Here it is! The long-predicted, now delivered Ganondorf bookhaul of 2014!!!
Pics on the way!
Legend has it that the Ganondorf Family Library was established in 2014 when the university where he and his wife worked foolishly decided to downsize their rare books collection to make room for computers. Thousands of books dispersed into the university's community and this is what the Ganondorfs got:
TITLE: All The Year Round (41 volumes)
AUTHOR: Charles Dickens (editor)
PUBLICATION: 1880s
TITLE: The Angel in the House
AUTHOR: Convetry Patmore
PUBLICATION: M.DCCC.LVI (1856)
NOTE: First edition of a work that, I think, was important for shaping English views on women (in the regressive sense).
TITLE: Are Mediums Really Witches or The Vexed Question of Spiritism
AUTHOR: John P. Touey
PUBLICATION: 1927
TITLE: The Art of Thomas Hardy
AUTHOR: "by Lionel Johnson with a Portrait Etched from Life by William Strang and a Bibliography by John Lane"
PUBLICATION: 1894
TITLE: Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945
AUTHOR: Henry DeWolf Smyth
PUBLICATION: 1945
TITLE: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Every Man His Own Boswell
AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes
PUBLICATION: 1889
TITLE: Captain Marryat's Stories The King's Own Edition (all 24 volumes)
AUTHOR: Frederick Marryat
PUBLICATION: 1830
NOTE: These are some of the very first sea adventure novels.
TITLE: Chamber's Miscellany of Instructive and Entertaining Facts (volumes 1-14)
AUTHOR: W. and R. Chambers
PUBLICATION: 1869
TITLE: Characteristics of Women. Moral, Poetical, and Historical
AUTHOR: Mrs. Jameson
PUBLICATION: 1895
TITLE: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Browning
AUTHOR: Browning
PUBLICATION: 1916
TITLE: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (volumes 1-7)
AUTHOR: Professor Shedd (editor)
PUBLICATION: 1854
TITLE: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
AUTHOR: Thomas Carlyle
PUBLICATION: 1870
TITLE: Curious and Facetious Letters of Benjamin Franklin Hitherto Unpublished
AUTHOR: Old Ben
PUBLICATION: 1898
NOTE: This volume is "Printed for Privale Circulation; Two Hundred Copies in all, consecutively numbered: 10 on Vellum and 190 on Whatman Paper." This one is marked "No. 74." It has 5 letters, 3 in English and 2 in French. Most of the letters 's' in the thing looks like an 'f.' So a sentence like this looks kind of strange to me "It is the moft natural flate of Man, and therefore the State in which you are moft likely to find folid Happinefs."
The first letter is "Advising a Young Man as to the Selection of a Mistress." Memorable passages include "I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you fhould prefer old Women to young ones" for reasons including "Becaufe there is no Hazard of Children, which irregularly produced may be attended with much Inconvenience" and "if the Affair fhould happen to be known, confiderate People might be rather inclined to excufe an old Woman, who would kindly take care of a young man, form his Manners by her good counfels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Proftitutes" and "Becaufe the Sin is lefs…The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin" and also "They are fo grateful!!"
Franlin also explains "Becaufe in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Mufcles appears firft in the higheft Part. The Face firft grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breaft and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the laft as plump as ever: fo the Girdle, it is impoffible of two Women to know an old one from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleafure of Corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at leaft equal, and frequently fuperior; every Knack being, by Practice, capable of Improvement."
In the letter, "To The Royal Academy of Brussels," Franklin writes about farting. He urges the academy "To difcover fome Drug, wholefomeand not difagreeable, to be mixed with our common food, or fauces, that fhall render the natural difcharges of Wind from our Bodies not only inoffenfive, but agreeable as Perfumes." Near the end, Franklin remarks "furely fuch a liberty of ex-preffing one's Scent-iments, and pleafing one another if of infinitely more importance to human happinefs than that liberty of the Prefs."
TITLE: Curiosities of Literature
AUTHOR: I. D'Israeli
PUBLICATION: UNKNOWN
TITLE: Cultivation of Personal Magnetism in Seven Progressive Steps. The Exercise Book of the Magnetism Club of America
AUTHOR: Edmund Shaftesbury
PUBLICATION: 1925
TITLE: The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
AUTHOR: Harold Frederic
PUBLICATION: 1896
TITLE: A Diagnostic Study of the Errors Made by College Freshmen in their Written Compositions
AUTHOR: Macon Anderson Leiper
PUBLICATION: 1926
TITLE: Dick's Future State (the name on the spine) or The Philosophy of A Future State (the name inside)
AUTHOR: Thomas Dick
PUBLICATION: 1852
TITLE: Dickens's Works (volumes 1-25)
AUTHOR: Charles Dickens
PUBLICATION: 1865
NOTE: This collection is incomplete because Dickens was alive and still writing when it came out. Surprisingly, when we were examining these books at home, we found that the first volume included a newspaper cutout of Dickens's obituary. These volumes are beautifully bound with a style that seems weirdly Jackson Pollock-like.
