Most of these books were my grandparents, and some go back to the early 1900's. I was amazed when Googling them last night that many are still available on the Internet, some now on the new free download sites (Open Library, maybe?), and many still available in university and state libraries throughout the world. Most are in quite good shape, especially considering the age. The date I've included in brackets is the original copyright dates, not necessarily the dates of the edition available.
Short descriptions, or at least the genre provided:
1. “The Sound Wagon” by T.S. Stribling
Satirical novel of the corruption in political campaigns (1935)
2. “I Found No Peace” by Webb Miller. The journal of a foreign correspondent (1936)
3. “Island in the Atlantic” by Waldo
Frank. Novel - Life story of a middle-class New Yorker of Jewish
descent (1946)
4. *“Miss Billy Married” by Eleanor H.
Porter - Novel (1914)
5. “Live with Lightning” by Mitchell
Wilson. A Novel (1949)
6. “Merry-go-Round” by Claire
MacMurray (1946)
7. “Christy” by Catherine Marshall
(1967)
8. “Aurora Dawn – or the True History
of Andrew Reale” by Herman Wouk. Description: Raucous satire of
Manhattan's high-power elite. 1947
9. “The Inquisitor” by Hugh Walpole.
Novel - murder thriller set in a haunted village. (1935)
10. “Spearhead” by John Brophy. Description: this is a novel of a unit of soldiers in action -- this
time a Commando unit both in training in England and in action in
Norway and France. (1943)
11. “Count Belisarius” by Robert
Graves. Historical Novel about the Roman Empire in the 6th
century. (1938)
12. “A Day of Battle, A novel” by
Vincent Sheean. Historical novel about the Battle of Fontenoy.(1938).
13. “Into the Blitz: A British Journey”
by William Strange. A book about Britain during the Second World War
by a Canadian (1941)
14. “The Turning Wheels” by Stuart
Cloete. A novel of the Great (Boer) Trek. (1937)
15. “The Small General” by Robert
Standish” First Printing. Historical fiction. (1945)
16. “The Masquerader” by Katherine
Cecil Thurston . Description: A bestseller for many years, the book
was made into a successful play, and has been filmed several times.
It tells the story of a distinguished member of Parliament who,
through excessive indulgence, has nearly ruined his political career
and his homelife and so persuades his cousin to double for him when
he can not cope (1902)
17. “Then and Now” by W. Somerset
Maugham. Description: A novel which finds a parallel to the turmoil
of the 20th century in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the
Italian Renaissance. Maugham enters the world of Machiavelli and
covers three important months in the career of that crafty
politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. (1946)
18. “A Trembling of a Leaf” by W.
Somerset Maugham. Short story collection of the South Sea Islands.
(1921)
19. "The Story of Oriental Philosophy"
by L. Adams Beck. Type: Philosophy. Offers insight into such
Eastern scriptures as the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the teachings of
Zen, and Indian sacred writing. (1928)
20. “Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and the
Islands of the South Seas” by J.C. Furnas. Subjects: Oceania
- Description and travel., Hawaii
- Description and travel, Hawaii
- History (1937)
21. “Mellowed by Time, A Charleston
Notebook” by Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (1941)
22. “Stories of Charleston Harbor” by
Katherine Drayton Simons (1930)
These could be picked up in Munster or I could drop them off at Jenn's in Kanata the next time I'm going that way. Please let me know in your response where you would like to pick up.
Will take me a couple of days to respond.
Cheers!
Pat in Munster