Saturday, July 7, 2018

Book thread -- what's on my shelves?

Summer reading time.  What's on my shelves?

I'm just crazy about this cool one-volume edition of Spengler printed by George Allen & Unwin in 1934, which I ordered from a bookshop in Brighton, UK.  How I love this press.


Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West,
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1934

You should use a 500 million DM Weimar note as your bookmark when you read von Mises.

Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit,
New Haven: Yale UP, 4th printing, 1963


I'm reading this cover-to-cover at the moment.  Volume 2 has always been good for its tales of the camps and the White Sea Canal, but you really need to read all of Gulag to understand our enemies.  I found this at a thrift store on Mercer Island, WA, for $10.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago,
New York: Harper & Row, 1974, 1st ed

Goethe

Goethe, Works: Gottingen Edition, New York: W. I. Squire, 1901

und Schiller

Friedrich Schiller, Werke in vier bänden,
Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1957

John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, New York: Appleton, 1868

Talcott Parsons, The Social System, Glencoe: The Free Press, 1951 1st printing

Devereux Bowly, Jr, The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago,
1985-1976, Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1978

Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race & Housing in Chicago,
1940-1960
, London: Cambridge UP,, 1983

Count Eric Oxenstierna, The Norsemen, New York,
NY Graphic Society, 1965


1 comment:

christiangustafson said...

Spengler so timely now. Wrote the 1st vol a century ago, incredible book.