Lid: moibibliomaniac

Hello Jerry,
Thanks to you fantastic library, I ordered Joyce Hemlow's 'Catalogue of the Burney Family'. I wasn't aware there was such a book. I am going though your library to find some other treasures.
thanks
bob

door bjbookman op 9:22 am (EST) om Mar 10, 2010

Thank you for your kind note, and sorry for the delay in replying. I am really enjoying the books about books blog and find that it is a great spur to getting things read and organized. Thanks for reading and commenting.

door nathaliefoy op 2:14 pm (EST) om Feb 26, 2010

Thank you for the note. You know a whole lot more than I do about the different editions of The Elements of Style, so if you think the works should be combined differently, or if you notice anything that should be separated out, you could let me know and I'd be happy to work on it more. :)

door hayleyscomet op 3:01 pm (EST) om Feb 21, 2010

Beautiful blog post, Jerry. Thanks for sending that to me. Nice to make your online acquaintance.

door rocketjk op 2:18 pm (EST) om Jan 28, 2010

Thanks for the info. I can retire anytime now so I'm just waiting for the right moment.

door AmanteLibros op 2:11 am (EST) om Jan 25, 2010

Hey, moibibliomaniac
A quick question, how big was your library when you did the final move with the AF? I am sure I will be way over my JFTR weight allowance but I have culled about as much as I can. Did you have to pay the overages? BTW, Love your books on books. Russ.

door AmanteLibros op 8:53 pm (EST) om Jan 24, 2010

Trollope is wonderful and I am so very envious of your complete set of Folio editions! I'm collecting that set slowly, piece by piece.

door jfetting op 1:40 pm (EST) om Jan 11, 2010

hey, moibibliomaniac, Happy New Year!

I know that you are often the one starting new threads (and thank you for that). I am playing another game where someone started a new thread and posted a great picture to help capture everyone's attention -- hoping to avoid people continuing posting on the old one.

You might want to check it out! Book Talk; A Silly Game - Part 15. I think it'll make you smile.

Wish I was more adept at the technology so that I could actually give you a link.

door LynnB op 10:00 am (EST) om Jan 6, 2010

Well done with the drama collection. We're just putting the last presents under the tree at my son's house in New Hampshire, then to bed until the big morning.

door Larxol op 10:22 pm (EST) om Dec 24, 2009

Thanks for the link!! About the only Leigh Hunt poem I know is Abou ben Adhem (sp?). I tend to trot it out whenever anyone enquires as to my own religious convictions... :-)

I look forward to discovering the essays. I hope you enjoy Hazlitt; I'm not quite sure why I gravitated toward him, but... I have an early edition of his lectures on the English poets, and an early 2-volume edition of the Rambler that are among my only real literary treasures. Somehow, it's the essays that always grab me -- I think it's the form, and the idea of pursuing a theme. I believe the first one that really captured my imagination was Lamb's "Old China".

cheers,
Suzanne

door Chatterbox op 7:11 pm (EST) om Dec 23, 2009

The Mary Hyde Eccles book arrived in fine shape. I stuck it in my library listing temporarily so I could show it as "currently reading."

door Larxol op 9:39 am (EST) om Dec 16, 2009

Hi Jerry,

Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your 'snapshots of Mary Hyde' blog.

I have also just read Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson LLD - loved it! I was especially pleased because the book is a lovely Everyman's Library edition from 1910 and only cost me £2.00. My Johnson Library is well under way!

Best wishes

Ruth

door Indigo-silk op 2:37 pm (EST) om Dec 15, 2009

On the language, I was thinking about searching. I suppose it doesn't make much difference. You can search in comments as well as in titles. Any chance of getting a copy of the Hyde descriptions? That would be more authentic than the Christie's catalog.

door Larxol op 5:49 pm (EST) om Nov 28, 2009

Take a look at my wishlist collection. I spent the morning getting a sample entry from the Christie's catalog entered. I learned a lot and future ones would be faster, although still not speedy, and proof-reading by a Japanese scholar at some point would be recommended. Each work has three titles. In the example, I put the Japanese kanji title in the title field, the phonetic Japanese title in italics in the comments, followed by Christie's English translation in quotes. Since many people don't have their browsers set up to see the Kanji characters, that should probably be switched to the comments. What's your opinion on what should go in the title field? English or Japanese phonetic? Probably doesn't make a bit of difference for combining since few of these works will be shared, and if there are some, it can be done by hand.

door Larxol op 12:45 pm (EST) om Nov 28, 2009

Well, I'll just brace myself for the outcry on the hyphen. You have to have a thick skin, sometimes.

