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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hornblower Saga) by C.S. Forester
Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Revealing Antiquity) by Christopher Kelly
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (VOLUME VII: THE FRANKISH INVASION: 744 A.D. - 774 A.D.) by Thomas Hodgkins
CITIZENS - A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - TWO VOLUMES by Simon Schama
The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire : Volume III The Ostrogoths 476-535 by Thomas Hodgkin
The Oxford English Dictionary (20 Volume Set) (Vols 1-20) by John Simpson
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About meI read history (British Imperial and American Ante-bellum) at university (University of western Ontario, Queen's University at Kingston, University of Toronto;Saint Micheal's College).
I presently teach in a Life skills class room which I enjoy doing. In my past I have been an Infantry officer in the Canadian Armed Forces an worked in an emergency room.
Anyway I am a member of the Folio Society and enjoy ordering books from Amazon since there are no real bookstores (beyond Chapters) in the city in which I reside. Folio and Amazon give fix on getting books. Every time the book boxes arrive it is like Christmas morning.
About my libraryAt present I have roughly 3 000 books and I may have to get a larger house soon. The concentration of books are history with a smattering of literature (courtesy of Folio as well as some Everyman's Library. I also have a growing collection of Astronomical/Cosmological and Natural history books.
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AT
posted by abbottthomas at 6:58 am (EST) on Nov 5, 2009
Eliot's (Yonge north of Wellesley) occasionally gets Folios too, but it's more hit-and-miss. He does get other fine editions too, last week or so an entire set of leatherbound Shakespeare from Franklin came in, and a ton of earlier (better quality binding) Franklin Library books too.
posted by LolaWalser at 1:23 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2009
I'm drooling over your Folios! What a great collection.
Cheers,
Medellia
posted by Medellia at 11:58 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
Where the heck do you keep 3,000 books? How many of those do you think you have read? How do you have the catalogued? I would love to sit in your house all day and just go through them.
Okay enough of my dreaming...I was wondering if you would be interested in joining one of my threads. Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/69879#...
posted by callmejacx at 12:05 pm (EST) on Aug 26, 2009