FAINT WHITE SPRAY-PAINTI wish I could say that my book-buying tendencies have become more orderly over the years. Or at least I wish I could say that I wish that and mean it. But the truth is that I still buy all manner of strange titles in used bookstores, library discard sales, and thrift stores. The only difference is that I now lack the time and opportunities to pursue this quixotic quest with the cocido-loving zeal that I once did. Did I mention that I'm sorting through old computer files of late in search of rich chocolatey goodness?
1) Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures
2) Art Nouveau: Prints, Illustrations, and Posters
3) Georgia O'Keefe: Arts and Letters
4) George Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree: A Woodworker's Reflections
5) Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare (Pelican)
6) The Taming of the Shrew, "" ("")
7) Antony and Cleopatra, "" ("")
8) The Winter's Tale, "" (Folger Library)
9) The Tempest, "" ("")
10) Macbeth, "" (Signet)
11) King Lear, "" (Signet)
12) Kenneth Burke, Towards a Better Life (novel)
13) Libido (sexuality journal, Winter 1990)
14) Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
15) Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Oxford)
16) Lessing, Nathan der Weise
17) A Guide to Old English, Bruce Mitchell + Fred C. Robinson
18) Word-Hoard, Stephen A. Barney
19) The Phantom Ship, Captain Marryat (Flying Dutchman tale)
20) James Fennimore Cooper, The Red Rover
21) Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
22) Ovid, The Art of Love
23) Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queen (Longman Annotated English Poets)
24) St. John's College Catalogue, 1984-85
25) Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson, R. Jackson Wilson
26) Joy of Cooking (paperback edition, water-damaged)
27) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
28) Heine (Heinrich - poems and prose in an old 'Fraktur' edition)
29) Nathaniel Hawthorne, Selected Tales and Sketches
30) The Folksinger's Guitar Guide
31) James Joyce, Dubliners
32) Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life...
33) Measure for Measure, Shakespeare (Pelican)
34) Troilus and Cressida, "" (Signet)
35) A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas (blue envelope)
36) The Book of Mormon
37) German quarterly on 'Geschichtswissenschaft' from 1899
38) Dissertation on Goethe's Faust, 1920
39) Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Signet)
40) Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism
41) Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
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