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Soft cover. Condizione: Fair to Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. Inventory # D487-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 4, No. 8 Issue 22, November-December 1951 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown COVER STORY/ ILLUSTRATION; YMA Sumac - Voices of The Incas Excerpt from You Will Survive After Death by Dr. Sherwood Eddy Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) The Dream That Paid Off by Philip Bartholomew (2) What Happened To The Mary Celeste? by Henry S. Galus (3) You Will Become A Queen by Albert A. Brandt (4) The Uneasy Dead Of Barbados by Edmond P. Gibson (5) Another Mysterious Cremation by Mary Fuller (6) The Captain Who Came To Tea by William H. Gilroy (7) I Saw Myself Bombed by As Told to Elizabeth Webster (8) The Voice From The Lake by William H. Gilroy (9) The Murder At The Old Chef Mullis Place by George L. Mock, Jr, ;** ARTICLES = (1) Does Man Have A Soul? by Dr. Donald West (2) The Bird Who Became A Woman by Ray Palmer & Jack Ross (3) Rain From The Hopi Snake Dance by O. E. Singer (4) Should Spirits Be Exorcised? by F. Terry-Newman (5) Is It Wrong To Study Psychic Phenomenon? Hereford Carrington (6) Do Vampires Exist? by Sam Berger (7) The Mind Tinkerer by Kurt Singer (8) The Mysterious Circles of Shasta by Johnny Noble (9) You Will Survive After Death by Sherwood Eddy; CONDITION; F/G; moderate handling wear, 5" X 1" PIECE MISSING BC PRICE = $22; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. GGA - Good Girl Art - Illustrated Cover. (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. First Edition. Vol. XXIV, New Series, vol. III -- Jan. to June, 1857; 8vo; 480 pages; Contemporary light brown half morocco over marbled paper covered boards - covers beveled at the edges, five raised bands, gilt lettered leather labels in red and black. iv & 480 pp. A handsome and sturdy private binding, with initials "D. C. T." in gilt at the foot of the spine. Moderate surface rubbing and scuffing. A very faint tide mark just visible around the edges of most of the leaves. The Southern Literary Messenger was founded by Thomas Willis White who served as publisher and, off and on, as editor until his death in 1843. Famously, Edgar Allan Poe served as an editor for several productive years, although White is alleged to have briefly fired Poe for excessive drinking (before Poe's official span as editor). Poe became one of the nation's most admired critics during this period -- after he left, White resumed editorial duties before hiring Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury (U.S. Navy) as editor from 1840 to 1843. White died in 1843, and a kinsman of Matthew Maury's, Benjamin Blake Minor served as editor and publisher from August 1843 to October 1847. The editorial chair was then taken by John Reuben Thompson, a poet, journalist (and UVA graduate), until 1860. During the years just prior to the Civil War, the pages of the Southern Literary Messenger became more and more devoted to issues and topics of interest mainly to Virginia and the southern states. In this volume, a detailed series of articles spread over four long installments appeared: "The Virginia Navy of the Revolution." Although unsigned, a later letter to the editor published in in the following volume attributed authorship to a University of Virginia classmate (and life-long friend) of John R. Thompson's -- Dr. William P. Palmer, of Richmond, who served as a Surgeon in the U.S., and then the Confederate States, Armies. Palmer is now best known as the compiler and editor of the "Calendar of Virginia State Papers" -- undertaken at the instance of the Virginia government. Palmer's work involved examination, classification and publication of all the State Papers in the files of the Capitol. He had a long career as an historian devoted to Virginia topics, and contributed over 100 articles on Richmond history to the "Richmond Times" in the 1880's and '90's. He also had been Vice President of the Virginia Historical Society. Two years after his significant treatise on the Virginia Navy of the Revolution appeared in these pages, Palmer witnessed the hanging of John Brown, present as a member of the newly organized "Richmond Howitzers." Palmer died in 1892. Highly unusual for any of the American colonies in the south, the provisional government of the Virginia Colony authorized the purchase, outfitting, and manning of armed vessels to protect the colony's waters from threats posed it by the British Royal Navy. And while the history of those times was, and remains, of great interest, it does not take much historical imagination to realise that the author, the editor, and many of the readers were preparing themselves for another unusual attempt by Virginia to build, outfit and staff a naval fleet. Indeed, after the state of Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861, it briefly had naval forces of its own. Matthew F. Maury (former Southern Lierary Messenger editior, and, by then, world famous as an oceanographer, etc.) resigned his commission in the U. S. Navy to throw his lot in with his native state. these were eventually adopted by the Confederate States Navy. It is worth noting that another famous man, who also resigned his U.S. military commission, Robert E. Lee, was appointed as head of both the Army and Navy of his newly-succeded state. The second Virginia Navy had a short official existence as it was absorbed into the Confederate States Navy when Virginia joined the Confederate States of America on June 8, 1861. The entire text of Dr. William P. Palmer's inspirational treatise on the first Virginia Navy appears in four of the six issues bound in this volume -- [see pp. 1-20; 134-148; 210-221; and 273-285]. This volume also contains John P. Kennedy's "A Legend of the Chesapeake" and a substantial account of the events celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown -- including the text of an address delivered by former United States President John Tyler, who also chose to align with Virginia after succession, winning election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death, early in 1862.…