Showing posts with label Sylvia Plath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sylvia Plath. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Summer Acquisitions 2011


New Acquisitions to the Maria Mitchell Personal Library Collection:
Gravitation by Sir George Airy
Physical Geography by Mary Somerville

New Acquisitions to the Italo Calvino Personal Library Collection:
Poems by Wallace Stevens
As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

New Acquisitions to the Jorge Luis Borges Personal Library Collection:
A Man in the Zoo by David Garnett
The Book of the Thousand and One Nights by Sir Robert Burton

New Acquisitions to the Robert Smithson Personal Library Collection:
A Soldier of Humor and Selected Writing by Wyndham Lewis
A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John's Apocalypse by Austin Farrer
The Pyramids of Egypt by I.E.S. Edwards
Geology Illustrated by John S. Shelton (below)


A page spread, "Some Characteristic Features of Glacial Deposits:"


and "The Scablands of East Central Washington:"


Other new acquisitions in the Robert Smithson Library include:
Of Time, Work, and Leisure by Sebastian de Grazia
Exploring American Caves by Franklin Folsom
a beautiful Cape Editions copy of Henri Lefebvre's Dialectical Materialism

and Sylvia Plath's Ariel, to join The Bell Jar.


If you are interested in any of these new books & the Library, contact the Librarian at personallibraries{at)gmail{dot}com

Thursday, October 7, 2010

August & September Acquisitions


The newest acquisitions to the Personal Libraries Library span the collections. They include from the Robert Smithson Collection:

Candide by Voltaire
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

From the Jorge Luis Borges Collection:

Hedda Gabler by Henrick Ibsen
The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon


And from the Italo Calvino Collection:

Les Choses: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec (pictured above)
Morphology of the Folktale by Vladimir Propp

Please contact the Librarian at personallibraries{at}gmail{dot}com to check out any of the books!

Lastly, a confluence of covers: