Middle Shelf

Books:

Walden and Other Writings of Thoreau. Modern Library edition, inscribed to Roger Tony Peterson, Christmas 1938.

Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka. Modern Library edition, 1952. This has my Dad's name on the flyleaf, so it's probably one he bought as an undergraduate. My favorite story is The Hunger Artist, which I read for the first time when I was 10 years old, and my family was living for a year in Warszawa, Poland. I also read A Clockwork Orange for the first time that year, and had no trouble at all understanding nadsat - it was a lot like the language-soup that was in my own head at the time, speaking Polish and English every day.

think it over, by Coleman Cox. Published by Coleman Cox Publishing Co, Monadnock Building, San Francisco 1924. Letterpress.

The Song of Our Syrian Guest. William Allen Knight. Letterpress.

Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora. by Felix Shay.

Elbert Hubbard's Note Book. (read some Hubbard online)

Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book.

Elbert Hubbard's Note Book.

Elbert Hubbard's Note Book.

An American Bible Edited by Alice Hubbard, copyright Elbert Hubbard 1911. This has a faint inscription that reads "During the time I was in the Hospital" with a drawing of a flower, quite possibly drawn by my great-grandmother, who owned most of these Hubbard books. She was a great follower of his, and even bought a Roycroft lamp. Rebound and boxed by Giselle Simon.

Many of the books I own can be found for free at manybooks.net.