The Libraries

BY LIBRARY
Top Shelf

How The Scots Invented The Modern World, Arthur Herman, c. 2001
The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare, Brenda James, softcover, 2006).

Early Man -- Prehistory

The Ancient Celts, second edition, Barry Cunliffe, c. 2018; B&N; full price, $27; softcover; rare;
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

Classical Greek
  • The Wooden House, Keld
  • Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age, Christian Meier
  • Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman In The World, Bettany Hughes, c. 2005.
My Anaïs Nin Library

Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914 – 1920, preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell,
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 4: 1927 – 1931, preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell
The Diaries, Volume I, 1931 – 1934, Anaïs Nin
The Diaries, Volume II, 1934 – 1939, Anaïs Nin (purchased 2010, completes the series)
The Diaries, Volume III, 1939 – 1944, Anaïs Nin
The Diaries, Volume IV, 1944 – 1947, Anaïs Nin (purchased 2008)
The Diaries, Volume V, 1947 – 1955, Anaïs Nin
Anaîs Nin: A Biography, Deirdre Bair, 1995
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays, Anaïs Nin, c. 1976, earliest essay c. 1966,
Incest: The Unexpurgated Diary, 1932 – 1934, Anaïs Nin
Fire: The Unexpurgated Diary, 1934 – 1937, Anaïs Nin 
Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin, Noël Riley Fitch, c. 1993 
A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932 – 1952,
Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary, from “A Journal of Love,” Anaïs Nin 
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Henry Miller: The Happiest Man Alive, Mary Dearborn, c.1991
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage, Brenda Maddox, c. 1994
My Virginia Woolf Library
Passionate Apprentice: Virginia Woolf, The Early Journals, 1897 - 1909, Virginia Woolf, edited by Mitchell A Leaska, c. 1990
Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy, Jane Dunn, c. 2000, $6.98
The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to VW and Bloomsbury, Sarah M. Hall, c. 2007
Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
, Virginia Woolf, c. 2005
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, Julia Briggs, c. 2005
The Mrs Dalloway Reader, Virginia Woolf et al, edited by Francine Prose, 2003
Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, c. 2000
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Manic Depression and the Life of VW, Peter Dally, c. 1999
Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf, Irene Coates, c. 1998
Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson, c. 1997
Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee, c. 1996

Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf, Panthea Reid, c. 1996, $7.98
Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections, edited by J. H. Stape, c. 1995
Virginia Woolf, A to Z: Mark Hussey, c. 1995
Virginia Woolf, James King, c. 1994
Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers: The Hogarth Press, 1917 - 1941, J. H. Willis, c. 1992
Mrs Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness, David Dowling, c. 1991
Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels, John Batchelor, c. 1991
Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction, Susan Dick, c. 1989
Congenial Spirits: The Selected Ltrs of VW, edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks, c. 1989
Virginia Woolf, Modern Critical Reviews, edited by Harold Bloom, c. 1986
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to VW, edited by L. DeSalvo and M. A. Leaska, c. 1985
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life, Lyndall Gordon, c. 1984
Virginia Woolf: Revaluation and Continuity, edited by Ralph Freedman, c. 1980
The Unknown Virginia Woolf, Roger Poole, c. 1978
Virginia Woolf, Susan Rubinow Gorsky, c. 1978
Moments of Being, Virginia Woolf, c. 1977
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary, abridged and edited by Anne Olivier Bell, c. 1977
Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Quentin Bell, c. 1972
Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Her Contemporaries, edited by Joan Russell Noble, c. 1972
Downhill All the Way, 1919 - 1939, Leonard Woolf, c. 1967
A Writer's Diary, Virginia Woolf, edited with an introduction by Leonard Woolf, c. 1953
The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf, c. 1925
The Diary of VW, Volume One, 1915 - 1919, c. 1977, hardback,

