Books published by publisher Children's Book-of-the-Month Club

Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman (not included in the account), he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the book.

Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six. Since their publication some seventy years ago, A.A. Milne's enchanting tales and playful verses have been treasured and adored by generations of children. When We Were Very Young, Milne's first book of poetry for children, appeared in 1924, followed in 1926 by Winnie-the-Pooh, a collection of stories about a slightly rotund Bear of Very Little Brain. These delightful poems and tales - starring Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin, and the others - were an immediate success and firmly, established Milne, already a notable dramatist, as a major author of children's books. Another volume of poetry, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927. In 1928, a second collection of stories, The House At Pooh Corner, continued the adventures of the Hundred Acre Wood and introduced the lovable, bouncy Tigger. Ernest H. Shepard's whimsical illustrations were based on real toys owned by Milne's son, Christopher Robin. The artist visited Cotchford Farm, the Milne country home in Sussex, where he sketched the child, the stuffed animals, and the surrounding countryside. The tales and poems of Winnie-the-Pooh are as popular today as when they were first created. Winnie-the-Pooh has appeared in twenty-one languages, including Hebrew, Afrikaans, Esperanto, and Latin. This special volume brings together all of the Pooh stories and all of the poems in one full-color, large-format book. The texts are complete and unabridged, and each of the original illustrations has been brilliantly recolored. Here are the beloved stories of Pooh stuck in Rabbit's doorway, playing Poohsticks on the bridge, an the oft-read poems, "Buckingham Palace," "Us Two," and so many more. Elegant yet simple, whimsical yet wise, this classic edition is sure to find a cherished place on every bookshelf.

First Book-of-the-Month Club printing. Originally published in 1928, this extended poem, set during the American Civil War, garnered Benét the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. Includes an introduction by Archibald MacLeish and eleven wood engravings by Barry Moser, which were printed by the Hampshire Typothetae under the eye of the artist. Endpapers are reproductions of manuscript pages from Book Eight of John Brown's Body from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Printed in Janson type with display type and initials set by hand in Great Primer Antique. Jacket spine faded, slip case faded around open edge. xv, iii , 360, 4 pages. quarter burgundy cloth, red cloth over boards, top edge red, dust jacket, cloth slip case with engraving tipped-in. large 8vo.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, first published in 1749 and known popularly as Fanny Hill, was one of the most famous novels of the eighteenth century and has been in print ever since. Though not the first erotic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has survived as both an illustrative social document and a keenly insightful look into the nature of sexuality.

"A long forgotten masterpiece. Well worth reading for anyone interested in the American Civil War or what poetry once was." " Benet casts a wide net with his storytelling choices, bringing in a mix of historical figures (Lincoln, Davis, and the various generals,character arcs and the main plots revolve around the fictional characters. There is Jack Ellyat, a Union soldier; Clay Wingate, a young Southern aristocrat who similarly goes to war; Melora Villas and Sally Dupre, the women they love (Melora being a frontier woman, Sally a Southern belle); various other soldiers and women; and a few slave characters, such as Wingate's loyal servant Cudjo and the runaway slave Spade. On the subject of the blacks, Benet makes a point that his "heart is too white" to really tell their story, but all the same he does a laudable job of recognizing the complexities of the southern slave system, a barbaric cruelty that all the same produced some enduring emotional ties between people that make little sense to us. He also reminds us that the North, while wanting to free the slaves (though this was ultimately up for grabs; Lincoln is given a revealing dialogue to the Almighty about whether or not he should release the Emancipation Proclamation), was not a bastion of racial equality. There is a final scene between a white Pennsylvania veteran and Spade that suggests a grudging briding of worlds through shared war experience. Benet employs various different verse styles in the course of the poem, from rhyming couplets to ABAB rhymes to free verse without rhyme and limited metre, to prose on a couple of occasions."