Library

 
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
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
Acquired in 2020
  • 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, 

Acquired in 2018

  • $30;Japanese Whisky, Brian Ashcraft, c. 2018
  • 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
  •  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; 
  • With The Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet, Translated and edited by Jane Roberts, c. 2017; softcover, Amazon
Acquired in 2017
  • 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. 2006
  • The 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)
  • Acquired in 2016
  • itruvius: 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
  • 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
  • I mpressionist 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;  
     
  • Acquired in 2015
  • 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
  • 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. 201
  • 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 cove
  •  Einstein’s Daughter: The Search for Lieserl, Michele Zackheim, c. 1999, hard cover

Acquired in 2012
 
  • 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 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

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
  • 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

Acquired in 2010

Bloomsbury
  • 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

Nin

  • Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin, Noël Riley Fitch, c. 1993he 
  • Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 4: 1927 – 1931, c. 1985
  • 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, 
  •       Arthur I. Miller, 2009 
  • 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
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)

History

  • The North American Journals of Prince Maximillian of Wied, Vol. 1, May 1832 to April 1833
  • The Boys: 1st North Dakota Volunteers in the Philippines, John Durand, c. 2010

Natural 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

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. 1997
  • Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, Harold Bloom, c. 2005
  • The Wooden Horse, Keld Zeruneith, c.  
  • Acquired in 2009
  • 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 
  • Portrait of a Marriage:V. Sackville-west & Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson,  c. 1973
  • 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
  • NinNinniNinN 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 LauraE=MC2, David Bodanis, c. 2000 
  •  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 
  • **********************************
  •  Tossed -- June 25, 2017
  •  Universal Unabridged Dictionary
  • e 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

 
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