Member: staffordcastle
CollectionsYour library (4,142), Reference (53), Scanning Project (2,095), Scanning in Process (2,009), Need Cover Scanned (87), Amazon covers (33), Pulled (3), My Covers (1,636), Sorting Problems (5), Needs Call Number (721), For Amelia Edwards (13), For Government House (12), For Wild West (49), Timeline (79), Joint Ownership (3), Computer Books (44), Currently reading (5), Read but unowned (33), Favorites (5), Deaccessioned (1), Abhomination (2), All collections (4,218)
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Favorite authorsJanet Arnold, Jane Ashelford, Jane Austen, Thomasina Beck, Stella Blum, Anne Buck, Penelope Byrde, David Crystal, C. Willett Cunnington, Mark Girouard, Jean Hunnisett, Claudia Brush Kidwell, David Loades, Beverley Nichols, Aileen Ribeiro, Roy Strong, Neville Williams (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresBay Books - Concord, Black Oak Books - Berkeley, Blackwell's Oxford, Dark Carnival, Fitz-Gerald Manor Shop, Foyles, Green Apple Books, Lacis, Moe's Books, Pegasus Books, The Other Change of Hobbit, University Press Books
Favorite librariesContra Costa County Library - Kensington Library, Doe Library - UC Berkeley
Favorite publishersShire Publications
About meThis account is my non-fiction library. Fiction belonging to my husband and myself is under the account name joiedelivre.
About my library"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
-- Carl Sagan
"That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues."
-- Beaumont & Fletcher, The Elder Brother (act I, sc. 2, l. 177)
"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."
-- A.E. Newton
"Tea and books -- mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss."
-- Christine Hanrahan
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LocationSan Francisco Bay Area
Account typepublic, lifetime
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http://www.librarything.com/profile/staffordcastle (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/staffordcastle (library)
Member sinceFeb 12, 2006
Currently readingThe library at night by Alberto Manguel
Voices from Dickens' London by Michael Paterson
Elizabeth's women : friends, rivals and foes who shaped the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
The movers & shakers of Victorian England : A who's who of history's most gifted, famous and influential people by P. J. Harris
The sisters who would be queen : Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor tragedy by Leanda De Lisle
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Ealasaid
posted by Ealasaids at 7:40 pm (EST) on Sep 4, 2011
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posted by ricamoitalia at 3:40 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2011
posted by staffordcastle at 11:59 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2011
posted by Booksloth at 9:54 am (EST) on Apr 5, 2011
mta (aka londongael on flickr)
posted by mta at 2:39 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2011
posted by rocketjk at 8:41 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2010
posted by mountebank at 10:15 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2009
As for Queen Elizabeth, I don't know what her contributions, if any, were to the Royal Collection. Ironically, last week, a friend of mine was down-sizing his library, and I was selling his copy of
Camden's Elizabeth, but he changed his mind and decided to keep the book instead.
posted by moibibliomaniac at 7:30 am (EST) on Jul 29, 2008
At length, I've seen your post about having a copy of Jane Pettigrew's A Social History of Tea, which you kindly said you'd look at and let me know about. As it took me so long to notice it, I thought I'd go ahead and ask. Have you had a chance to peruse it, yet?
I lift my teacup to you, in any case. Cheers!
Julie
posted by Eurydice at 8:23 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2007