FS: Cheap History, Literature, Philosophy, Humour, etc. (full list)
James Alexander Chokey
I recently moved and have decided to use the move as an
occasion to sell a number of books. Sadly, the local used-bookstore
where I usually sell stuff says that they're not really buying any
books right now, due to a lack of space and that I should wait a
month or two. I'd kind of like to get these out of my living
room, so I figured I'd turn to the net and see if anyone was interested
in buying them directly from me.
General comments on the books listed below. None of them
are particularly rare or unique books, so the collector is not likeley
to find much of interest here. Mostly these are various books that
I've picked up either for my studies or for pleasure-reading over
the past decade, so many of them are works of history or are in
some way related to the fields of intellectual/cultural history. All of
them are in good condition, showing a little wear, but not much. A few have
been slightly marked-up (notes, highlighting, etc.) and I have indicated
this beside the books that are. Unless otherwise noted, all books listed
are trade paperbacks.
Now for the nitty-gritty. I'm not asking much for these
books-- the prices should be much cheaper than you'd find in a
used bookstore. However, it's a little too impractical for me
to sell, say, a single $1.00 book to someone through the mail, so
I am requesting a minimum order of $5.00. (Which is still pretty
low, all things considered.) The prices below do *not* include
shipping costs. Shipping will be $2 for a $5-$10 order, $3 for a $10-$15
order, and $4 for a $16-$20 order. If you buy more than $20 worth
of books, I'll pay postage. If you're interested in buying any these
books, send me an e-mail to let me know what you'd like and I'll
get back to you ASAP. If you have *any* further questions about the
books listed here-- condition, year of publication, content, etc.--
I'll answer them to the best of my ability, so feel free to ask.
(If you live in/near the Mountain View/Palo Alto area and would like
to pick up the books from me at home or at work, there will of course
be no shipping cost.) I'm willing to give discounts for large orders.
Because this list is moderately long, I've subdivided it up into
several sections: Ancient History, Medieval/Early-Modern European
History, Modern European History, African History/European Imperialism,
American History (inc. the Vietnam War), Art/Music History, Historical
Theory/Philosophy of History, Literature Philosophy Drama and Poetry,
Psychology Anthropology Sociology and Mythology, Humour, and Misc.
And without futher ado, the lists
Ancient History:
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_The Bible as History_, 2nd ed., by Werner Keller, Morrow Press, [hardback],
($5.00)
_Myth and the Polis_, ed. Dora C. Pozzi and John M. Wickersham, Cornell
Univ. Press, ($4.00)
_Alexander the Great_, by Ulrich Wilcken, Norton ($2.00)
_Imperialism in the Roman Republic_, ed. Erich S. Gruen, Holt Rinehart and
Winston, ($.50)
_The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal_, ed. Richard Jenkyns, Oxford,
[hardback] ($6.00)
Medieval/Early-Modern European History:
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_The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe
from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance_, by John Boswell, Pantheon.
($4.00)
_The Medieval Village_, by G.G. Coulton, Dover Books. ($4.00)
_The Creation of the First Arthurian Romance: A Quest_, by Claude Lutrell,
Northwestern University Press, [hardback], ($5.00)
_A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century_, by Barbara W. Tuchman,
Knopf, [hardback], ($3.00)
_The Boundaries of Eros: Sex, Crime, and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice_,
by Guido Ruggiero, Oxford. ($4.00)
_Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays_, by Natalie
Zemon Davis, Stanford University Press. ($2.00)
_Carnival in Romans_ by Le Roy Ladurie, George Brazillier Books, [hardback,
1st American ed.] ($7.00)
_Imperial Cities and the Reformation: Three Essays_, by Bernd Moeller,
[some underlinding and highlighting] Labrynth Press. ($1.00)
_Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany. A Chronicle of
Their Lives_, by Steven Ozment, Yalue University Press, [hardback]
($4.00)
_Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries_, by Carlo Ginzburg, Penguin. ($3.00)
_Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath_, by Carlo Ginzburg, Pantheon,
[hardback]. ($7.00)
Modern European History:
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_The Embarassment of Riches: An Interepretation of Dutch Culture in the
Golden Age_, by Simon Schama, U.C. Press. ($5.00)
_Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution_, by Simon Schama, Knopf,
[hardback]. ($10.00)
_France 1789-1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution_, by D.M.G.