TITLE: Essays and Reviews of George Eliot Not Hitherto Reprinted Together with an Introductory Essay on The Genius of George Eliot
AUTHOR: S. B. Herrick (editor)
PUBLICATION: 1887
TITLE: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
AUTHOR: John Locke
PUBLICATION: 1825
NOTE: At the beginning of this book is a fold out containing key terms and tables.
TITLE: Essays in Radical Empiricism
AUTHOR: William James
PUBLICATION: 1912
TITLE: The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary of The Apocalypse
AUTHOR: Christina Rossetti
PUBLICATION: 1907
TITLE: Fallacies. A View of Logic from the Practical Side.
AUTHOR: Alfred Sidgwick
PUBLICATION: 1884
TITLE: The Fifth Column and The First Forty-Nine Stories
AUTHOR: Ernest Hemingway
PUBLICATION: 1938
TITLE: George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals (volumes 1-3)
AUTHOR: J.W. Cross (editor)
PUBLICATION: 1885
NOTE: First Edition. John Cross was Eliot's husband, whom she married after her partner George Henry Lewes died. Cross was 20 years younger than Eliot.
TITLE: George Meredith, Letters Collected and Edited by his Son (2 volumes) and Diana of the Crossways
AUTHOR: Meredith
PUBLICATION: 1912
TITLE: Holland House (2 volumes)
AUTHOR: Princess Marie Liechtenstein
PUBLICATION: 1874
NOTE: Did you catch the part where it was written by a motherfucking PRINCESS? Apparently it is a book about a big house with lots of neat rooms and outside stuff.
TITLE: Holy War made by King Shaddai upon Diabolics; to Regain the Metropolis of the World or, The Losing and Taking again of the Town of Mansoul
AUTHOR: John Bunyan
PUBLICATION: 1852
TITLE: Household Words (14 volumes)
AUTHOR: Charles Dickens (editor)
PUBLICATION: 1880s
TITLE: Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology
AUTHOR: John Dewey
PUBLICATION: 1922
TITLE: I am not a Virginian but an American
AUTHOR: Patrick Henry
PUBLICATION: not dated, was originally a pamphlet, now has it's own binding, marked 'rare'
TITLE: Idylls of the King
AUTHOR: Alfred Tennyson
PUBLICATION: 191?
NOTE: Pretty green and red cover, illustrated
TITLE: Immanuel Kant's Kriik der reinen Vernunft
AUTHOR: Kant
PUBLICATION: Berlin 1870
TITLE: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
AUTHOR: Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte
PUBLICATION: 1943
NOTE: Large edition with lots of wood engravings. Volume 1 features large foreheaded white girls in parade and vol 2 has what's his name, the wild-hearted love interest
TITLE: Kant
AUTHOR: William Wallace
PUBLICATION: 1882
TITLE: Konnecke Bilderatlas zur Gesrhirhte der Dentlrhe Nationallitteratur. (a visual history of German literature)
AUTHOR: Gustav Konnecke
PUBLICATION: 1887
NOTE: Apologies to all for screwing up the German--the type of this luscious, huge book is the kind where it is hard for me to read.
TITLE: Lectures on the Philosophy of History
AUTHOR: G. W. F. Hegel. J. Sibree (translator)
PUBLICATION: 1888
TITLE: Lectures to Young Men on the Formation of Character
AUTHOR: Joel Hawes, D.D.
PUBLICATION: 1850
NOTE: Tiny book, 11.5cm x 7.5cm x 1cm.
TITLE: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett (2 volumes)
AUTHOR: Brownings
PUBLICATION: 1899
TITLE: Life Among the Lowbrows
AUTHOR: Eleanor Rowland Wembridge
PUBLICATION: 1931
TITLE: The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. Comphrending An Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, In Chronological Order. A Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Person; And Various Original Pieces of his Composition, Never Before Printed: The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, For Near Half a Century During Which He Flourished
AUTHOR: James Boswell, Esq.
PUBLICATION: 1807
TITLE: The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard De Bury
AUTHOR: E. C. Thomas (translator)
PUBLICATION: 1925
TITLE: The Indians' Revenge or, Days of Horror. Some Appalling Evens in the History of the Sioux
AUTHOR: Alexander Berghold
PUBLICATION: 1891
TITLE: Magic, White and Black or The Science of Finate and Infinite Life Containing Practical Hints for Students of Occltism
AUTHOR: Franz Hartmann, M. D.
