The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Press, Peruse

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Mystery

Peruse Press

New reformatted edition (not low-quality scans of an old book) which includes ten black and white illustrations of Joshua Reynolds's art. As the most successful portrait painter in 18th century England, and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, Sir Joshua Reynolds delivered fifteen eloquent discourses at the annual or semi-annual awards presentations, instilling encouragement in the students, and providing a concise summary of art theory that continued to influence artists well into the 19th century. This volume presents a selection of seven of the discourses, that are essential reading for understanding the development of British art.

Seven Discourses on Art

Arts & Photography

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

History & Criticism

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "The Virginian" was the first western genre novel introducing the cowboy as a romantic hero. Set in Wyoming, Wister weaves a tale of action, violence, hate, revenge, love and friendship that revolves around the Virginian's confrontations with a rival gambler, chasing cattle thieves, and an ongoing romance with the local schoolteacher from back east who is not used to the wild west. Owen Wister is the "father" of western fiction. Like his friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister became fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the west after his first trip to Wyoming in 1885. Wister was a lifelong friend of the famous western artist Frederic Remington, and Mount Wister in Grand Teton National Park is named after the author.

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Literature & Fiction

WISTER, OWEN

Genre Fiction

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is the story about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River, and the fun, clever, and occasionally harrowing situations he encounters with his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher. Cover painting by Winslow Homer, 1878.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

TWAIN,MARK

Classics

New 6x9 inch paperback edition with restored text. Challenging the prevailing morals of the Victorian era, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered by many to be the first feminist novel. This is a story of marital betrayal set within a moral framework tempered by an optimistic belief in universal salvation. The main character, Helen, is spirited and forthright, unafraid to speak with frankness to the men in her life. Anne Brontë portrays this approvingly, in contrast to the meekness of Milicent who is trampled and ignored by her unrepentant husband. Helen leaves with her beloved son in tow, arriving at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years. The second and final novel by Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was first published in 1848 in three volumes under the pseudonym Acton Bell. It achieved instant success, however, after Anne's untimely death the next year, her sister, Charlotte, prevented its re-publication until six years later.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Bronte. Anne.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer’s Comrade

<p>New reformatted edition (not low-quality scans of an old book) which includes a biography of William Morris Hunt and 18 b/w illustrations of his art not found in earlier editions. "Talks About Art" presents a compilation of quotes from William Morris Hunt's inspirational advice to his art students, emphasizing a painterly technique with visible brushwork, using values for the modelling of form, and the importance of the rough sketch and working from memory. Very well received when first published in 1878, the format of using snippets of inspirational advice used in "Talks About Art" was later employed with great success in Robert Henri's book "The Art Spirit", and Charles Hawthorne's book "Hawthorne on Painting." Out of print for several decades, "Talks About Art" deserves to be returned to its rightful place on every aspiring artist's book shelf next to these later books which emulated it. This new Peruse Press edition also includes a biography of William Morris Hunt written by Edward Waldo Emerson, the son of the eminent American philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (both Emersons were close friends with Hunt). Hunt attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and studied painting for five years under Thomas Couture, and also painted with Jean-François Millet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, from whom he learned the principles of the Barbizon tonalist style of painting. Upon returning to the US, Hunt established art schools at Newport, Rhode Island, Brattleboro, Vermont, and at Boston, and gained a very popular reputation as a portrait painter. As the leading painter and art teacher in Boston in the mid-19th century, Hunt was highly instrumental in influencing American artists to work in a more poetic approach to painting, toward tonalism and impressionism, and away from the descriptive form of realism practiced by the then prevalent Hudson River School artists. Hunt is credited for influencing the styles of Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, John La Farge, and John Joseph Enneking, among others. Hunt was also instrumental in introducing the work of the French Barbizon and early Impressionist painters to American collectors. Sadly, many of Hunt's paintings and sketches, together with five large Millets and other art treasures collected by him in Europe, were destroyed, along with his studio, in the Great Boston Fire of 1872.</p>

Talks About Art

Hunt, William Morris

Knowlton, Helen M.

Peruse Press is proud to present this entirely new edition of the "History of the Big Bonanza" by Dan De Quille (William Wright), with an introduction by Mark Twain, and many historic photos by Carleton E. Watkins, Charles L. Weed, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, James H. Crockwell, Lawrence & Houseworth, and others. Added to this edition is a new prologue of select droll barbs between Dan De Quille and Mark Twain extracted from 1864 editions of the Territorial Enterprise newspaper, where the two worked together as reporters in the rambunctious boomtown of Virginia City, Nevada, located directly on top of the enormous Comstock Lode silver vein. Also included in this edition is a new compilation of 114 historic photographs, illustrations and maps selected to complement the text, and give readers a firsthand look at the historic people, mines and region delineated in this classic tome of the "Sagebrush School" of western literature. Photographers, illustrators, and cartographers in this edition include Mathew Brady, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elmer Chickering, James H. Crockwell, W. H. Davenport, T. L. Dawes, Mark Diederichsen, Andrew A. Forbes, Charles F. Hoffmann, Robert Kerrigan, Augustus Koch, Lawrence & Houseworth, Walter Neale, John S. Noe, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Roswell Morse Shurtleff, Louis Thors, Carleton E. Watkins, Charles L. Weed, and True Williams. This is also the only edition with a complete index.

History of the Big Bonanza: Historic Photographs Edition

History

De Quille, Dan

Americas

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas

DICKENS., CHARLES

This is the only edition of "Roughing It" to include over 100 historic photographs, paintings, drawings and maps, not found in any other edition, giving the reader an authentic glimpse of the era depicted in Twain’s saga.  This is also the only edition to include a comprehensive index listing over 800 names of people, places, events and things mentioned in the book, which will be useful to readers, researchers, students, librarians, and reviewers. The ultimate classic tome of the Sagebrush School of literature, "Roughing It" is the semi-autobiographical narrative of the early adventures of Mark Twain. Roving through the territories of the wild west, and beyond to Hawaii, this is the tall tale of Twain’s rough-and-tumble journey of self-discovery. The exploits, hardships, and amazements he encountered along the way were the fodder for his early writings and lectures when he finally found his true calling, becoming one of America’s favorite humorists. Photographers, artists, and cartographers in this Special Edition include: W. Bailey, Hubert Howe Bancroft, H.V.A. von Beckh, Albert Bierstadt, Robert K. Bonine, Mathew Brady, Grafton Tyler Brown, Samuel S. Buckland, Charles William Carter, Henry L. Chase, James H. Crockwell, T. L. Dawes, Menzies Dickson, Mark Diederichsen, Patricia D. Duncan, Martin Fisher, C.D. Fredericks, Charles Furneaux, Alfred Richard Gurrey, Jr., Hatchetfish, Hoelke & Benecke, Thomas Houseworth, William Henry Jackson, Will James, Edward Jump, Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, Robert W. Kerrigan, Larry Kingsbury, Augustus Koch, Russell Lee, Jet Lowe, J.P. Mechlin, Fritz Meyer, Alfred Jacob Miller, Henry Mitchell, Itaro Morihiro, Charles Marion Russell, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, George M Ottinger, Frederic Remington, Charles Roscoe Savage, Roswell Morse Shurtleff, B.L. Singley, Strohmeyer & Wyman, Jules Tavernier, Carleton E. Watkins, John Webber, Charles L. Weed, James J. Williams, True Williams

Roughing It: Historic Photographs Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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