That's the middle one of the Shelby Footers, isn't it? I bought them for my dad a while ago. I remember thinking that he was maybe a bit pro-Southern And in the volume you have he never even mentions Joshua Chamberlain at the battle of Gettysburg.
I get the impression that this book will be a bit sadface. I've been meaning to read something by Dalrymple for a while, and am currently on an India kick having just finished Mike Dash's Thug. Alan George's Jordan , a book about the country of Jordan. Trade paperback in excellent condition. The Book of Tea , Okakuro Kakuzo, used hardcover in a slipcase, a bit warped, but in decent shape. This is one of the older Tuttle editions that were printed in Japan. Also 'Pale Fire' because I don't own a copy and was feeling rich.
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One Man's Meat , E. White, a collection of essays from the WWII years and just prior. Saints and Strangers , George F. This is a history of the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, starting from their days in England, up through exile in Holland and the voyage to North America. It seems to paint a pretty realistic picture of them. This is a used Penguin paperback in marginal condition and I don't think it ever sold very well, because I've never seen it before today. It seemed worth a tumble for 50 cents.
Lonely or is it Lovely? Seems to be good. Fast Food Nation for less than 3 dollars! Cheap ass chicken recipe book less than a dollar! Children Recipe book. I traded a bunch of books at Powell's yesterday and used up some of my credit to upgrade my paperback copy of The Dream Songs by John Berryman, to a used hardcover copy.
I have been busily erasing the pencil markings. It's a just cobbled-together rehash of his journalism from before WWII, but I enjoy Pyle's style and observations, just as his millions of loyal newspaper readers did, so it's fine by me. He was another of those Indiana boys who mastered typing, like Vonnegut. I bought one of those Aberystwyth detective novels, in the hope that my unread book mountain will assume critical mass and blow up the world.
