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.
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Al Jaffee |
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Dave Berg |
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Don Martin |
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Sergio Aragonés |
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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.
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Rowland W. Tabor, Guide to the Geology of Olympic National Park, University of Washington, 1975 |
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Murray Morgan, The Dam.
Viking Press, New York, 1954 |
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John Manchip White, Cortes and the downfall of the Aztec Empire, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1971 |
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William H. Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella,
Heritage Press, New York, 1967 |
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Michael Prawdin, The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and Legacy, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1952 |
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Michael Prawdin, The Builders of the Mogul Empire,
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1963 |
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Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon, 2 vols
Columbia UP, NYC, 1970 |
This new Modern Library edition was nicer to read than my older edition.
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Plutarch, Lives, 2 vols, Modern Library, NY, 1992 |
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Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Random House, NY, 2008 |
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Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy,
Doubleday Science Fiction, NY, 1951 |
This last one I can burn when I am finished with it.
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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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