Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Shadows on the Sceptered Isle by Joanne Stang Shadows on the Sceptered Isle by Joanne Stang. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 658eaf182abe8474 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Stang Joanne. Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Shadows on the Sceptered Isle. Stang, Joanne. Published by Crown 1980, 1980. 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Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: DUSTJACKET FINE. 1st Edition. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Author's first novel. SHADOWS ON THE SCEPTERED ISLE. Stang, Joanne. Published by NY: Crown, 1980, 1980. Used - Hardcover. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. 216 pgs, boards. Story of romance & political intrigue set against a background of archaeological research involving Arthurian mythology. Shadows on the Sceptered Isle. Stang, Joanne. Published by Crown Publishers, Inc., 1980. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. In a Mylar dj cover. A superb copy. Magazine, November [Nov.] 23, 1958: Life in Warsaw / Bert Bell of the NFL. Rosenthal, A.M.; Kraft, Joseph; Keyserling, Leon H.; Adams, J. 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Features: Great cover photo of men viewing Paris election news; What it is like to live in Warsaw - the daily struggle to achieve the ordinary wears a man out, physically and spiritually, but Poles have not yet quite lost their pride and hope, gaiety and individualtiy; France Chooses a new Assembly - with great photos; Big Three of Algeria's Rebels - Premier Ferhat Abbas, Foreign Minister Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, and Belkacem Krim, Vice Premier; A 600 Billion Dollar Economy?; The Egghead vs. the Muttonhead - too few people dare to be themselves; Small Wonder Called the Gene - How will radioactive fallout affect human genetics?; Rodgers and Hammerstein Brand on a Musical; Real World in the Abstract - photos; He Calls the Signals for Pro Football - Article on NFL Commissioner Bert Bell; Fantastic two-page color-photo as for American Airlines promotes the first jet service in the U.S.A., 707 service scheduled to begin in January, New York to Los Angeles in 5.5 hours!; Impressionistic View of an Art Opening; When Cities Put Out the Welcome Mat to host conventions; Captains of the Subway - brief article on New York subway conductors, with photos; Two Movies - Two Audrey Hepburns; Stuffing recipes; Building the Child's Sense of Ethics; Fashion photos of two-piece swimwear for women; Photo-feature of new five-story Manhattan home designed by Felix Augenfeld and Jan H. Pokorny; Photos of "The Disenchanted" starring Jason Robarts; and more. 96 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Tell us what you're looking for and once a match is found, we'll inform you by e-mail. Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. . Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. The Shadows , London-based group whose distinctive sound exerted a strong influence on other young British musicians in the 1960s and beyond. The original members were lead guitarist Hank B. Marvin (original name Brian Robson Rankin; b. October 28, 1941, , Tyne and Wear, England), rhythm guitarist Bruce Welch (original name Bruce Cripps; b. November 2, 1941, Bognor Regis, Sussex), bassist (byname of Terence Harris; b. July 6, 1939, London—d. March 18, 2011, Winchester, Hampshire), and drummer (byname of Daniel Meehan; b. March 2, 1943, London—d. November 28, 2005, London). Later members included drummer (b. February 9, 1940, London) and bassist (b. June 16, 1942, Birmingham, West Midlands—d. November 26, 1973, England). Formed in 1958 as the Drifters, the foursome became the backing group for , the British answer to Elvis Presley. A name change to avoid conflict with the American vocal group the Drifters prefaced the release of the first of the Shadows’ singles. The group’s trademark was the smooth