Bibliophile's Paradise

Well, this weekend I attended a "Friends of the Library" book sale at an expo center.  It was a monstrous building with wall-to-wall books lined up on tables... hundreds of thousands of books calling out my name. It truly was a bibliophile's paradise.  We went on Saturday because it was half-price day on all the books, so most were around $1.50! So, being the bibliophile that I am, I went all out.  Below is the list of books I acquired... in case you're interested... 

1.                  Mycenae – Dr. Schliemann



This weekend's book sale haul... seeing something
like this in front of me makes me smile...



2.                  Seven Pillars of Wisdom – T.E. Lawrence

3.                  The Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology – Pierre Grimal

4.                  The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, Literature, and Art – Oskar Seyffert

5.                  The Works of Oscar Wilde

6.                  Moby Dick – Herman Melville



7.                  The Portable Cervantes (Don Quixote, 2 “Exemplary Novels”, & Cervantes’ Farewell to Life) – Samuel Putnam

8.                  The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

9.                  Robin hood and His Merrie Men

10.              The Analects – Confucius



11.              Classics Greek and Romans­ – Meyer Reinhold

12.              History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides



13.              Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

14.              The Trojan Women and Other Plays – Euripides

15.              Voyage of the Beagle – Charles Darwin

16.              The Mutiny of the Elsinore – Jack London

17.              The Sea Wolf – Jack London

18.              White Fang – Jack London

19.              The Theban Plays – Sophocles

20.              The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives – Plutarch

21.              Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott

22.              On the Nature of Things – Lucretius

23.              Rubaiyat – Omar Khayyam

24.              Essays, Poems, Addresses – Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.              Essays and New Atlantis – Francis Bacon

26.              Utopia – Thomas More

27.              Selected Poems – Walt Whitman

28.              Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

29.              Bulfinch’s Mythology – Thomas Bulfinch