Big huge book give-away.

[veek.livejournal.com]

I have books to give away. I want to get them out of my house as soon as possible. Have at the list, first come first serve, I'll be happy to leave the books on my porch clearly labeled. I live at 35 Kidder Ave, corner of Powderhouse Terrace, a purple house that's a 5-7-minute walk from the T.

I'll be going out to run errands around noon to 1pm, but otherwise will be checking for replies regularly and updating as situation warrants. Once I've replied to your comment, you can assume that the books are available for you to pick up on the porch.

(ETA 7:15pm: I'm editing the list down to just the books that haven't been taken, for ease of reading.)

Sorry, I might have misspelled something (or multiple somethings), and I know I'm missing some accents in there, but it's a long list, you know? Also, apologies in advance – there may be a couple of crossed signals somewhere, so if you don't get the book you thought was available, I'm genuinely sorry. Trying to keep it all as straight as possible.

Fiction, Comics, Poetry, Theatre (in English)

The Award Avant-Garde reader.
Alessandro Baricco. Silk.
John D'Agata. Halls of Fame.
John Grisham. The Client.


Food

Main Line Classics II (cookbook)
Virginia T. Habeeb. Pita the Great.
A flavor of Provence.
Fine Cooking, Aug/Sep 1998
Dorothy Hartley. Food in England.
Everyman Guides. Restaurants of Paris.


Computers, New Media, Digital Humanities

Dave Mark. Macworld Ultimate Mac Programming. 1994.
Hocks and Kendrick, eds. Eloquent Images. Review copy (scribbles by me)
State of the Arts: The proceedings of the Electronic Literature Organization's 2002 State of the Arts Symposium & 2001 Electronic Literature Awards.
The Inform Designer's Manual. 4th ed.


Film and Theatre

Frank Burke. Fellini's Films.
C.M. Tonetti. Bernardo Bertolucci. [A biography on crack.]
S. Stanton and M. Banham. Cambridge paperback guide to theatre
S. Golub. The recurrence of fate: Theatre & memory in 20th century Russia.
C. Costantini, ed. Conversations with Fellini.
Pierre Sorlin. Italian national cinema 1896-1996


Languages

Publications of the Modern Language Association: 10+11/2004, 1+3/2005, 1+3/2006 (Each month listed is a separate issue)
McKeachie. Teaching Tips. 9th ed.


Humanities

Wolfgang Iser. How to do theory.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration on the Dignity of Man.
Duchartre. The Italian Comedy.
Althusser. Lenin and philosophy.
Bassett/Fogelman. Looking at European Sculpture
Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 5th ed.


Museum Books and Travel

Huge museum hardback: The Collection, from the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna
Tourist books: the Canterbury Cathedral; the Sistine Chapel; Venice (in Russian); Rome (in Italian)
Venice & the Veneto. Eyewitness travel guide.
Museum book: L'Alte Pinakothek di Monaco. Lots of images. Commentary and image summaries in Italian.


Books in italian

Severgnini: Un italiano in America
Il meglio del teatro di Pirandello
Pirandello: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore; Ciascuno a suo modo; Questa sera si recita a soggetto
Pirandello: L'umorismo. Saggi.
Goldoni. La locandiera.
Guccini. Croniche epafaniche.
Vamba. Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca. (children's book)
Carlo Rossetti. I tranelli dell'inglese.
Dante. Vita Nuova.
Sellerio. Atti del processo di Giordano Bruno.
Gian Pietro Brunetta. Cent'anni del cinema italiano. (2 vols.)
Italo Svevo. La coscienza di Zeno.
Sibilla Aleramo. Una donna.
Marina Polacco. L'intertestualità.
Sergio Zatti. Il modo epico.


Etc

Assia Djebar. So vast the prison.
John Marks. The search for the "Manchurian Candidate."

Comments

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

If you can't find a taker for your art books as singular entities, I could perhaps use them for collage.

[veek.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to claim them now; I'm looking to get rid of everything as soon as possible. Are you able to pick them up today?

My favorite book of all time? Yes, please :)

[pensivewombat.livejournal.com]

Could i go on ahead and put dibs on your copy of House of Leaves? i'll come by in the afternoon to pick it up - would that be A-OK?

Re: My favorite book of all time? Yes, please :)

[veek.livejournal.com]

Yes! Particularly glad this one will be going to a loving house. :) I'll leave it in a plastic bag, with a post-it with your username on the book.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I'd like the Betty Crocker and the Italian (as in learn to speak it, not written in) books. I can come by most any time but mid-afternoon today.

[veek.livejournal.com]

They're on the porch now. Make sure you take the right bag! Your name's on a sticky note inside.

[rax.livejournal.com]

Things I would take if available:

Italo Calvino (several books): Il cavaliere inesistente; Palomar; Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore; Il visconte dimezzato; Lezioni americane
Mandelbaum/Oldcorn/Ross. Lectura Dantis: Inferno A canto-by-canto commentary.
Bernice/Glatzer/Rosenthal, eds. The occult in Russian and Soviet culture.
Dante. Inferno/Purgatorio/Paradiso, bilingual, tr. Allen Mandelbaum. Scribbles by me.

