From public libraries, friends: not yet returned
2013
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Born, Louisa Gilder, c. 2008 (from Jorge)
From public libraries, friends: returned
2017
Biography of Bram Stoker, Skal, c. 2016
2012
Biography of Bram Stoker, Skal, c. 2016
2012
A History of Icelandic Literature, Stefan Einarsson, c. 1957
Books in the Apartment
PURCHASES BY YEAR
Acquired in 2023
- Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and The Great Environmental Awakening, Douglas Brinkley, 2022.
- California: America's High-Stakes Experiment, Peter Schrag, c. 2006.
- The Book of Eels, Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World, Patrick Svensson, c. 2020.
- The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka, c. 2022. Princeton University Press. A scientific treatise.
- The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, From the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to US, Steve Brusatte, c. 2022.
- Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle, The Countess of Carnarvon, 2011.
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien, deluxe edition, 2004. Notes on the text: Douglas A. Anderson, May, 2004.
- Cinema Speculation, Quentin Tarantino, November 1, 2022.
- The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Born, Louisa Gilder, c. 2008.
- Chip War: The Fight For the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller, c. 2022.
- Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, Pekka Hämäläinen, September, 2022.
- Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World, Tobia Hürter, c. 2021.
- Mailer: The Naked and the Dead; Selected Letters 1945 - 1946. J. Michael Lennon, editor, c. 2023. See note here.
Acquired in 2022
(some acquired before 2022, but before I delete those,
I want to make sure they are already on the list)
- How The Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America, John Dvorak, c. 2021.
- Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage, Nathalia Holt, published September 13, 2022.
- A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Lingan, c. 2022.
- Fantastic Numbers and Where To Find Them: A Cosmic Quest From Zero To Infinity, Antonio Padilla, c. 2022; published July 26, 2022.
- Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death, Nick Lane, c. 2022.
- Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, c. 2018. Amazon. [Gave to nephew; software engineer]
- Barnet Schecter, The Battle For New York: The City At The Heart of the American Revolution, c. 2002
- I had read this once before. This is my second reading.
- Peter Zeihan, The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning, published June 14, 2022
- Dhun Sethna, The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood, June 7, 2022
- Edmund Wilson, Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947 - 1969, January 1, 1970
- W. G. Sebald, The Rings Of Saturn, 1995
- Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, April 26, 2022
- Mark Rozzo, Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward and 1960s Los Angeles, 2022
- John Taylor Williams, The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910 - 1960, May 17, 2022
- Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, Daviid Quammen, 2022.
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson, March 9, 2021
- Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story, Jeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja, July 22, 2021
- Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir, Jann S Wenner, September 13, 2022
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan, March 7, 2017
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear, October 16, 2018
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer, c. 2013.
- Mrs Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy, Thomas Mallon, c. 2002.
- The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War For America, H. W. Brands, c. 2022.
- Wild Things Are Happening: The Art Of Maurice Sendak, Edited By Jonathan Weinberg, c. 2022.
Acquired in 2021
- The Annotated Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf edited with an introduction and notes by Merve Emre, c. 2021
- Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870 to 1930, Edmund Wilson, first published in 1931
- Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology, Edward H. Burtt, Jr., and Williams E. Davis, Jr., c. 2013, full price, hardcover, Amazon; $36;
- The Mississippi Kite, Eric G. Bolen and Dan Flores, c. 1993
- The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World, Sarah Weinman, c. 2018The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Stuart Curran, c 2010;. 2010; $37.99;
- The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Edward Copeland, c. 2010; $23.28; given to Arianna;
Acquired in 2019
The Viking Wars: War And Peace In King Alfred's Britain, 789 - 955, Max Adams, c. 2018
The Anarchy: The East India Company, William Dalrymple, c. 2019, hard copy; Amazon; Christmas gift;
The Vikings: A History, Robert Ferguson, c. 2009, softcover, Amazon, after reading the book from the library;
The Ancient Celts, second edition, Barry Cunliffe, c. 2018; B&N; full price, $27; softcover; rare;
Cru Oyster Bar Nantucket Cookbook, Erin Zircher, Jane Stoddard and Carlos Hidalgo, c. 2019; Amazon; $25
The Battle For New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution, Barnet Schecter, c. 2002.
The Annotated Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, edited by Janet Gezari, c.2014.
Finding Fire: Cooking at its most elemental, Lennox Hastie, c. 2017; $30, but free with "loyalty points"
Drink, The Ultimate Cocktail Book, Kurt Maitland, 2019; Amazon, $29.22 (free with points)
Lone Star Dinosaurs, Louis Jacobs with original artwork by Karen Carr, c. 1995, Texas A&M University Press
Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, c. 2017; Amazon; less than half the B&N price of $35
The Wall of Birds: One Planet / 243 Families / 375 Million Years, Jane Kim w/Thayer Walker, c. 2018; Amazon; less than half the B&N price of $45; The Cornell Lab of Ornithology;
L.E.L: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron", Lucasta Miller, c. 2019, hardcover; Amazon; $24, free through "points"
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes, c. 1986, soft cover; used/redundant, Amazon
How to Live Japanese, Yutaka Yazawa, c. 2018, hard cover, full price; gift to May, Japanese bookstore
The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World & The Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India, Raoul McLaughlin, c. 2014, 2018, Amazon Prime, $17
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures On How To Build An Atomic Bomb, Robert Serber, edited with an introduction by Richard Rhodes, bought at Los Alamos, NM; $79; hardcover, c. 1992
Man of the Hour, James B. Conant: Warrior Scientist, Jennet Conant, c. 2017, author of Tuxedo Park and 109 East Palace,
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, c. 2012, bought at Los Alamos, NM; $79; soft cover, $14.95;
The Los Alamos Primer, Robert Serber, c. ?; bought at Los Alamos, NM, $30;
Acquired in 2018
Japanese Whisky, Brian Ashcraft, c. 2018
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, with an afterword by A. N. Wilson, Signet Classics, c. 2007
The Comanche Code Talkers of WWII, William C. Meadows, c. 2002
Tequila Mockingbird, Tim Federle, c. 2013
Japanese Whisky, Brian Ashcraft, c. 2018
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Greta's Empire, Robin Waterfield, c. 2011
"The Talmud": The Book of Legends: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash, edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, translated by William G. Braude, c. 1992; first published in Odessa in 1908 - 1911
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956 - 1963, c. 2018; with foreword by her daughter, Frieda; edited by Peter K Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil -- Grapevine Library (I don't own copy)
So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures, Maureen Corrigan, c. 2014
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, c. 2012; $14.95
Acquired in 2017
The Viking Wars: War And Peace In King Alfred's Britain, 789 - 955, Max Adams, c. 2018
The Anarchy: The East India Company, William Dalrymple, c. 2019, hard copy; Amazon; Christmas gift;
The Vikings: A History, Robert Ferguson, c. 2009, softcover, Amazon, after reading the book from the library;
The Ancient Celts, second edition, Barry Cunliffe, c. 2018; B&N; full price, $27; softcover; rare;
Cru Oyster Bar Nantucket Cookbook, Erin Zircher, Jane Stoddard and Carlos Hidalgo, c. 2019; Amazon; $25
The Battle For New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution, Barnet Schecter, c. 2002.
The Annotated Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, edited by Janet Gezari, c.2014.