PUBLICATION: 1890
TITLE: On the Management of Criminals. A Paper Read Before the Academia of the Catholic Religion
AUTHOR: Bishop Ullathorne
PUBLICATION:
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TITLE: The Marble Faun (2 volumes)
AUTHOR: Nathaniel Hawthorne
PUBLICATION: 1860
TITLE: The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to 'Pragmatism'
AUTHOR: William James
PUBLICATION: 1914
TITLE: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things
AUTHOR: "As Written by Fraelbertus and Done into a Book by the Roycrofters at their Shop which is in East Aurora New York, A. D. Nine-Teen Hundred One"
PUBLICATION: 1901
NOTE: This thing feels like it's bound in human skin or something. I have some expertise in this matter having acquired an intimate acquaintance with skin since before I was born.
TITLE: Moses from an Old Manse (2 volumes)
AUTHOR: Nathaniel Hawthorne
PUBLICATION: 1865
TITLE: Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (volumes 1-2)
AUTHOR: Hawthorne
PUBLICATION: 1870
TITLE: The Pet Annual, A Gift for All Seasons
AUTHOR: Edward B. Fellows (editor)
PUBLICATION: undated, likely late 19th century
NOTE: This is a collection of short stories written by students in the New York City public school system. Students age from 7 to 16.
TITLE: The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Complete in One Volume. Corrected by the Last London Edition
AUTHOR: Browning
PUBLICATION:
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TITLE: The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Including the Dramas
AUTHOR: William Michael Rosetti (editor)
PUBLICATION: 1884
TITLE: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Containing The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Don Roderick, Rokeby, Ballads, Lyrics, and Songs. With a Life of the Author
AUTHOR: Scott
PUBLICATION: 1868
TITLE: Poems and Ballads of Goethe
AUTHOR: W. Edmondstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin (translators)
PUBLICATION: 1860
NOTE: This poor volume has been ravaged and it's spine is coming away. This reveals that some newspaper advertisements were used in the binding. There are two ads visible. One depicts a carriage in front of a building and the other seems to be an ad for a special kind of box that is patented and is supposed to function like a desk with many compartments.
TITLE: The Principles of Psychology (2 volumes)
AUTHOR: Herbert Spencer
PUBLICATION: 1896
TITLE: ?
AUTHOR: ??
PUBLICATION:
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TITLE: Reviewing
AUTHOR: Virginia Woolf
PUBLICATION: 1939
NOTE: This is a review pamphlet in the series, Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets
TITLE: The Rhubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
AUTHOR: Fitzgerald (translator)
PUBLICATION: 1898
TITLE: The Science of English Verse
AUTHOR: Sidney Lanier
PUBLICATION: 1897
TITLE: The Secret Agent
AUTHOR: Joseph Conrad
PUBLICATION: 1925
TITLE: The Seraphic Highway: Talks to Tertiaries and Non-Tertiaries on The Third Order of St. Francis
AUTHOR: Fulgence Meyer
PUBLICATION: 1925
TITLE: The Shakespeare Head Bronte (19 volumes)
AUTHOR: The Brontes
PUBLICATION: 1931
NOTE: Everything all of the Brontes ever wrote
TITLE: Shakespeare's Works. Edited With a Scrupulous Revision of the Text by
AUTHOR: Mary Cowden Clarke (editor)
PUBLICATION: 1868
NOTE: This is a massive and handsome leather tome.
TITLE: Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources
AUTHOR: "Edited by Lady Shelley. To Which is Added An Essay on Christianity, By Percy Bysshe Shelley"
PUBLICATION: 1862
TITLE: The Sleeping Car and Other Farces
AUTHOR: William D. Howells
PUBLICATION: 1895
TITLE: The Spanish Gypsy, A Poem
AUTHOR: George Eliot
PUBLICATION: 1868
NOTE: First US edition
TITLE: The Stones of Venice (2 volumes)
AUTHOR: John Ruskin
PUBLICATION:
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TITLE: The Story of Books
AUTHOR: Gertrude Burford Rawlings
PUBLICATION: 1904
TITLE: Studies in Sexual Inversion
AUTHOR: John Addington Symonds
PUBLICATION: 1928
TITLE: Suppressed Chapters and Other Bookishness
AUTHOR: Robert Bridges
PUBLICATION: 1895
TITLE: The Thousand and One Nights or the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Edition. Adapted to Family Reading. Embellished with Numerous Characteristic Engravings, Illustraged from Designs by D. C. Johnston
AUTHOR: A woman and a hero lost to the sands of time
PUBLICATION: 1860
TITLE: The Works of Byron, Including The Suppressed Poems Also A Sketch of His Life (volumes 4-8)
AUTHOR: Lord Byron
PUBLICATION: 1834
NOTE: These books are tiny, measuring 11.5cm x 7cm x 2.5cm.
