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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 1374
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 12, 2004 - 11:40 am: |       |
I have found a listing at the British Library for a Spanish language book published in 1911 by an author named José Antonio Campos. I have searched the Casebook site and have not found a mention of it. The info from the British Library site reads as follows:
Integrated Catalogue - Holdings
CAMPOS, Jose´ Antonio.:
Jack the Ripper. Rayos cato´dicos y fuegos fatuos ... Segunda edicio´n corregida e´ ilustrada. [With plates.].
2 tom. Guayaquil, 1911..
8º..
To decipher this a little:
The title is odd - literally translated it means "Jack the Ripper: Cathode Rays and Will o' the Wisps." I have no idea what this means as far as the content is concerned.
The next line simply means - Second edition, corrected and illustated.
The next line says the book was published in 2 volumes at Guayaquil in 1911.
I assume that the last entry means "octavo" and refers to the paper size, but that is only a guess.
Does any one know anything about this oddly titled book please?
Chris
(Message edited by Chris on September 12, 2004) |
David O'Flaherty
Inspector
Username: Oberlin
Post Number: 408
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 12, 2004 - 11:56 am: | |
Hi, Chris
Perhaps Eduardo Zinna might be one to ask?
Dave |
Howard Brown
Detective Sergeant
Username: Howard
Post Number: 60
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 12, 2004 - 5:43 pm: | |
Chris:
Here is a URL, en Espanol, for a fan of J.A.Campos http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/1155/jacampos.htm
I will send you the person's e-mail address. Perhaps he knows more about the writer. |
Dan Norder
Inspector
Username: Dannorder
Post Number: 283
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 4:25 am: | |
From my reading of an imperfect computer translation, this was simply an Ecuadorian journalist who chose Jack the Ripper as a pseudonym and wrote about everything that journalists would normally write about and not anything about the actual Whitechapel Murders. The book in question appears to be a collection of his essays on everything under the sun.
Click for Google translation in new window.
Dan Norder, editor, Ripper Notes |
Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 1377
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 13, 2004 - 8:34 am: | |
Thanks Howard and Dan
That is very useful information and prevents wasted time on research
Very much appreciated
Chris
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Eduardo Zinna
Detective Sergeant
Username: Eduardo
Post Number: 63
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 08, 2004 - 11:15 am: | |
Hello everybody,
Dan Nerder is right. I actually went through Campos's book at the National Library in Quito, Ecuador, several years ago. No connexion with the Ripper except for Campos's nom de plume.
Cheers,
Eduardo
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