Finding Fire: Cooking at its most elemental, Lennox Hastie, c. 2017; $30, but free with "loyalty points"
Drink, The Ultimate Cocktail Book, Kurt Maitland, 2019; Amazon, $29.22 (free with points)
Lone Star Dinosaurs, Louis Jacobs with original artwork by Karen Carr, c. 1995, Texas A&M University Press
Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos, Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw, c. 2017; Amazon; less than half the B&N price of $35
The Wall of Birds: One Planet / 243 Families / 375 Million Years, Jane Kim w/Thayer Walker, c. 2018; Amazon; less than half the B&N price of $45; The Cornell Lab of Ornithology;
L.E.L: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron", Lucasta Miller, c. 2019, hardcover; Amazon; $24, free through "points"
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes, c. 1986, soft cover; used/redundant, Amazon
How to Live Japanese, Yutaka Yazawa, c. 2018, hard cover, full price; gift to May, Japanese bookstore
The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World & The Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India, Raoul McLaughlin, c. 2014, 2018, Amazon Prime, $17
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures On How To Build An Atomic Bomb, Robert Serber, edited with an introduction by Richard Rhodes, bought at Los Alamos, NM; $79; hardcover, c. 1992
Man of the Hour, James B. Conant: Warrior Scientist, Jennet Conant, c. 2017, author of Tuxedo Park and 109 East Palace,
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, c. 2012, bought at Los Alamos, NM; $79; soft cover, $14.95;
The Los Alamos Primer, Robert Serber, c. ?; bought at Los Alamos, NM, $30;
Japanese Whisky, Brian Ashcraft, c. 2018
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, with an afterword by A. N. Wilson, Signet Classics, c. 2007
The Comanche Code Talkers of WWII, William C. Meadows, c. 2002
Tequila Mockingbird, Tim Federle, c. 2013
Japanese Whisky, Brian Ashcraft, c. 2018
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Greta's Empire, Robin Waterfield, c. 2011
"The Talmud": The Book of Legends: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash, edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, translated by William G. Braude, c. 1992; first published in Odessa in 1908 - 1911
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956 - 1963, c. 2018; with foreword by her daughter, Frieda; edited by Peter K Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil -- Grapevine Library (I don't own copy)
So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures, Maureen Corrigan, c. 2014
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, c. 2012; $14.95
The Los Alamos Primer, Robert Serber, c. 1992, $79
109 East Palace: Orbert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, Jennet Conant, c. $17.99; 2005
Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist, Jennet Conant, c. 2017; $30 face; free from museum
The Los Alamos Primer, Robert Serber, very thin pamphlet; from Los Alamos museum; $30; no copyright
Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, c. 2018; $45;
The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, editor, c. 1973; $14.95; Amazon, 3rd party
Aeneid, Virgil; translation by Frederick Ahl, c. 2007; Johnson County Library, Shawnee Mission, KS
The God Problem, Howard Bloom, c. 2016
A Palette of Particles, Jeremy Bernstein, c. 2013
The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson, Clark Hunter, c. 1983, hardcover, $25, Portland, OR
Tai-Pan: The epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, James Clavell, c. 1966
1421, Gavin Menzies, c. 2008; softcover; Powell's in Portland, OR
1434, Gavin Menzies. c. 2009, softcover; Half-Price Bookstores;
The Three Mona Lisas; Rab Hatfield, c. 2014; hardcover; $40; Kimbell Museum, Ft Worth, TX
The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, c. 2004; it was originally published in France, c. 2003, in two volumes; this book is the "complete" Persepolis
Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, c. 2018; $45;
The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, editor, c. 1973; $14.95; Amazon, 3rd party
Aeneid, Virgil; translation by Frederick Ahl, c. 2007; Johnson County Library, Shawnee Mission, KS
The God Problem, Howard Bloom, c. 2016
A Palette of Particles, Jeremy Bernstein, c. 2013
The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson, Clark Hunter, c. 1983, hardcover, $25, Portland, OR
Tai-Pan: The epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, James Clavell, c. 1966
1421, Gavin Menzies, c. 2008; softcover; Powell's in Portland, OR
1434, Gavin Menzies. c. 2009, softcover; Half-Price Bookstores;
The Three Mona Lisas; Rab Hatfield, c. 2014; hardcover; $40; Kimbell Museum, Ft Worth, TX
The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, c. 2004; it was originally published in France, c. 2003, in two volumes; this book is the "complete" Persepolis
A New Literary History of Modern China, edited by David Der-Wei Wang, c. 2017
The Man Who Made The Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox, Vanda Krefft, c. 2017, Amazon; $24
The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair, c. 2016; hardcover; $20 --- Arianna has it
Remembering America: A Voice From The Sixties, Richard N. Goodwin, c. 1988; absolutely awful; a JFK hero-worshipper;
Remembering America: A Voice From The Sixties, Richard N. Goodwin, c. 1988; absolutely awful; a JFK hero-worshipper;
Acquired in 2017
Growing Up With The Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet, Translated and edited by Jane Roberts, c. 2017; softcover, Amazon
Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party, Eliza E. Rathbone, c. 2017, hardcover, Amazon
Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything, Stephen Bayley, c. 2009, hardcover, Amazon
Ink and Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation, Mindy Johnson, c. 2017, hard copy, coffee table
Venice Incognito: Masks In The Serene Republic, James H. Johnson, c. 2011, softcover, Amazon
History of My Life: Giacomo Casanova, Everyman's Library, introduction by John Julius Norwich, c. 2006The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, James A Ganz and Richard Kendall, c. 2007
Greene & Greene: Masterworks: Bruce Smith and Alexander Vertikoff, c. 1998; reseller through Amazon for about $10; original price, $40;
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, Jonathan Eig, c. 2014, softcover; Amazon
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth, DK, c. 2009, 2012; softcover; Amazon
Whiskey: Eyewitness Companions, DK: Charles MacLean, c. 2008, softcover, third party through Amazon
Whiskypedia: A Compendium of Scottish Whisky, Charles MacLean, c. 2010, hardcover; third party through Amazon
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art, Shizuo Tsuji, c. 2011, hardcover, beautiful copy
Whisky Japan: The Essential Guide to the World's Most Exotic Whisky, Dominic Roskrow, c. 2016, hardcopy; Amazon; beautiful copy
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, Michael Booth, c. 2014, Amazon, softcover
Super Sushi Ramen Express, Michael Booth, c. 2016, Amazon, hardcover
Frank Lloy Wright on the West Coast, Mark Anthony Wilson, c. 2014, Amazon (I first saw it at Kimbell Museum of Art); $47
Dracula, Barnes and Noble Classics, introduction and notes by Brooke Allen, c. 2003; Dracula was first published in 1897; Barnes and Noble, $4.50
Master Paintings From The Phillips Collection, Museum Book, c. 2011, $25, Kimbell Museum of Art, May, 2017
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution; Nick Lane, 2010, softcover, discount book store
The Celts; edited by Venceslas Kruta et al; Rizzoli publishers; translated from the Italian; c. 1997 (first copyright, 1991); Powell's bookstore, Portland, April 18, 2017; $22
101 World Whiskies to Try Before You Die, Ian Buxton, 2012; sequel to his 2010 book, Half-Price Books, hardcover, $4.99
Biology, Raven, Johnson, Sixth Edition, c. 2002 (1996), textbook, Half-Price Books, hardcover, $5.99
Molecular Cell Biology, Lodish, Berk, Matsuraira (MIT), Fifth Edition, c. 2004 (1986), textbook, Half-Price Books, hardcover, $7.99
Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us, Michael S. Walker, c. 2016.
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong, c. 2016 (revised and expanded from earlier edition)
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution, Jonathan Eig, c. 2014, softcover; Amazon
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth, DK, c. 2009, 2012; softcover; Amazon
Whiskey: Eyewitness Companions, DK: Charles MacLean, c. 2008, softcover, third party through Amazon
Whiskypedia: A Compendium of Scottish Whisky, Charles MacLean, c. 2010, hardcover; third party through Amazon
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art, Shizuo Tsuji, c. 2011, hardcover, beautiful copy
Whisky Japan: The Essential Guide to the World's Most Exotic Whisky, Dominic Roskrow, c. 2016, hardcopy; Amazon; beautiful copy
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, Michael Booth, c. 2014, Amazon, softcover
Super Sushi Ramen Express, Michael Booth, c. 2016, Amazon, hardcover
Frank Lloy Wright on the West Coast, Mark Anthony Wilson, c. 2014, Amazon (I first saw it at Kimbell Museum of Art); $47
Dracula, Barnes and Noble Classics, introduction and notes by Brooke Allen, c. 2003; Dracula was first published in 1897; Barnes and Noble, $4.50
Master Paintings From The Phillips Collection, Museum Book, c. 2011, $25, Kimbell Museum of Art, May, 2017
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution; Nick Lane, 2010, softcover, discount book store
The Celts; edited by Venceslas Kruta et al; Rizzoli publishers; translated from the Italian; c. 1997 (first copyright, 1991); Powell's bookstore, Portland, April 18, 2017; $22
101 World Whiskies to Try Before You Die, Ian Buxton, 2012; sequel to his 2010 book, Half-Price Books, hardcover, $4.99
Biology, Raven, Johnson, Sixth Edition, c. 2002 (1996), textbook, Half-Price Books, hardcover, $5.99
Molecular Cell Biology, Lodish, Berk, Matsuraira (MIT), Fifth Edition, c. 2004 (1986), textbook, Half-Price Books, hardcover, $7.99
Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us, Michael S. Walker, c. 2016.
