Selling off my books
Inspired by a friend’s similar idea, I went through my bookshelves and took down every book that I knew I’d never read again, never really liked to begin with, etc. I cleared off 220 books that way. Now I’d like to sell them. Before I take them to the Harvard Book Store, I’d like to offer them for sale to my friends. Say $1 for a mass-market paperback, $5 for a trade paperback, $10 for a hardcover and $30 for a textbook (plus the cost of shipping). All prices are negotiable, and of course I’ll be a good guy and mark down the price on any book whose quality isn’t up to snuff.
Since a lot of my readers know me already, I figure a lot of you trust me to peddle a good product and behave honorably when it’s bad. So go ahead, peruse the list (below the fold) and let me know if you’d like me to sell you any of my books.
| Author | Book title |
|---|---|
| Things Fall Apart | |
| Categorical Data Analysis | |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
| Getting Even | |
| Side Effects | |
| Information, The | |
| Nicomachean Ethics, The (translated by J.E.C. Weldon) | |
| Language Truth & Logic | |
| Fermata, The | |
| Puzzle Palace, The: Inside the National Security Agency, America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization | |
| Political Ideologies: Their Origins and Impact (5th Edition) | |
| Flaubert’s Parrot | |
| Country Under My Skin, The: A Memoir Of Love And War | |
| Adventures of Augie March, The | |
| Dangling Man | |
| Probability and Measure (3rd Edition) | |
| Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice | |
| Closing Of The American Mind, The | |
| Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | |
| Appearance and Reality: a Metaphysical Essay | |
| Guide To Simulation, A (2nd Edition) | |
| Bloom County | |
| Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness | |
| Bloom County Presents: The Night Of The Mary Kay Commandos (featuring Smell-o-Toons) | |
| Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things | |
| Politically, Fashionably and Aerodynamically Incorrect | |
| Tales Too Ticklish To Tell | |
| ‘Toons For Our Times | |
| Elements Of Typographic Style, The (version 2.4) | |
| Invisible Cities | |
| In Cold Blood | |
| Ender’s Game | |
| Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The | |
| Linear Programming | |
| Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell | |
| Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner: An Experimental Edition of Text and Revisions 1798-1828 | |
| Yale Shakespeare, The: The Complete Works | |
| Origin of Species, The | |
| Democracy In America (translated by George Lawrence, edited by J.P. Mayer) | |
| Crime and Punishment (translated by Constance Garnett) | |
| Name Of The Rose, The | |
| Complete Poems And Plays 1909-1950, The | |
| Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes | |
| Invisible Man | |
| Wretched Of The Earth, The | |
| Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century | |
| “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character | |
| “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures Of A Curious Character | |
| Statistical Methods, Experimental Design, and Scientific Inference | |
| Great Gatsby, The | |
| Madame Bovary | |
| Everything Is Illuminated | |
| Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The | |
| Corrections, The | |
| How To Be Alone | |
| Introduction to Analysis (2 copies) | |
| Classical Algebra (3rd Edition) | |
| Markov Chain Monte Carlo In Practice | |
| Sixties, The: Years Of Hope, Days Of Rage | |
| Words you Thought You Knew | |
| Time | |
| Theory and Application of the Linear Model | |
| In Search Of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality | |
| Fifties, The | |
| Reckoning, The | |
| Brief History Of Time, A: From The Big Bang To Black Holes | |
| XML In A Nutshell: A Quick Desktop Reference (2nd Edition) | |
| Glass Bead Game, The | |
| Man Who Loved Only Numbers, The | |
| Common Law, The | |
| Songbook | |
| Core Java Version 1.2, Volume 1 — Fundamentals | |
| Core Java Vol. II: Advanced Features | |
| Treatise of Human Nature, A | |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| Brave New World | |
| Pragmatism and The Meaning Of Truth | |
| Waiting | |
| Dubliners | |
| Dot and The Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics | |
| Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Beryl Logan, ed.) | |
| LSAT 180 | |
| LSAT (2004 Edition) | |
| Adaptation: The Shooting Script | |
| Introduction to Design & Analysis: A Student’s Handbook (2nd Edition) | |
| Basics of S and S-PLUS, The | |
| Great Unraveling, The: Losing Our Way In The New Century | |
| Namesake, The | |
| Foundations of Analysis (translated by F. Steinhardt) | |
| Cows of Our Planet: A Far Side Collection | |
| Far Side Gallery 2, The | |
| Far Side Observer, The | |
| In Search Of The Far Side | |
| Night Of The Crash-Test Dummies: A Far Side Collection | |
| America Is In Danger | |
| Wrinkle In Time, A | |
