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You Know You’re a Rockhound When…

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Snowflake Obsidian Specimen _____________________ – You look down instead of up. – Any rock, no matter how common, will raise your pulse. – You see beauty in all rocks, even “Leaverites,” the ones you leave behind. – Your family and friends just roll their eyes when you pick up yet another rock. – You are willing to dig up a rock with a spoon, even if it means ruining the spoon. – You have been known to visit urban rock piles and risk stares from people who are wondering why an old person is crawling around on a dirt pile. – You are willing to pay excess baggage fees (international, yet) for a large yellow rock that looks like a loaf of bread. – Your pockets are always filled with rocks and residual dirt. – You often find pebbles in your shoes and even socks. – You don’t mind dirt at all, even under your fingernails. That’s why soap and water exist. – You get why rocks are so spiritual; you understand that rocks have been around since the beginning of earth ...

2012: Book Box #28d – The Gettysburg Review (2015)

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The Gettysburg Review: Volume 1 (Number 1, Winter 1988)   NOW: 2012: Book Box #28d – The Gettysburg Review (2015)   WAS: Book Box 45 (201 5) (The Gettysburg Review, Volume 1, 1988, First Year)   1. Volume 1: Number 1, Winter 1988 (2 copies, one signed by Garrison Keillor, with inscription: “JS, Executive Advisory Editor” with line drawn to the Advisory Editor List) 2. Volume 1: Number 2, Spring 1988 3. Volume 1: Number 3, Summer 1988 4. Volume 1: Number 4, Autumn 1988   2012-Book-28d-The Gettysburg Review (2015) Very Small Brown Box   Keywords: -2012- -2015- Academic Fiction Literary Criticism Literary Magazines Memoir Non-fiction Poetry Signed Literary Magazine The Lists   Attic

2012: Book Box #28c – The Gettysburg Review and Books

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The Gettysburg Review , 1996 (Vol. 9.4)   2012: Book Box #28c – The Gettysburg Review and Books   The Gettysburg Review 1. Vol. 9 (1996): Winter (9.1) Spring (9.2) Summer (9.3) Autumn (9.4)   2. Vol. 10 (1997): Winter (10.1) Spring (10.2) Summer (10.3) Autumn (10.4)   3. Vol. 11 (1998): Spring (11.1) Summer (11.2) Autumn (11.3) Winter (11.4) 4. Vol. 12 (1999): Spring (12.1) Summer (12.2) Autumn (12.3) Winter (12.4)   5. Vol. 13 (2000): Spring (13.1) Summer (13.2) Autumn (13.3) Winter (13.4)   6. Vol. 14 (2001) (Number 3 in Box #45): Spring (14.1) Summer (14.2) Autumn (14.3) Winter (14.4)   7. Vol. 15 (2002): Spring (15.1) Summer (15.2) Autumn (15.3) Winter (15.4)   8. The Beatles Calendar, 1994 9. Downes: Anne Miller Downes. The Captive Rider , 1956, 1st Edition (Hardback) 10. Echoes . July/August 1994 (Note from Ed Jones) 11. Hawthorne: Julian Hawt...

2012: Book Box #28b – The Gettysburg Review and Books

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The Gettysburg Review , 1988 (Vol. 1.1)   2012: Book Box #28b – The Gettysburg Review and Books   The Gettysburg Review 1. Vol. 1 (1988): 1. Winter (1.1) (another copy, signed by Garrison Keillor, in Box #28d, was #45) 2. Spring (1.2, another copy in Box #28d,  was #45 ) 3. Summer (1.3, another copy in Box #28d,  was #45 ) 4. Autumn (1.4, another copy in Box #28d, was #45)   2. Vol. 2 (1989) (2 copies of Number 4): Winter (2.1) Spring (2.2) Summer (2.3) Autumn (2.4)   3. Vol. 3 (1990): Spring (3.1) Summer (3.2) Autumn (3.3) Winter (3.4)   4. Vol. 4 (1991) (2 copies of 1 and 4): Spring (4.1) Summer (4.2) Autumn (4.3) Winter (4.4)   5. Vol. 5 (1992) (2 copies of 1 and 4): Spring (5.1) Summer (5.2) Autumn (5.3) Winter (5.4)   6. Vol. 6 (1993): Spring (6.1) Summer (6.2) Autumn (6.3) Winter (6.4)   7. Vol. 7 (1994): Spring (7.1) Summer (7.2) Autumn (7.3) W...