I'm down the street, so it's a trivial pickup for me.

[veek.livejournal.com]

They're on the porch now. Make sure you take the right bag! Your name's on a sticky note inside.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Indo-European roots. OMG. Want.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

(I, of course, live practically around the corner from you, and my husband is liable to be out for a walk in the early afternoon.)

[veek.livejournal.com]

*laughs* All yours. On the porch now. Make sure you take the right bag! Your name's on a sticky note inside

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

Darn! :)

[blinkidybah.livejournal.com]

O snap. Could we get:


Richards/Lockhart. Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms
Lightbown and Spada How languages are learned.
Abrams Discoveries. The Age of Shakespeare.
Hawthorn. A concise glossary of contemporary literary theory.

gothic_hamlet will come pick them up :)

[veek.livejournal.com]

They're on the porch now. Make sure you take the right bag! Your name's on a sticky note inside. :)

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

Hi! Could you set aside for me:

Spiegel. Romancing the past: the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France.
Cavallo. The Romance epics of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso.
Michael Barry. Recipes from the great houses [of Britain]
Lubensky/Ervin/Jarvis. Nachalo ("Beginning"), Book I (Russian learning course)

Thank you very much! I'll be by this afternoon to get them. Yay!

[veek.livejournal.com]

They're on the porch now. Make sure you take the right bag! Your name's on a sticky note inside.

[studeronomy.livejournal.com]

Could I claim both books by Deleuze and Guattari, if they are still available? I can stop by this afternoon or early evening. Thanks!

[veek.livejournal.com]

They're on the porch now. Make sure you take the right bag! Your name's on a sticky note inside.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

could i claim:
Abrams Discoveries. Leonardo da Vinci -- The mind of the Renaissance
Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Fellini on Fellini.
Favorite Cotswold Recipes.

(hereby betraying to all my humanities background ;)

[veek.livejournal.com]

They're on the porch now. Make sure you take the right bag! Your name's on a sticky note inside.

[dakotakym.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to have these, though I won't be in Somerville til tomorrow morning.
(I'm the one who initiated the kombucha madness, in case you don't recognize me.)

Spiritual Midwifery.
Chaisson. Universe: an evolutionary approach to astronomy.
John Loughery The other side of silence.
Robert Pinsky. The Want Bone.
Anne Carson. Autobiography of Red.
Primo Levi. If not now, when?

[dakotakym.livejournal.com]

On second thought, also:

Jack Kerouac & Joyce Johnson. Door Wide Open. (their correspondence)
Finke & Shichtman, eds. Medieval texts & contemporary readers.

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

alas, the Primo Levi has already been claimed :( chaiya also wants it.

as for me, i'd like the 13x9 pan cookbook. please!

thanks,
-steve

[veek.livejournal.com]

Going out to the porch right now. :)

[fader-mcgee.livejournal.com]

I'd like to take the Pasolini and the Italian poets, if they're still there.
Also, the Hahn, and the English and the French/English dictionaries.

And my girlfriend wants
Francesco Cesati. The Medici
Peter Burke. The Italian Renaissance
and the Kathy Acker and the Pampered Chef if they're still available.
I'm just down the street from you, so I can come by any time and pick them up.

(by the way, have you tried BookMooch? Great way to unload books, the only trouble is you get new ones to replace them...)

[veek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not so much into the replacing bit. :) This is all part of a project wherein I reduce my possessions by a third, by volume. Not counting the couch and the bed and things like that. I'm glad to say, it's going pretty well!

You two want so many books, they're in *two* bags! On the porch right now, with your username on a sticky note inside each bag. They are the two bags hanging off either side of the porch chair (as opposed to laying on the seat of the chair). Thanks for taking them, and enjoy!

[maelithil.livejournal.com]

God, looking at the list of Italian books remaining is like being in my senior year of high school all over again . All the cool books are gone and you're left with Svevo and Goldoni. And Pirandello. God how I hated Pirandello.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Actually, I love all of them, particularly Pirandello. :) I just don't want to own these books anymore.

[entrope.livejournal.com]

Could I take:

McKeachie, Teaching Tips
Bassett/Fogelman. Looking at European Sculpture
Abrams. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 5th ed.
Huge museum hardback: The Collection, from the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna

I can come by sometime today. Thank you!

[veek.livejournal.com]

Hanging off the side of the porch chair, with your name on a sticky note inside!

If you're potentially interested in random other stuff, I'll be making another post within an hour. :)

[studeronomy.livejournal.com]

I know I came by yesterday and picked up books (and thanks soooo much for doing this!), but if the Althusser (Lenin and Philosophy) and the Abrams (Glossary of Literary Terms) are still available, I'd love to have those, too! I didn't read the list carefully enough the first time. I can stop by this afternoon.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Abrams is taken, but the Althusser is all yours. I'll put it out in mere minutes.

Also, I've made up a list of non-book stuff I'd like to give away, and will post it as soon as I format it properly. :)

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Silk by Barrico?

Because it is really treacherous out, could I possible pick it up tomorrow instead?

[veek.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, particularly since I'm at work and can't leave it out for you until tonight. :)