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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 #22 – Signed Editions Mostly Hardback

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Dave Eggers:  You Shall Know Our Velocity!   2012: Book Box #22 – Signed Editions Mostly Hardback   Hardback, Unless Otherwise Specified: 1. Addonizio: Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux. The Poet’s Companion , 1997, Signed 2. Addonizio: Kim Addonizio. What is This Thing Called Love (Poems), 2004. Signed and First Edition (10th Printing) 3. Biguenet: John Biguenet. The Torturer’s Apprentice , 2002. Signed 4. Cash: Jean W. Cash. Flannery O’Connor: A Life , 2002. Signed 5. Cohen: Ralph Alan Cohen. ShakesFear and How to Cure It , 2007. 1st Printing and Signed. 6. Eggers: Dave Eggers. You Shall Know Our Velocity! July 2003. Signed 7. Heyen: William Heyen. Diana, Charles, & the Queen (Poems) , 1998. First Edition (7th Printing) and Signed 8. Heyen: William Heyen. Erika: Poems of the Holocaust , 1991. Signed 9. Hinojosa: Rolando Hinojosa. Ask a Policeman , 1998. Signed. 10. Hirshfield: Jane Hirshfield. The Lives of the Heart , 1997. First Edition an...

2012: Book Box #21 – Hardback and Paperback Books

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Erle Stanley Gardner:  The Case of the Long-Legged Models  (A Perry Mason Mystery), 1957, 1958 2012: Book Box #21 – Hardback and Paperback Books   Hardback and Paperback Books (Paperback Books are Specified): 1. Burt: Olive W. Burt. Peter’s Silver Dollar , 1945 2. Carr: John Dickson Carr. The Third Bullet and Other Stories , 1954 (First Edition) 3. Castaneda: Carlos Castaneda. Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan , 1972 4. Clark: Doug Clark. They Saw the Second Coming , 1979 (Paperback) 5. Fleming: Elizabeth P Fleming. Gift From the Mikado , 1958 6. Forster: E.M. Forster. A Room with a View , N.D. (Paperback) 7. Gardner: Erle Stanley Gardner. The Case of the Long-Legged Models (A Perry Mason Mystery), 1957, 1958 8. Gonzalez: Rigberto Gonzalez. Autobiography of My Hungers , 2013 9. Greene: Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter , 1948, 1971 (Paperback) 10. Hanson: Terrence L. Hanson and Ernest J. Wilkins. Español a lo Vivo , 2nd Edition, 19...

2012: Book Box #20 – Hardback and Paperback Books

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Thornton Wilder: Our Town (A Play in Three Acts)    2012: Book Box #20 – Hardback and Paperback Books   Hardback and Paperback Books (Hardback Books are Specified): 1. Di Filippo: Paul Di Filippo. The Steampunk Trilogy: Victoria, Hottentots, Walt and Emily , 1995, 1997 2. Frank: Pat Frank. Alas, Babylon , 1959, 1960, 1993, 1999 3. “Gaming Guide: A Guide to Sands’ Gaming,” N.D. 4. Hart: John S. Hart and James Morgan Hart. Hart’s Composition & Rhetoric , revised edition, 1870, 1897 (Hardback) 5. Hjortsberg: William Hjortsberg. Falling Angel , 1978 6. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed , 1974 7. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin. The Lathe of Heaven , 1971 8. Lessing: Doris Lessing. Martha Quest , 1952-2001 9. Library of Choice Selections of Poetry and Prose , 1909 (Hardback) 10. MacInnes: Helen MacInnes. The Deadly Decisions: Decision at Delphi and The Venetian Affair , (Hardback) 11. Marsh: Ngaio Marsh. Colour Scheme , 1943, Book Club E...

2012: Book Box #19 – Books

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Jimmy Breslin:  Table Money , 1986   2012: Book Box #19 – Books   1. Anania: Michael Anania, Ed. New Poetry Anthology I , 1969 2. Atkins: J.W.H. Atkins. English Literary Criticism, 17th and 18th Centuries , 1951, 1966 3. Berne: Eric Berne. Games People Play , 1964, October 1966 4. Breslin: Jimmy Breslin. Table Money , 1986 5. Carey: Glenn O. Carey. Quest for Meaning: Modern Short Stories , 1975 6. Carroll: Paul Carroll, Ed. The Young American Poets , 1968 7. Coover: Robert Coover. The Public Burning , 1976, 1977 8. Dickinson: Thorold Dickinson. A Discovery of Cinema , 1973 (reprint) 9. Gifford: Henry Gifford. The Novel in Russia from Pushkin to Pasternak , 1964, 1965 10. Gregory: Horace Gregory (Introduction). Robert Browning: Selected Poetry , 1956 11. Highet: Gilbert Highet. The Anatomy of Satire , 1961, 1962 12. Hofgrete: Pearl Hofgrete. The Process of Creative Writing , Revised Edition, 1947, 1956 13. Huxley: Aldous Huxley. Brave New Worl...

2012: Book Box #18 – Books

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Mark Lane.  Rush to Judgment , 1966   2012: Book Box #18 – Books   1. Abrams: M.H. Abrams, Ed. et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature , Vol. 1, 1962 2. Alcoholics Anonymous, The Big Book , 3rd Ed., 1976 3. Butler: Samuel Butler. Erewhon or Over the Range , 1961 4. Department of the Army Field Manual FM-22-5: Drill & Ceremonies , August 1958 5. Eco: Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose , 1980, 1983 6. Eliot: George Eliot. Adam Bede , 1961 7. Fleming: Ian Fleming. The Man with the Golden Gun (James Bond), 1965 8. Gray: Ronald Gray, Ed. Kafka , 1963 9. Holmes: Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table , 2nd Edition, 1906 10. Huxley: Aldous Huxley. Texts and Pretexts , 1933 11. Jaivin: Linda Jaivin. Eat Me , 1997 12. Lane: Mark Lane. Rush to Judgment , 1966 13. Lion Cub Scout Book , 1948 14. McGeady: Sister Mary Rose McGeady. Are You Out There, God? 1st Edition, 1996 15. Morrisey: Charles T. Morrisey and Ga...

2012: Book Box #17 – Books

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 Alexandria Ripley.  Scarlett, The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind , 1991   2012: Book Box #17 – Books   1. Beer: Samuel E. Beer, Ed. The Communist Manifesto (Max and Engels), 1955 2. Bits & Pieces , July 1980 3. Cabot: James Elliot Cabot. A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson , Vols. 1 and 2, 1887 4. Clarke: Arthur C. Clarke. 2010: Odyssey Two , 1982 5. Daigon: Arthur Daigon and Ronald T. LaConte. The Good Life U.S.A. (with Teacher’s Guide), 1975 6. de Beauvoir: Simone de Beauvoir. The Second Sex , 1952, 1974 7. Fuller: Margaret Fuller. American Men of Letters , 1884 8. Goldsmith: Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield , Vol. 1 (Facsimile), 1766 9. Harbage: Alfred Harbage, Ed. The Complete Shakespeare , 1969-1975 10. Havelock: Ellis Havelock. Marlowe , 1956, 1961 11. Highet: Gilbert Highet. The Art of Teaching , 1950 12. Jones: LeRoi Jones. Dutchman and The Slave , Two Plays, 1964 13. Kantor: McKinley Kantor. Valley...

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