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong, c. 2016 (revised and expanded from earlier edition)
Acquired in 2016
Vitruvius: On Architecture, Thomas Gordon Smith, through Amazon, Glynn's Collection, Lydican, Claregalway, County Galway H91 X7E2, Ireland
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, Abigail Pogrebin, c. 2016, Amazon Vine, advance copy, not for sale
Orion of the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston, Danield G. Payne, c. 2016; Amazon, hard cover
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, Henry Beston, c. 1928, Amazon, softcover
Monet: The Early Years, catalogue, soft-cover, Monet exhibition, October, 2016 - January, 2017, Kimball Art Museum, Ft Worth, TX
Helen Of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Bettany Hughes, c. 2005, softcover, accidental find at Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA;
The Ultimate Bar Book: The Comprehensive Guide To Over 1,000 Cocktails, Mittie Hellmich, c. 2006, hardocover, Amazon
The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe, Michael Pye, c. 2015, softcover, Amazon
The History of the World, Sixth Edition, J. M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad, c. 2013, hardcover, Amazon, for Arianna
Cistercian Abbeys: History and Architecture, Jean-Francois Leroux-Dhuys, c. 1998, a coffee-table book
How To Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley, c. 2016
Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour, Keiron Pim, field notes by Jack Horner, c. 2013, 2016
Hemingway in Love: A Memoir, A. E. Hotchner, c. 2016
Spain In Our Hearts: Americans In The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939, Adam Hochschild, c. 2016
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks, Amy Stewart, c. 2013
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs, David Hone, c. 2016
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and The Woman Who Made Them, Nancy Marie Brown, c. 2015, hardcover, Amazon.
Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Nancy Marie Brown, c. 2012, softcover, Amazon.
The Greek Myth: Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold, Robin Waterfield, c. 2011, hardcover, redundant, $12.98
The Wright Style, A New Edition: Recreating the Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright, Carla Lind, c. 1992, hardcover, Amazon, new
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow, c. 2012, softcover, Amazon, new
The Violinist's Thumb, And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, Sam Kean, c. 2012, softcover, Amazon, new
Cosmos Sapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe, John Hands, c. 2015, hardcover, Amazon, new
Sailing Alone Around The World: The Illustrated Edition, Joshua Slocum, introduction by Geoffrey Wolff, c. 2016; hardcover, Amazon.com
Papa: Hemingway in Key West, James McLendon, c. 2006, softcover, Kiri brought it back for me, from Key West, Apr 15, 2016
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918 - 1923, edited by Keven C. Fitzpatrick, c.2014; softcover, Amazon.com price
The Essential New York time Book of Cocktails, edited by Steve Reddicliffee, c. 2015, Amazon.com price;
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe, Lisa Randall, c. 2015, $19, Amazon
Doctor Zhivago: A Novel, Boris Pasternak, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, c. 1957, Pantheon, used; $7.95
The Space Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy, Jim Bell, c. 2013; $19; Amazon
The White Road: Journey Into An Obsession, Edmund de Waal, c. 2015; hardcover; $19; Amazon
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, Edmund de Wall, c. 2010, illustrated edition, hard cover; Amazon
The Private Lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, c. 2006, paperback, $18 from the Dallas Museum of Art
The 50s: The Story of a Decade, The New Yorker, c. 2015
From Chanel to Reves, La Pausa and Its Collections at the Dallas Museum of Art, Olivier Meslay and Martha MacLeod, small monograph, soft cover, $15, full price, Dallas Museum of Art, c. 2015
Acquired in 2015
The Letters of Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926 - 1929 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway), Ernest Hemingway, c. 2015
Travels With Myself and Another: A Memoir, Martha Gellhorn, c. 2001 (a second copy; I couldn't find the copy I bought in 2011)
The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers, Nancy Toff, Oxford University Press, 1985, most recent, 2012,
On Playing The Flute: The Classic of Baroque Music Instruction, Johann Jachim Quantz, second edition, translated with notes and an introduction by Edward R. Reilly, c. 1966, most recent 2001
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Rubin, c. 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain, c. 2013
The Letters of Hemingway: Volume 1 1907 - 1922 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway), Ernest Hemingway, c. 2011
Evolution: The Whole Story, Steve Parker, General Editor; and, forward Alice Roberts, c. 2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Project; edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith); c. 2015
Atom: A Single Oxygen Atom's Journey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth .. and Beyond, Lawrence M. Krauss,
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean,
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth .. and Beyond, Lawrence M. Krauss,
The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer -- The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bom, James Kunetka, c. 2015
Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane, c. 2015
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, c. 1945, 1951
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, Introduction and Notes by Carl F Hovde, Barnes and Noble Classics, c. 1851, 2003
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, JRR Tolkien (author), Christopher Tolkien (editor), c. 2015 (on sale August 4, 2015; hardcover arrived August 17, 2015)
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, Harold Bloom, c. 2015; on sale May 12, 2015, and arrived August 17, 2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Papers, Mark Twain (author), Robert Hirst (author) and six others; c. 2013
The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened The West, Lesley Poling-Kempes, c. 1989
Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye, Mary Morton and George Shackleford, c. 2015; published June 22, 2015; received June 23, 2015
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh, c. 2013
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Gregory S. Paul, c. 2010
Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet, c. 2015
The Paris Wife: A Novel, Paula McLain, 2011 (Hadley, his first wife)
The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use, Reginald and Gladys Laubin, c. 1957 1st edition, c. 1977, second edition
On The Move: A Life, Oliver Sacks, c. 2015, hard cover; saw review in NYT, or WSJ
Whisk(e)y Distilled, A Populist Guide to the Water of LIfe, Heather Greene, Spirits Sommelier, hardcover, B&N, , c. 2014, $25.00
A Moveable Feast, The Restored Edition, Ernest Hemingway, personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway; introduced and edited by Sean Hemingway (grandson), c. 2010, Scribner's imprint, $15.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, Introduction and notes by Camille Cauti, c. 2003, Barnes and Noble classic, $6.95
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Introduction and notes by Sharon G. Carson, c. 2005, Barnes and Noble classic, $8.95
Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and US Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854 - 1868, Doreen Chaky, c. 2012; paperback published 2014; bought at Books On Broadway, April, 2015, $21.95
15 Months Of Winter: My Year In North Dakota, John Bayer, c. 2014, full price, $15.95, Books on Broadway
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways, George Bird Grinnell, 2008, softcover, Books on Broadway, $32
Traveling to Infinity: The True Story Behind "The Theory Of Everything," Jane Hawking, c. 1999 - 2014
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre (David Cornwell), c. 1974, 1991, 2011
Women Of Will: Following The Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays, Tina Packer, c. 2015; Amazon Vine
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagentes and the Rise of the Tudors, Dan Jones, c. 2014, hardcover
Duveen: A Life in Art, Meryle Secrest, c. 2004, hardcover, $5.00, third-party
Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, Sara Campbell, 2010, hard cover, $65
The Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay, c. 2014, hard cover; $45
The Musee d'Orsay, Alexandra Bonfante-Warren, c. 2003; gift, hard cover
Acquired in 2014
Salinger, David Shields and Shane Salerno, c. 2014
Blue: The History of the F-15,
Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life, Susan Middleton, Amazon, hardcover, c. 2014.
