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The gentleman’s collection of music focused on Big Band and jazz, so while Heather helped herself to some Benny Goodman (or Benny Youngman–whichever was the musician and not the comedian), I got some Sarah Vaughn, John Pizarrelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, and Diana Schuur. The books included some serious literature, a pile of art books and some very nice and old art museum supporter giveaways, and a few conservative tomes. Of which, I acquired:<\/p>\n
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- Lolita<\/i> by Vladimir Nabakov. You know, that book mentioned in the Police song.\n<\/li>\n
- Five volumes by Ogden Nash.\n<\/li>\n
- Ariel<\/i> by Sylvia Plath; I apologized to Jimmy Ray in advance for reading these at him.\n<\/li>\n
- Flowers of Evil<\/i> by Baudelaire; I mean, if you have to have flowers.\n<\/li>\n
- Sonnets of Blood<\/i>, a collection of poems written originally in Slovak and somehow made to fit an English rhyme scheme. That takes more than mere translation.\n<\/li>\n
- Dynamics of Faith<\/i> by Paul Tillich; it will go along side the copy of Morality and Beyond<\/i> and will probably remain so on my to-read shelves until the middle 2010s.\n<\/li>\n
- Poems of Flowers<\/i>; we probably won’t be so lucky that these, too, are evil<\/i> flowers, but they’ll break up the Dickinsonotony.\n<\/li>\n
- Tales of the Alhambra<\/i> by Washington Irving, which talks about that famous building in Spain.\n<\/li>\n
- Down with Love<\/i>, a movie tie-in; I can only assume that Mr. Paul owned it because of its tie to the song.\n<\/li>\n
- Gentleman: The William Powell Story<\/i> by Charles Francisco; I don’t normally buy celebrity bios, but I just watched the documentary about him that came with the Thin Man DVD box set, so I was primed for this particular book.\n<\/li>\n
- The Confidential Clerk<\/i> by T.S. Eliot; this is the first American edition of his verse play. For a quarter!\n<\/li>\n
- The Seduction of Hillary Rodham<\/i> by that one guy who was a good guy and is now a bad guy or who was a bad guy and is now a good guy or however the mythology goes.\n<\/li>\n
- A boxed two-volume set from 1948 called The American Constitution<\/i>.\n<\/li>\n
- Detectionary<\/i>, a reference guide for early detectives in fiction; a special printing by the Hammermill paper company.\n<\/li>\n
- Couples<\/i> by John Updike; a first edition for a quarter!\n<\/li>\n
- A Collectors’ Club edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s select tales and poems. I should put this on my read shelves, since I’ve already read everything from Poe in a complete edition, including the Narrative of A. Gordon Pym<\/i>.\n<\/li>\n
- A single volume that collects Carl Sandburg’s Smoke and Steel<\/i>, Slabs of the Sunburnt West<\/i>, and Good Morning, America<\/i> from the 1920s. I said so<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n
- A play entitled Tiger at the Gates<\/i> translated from the French.\n<\/li>\n
- The Meaning of the Creative Act<\/i>, an early 20th century musing on creativity, translated from the German or from the Russian.\n<\/li>\n
- Resistance, Rebellion, and Death<\/i> by Albert Camus; I’ll read this when I need a good pep talk.\n<\/li>\n
- Hardluck Ironclad<\/i>, the story of a sunken Civil War vessel.\n<\/li>\n
- Time and Again<\/i> by Jack Finney; a first edition! W00t!\n<\/li>\n
- A St. Louis County Geneology study of last names in the county in 1989-1990. Because I could.\n<\/li>\n
- Literary America<\/i>, a study of American writers and photographs of the things\/places about which they wrote.\n<\/li>\n
- Political Bestiary<\/i>, a collection of political humor of some sort, I guess.\n<\/li>\n
- Collecting Nostalgia<\/i>, a guide to things from the 1930s and 1940s to collect. Heather no doubt hopes I don’t get into collecting stuff from that era since I’m packing away enough clutter already with my narrow bands of material I seek.\n<\/li>\n
- Light of August<\/i>, a William Faulkner book that got too close to my stack. Seriously. It was nearby, so Heather thought it fell from my stack and added it.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
You can see Heather’s two books standing upright; if I had seen Varieties of Unbelief<\/i>, I probably would have nabbed it for myself.<\/p>\n
That’s 32 books for me, 2 for Mrs. Noggle, and a collection of audiocassettes for Heather to rip into digital format, ensuring that she’s not bored well into 2009.<\/p>\n
So I better stop reading long classical works and take time to clear some of the shorter reads off of my shelves or I will face a space crunch. I mean, a greater space crunch than I have now.<\/p>\n
And I carried the collection, some 45 pounds of it, the half mile or so home. You know, it used to be automatic that I could do that, but perhaps it’s because I’m aging or because I think I’m aging that I mentally pause before doing it (without actually pausing, you see, because that’s unmanly<\/i>). As a result, my shoulders are a little tight today, but that only means they’ll look better tomorrow. Lots of books and ripped shoulders: this is possibly the best book sale ever<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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