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LITRIX LIBRARY Print editions selected from the on-line Litrix Reading Room (www.litrix.com). We are building a growing and eclectic series of hard-to-find works in an attractive, uniform format, suitable for both the casual reader and the library collector, at bookstore-comparable prices. We welcome suggestions of U.S. public-domain works (i.e., published prior to 1923); contact via e-mail rraven@acsalaska.net. We are also prepared to produce special editions of such works upon commitment to purchase a minimum number for purposes such as instructional and classroom use.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Mark Twain's own favorite among his works, the product of a life-long obsession with the history of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc was a failure in terms of sales and has remained obscure and largely out of print for more than a century since its publication. It is, in reality, a much more lively book than its reputation would indicate, and no reader can claim to understand Twain's canon without having read this novel. The initial offering in the Litrix Library series (see also www.litrix.com).

Print: $16.98

Borderlands: Four Horror Fantasies
Four works of British writer William Hope Hodgson, a major influence in the development of modern horror fiction, including The House on the Borderland. Volume 2 in the Litrix Library Series (see www.lulu.com/litrix).

Print: $15.98

Java Head
Classic novel of mid 19th-Century America, by Joseph Hergesheimer (newly edited and with a Foreword by Robert Raven). Two families engaged in the Far East merchant sailing trade confront challenges from new technology, foreign cultures and their own passions and flaws, in the staid old town of Salem, Massachusetts. Volume 3 in the Litrix Library, a growing series of books for readers and collectors, printed in association with the Litrix Reading Room (www.litrix.com), one of the Internet's premier free literary websites. Other volumes to appear shortly.

Print: $12.98

King--of the Khyber Rifles
Redoubtable Captain Athelstan King of the Royal Indian Secret Service must prevent a jihad, alone, in the guise of an Afghan doctor. One of the great adventure novels of all time, a selection of the Litrix Library, in conjunction with the Litrix Reading Room (www.litrix.com), one of the Internet's premier free on-line literary sites. More volumes in this series to follow shortly.

Print: $15.98

Tales of a Dreamer
"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man." Thus begins one of the characteristically hypnotic fantasy tales by the unique Lord Dunsany, often considered the founder of modern fantasy fiction. Another addition to the Litrix Library series of great books associated with the free on-line Litrix Reading Room (http://www.litrix.com), this volume contains three of Dunsany's original collections.

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The Delight Makers
Novel of the pre-European American Southwest, by pioneering anthropologist Adolf F. Bandelier. The author has been given lasting memorial through the honorary naming of the spectacularly scenic Bandelier National Monument near Santa Fé, New Mexico. His novel is the product of a lifetime's gathered knowledge, and is a haunting and highly readable fantasy based on his life's work.

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Nature Green in Tooth and Claw
Five novellas of the strange and unsettling supernatural in the natural world, by one of the last century's giants in dark speculative fiction. Includes "The Wendigo", "The Willows", "The Man Whom the Trees Loved", "The Garden of Survival" and "Sand". Volume 7 in the Litrix Library series of great books.

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Darkness and Dawn
A man and woman awaken in the ruins of a New York skyscraper to find the world they knew destroyed in an unknown apocalypse. Armed with little but their wits, they must re-create a new world and resurrect the hopes of humankind. A trilogy in a single volume, one of the seminal works of the Golden Age of early Science Fiction.

Print: $20.98

Child of Storm
A further adventure of the renowned Allan Quatermain, the great hunter-hero of King Solomon's Mines.

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The Valley of Silent Men
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant James Kent, in the belief that he is terminally ill and about to die, confesses falsely to a murder, to save the life of another innocent man. But nobody really believes him, and to make matters worse, he isn't about to die. Then he falls in love with a young and mysterious French Canadian woman, who claims to know the truth about the murder, but won't tell him what it is. A tale of adventure and romance from that Northern sub-genre of the classic early 20th-Century Western.

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The Untamed
Nobody really knows Dan Barry, not even Old Joe Cumberland, who found him as a boy wandering alone in the desert and raised him as a son. Slight of build, mild of manner and voice, the only man who can ride his wild stallion or tame his fearsome wolf-dog, Whistling Dan is known to be deadly with a gun and with his hands. And it's definitely a bad idea to make him angry, no matter how many of you there are. The first volume of the Dan Barry trilogy, one of the earliest works of the prolific writer known as Max Brand.

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The Night Horseman
Old Joe Cumberland is dying, and hanging on in hopes of seeing his foster son before he goes. But Whistling Dan Barry is gone, lost somewhere in the vast mountain-desert, an enigmatic ghost no one knows, not even Cumberland's daughter Kate, who is in love with him. When Dan is found, he is already embroiled in a revenge duel to the death with the fearsome mountain man Mac Strann, and only when that is finished will he return.

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The Seventh Man
Whistling Dan Barry, along with his wild stallion and fearsome wolf-dog, saved Vic Gregg's life. Now Vic must betray him, but ultimately it is up to someone much closer to Dan Barry to face him, with death on the line. The final volume of Max Brand's Dan Barry trilogy.

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The Spoilers
A romance of the famed Nome, Alaska gold rush. One of the entries in the Litrix Reading Room Tales of the North section, by famed author Rex Beach.

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The King in Yellow
It is a book such virulent evil that even a glance leads one down a path of madness and death. That book's title is The King in Yellow, as is this one, Robert W. Chambers's collection of semi-related tales about a spectral being who can control individual destinies from a distant and monstrously cursed planet. It is an odd amalgam of two books, really, the initial stories centering on the spectral horror theme, the later ones being more or less conventional romances set in the Bohemian Quarter of Paris in wartime in the late 19th Century. These stories exercised major influence on later writers in the Horror genre, in particular H. P. Lovecraft.

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A Voyage to Arcturus
A Pilgrim's Progress dressed up in the garb of a science-fiction adventure, this novel has become a legend of SF history, and is certainly one of the most strangely hypnotic of such works from the early days of the genre. An examination of human morality and mortality, love and passion, good and evil, A Voyage to Arcturus looks at human qualities in their extreme form, and doesn't much like what it sees. It presages the great space trilogy of C. S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength), and clearly influenced it.

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The Man Who Laughs
Sold into captivity, brutally disfigured to become an object of amusement for the English nobility, the child Gwynplaine grows into manhood as a travelling entertainer, in love with the blind girl Dea, who is incapable of comprehending his monstrous appearance. But his true past arises to change his life completely, and open to him a world far uglier than any mere external appearance can display. A searing indictment of social injustice, by a master novelist with few peers at rendering into fictional form political satire and moral outrage.

Print: $21.98

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