Thursday, January 2, 2014
PLL Membership - New Structure
In this new year, and for the foreseeable future, all PLL memberships will be at least two years in length. Additionally, fees will increase slightly.
As always, membership includes book check-out and receipt of printed matter from the Personal Libraries Library Press. All membership fees go to book acquisition and the production of printed matter.
BASIC: $15 / 2 years (book check-out)
ACQUISITION: $25 / 2 years (check-out & some printed matter)
CATALOGUE: $40 / 2 years (check-out & all printed matter)
CATALOGUE+: $60 / 3 years (check-out & all printed matter)
GIFT MEMBERSHIPS are available at all levels.
To join, or for more information, please contact the Librarian at personallibraries{at}gmail{dot}com.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
First Books in the Anne Spencer Collection!
The Library is so happy to announce the newest Personal Libraries Library Collection, that of poet, civil-rights activist and gardener Anne Spencer. The first book of the Spencer Collection is Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, pictured above, and also found in the Borges Collection.
The first acquisitions to the Anne Spencer Personal Library reflect her varied interests and place within American literature:
Star-Land by Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know by Frederic William Stack
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Magic Portholes by Helen Follett
House Plants: Their Care & Culture by Hugh Findlay
Pictured above are the endpapers to Follett's Magic Portholes; incredible woodcuts pepper the novel.
Below is the title page spread for The Story of Light by Jeanette Eaton:
Eaton's The Story of Light is joined by,
United States Postal Policy by Clyde Kelly
The White Stag by Kate Seredy
Enough Rope: Poems by Dorothy Parker
Birds in Town & Village by W.H. Hudson
and,
Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Two Volumes, by Washington Irving
Geology, Physical & Historical by H. Cleland
Bird Neighbors by Neltje Blanchan
The Story of Language by Mario Pei
Bird Neighbors includes countless images of birds; these birds are obviously stuffed and are strangely arranged on branches and foliage in front of painted backdrops.
For any questions about the Library, Collections or books (including the new Anne Spencer Collection!), please contact the Librarian at personallibraries{at}gmail{dot}com.
Anne Spencer Personal Library Catalogue
GARDENING & NATURE
Blanchan, Neltje, Bird Neighbors - AS 5.7 2013
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring - AS 5.18 2013
De La Mare, Garden Guide: The Amateur Gardener's Book - AS 5.27 2015****
Findlay, Hugh, House Plants: Their Care and Culture - AS 5.17 2013
Hudson, W.H., Birds in Town and Village - AS 5.3 2013
Rutherfurd Ely, Helena, A Woman's Hardy Garden - AS 5.20 2014
Stack, Frederic William, Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know - AS 5.16 2013
FICTION & POETRY
Follett, Helen, Magic Portholes - AS 5.12 2013
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman - AS 5.6 2013
Parker, Dorothy, Enough Rope: Poems - AS 5.14 2013
Seredy, Kate, The White Stag - AS 5.4 2013
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass - AS 5.1 2013
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Representative Men: Seven Lectures - AS 5.19 2013
Graves, Robert, Good-bye to All That - AS 5.10 2013
Smith, Allen, Life in a Putty Factory - AS 5.22 2014
LABOR & SOCIAL JUSTICE
Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle - AS 5.8 2013
LANGUAGE & EDUCATION
Pei, Mario, The Story of Language - AS 5.9 2013
AFRICAN & AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Davidson, Basil, A Guide to African History - AS 5.23 2015
Ottley, Roi, New World A-Coming: Inside Black America - AS 5.26 2015
HISTORY
de Tocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America, Vol. 1 - AS 5.24 2015
de Tocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America, Vol. 2 - AS 5.25 2015
Eaton, Jeanette, The Story of Light - AS 5.13 2013
Irving, Washington, Knickerbocker's History of New York, Two Volumes - AS 5.11 2013
Kelly, Clyde, United States Postal Policy - AS 5.5 2013
SCIENCE
Cleland, Hermand, Geology, Physical and Historical - AS 5.2 2013
Stawell, Sir Robert, Star-Land - AS 5.15 2013
Watson, James, Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of DNA - AS 5.21 2014
Please contact the Library at personallibraries{at}gmail{dot}com to check out a book from the Robert Smithson Personal Library. ** latest book / accession number
Anne Spencer Personal Library Wish List
This ongoing catalogue / wish list is compiled using the catalogue of Anne Spencer's personal books from the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. The PLL is looking for the exact editions stated.