On the other hand, I just opt out of Crambo! when they go for imperfect rhymes. For me, a syllable has to be stressed to serve as a rhyme. "Vampire" doesn't have any perfect rhymes in English.

door Larxol op 1:08 pm (EST) om Nov 6, 2009

Hi Jerry!
You should look at the recent activity on my Profile Page.
The problem created from that most recent addition is that I've found he'd written ~another~ book prior to [The Big House], so now I'm compelled to find ~that~ one, too.

This latest acquisition is now at the "top" of my TBR "pile". It's a virtual stack, if you know what I mean...
Regardless, it's going to have to wait until I finish my current read. (*note to self: update the profile page to reflect the actual current read.)

Many thanks (again) for the 'heads-up'.

Mike

door WholeHouseLibrary op 10:04 pm (EST) om Oct 28, 2009

Hi moibibliomaniac:

In Leeward Oʻahu -- Waiʻanae; my wife always says "Makaha" (Makaha is a subdistrict. Waiʻanae is both a district and a subdistrict. It does get complicated and controversial what disrict or subdistrict you are in, but there is only one local government on Oʻahu -- the "City and County of Honolulu".

You probably know this geography. We are about 35 miles NW of urban Honolulu. We have also lived in the Waikiki-Kapahulu area of Honolulu, and 6 years in the Kingdm of Tonga, in the South Pacific.

I hope you give us a call when you are here in April. The number is under my real name in the directory --same as the screen name with capitals and spaces + an initial F. after the -d.

door rolandperkins op 4:46 pm (EST) om Oct 23, 2009

Hi Jerry,

I really loved reading your blog, that book was waiting for you to find it! I shall look forward to more of your posts.

Best wishes

Ruth

door Indigo-silk op 5:37 pm (EST) om Oct 9, 2009

Thanks again for your messages of Sept. 22, 23, and 25. We have reconnected the computer as of last weekend, and the problem of the too wide screen did not reappear.

I will retain your messages in case of a future problem.

door rolandperkins op 1:39 pm (EST) om Oct 5, 2009

Thanks for your message of Sept. 23.

I'm not back on line on my own Mac yet.

I don't have any idea what the trackbed is, but I can find out.

I used to say I'm not "computer illiterate", I'm just a slow reader. Maybe I'll have to revise that evaluation.

Thanks again.

door rolandperkins op 8:20 pm (EST) om Sep 25, 2009

Thanks for your message.

My computer is disconnected now (for purposes unrelated to this problem -- for doing a move). I don't know for how long. I'm typingthis on a Public Library computer.

I can reach any part of the right hand screen, but only at the cost of being without the left hand. And vice-versa. About 1/4 or 1/3 of the screen is gone whichever position I have it in.

I not sure what I should do with the cursor when I'm at the bottom-right of the screen, but won'et be able to try anything until re-connection. But I'm grateful for your advice.

door rolandperkins op 7:30 pm (EST) om Sep 23, 2009

Hi Jerry,

many thanks for the link. I have enjoyed looking at the virtual museum and will definitely be reading about Mary Hyde.

Best wishes

Ruth

door Indigo-silk op 3:41 am (EST) om Sep 23, 2009

Apparently, I am dealing with a master of phrases that you cannot get out of your head. The last did help me get thru my last meeting, thanks!

door live2read_read2live op 6:07 pm (EST) om Sep 22, 2009

Thanks for the kind note....of course now I am going to be reciting that all day in the back of my head. (-:)

door live2read_read2live op 4:03 pm (EST) om Sep 22, 2009

Hi moibibliomaniac:

Thanks for your message.

