Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.

The first substantially complete stereo Giselle ( and the only one of its scope since Feyer's four-sided LP edition of 1958 for Angel ), this set is, I'm afraid, likely to provide more horrid fascination than enjoyment.

The first edition of the standard was published during 1963, a major revision during 1967, and the most recent update during 1986.

Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

( Copy of the first edition )

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

New History in France: The Triumph of the Annales, ( 1994, first French edition, 1987 ) excerpt and text search

an Autobiographical Poem ( 1887 ; first edition privately printed in 1882 )

The first ' modern ' publication of Alcaeus ' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556.

The first separate edition of Alcaeus was by Christian David Jani and it was published at Halle in 1780.

Between 1424 and 1433 he worked on the translation of the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, which came to be widely circulated in manuscript form and was published at Rome in 1472 ( the first printed edition of the Lives ; the Greek text was printed only in 1533 ).

First page of the first edition of the Isagoge commentary, Venice 1500

* 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.

* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7

Cover of first English language edition.

A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.

For example, the General Mills Betty Crocker's Cookbook, first published in 1950 and currently in its 10th edition, is commonly found in American homes.

Cover of the first English edition of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, 1793

:: 1973, 1995 *( Ajax also won in 1972, however, UEFA only sanctioned the UEFA Super Cup for the first time in 1973 so the 1972 edition was an unofficial one.

Henry Irving's first attempt at the role, at the Lyceum Theatre, London in 1875, was a failure.

But Irving's production clearly evoked strong emotions: one spectator, Gordon Crosse, wrote of the first entrance of Lear, " a striking figure with masses of white hair.

" Washington Irving's reference to " doughnuts " in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term.

Irving's affairs were to cause his first marriage to end in divorce in 1981.

Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.

Though he was the son and grandson of painters, he first sought a career as an actor ; he appeared in small parts in Sir Henry Irving's company, before taking up the study of art as assistant to James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

This becomes the first part of Irving's Dickensian-style tale.

Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820.

Henry Irving's portrayal of an aristocratic, proud Shylock ( first seen at the Lyceum in 1879, with Portia played by Ellen Terry ) has been called " the summit of his career ".

In 1866, the theatre presented Henry Irving's first big success in London as Rawdon Scudamore in Hunted Down ; or, The Two Lives of Mary Leigh, by Dion Boucicault.

Irving's first stage appearance was at age 2, portraying a bit-part character (" Princess Primrose ") in a play which her father directed.

Set around Washington Irving's tale of the same name, Rip Van Winkle was his first orchestral work that established his claim to fame in Europe and America.

" Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther ... the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters ... were the property of Washington Irving.

They are once again reconciled by Anne many years after Mr. Irving's first wife's death.

He is the ex-stepfather of Max Spielberg Irving's son by her first husband Steven Spielberg.

Mrs. F. O. C DarleyIn 1848, Darley provided the drawings for the first fully illustrated edition of Irving's " Rip Van Winkle " which was printed and distributed by the American Art-Union.

Meanwhile, Irving's twin brother Herman ( also Jack E. Leonard, without a toupee ), Wellington's trusted employee, plots with his love interest, the scheming harridan Camille Salamander ( Phyllis Diller ) to find the fountain of youth first.

In an article first published in the Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte journal in 1977, later translated into English as " Hitler and the Genesis of the ‘ Final Solution ’: An Assessment of David Irving ’ s Theses ", Broszat criticized David Irving's argument in his book Hitler's War that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust but did accept Irving's argument that there was no written order from Hitler for the " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ".

In the first edition, Irving's estimated that the two RAF raids and the first USAAF read combined was " estimated authoritatively to have killed more than 135, 000 of the population Dresden ..." and the " documentation suggests very strongly that the figure was certainly between a minimum of 100, 000 and a maximum of 250, 000 ".

Irving's first edition figures became widely accepted and were used in many standard reference works.

One of the earliest, if not the first, appearances this term makes is in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.