The Diary of VW, Volume Two, 1920 - 1924, c. 1978, softback,
The Diary of VW, Volume Five, 1936 - 1941, c. 1984, softback,
Bloomsbury: A House of Lions, Leon Edel, 1979, hard cover, warehouse sale.
Mrs Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light, c. 2008, Harvard Bookstore, hard cover, $7.00;

My Hemingway Library
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1923 - 1925, Vol 2, edited by Sandra Spanier, et al, c. 2013, hardcover,
The Hemingway Women, Bernice Kert, c. 1998 
How It Was, Mary Welsh Hemingway, c. 1951, $4.98, hard cover;   
Travels With Myself and Another: A Memoir, Martha Gellhorn, c. 2001
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead, c. 2006, $14.98, hardcover;  
Papa Hemingway, A.E. Hotchner, c, 1966 
Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences, James R. Mellow, c. 1992, hard cover  
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, Carlos Baker, c. 1969, $5.98, hardcover;  
The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway: The Early Years, Charles A Fenton, c. 1954, $5.00; hard cover; very, very hard to find;   
Hemingway: The Final Years, Michael Reynolds, c. $4.98, hard cover, 1999  
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved, and Lost, 1934 - 1961, Paul Hendrickson, c. 2011, full price
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917 - 1961, edited by Carlos Baker, c. 1981, $9.98, hardcover
Islands In the Stream, Ernest Hemingway, c. 1970 by Mary Hemingway; $5.98, soft cover
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway, c. 1964, Scribner Classics, $22.00, hard cover

My James Joyce Library

James Joyce, Edna O'Brien, c. 1999,  $7.98, hardcover,
James Joyce, Edna O'Brien, c. 1999,  $7.98, hardcover, (2nd copy)
James Joyce, Bernard Benstock, c. 1985, $1, hardcover
A Reader's Guide to James Joyce, William York Tindall, c. 1959, soft cover
Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, Don Gifford, c. 1988, soft cover,
James Joyce: A Literary Life, Morris Beja, c. 1992, $7.98, soft cover,
James Joyce: The Citizen and The Artist, C. H. Peake, c. 1977, $2.98, soft cover, 
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, Carol Loeb Schloss, c. 2003, $9.98, hard cover, 
Dubliners, James Joyce, c. 1967, $4.98, soft cover,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, c. 1992, soft cover,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, c. 1994, soft cover, Dover Thrift Edition,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, c. 1968, soft cover, $3.98; Viking Critical Library,
Ulysses: Portals of Discover, Text, Criticism, and Notes, edited by Chester G. Anderson, c. 1990; $1.00, hardcover
Ulysses: The Complete and Unabridged Text, as Corrected and Reset in 1961, James Joyce, c. 1934, 1961,
Ulysses: The Complete and Unabridged Text, as Corrected and Reset in 1961, James Joyce, c. 1934, 1961, Modern Library, The Modern Library's #1 Novel of the 20th Century
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, c. 1999, Penguin,

My Thomas Hardy Library

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, Penguin Soft Cover, 1891
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge, a Norton Critical edition, c. 1965 Far From The Madding Crowd, edited by Robert C. Schweik, a Norton Critical edition, c. 1986
A Laodicean, Thomas Hardy, Everyman softcover, 1997 
Thomas and Florence Hardy, Thomas Hardy, c. Woodsworth, 2007
Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy, edited by Norman Page, c. 2000
Hardy, Martin Seymour-Smith, soft cover, c. 1994


My Hunter S. Thompson Library

Hell's Angels, Modern Library edition, 
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955 - 1967
Fear and Loathing in America: The Gonzo Letters, Volume II, The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, edited by Douglas Brinkley; two copies
The Rum Diary, soft cover
The Great Shark Hunt, soft cover,