One member advised: go to the top and drag LEFT until I see the bottom RIGHT of the screen. But, doin g that I donʻt see the bottom right. I canʻt see the bottom at all when Iʻm in the far left position; I have to go all the way to the RIGHT for that, and make the scrolling appear.

door rolandperkins op 2:36 pm (EST) om Sep 22, 2009

Hello There!

Here in England we have a fabulous radio station called Radio Four and currently they are featuring as their classic serial 'Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson'. It is very enjoyable and hopefully you should be able to go onto the website and hear it through the 'listen again' feature if not even down load it?

I knew a little about Johnson prior to this (thank you Staffordshire University) but am now becoming an ardent admirer and so have been looking at your collection. oh dear more books that I need to read/ buy...

best wishes

Ruth

door Indigo-silk op 6:53 pm (EST) om Sep 7, 2009

I assume you're talking about the Miss Manners play. I wasn't sure if it really worked, but one little apostrophe couldn't hurt all that much . . .

door jennieg op 5:05 pm (EST) om Aug 27, 2009

Rats, I blew it. I'll try to sin no more. Or at least pay attention.

door jennieg op 5:30 pm (EST) om Aug 14, 2009

*glares and pouts*

The closest I have is "All There Is to Know: Readings from the Illustrious of the Encyclopaedia Britannica" and needless to say, it's not an antique.
http://www.librarything.com/work/222180

Well. I do have some older books, but they're storybooks.

door infiniteletters op 4:27 pm (EST) om Jul 27, 2009

i expect you've seen this about the world's oldest book.

http://www.ldsgenesisgroup.org/goldenplates.html

your comment re: our former lives and my affinity for library aromas, which amused me, led me to wonder about the oldest extant book and i stumbled on the URL above.

my sense of smell is both a delight and a nuisance. one of the first questions that pops into my mind when i read or hear a description of something or some place is to wonder how it smells. it ain't just libraries although they are, or used to be, places of wonder to me.

door mirrordrum op 11:02 pm (EST) om Jul 20, 2009

oh me, oh moi. i laughed till i hurt over the book lessons video. brilliant!

i owe you big and have nooooo way to pay you back. so i'll just pass the laughter on.

many thanks for the endorphin rush. heh!

door mirrordrum op 6:09 pm (EST) om Jul 20, 2009

thanks for the info. i wasn't aware of facsimile editions and looked them up last night including the one you have. there were no images, unfortunately, but i got an idea of what such an edition comprises.

i wish i still had access to the university library. actually, what i *really* wish is that i had access to the stacks at the cal libraries. stack access in the main library was arguably the best part of being a grad student at cal and i was too ignorant to take full advantage of it. but i remember the marble steps and the aroma, never-to-be-forgotten, of the old circular iron stairs and the endless volumes, the reverent silence--well, i was reverent. and the *card* catalogues. computers have taken away one of the most delightful of sensory experiences: riffling through card catalogues. i loved the heft and feel of the wooden drawers, how they sounded when i pulled them out, the smell of the thousands of cards, their edges softened by so many searches and browsings. the world is poorer for their loss but i am richer for your fascinations.

door mirrordrum op 12:36 pm (EST) om Jul 20, 2009

moi, those images are amazing. the book looks as though it ought to smell wonderfully old. too bad they can't infuse such books with the aroma of antiquity.

i wonder you can ever tear yourself away from fingering your volumes long enough to post anything let alone put up images for others.

how generous you are. i can't thank you enough. wow!

door mirrordrum op 11:08 pm (EST) om Jul 19, 2009

>The Original Illustrated "Strand" Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Facsimile Edition by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

you posted this on the book game. do you by any chance have a shot of any page or the cover or anything? i should dearly love to see something from it and can't find any images online.

cheers.

door mirrordrum op 7:32 pm (EST) om Jul 19, 2009

Very cool! One day I will have such a room in my house--dedicated to books and cool book items like this. Thanks for sharing.

door sussabmax op 3:10 pm (EST) om Jul 15, 2009

Nice, very, very nice! Not sure I have seen anything like it. Where did you find it?