twangy sound produced by lead guitarist Marvin’s lavish use of the tremolo arm of his Fender Stratocaster, an effect that could be made to sound either lyrical or sinister. As the primitive charm of the skiffle era faded, the Shadows showed a generation of embryonic British rockers what to do. Thousands learned to play guitar by imitating the Shadows’ hits, which included “ ,” “F.B.I.,” and “”; many went on to buy their own Stratocasters as the British “beat boom” took off. The era of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones made the Shadows’ music obsolete, and the group officially disbanded in 1968. The Shadows reunited in 1973 and released the albums Rockin’ with Curly Leads (1974) and (1975), both of which featured an updated sound that included, for the first time, vocals. The Shadows rode a wave of popularity that lasted well into the 1980s. The band faded from the scene once again, until 2004, when the Shadows embarked on what was billed as a farewell concert tour. Another final tour took place in 2009–10, and a 50th-anniversary album, Reunited , appeared in 2009. Bennett and Welch were named Members of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2004; Marvin declined the honour. Detective Book Club, 1972-1980, Vintage, Book Collection, Reading Enthusiast, Simenon, Clark, Ashford, Woods, Wilcox, Walter J Black, NY. Редкая находка! Этот товар не так просто найти, и 1 пользователь уже добавил его в корзину. Read the full description. The Detective Book Club was started in the 1940's in Roslyn, New York and published by Walter J Black. Each Volume contained 3 unabridged titles. We currently have 39 Volumes from the Detective Book Club. The oldest is from 1972 through 1980. Below please find the Month and Year of the copies we have for sale, the Cook Reference and the titles included in each volume along with the author. If the Cook Reference includes an IC, it stands for Inner Circle - these were extra volumes published bi-monthly. We also have volumes for which we could not find on the Cook Reference Listing. If anyone should happen to know where they belong in the publication order, please send us a quick note. Also, if you are interested in these volumes, send us a note as they are not listed in the pick list. Please send us a note, if you are looking for a specific title or are interested in the titles for a volume listed. We are currently selling each book individually for $8 each, two for $15, three for $20. If you are interested in more than one volume, please send us message and we will set up a listing detailing the volumes you are interested along with the appropriate shipping information. October 1972 (Cook 366) But I Wouldn't Want to Die There - Stanton Forbes Murder's a Waiting Game - Anthony Gilbert Five Pieces of Jade - John Ball. November 1972 (Cook 367) A Splinter of Glass - John Creasey The Kid Who Came Home with a Corpse - Hampton Stone Flight Into Fear - Duncan Kyle. March 1973 (Cook 371) Why She Cries, I Do Not Know - Whit Masterson The Deadly Homecoming - Theodore George The Protectors - William Haddard. July/August 1973 (Cook IC-10) Stormtide - Bill Knox The Croaker - John Creasey as Gordon Ashe The Rocksburg Railroad Murders - K C Constantine. June 1974 (Cook 386) Murder with Mushrooms - John Creasey as Gordon Ashe Bank Job - Robert L Pike A Nice Little Killing - Anthony Gilbert. July/August 1974 (Cook IC-16) The Man With Two Clocks - Whit Masterson The Power Killers - Judson Philips Meet A Dark Stranger - T E Huff. January 1975 (Cook 393) A Deadly Shade of Gold - John D MacDonald Death of a Heavenly Twin - Anne Morice Maigret and The Millionaires - George Simenon. March 1975 (Cook 395) The Dreadful Lemon Sky - John D MacDonald The House on the Left Bank - Velda Johnston A Herald of Doom - John Creasey as Gordon Ashe. March/April 1975 (Cook IC-19) Terror's Cradle - Duncan Kyle Tell Them What's. Name Called - Mildred Davis Catnapped - The Gordons. May 1975 (Cook 397) Hopscotch - Brian Garfield Cry for Help - Doris