Even as the market goes nowhere, bumping around and wearing down its upward momentum, we're still always buying ... books. You must buy and hold.
As I look around, I notice all kinds of newcomers on my shelves from the last few months. Here are a few of them.
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Herbert Asbury, Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History
of the Chicago Underworld, Knopf, 1940, 1st ed. |
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James H. Billington, The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive
History of Russian Culture, Knopf, 1966, 1st ed. |
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Robert D. Kaplan, Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and
the End of a Stable Pacific, Random House, 2014 |
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Joseph M. Kitagawa, ed, Understanding Modern China,
Quadrangle Books (Chicago), 1969, signed |
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H.G. Creel, Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Mao Tse-Tung,
Chicago, 1965 |
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Harold Lamb, The March of the Barbarians,
Literary Guild of America, 1940 |
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| Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki, Rand McNally, 1950 |
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Nicolas Thomas, Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of
Captain James Cook, Walker & Co, 2003 |
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Alan Moorehead, No Room in the Ark,
Reprint Society of London, 1960 |
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Brendan Simms, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy,
Basic Books, 2013 |
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Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada,
Reprint Society of London, 1961 |
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Homer E. Dowdy, Out of the Jaws of the Lion,
Harper & Row, 1965 |
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| Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin, Yale, 2002 |
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Kaufmann & Raeburn, eds, Frank Lloyd Wright:
Writings and Buildings, Horizon Press, 1960 |
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Knopf, 1992 |
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| John McPhee, Silk Parachute, FSG, 2010 |
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| Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word, FSG, 1975, 1st printing. |
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| Montaigne, Essays, ed by E.J. Trechmann, Oxford, c. 1960 |
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| Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Grosset & Dunlap, c. 1930 |
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| Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time, Nelson Doubleday, 1962 |
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Charles Alexander Eastman, From the Deep Woods to Civilization,
Lakeside Press, 2001 |
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Pedro de Castañeda of Najera, Narrative of the Coronado Expedition,
Lakeside Press, 2002 |
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Norman B. Green, Earthquake Resistant Building Design &
Construction, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981 |
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Minnich & Hunt, The Rodale Guide to Composting,
Rodale Press, 1979 |
4 comments:
Books are always good. Real paper, more reliable than any of the e-crap.
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CG, you have annoyed me across 2015... with some truly outrageous and rather bizarre comments and index outlooks.
I have probably annoyed you at times.
Regardless, I do wish you a good 2016.
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*The Dec' close for most world markets is a real problem for the bull maniacs, and maybe we're about to see something real interesting play out across the spring/early summer.
IF so... hopefully we can both get something out of it.
I won't let you down, Doomie. And then I'll just show up one day in Trafalgar Square and demand that you take me to all the good book shops. I'll bring food.
Four are from abebooks.
o NOOOO mr bill
2000 is toast tomorrow.
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