door BookerBoy op 4:37 pm (EST) om Jul 14, 2009

Lovely. And I think I recognize that dictionary on the stand . . . ;-)

Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 11:38 pm (EST) om Jul 12, 2009

marvelous. it takes me back to my youth. i spent hours and hours over many years pouring over the illustrated dictionary on a stand in my mom's library [i.e. the library at a military boys school where she worked as the librarian].

what's the dictionary, if one may be so bold as to enquire? and is that a loupe on the shelf beneath it for magnifying the print and if not, what is it?

also in the last or next-to-last image you have what appears to be a press of some sort--large, heavy-looking metal thingy with a knob. whassat?

excuse my questions but when you post these fascinating images you pique my interest.

door mirrordrum op 2:43 pm (EST) om Jul 12, 2009

Wow! You certatinly got more out of that book that I did...one way or another. What really hurt was the subtitle "A simple explanation anyone can understand." I did pick up "Einstein for Dummies", which was my first book ever from the "for Dummies" series. I was pleasantly surprised by its style -- clear, but not simplistic.

door LynnB op 6:26 am (EST) om Jul 7, 2009

I love your library. Very sophisticated!

door MissTeacher op 3:33 pm (EST) om Jun 15, 2009

Thank you! A very happy birthday to you!

door MissTeacher op 3:30 pm (EST) om Jun 15, 2009

Thank you for joining my thread

door callmejacx op 5:18 pm (EST) om Jun 14, 2009

Inviting some people to the thread I just started. Thought it might be of interest to you.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/66785

door callmejacx op 10:42 pm (EST) om Jun 13, 2009

I see you picked up an Elbert Hubbard yesterday. A few years ago, before LibraryThing showed up to satisfy my OCD keyboard time, I transcribed about a thousand letters my grandfather sent to my grandmother during a protracted courtship, mostly via mail, in the 1890s and early 1900s. He often referred to articles in The Philistine. In order to get her thinking domestically (she was a very early career girl), he would also pick out furniture from the Roycrafter's catalog and solicit her opinion if such-and-such a piece would "fit" for them. She eventually succumbed, but it took more than ten years.

door Larxol op 9:21 am (EST) om Jun 13, 2009

Wow, your library is gorgeous! I love the book table, and the shelves themselves look so nice. That is the kind of thing I would love to do if a) I had a room I could dedicate to a library, and b) I had that kind of building skill. I am going to remember this for future times when I might have more room/time/money to hire someone to do this, though. Thanks for sharing!

door sussabmax op 6:27 pm (EST) om Jun 11, 2009

It's far neater than my collection of books--can't quite call it a library as there is no room dedicated to them. Such books as I have shelved are mostly the ones for the online book business (used books on Amazon); these I need to be able to find quickly. But someday I shall order some more of those foldable, stackable bookcases--they work well and I can envision moving them some day when I escape this town.

I particularly like the bookcase in the hallway. I have one (much newer looking, alas!) with glass doors--actually bought with my gambling winnings! best use I ever made of them.

I have a dictionary stand that I will have to photograph so you can see it. It has aroused some envy, I will say. It's one of a set of a dozen or so that my old boss designed and had made by a trade school shop class. It's the perfect height for using while sitting; it has a lip sufficiently wide for even unabridged dictionaries; and it is on rollers. Wonderful.

Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 5:16 pm (EST) om Jun 11, 2009

thanks for the new view of your library. it's extraordinary and much appreciated.

i'm convinced it has a distinctive aroma from all the old editions and all the love and study that happens there. i'm very olfactory and the odor of old books, which has just appeared in my brain so that i believe i can truly detect the smell, gives me a strange and wonderful sensation.

i had one old, quite small, leather-bound book of poetry, much loved. i sent it to a soldier in iraq or afghanistan with whom i corresponded who loved poetry. i do miss it and wonder if he ever got. i used to just smell the cover sometimes and feel the weight of it and the texture.

i must say i don't support the US's wars but, having had a father who was a pacifist and a medic in WWII and was seriously wounded in the battle of the bulge, i have compassion for them, knowing as i do how war's effects can last a lifetime.