TITLE: The Works of Lord Byron; In Verse and Prose Including His Letters, Journals, etc. with A Sketch of His Life
AUTHOR: Byron
PUBLICATION: 1845
NOTE: Nice big brown brick of a thing
TITLE: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (volume 1)
AUTHOR: Thoreau
PUBLICATION: 1893
TITLE: The Yellow Book (11 volumes)
AUTHOR: various
PUBLICATION: 1894-5
NOTE: This is a publication featuring writers such as Oscar Wilde and Henry James. A 'yellow book' was then known as a naughty thing, sometimes pornographic, so the name was chosen to give an 'edgy' connotation. I think in Dorian Grey, Dorian's downfall is preceded by reading a yellow book.
OTHER STUFF (i'm not especially macabre, at least i don't think so, but some of the stuff below was just going to be thrown out and that didn't seem quite right)
⁃ Daus Neue Reich, numbers 16 and 18. Newspaper periodicals from 1929.
⁃ A collection of hundreds of handmade glass slides that appear to date to the early to the early 20th. These depict famous works of art from Europe.
⁃ A signed note from the Son of Sam
⁃ A signed note from Timothy Pickering, a general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War
⁃ A signed postcard from Hans Bar, Hitler's personal pilot
⁃ A signed letter from Dwight Eisenhower
⁃ A signed letter from Eleanor Roosevelt
⁃ A signed letter from Henry McClellan, confederate general
⁃ A signed photograph of Bishop Desmond Tutu
⁃ A photo of the Titanic signed by Marjorie N. Robb, a survivor
⁃ A photo of a B-29 bomber signed by 5 of the 12 crew members that bombed Hiroshima
⁃ A signed letter by John Tyler, lesser known US president
⁃ Fingerprints of Charles Manson
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE INFAMOUS BOOK OF ANECDOTE
THE ANECDOTE: So there I was, going back to school to earn a nursing degree. I am taking Microbiology and Anatomy and Physiology I in the fall. I am in the basement of the library rooting through the rare books. My A&P prof is down there collecting science books. I spot a book entitled "Flagellates." These being the tiny one-celled critters with tails, I take the book off the shelf and hand it to my prof and say "Here, here's a book you would like."
He looks at it. Looks at me. He opens it, scans the contents. Looks at me. He looks back at the contents. He puts it back on the shelf without a word and turns away.
I don't understand what's going on but later I realize that he is an A&P prof and that my Microbiology prof would be the person who would really enjoy an old book on flagella so I go back and nab it taking it home.
I have it on my coffee table, waiting until the next class when I can present it to her. It is the weekend, I am drinking coffee with my legs up on the table. My eyes wonder from my coffee cup, down my legs to the table and onto the book. It does not say "Flagellates." It says "Flagellation"
"Flagellation & the Flagellants"
As in whipping.
As in "Flagellation & the Flagellants. A History of the Rod in all Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time"
Oh God. What have I done.
I scan the table of contents.
"Chapter 1: A Learned Controversy to Begin With"
"Chapter 2: A Brief Summary of Another Curious Controversy"
"Chapter 3: Flagellation Among the Jews"
I'm dead. I'm going to be flunked. Withdraw now.
The book meanders to what might be considered safer topics relative to the context
"Chapter 8: Flagellation Among the Franciscans and Similar Religious Orders" and "Chapter 16: Penal Flagellation" but then…
"The Flogging of Slaves"
"On the Whipping of Young Ladies"
"Birch in the Boudoir"
My anxiety is compounded since my prof is a gay man not entirely out of the closet in a conservative community. What if he thinks I'm not only a pervert but also a homophobe. Should I answer to "homophobic pervert" when he calls the role?
The next class arrives and I am too petrified to try to clear the air. Mild awkwardness. No explosions. The next class: the same. The semester progresses, the event is fading. My grades are ok in the class. Perhaps he though I was aiming for edgy humor? The semester is over. A- for the class, woohoo!
Spring semester, A&P 2. One night I am drinking with him and others (I am also adjunct faculty and my wife is full time faculty at the school. I am finally drunk enough and removed enough to retell the story. Laughs all around. He denies remembering the episode. His eyes say the opposite. B+ that semester. Just glad I survived at all.
Some close encounters with death and humiliation make a person remember that you're only on this earth for so long and then you're gone. With such little time, you have to be careful not to had your professor a book about archaic sadomasochism. And if you do, and if you survive, toast your own health and count your blessings.
TITLE: Flagellation and the Flagellants. A History of the Rod in all Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
AUTHOR: M. Cooper
PUBLICATION:
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if you're credulity is not already stretched too far i will tell you that i have not listed half the books we acquired although this list covers most (most) of the sexiest titles
