Abner Doubleday fired a shot at the Ironclad Battery at Cummings Point.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

The novel, " Chicano " by Richard Vasquez, was the first novel about Mexican-Americans to be released by a major publisher ( Doubleday, 1970 ).

He returned to St. George's to teach for a year and left to work his way through a series of other jobs, eventually landing a position as an editor at Doubleday publishing house, where he first began to write verse.

In 1845 Mr. Doubleday, the first restorer, had not been able to figure out where these fragments went.

According to the Saintly Bible website, every Saint book published between 1928 and 1983 saw the first edition issued by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK ( a company that originally published only religious books ) and The Crime Club ( an imprint of Doubleday that specialized in mystery and detective fiction ) in the United States.

The first human .. Doubleday, New York, 306 p. ISBN 978-0-385-51226-8.

This strain was developed during the 1950s by Lawrence D Hills, the founder of the Henry Doubleday Research Association ( the organic gardening organisation itself named after the Quaker pioneer who first introduced Russian Comfrey into Britain in the 1910s ) following trials at Bocking, near Braintree, the original home of the organization.

The book has been reprinted many times: in 1953 by Galaxy, in 1957 and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 ( both paper and hard cover editions ) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Ray Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover ; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the Empire series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

* James Bamford, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century ( New York: Doubleday, first edition, 24 April 2001 ), ISBN 0-385-49907-8.

In 1952, Doubleday published the first instalment in Velikovsky's revised chronology, Ages in Chaos, followed by the Earth in Upheaval ( a geological volume ) in 1955.

* Freedom of Expression ( McLeod book ) by Kembrew McLeod, first published in 2005 by Doubleday as Freedom of Expression ®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity, reprinted in 2007 by University of Minnesota Press as Freedom of Expression ®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property

" The Sheltering Sky — the title came from a song, " Down Among the Sheltering Palms ", which Bowles had heard every summer as a child — was first published by John Lehmann in England in September 1949 after Doubleday rejected the manuscript.

The first ( Doubleday hardcover ) edition of the novel is unusually rare ; the publisher pulped a significant part of the original print run in error when the order went out to destroy remaining copies of Zelazny's older book Creatures of Light and Darkness.

Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.

The US first edition ( Doubleday, 1980 ) is dedicated to Harlan Ellison.

The first, published in 1964 and published in the United States by Doubleday, was Princess Soraya: Autobiography of Her Imperial Highness.

* Garden City Publishing Co., originally established as a separate firm by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City's books were primarily reprints of books first offered by Doubleday, printed from the original plates but on less expensive paper.

Stegner's novel Angle of Repose ( first published by Doubleday in early 1971 ) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.

: The Phoenix and the Mirror, Doubleday, 1969 ; the first Vergil Magus novel

These articles would later form the starting point of his first book, A Hope in the Unseen ( Doubleday / Broadway, 1998 ).

Low res scan of book cover ( Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, 1990 Doubleday first edition hardcover ) for use in illustrating article about book.

The first trade edition was published by Doubleday, Page to be sold in bookstores.

Doubleday initially served in coastal garrisons and then in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 and the Seminole Wars from 1856 to 1858.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

On July 2, 1863, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade replaced Doubleday with Maj. Gen. John Newton, a more junior officer from another corps.

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.

* Bamford, James ; The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9 / 11 to the Eavesdropping on America, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-52132-4 ; 2008

This story appeared only in The Silver Locusts, the British edition of The Martian Chronicles, the 1974 edition from The Heritage Press, the September 1979 illustrated trade edition from Bantam Books, the " 40th Anniversary Edition " from Doubleday Dell Publishing Group and in the 2001 Book-of-the-Month Club edition.

These setbacks prevented his finishing revisions of Island of Hallucinations, which he needed to get a commitment from Doubleday.

The Stars, Like Dust was originally serialised under the title Tyrann in Galaxy Science Fiction from January to March 1951, and was published as a novel by Doubleday later that year.

The Currents of Space was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction from October to December 1952 before being published by Doubleday as a novel the same year.

* 15-Book Reading Order as Suggested by Asimov Edited from the " Author's Note " of Prelude to Foundation Doubleday 1988 hardcover edition

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

drawing from Two Little Savages, Doubleday ( 1903 )

drawing from The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore, Doubleday ( 1912 )

page from Sign Talk of the Indians, Doubleday ( 1918 )

( Doubleday, 1986 ) ( 2006 reprint from Small Beer Press, ISBN 1-931520-18-6 )

At the age of 26, while employed as an assistant manager at New York's Doubleday Bookstore, he arranged for the hardcover publication of a story from The Smart Set Magazine ( November 1913 ), reprinting " A Flood " by the Irish writer George Moore in a limited edition of 185 signed copies.

He never intended it to be published, but when Samuel R. Delany heard about it from Zelazny, Delany convinced a Doubleday editor to demand that Zelazny give him the manuscript.

Tales from the Arabian Nights, Doubleday, A delightful children's version translated from the original Arabic.

* A World of Ideas II: Public Opinions from Private Citizens ( 1990 ), Doubleday, hardcover: ISBN 0-385-41664-4, paperback: ISBN 0-385-41665-2, 1994 Random House values edition: ISBN 0-517-11470-4