Voodooking Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) I'd like to identify all of these books so that I can add them to my library. I've worked out some, but hopefully if we work as a team we can create a comprehensive list. Bookcase One LHS - Shelf 1 ? LHS - Shelf 2 ? LHS - Shelf 3 Harvard Classics: The Five Foot Shelf of Books - printed by P. F. Collier & Son LHS - Shelf 4 Go East, Young Man: The Early Years, The Autobiography of William O. Douglas - by William O. Douglas Eugene Meyer - by Merlo John Pusey The Great American Newspaper: The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice - by Kevin Michael McAuliffe An Inheritance...? - by (Author unknown) Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War - by Brandon Brown Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence - by Charles D. Ellis Will Rogers: His Life and Times - by Richard M. Ketchum Einstein - by (unidentified author) I Never Wanted to be Vice-president of Anything!: Investigative Biography of Nelson Rockefeller - by Michael S Kramer & Sam Roberts David Sarnoff: A Biography - by Eugene Lyons The Washington Post: The First 100 Years - by Chalmers M. Roberts LHS - Shelf 5 Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth and The Man - by Victor Lasky The Vanderbilts And Their Fortunes - by Edwin P. Hoyt LHS - Shelf 6 John D. Rockefeller: William O. Inglis Interviews - by William O. Inglis (blue binder, multiple volumes) On The Origin of Species - by Charles Darwin Poor Richard's Almanack - by Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain's Letters (5 Volumes) - by Mark Twain RHS - Shelf 1 The Failure of The "New Economics" - by Henry Hazlitt Letter to the Alumni - by John Hersey Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh - 1922-1928 Copey of Harvard: A Man Who Became a Legend During His Lifetime - by J. Donald Adams RHS - Shelf 2 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (10 volume set) Familiar Quotations - by John Bartlett RHS - Shelf 3 Harvard Classics: The Five Foot Shelf of Books - printed by P. F. Collier & Son RHS - Shelf 4 Bryan: A Political Biography of William Jennings Brian - by Louis W. Koenig (Putnam) Woodrow Wilson - by H.W. Brands Franklin of Philadelphia - by Edmond Wright Great Short Biographies of The World - by Barratt H. Clark Einstein: His Life and Universe - by Walter Isaacson The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton - by Allan McLane Hamilton The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Volumes 1 & 2) - by Burton J. Hendrick RHS - Shelf 5 Benjamin Franklin - by Edmund S. Morgan Life of Lincoln (publisher to be confirmed) Seeking Wisdom - From Darwin to Munger - by Peter Bevelin The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (9 volume set) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - by Robert Cialdini Pocket 'World in Figures' book - Year unidentified RHS - Shelf 6 The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill - by William Manchester John D. Rockefeller: William O. Inglis Interviews - by William O. Inglis (blue binder, multiple volumes) The Federalist Papers...? The Letters of Samuel Johnson: Volumes 1 to 5 Bookcase Two Shelf 1 (both sides, L to R) Plain Talk by Ken Iverson Ice Age: The Theory That Came In From The Cold - by John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin Shelf 2 (both sides, L to R) The Second World War - by John Keegan The Better Angels of Our Nature - by Steven Pinker The Wizard and the Prophet - by Charles C. Mann Herbert Hoover: A Public Life - by David Burner How We Got to Now - by Steven Johnson Coolidge - by Amity Shlaes A History of Mathematics by Carl Boyer and Uta Merzbach Ivan Pavlov Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science - by Daniel P. Todes The Everything Store by Brad Stone Tesla – Inventor of the Electrical Age - by W. Bernard Carlson Shelf 3 (both sides, L to R) The Whiz Kids: The Founding Fathers of American Business - And the Legacy They Left Us - by John A. Byrne The Bully Pulpit - by Doris Kearns Goodwin Carnegie - by Peter Krass Henry J Kaiser by Mark S. Foster A History of the Massachusetts General Hospital Climate Shock by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman Hot Seat by Jeff Immelt The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World - by Simon Winchester Shelf 4 (both sides, L to R) A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market - by Edward O. Thorp The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew - by Lee Kuan Yew Wills of the US Presidents by Herbert Ridgeway Collins and David B. Weaver Alistair Cooke's America The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman Pre-Suasion by Robert B. Cialdini Shores of Knowledge by Joyce Appleby The Battle of Bretton Woods by Benn Steil Modern Times by Paul Johnson Edited June 11 by Voodooking Updating as more books are identified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formthirteen Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 You must be a forensic analyst to have identified that many books. One book on the right of the middle shelf could be one from "The Complete Works of Shakespeare", but it's impossible