"), though the reception improved at subsequent performances — helped when Pirandello provided for the play's third edition, published in 1925, a foreword clarifying its structure and ideas.

Thomas ' exposition of Bible prophecy, and led to him making various detailed predictions about then current day events many of which did not come to pass, as was noted in the foreword to subsequent editions of Elpis Israel after his death, a point that Thomas himself accepted could happen.

Unlike subsequent volumes, it does not have an introductory essay ; instead, it has a 38 page overview by Eduardo de Juana of the biology of birds and a foreword welcoming the HBW project, by Christoph Imboden.

* Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, foreword by Edward Kasner, notes by M. Kendig, Institute of General Semantics, 1950, hardcover, 2nd edition, 391 pages, ISBN 0-937298-00-X.

Escoffier updated Le Guide Culinaire four times during his lifetime, noting in the foreword to the book's first edition that even with its 5, 000 recipes, the book should not be considered an " exhaustive " text, and that even if it were at the point when he wrote the book, " it would no longer be so tomorrow, because progress marches on each day.

In the foreword to the first paperback edition, Finkelstein notes that the first hardback edition had been a considerable hit in several European countries and many languages, but had been panned in the US.

Finkelstein responded to his critics in the foreword to the second edition:

Copenhagen, Danish Institute for Educational Research ), expanded edition ( 1980 ) with foreword and afterword by B. D.

Roget described his thesaurus in the foreword to the first edition:

In the foreword of the same edition, C. B.

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.

In 2006, a 30th anniversary edition was published which reinstated the Trivers foreword and contained a new introduction by the author ( alongside the previous two prefaces ), with some selected extracts from reviews at the back.

Albert Einstein praised him in the 1931 foreword to an edition of Newton's Opticks.

The textual expansions to the fourth edition include a foreword by Roger Angell, stepson of E. B.

The UK edition includes a foreword by Stephen Fry, and the US edition, instead, has an introduction by Christopher Cerf.

In 1995, a new, definitive edition was published by Dalkey Archive Press with a foreword by William Gass.

However, Tolkien frequently disliked the idea that his works were allegorical, saying in the foreword to the 2nd edition of The Lord of the Rings, " But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations ..." and " I think that many confuse ' applicability ' with ' allegory '; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

Second paperback edition, # 148 in the New Canadian Library series ; foreword by D. M. R.

Campbell provided a foreword to a new edition of Gimbutas ' The Language of the Goddess ( 1989 ) before he died, and often said how profoundly he regretted that her research on the Neolithic cultures of Europe had not been available when he was writing The Masks of God.

* Mr. Tompkins in Paperback ( 1965 ), combines Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland with Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom, Cambridge University Press, 1993 Canto edition with foreword by Roger Penrose

A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1979 ( ISBN 0 33326866 0 ), and later editions were issued by Ebury Press with a foreword by Sophie Grigson )

The Complete Piccolo: A Comprehensive Guide to Fingerings, Repertoire, and History, second edition, foreword by Laurie Sokoloff ; contributing editors, Therese Wacker, Morgan Williams, and Tammy Sue Kirk.

The term was coined by the critic Martin Esslin, who made it the title of a book on the subject first published in 1961 and in two later revised editions ; the third and final edition appeared in 2004 ( in paperback with a new foreword by the author ).

In his foreword to the British edition of Leuchter's book, Irving wrote that " Nobody likes to be swindled, still less where considerable sums of money are involved ".

In the foreword of the 2005 edition of Alas, Babylon, David Brin notes that the book was instrumental in shaping his views on nuclear war and had an effect on his own book, The Postman ( pp. xi-xii, ISBN 0-06-074187-2, Harper Perennial Modern Classics ).

The foreword is a letter from Thatcher in which she summarises the feelings that she has for Number 10: " How much I wish that the public ... could share with me the feeling of Britain's historic greatness which pervades every nook and cranny of this complicated and meandering old building ... All Prime Ministers are intensely aware that, as tenants and stewards of No. 10 Downing Street, they have in their charge one of the most precious jewels in the nation's heritage.

1942 also saw the publication of High Adventure, Cobby's account of his experiences in World War I ; the foreword was written by Air Vice Marshal George Jones, newly appointed Chief of the Air Staff and fellow No. 4 Squadron veteran.

In 1965, he wrote the foreword for Club activist Geoffrey Stewart-Smith's book, No Vision Here.

" Ironically, Chase would later write the foreword for Carroll's collection of Whorf's writings.

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

McLean co-edited the book Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew with sketches by Thomas B. Allen for which Pete Seeger wrote the foreword.

The books, which are referenced many times in the Harry Potter books, even have footnotes about other books, which do not exist, for future reading, and a foreword by Albus Dumbledore, which explains why they are releasing the book to a muggle audience.

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

The novel included a foreword by Havelock Ellis and was intended to be a call for tolerance for inverts by publicizing their disadvantages and accidents of being born inverted.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

Crow wrote a foreword for the book Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips, author Kris Carr's book that was based on her 2007 documentary film Crazy Sexy Cancer.

In his foreword to The Journals of Sylvia Plath, he defends his actions as a consideration for the couple's young children.

Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, self-labeled as " the Essential Guide for Progressives ", was published in September 2004 and features a foreword by former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean.

In the foreword to I saw it Happen, a 1942 collection of eye-witness accounts of the war, Lewis Gannet wrote: "(...) We shall be hearing and reading of this war for decades to come.

Friends included the mathematician G. H. Hardy, for whom he would write a biographical foreword in A Mathematician's Apology, the physicist P. M. S.

He wrote a foreword for a humorous book titled Cockeyed Americana, compiled by Dick Hyman.

In 1973, Trevor-Roper in the foreword to a book by John Röhl endorsed the view that Germany was largely responsible for World War I. Trevor-Roper wrote that, in his opinion, far too many British historians had allowed themselves to be persuaded of the theory that the outbreak of war in 1914 had been the fault of all the great powers.

The foreword does not appear in some modern editions of the book, though it was included, for instance, in Harcourt Brace Jovanovich's first American edition in the 1950s.

" According to the foreword ( written by Pat Buchanan ) in the most recent edition of Conscience of a Conservative, Buchanan was a member of the Young Americans for Freedom and wrote press releases for that organization.

In what is perhaps his most complete articulation of his political philosophy, a foreword he wrote for Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom, he explains that, " The idealist current holds that human society has the potential to achieve liberty when people work together to form a society in which equality means more than negative liberty, the absolute and protected right to run races against each other to determine winners.

Moore wrote the foreword for Gertrude's 1974 book Mrs Moore In Space.

* He also wrote the foreword to Voices From the Past: A Classical Anthology for the Modern Reader, edited by James and Janet Maclean Todd ( 1955 ); and other works

* Jennifer Knapp wrote the foreword for RAW: A Poetic Journey, a collection of poetry from Gay Christians and allies around the world.

* edited by Sandi Brockway, foreword by Marilyn Ferguson, introduction by Denis Hayes, preface by Donella H. Meadows, Macrocosm U. S. A .: Possibilities for a New Progressive Era ..., Macrocosm, 1993, paperback, 464 pages, ISBN 0-9632315-5-3