What is the publishing date of this novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson, originally written in 1959, and featuring Jinnicky the Red Jinn as a principal pre-existing character?
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Jinnicky the Red Jinn The Red Jinn, later known as Jinnicky, is one of Ruth Plumly Thompson's most frequently occurring characters in her Oz books. He was first introduced in "Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz" as a mysterious figure who educates Jack Pumpkinhead on the use of the Pirate Sack. Although a detailed description is included in the text, "Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz" includes no illustrations of the Red Jinn aside from a gruesome color plate that did not appear outside the first edition, in which he has massive piercings. He was reintroduced, drawn, and given the name Jinnicky in "The Purple Prince of Oz"; he also appeared in the follow-up, "The Silver Princess in Oz". (He makes a cameo appearance in "The Wishing Horse of Oz", and he is the principal pre-existing character in Thompson's sub-canonical penultimate Oz book, "Yankee in Oz"). Jack Snow apparently thought the Red Jinn was a separate character, for he considered "The Purple Prince of Oz" Jinnicky's first appearance in "Who's Who in Oz", though he did not include a separate Red Jinn entry.
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Yankee in Oz Yankee in Oz is a 1972 Oz novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was the first published by The International Wizard of Oz Club. A letter from the Henry Regnery Company, which bought Reilly & Lee, is reproduced in the front indicating the publisher's blessing for the new Oz book to appear. It was originally written in 1959, but because the Oz books were not selling, it was not published. The first two editions of the book were published in 8½ x 11 inch format and running only 94 pages. This was done at the request of illustrator Dick Martin to reduce the number of required illustrations and to show them closer to the actual size they were drawn. The second printing (1986) featured a new cover, with the first edition artwork reprinted preceding the title page. The third printing (2007) is standard Oz book size. Its cover is a gaudier redesign of the second edition cover. The book also features maps by James E. Haff, and as such, Thompson correctly places the Winkie Country in the west of Oz.
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Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the 1959 issue of "Nugget". The story is Dahl's variation on a popular anecdote dating back at least to 1939: a married woman receives a glamorous mink coat from a man with whom she had an affair. She hopes to sneak the coat into her home without arousing her husband's suspicions, but soon discovers that her husband has plans of his own.
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The Good Thief (novel) The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti, is a debut novel published in 2008 by Dial Press. It is the story of Ren, an orphan adopted by a pair of gentleman rogues in early American New England and led willingly into a life of crime. Ren, who is missing his left hand, is taught to lie, steal and run confidence games by his new mentor, Benjamin Nab, and they travel to the city of North Umbridge, where a mousetrap factory owner reigns supreme using his army of hired thugs ("hat boys") and the unmarried, dowdy girls who work in the factory ("mousetrap girls").
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After 12,000 Years After 12,000 Years is a science fiction novel by Stanton A. Coblentz. It was first published in book form in 1950 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. (FPCI) in an edition of 1,000 copies, of which 750 were hardback. Lloyd Arthur Eshbach regarded this as one of the stronger titles published by FPCI. Considered one of the author's most bizarre and most interesting futuristic fantasies, the novel originally appeared in the Spring 1929 issue of the magazine "Amazing Stories Quarterly". The novel was abridged for the FPCI publication. E. F. Bleiler considered the unabridged version to be superior.
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My Brother Michael My Brother Michael is a novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1959.
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První parta První parta is a Czech novel by Karel Čapek. It was first published in 1937. It was adapted into a film in 1959.
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The Borrowers Afloat The Borrowers Afloat is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1959 by Dent in the UK and Harcourt in the US. It was the third of five books in a series that is usually called "The Borrowers", inaugurated by "The Borrowers" in 1952.
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Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman, published in 1959. Kurtzman aimed it at an adult audience, in contrast to his earlier work for adolescents in periodicals such as "Mad". The social satire in the book's four stories targets "Peter Gunn"-style private-detective shows, Westerns such as "Gunsmoke", capitalist avarice in the publishing industry, Freudian pop psychology, and lynch-hungry yokels in the South. Kurtzman's character Goodman Beaver makes his first appearance in one of the stories.
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The Secret of the Old Clock The Secret of the Old Clock is the first volume in the "Nancy Drew Mystery Stories" series written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. It was first published on April 28, 1930, and rewritten in 1959 by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
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The Deer and the Cauldron The Deer and the Cauldron, also known as The Duke of Mount Deer, is a novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha) and the last and longest of his novels. The novel was initially published in Hong Kong as a serial, and ran from 24 October 1969 to 23 September 1972 in the newspaper "Ming Pao".
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Debutante Hill Debutante Hill is a 1958 novel by Lois Duncan, originally published by Dodd, Mead and Company. Unlike her later novels which mainly focused on the supernatural and suspense, it tells the story of an upper-class young woman whose social life undergoes rapid change when her father forbids her to become a debutante in their insular town.
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The Forgotten Planet The Forgotten Planet is a science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was released in 1954 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. The novel is a fix-up from three short stories, "The Mad Planet" and "The Red Dust", both of which had originally appeared in the magazine "Argosy" in 1920 and 1921, and "Nightmare Planet", which had been published in "Science Fiction Plus" in 1953.
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A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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The Mistmantle Chronicles The Mistmantle Chronicles, by M. I. McAllister, is a series of children's novels about anthropomorphic animals which feature the life of a pale, honey-coloured Eurasian red squirrel named Urchin. The first book in the Mistmantle Chronicles, "Urchin of the Riding Stars" was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2005.
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The Touch of Evil The Touch of Evil is a fix-up fantasy horror novel written by John Rackham. Its three episodic parts were originally written as short stories and published in the Dec. 1960 and June and Dec. 1961 issues of the British magazine "Science Fantasy". The book was first published in paperback by Brown, Watson in 1963 as no. R658 of its Digit Books series.
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Mountain Cat Mountain Cat (a.k.a. The Mountain Cat Murders) is a mystery novel by Rex Stout, first published in book form in 1939. The story first appeared in the June 1939 issue of "The American Magazine", abridged and titled "Dark Revenge."
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The Rum Diary (novel) The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered amongst Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, "The Daily News", in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished "Prince Jellyfish".
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Red Claw (novel) Red Claw is a 2009 science fiction novel by Philip Palmer.
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The Girl (novel) The Girl (1939; 1978) is a novel by Meridel Le Sueur set during Prohibition and chronicling the development of a young woman from a naive small-town girl into a participant in a bank robbery.
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Wicked (Maguire novel) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a novel published in 1995 written by Gregory Maguire and illustrated by Douglas Smith. It is a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz from L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", its sequels, and the 1939 film adaption "The Wizard of Oz". Unlike the popular 1939 movie and Baum's writings, this novel is not directed at children, and contains adult language and content including violent imagery and sexual situations.
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Plum Spooky Plum Spooky (2009) is a novel by Janet Evanovich starring the fictional character Stephanie Plum.