2012: Book Box #28a – The Gettysburg Review and Books

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The Gettysburg Review , 2012 (Winter, 25.4)   2012: Book Box #28a – The Gettysburg Review and Books   The Gettysburg Review (Volumes 16 – 25): 1. Vol. 16 (2003): Spring (16.1) Summer (16.2) (In Box #35, may be an extra) Autumn (16.3) (In Box #35,  may be an extra ) Winter (16.4) (In Box #35,  may be an extra )   2. Vol. 17 (2004): Spring (17.1) Summer (17.2) Autumn (17.3) Winter (17.4)   3. Vol. 18 (2005): Spring (18.1) Summer (18.2) Autumn (17.3) Winter (17.4)   4. Vol. 19 (2006): Spring (19.1) Summer (19.2) Autumn (19.3) Winter (19.4)   5. Vol. 20 (2007): Spring (20.1) Summer (20.2) Autumn (20.3) Winter (20.4)   6. Vol. 21 (2008): Spring (21.1) Summer (21.2) Autumn (21.3) Winter (21.4)   7. Vol. 22 (2009): Spring (22.1) Summer (22.2) Autumn (22.3) Winter (22.4)   8. Vol. 23 (2010): Spring (23.1) Summer (23.2) Autumn (23.3) Winter (2...

2012: Book Box #27e – American Literature Books and Paperback Trade Books

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Harry Minetree:  Cooley: The Career of a Great Heart Surgeon   2012: Book Box #27e – American Literature Books and Paperback Trade Books   American Literature Books and Paperback Trade Books: 1. Allen: Donald M. Allen. The New American Poetry , 1960 (Paperback) 2. Anthony: Piers Anthony. Shame of Man , December 1995 (Trade paper) 3. Beattie: Ann Beattie. Illustrated by Winslow Pels. Spectacles , 1985, 1st printing (Hardback) 4. Bellow: Saul Bellow. More Die of Heartbreak: A Novel , 1987, 1988 (Paperback) 5. Blausdell: Bob Blausdell, Ed. The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln , 2005 (Paperback) 6. Christie: Agatha Christie. Curtain , 1975, 1993 (Trade Paperback) 7. Cowley: Malcolm Cowley, Ed. The Portable Faulkner (Revised and Expanded), 1946, 1967 (revised) (Paperback) 8. Edwards: Lawrence Edwards. Lover: The Confessions of a One-night Stand , 1976, 1st printing (Hardback) 9. Faulkner: William Faulkner. Light in August , 1932, 1959 (Paperback) 10...

2012: Book Box #27d – American Literature Books and Paperback Trade Books

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Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl , 1940 (Hardback)   2012: Book Box #27d – American Literature Books and Paperback Trade Books   American Literature and Paperback Trade Books: 1. Barbour: James Barbour and Thomas Quick. Romanticism in American Literature , 1968 (Paperback) 2. Bellow: Saul Bellow. The Adventures of Augie March , 1965 (Paperback) 3. Carr: Virginia Spencer Carr. Dos Passos: A Life , 1984, 1st Edition (Hardback) 4. Cather: Willa Cather. O Pioneers! 1913, 1973 (Paperback) 5. Cather: Willa Cather.   Sapphira and the Slave Girl , 1940 (Hardback) 6. Coyle: William Coyle, Ed. The Poet and the President: Whitman’s Lincoln Poems , 1962, 1st Edition (Paperback) 7. Crane: Stephen Crane. The Red Badge of Courage (with Reader’s Guide), 1971 (Paperback) 8. Davidson: Edward H. Davidson, Ed. Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe , 1956 (Paperback) 9. ESP (YCP Literary Magazine), 1975 (Paperback) 10. ESP (YCP Literary Magazine), 1981 ...

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