door mirrordrum op 3:17 pm (EST) om Jun 11, 2009

i hope you'll excuse the lower case. manual impairments make shifting prohibitive.

i'm fascinated by the images of your table and frustrated that they're so small and highly pixelated.

do you by any chance have larger copies that you'd be willing to make available via personal e-mail or upload? i particularly like #11 in the slide show but would also like to be able to see the table or desk more clearly from your favorite perspective.

what is its provenance and history, if one may inquire?

door mirrordrum op 4:53 pm (EST) om Jun 3, 2009

Thanks so much for your help. I think I will pass on the Communicator's Commentaries for right now. I'm trying to concentrate on cataloging the books I have rather than acquiring more right now ;)

door BookerBoy op 12:14 pm (EST) om Jun 2, 2009

By the way. I love that library table!!

door BookerBoy op 8:37 pm (EST) om Jun 1, 2009

The only place I could find a date in the book is on a page about 4/5 of the way thru the book that starts a new section entitled "Private Devotions Containing Directions and Prayers for Morning and Evening etc." That date is 1766. The inscription says: London: Printed only for John Hinton, at the King's -Arms, in Paternoster-Row, M.DCC.LXVI.

The book is in pretty good shape for being printed in 1766. Their is some mildew. The binding is intact.

On the inside cover of the book is a note: "Ann Emery her Book given her by Mr. John Mophet 1770." (maybe Movphet...there appears to be another letter between the o and p but I'm not sure) I was wondering if maybe Ann or John might have had a connection to John Wesley. It also appears in some of the genealogy information written in the book that Ann Emery later married a James Burden on July 23, 1776.

door BookerBoy op 5:49 pm (EST) om Jun 1, 2009

Do you know anything of the background or value of your "The New Whole Duty Of Man (1766)" book? Do you know anything about the authorship. My copy was a gift from a friend. There are family genealogy notes in it and I was told the book was somehow connected to John Wesley but I have never been able to verify that connection.

door BookerBoy op 8:28 pm (EST) om May 31, 2009

You posted: Was John Cleveland really the author of Majestas Intemerata; or, the Immortality of the King?

Both the Library of Congress and the British Library seem to think so. Why the doubts?

door Larxol op 8:42 am (EST) om May 30, 2009

Re: the hoax--and some people think this kind of humor originated with Three and a Half Men!

Pretty funny, though.

Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 1:24 pm (EST) om May 28, 2009

Thank you for sending me a link to your fascinating Elements of Style post. What a collection you have! I myself have a slight fetish for collecting various edition of Tolstoy's War & Peace (one of my fav books ever). I have probably a dozen or two, with a few Russian language editions. But nothing extremely valuable like yours.

I have to admit Elements of Style was one of the first writing texts I ever read. Courtesy of my mother, an English teacher, of course. I have no idea what edition that must have been, as it was her copy, not one reprinted contemporaneously in my own student-time.

Keep up the good work and let me know when you post other interesting articles.

Cheers,

Thomas

www.thomasfortenberry.net

door kurvanas op 1:32 am (EST) om May 28, 2009

Jerry,

Thanks for the invite to view your Elements of Style information. I have and still use one of the 1979 editions you show, although I did use versions of my mother's in earlier schooling. Best wishes on completing your collection.

Laurie

door Prop2gether op 1:56 pm (EST) om May 27, 2009

Nice summary of the collection.

I think LibraryThing severely limits the html allowed in reviews to cut down on security holes and abuse by commercial users and spammers.

door Larxol op 5:29 pm (EST) om May 26, 2009

Jerry,

Thanks--now I'm wondering what edition I have. I'm fairly sure it's from the late 1960s or early 1970s, around the time I acquired it, probably on the advice of Sister Clare Marie, my high school English teacher. She was a fierce old nun with one glass eye, but she loved me despite the fact that I'd been reared a heretic (well, Protestant, but I was the only one in my class).

At any rate, now that I know you collect these, I'll keep an eye out. You never know what I might find in a box of books!

