mutterings and ravings no. 89
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:51:52 -0500
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From: Harry Nudel <nudel-soho@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: m&r...not my cup of sea, too...
I just changed about an hour ago the O'brian MASTER AND
COMMANDER...from 175 to 285...5 minutes later somebody e-mailed an order at
the BETTER price..some one five minutes after that called..sz there's an
article in Wash. Post...let the deady bury the dead..and the living eat
Cheesecake...at the Palm Too...where we just went ystr for post-x-mas gift
cert. lunch...take it away Jeff..the TIME'S obit mentioned that O'brian
published a novel before he was 21 under his real name..about a
panther??...no titles come up under his real name...looked it up quick as
you could say money in the bank....should have raised it some more...more
cheesecake...less dust's my mottoe...let the calls begin...if you know the
answer come over for some coffee...and...cake...offer expires as i eat
it..DRn...
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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:19:28 -0800
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From: First Editions <finebooks@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: m&r...not my cup of sea, too...
--- Harry Nudel <nudel-soho@MINDSPRING.COM
> wrote:
> the TIME'S obit
> mentioned that O'brian
> published a novel before he was 21 under his real
> name..about a
> panther??...no titles come up under his real
> name...looked it up quick as
> you could say money in the bank....
Patrick O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ. Under
this name he wrote the following books:CAESAR: THE LIFE STORY OF A PANDA LEOPARD. (Putnam's.
London & New York, 1930). Illustrations by Harry
Rountree. [apparently the story of the, um, "union" of
a giant panda and a snow leopard].BEASTS ROYAL. (Putnam. London, 1934). Illustrated by
C. F. Tunicliffe. [short stories].HUSSEIN: AN ENTERTAINMENT. (OUP. London, 1938).
[published in Germany in 1939 as HUSSEIN: DER
ELANFANTENFUHRER].
Regards, Jeff
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