Pinocchio. C. Collodi
[This article originally appeared in High Points magazine.] Some stories are retold so often that they become part of our cultural folklore; eventually we are able to go … Read more »
[This article originally appeared in High Points magazine.] Some stories are retold so often that they become part of our cultural folklore; eventually we are able to go … Read more »
THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN EIGHT VOLUMES. Volumes 1-4: Tales Volume 5: Poems Volume 6: Essays, Etc. Volumes 7-8: Criticisms Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott This is … Read more »
ESSAYS by Ralph Waldo Emerson New York: A.L. Burt & Co., [ca. 1880s-90s] Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the leading lights of American thought & literature during … Read more »
STEVENSON DAY-BY-DAY edited by Florence L. Tucker New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1909 A choice item. This was made during the (all too brief) era when publishers … Read more »
The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas Published by Thomas Crowell, 1894. I love reading classics in old bindings. I’ve owned three sets of Monte Cristo for years, … Read more »
This is a video of a copy of the true first edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that we had. It has gone to a new home now, … Read more »
This was a nice copy of The Catcher in the Rye that we had. It’s gone to a new home, but you can watch the video to see what … Read more »
The Ship of Fools.Sebastian Brant.Dover: 1962/1944/1494 Originally written in 1494, this book is comprised of 112 poems, each describing a particular “foolishness” in an insightful and frequently humorous way. … Read more »
Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia.Samuel Johnson. John B. Alden: 1887. A short classic about a young prince who leaves his overprotective castle to search the world for happiness — … Read more »
King Solomon’s Mines.by H. Rider Haggard. Supposedly the first African adventure novel, this book contains interesting details of the white man’s experience of Africa circa 1885, but since … Read more »