{"id":33070,"date":"2024-09-15T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T13:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33070"},"modified":"2024-09-14T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T21:59:10","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-september-14-2024-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/15\/good-book-hunting-saturday-september-14-2024-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, September 14, 2024: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we went to a cross country meet in Lebanon, about an hour or so northeast of Springfield off of I-44.  You know what was also just off of Interstate 44?  <em>Half-price day at the book sale<\/em>.  So my beautiful wife and I went; the youngest remained in Lebanon with his team, and the oldest was still at home, so it was a date.  But I won&#8217;t make that mistake again, as she bought a lot of heavy things, and the two trips I would normally make to the car carrying large boxes of book turned into four.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh09142024.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The stacks to the right represent the cookbooks and magazines that my wife bought along with her five LPs.  <em>Somehow<\/em> she managed to spend about a quarter of what I did.<\/p>\n<p>But I got these books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nine early editions of Edna St. Vincent Millay&#8217;s works, including <em>The King&#8217;s Henchman<\/em> (1927), <em>Fatal Interview<\/em> (Third printing 1931), <em>Renascence<\/em> (1921, ex-library from Hawthorne College in New Hampshire), <em>A Few Figs from Thistles<\/em> (1922), <em>Make Bright the Arrows<\/em> (1940, ex library from the Dallas County library), <em>The Buck in the Snow<\/em> (Stated First Edition 1928), <em>The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems<\/em> (Stated First Edition 1928), <em>Huntsman, What Quarry<\/em> (Stated First Edition 1939), and <em>Flowers of Evil<\/em>, Baudelaire&#8217;s poems which I read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/book-report-flowers-of-evil-by-charles-baudelaire-translated-by-jacques-leclercq-1958\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2015<\/a>&#8211;I had not realized Millay along with George Dillon translated an edition in 1936.  I owned most of these already, but I&#8217;m not sure which I own which are first editions&#8211;and I just read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/24\/book-report-mine-the-harvest-by-edna-st-vincent-millay-1954-2\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mine the Harvest<\/em> earlier this year for the Winter Reading Challenge and <em>The King&#8217;s Henchman<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/book-report-the-kings-henchman-by-edna-st-vincent-millay-1927\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">2007<\/a>.  Having only two book reports for Millay books on the blog means I am due to read these again.  All but one of them were in the old and collectible books section, which means I paid a half of a premium on them, but I&#8217;d rather spend that money than have them ground into cat litter.  It also likely means that these books all came from one person&#8217;s collection donated to the sale, and I have to wonder who that person is or was.<\/li>\n<li><em>Harvest of Gold<\/em> by Ernest R. Miller, a collection of pieces of poems and whatnot he&#8217;d clipped.<\/li>\n<li><em>Who Would Win? A Guide to Great Imaginary Showdowns<\/em> presented by Justin Heimberg.  Things like Pac Man vs Cookie Monster, etc.  Looks like fun.<\/li>\n<li>Makers of the Modern Theological Mind: Gerhard von Rad<\/em> by James L. Crenshaw.  I have a number of others in the series which I bought at ABC Books and\/or other sales.  I was pleased to see I did not have this one.  If I had, though, it would be the kind of thing that would pass muster on the church free book cart.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dust and Stardust<\/em> by Edna Becker, a 1955 collection of poems by&#8230;. someone?  She had numerous other books listed.  This might have been self-published back when that was expensive.<\/li>\n<li><em>One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love nad the Turning Year<\/em> by Kenneth Rexroth.<\/li>\n<li><em>Unbeknownst<\/em> by Julie Hanson, poems.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Night Like No Other<\/em> by Chip Davis, a Mannheim Steamroller-branded Christmas novel.  Man, I have seeded my library with so many Christmas novels to ensure I can find at least one in December that perhaps I should start reading them now.<\/li>\n<li><em>Honey and Salt<\/em>, poems by Carl Sandburg (1963).  Makes me think I need to order more mylar, as I&#8217;d like to cover this book.<\/li>\n<li><em>Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places<\/em> by Rebecca Rego Barry.  Oh, yeah, I am going to like this one&#8211;I liked <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/12\/book-report-a-pound-of-paper-by-john-baxter-2003\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">A Pound of Paper<\/em><\/a> earlier this year which was about a book seller finding books in odd places.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hot X: Algebra Exposed<\/em> by Danica McKellar.  I don&#8217;t often say it about books, but Pretty Woman on Cover.  This is Winnie Cooper&#8217;s math book.  Well, the intro to higher math book.  Which I might read soon&#8211;when my boys started taking algebra in middle school, I bought a couple of primers to refresh my understanding which I&#8217;ve since lost in the stacks.  But this will be on top, likely.<\/li>\n<li><em>Zen Interiors<\/em> by Vinny Lee.  Definitely not my style&#8211;I&#8217;m browsing a look book from the 1970s which really taps into what I like, and this is not that.  But I got it anyway.<\/li>\n<li><em>Living in Wyoming: Settling for More<\/em> by Susan Anderson\/photos by Zbigniew Bzdak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s, what, 21 books?  My wife pointed out that she bought more.  But the records are another story (and another post).<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up the following audio courses to store in my closet until I take another car trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Rediscovering Shakespeare: The Tragedies<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Existentialism and the Meaning of Life<\/em> (if you think there is a meaning of life, you might be doing your Existentialism incorrectly)<\/li>\n<li><em>Famous Romans<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Turning Points in Modern History<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rome and the Barbarians<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>An Introduction to Greek Philosophy<\/em> (only part 1 of a 2 part set)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every time I buy cool sounding courses, I want to commute.  But we&#8217;re currently fewer vehicles than drivers at Nogglestead again, so it&#8217;s not as though I would get to go anywhere anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So I spent&#8230;.  Well, probably $80 on books and audio courses, which is not bad given the Millay collection.  Although I wish I had kept a running total as I went because that seems a little high.<\/p>\n<p>But good album hunting&#8230;. that is another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, we went to a cross country meet in Lebanon, about an hour or so northeast of Springfield off of I-44. You know what was also just off of Interstate 44? Half-price day at the book sale. 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