I have been unpacking the 2 boxes of books my family bought for ourselves at the All Saints’ Episcopal Church Library used book sale we helped to staff last weekend. (It is very hard to work on a book sale and not pick up some gems.)
For $40, we came home with:
- 2 new blank books (journals)
- The Home University Bookshelf v.VIII – Stories from Every Land (1927) – lovely illustrations!
- The Riverside Shakespeare (1974)
- Maya Angelou’s A Brave and Startling Truth
- Supurna Banerjee’s Once Upon a Campus
- Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Moon Maid
- R.J. DeCristoforo’s Power Tool Woodworking for Everyone (1953)
- Josephine Whitney Duveneck’s Life on Two Levels – An Autobiography
- Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions
- Harlan Ellison’s Again, Dangerous Visions v.1
- Judy Fireman’s Cat Catalog – The Ultimate Catbook
- Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale (1964 printing)
- Lindsey Fraser’s Conversations with J.K. Rowling
- Kate Peck Kent’s Navajo Weaving – Three Centuries of Change
- R.F. Roster’s Hoyle’s Games (1926)
- Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
- Terry Gross’ All I Did was Ask – Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
- Mark Haddon’s the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
- H. Rider Haggard’s “She.” (1896)
- C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent – the Story of Atlantis
- Mark Kurlanksy’s Salt – a World History
- Jean Marlow’s Audition Speeches for Young Actors
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The General in his Labyrinth
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Leaf Storm and other stories
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of Love and Other Dreams
- McMahon and Gallagher’s The Gardens at Filoli
- Metcalfe and Hays’ Being Dead is No Excuse – The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
- Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman – Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem (1949) “A New Play by Arthur Miller”
- Shekhinah Mountainwater’s Ariadne’s Thread – A Workbook of Goddess Magic
- Mullock’s The Little Lame Prince illustrated (1907)
- Jane C. Nylander’s Fabrics for Historic Buildings
- Richard C. Nylander’s Wallpapers for Historic Buildings
- Arturo Petez-Reverte’s The Nautical Chart
- Yanni Petsopoulos’ Kilims – Masterpieces from Turkey
- Ebenezer Prout’s Harmony: its theory and practice (1889)
- Henry Rosovsky’s The University – An Owner’s Manual
- Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation
- Paul Scott’s Staying On
- Albert Schweitzer’s African Notebook
- Anne Sexton’s The Complete Poems
- Nevil Shute’s An Old Captivity
- Joseph Soloman’s Mozartiana – Two centuries of Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age (to replace our worn-out copy)
- Bruce Sterling’s Shaping Things
- Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve
- Carl von Clausewitz’s Principles of War
- H.G. Wells The Outline of History with maps (1921)
- H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds (1977)
- Adrian Wilson’s The Design of Books
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