The Manga Guide to Electricity, Kazuhiro Fujitake, c. 2009, full price, Japanese book store in Los Angeles, $20
The Zen and Steve Jobs, Caleb Melby, c. 2012, full price, Japanese book store in Los Angeles, $20
Los Angeles Before Hollywood: Journalism and American Film Culture, 1905 to 1915, Jan Olsson, c. 2008, full price, Japanese book store in Los Angeles, $40
The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created The Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson, c. 2014, Christmas gift
Captain Gray In The Pacific Northwest: Captain Gray's Voyages of Discovery, 1787 - 1793, Francis E. Cross and Charles M. Parkin, Jr., c. 1987, Christmas gift
Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code, Brenda James, c. 2008, Christmas gift
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Bryon's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age, James Essinger, c. 2014, Christmas gift
Roanoke: Solving The Mystery of the Lost Colony, Lee Miller, c. 2002, 2012, BN, $8
The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing -- Coffees Explored, Explained, and Enjoyed, James Hoffman, c. 2014; Amazon Vine, free
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Norton Smith, "Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, " c. 2014, Amazon price;
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and The Fate of the West, Judith Nies, c. 2014
The Beatles A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Song, Steve Turner, c. 1994, 2009
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World, Michael D. Fayer, c. 2010
Proust, William Sansom, Thames and Hudson - Literary Lives, c. 1971
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, edited by J. Paul Hunter, a Norton Critical Edition, second edition, c. 1996, 2012
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, David Hockney, c. 2006
Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman, c. 2001; reprinted 2014
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, Philip Shenon, c. 2013
Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House, Robert Dallek, c. 2013
The Muddy River Boys, J. David Erickson, c. 2011, a gift
The Discovery of Middle Earth, Graham Robb, c. 2013, $29, Getty Museum, LA
The Nethercutt Collection, a museum book, $35
Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest, Arnold Berke, c. 2002
Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth, Virginia L. Grattan, c. 1992
A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country, David B. Williams, c. 2013
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civlizing the Wild West, One Meal at a Time, Stephen Fried, c. 2010
The Journal of Eugene Delacroix, Phaidon Press, 3rd edition, c. 1995
Rewriting Scotland: Welsh, McLean, Warner, Banks, Galloway and Kennedy, Cristie L. March, c. 2002
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, Volume E, 8th Edition, c. 2006
Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry, 4th edition, William H. Brown, c.1987
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mathew J. Bruccoli, c. 1981, 1991
James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889, Patricia G. Berman, c. 2002
James Ensore, Herwig Todts, c. 2008
Calculus, Single Variable, Hughes-Hallett, Gleason, et al, c. 1998
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster, c. 2003
Passionate Apprentice: Virginia Woolf, The Early Journals, 1897 - 1909, Virginia Woolf, edited by Mitchell A Leaska, c. 1990
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America, Donald L. Miller, c. 2014
Acquired in 2013
The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe, c. 1998
The Ancestors of Christ At Canterbury Cathedral, Jeffrey Weaver, Madeline H. Caviness, 2013, museum book, J Paul Getty Museum, Christmas gift ($25)
How To Be Rich, J Paul Getty, c. 19..., Christmas gift
As I See It: Autobiography, J Paul Getty, c. 1976, revised 2003, Christmas gift
Salinger: The Official Book of the Acclaimed Documentary Film, David Sheids, Shane Salerno, c. 2013, hard cover, Christmas gift
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson, c. 1989, Christmas gift
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien, 50th Anniversary Edition, Barnes & Noble,
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark, c. 2014 (Vine)
Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America, The: Together With an Account of the American Whale-Fishery (California Legacy Book), Charles Melville Scammon, 1874, foreword of current printing, 2007
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Nathaniel Philbrook, 2011
The Neandertal Enigma: Solving The Mystery of Modern Human Origins, James Shreeve, 1995
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, Richard Panek, 2011
The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards, c. 2004; hardcover, Amazon's price;
The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space and Astronomy, Jim Bell, c. 2013, hardcover, Amazon's price;
Sydney And Violet: Their Life With TS Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis, Stephen Klaidman, c. 2013; a Amazon Vine pre-release
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside The Center, Ray Monk, c. 2012
Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. 1983, the centenary edition, softcover, c. 2012
The New Astronomy Guide: Stargazing in the Digital Age, Patrick Moore and Pete Lawrence, c. 2012; hard ocver
The Log of the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck, c. 1941, Penguin Classics; soft-cover
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Born, Louisa Gilder, c.2008 (from Jorge)
Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community, Jon Hunner, 2003
The Hub’s Metropolis: Greater Boston’s Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth, James C. O’Connell, c. 2013
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, George Dyson, c. 2012, soft cover
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick, c. 2012, soft cover
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick, c. 1993, soft cover
Einstein’s Daughter: The Search for Lieserl, Michele Zackheim, c. 1999, hard cover
Acquired in 2012
Vitruvius: On Architecture, Thomas Gordon Smith, through Amazon, Glynn's Collection, Lydican, Claregalway, County Galway H91 X7E2, Ireland
My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, Abigail Pogrebin, c. 2016, Amazon Vine, advance copy, not for sale
Orion of the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston, Danield G. Payne, c. 2016; Amazon, hard cover
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, Henry Beston, c. 1928, Amazon, softcover
Monet: The Early Years, catalogue, soft-cover, Monet exhibition, October, 2016 - January, 2017, Kimball Art Museum, Ft Worth, TX
Helen Of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Bettany Hughes, c. 2005, softcover, accidental find at Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA;
The Ultimate Bar Book: The Comprehensive Guide To Over 1,000 Cocktails, Mittie Hellmich, c. 2006, hardocover, Amazon
The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe, Michael Pye, c. 2015, softcover, Amazon
The History of the World, Sixth Edition, J. M. Roberts & Odd Arne Westad, c. 2013, hardcover, Amazon, for Arianna
Cistercian Abbeys: History and Architecture, Jean-Francois Leroux-Dhuys, c. 1998, a coffee-table book
How To Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley, c. 2016
Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour, Keiron Pim, field notes by Jack Horner, c. 2013, 2016
Hemingway in Love: A Memoir, A. E. Hotchner, c. 2016
Spain In Our Hearts: Americans In The Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1939, Adam Hochschild, c. 2016
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create The World's Great Drinks, Amy Stewart, c. 2013
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs, David Hone, c. 2016
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and The Woman Who Made Them, Nancy Marie Brown, c. 2015, hardcover, Amazon.
Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Nancy Marie Brown, c. 2012, softcover, Amazon.