Miles Disney A Pride of Dolphins - Mark Hebden. June 1975 (Cook 398) Time of Terror - Hugh Pentecost How to Live Dangerously - Joan Fleming North Star - Hammond Innes. July 1975 (Cook 399) Maigret and The Loner - Georges Simenon Where Are the Children? - Mary Higgins Clark Trouble in Paradise - Robert L Fish. May 1976 (Cook 409) High Stakes - Dick Frances Winifred - Doris Miles Disney The Fourteen Dilemma - Hugh Pentecost. August 1976 (Cook 412) Backlash - Judson Philips Where Helen Lies - Rae Foley The Kingsford Mark - Victor Canning. September/October 1976 (Cook IC-29) The Z-Papers - Geoffery S Simmons A Remarkable Case of Burglary Night Cover - Michael Z Lewin. October 1976 (Cook 414) Leisure Dying - Lillian O'Donnell Menaces, Menaces - Michael Underwood My Life Is Done - Sara Woods. November/December 1976 (Cook IC-30) The Brandenburg Hotel - Pauline Glen Winslow Gentle Albatross - Elizabeth Foote Smith Tumbleweed - Janwillem van de Wetering. December 1976 (Cook 416) The Hatter's Phantoms - Georges Simenon Put Out the Light - Rae Foley The Barboza Credentials - Peter Driscoll. January/February 1977 (Cook IC-31) Death in the Channel - John R L Anderson Funny, Jonas, You Don't Look Dead - Mary McMullen The Orion Line - Nicholas Luard. March/April 1977 (Cook IC-32) The Corpse on the Dike - Janwillem van de Wetering Death is Academic - Amanda Mackay Slow Down the World - Jeffery Ashford. May 1977 (Cook 421) Deveron Hall - Velda Johnston Hunter of the Blood - Whit Anderson Oh, Bury Me Not - M K Wren. September/October 1977 (Cook IC-36) Temple Dogs - Robert L Duncan A Dangerous Funeral - Mary McMullen Catch Me, Kill Me - William H Hallahan. September/October 1977 (Cook IC-37) Schroeder's Game - Arthur Maling The Motive - Harry Carmichael Coil of Serpents - Anne Stevenson. December 1977 (Cook 428) Elope to Death - John Creasey as Gordon Ashe Nobody's Perfect - Donald E Westlake The Genuine Article - A B Gutherie, Jr. February 1978 (Cook 430) The Tenth Life - Richard Lockridge A Thief or Two - Sara Woods Five Roads to Death - Judson Philips. March 1978 (Cook 431) Nine O'Clock Tide - Mignon G Eberhart The Case of the One. Penny Orange - E V Cunningham Death by Bequest - Mary McMullen. May/June 1978 (Cook IC-42) A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell Death Through the Looking Glass - Richard Forrest Hostage to Death - Jeffrey Ashford. Published 1978 & 1979 (Cook IC-51) The Come-On - Margaret Yorke The Enthusiast - Peter Hill Carnage of the Realm - Charles Goodrum. August 1978 (Cook 436) Send for the Saint - Leslie Charteris Nothing's Certain But Death - M K Wren The Case of the Russian Diplomat - E V Cunningham. Published 1978 & 1979 (Cook ?) A Sharp Rise in Crime - John Creasy Reincarnation in Venice - Max Ehrlich The Rolling Heads - Aaron Marc Stein. February 1979 (Cook 442) Fire Storm - Robert L Duncan Last Will and Testament - E X Ferrars Guaranteed to Fade - George Bagby. June 1979 (Cook 446) The Empty Copper Sea - John D MacDonald Street of the Five Moons - Elizabeth Peters Vortex - Jon Cleary. April 1980 (Cook 456) Proceed to Judgement - Sara Woods Visa to Limbo - William Haggard The Homicidal Horse - Hugh Pentecost. May 1980 (Cook 457) A Presence in An Empty Room - Velda Johnston The Satan Sampler - Victor Canning The Third Identity - Rosemary Gatenby. July 1980 (Cook 459) Maigret's Rival - Georges Simenon Witness Before the Fact - E X Ferrars The Lake of Darkness - Ruth Rendell. July/August 1980 (Cook IC-62) The Poisoned Orchard - Ursula Curtiss The Deception - Celia Dale Shadows on the Sceptered Isle - Joanne Stang. July/August 1980 (Cook IC-63) Murder, Murder, Little Star - Marian Babson The Watcher - Kay Nolte Smith Death's Pale Horse - James Sherburne. Published 1980 (Cook ?) A Recipe for Murder - Jeffery Ashford Man in the Middle - Anthony Heal Death of a Literary Widow - Robert Bardard. Published 1980 (Cook ?) Something of the Night - Mary McMullen Frog in the Throat - E X Ferrars Mankiller - Collin Wilcox. *Volumes Sold* August 1969 (Cook 328) August 1972 (Cook 364) - Wait for Death | Sleep Without Morning | Death in a Sunny Place September/October 1974 (Cook IC-17) - The Painted Tent | The Thing at the Door | A Pinch of Snuff October 1974 (Cook 390) - Jimmy the Kid | The Brownstone House | The Olmec Head July/August 1976 (Cook IC-28) - A Big Wind for Summer | The Blackjack Hijack | The Chameleon Course April 1978 (Cook 432) - Maigret and the Hotel Majestic | The Watcher | Death of an Expert Witness September 1978 (Cook 437) - Maigret in Exile | The Rheingold Route | The Murder of Miranda September/October 1979 (Cook IC-53) - The Anger of Fear | A Strange Place for Murder | Invisible Green March/April 1980 (Cook IC-58) - McGarr at the Dublin Horse Show | Festival | The Man Who Lost His Shadow May/June 1980 (Cook IC-60) - Death Drop | Some Die Eloquent | The Diamonds of Loreta 1980 ? - The Secret Servant | Wycliffe in Paul's Court | The Neapolitan Streak January 1981 (Cook 465) February 1981 (Cook 466) March 1981 (Cook 467) March/April 1981 (Cook IC-70) April 1981 (Cook 468) May 1981 (Cook 469) July/August 1981 (Cook IC-74) September/October 1981 (Cook IC-76) September/October 1981 (Cook IC-77) November 1981 (Cook 474) November/December 1981 (Cook-IC-79) December 1981 (Cook 475) JoAnne Stang, 91, an early master of the celebrity profile. It took JoAnne Stang just four sentences to capture the plainspoken appeal of Jason Robards in 1967, when he was best known as a stage actor. In a passage tucked near the top of a profile she wrote for The New York Times, she sketched a sharp portrait of the future Academy Award- winner by using the simple trick of mostly listing what he didn’t have to offer. “He does not dimple, smolder, or dispense an easy charm,” she wrote. “He does not spring upon the saddles of swiftly-moving horses. Although he has played Shakespeare, he is not a classic actor in the venerable leotard-and-doublet mold. There he stands, at 45, seam-faced and implacable, the undisputed champion of the Earnest Handyman school of acting.” A master of the celebrity profile in an age before such writing spawned a sprawling industry, Mrs. Stang was equally perceptive about actors who were beginning their careers. She wrote the first full Times profile featuring Barbra Streisand, which was published in 1964 when Streisand was appearing in the Broadway musical “Funny Girl” as Fanny Brice. “The waifish quality that makes Fanny so appealing onstage is indubitably also present in Barbra — in varying degrees. Indeed, Miss Streisand may be the shrewdest waif of the year,” wrote Mrs. Stang, who also was skillful at eliciting telling quotes. “I’ve told everyone I never had my nose done because I preferred it this way, but that’s not all true,” Streisand told Mrs. Stang. “I really didn’t have it done because of the pain. I’m afraid of the pain. Then there are people who tell me I’m beautiful this way. Well, they’re wrong. Beautiful I’m not, and never will be.” Mrs. Stang, who also published a novel and a nonfiction book, died of pancreatic cancer Saturday in the Stanley R. Tippett Hospice Home in Needham. She was 91 and had moved to Needham more than 17 years ago. “She was someone who loved words and loved writing,” said her son, David of Cambridge. “From her early years she was a very intrepid and energetic journalist. Her interest was both in the excitement of journalism, but also in literature and writing. She was terribly interested in prose style.” Mrs. Stang did not, however, heed all the de facto pronouncements that her interview subjects offered. In 1966, for example, comedian Mel Brooks talked about the burden of keeping writing fresh when he was working on “Get Smart,” a TV show he co-created. “If I tried to write ‘Get Smart’ every week, I’d run dry very soon — I could put a couple of things together, but the juice, the chemistry wouldn’t be there,” Brooks told her. “Every show gets harder and harder for the writer …” If she shared that view and thought the profiles she wrote became ever more