Cheers,
Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 12:42 am (EST) om May 26, 2009

Thank you for your reaction!
Your library is certainly very interesting to a booklover like me.
Greetings from Paris!

door JanWillemNoldus op 10:30 am (EST) om May 2, 2009

Thank you for accepting my friends invitation. I hope my profile gave you some new insights into Volney, Jefferson and Franco-American history. I will be glad to answer any questions you might have regarding Volney, his views, or book purchases. All Zee Best, TCW

door ThomasCWilliams op 11:56 pm (EST) om Apr 11, 2009

Jerry---I have a friend in Montana who has the 2 volume 1766 edition of Johnson so I've been checking the values for him, and also the ebay stuff. Did you know that Noah Webster copied much of Johnson for his 1828 version? So what do you think of my Webster collection? I just got Vol I of his Diseases book--now I have both volumes. I noticed you have a Prompter. I have seven of them.
DJY

door dyarington op 12:04 pm (EST) om Apr 2, 2009

Dear Jerry,

Wow; I admit that I wondered vaguely how one cataloged dead people's books, but I now have a much better understanding of the challenges. But research is fun, isn't it?! Currently, I share one book with Lamb (Moll Flanders), one with Johnson (Thucydides), and none with Boswell. On the other hand, at least half my library is not yet cataloged, so maybe those numbers will change . . . or maybe it's just a matter of edition, as I don't have the 1664 Shakespeare but a rather later edition!

I'm once again copy editing for my former employer; it's an online bibliography project. Very happy to have the work in these troubled times. And there are intimations of spring here, very welcome.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 11:44 am (EST) om Mar 23, 2009

I commented in the Bookcases forum but wanted to say thanks for posting the link to your filled book cases. I love seeing what other people have and was especially taken with the book table. A great piece of furniture :)

door booksngames op 7:43 pm (EST) om Mar 2, 2009

Hello,

I wish you luck with finding your book stand - I would love one as well! It would be so good to have a book on display regularly (swapped over of course)

door Indigo-silk op 11:03 am (EST) om Feb 22, 2009

OOPS! Sorry. . . I really didn't quite understand. Probably beyond me to work it all out! I'll delete my note or you can if it's still there

door Esta1923 op 1:08 pm (EST) om Jan 26, 2009

Not to worry, I wasn't making that assumption. I am familiar with a number of his sources, though probably not all of them :-)

Thanks!

door staffordcastle op 11:07 pm (EST) om Jan 24, 2009

I see that today is Bacon's birthday!

door staffordcastle op 6:51 pm (EST) om Jan 22, 2009

Thanks for the tip, moibibliomaniac. I'll have to check that out.

door staffordcastle op 4:44 pm (EST) om Jan 22, 2009

Thank you - I'm glad you liked them. :)

door ejeans op 2:46 pm (EST) om Jan 8, 2009

Thanks for the nudge - I've been out of pocket for a few days. I'll get one started.

door dulcibelle op 8:18 pm (EST) om Dec 22, 2008

I got mine yesterday :) My classes just ended so how do I celebrate? By staying up all night reading an enormous tome about legal writing, natch!

door mathilde op 6:40 pm (EST) om Dec 12, 2008

You know, I haven't read those, and having thoroughly enjoyed everything else he's written, I need to!

door A_musing op 1:41 pm (EST) om Dec 12, 2008

It is easy to be misunderstood on email, I grant you. Thanks for getting back to me.

door abbottthomas op 2:17 pm (EST) om Dec 11, 2008

Sorry to be gone from the game for so long. Busy, busy! You can also find me at femminismo@yahoo.com. I check that every day - even when I'm busy, busy.