The Greek Myth: Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold, Robin Waterfield, c. 2011, hardcover, redundant, $12.98
The Wright Style, A New Edition: Recreating the Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright, Carla Lind, c. 1992, hardcover, Amazon, new
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow, c. 2012, softcover, Amazon, new
The Violinist's Thumb, And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, Sam Kean, c. 2012, softcover, Amazon, new
Cosmos Sapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe, John Hands, c. 2015, hardcover, Amazon, new
Sailing Alone Around The World: The Illustrated Edition, Joshua Slocum, introduction by Geoffrey Wolff, c. 2016; hardcover, Amazon.com
Papa: Hemingway in Key West, James McLendon, c. 2006, softcover, Kiri brought it back for me, from Key West, Apr 15, 2016
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918 - 1923, edited by Keven C. Fitzpatrick, c.2014; softcover, Amazon.com price
The Essential New York time Book of Cocktails, edited by Steve Reddicliffee, c. 2015, Amazon.com price;
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe, Lisa Randall, c. 2015, $19, Amazon
Doctor Zhivago: A Novel, Boris Pasternak, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, c. 1957, Pantheon, used; $7.95
The Space Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy, Jim Bell, c. 2013; $19; Amazon
The White Road: Journey Into An Obsession, Edmund de Waal, c. 2015; hardcover; $19; Amazon
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, Edmund de Wall, c. 2010, illustrated edition, hard cover; Amazon
The Private Lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, c. 2006, paperback, $18 from the Dallas Museum of Art
The 50s: The Story of a Decade, The New Yorker, c. 2015
From Chanel to Reves, La Pausa and Its Collections at the Dallas Museum of Art, Olivier Meslay and Martha MacLeod, small monograph, soft cover, $15, full price, Dallas Museum of Art, c. 2015
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History, Rhonda K. Garelick, c. 2014, $20, full price, Dallas Museum of Art,
American Housewife: Stories, Helen Ellis, c. 2016, $24, full price, Dallas Museum of Art,
Ayn Rand: And the World She Made, a biography, Anne C. Heller, c. 2009, $7.99, Half-Price Books, soft cover; looks great, exciting
Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters, The Library of America, $17.49, Half-Price Books (will be kept in zip lock bag; a collectible)
The Oil Kings: How The US, Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, Andrew Scott Cooper, c. 2011, $7.98 at Half-Price Books, hard cover
Money, Gauguin, Van Gogh ... Japanese Inspirations, Museum Folkwang, c. 2014, Museum Folkwang, Essen (Germany), full price; Christmas gift from me to May, bought at Kimbell Museum, Ft Worth, TX; $45
American Housewife: Stories, Helen Ellis, c. 2016, $24, full price, Dallas Museum of Art,
Ayn Rand: And the World She Made, a biography, Anne C. Heller, c. 2009, $7.99, Half-Price Books, soft cover; looks great, exciting
Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters, The Library of America, $17.49, Half-Price Books (will be kept in zip lock bag; a collectible)
The Oil Kings: How The US, Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, Andrew Scott Cooper, c. 2011, $7.98 at Half-Price Books, hard cover
Money, Gauguin, Van Gogh ... Japanese Inspirations, Museum Folkwang, c. 2014, Museum Folkwang, Essen (Germany), full price; Christmas gift from me to May, bought at Kimbell Museum, Ft Worth, TX; $45
the Art of the Pastel, Thea Burns, Philippe Saunier, c. 20XX, full price; gift from me to May, bought at Kimbell Museum, Ft Worth, TX; $95
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Kimberly A. Jones, c. 2010, full price; bought at Kimbell Museum, Ft Worth, TX; $50; bought it after seeing Caillebotte exhibit; the National Gallery had one Gaillebotte (just one in the book);
The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life, Jack Challoner, c. 2015; University of Chicago Press;
The New Oxford Annotated Bible; NRSV with the Apocrypha, an ecumenical study bible, Michael D. Coogan, editor, c. 1989; full price, $45; Barnes and Noble purchase;
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Introduction and notes by Nancy Stade, Barnes and Noble Classics; c. 2003; during my American Bloomsbury/American Renaissance phase;
The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life, Jack Challoner, c. 2015; University of Chicago Press;
The New Oxford Annotated Bible; NRSV with the Apocrypha, an ecumenical study bible, Michael D. Coogan, editor, c. 1989; full price, $45; Barnes and Noble purchase;
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Introduction and notes by Nancy Stade, Barnes and Noble Classics; c. 2003; during my American Bloomsbury/American Renaissance phase;
Acquired in 2015
The Letters of Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926 - 1929 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway), Ernest Hemingway, c. 2015
Travels With Myself and Another: A Memoir, Martha Gellhorn, c. 2001 (a second copy; I couldn't find the copy I bought in 2011)
The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers, Nancy Toff, Oxford University Press, 1985, most recent, 2012,
On Playing The Flute: The Classic of Baroque Music Instruction, Johann Jachim Quantz, second edition, translated with notes and an introduction by Edward R. Reilly, c. 1966, most recent 2001
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Rubin, c. 2011
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain, c. 2013
The Letters of Hemingway: Volume 1 1907 - 1922 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway), Ernest Hemingway, c. 2011
Evolution: The Whole Story, Steve Parker, General Editor; and, forward Alice Roberts, c. 2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Project; edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith); c. 2015
Atom: A Single Oxygen Atom's Journey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth .. and Beyond, Lawrence M. Krauss,
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean,
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth .. and Beyond, Lawrence M. Krauss,
The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer -- The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bom, James Kunetka, c. 2015
Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane, c. 2015
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, c. 1945, 1951
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, Introduction and Notes by Carl F Hovde, Barnes and Noble Classics, c. 1851, 2003
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, JRR Tolkien (author), Christopher Tolkien (editor), c. 2015 (on sale August 4, 2015; hardcover arrived August 17, 2015)
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, Harold Bloom, c. 2015; on sale May 12, 2015, and arrived August 17, 2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition (Mark Twain Papers, Mark Twain (author), Robert Hirst (author) and six others; c. 2013
The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened The West, Lesley Poling-Kempes, c. 1989
Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye, Mary Morton and George Shackleford, c. 2015; published June 22, 2015; received June 23, 2015
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh, c. 2013
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Gregory S. Paul, c. 2010
Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet, c. 2015
The Paris Wife: A Novel, Paula McLain, 2011 (Hadley, his first wife)
The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use, Reginald and Gladys Laubin, c. 1957 1st edition, c. 1977, second edition
On The Move: A Life, Oliver Sacks, c. 2015, hard cover; saw review in NYT, or WSJ
Whisk(e)y Distilled, A Populist Guide to the Water of LIfe, Heather Greene, Spirits Sommelier, hardcover, B&N, , c. 2014, $25.00
A Moveable Feast, The Restored Edition, Ernest Hemingway, personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway; introduced and edited by Sean Hemingway (grandson), c. 2010, Scribner's imprint, $15.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, Introduction and notes by Camille Cauti, c. 2003, Barnes and Noble classic, $6.95
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Introduction and notes by Sharon G. Carson, c. 2005, Barnes and Noble classic, $8.95
Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and US Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854 - 1868, Doreen Chaky, c. 2012; paperback published 2014; bought at Books On Broadway, April, 2015, $21.95
15 Months Of Winter: My Year In North Dakota, John Bayer, c. 2014, full price, $15.95, Books on Broadway
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways, George Bird Grinnell, 2008, softcover, Books on Broadway, $32
Traveling to Infinity: The True Story Behind "The Theory Of Everything," Jane Hawking, c. 1999 - 2014
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre (David Cornwell), c. 1974, 1991, 2011
Women Of Will: Following The Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays, Tina Packer, c. 2015; Amazon Vine
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagentes and the Rise of the Tudors, Dan Jones, c. 2014, hardcover
Duveen: A Life in Art, Meryle Secrest, c. 2004, hardcover, $5.00, third-party
Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, Sara Campbell, 2010, hard cover, $65
The Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay, c. 2014, hard cover; $45
The Musee d'Orsay, Alexandra Bonfante-Warren, c. 2003; gift, hard cover
Salinger, David Shields and Shane Salerno, c. 2014
Blue: The History of the F-15,
Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life, Susan Middleton, Amazon, hardcover, c. 2014.