GARDENING & NATURE
-De La Mare, A.T., ed.,
Garden Guide: the Amateur Gardeners’ Handbook (A.T. De La Mare Co., 1940)
AFRICAN & AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
-(--), An Appeal to the Common Sense of Colored Citizens (Republican National Committee, 1940)
-(--), Africa: Questions and Answers for Mission Circles and
Bands (Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
of the Presbyterian Church, 1897)
-(--), One year from
the day that the Supreme Court of the United States outlawed segregation in
public schools everyone interested in implementing that decision is invited to
attend a Southwestern Regional Conference on Integration in Houston, Texas, May
17, 1955 (Southern -Regional
Conference on Integration, 1955)
-Atlanta Urban League, The Negro School Child in Atlanta (The Atlanta Urban League, 1945)
-Davidson, Basil, A Guide to African History (Doubleday & Company, 1965)
-Dobler, Lavinia and William A. Brown, Great Rulers of the
African Past (Doubleday, 1965)
-Lee, David, The Negro Problem: Editorial (1948)
-McCulloch, James E., The Call of the New South: Addresses
Delivered at the Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tennessee, May 7 to
10, 1912 (Southern Sociological Congress,
1912)
-Ottley, Roi, ‘New World A-Coming’: Inside Black America (Houghton Mifflin, 1943)
-Streeter, Daniel W., Denatured Africa (Garden City, 1929)
-Willkie, Wendell, Wendell Willkie Speaks to Negroes:
Address at Rally of Colored Republicans, Chicago, Illinois, September 13, 1940 ( Republican National Committee, 1940)
LABOR & SOCIAL JUSTICE
-Hutchison, Keith, Labour in Politics (Labour Publishing Company, 1925)
-Nathan, Maud, The Wage Earner and the Ballot (National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1908)
-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Does
Your Congressman Represent You?: A Voters Guide (1964)
FICTION & POETRY
-(--), Chronicle and
romance : Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (P.
F. Collier & Son, 1910)
-(--), Heartsease: or, The Brother’s Wife (D. Appleton and Co., 1855)
-Boyeson, Hjalmar H., Falconberg (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899)
-Brinker Post, Mary, Annie Jordan: A Novel of Seattle (Doubleday & Co., 1948)
-Butterworth, Hezekiah, Up
from the Cape: a Plea for Pepublican Simplicity;
Mayflower Tales (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company,
1883)
-Chevalier, Maurice, With Love (Little, Brown & Co., 1960)
-Dunsany, Lord, Five
plays : the gods of the mountain, The golden doom,
King Argimēnēs and the unknown warrior, The glittering
gate, The lost silk hat (Little,
Brown & Co., 1917)
-Ellmann, Richard, ed., The Norton Anthology of Modern
Poetry (W.W. Norton & Company, 1973)
-Fallada, Hans, Little Man, What Now? (Simon & Schuster, 1933)
-Fast, Howard, Citizen Tom Paine (Bantam Books, 1946)
-Gras, Felix, (Catharine Janvier, trans.), The White
Terror: A Romance of the French Revolution and After (D. Appleton and Co., 1900)
-Harris, Cyril, Street of Knives (Little, Brown & Co., 1950)
-Johnson, Johnson's
Chief Lives of the Poets : being those of Milton,
Dryden, Swift, Addison, Pope, Gray, and Macaulay's Life of Johnson (Foreword by
Matthew Arnold) (Henry Holt & Co., 1880)
-Kerlin, Robert T., Contemporary Poetry of the Negro (Press of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural
Institute, 1921)
-Kipling, Rudyard, Barrackroom Ballads (Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1899)
-Kipling, Rudyard, Departmental Ditties (M.A. Donohue & Co., 1901)
-O’Brien, Edward J., ed., The Best Short Stories of 1924:
and The Yearbook of the American Short Story
(Small, Maynard & Co., 1925)
-Patten, William, ed., Short Story Classics (American) ( P.F. Collier & Son, 1905)
-Rothberg, Abraham, The Thousand Doors (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965)
-Scott, Sir Walter, The Lady of the Lake (Thomas Crowell & Sons, 1893-1900)
-Shoup, Francis Elliott, ed., Pope's The Iliad of Homer : books I, VI, XXII, and XXIV (B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1901)
-Smart, C., trans., The Works of Horace (David McKay, 1896)
HISTORY
-(--), Washington Merry-Go-Round (Liveright, 1931)
-Addington Symonds, John, Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library, 1935)
-Anthony, Katharine, Catherine the Great (Garden City, 1927)
-Dabney, Richard Heath, The Causes of the French
Revolution (Henry Holt and Co., 1889)
-De Tocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America (Colonial Press, 1899)
-Gibson, Hugh, ed., The
Ciano diaries, 1939-1943 : the complete,
unabridged diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian minister for foreign
affairs, 1936-1943 (Doubleday and Co., 1946)
-Langford Warren, Herbert, The Foundations of Classic
Architecture (Macmillan Co., 1919)
-Parman, Jr., Francis, The California and Oregon Trail:
Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (Hurst and Co., 1900)
-Turner, Edward Raymond, Europe, 1789-1920 (Doubleday, Page, 1920)
-Vehanen, Kosti, Marian Anderson: A Portrait (McGraw Hill, 1941)
LANGUAGE & EDUCATION
-Orlanidi, Nazareno, Italian Grammar (Tip. Sociale, 1910)
-Tuckerman, Julius, Simplicité : a Reader of French Pronunciation (American Book
Co., 1908)
SCIENCE & MATH
-Chamberlin, Thomas, A College Text-Book of Geology (Henry Holt and Co., 1909)
-Curry, Preston E., and Ralph Rice, Applied Business Arithmetic (South-Western Publishing Co., 1940)
-Korzybski, Alfred, Manhood of Humanity: the Science and Art of Human
Engineering (Dutton and Co.,
1921)
Thursday, December 5, 2013
PLL + ART PRACTICAL
Please visit the latest edition of Art Practical, the entire issue is dedicated to the practice of Readership. Vanessa Kauffman wrote an article about the PLL, taking into account the intersection of private and public readership within the Library. You can read the article here.
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