to tell: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfp Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 I would assume that Shelf 3 all the way across is a 40 volume set of encyclopedias he grew up with at his parents house. Likely a vintage Britainnica product (not world book that he later acquired). Maybe Encyclopaedia Metropolitana second edition which was 40 volumes? Another guess would be a different Britannica product which might explain the writing on the spines more - Britannica Great Books of the Western World. Maybe that one makes more sense. I'll guess that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thowed Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Amazing! Can I ask what the source of the photo is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfp Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 2 minutes ago, thowed said: Amazing! Can I ask what the source of the photo is? https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/investor-charlie-munger-interview-2b636dc5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfp Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 19 minutes ago, gfp said: I would assume that Shelf 3 all the way across is a 40 volume set of encyclopedias he grew up with at his parents house. Likely a vintage Britainnica product (not world book that he later acquired). Maybe Encyclopaedia Metropolitana second edition which was 40 volumes? Another guess would be a different Britannica product which might explain the writing on the spines more - Britannica Great Books of the Western World. Maybe that one makes more sense. I'll guess that one I want to change my guess to Harvard Classics by Collier? https://www.ebay.com/itm/335016787851?chn=ps&var=544237538035&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1wh-Ikp7gSeibN-z99qL9nA31&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=544237538035_335016787851&targetid=1584571731043&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9025156&poi=&campaignid=21214277413&mkgroupid=162743717513&rlsatarget=aud-1314496317827:pla-1584571731043&abcId=9407520&merchantid=603819412&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_QDh-oaptNMIVk3Qcp1KELxGYF_&gclid=CjwKCAjwvIWzBhAlEiwAHHWgvbe7wr5_FYWsdPA5cGJHlvz2H2hSmmOuG6zAQiL2eVeJ8sW9YJ1MERoCSwEQAvD_BwE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voodooking Posted June 6 Author Share Posted June 6 1 hour ago, gfp said: I want to change my guess to Harvard Classics by Collier? https://www.ebay.com/itm/335016787851?chn=ps&var=544237538035&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1wh-Ikp7gSeibN-z99qL9nA31&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=544237538035_335016787851&targetid=1584571731043&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9025156&poi=&campaignid=21214277413&mkgroupid=162743717513&rlsatarget=aud-1314496317827:pla-1584571731043&abcId=9407520&merchantid=603819412&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_QDh-oaptNMIVk3Qcp1KELxGYF_&gclid=CjwKCAjwvIWzBhAlEiwAHHWgvbe7wr5_FYWsdPA5cGJHlvz2H2hSmmOuG6zAQiL2eVeJ8sW9YJ1MERoCSwEQAvD_BwE Very well spotted gfp, I'm impressed. Looks close enough for me. Any suggestions on the others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldad Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Shelf 6, left center. 5 books are Mark Twain’s letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldad Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 3 minutes ago, Eldad said: Shelf 6, left center. 5 books are Mark Twain’s letters. Sorry you already knew that. Pretty fun activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thowed Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) 5 hours ago, gfp said: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/investor-charlie-munger-interview-2b636dc5 Thanks! Good feature. Edited June 6 by thowed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voodooking Posted June 11 Author Share Posted June 11 Updated to add another photo of a second bookcase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValueArb Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 This is trainspotting at its finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schin Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 I am a bit shocked he doesn't have any Harry Potter Books or Danielle Steele novels.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 1 hour ago, schin said: I am a bit shocked he doesn't have any Harry Potter Books or Danielle Steele novels.... Those are on the bedside table. These are just pictures of the books he never read and stuffed away in a bookcase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saluki Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 I see Pinker's "the Better Angels of our Nature" and "Pre-Suasion" another Cialdini book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Hampton Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 I thought the Value Line binders were cool. Too bad the print subscription only sends you like 17 papers a month now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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