door femminismo op 7:43 pm (EST) om Dec 4, 2008

Jerry,
Thanks for the heads up on posting a new topic. I wondered about that. If you can't tell, this was my first time joining in a game. - jeanne (femminismo)

door femminismo op 9:45 pm (EST) om Dec 1, 2008

Thanks! It’s certainly an honor to be noticed by Charles Lamb and yourself. I’m now doubly motivated to read some Elia essays. Your library is truly impressive, and it must have been fascinating to be able to go through Lamb’s books. All my copies are the run of the mill variety – except for a 21 vol set of Raphael Sabatini books – 1924 edition – that I haven’t gotten around to cataloging yet. I guess that would be the pride and joy of my library. I’ve had The Historian waiting around for a while now – I’ll bump it up on my list, and I look forward to comparing notes - it should be an interesting read after hearing so many conflicting accounts of the book. And thanks for the recommendation. I always enjoy books with puzzles and riddles. Along similar lines, you might like Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance by Gyles Brandreth, who turns Wilde into a rather incongruous sleuth overtly imitating Sherlock Holmes. While it was entertaining, I’m not quite sure what to make of these celebrity mysteries (I even saw one that hijacked some Austen plot – can’t think of the title at the moment) and would like to hear another’s opinion.

door thepequodtwo op 2:33 pm (EST) om Nov 11, 2008

have you seen either arthur machen or g k chesterton got up as the great cham of literature? they both loved to impersonate the redoubtable dr.

door Porius op 1:40 am (EST) om Oct 27, 2008

>I thought you might want to add a link to the essay on the Johnson page, as well as catalog the additional books.

door Larxol op 5:20 pm (EST) om Oct 9, 2008

I am taking my Capstone Seminar-it finishes up a B. S. in Finance. Light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, but before long, someone will order more tunnel. I also am taking courses to retain my certification as an AP specialist. To that add Clerk of Session, Board of Directors at the Penn Home (Pennhome.org,)and organizing my parents paperwork and it does add up to a tolerably busy life.

I found some of the books but will have a few questions over on the appropriate thread.

Best-

Mary

door mthespinner op 2:07 pm (EST) om Oct 9, 2008

Jerry-

I recieved your email; but had to print them out at work -Verizon had a disconnect with Macafee. I will be starting tonight as all my homework is finished!

Thanks!

Mary

door mthespinner op 6:16 pm (EST) om Oct 8, 2008

Yes, I'll be ready to go on Boswell. I've been fixing up some of the longer titles for Doctor Johnson, now that the length limit has been relieved.

door Larxol op 8:15 am (EST) om Sep 26, 2008

I would be honored to assist in helping with Boswell's Library-and if you go on to Mrs. Piozzi's-count me in!

door mthespinner op 5:23 pm (EST) om Sep 25, 2008

Jerry,

How do you find these things? For all my love of the past, I've never wanted to live there--I'm much too fond of flush toilets, showers, antibiotics, and such, putting aside cable TV and the internet.

Work is keeping me pretty busy still. It's all good.

Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 12:24 pm (EST) om Sep 11, 2008

Hi,

I am not a book collector. I amass books. Somewhere here I should have a mass market paperback of The Elements of Style, third edition, from my freshman English class at Cornell (fall of '62 or spring of '63), and I know that I bought The Elements of Style Illustrated in the past couple of years. They are for reference and wistful necessity. As I remember, White was well regarded there; I believe that Scott Elledge, who taught my Milton course, wrote a biography of White.

I wouldn't be surprised if John Holt's fiction were a little mannered.

Robert

door Mr.Durick op 6:30 pm (EST) om Aug 26, 2008

Thank you for the reference to Abebooks. I'm going to pass it up. He and I conversed when we crossed paths, but we didn't make it a point to cross paths. He ran Topgallant Publishing Company and moved in circles that are growing more rarefied year by year. I did not move in those circles.

He loved the islands, and he had deep respect for all kinds of culture.

Robert

door Mr.Durick op 1:28 am (EST) om Aug 26, 2008

Hi,

I was startled by your entry of a book by John Dominis Holt in Another Silly Game.

I knew John Dominis Holt, a formidable presence. I knew he had done some tomes on aspects of Hawaiian culture; I did not know that he had put together a book of stories.

At the dissolution of his estate I wished that I traveled in those circles where I would be able to pick some pieces. I particularly wanted his home. Some books of his with excellent plates were scheduled to be guillotined so that the plates could be auctioned off separately; they were withdrawn from the market -- I have hoped that the books were preserved as intact volumes.