Sutherland, Fontana. ($3.00)
_Wordsworth: The Sense of History_, by Alan Liu, Stanford Univ. Press,
($2.00)
_Gaslight and Shadow: The World of Napoleon III_, by Roger L. Williams,
Macmillan, [hardback]. ($1.00)
_The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy_, by David Cannadine, Anchor
Books, ($7.00)
_The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918_, by A.J.P. Taylor, Oxford,
($1.00)
_The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers_, by Paul Kennedy, Vintage, ($1.00)
_The Origins of World War II_, by Keith Eubank, Harlan Davidson, ($1.00)
African History/European Imperialism:
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_The Scramble for Africa: The White ManÕs Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912_, by Thomas Pakenham, Random House, [hardback]
($5.00)
American History (and the Vietnam War):
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_Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations)_, by Simon Schama, Knopf,
[hardback], ($3.00)
_The American Reader: The Words that Moved a Nation_, ed. Dianne Ravitch,
Harper-Collins, [a selection of noteworthy, literary, and political
writings and speeches from American history] ($2.00)
_Civil War Issues in Philadelphia, 1856-1865_, by William Dusinberre, U. of
Penn. Press, [hardback] ($1.00)
_Opera in America: A Cultural History_, by John Dizikes, Yale University
Press, [hardback]. ($10.00)
_Vietnam: A History [of the War]_, by Stanley Karnow, Penguin,
($4.00)
_The Ugly American_, by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, Norton, ($2.00)
_Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Soldiers Who Fought There_, ed.
Mark Baker, Berkley Books, [pocket], ($1.00)
_A Viet Cong Memoir_ by Truong Nhu Tang, Vintage, ($3.00)
_Flashbacks: An Autobiography_, by Timothy Leary, Tarcher Books, ($3.00)
Art/Music History:
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_Hieronymus Bosch_ by Wilhelm Fraenger, Dorset Press, [large artbook,
many color plates and b/w photos, hardback] ($15.00)
_Out of this Century: Confessions of an Art Addict_, by Peggy Guggenheim,
Anchor-Doubleday, [intro. by Gore Vidal], ($1.00)
_Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice_, by Donald Mitchell, Cambridge Opera
Handbooks, ($2.00)
_Opera in America: A Cultural History_, by John Dizikes, Yale University
Press, [hardback]. ($10.00)
Historical Theory/Philosophy of History:
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_Style in History_, by Peter Gay, Norton, ($1.00)
_Writing History_, by Paul Veyne, Wesleyan Univ. Press, ($5.00)
_Time, Narrative, and History_, by David Carr, IUP, ($3.00)
Literature/Philosophy/Poetry/Drama:
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Hesiod, _Theogony_, trans. Norman O. Brown, Macmillan Library of of Liberal
Arts, ($1.00)
Aeschylus, _The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon, The Choephori, the
Eumenides_, trans. Philip Vellacott, Penguin, [pocket, some
underlining and highlighting] ($.50)
Plato, _The Republic_, trans. Desmond Lee, Penguin, [pocket], ($1.00)
Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_, trans. Maxwell Staniforth, Penguin, [pocket],
($1.00)
Shakespeare, _The Tempest_, Bantam, [pocket], ($.50)
Goethe, _The Sorrows of Young Werther_, trans. Catherine Hutter, Signet
Classics, [pocket, some underlining] ($ .50)
Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels, _The Marx-Engels Reader_, ed. by Robert C.
