We said fuck it, today. Too weighed down by shoddy social dynamics and long-postponed noisome and disturbing chores. So we went to buy more books.

We did well.

Someday soon, as time and energy and antihistamines permit, we’ll scan every last one of these and share them with you, for free, online.

But probably My Soundspeed Discovery first….

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Gillette’s Industrial Solution: World Corporation. An Account of the Evolution of the Existing Social System Together with a Presentation of an Entirely New Remedy for the Evils it Exhibits by Melvin I. Severy

Fiji and Its Possibilities by Beatrice Grimshaw

Zigzag Journeys in Europe. Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

Myths and Legends of Alaska by Katharine Berry Judson [some crayon, sadly]

Outline of a Year’s Work in the Kindergarten by Anna W. Devereaux

A Philosopher’s Advice, Or The Seer’s Mystery by Lyman E. Stowe

Jack-of-All-Trades by Margaret Applegarth

Taxidermy Without a Teacher: Comprising a Complete Manual of Instruction for Preparing and Preserving Birds and Animals. by Walker Hunting Manton. [missing a couple of leaves]

Success in Letter Writing by Sherwin Cody

Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (Vol. II , 2 Only) by ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, trans. E. C. OTTE

Angeline at the Seelbach and Angeline Steppin’ Out by Cordia Greer-Petrie

The Dentist Himself, vol 1, no 1. (1892). periodical issue [surprisingly hard to ID]

The Scrap Book (Munsey), vol 1, no 3 (1906). periodical issue

Suggestive Special Day Programs: Lincoln Day, Washington and Lowell Day, Longfellow Day, Arbor Day, Memorial Day, Our Nation’s Birthday, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas pub Jason E. Hammond [some missing leaves, but we know the words to the Gettysburg Address]

Negatives of the Indo-European Languages by Fowler [no first name given], 1896 [bound academic paper, only seen as citations]

The Outlook Vol. 91. bound periodical [edited by Teddy Roosevelt]

Technical World Magazine, Volume 18. bound periodical. [includes amusing article "Farm Treatment for the Insane"]

The Connoisseur, Vol 1 (Sullivan, Columbus OH). bound periodical. [not the illustrated magazine for collectors]

The Forum, vol 10, no 3, Nov 1890. periodical issue

Cosmopolitan Magazine, Vol 51, 1911 [dis]bound periodical [has a Jack London story, duotoned ads?!]

The Century Magazine, August 1895. periodical issue

The Century Magazine, November 1895. periodical issue

System: The Magazine of Business, vol 25, no 5. periodical issue

Munsey’s Magazine, vol 47, no 1. periodical issue

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol 1, no 3. periodical issue

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol 2, no 3. periodical issue

History, Theory, and Technique of Statistics by August Meitzen. [both volume 1 and volume 2]

D. D. Cottrell Newspaper & Magazine Catalog, 1911

Bulbs, Roses & Plants. Autumn 1909. George H. Mellen catalog, Springfield OH

The Art Student School of Applied Art, 1921. correspondence school issue

Catalogue of Emery Prints, 1916 [classroom teaching prints]

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Catalogue, Part 1, 1883

Cosmos Pictures, 1911 print catalog

Clearance List of Standard and Miscellaneous Books from S. A. Maxwell & Co, Feb, 1890. booksellers’ catalog

The Writer’s Magazine, Vol 6 No 1 (Feb 1914). periodical issue

[Box of miscellaneous plates from University Prints, Boston]

Modern Painter’s Cyclopaedia by F. Maire, 1918

Manual of Restorative Art by Charles O. Dhonau & G. Joseph Prager, 1932 [pub Embalming Book Company-- with pics of dead people looking very natural]

The Copley Prints, 1915 catalog

Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather, Jr, 1916

The Ministry of Art by Frank Bristol, 1897

The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher’s Companion: Containing Rules and REgulations in Every Thing Relating to the Arts of Painting, Gilding, Varnishing, and Glass-Staining; 13th edition by Baird, 1869 [some worm damage; seems OK]

Interpretation of the Printed Page by S. H. Clark. 1915

Where and How to Sell Manuscripts, a Directory for Writers by William B. McCourtie, 1919 [like Writer's Guide]

Macmillan Book Catalogue, May, 1926

A second copy of the Modern Painter’s Cyclopedia [woops; what we get for shopping separately]

Illustrated Catalogue of the Paintings in the Old Pinakothek, Munich. Unabridged Official Edition by Reber, trans. Clarke [undated, late 1880s (inscribed 1887)]

Samples of Linotype Faces. c. 1910s? [mentions beer; pre- or post-prohibition]

Commercial Illustration for Advertising Purposes, Lesson 13, 1900s

Ralston Gardens Of Life: A Study of Health by Edmund Shaftesbury, 1901 [with tipped in franchise license, crayon, kook health book from the Ralstonites]

Lehrbuch der Gravierkunst. Mit 90 Illustrationen im Text und 20 Tafeln by Maximilian Hübener, 1906

Duchess of Few Clothes, A Comedy by Philip Payne, 1904 [might be missing the frontis]

The Zeppelin’s Passenger by E. Phillips Oppenhein [already in PG, but could use a new edition]

The Book of Spice by “Ginger”, 1906 [perhaps the weirdest illustrations of any acquisition this year]

A Night Out by Edward Peple, 1915 [obviously a common book, but still not in DP]

The Cur and the Coyote by Edward Peple, 1913 [Rube Goldberg frontis]

It’s Up to You: a story of Domestic Bliss by Hugh McHugh, 1902

The Complete Poems of Christopher Harvey (The Fuller Worthies’ Library) by Alexander B. Grosart (ed.). Printed For Private Circulation, London, 1874 [somewhat disbound, but all present]

“Charge It”, or Keeping Up with Henry by Irving Bacheller, 1912

Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters & Sculptors second series vols. 4 & 5, of 5 by Allan Cunningham, 1835

The Grammar of Painting And Engraving (Blanc’s Grammaire Des Arts Du Dessin) by Kate Newell Doggett, (translator). 1891 edition [can't find at ABE; but who cares?]

English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century How They Illustrated and Interpreted Their Times. Second Edition Graham Everitt, 1893 [broken binding, but AOK for scanning]

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgement of Pictures a Handbook for Students and Lovers of Art by H. R. Poore, 1903

Theory and Practice of Teaching Art by Arthur Wesley Dow, pub Columbia Teachers’ College. 1912 [can't find an exemplar of this edition online]

Drawing for Line Engraving, Part 1 by Koller. pub International Textbook Company © 1915, 1926 printing [so it's public domain]

A history of caricature & grotesque in literature an art. First edition. by Thomas Wright, 1865 [in pieces, but complete and rebindable. w00t]

Biographical Sketches of American Artists by Helen L. Earle, 1913. Michigan State Library, Lansing

My Soundspeed Discovery: Expanding Into a Constructive Medley of Wit and Song by George Winslow Pierce, 1895 [OMFG an amazing piece of psychoceramica I've never seen before. Very experimental; printed landscape; blank pages; empty index. Very very very odd. w00t. As odd as Rod of Iron, maybe?!]

All That’s Lovely by Samuel Francis Woolard, 1909

Half a Century of English History. by “Mr. Punch”, 1884 [collected cartoons from Punch's 50th Anniversary]