The Pilgrim's Progress is the ultimate English classic, a book that has been continuously in print, from its first publication to the present day, in an extraordinary number of editions.
Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle's extraordinary and painstaking new edition of The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective has just landed on my desk.
"Afghanistan" is itself an extraordinary object, a limited-edition coffee-table book — massive to the point of ungainliness — bound in heavy cloth and stamped with a map of the country, lusciously printed on heavy stock, weighing more than five pounds, and priced at a hundred and fifty dollars.
The popularity of Mackay's tale has continued to this day, with new editions of Extraordinary Popular Delusions appearing regularly, with introductions by writers such as financier Bernard Baruch (1932), financial writers Andrew Tobias (1980), psychologist David J. Schneider (1993), and Michael Lewis (2008).
Some of Piano's museums are extraordinary, such as the Gardner edition and the Nasher, which do wonders with natural light.
Readers of the Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics will find an extraordinary table in the new edition: the two-century link between growth and energy has broken.
That's true, to say the least, of the three extraordinary films from this year's edition of Sundance that I've been able to see in New York — one dramatic feature, and two films that are unusual hybrids of fiction and nonfiction.
The entry on the word in Eric Partridge's original 1937 edition of his extraordinary one-man dictionary reaches back towards its obscure origins as a vulgar term for "the special vocabulary (eg cant) of low, illiterate, or disreputable persons; low illiterate language".
volume 6, no. 7, page 81, contains an ad for the Origin of Species, cost $1.25, stating that "five editions of this extraordinary work has been disposed of in England within a few weeks".
The restoration was released by Flicker Alley in a 2-disc Blu-Ray and DVD edition also including The Extraordinary Voyage, a feature-length documentary by Bromberg and Lange about the film's restoration, in 2012.
