While you are waiting for the market to put in final highs before imploding, you may at least do yourself a favor and buy some more books. Keep stacking while you still can -- are the bookstores open in Caracas these days?
We do not have cable TV or a game console in our house, but we
do have countless 20th Century artifacts from
MAD magazine, including more than 60 paperbacks. Here's a sample.
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MAD magazine paperbacks, mostly Signet editions |
My kids read
MAD, do yours? And why not? The large format paperbacks are especially good. I never
imagined having this much
MAD swag when I was a kid. These are true relics, and practically free for the taking these days, because the youth are all strung out on internet pornography and "Grand Theft Auto" in 1080P.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3VfwPFIms1db_0ZRoWPYKCElMNUC-afKZgW6tz6N1vmCKv5DmUaRz1qdOUlllZlT_255bhkDzwePQ48ISiTqThXY6IrCXZVYR82Fxr8stLXslBzmLlziV43aw8EnkrK65t-vFOp7fDk/s320/IMG_1157.JPG) |
Al Jaffee |
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Dave Berg |
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Don Martin |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXcXTvS2CwZvRcpW2JQxvqwox313LGDvrlV4zxvXMxRDZKzYIuN82DOx2NnJOjbBkAvPFGFKbT9di5wax00Mkx9QxRfBdegtwEK8TC4v0MSzj-5FeIzBTBjWbxFNAlIoc2cpYpR3m3dvI/s320/IMG_1155.JPG) |
Sergio Aragonés |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSF-3Oi_2LGSrl6pqm8T3xV_pHjqlGa9Rud_WmS1aTEs1Ki_oIW74c6KdjpnWYyU9Hpyb_Cw_VMsIXab5BH2-KOMP9k3tz0z52j18J0Y__zb9B15H2f8J0DgC0LGoIRV6aO-QvYMOzyY/s320/IMG_1160.JPG) |
Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, The Story of the University of Chicago: 1890-1925, Chicago, 1925 |
This next book is actually really scarce and hard to find, especially with the maps included. I've been looking for it for ages, and flipped out when I stumbled across it one day in Value Village for $2.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf3TQXGScCqZujl5YxSDpO6Fa_vF_BQKZ_IQQDx5Ef6p43E78k_X7slNZaxMa-w8Jf0UrXrb2Gb-1YwZOkMJZlgbqcguB9WrDcP7BkWq2_kMsAv4VENUDyYswjoBZn11lThBKxBiW-8yY/s320/IMG_1161.JPG) |
Rowland W. Tabor, Guide to the Geology of Olympic National Park, University of Washington, 1975 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6855wuabKmCeb5XInfZNVadVwp1_jbG0jCQNhDbF270i6bVx5Q2cZahDdAoGyzYMvQjn8bgmperkEhWnM61flhccxhDZ6A1Cks7dxM4SVzaLSZckxBfG4CHJX98UfMpRBChV_4C6uUvE/s320/IMG_1166.JPG) |
Murray Morgan, The Dam.
Viking Press, New York, 1954 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAwkKtuJSOaKQXAqHPUN384RWGDl0BvNaf1Npuh3gkh_49u8ko9wmFLkezg7V8qOpGyNunih9ikv1n2UjxRNuLz2QCa6bC23ElBqsrSJvbO9BAUqi2fQgngRyyqFByiCZYyqI_H-HRlQc/s320/IMG_1165.JPG) |
John Manchip White, Cortes and the downfall of the Aztec Empire, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1971 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KQDsAcZ5A5WKlz46Ha_QBuFpm62e-toUnyP6bc8N4QMTNfQEWEU5WouiQA9QysSgKhq485wGC2G_xAk7ok_J4-ZUM6R9HTpplJr0gdSqR39AnceS940LL2C2rN0sbOM2r-4a8vhF5rs/s320/IMG_1169.JPG) |
William H. Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella,
Heritage Press, New York, 1967 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEdk4-bkFJ_8eIxIk4iQIMIbkZYnQfB9dJ8CLX43DFa57X3jM0fPepD7ku0YJkvj9CPZULXuD9hEyi6OFYpOK077waPm8-rBnlHo2pNCUk3vD8M5a_bNLfmDU0iUUe-SriSemhn2gABe4/s320/IMG_1162.JPG) |
Michael Prawdin, The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1952 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrTCOZeYX5HXe0HCSsSVFr_vUXz4ccik_9QHQ_Zndph02zW0uceiyNhFktec0QpkqiVQLY2aV3GI8DHzLw21xQWbc0M0mz4P4sewBmLUQjnHI0MZ4FEfuHjXNuxmHKmbNcs4c7QvO-Tys/s320/IMG_1163.JPG) |
Michael Prawdin, The Builders of the Mogul Empire,
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1963 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQdH2juZ8l021woBx8BIsXn8Y4r0SoSt_uJzIhATYfKE5SKd0tFIHB0fzzWG5udmQbtmsH8uqpNzjrzdsEI5nYSida5ycF-LNjX4dmM8vOV2dfpWlYZAU55jUCZ4rg8hzgzGfwcLwCBg/s320/IMG_1167.JPG) |
Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon, 2 vols
Columbia UP, NYC, 1970 |
This new Modern Library edition was nicer to read than my older edition.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23yj-beMu683LzOmVstFJpGDL5a28De13_Z4aL4DdSlYL_uuJUk-3d_HQHKFBkmA7NpxLh8nsH_hwMO_2Klfaseh-xBwuWG0q-EmKcOj-qdtGo3hdhYUwzfo7PkSRHlpTqWPFUrJD7k8/s320/IMG_1168.JPG) |
Plutarch, Lives, 2 vols, Modern Library, NY, 1992 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidLorgUhEBFDNYDJr4mb6VeGHiUZkhn5JPeE4oLl6N0qmh4rbN0JIe-II1NgK1UpHY342Q6I5fOpoKsWz255sR0_WvLryPsnrkH8oklB8v_1PXJHb0Q-gbsjw9dySYtDJs1mlEvyHDmH0/s320/IMG_1170.JPG) |
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Random House, NY, 2008 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVIz1IqQcJOuGsLK7WnZw7aeRSYRdLT4Jb8b2t8HHj7XsksBCBqHjF2NlSVS35drMo5y7LG-WcEqyaGbIhT5przd16SHfjIw0MZvSdLBon_cMdneBXDnCE-gix3vQTAD3YnafOKDmRysI/s320/IMG_1159.JPG) |
Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy,
Doubleday Science Fiction, NY, 1951 |
This last one I can burn when I am finished with it.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIYAkHw529q5GiVqFAEjRUy4C3pyAyOJ702RTcKqwjcuLwG2e9-sFEPmodLjcg0pdenViJyLQTwPi3nj7oOZM1eAOFbqUdts_H6N_9iynhpMhyphenhyphen2tEgNCDuTmgdAVq9fn2nfvj1hM74Vw/s320/IMG_1164.JPG) |
John Vivian, Wood Heat, Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1976 |
1 comment:
Thanks. Half-Price Books in the U District here. I know their corporate buyer, good book guy.
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