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Dreamland: A Novel of the UFO Cover-Up by Hilary Hemingway
A Dictionary of dates by Eric F. Smith
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The climates of the continents by W. G. Kendrew
Gleanings for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature: A melange of exerpta by Charles C Bombaugh
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard by Elbert Hubbard
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Favorite authorsJoel Achenbach, Thomas Bartlett, L. Frank Baum, Robert Benchley, Robert M. Bryce, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Wallace O. Chariton, John Christopher, William R. Corliss, Jack Douglas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew A Freeman, Ray Stannard Baker, Helen Hamlin, W.A. Harbinson, Constance Helmericks, Edward Hordern, David Kahn, Robert Lacey, Edward E. Leslie, Magnus Magnusson, Joe McGinniss, James W. Moseley, Ogden Nash, R. M. Patterson, Ernie Pyle, Bill Richardson, Louise Dickinson Rich, George Burbank Sedgley, Robert W. Service, Lemony Snicket, George R. Stewart, Henry David Thoreau, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charlotte M Vaile, Connie Willis (Shared favorites)
About meI have two new books out. One is "The Broomsticks of Oz" which can be seen at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/53...
About 10 people have read and reviewed it and they all like it.
The other new book is "Kaleidoscopic Images" at
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I am a retired solar physicist and climatologist, who has written three books and about 100 scientific articles.
About my libraryMy library has about 2050 books and 2350 volumes. Most of the books are nonfiction and there are some concentrated collections such as country living, wonders of the world, climate change, genealogy, travel, history, chronologies and day books, and so forth.
Does anyone else have a copy of The Life and Letters of Eliza White, published about 1820? She lived in Freeport, Maine. The book has been handed down in my family for 6 generations, along with several other books. As far as I can tell, no other copy of this book exists.
As of 9/9/2006, 956 books I have are shared by someone else on librarything.com. 957 books are unique to my library. The large number of unique books arises from my unusual interests in the curious and wonderful and also from the fact that it makes sense to own books that the local public library is unlikely to have. I have 51 books from 1675 to 1848 and all 51 are unique to my library. The first non-unique book is Wonderful Characters by Henry Wilson, that edition being published in 1848.
Update on 11/5/2006: Now there are 1042 shared books and 878 unique books.
Update on 2/5/2007: Now there are 1158 shared books and 768 unique books, or 100 less unique books compared to 3 months ago.
Update on 5/5/2007: Now there are 1264 shared books and 667 unique books, or 101 less unique books compared to 3 months ago. It seems about 100 unique books become shared every 3 months.
Update on 8/5/2007: Now it is 1314 shared books and 627 unique books, down by 40 over 3 months.
Update on 11/4/2007: Now it is 1359 shared books and 594 unique books.
The first book, published in 1675, is De veritate religionis christianae by Hugo Grotius. I did not buy this book. It was handed down in the family for the last 6 generations and I am not sure where it was before then.
Finally I should add that I have 9 boxes of books that are not catalogued. These books are supposed to be sold or given away at some point. It is about 200 to 250 books total. Perhaps I should catalog them and tag them as "for sale".
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posted by yeremenko at 3:34 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2009
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posted by byinbyan at 6:20 pm (EST) on Aug 10, 2009
Best Wishes!
posted by Makifat at 1:29 am (EST) on Jan 15, 2008
- Greg
posted by gregfromgilbert at 9:51 am (EST) on Dec 13, 2007
I noticed that we share a copy of The Sandy River & Its Valley, by Vincent York. The author spent sometime in Phillips, Me (on the Sandy River) where my mother grew up. A 90-year old cousin remembers him as the husband of an owner of an Inn there.
Note that we also share a copy of The Atmosphere. That book apparently had been deleted from some college library and picked up at a book sale by some family member.
These two books were among your unique books.
posted by HorusE at 7:20 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2007
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon...
Granted that the early Charles Morris is Charles Smith Morris, I could go ahead and combine Charles and Charles S, but then it could create even more confusion if this other Charles S decides to go off and write about GNMA, or SallieMae, or even Mae West! Sorry, now I know I have been at this too long. :p
posted by oregonobsessionz at 1:27 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2007
I also put a link to the LOC catalog on the Charles R Morris page. Yesterday I thought I had all of the “American Catholics” cleared out of Charles Morris and sent over to Charles R. But today several new copies have been entered, all with author “Charles Morris” (garbage input from Amazon), which tipped the balance and brought them all back. ARGGGHH! I don’t know why I am obsessing over this one author, when I have so many books to catalog, but this is driving me crazy!
At Project Gutenberg, I found a free download of “The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire”
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1560
If you click on the author’s name, they also have several of the “Historical Tales”.
posted by oregonobsessionz at 12:23 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2007
You have a wonderful collection! I am very jealous over all those 19th century (and earlier!) books. We share only 8 titles right now, but I can see that I am going to mess up your unique book count as I add more of mine. So far we have the only copies of “Great Canadian Disasters” by Frank Rasky and of course “The Volcano’s Deadly Work”. I also have quite a few of the titles you have tagged “wonders” and “western US”.
Since you have several volumes on Bigfoot, you might enjoy “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science” by Jeff Meldrum. He appears to be agnostic on the existence of Sasquatch, but attempts to apply scientific method to the evidence offered by others.
posted by oregonobsessionz at 10:19 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2007
This one isn't even half bad - I should never have allowed myself to look at the Combiners page! I don't know how much time I spent the other day, trying to separate John M Barry of "Rising Tide", from John A Barry who appears to be a Weird Al wannabe song parodist, from TWO John Barrys - one a 70ish British composer of James Bond movie scores, and the other an American rock climber who writes climbing guides.
Amazing that you have so many lonely onlys in your library! Mine seem to run about 10%-15%, depending on which shelf I am scouring next. I just love all those strange old books.
posted by oregonobsessionz at 10:34 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2007
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posted by furdog at 9:29 am (EST) on Feb 5, 2007
posted by marydell at 6:01 pm (EST) on Jan 14, 2007
I have this book because I grew up in Gadsden County Florida, near where the author's family lived - just wondered how it came to be in your library?
posted by klewis at 1:04 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2007