crime Club ($2). A lifelong association of four men culminates in the murder of the most despised among them. Reading a detective story with these men as characters brings forth the killer...