The Manga Guide to Electricity, Kazuhiro Fujitake, c. 2009, full price, Japanese book store in Los Angeles, $20
The Zen and Steve Jobs, Caleb Melby, c. 2012, full price, Japanese book store in Los Angeles, $20
Los Angeles Before Hollywood: Journalism and American Film Culture, 1905 to 1915, Jan Olsson, c. 2008, full price, Japanese book store in Los Angeles, $40
The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created The Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson, c. 2014, Christmas gift
Captain Gray In The Pacific Northwest: Captain Gray's Voyages of Discovery, 1787 - 1793, Francis E. Cross and Charles M. Parkin, Jr., c. 1987, Christmas gift
Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code, Brenda James, c. 2008, Christmas gift
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Bryon's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age, James Essinger, c. 2014, Christmas gift
Roanoke: Solving The Mystery of the Lost Colony, Lee Miller, c. 2002, 2012, BN, $8
The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing -- Coffees Explored, Explained, and Enjoyed, James Hoffman, c. 2014; Amazon Vine, free
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Norton Smith, "Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, " c. 2014, Amazon price;
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and The Fate of the West, Judith Nies, c. 2014
The Beatles A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Song, Steve Turner, c. 1994, 2009
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World, Michael D. Fayer, c. 2010
Proust, William Sansom, Thames and Hudson - Literary Lives, c. 1971
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, edited by J. Paul Hunter, a Norton Critical Edition, second edition, c. 1996, 2012
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, David Hockney, c. 2006
Vermeer's Camera, Philip Steadman, c. 2001; reprinted 2014
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, Philip Shenon, c. 2013
Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House, Robert Dallek, c. 2013
The Muddy River Boys, J. David Erickson, c. 2011, a gift
The Discovery of Middle Earth, Graham Robb, c. 2013, $29, Getty Museum, LA
The Nethercutt Collection, a museum book, $35
Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest, Arnold Berke, c. 2002
Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth, Virginia L. Grattan, c. 1992
A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country, David B. Williams, c. 2013
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civlizing the Wild West, One Meal at a Time, Stephen Fried, c. 2010
The Journal of Eugene Delacroix, Phaidon Press, 3rd edition, c. 1995
Rewriting Scotland: Welsh, McLean, Warner, Banks, Galloway and Kennedy, Cristie L. March, c. 2002
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age, Volume E, 8th Edition, c. 2006
Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry, 4th edition, William H. Brown, c.1987
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mathew J. Bruccoli, c. 1981, 1991
James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889, Patricia G. Berman, c. 2002
James Ensore, Herwig Todts, c. 2008
Calculus, Single Variable, Hughes-Hallett, Gleason, et al, c. 1998
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster, c. 2003
Passionate Apprentice: Virginia Woolf, The Early Journals, 1897 - 1909, Virginia Woolf, edited by Mitchell A Leaska, c. 1990
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America, Donald L. Miller, c. 2014
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England, Dan Jones, c. 2012
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of New Billionaire Wildcatters, Gregory Zuckerman, c. 2013;
Knocking on Heaven's Door, Lisa Randall, c. 2011 with new preface on Higgs discovery
The Particle At the End of The Universe: How The Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World, Sean Carroll, c. 2013
The 40s: The Story of a Decade, The New Yorker Magazine, 2014
The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin, c. 2013, softcover, Barnes & Nobel
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy As The Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander, c. 2013
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, Jim Marrs, c. 2013
Learning From Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius, Fritjof Capra, c. 2013, hardcover
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist, George D. Morgan, c. 20
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1923 - 1925, Vol 2, edited by Sandra Spanier, et al, c. 2013, hardcover
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, Kingsley M. Bray, c. 2006
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Sylvie Simmons, c. 2012
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar, c. 2011
On The Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (And Ourselves), Jonnie Hughes, c. 2011
General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War, Frank Varney, c. 2013
Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat, Gregory F. Michno, editor and comments, c. 1997; sixth printing, 2007
85 Years Birding, Kenneth J. Johnson, c. 2005;
Stonehenge: A New Interpretation Of Prehistoric Man And The Cosmos, John North, c. 1996; $3.15 + $3.99 (h/s)
Athens: A Portrait Of The City In Its Golden Age, Christian Meier, c. 1993; $5 (+shipping)
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of New Billionaire Wildcatters, Gregory Zuckerman, c. 2013;
Knocking on Heaven's Door, Lisa Randall, c. 2011 with new preface on Higgs discovery
The Particle At the End of The Universe: How The Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World, Sean Carroll, c. 2013
The 40s: The Story of a Decade, The New Yorker Magazine, 2014
The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin, c. 2013, softcover, Barnes & Nobel
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy As The Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander, c. 2013
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, Jim Marrs, c. 2013
Learning From Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius, Fritjof Capra, c. 2013, hardcover
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist, George D. Morgan, c. 20
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1923 - 1925, Vol 2, edited by Sandra Spanier, et al, c. 2013, hardcover
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, Kingsley M. Bray, c. 2006
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Sylvie Simmons, c. 2012
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar, c. 2011
On The Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (And Ourselves), Jonnie Hughes, c. 2011
General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War, Frank Varney, c. 2013
Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat, Gregory F. Michno, editor and comments, c. 1997; sixth printing, 2007
85 Years Birding, Kenneth J. Johnson, c. 2005;
Stonehenge: A New Interpretation Of Prehistoric Man And The Cosmos, John North, c. 1996; $3.15 + $3.99 (h/s)
Athens: A Portrait Of The City In Its Golden Age, Christian Meier, c. 1993; $5 (+shipping)
Acquired in 2013
The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe, c. 1998
The Ancestors of Christ At Canterbury Cathedral, Jeffrey Weaver, Madeline H. Caviness, 2013, museum book, J Paul Getty Museum, Christmas gift ($25)
How To Be Rich, J Paul Getty, c. 19..., Christmas gift
As I See It: Autobiography, J Paul Getty, c. 1976, revised 2003, Christmas gift
Salinger: The Official Book of the Acclaimed Documentary Film, David Sheids, Shane Salerno, c. 2013, hard cover, Christmas gift
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson, c. 1989, Christmas gift
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien, 50th Anniversary Edition, Barnes & Noble,
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark, c. 2014 (Vine)
Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America, The: Together With an Account of the American Whale-Fishery (California Legacy Book), Charles Melville Scammon, 1874, foreword of current printing, 2007
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Nathaniel Philbrook, 2011
The Neandertal Enigma: Solving The Mystery of Modern Human Origins, James Shreeve, 1995
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, Richard Panek, 2011
The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards, c. 2004; hardcover, Amazon's price;
The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space and Astronomy, Jim Bell, c. 2013, hardcover, Amazon's price;
Sydney And Violet: Their Life With TS Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis, Stephen Klaidman, c. 2013; a Amazon Vine pre-release
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside The Center, Ray Monk, c. 2012
Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. 1983, the centenary edition, softcover, c. 2012
The New Astronomy Guide: Stargazing in the Digital Age, Patrick Moore and Pete Lawrence, c. 2012; hard ocver
The Log of the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck, c. 1941, Penguin Classics; soft-cover
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Born, Louisa Gilder, c.2008 (from Jorge)
Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community, Jon Hunner, 2003
The Hub’s Metropolis: Greater Boston’s Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth, James C. O’Connell, c. 2013
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, George Dyson, c. 2012, soft cover
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick, c. 2012, soft cover
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick, c. 1993, soft cover
Einstein’s Daughter: The Search for Lieserl, Michele Zackheim, c. 1999, hard cover
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vincent Bugliosi, c. 2007
Evolution and the Molecular Revolution, Charles R. Marshall, J William Schopf, c. 1966, proceedings of a conference; $7.99;
Fear and Loathing in America: The Gonzo Letters, Volume II, The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, edited by Douglas Brinkley; second copy; $4.99
Disturbing the Universe, Freeman Dyson, winner of the 2000 Templeton Prize, c. 1979, $5.49
Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography, Maria DiBattista, c. 2009, $5.99
Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community, Jon Hunner, c. 2003, $9.99
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick, national bestseller, c. 2011, $7.99
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick, c. 1992, $7.99;
100 Diagrams That Changed The World, Scott Christianson, c. 2012, Harvard Bookstore, full price, $25;
The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the 10th Century, Paul Collins, c. 013 full price; Harvard Bookstore; $30;
A World of Insects: The Harvard University Press Reader, edited by Ring T. Carde and Vincent H. Resh, c. 2012; full price; Harvard Bookstore; $20;
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses, Sarah Gristwood, c. 2013, full price, Harvard Bookstore; $30
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Nathaniel Philbrick, c. 2007, full price, Yellow Umbrella, Chatham, Cape Cod
Debt:Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber, c. 2011; remaindered at $16, Harvard Book Store
Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster, Joanne Passet, c. 2008, remaindered, $6; Harvard Book Store
Charles Dickens and the Great Theater of the World, Simon Callow, c. 2012; Amazon Vine,
A Book of Bees, Sue Hubbell, c. 1988
Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905, edited by William B. Jensen, c. 2005
Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context, J. Albert Harrill, c. 2012; softcover, free; Amazon Vine;
Provincetown As A Stage: Provincetown, The Provinctown Players, and the Discovery of Eugene O'Neill, Leona Rust Egan, c. 1994
The Whale: In Search of The Giants of the Sea, Philip Hoare, c. 2010;
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, Philip Hoare, c. 2010; $5.99 (second copy)
Eugene O'Neill and Dat Ole Devil Sea, Robert A. Richter, c. 2004; museum purchase; $25
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars, Camille Paglia, c. 2012, $30, hard cover, signed by author;
A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives, edited by Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trites, c. 2009, 50 cents, yard sale; from Dr Sue Filene; inside inscription/signed by Roberta Trites
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, Signet Classics, c. 2007, $6.32
Watch Your Language, Johnny Joe Gallagher, c. 2011, $15.00
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family, Juliet Barker, c. 2012; $25.00
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, Michael Gorra, c. 2012; $24.00
Shakespeare's Sonnets Freshly Phrased, Joseph Gallagher, c. 2011, $7.98
Who's Who in Shakespeare, Peter Quennell and Hamish Johnson, c. 1995, $8.00
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, Jonathan Weiner, c. 1999, $7.98
Letters From Africa, 1914 - 1931, Isak Dinesen, c. 1978, $6.00, HBS sale
Mr Gray's Anatomy, Ruth Richardson, c. 2008, $6.99, HBS sale
The Bible, Karen Armstrong, c. 2007, $5.99, HBS sale
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, Graham Farmelo, c. 2009, $7.99 HBS sale
Apollodorus: The Library of Greek Mythology, translation by Robin Had, Oxford World's Classics, c. 1997, $1.00;
The Campaigns of Alexander: The Landmark Arrian, edited by James Romm, c. 2010, soft cover, $21
The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, edited by Leon Edel, c. 1987; discount $5.00, Provincetown, MA Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences, James R. Mellow, c. 1992, hard cover
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved, and Lost, 1934 - 1961, Paul Hendrickson, c. 2011, full price
The Great Sea, David Abulafia, c. 2011, hard cover, full price, bought in Williston; $34.95
Evolution and the Molecular Revolution, Charles R. Marshall, J William Schopf, c. 1966, proceedings of a conference; $7.99;
Fear and Loathing in America: The Gonzo Letters, Volume II, The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, edited by Douglas Brinkley; second copy; $4.99
Disturbing the Universe, Freeman Dyson, winner of the 2000 Templeton Prize, c. 1979, $5.49
Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography, Maria DiBattista, c. 2009, $5.99
Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community, Jon Hunner, c. 2003, $9.99
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick, national bestseller, c. 2011, $7.99
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick, c. 1992, $7.99;
100 Diagrams That Changed The World, Scott Christianson, c. 2012, Harvard Bookstore, full price, $25;
The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the 10th Century, Paul Collins, c. 013 full price; Harvard Bookstore; $30;
A World of Insects: The Harvard University Press Reader, edited by Ring T. Carde and Vincent H. Resh, c. 2012; full price; Harvard Bookstore; $20;
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses, Sarah Gristwood, c. 2013, full price, Harvard Bookstore; $30
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Nathaniel Philbrick, c. 2007, full price, Yellow Umbrella, Chatham, Cape Cod
Debt:Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber, c. 2011; remaindered at $16, Harvard Book Store
Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster, Joanne Passet, c. 2008, remaindered, $6; Harvard Book Store
Charles Dickens and the Great Theater of the World, Simon Callow, c. 2012; Amazon Vine,
A Book of Bees, Sue Hubbell, c. 1988
Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905, edited by William B. Jensen, c. 2005
Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context, J. Albert Harrill, c. 2012; softcover, free; Amazon Vine;
Provincetown As A Stage: Provincetown, The Provinctown Players, and the Discovery of Eugene O'Neill, Leona Rust Egan, c. 1994
The Whale: In Search of The Giants of the Sea, Philip Hoare, c. 2010;
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea, Philip Hoare, c. 2010; $5.99 (second copy)
Eugene O'Neill and Dat Ole Devil Sea, Robert A. Richter, c. 2004; museum purchase; $25
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars, Camille Paglia, c. 2012, $30, hard cover, signed by author;
A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives, edited by Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trites, c. 2009, 50 cents, yard sale; from Dr Sue Filene; inside inscription/signed by Roberta Trites
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, Signet Classics, c. 2007, $6.32
Watch Your Language, Johnny Joe Gallagher, c. 2011, $15.00
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family, Juliet Barker, c. 2012; $25.00
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, Michael Gorra, c. 2012; $24.00
Shakespeare's Sonnets Freshly Phrased, Joseph Gallagher, c. 2011, $7.98
Who's Who in Shakespeare, Peter Quennell and Hamish Johnson, c. 1995, $8.00
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, Jonathan Weiner, c. 1999, $7.98
Letters From Africa, 1914 - 1931, Isak Dinesen, c. 1978, $6.00, HBS sale
Mr Gray's Anatomy, Ruth Richardson, c. 2008, $6.99, HBS sale
The Bible, Karen Armstrong, c. 2007, $5.99, HBS sale
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, Graham Farmelo, c. 2009, $7.99 HBS sale
Apollodorus: The Library of Greek Mythology, translation by Robin Had, Oxford World's Classics, c. 1997, $1.00;
The Campaigns of Alexander: The Landmark Arrian, edited by James Romm, c. 2010, soft cover, $21
The Complete Notebooks of Henry James, edited by Leon Edel, c. 1987; discount $5.00, Provincetown, MA Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences, James R. Mellow, c. 1992, hard cover
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved, and Lost, 1934 - 1961, Paul Hendrickson, c. 2011, full price
The Great Sea, David Abulafia, c. 2011, hard cover, full price, bought in Williston; $34.95
The Celts, Gerhard Herm, c. 1975, hard cover, discount price, Gloucester, MA
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson, c. 1989, discount price
Learn to Read Latin, Textbook, Andrew Keller & Stephanie Russell, c. 2004; discount, $15
Learn to Read Latin, Workbook, Keller & Russell, c. 2004; discount, $15
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms, Richard Fortey, c. 2011; full price; $28.95, Chatham, MA
On Rare Birds, Anita Albus, c. 2011; full price, $24.95; Chatham, MA
The History of Ornithology, Valerie Chansigaud, 2009; $12.00; HBS sale
The Wisdom of Birds, Tim Birkhead, c. 2008, $7.99; HBS sale
Therese Raquin, Emile Zole, Bantam Classic, $2.00; Provincetown, MA
The Georgian Star: How Wm and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos, Michael D. Lemonick, c. 2009, soft cover; Uranus
The Middleburg Mystique, Vicky Moon, c. 2001
The Rainbow, DH Lawrence, Penguin Fiction, first published 1915;
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, Brenda Maddox, c. 1994 (a second copy; re-read)
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Vol I, Books I - V, Giovanni Boccaccio, edited by Jon Solomon, c. 2011; $29.95, Harvard Bookstore;
Cape Cod, Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1865; $16, full price from Yellow Umbrella bookstore in Chatham, Cape Cod,
The Road That Killed Achilles, Caroline Alexander, c. 2009; hardcover, $6.99 at Harvard Bookstore;
The Impossible H.L. Mencken, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, c. 1991, Harvard Bookstore; $8.00;
Mrs Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light, c. 2008, Harvard Bookstore, hard cover, $7.00
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Summers, c. 1985, $10;
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies, Nancy Friday, c. 1991, $1.00, HBS sale
The History of Ornithology, Valerie Chansigaud, 2009; $12.00; HBS sale
The Wisdom of Birds, Tim Birkhead, c. 2008, $7.99; HBS sale
Therese Raquin, Emile Zole, Bantam Classic, $2.00; Provincetown, MA
The Georgian Star: How Wm and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos, Michael D. Lemonick, c. 2009, soft cover; Uranus
The Middleburg Mystique, Vicky Moon, c. 2001
The Rainbow, DH Lawrence, Penguin Fiction, first published 1915;
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, Brenda Maddox, c. 1994 (a second copy; re-read)
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Vol I, Books I - V, Giovanni Boccaccio, edited by Jon Solomon, c. 2011; $29.95, Harvard Bookstore;
Cape Cod, Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1865; $16, full price from Yellow Umbrella bookstore in Chatham, Cape Cod,
The Road That Killed Achilles, Caroline Alexander, c. 2009; hardcover, $6.99 at Harvard Bookstore;
The Impossible H.L. Mencken, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, c. 1991, Harvard Bookstore; $8.00;
Mrs Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light, c. 2008, Harvard Bookstore, hard cover, $7.00
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Summers, c. 1985, $10;
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies, Nancy Friday, c. 1991, $1.00, HBS sale
Acquired in 2011
Mark Twain, A Life, Ron Powers, c. 2005
Quips, Quotes, and Quanta: An Anecdotal History of Physics, Anton Z. Capri, c. 2007
From Quanta to Quarks, Anton Z. Capri, c. 2007
Eye of the Whale: Lyric Passage from Baja to Siberia, Dick Russell, c. 2004
Quips, Quotes, and Quanta: An Anecdotal History of Physics, Anton Z. Capri, c. 2007
From Quanta to Quarks, Anton Z. Capri, c. 2007
Eye of the Whale: Lyric Passage from Baja to Siberia, Dick Russell, c. 2004
Redisovering Homer: Inside The Origins Of The Epic, Andrew Dalby, c. 2006
American Bloomsbury, Susan Cheever, c. 2006
Travels With Myself and Another: A Memoir, Martha Gellhorn, c. 2001
Papa Hemingway, A.E. Hotchner, c, 1966
The Hemingway Women, Bernice Kert, c. 1998
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell, Lyall Watson, c. 2000, $7.98
American Bloomsbury, Susan Cheever, c. 2006
Travels With Myself and Another: A Memoir, Martha Gellhorn, c. 2001
Papa Hemingway, A.E. Hotchner, c, 1966
The Hemingway Women, Bernice Kert, c. 1998
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell, Lyall Watson, c. 2000, $7.98
Acquired in 2010
Bloomsbury
Stein
Nin
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, Brenda Maddox, c. 1994
Other Biography
Mark Twain, Autobiography of, Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, the Mark Twain Project, c. 2010
Anne Sexton: A Biography, Diane Wood Middlebrook, c. 1992
Bloomsbury: A House of Lions, Leon Edel, 1979, hard cover, warehouse sale.
