Books: 06-20

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.

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.

Al Jaffee

Dave Berg

Don Martin

Sergio Aragonés

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.

Rowland W. Tabor, Guide to the Geology of Olympic
National Park, University of Washington, 1975

Murray Morgan, The Dam.
Viking Press, New York, 1954

John Manchip White, Cortes and the downfall of the Aztec
Empire, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1971

William H. Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella,
Heritage Press, New York, 1967

Michael Prawdin, The Mongol Empire: Its Rise and
Legacy, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1952

Michael Prawdin, The Builders of the Mogul Empire,
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1963

Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon, 2 vols
Columbia UP, NYC, 1970

This new Modern Library edition was nicer to read than my older edition.

Plutarch, Lives, 2 vols, Modern Library, NY, 1992

Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the
White House, Random House, NY, 2008

Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy,
Doubleday Science Fiction, NY, 1951

This last one I can burn when I am finished with it.

John Vivian, Wood Heat, Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1976