Once or twice, like any person who buys and occasionally sells books, I have found a book on my shelves that I did not know I had. But only once have I found a really valuable one that I had no recollection of buying, and still don’t. It happened about two “book culls” past, when …
Tag: Book collecting
Road Books
My thesis for years has been that there are three great 1950’s “Road” books. Two are obvious to the literate: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The other may be MORE obvious to naturalists, many of whom miss one or the other of the first two; Wild America, by Roger Tory Peterson …