Author's Foreword: The purest saint who ever lived has had thoughts as evil, perhaps, as any that ever entered the mind of the most abandoned; but these thoughts, like vultures that fly through the summer sky, leave no trace behind in the crystal mental atmosphere of the saint. We are responsible only for such thoughts as we, by our own choice, detain and harbor in our minds. Our responsibility begins when we interrupt the flight of the vulture, and tempt it to alight by the offer of food. The evil becomes our own when ...
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Author's Foreword: The purest saint who ever lived has had thoughts as evil, perhaps, as any that ever entered the mind of the most abandoned; but these thoughts, like vultures that fly through the summer sky, leave no trace behind in the crystal mental atmosphere of the saint. We are responsible only for such thoughts as we, by our own choice, detain and harbor in our minds. Our responsibility begins when we interrupt the flight of the vulture, and tempt it to alight by the offer of food. The evil becomes our own when the vulture becomes domesticated. Many birds-of-paradise, glittering as with the splendor caught from the inmost heaven, fly through the clouded minds of the most depraved; but if there is no home nor food offered them, they also disappear and leave no trace of what has passed through the mind. The good comes only with the domestication of the birds-of-paradise. Through the mental heavens of the author, two birds, "Moonblight" and "Six Feet of Romance," have flown, and he is responsible for them only so far as he has sheltered and fed them. They came from a land beyond his ken, and would, like birds of passage, have flown on, and left nothing to tell of their existence had not their strange notes attracted his attention and interest. One twittered a light song, and the cry of the other was the warning scream of a mother bird. Although neither may possess the brilliant plumage of the bird-of-paradise, yet the author trusts and believes that neither may be classed with the vulture. Who can deny that the old-fashioned superstition that certain men sell themselves to the devil is a literal truth of to-day? His Satanic Majesty uses them as overseers on his earthly plantations; and for that proud office, and the emoluments that go with it, these men have bartered their souls. If a word or sentence in this book should cause a single slave-driver to transmute the baser earthly coin into the fine gold of love and the silver of truth, the author will know he has not been deceived in the nature of the birds that have visited him. If you place a valuable picture with its face against the wall, and leave it in darkness, the beautiful tints will fade, the white turn yellow, the flesh-tints green, and the whole become dim, indistinct, and ugly in color; but if this same picture be placed in God's clear sunshine, the colors will return to all their original brightness, enriched and deepened by their temporary exile in the darkness. There is a wall called Vested Rights, which prevents nature's sun from shining on our fellow-men; but, thank God! good workmen are busy at its foundation; it is already undermined and must fall. Then, and then only, will the poor tramp, the beggar, and the white slave begin to show the true color of their manhood.
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Add this copy of Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance to cart. $107.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1904 by ALBERT BRANDT Publisher.
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Near Fine. Second edition (the first edition by this publisher). Publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in gold, maroon, and black. Frontispiece plate and in text illustrations by the author. Light spotting on the spine, a bright near fine, unopened copy. A novel of social agitation by the man who went on to found the Boy Scouts of America, about murderous Pinkertons terrorizing Pennsylvania mine workers. The front cover art references a scale balancing the sway between despotism, anarchy, and equity. A handsome new edition, designed and printed by Albert Brandt, an independent publisher and printer from Trenton, New Jersey.
Add this copy of Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance to cart. $357.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1904 by ALBERT BRANDT Publisher.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Second edition, and the first edition by this publisher. Illustrations by the author. Slight rubbing, very near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with some spine-toning and small chips and tears. A novel of social agitation by the man who went on to found the Boy Scouts of America, about murderous Pinkertons terrorizing Pennsylvania mine workers. Very uncommon in the especially thin jacket. The jacket art references a scale balancing the sway between despotism, anarchy, and equity.
Add this copy of Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance to cart. $457.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1892 by Charles L. Webster and Company.
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Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by the author. Octavo. Green cloth stamped in black and silver with an illustration of a witch on a broomstick in front of the moon. Corners a trifle bumped, near fine. A novel of social agitation by the man who went on to found the Boy Scouts of America, about murderous Pinkertons terrorizing Pennsylvania mine workers.
Add this copy of Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance to cart. $757.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1904 by Albert Brand Publisher.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Second edition, and the first edition by this publisher. Illustrations by the author. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with some spine-toning and small chips and tears. Signed by the author in the year of publication: "Respectfully yours, Dan Beard 1904." A novel of social agitation, about murderous Pinkertons terrorizing Pennsylvania mine workers, by the man who would go on to found the Boy Scouts of America. Very uncommon in the especially thin jacket. The jacket art references a scale balancing despotism, anarchy, and equity.
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Fine. No Jacket. Inscribed by Author(s) With illustrations by the author. Dark green illustrated cloth. The author's social agitation novel about a Pennsylvania coal mine terrorized by Pinkertons. INSCRIBED by Beard in the year of publication to A. W. Drake, who was a principal of Lattimer Mines in Pennsylvania, a leading 19th century producer of anthracite coal. The inscription reads in part "To A. W. Drake | Who was the first to give encourage | ment and recognition | to the author..." A. W. Drake was also the son of Edwin Drake who drilled the first oil well in the U. S. and is considered the "father of modern petroleum." An importatnt association copy. The book is also late inscribed by Beard to Harry Wright in 1934. Dan Beard was founder of the Boy Scouts of America as well as a prominent book illustrator. Books inscribed by Beard are very scarce. Near fine in illustrated green cloth.
