#methuen

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Bea's Sandwiches, Methuen, Massachusetts, 1963, Photograph 1982

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Adelaide Avenue, Methuen, Massachusetts.

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Ernest William Brockton Swanton - Fungi and how to know them, Imprint: London, Methuen , 1909

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Barrie Stacey - Psychology and Social Structure - Methuen & Co. ltd - 1976 (cover photograph by John Hedgecoe)

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Georg Büchner: Danton’s Death (1835)

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Milestone Monday

On this date, May 22 in 1907, Georges Prosper Remi, better known to the world as the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, creator of the uber-popular comic book series The Adventures of Tintin, was born in Etterbeek, Brussels. The series, which follows the adventures of the intrepid young Belgian reporter Tintin, was published in 24 titles from 1929 to Hergé's death in 1983. They have been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies, and have been adapted for radio, television, theatre, and film. The storylines thrust Tintin, along with his faithful dog Snowy and the brash and cynical Captain Haddock, into global mysteries and action-adventures, punctuated by slapstick comedy, set in the events and issues that span the 20th century.

British editions of the Tintin series were published in London by Methuen and translated into English by Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner starting in 1958. We hold 22 early printings of the English-language titles, most published by the London reprint house Magnet. Our copies run from 1972-1983.

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The Great Organ at Methuen Memorial Hall. America's first concert pipe organ, built in Ludwigsburg, Germany 1857-1863 by E. F. Walcker and Company. Survived 3 month's sailing in ships through Atlantic gales, and threat of confederate sinking in Boston Harbor at the height of the American Civil War. Installed in Boston's Music Hall, onstage. When the Boston Symphony was founded in 1881, floorspace onstage was needed and in 1884, the organ was moved to storage. It was eventually purchased by Edward F. Searles for $1500., and built this cathedral-style hall to house the instrument in 1909. Henry Vaughan, who designed hall, also was one of the architects of Washinton's National Cathedral. Casework by interior designers for the fabulously wealthy, Herter Brothers of New York. Ernest M. Skinner, noted organ builder, purchased the Hall for $10,000 in 1930 following Searles death. Famous organists Marcel Dupre and E. Power Biggs played it, and it still is used today. 6, 088 pipes, 116 ranks, 4 manuals, 5 divisions, 85 stops. Casework in Old Growth Black Walnut.

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Clifford D. Simak: Special Deliverance. Cover by Chris Moore. Methuen, UK, 1984.