Stein
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, Janet Malcolm, c. 2007
Sister/Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein, Brenda Wineapple, c. 1996
Sister/Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein, Brenda Wineapple, c. 1996
Nin
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 4: 1927 – 1931, c. 1985
Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin, Noël Riley Fitch, c. 1993
The Diaries, Volume II, 1934 – 1939, Anaïs Nin (completes the series) D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, Brenda Maddox, c. 1994
Other Biography
Mark Twain, Autobiography of, Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, the Mark Twain Project, c. 2010
Anne Sexton: A Biography, Diane Wood Middlebrook, c. 1992
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, Robert D. Richardson, c. 2006
Alice James: A Biography, Jean Strouse, c. 1980
Amy Lowell: Portrait of the Poet in Her Time, Horace Gregory, c. 1958
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, Jeffrey Meyers, c. 1994
Edmund Wilson: A Biography, Jeffrey Meyers, c. 1995
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen, Anna Whitelock, c. 2010
Deciphering The Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung,
Literature
English Literature: The Norton Anthology, Seventh Edition, Volume 1, c. 2000
Deciphering The Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung,
Arthur I. Miller, 2009
Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life, Kathleen Norris, c. 2008
Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life, Kathleen Norris, c. 2008
Literature
English Literature: The Norton Anthology, Seventh Edition, Volume 1, c. 2000
Literary Criticism of 17th Century England, Volume IV, edited by Edward W. Tayler, c. 1967
The Ambassadors, Henry James, c. 1903, Penguin, 1986
The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology, Edward Tripp, c. 1974
The Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind, From Odysseus to Socrates, Keld Zeruneith
The Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind, From Odysseus to Socrates, Keld Zeruneith
Contemporary Literature
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien, c. 1990
One Night in a Bad Inn, Christy Leskovar, c. 2006
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian, Avi Steinberg, c. 2010 (probably not worth reading)
One Night in a Bad Inn, Christy Leskovar, c. 2006
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian, Avi Steinberg, c. 2010 (probably not worth reading)
History
The Boys: 1st North Dakota Volunteers in the Philippines, John Durand, c. 2010
The North American Journals of Prince Maximillian of Wied, Vol. 1, May 1832 to April 1833Natural History
The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear, Kieran Mulvaney
The Red Ape: Orang-utans and Human Origins, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, c. 1987
Eels, James Prosek, c. 2010
Eels, James Prosek, c. 2010
Math
Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imagined History of Algebra, John Derbyshire, c. 2006
Miscellaneous
Women Writing About Men, Jane Miller, c. 1986
Warren Buffett Speaks, by Janet Lowe, c. 1997Women Writing About Men, Jane Miller, c. 1986
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, Harold Bloom, c. 2005
The Wooden Horse, Keld Zeruneith, c.
Acquired in 2009
Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two, 1920 – 1924, edited by Anne Olivier Bell
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five, 1936 – 1941, edited by Anne Olivier Bell
Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf, Panthea Reid, c. 1996, $7.98
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Woolf, Peter Dally, c. 1999
Manic Depression and the Life of Virginia Woolf, Peter Dally, c. 1999
Portrait of a Marriage:V. Sackville-west & Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson, c. 1973
Shakespeare
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom, c. 1998
Richard III, Book-of-the-Month Club, c. 1995
Richard III, Signet Classic, c. 1963;
Richard III, Folger Shakespeare Library, c. 1996
Complete Works of Shakespeare, Viking Press
Richard III, Paul Marray Kendaall, c. 1955; this edition, 1973
Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare, Evangeline M. O’Connor
Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917 – 1961
Nin
Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914 – 1920
Prior to 2009 or Unknown Which Year Acquired
Very limited list of total number of books
The Diary of H. L. Mencken, edited by Charles A Fecher, c. 1989
The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner,
The Letters of JRR Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter, c. 1981,
Casablanca: Behind the Scenes, Harlan Lebo, c. 1992 (on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Casablanca, 1942).
Against Forgetting, Carolyn Forche, c. 1993, gift from Kiri to Laura
E=MC2, David Bodanis, c. 2000
Calculus Made Easy, Silvanus P Thompson, Martin Gardner, c. 1998
Calculus Made Easy, Silvanus P Thompson, Martin Gardner, c. 1998
A History of Pi, Petr Beckmann, c. 1971, $5.95
Perfect Rigor: Breakthrough of the Century, Masha Gessen, c. 2009, free advanced copy
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i, Paul J. Nahin, c. 1998
Pi in the Sky, John D. Barrow, c. 1992
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life, A. G. Cairns-Smith, c. 1985
The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, James G. Leyburn, c. 1962
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H. W. Brands, c. 2000
The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers, Benjamin H. Yandell, c. 2002, $7.98
The Story of Numbers: How Mathematics Has Shaped Civilization, John McLeish, c. 1991;
The Kingdom of Infinite Number, Bryan Bunch, c. 2000
The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell, 25th Anniversary Edition, c. 1975, 2000
The Book of J, translated by David Rosenberg, commentary by Harold Bloom, c.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, edited by Linda H. Peterson, c. 1992, (perhaps the best edition ever;
several critiques, case studies in contemporary criticism
Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary
The Annotated Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse
Women of Will, Tina Packer
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans, T. R. Fehrenbach
Charles Dickens, Simon Gallow
William James: Robert D Richardson
Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein, Brenda Wineapple
The Rainbow. D.H. Lawrence
The Boys: 1st North Dakota Volunteers in the Philippines, John Durand
Watch Your Language: Papermints for the Mind: Johnny Joe Gallagher
Scott Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Meyers
Sex, Art, and American Culture, Camille Paglia
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses, Sarah Gristwood
Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible, Herbert Lockyer, sr editor
The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family, Juleit Barker
Grant, Jean Edward Smith
The Brontes, Juliet Barker
Time, Love, Memory, Jonathan Weiner
The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quebec, souvenir postcard book
C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and The Meaning of Life, Armand M. Nicholl, JR
The Georgian Star, Michael D Lemonick
The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart
Understanding Thomas Jefferson, F. M. Halliday
1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann, introduction by Haveloch Ellis
Edmund Wilson, Jeffrey Meyers, c. 1995
Avenue of Spies, Alex Kershaw, c. 2015
The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell, 25th Anniversary Edition, c. 1975, 2000
The Book of J, translated by David Rosenberg, commentary by Harold Bloom, c.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, edited by Linda H. Peterson, c. 1992, (perhaps the best edition ever;
several critiques, case studies in contemporary criticism
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Tossed -- June 25, 2017
Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary
The Annotated Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse
Women of Will, Tina Packer
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans, T. R. Fehrenbach
Charles Dickens, Simon Gallow
William James: Robert D Richardson
Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein, Brenda Wineapple
The Rainbow. D.H. Lawrence
The Boys: 1st North Dakota Volunteers in the Philippines, John Durand
Watch Your Language: Papermints for the Mind: Johnny Joe Gallagher
Scott Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Meyers
Sex, Art, and American Culture, Camille Paglia
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses, Sarah Gristwood
Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible, Herbert Lockyer, sr editor
The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family, Juleit Barker
Grant, Jean Edward Smith
The Brontes, Juliet Barker
Time, Love, Memory, Jonathan Weiner
The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quebec, souvenir postcard book
C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and The Meaning of Life, Armand M. Nicholl, JR
The Georgian Star, Michael D Lemonick
The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart
Understanding Thomas Jefferson, F. M. Halliday
1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann, introduction by Haveloch Ellis
Edmund Wilson, Jeffrey Meyers, c. 1995
Avenue of Spies, Alex Kershaw, c. 2015