Tucker, 2nd ed., Norton. ($2.00)
Thomas Hardy, _Return of the Native_, Signet Classics, [pocket], ($.50)
Joseph Conrad, _Heart of Darkness_, Penguin, [pocket] ($.50)
Thomas Mann, _The Magic Mountain_, trans. H.T. Lowe-Porter, Vintage,
[pocket]. ($2.50)
Eugne Ionesco, _Rhinoceros_, HRW, [hardback; text in French, but with
footnotes and glossary in English, an edition designed for those
who do not yet read French fluently] ($1.00)
Jean-Paul Sartre, _Being and Nothingness_, trans. Hazel Barnes,
Philosophical Library, [hardback] ($3.00)
George Orwell, _1984_ Signet Classics, [pocket] ($.50)
JRR. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings_ (all 3 books), Houghton-Mifflin,
[most recent edition, w Douglas Anderson's "A Note on the Text"]
($18.00)
Jurgen Becker, Gunter Eich, Peter Handke, et al, _German Radio Plays_, ed.
Everett Frost and Margaret Herzfeld-Sander, Continuum/The German
Library 86. ($2.00)
Jim Morrison [yes, *that* Jim Morrison], _The Lords/The New Creatures_,
Omnibus Press, [British ed. on yellow and green glossy paper], ($3.00)
Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Mists of Avalon_, Knopf [hardback] ($3.00)
Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology/Mythology:
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James Frazer, _The New Golden Bough: A New Abridgement of the Classic
Work_, ed. Theodor Gaster [hardback] ($ 5.00)
Sigmund Freud, _Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis_, trans. James
Strachey, Liveright Press, [pocket, introduction by Peter Gay] ($2.00)
Freud, _Totem and Taboo_, trans. A.A. Brill, Vintage [pocket] ($2.00)
Freud, _Civilization and its Discontents_, trans. James Strachey, Norton, [I
actually have two copies of this for sale, one has faint, but
extensive, albeit faded highlighting-- that's the cheaper one]
($1.00/$2.00)
Julian Jaynes, _The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the
Bicameral Mind_, Houghton Mifflin, [hardback], ($3.00)
Stanley Milgram, _Obedience to Authority_, Harper and Row, ($2.00)
Alan Olsen, ed. _Myth, Symbol, and Reality_, U of Notre Dame Press, [Vol. 1.
of Boston U.s series of Studies in Philosophy and Religion] ($3.00)
Michelle Zimbalist Zimbardo and Louise Lampere, ed. _Woman, Culture &
Society_, Stanford U. Press, ($2.00)
Humour:
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_Late Night with David Letterman: Book of Top Ten Lists_ ($2.00)
_Roman Numeral Two: An Altogether New Book of Top Ten Lists fromLate
Night with David Letterman_ ($2.00)
_Wayne's World: Extreme Close-Up_ ($.50)
_Keskidi: Collection jeunes dessinateurs_ [a collection of cartoons by
aspiring Belgian cartoonists; in French; 48 pages] ($.50)
_The Primal Whimper: More Readings from the Journal of Polymorphous
Perversity_ [psychological humor] ($2.00)
_Bart Simpson's Guide to Life_ [hardback] ($3.00)
Misc:
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_On Writing Well_, by William Zinsser, 3rd ed., Harper and Row, ($1.00)
_Manage Your Time_ by Ron Fry, Career Press, ($.50)
_Major Events in the History of Life_, by J. William Schopf, Jones and
Bartlett, [color plates, numerous b/w illustrations, some high-
lighting] $5.00)
_Yes Complete: Deluxe Edition, Warner Bros. Publishing, [sheet music for all
Yes songs up though _Drama_], ($3.00)
_Charlie Parker Omnibook_, Atlantic Music, [Sheet music for his recorded
solos, transcribed for B-flat instruments: tenor/soprano sax, trumpet,
and clarinet] ($1.00)