B drove and J and I rode along on the beautiful day in Amish Country of Ohio. The conversation was fun and we laughed quite a bit. We brought our lunches and ate at a picnic table outside of Heini's Cheese Chalet. I bought some fabric for making painting canvasses, handkerchiefs, kitchen towels, and one jumper. I bought a small wine glass and a vase for using in still lifes. But, it is the books that took up the most room! I was specifically looking for books on Spanish language, writing, and art. I was amazed that I actually found some of everything, plus some. The "plus some" was not all that surprising.
Here is a list of the books that I gratefully brought home:
Art
Mastering the Art of Watercolor
by Wendy Jelbert and Ian Sidaway
256 pages, large, heavy paperback
like new, beautiful color photos
$.50
Picasso, Life and Art
by Pierre Daix
450 pages, large hardback
very good, some b&w photos
$2.00
Landscapes of His Grace: A Visual Devotional
Written and photographed by Charles Stanley
224 pages, heavy hardback with dust cover
like new, beautiful full page color photos
$1.00
Doodle, Draw, Journal: An Art Journaling Workbook
198 pages, paperback
good, highly illustrated with drawings
$2.00
Cover to Cover: Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals, and Albums
by Shereen LaPlantz
144 pages, paperback
good, b&w and color photos
$1.50
Using Calligraphy: Layout and Design Ideas
by Alan Furber
128 pages, paperback
good, b&W photos
$2.00
Writing
The Writer's Home Companion: An Anthology of the World's Best Writing Advice from Keats to Kunitz.
Edited by Joan Bolker
269 pages, paperback
very good, some charts and manuscript pages
$1.00
Writing Life: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature.
by Bill Roorbach
218 pages, hardback with dust jacket
very good, no illustrations
$2.00
Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers, Fourth Edition
486 pages, clothbound hardback
good, technical reference
$1.00
How to Write a Children's Book and Get it Published
by Barbara Seuling
214 pages, hardback
like new, few illustrations
$1.00
Spain/Spanish
Toledo: History, Color, and Art
Prologue by Gregorio Maranon Moyo
63 pages, paperback, printed in Spain
good, beautiful color photos and a large fold-out map
$.25
Food in Spain (International Food Library)
32 pages, hardback, children's book
good, lovely color photos
$.25
Conversational Spanish
by Walter A. Dobrian
315 pages, b&w photos
good, hardback textbook
$1.50
Spain (National Geographic Traveler Series)
400 pages, thick and heavy paperback
like new, beautiful color photos
$.50
Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionaries (Four)
The University of Chicago, paperback $1.25
Cassell's, paperback $.25
Merriam-Webster's, paperback $.25
Websters, paperback $.10
Set of four beautifully bound hardback classic books in Spanish
La Hija Del Capitan by A. S. Pushkin
El Hombre y La Tierra
Hamlet by Shakespeare
El Papa Verde by Miguel Angel Asturias
very good, small
$.50 each
Just Because
Selections, translated and adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Barbara Cohen
Beautifully illustrated by Trina Schart Human
88 pages, hardback, ex-library
$.25
The American Heritage Book of Great Adventures of the Old West
384 pages, hardback with dust jacket
good, generously illustrated
$3.50
Little Men
by Louisa May Alcott
349 pages, clothbound hardback
good, illustrated
$2.50
My Life in France
by Julia Child
349 pages, paperback
good, illustrated
$1.50
Tales from the West of Ireland
by Sean Henry
93 pages, small paperback, published in Ireland
good, no illustrations
$.10
Dear Laura: Letters from Children to Laura Ingalls Wilder
152 pages, hardback, ex-library
good, beautifully illustrated
$1.50
Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
Well-loved paperbacks
$3.50 total
Two of the Narnia books by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy
The Last Battle
One is well-loved, the other is like new
$3.50 total
The Shepherd's Castle
by George McDonald
281 pages, paperback
good, no illustrations
$2.00
Berlitz German Phrasebook
192 pages, small paperback
very good, no illustrations
$.50
I am assuming anyone who is reading this blog is a book-lover, like me, and would find this list interesting. Someday, when I get around to reading some from this list, I may do some reviews.
Have you read any of these? If so, please let me know what you thought of them.
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