Jophiel—
I have a spare copy of St. Augustine’s * City Of God *, figure you might like it if you have * Summa Theologica *. I’ll trade it for that book * Alien Sex *.
Hey, you might never know when you run across that cute Romulan amazon hitching a ride on the I-10. 
“…send lawyers, guns, and money…”
Warren ZevonJess said:
Darnit! Well, it was bound to happen eventually, as I kept listing more and more books. But, do you have two copies of it? I do. Publisher screw-up.
Ok, here’s one that I can almost guarantee nobody else here has (I didn’t mention it earlier 'cus I left it at work, not my bookshelves) :
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, by Robert Kaplan. I can almost guarantee it 'cus it won’t come out 'til next month.
OOOh, I want to come to all your houses.
I also have Jitterbug Perfume (great book)
Tuva or Bust (Richard Feynman’s last journey)
But who else has:
Land of Wonder and Fear (1931)
The History of The Conquest of Peru (1907)
Old travel journals are my very favorites, I have hordes of first hand accounts of travels in wonderous land from the last century.
Hints For Travelers, ninth edition (1906)
Celebrated Travellers (1849)
Anybody else with such a passion?
Navin, I have “On Killing”.
Jess, I have “Coffee, Tea or Me?” Gotta love those old, really bad 60’s books.
Since we’re all over the place, the idea elbows put forward is a little inconvenient, but there’s still the mail. Bluepony’s willingness to trade is great too, but I don’t want to lose my books permanently.
Anybody else interested in setting up The Great SDMB Lending Library? I’m sure we can all be trusted, at least the people who have posted to this thread. Please post!
And elbows, I love those first-person accounts! I have quite a few; see my earlier posts here. Two more:
And a recent one:
Bob the Random Expert
“If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.”
Elbows, I do have a 1913 Thomas Cook guide to Philadelphia and Atlantic City–complete with map!
Also a lot of beauty and etiquette books from the 19th and early 20th centuries. If any of you need to clean your nubias, want to know which corner of your calling card to fold down or want to do your hair like Lola Montez, give me a call!
elbows: I love travel books too! Don’t have any older ones but do have a few.
I forgot. I also have an almost complete (missing 2-3 volumes) set of Will and Ariel Durant’s “History of Civilization”. Is it outdated? Probably. Can I read and understand everthing they write about? Yes! That’s why I love it; makes history accessible to me. Not just a bunch of dates and names but describes the arts, education, social matters, religion as part of the big picture of history. I’ve read all but the 2-3 I don’t have. LOVE 'EM!
Also have the 1908 edition of the “Los Angeles Times Cookbook”
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If anyone else has this, I’m sure you’ll be too embarassed to admit it: “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Movie Scrapbook” from the Robert Stigwood movie. I also have the one that goes with Paul McCartney’s “Give my Regards to Broadstreet.”
Have all the Feynman books previously mentioned as well as “What do you care what other people think?” (Hubby is a nuclear physicist. He has the lectures in 3 volumes and possibly on CD.)
AND “Coffee, Tea, or Me?”…restrained myself from picking up the sequel when I saw it at the thrift store.
i’ve already got “Ancient Engineers” by De Camp
Doesn’t everybody?
We have met the enemy, and He is Us.–Walt Kelly
Sassy,
S.S. Van Dine (a pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright) wrote the Philo Vance mystery novels between 1926 and 1939. Only the first six of the twelve are any good (THE BENSON MURDER CASE through THE KENNEL MURDER CASE). THE BISHOP MURDER CASE is particularly tasty.
Wright maintained that no man or woman was capable of creating more than a half-dozen decent murder mystery plots. The six post-KENNEL novels bear out his theory, at least in his case.
Uke
Two more.
Federation by H. Beam Piper. Great writer.
The Borribles Enjoyable book, though the trilogy as a whole lacked.
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
We have met the enemy, and He is Us.–Walt Kelly
yep, it was definitely The Barsoom Project.
interesting, nobody mentioned poor old Edgar Rice before now…I have the entire Barsoom series, and most of the Tarzans.
I’ve got The Encyclopedia of Witches & Witchcraft too, and hey Kat, I’ve also got The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning.
Found a good one on my shelf that I’d forgotten about, called *Who’s Had Who.*It’s a book of “lay lines,” linking various well-known people together through their sexual encounters.
Crud, Bluepony beat me to it with The Art of War. Another excellent book that I am really surprised no one has mentioned here is ’ Think and Grow Rich’ by Napolean Hill.
I’m don’t do a lot of thinking…so that’s why I’m poor…
Women Ingenuity: How women inventors changed America. (We’ve done so much for so little recognition.)
Most of my library is in storage (Alas!) but here’s a few of what’s handy:
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Flim-Flam!(by James Randi); also his *Prophecies of Nostradamus *and *Conjuring
A Fistful of Fig Newtons
In God We Trust
Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters
The Ferrari in the Bedroom
Famous First Facts
The Rand McNally Enclyclopedia of Military Aircraft
*The entire Terry Pratchett Discworld series
*The Atlas of the Solar System
The Florence King Reader
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 1st edition
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd edition
The Wind in the Willows
A TON of computer books
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
AFofM, Local 802 directories . . .
*your humble TubaDiva
Stop me before I enter another bookstore!
Pshaw, Tuba – of course you had to know I would have Flim Flam. I don’t have the Nostradamus one (borrowed it from a friend instead), but I do have The Faith Healers instead. I didn’t even bother to mention most of the top shelf of my bookcase, 'cus I figured there would be lots of other people here with books by Sagan, Nickell, Randi, and other skeptics. After all, we are here to fight ignorance!
You’re right, David; in fact, a second glance at my list shows me I probably have much the same tastes and buying habits as quite a few people on this board.
I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
your humble TubaDiva
Damn, Tuba, I didn’t even think of mentioning my prized Jean Shepherd books. I’m still hunting for a decent video of Shepherd’s Pie.
Waste
Flick Lives!