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Here’s the blurb from the original 1932 dust jacket:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Lines away!’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is a story of the world’s greatest dirigible and of the dangers in the frozen wastes of the Arctic — a combination sure to provide thrills for every reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoliath\u003c\/em\u003e, largest dirigible in the world, is to meet the submarine\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeptune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eat the North Pole. The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeptune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eencounters one mishap after another in the drifting ice of the Arctic and Harry Curtis, its radio operator, sends an S.O.S. to Andy High, assistant commander of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoliath\u003c\/em\u003e. The dirigible starts north, Captain Hawkins, the commander, is stricken, and Andy takes charge of the rescue attempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What befalls the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoliath\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon the Arctic trip is only a part of the smashing action of this great book for boys. It’s alive and up-to-the-minute in every detail.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHey, it’s 1932. Who knew, nine decades ago, that it was a great book for girls, too? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you like old stuff, if you like stories from the early days of aviation, if you like stories about old technology from when it was cutting edge, and if you like stories of high adventure and heroic camaraderie, may I suggest\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAir Monster\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Warren Bluhm Words and Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41525350072398,"sku":"","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7846\/3822\/files\/AirMonsterfrontcover-a.jpg?v=1718296283"},{"product_id":"the-haunted-bookshop","title":"The Haunted Bookshop (ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you’re here for a ghost story, you may be disappointed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s a romance, it’s a mystery, it’s full of intrigue, it’s a celebration of the magic of books, but (spoiler alert?) you’re not going to find any supernatural beings on these pages. If that disappoints you, well, this book may not be for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut if you love a good book, you’re about to meet a kindred spirit. His name is Roger Mifflin, and he can’t stop talking about how books can save your life, save your soul and probably save the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the aftermath of The Great War, still filled with the hope it was the last war, the “war to end all wars,” Christopher Morley gives us Roger Mifflin, a pistol of a fellow whose life mission is to put the right books into the right hands, with a firm belief that there’s a “right book” for every pair of hands that ever lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart mystery thriller, part romance, and all fun for the book lover,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Haunted Bookshop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis one of the great forgotten classics of early 20th century literature and the keystone of The Roger Mifflin Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Warren Bluhm Words and Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41532355018830,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7846\/3822\/files\/TheHauntedBookshopKindle.jpg?v=1718458545"},{"product_id":"men-in-war","title":"Men in War (ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e“… SO DAMNED TRUE THAT THE GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSED IT”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Roger Mifflin, proprietor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Haunted Bookshop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(by Christopher Morley)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndreas Latzko was hospitalized for malaria and severe shock after serving on the warfront on the Isonzo River during the war between Austria-Hungary and Italy in 1916. While he was recuperating he poured out his anguish over what he had seen and experienced in these six harrowing chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in 1917 as the war still raged, and Roger Mifflin was not exaggerating when he said the government suppressed it. Never mind which government he was talking about; every one of the warring countries tried to censor it. You’ll understand why when you read this forgotten classic of The Great War.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Warren Bluhm Words and Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41532461908046,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7846\/3822\/files\/MENINWARthumb.jpg?v=1718461186"},{"product_id":"trivia","title":"Trivia (ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e“If your mind needs phosphorus, try ‘Trivia,’ by Logan Pearsall Smith.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e— Roger Mifflin, proprietor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Haunted Bookshop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It would be extravagant to claim that Pearsall Smith’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrivia\u003c\/em\u003e, the remarkable little book from which these miniature essays are extracted, is well known: it is too daintily, fragile and absurd and sophisticated to appeal to a very large public. But it has a cohort of its own devotees and fanatics, and since its publication in 1917 it has become a sort of password in a secret brotherhood,” wrote Christopher Morley in his book\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eModern Essays\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eabout this hard-to-categorize collection of aphorisms that, through its title, introduced a word into the English language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmith’s aphorisms are anything but trivial; alternately whimsical and insightful and heartbreaking, they are popcorn-sized glimpses into the human condition.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Warren Bluhm Words and Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41532514631758,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7846\/3822\/files\/Trivia-Generic.jpg?v=1718463879"},{"product_id":"the-man-who-was-thursday","title":"The Man Who Was Thursday (ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e“If your mind needs a tonic of iron and wine, and a thorough rough-and-tumbling, try Samuel Butler’s \u003cem\u003eNotebooks \u003c\/em\u003eor \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/em\u003e, by Chesterton.” — Roger Mifflin (Christopher Morley), \u003cem\u003eThe Haunted Bookshop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is all a huge joke, a quite absurd and laughable fantasy – or it is a sermon – or it is even an explanation. Read the book and make your choice.” — Hildegarde Hawthorne,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, May 2, 1908\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mr. Chesterton has done an admirable thing, and probably knows it.” – Austin Harrison,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon Observer\u003c\/em\u003e, March 1, 1908\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Warren Bluhm Words and Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41532541730894,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7846\/3822\/files\/TheManWhoWasThursday.jpg?v=1718465057"},{"product_id":"the-demi-gods","title":"The Demi-Gods (ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoger Mifflin, proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, said it best:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“If you need ‘all manner of Irish,’ and a relapse into irresponsible freakishness, try ‘The Demi-Gods,’ by James Stephens. It is a better book than one deserves or expects. It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree angels come to Earth to learn more about people. They land in the Irish countryside and encounter a nomadic man and his feisty daughter, and what happens next is what happens next. 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And then he wrote it at a white heat. For eighteen years, Jefferies says, he pondered over this book—he means, that he brooded over these and cognate subjects from the time of adolescence. At last his mind was full, and then—but not till then—he wrote it. Those who have not read it must understand at the outset that it is the book of one who dares to question for himself on the most important subject which can occupy the mind.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr, as Roger Mifflin put it more simply, “If your mind needs a whiff of strong air, blue and cleansing, from hilltops and primrose valleys, try “The Story of My Heart” by Richard Jefferies.” Book 6 in the Roger Mifflin Collection of vintage classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Warren Bluhm Words and Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41532586557518,"sku":"","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7846\/3822\/files\/The-Story-of-My-Heart-Generic.jpg?v=1718466894"}],"url":"https:\/\/wpbluhm.com\/collections\/edited-by-warren-bluhm.oembed","provider":"Warren Bluhm Words and Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}