difficult to produce, her angst didn’t show on the page, where the images she chose seemed to flow effortlessly. “It is true Mel Brooks has a body – a springy, compact, and entirely functioning frame — but everything below the neck seems a dull appendage to his head,” she wrote to open a Times profile. “Ideally, he might be displayed in an elongated version of a cunning baby bunting, the arms and legs blotted out and the full impact of his face left undiluted – eyes, eyebrows, nose, teeth, tongue, the thousand-word-a-minute mouth.” The youngest of three children, JoAnne Taggart was born in , N.Y., and grew up in the borough’s Flatbush neighborhood. Her father, Matthew Taggart, had been born on a horse farm in Ireland, in a cottage with a thatched roof. He ran a plumbing company after moving to New York. Her mother, the former Mary Mallon, was from northern England. Mrs. Stang “was always very conscious of that and loved English culture and literature,” David said. While still in high school she landed a job at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “I think she had a byline by the time she was 17 years old,’’ her son said. “She was very, very smart and imaginative about finding people and talking with them. She would go down to the harbor to see the troops coming back during the war, and she actually got, not to interview Churchill, but to put a question or two to him.” Graduating early from high school, she moved to Manhattan and took classes at New York University and the New School for Social Research, all while continuing to work as a reporter. After some assignments, she returned home by trolley long past midnight. “Manhattan was where she wanted to be,” David said. “She always credited her mother for expanding her horizons. My grandmother would take her into Manhattan when she was a little girl and show her the world was bigger than Brooklyn.” Among those she interviewed was the actor Arnold Stang, who was best known for his comedic turns and as a TV sidekick to but who also had serious roles in movies such as “The Man with the Golden Arm,” in which portrayed a drug addict. She married Stang in 1949 and they lived in Connecticut for many years before relocating to Needham to live closer to their grandchildren. “He was just an uncommon man,” Mrs. Stang told the Globe for his obit, after he died in 2009. “And he was very hard-working, very dedicated to his career. But the most important thing in his life was his family. He often had to travel to California to work, and he’d always be on the red-eye home.” Like her husband, Mrs. Stang considered family a priority. “She was a wonderful mom,” David said. “Following the example set by my grandmother, she was very interested in exposing my sister, Deborah, and me to everything New York had to offer. We were taken to everything on Broadway from when we were children.” In addition to her son, Mrs. Stang leaves her daughter, Deborah of Arlington; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. The family is planning a private service. Though she mostly wrote arts journalism, Mrs. Stang published “Shadows on the Sceptered Isle,” a novel set in England, in 1979. The following year she published “Marathon Mom: The Wife and Mother Running Book,” which she wrote with Linda Schreiber. A Kirkus Review called the book “a surprise winner.” Mrs. Stang’s most enduring bylines, however, were perched atop the profiles she wrote, some featuring performers who, like her, had grown up in Brooklyn. Invoking an ancient Egyptian queen, she described Streisand standing “in front of a full-length mirror, head back and Egyptian eyes tilted upward — a Flatbush Nefertiti.” Watching fellow Brooklynite Woody Allen perform comedy routines in 1963 at the Bitter End nightclub in Greenwich Village, Mrs. Stang noted that “on stage, he is a little less slender than the microphone, upon which he frequently seems to lean on for support.” Allen, she wrote, “is a waif in schnook’s clothing — bedeviled always by the world and by society.”