Friends,
I know a few of you like books. Since we are preparing to move to a new house this summer, a lot of our old books, some in storage, have come to see the light of day. We have too many of them; we have to get rid of some.
Here are a (partial) list of books that I'm giving away. Some of them are pretty good. Just contact me if you're interested.
C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle (1970 edition)
Peasants and Peasant Societies - Teodor Shanin, ed. (Penguin Modern Sociology Readings)
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema - Peter Wollen*
The Speculative Philosophers - Commins, Linscott, ed.
The Political Philosophers - Commins, Linscott, ed. *
More than Conquerors - Edilberto K. Tiempo
Selected Stories of Lu Hsun*
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited - Aldous Huxley*
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway*
Haircut and Other Stories - Ring Lardner
I also have a few of my Grandfather's old issues of the National Gardener
edited to add:
The Christmas Mystery - Jostein Gaarder*
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power - Nicholas Kristof & Sherly Wudunn
new books:
Now You see it, now you don't! Lessons in sleight of hand - Bill Tarr
The State of the World's Children 1995 - UNICEF
Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps - Bruce Pandolfini
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore*
Guide to Better Bowling - Chuck Pezanno
The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
How to Win Chess Games Quickly - Fred Reinfeld
An Outline of American Literature - USAID pamphlet
An Outline of American History - USAID pamphlet (well, more of a book)
A Book of Angels - Sophy Burnham
God's Country and Mine - Jacques Barzun
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other Story - Ernest Hemingway (Bob, you can have first dibs on this one)
The Oresteian Trilogy - Aeschylus
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling*
Interior Design with Feng Shui - Sarah Rossbach (paperback)
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Books - Charles Dickens
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Questions and Answers on Bringing Up Children - Emma R. Tan
Making Effective Presentations - Robert B. Nelson & Jennifer Wallick
Discovering the Enneagram - Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert
Love Song - Andrew M. Greeley (hardbound)
The Greatest Salesman in the World - Og Mandino
Webster's New World Thesaurus
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (de-faced copy)*
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift*
The Chamber - John Grisham
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Dubliners - James Joyce*
Doctor Dolittle In the Moon - Hugh Lofting*
The Fit-or-Fat Target Diet - Covert Bailey
Bowling - Martin/Tandy/Agne-Traub
Public Speaking for College Students - Lionel Crocker
Literature 2 Selections - Ateneo High School (1994)
Your Book of Secret Writing - Geoffrey Lamb
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
The Inferno - Dante*
The Purgatorio - Dante*
The Paradiso - Dante*
* someone asked for them already
new rule! :)
if you're gonna request for these books, and I don't normally hang out with you, you have to be willing to pick 'em up in a week in any of my "territories". Starbucks Katipunan / Coffee Bean Eastwood / Coffee Bean Salcedo
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13 comments:
will take huxley and hemingway off ur hands!
Maf beat you to the punch for Hemingway. ;) You can have Huxley.
damn, ive been maffed.
i'll take the meaning and cinema book na rin if no one wants it.
hey m thinking of asking for the copy of Christmas Mystery too...
sorry, guys. those two have been asked for (xmas mystery, and cinema). i should update this blog more often! not to worry though, i'll be posting a new list with more titles here soon.
-fabs
This is me being takaw mata:
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Inferno - Dante
The Purgatorio - Dante
The Paradiso - Dante
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
bob: ha ha. you've been "maffed"
wysgal: set em aside for u
Wtf? What the hell does "being maffed" mean? :p
Oh oh can I get
- Joyce's Dubliners
- Tagore's The Home and the World
- Rushdie's Midnight's Children (Btw, what do you mean by "de-faced"?)
I can pick these up (inc. the Hemingway book) one of these days, e.g. from your house or the next time I see you. :)
alright, giving you those 3.
you got the good stuff. you're out maffing people again. ;)
de-faced, there's no front cover anymore.
wanted dubliners, but ive been double-maffed. grr. will take her hemingway leftovers i guess
fabian! did anyone get the barzun book already?
-larry
Larry: No one yet. I'll see it aside for you. :)
yey! this is jacques barzun the historian right? Just text me where I can possibly meet up with you. - larry
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