My Brontë Library

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, edited by Linda H. Peterson, c. 1992, (perhaps the best edition ever; several critiques, case studies in contemporary criticism
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family, Juliet Barker, c. 2012; $25.00 Brontë Parsonage Museum, A Souvenir Guide, c. 1998,
Critical Essays on Charlotte Brontë, edited by Barbara Timm Gates, c. 1990, $1, hardcover
The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, c. 1975, $2.48, Penguin Classics, soft cover, 
The Brontë Myth, Lucasta Miller, c. 2001, $15.00, soft cover
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, edited by Mark Schorer, c. 1959, $1.98, softcover
Reading the Brontës: An Introduction to Their Novels and Poetry, Charmian Knight and Luke Spencer, c. 2000,
The Art of Emily Brontë, edited by Anne Smith, c. 1976, $1, hard cover,
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, Lyndall Gordon, c. 1994, $1.98, hard cover
The Landscape of the Brontës, Arthur Pollard, c. 1998, $4.00, hard cover
Villette, Charlotte Brontë, c. 1984, $4.98, soft cover, Oxford World's Classics
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë, c. 1992, $3.98, soft cover, Oxford World's Classics

My Joseph Conrad Library

Joseph Conrad, Adam Gillon, Twayne's English Authors Series, Kinley E Roby, Editor, c. 1982, $1, hard cover, 
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

My Graham Greene Library

Graham Green: The Viking Portable Library, edited by Philip Stratford, c. 1973
The Life of Graham Greene, Vol III: 1955 - 1991, Norman Sherry, c. 2004
The Life of Graham Greene, Vol II: 1939 - 1955, Norman Sherry, c. 1994
The Life of Graham Greene, Vol I: 1904 - 1939, Norman Sherry, c. 1989
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

My Jane Austen Library

Critics on Jane Austen, edited by Judith O'Neill, c. 1970, $1,
Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, c. 2005, $9.98 
Jane Austen: The Cambridge Companion, edited by Edward Copeland, c. 1997,
Emma, The Norton Critical Edition,
Pride and Prejudice, Wordsworth Edition, $3.98 
Northanger Abbey, Norton Critical Edition,  

My Shakespeare Library

The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare, Brenda James, softcover, 2006).
Lectures on Shakespeare, W H Auden, c. 2002
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
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 Kendall, c. 1955; this edition, 1973
Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare, Evangeline M. O’Connor

My Harold Bloom Library

The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, Harold Bloom, c. 2015; on sale May 12, 2015, and arrived August 17, 2015
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, Harold Bloom, c. 2005
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom, c. 1998
Virginia Woolf, Modern Critical Reviews, edited by Harold Bloom, c. 1986
Hamlet, Poet Unlimited, Harold Bloom, c. 2003 
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages,  Harold Bloom, c. 1995 
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Harold Bloom, c. 2004 
Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds, Harold Bloom, c. 2002  

British and French History
Heloise & Abelard, James Burge, 2003
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life, Alison Weir, 1999, soft cover;
Henry VIII: The King and His Court, Alison Weir, c. 2001, soft cover 

My Ornithology Library
85 Years Birding, Kenneth J. Johnson, c. 2005;
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

My Art Book Library

Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, Sara Campbell, hard cover, bought at Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, 2015, $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
The Journal of Eugene Delacroix, Phaidon Press, 3rd edition, c. 1995James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889, Patricia G. Berman, c. 2002
James Ensore, Herwig Todts, c. 2008
The Pre-Raphaelites, Timothy Hilton, c. 1970, small softcover
Pre-Raphaelites And Olympians, art gallery of New South Wales, c. 2001, a small monograph
Vincent Van Gogh: A Psychosocial Perspective, Richard H. Rahe, M.D., a short monograph
Turner: Painting The Nation, English Heritage, c. 1996, a small softcover
The Life and Works of Monet, Edmund Swinglehurst, c. 1994, a small softcover
Manet By Himself, edited by Juliet Wilson-Bareau, c. 1991, hardcover, small
Monet, Christopher Heinrich, Taschen, c. 2000, a small softcover
Monet By Himself, edited by Richard Kendall, c. 1989, softcover, small
Monet and the Impressionists for Kids, Carol Sabbeth, c. 2002, softcover, 21 activities
Salvador Dali: Life and Work, Frank Weyers, c. 1999, small hardcover

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