He took it upon himself to read all of Aquinas once upon a time. He once urinated in an elephant foot umbrella stand in some posh hall closet, I think in New York City. I miss him; there are no other alii whom I know that way.

Robert

door Mr.Durick op 10:22 pm (EST) om Aug 25, 2008

Hey Jerry:

I usually notice if I respond after someone else responds to a post, but claim caffeine deprivation this morning. Thanks for the heads-up - I've changed my book to Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie.

karenmarie

door karenmarie op 8:12 am (EST) om Aug 12, 2008

Wow! Going through Fred's books must be an incredibly fascinating experience. I certainly hope you can get the Lincoln autograph authenticated.

That reminded me that I had a poetical ancestress, but when I checked to see if she might be among those in the book, I found I was off by a mere 50-odd years: she was the author of “The Land I Love: poems and views of Florida” by Mrs. Hilda Muirhead Norwood, published in 1907. I found one copy on Alibris--I hinted to my brother to buy it (since he's the one who discovered her connection to us), but don't know if he did.

Oh--and if Fourpaws hadn't beaten me, I would have put People of the Earth, one of the legion of sci fi/fantasy books I have but have yet to read. I just finished The Fourth Perspective, my first Early Reviewers book, and The Hobbit, which I reviewed for the "Go Review That Book!" thread. Between those and the book club books, I almost feel as though I don't get to choose my own reading anymore--silly, as it's all self-inflicted. But I do have piles and piles of books I haven't read, and I wish I had nothing but leisure for reading. Alas--what I really need to be doing is reading through a dictionary at a greater speed than I have been doing.

Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 2:41 pm (EST) om Aug 4, 2008

Regarding the Lumley library, I don't think I should tackle it until the Dee library is finished; time is limited! But I'll take a look at the book on eBay :-)

door staffordcastle op 5:11 pm (EST) om Jul 31, 2008

I'm not os old--not even 80 yet. I am, however, the only person I know who has a list of every book he has read completely

door Schmerguls op 8:47 pm (EST) om Jul 26, 2008

I saw your entry of Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings. Have you read it and, if so, did you like it?

It seemed so interesting, I've just added it to my bi-weekly shopping cart for Amazon.

door TadAD op 9:14 am (EST) om Jul 23, 2008

Oh, and I copied your map idea. I like it a lot!

door TadAD op 2:45 pm (EST) om Jul 15, 2008

Wow. Fred's books are beautiful. I'm just a bit covetous about the Yeats, I always liked him. Had to go read "Among School Children" again--remembered the last line but couldn't think of the rest of it. Still incredibly beautiful.

Had a nice long email from Sandy. Responded with excruciating detail (since he asked) about my career in lexicography, such as it was/is.

door ejj1955 op 2:37 am (EST) om Jul 15, 2008

Yes, I am taking notes from your "Books about Books" section. You have more books on books than I have books in my entire library! Ah, someday... I have a small blog about old books on books-- www.homelibrarycorner.blogspot.com -- if you're interested.
Susan/armillarygal

door armillarygal op 5:17 pm (EST) om Jul 8, 2008

Some more of that freaky ESP we have, I think!

Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 9:09 pm (EST) om Jun 18, 2008

Hi,

I've been working in reference publishing most of my career, including a stint with the US Dictionaries program for Oxford University Press, which explains some of my collection. I still have quite a few books to catalog, including a fair number of travel books (I used to proofread those), more reference, and most of my non-genre fiction.

I've noticed a trend in recent years toward very light reading, though, and I keep resolving to do some more serious reading even as I line up another fantasy trilogy to amuse myself! On the other hand, I just finished copy editing some rather dense legal history encyclopedia articles, so maybe the light leisure reading is justified.

I shall enjoy browsing your library, though . . .

Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 10:43 am (EST) om May 3, 2008

Hi,

I had to add your library as an interesting one based on the titles I see you leave in the "another silly game" thread! We don't have many books in common but the ones we do are telling, I think.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

door ejj1955 op 1:54 am (EST) om May 3, 2008

Hi, Just to say that you have an amazing collection and your comments are fascinating.
Julie

door StringerTowers op 5:45 am (EST) om Apr 24, 2008