| The Future Of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons In a Connected World | |
| Crypto | |
| Hackers | |
| Gideon’s Trumpet | |
| Tooth Imprints On A Corn Dog | |
| Cascading Style Sheets: Designing For The Web | |
| Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter | |
| Florence | |
| Prague | |
| Linear and Nonlinear Programming (2nd Edition) | |
| Data Structures & Other Objects Using Java | |
| Natural, The | |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | |
| Oleanna | |
| Handy Sports Answer Book, The | |
| Of Human Bondage | |
| Wine For Dummies (2nd Edition) | |
| Generalized Linear Models (2nd Edition) | |
| John Adams | |
| Truman | |
| Atonement | |
| McSweeney’s 6 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit | |
| Crucible, The | |
| Death of a Salesman | |
| Law School Confidential | |
| Useless Sexual Trivia | |
| Watchmen | |
| Theodore Rex | |
| Towing Jehovah | |
| Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability With Solutions | |
| Topology: A First Course | |
| Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | |
| Severed Head, A | |
| Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited | |
| Bend In The River, A | |
| Birth Of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, The (translated by Clifton P. Fadiman) | |
| Wise Blood | |
| Finest News Reporting Volume One | |
| Our Dumb Century: 100 Years Of Headlines From America’s Finest News Service | |
| Homage to Catalonia | |
| Keep the Aspidistra Flying | |
| Subtle Is The Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein | |
| Doctor Zhivago | |
| Programming Windows (5th Edition) | |
| Censored 2000: The Year’s Top 25 Censored Stories | |
| Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | |
| Republic, The (translated by Desmond Lee) (2nd Edition) | |
| Sophist (translated by Seth Benardete) | |
| Theaetetus (translated by Robin A.H. Waterfield) | |
| Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Memo, Gorgias, Menexenus: The Dialogues Of Plato Vol. 1 (translated by R.E. Allen) | |
| Symposium: The Dialogues Of Plato Vol. 2 (translated by R.E. Allen) | |
| Democracy and the Market: Political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America | |
| Linux Shells By Example | |
| Philosophical Papers (edited by D.H. Mellor) | |
| British Political Process, The: Concentrated Power Versus Accountability | |
| Theory Of Justice, A | |
| Legislating Privacy: Technology, Values, and Social Policy | |
| All Quiet On The Western Front | |
| Even Cowgirls Get The Blues | |
| Émile | |
| Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago | |
| Satanic Verses, The | |
| Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, The, Vol. 1 | |
| Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, The, Vol. 2 | |
| Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, The, Vol. 3 | |
| Essay On The Foundations Of Geometry, An | |
| Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits | |
| Four-Color Problem, The: Assaults and Conquest | |
| Franny and Zooey | |
| Educating Eve: The `Language Instinct’ Debate | |
| Skipping Towards Gomorrah | |
| Analysis of Variance, The | |
| Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World | |
| Learning Perl (2nd Edition) | |
| Barrel Fever | |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | |
| Naked | |
| Falling Up | |
| Light In The Attic, A | |
| Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book: A Primer For Adults Only | |
| What Kind Of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States | |
| Jungle, The | |
| White Teeth | |
| Two Cultures, The | |
| One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (translated by H.T. Willetts) | |
| World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (2nd Edition) | |
| Snow Crash | |
| History Of Statistics, The: The Measurement Of Uncertainty Before 1900 | |
| Arcadia | |
| Sophie’s Choice | |
| Republic.com | |
| Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works, A | |
| Computer Networks (3rd Edition) | |
| Civil Disobedience and Other Essays | |
| How To Behave: A Guide To Modern Manners For The Socially Challenged | |
| Fellowship of the Ring, The | |
| Return of the King, The | |
| Two Towers, The | |
| Doonesbury’s Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue | |
| People’s Doonesbury, The: Notes From Underfoot | |
| Applied Combinatorics (2nd Edition) | |
| Rabbit, Run | |
| Statistical Abstract Of The United States 1996 | |
| Vintage Contemporaries Reader, The | |
| Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, and Seminar Papers | |
| Brief Interviews With Hideous Men | |
| Girl With Curious Hair | |
| Double Helix, The | |
| Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, The | |
| Calvin and Hobbes | |
| Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book, The | |
| Something Under The Bed Is Drooling | |
| Weirdos from Another Planet! | |
| Yukon, Ho! | |
| Applied Linear Regression (2nd Edition) | |
| Massive Swelling, A: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations | |
| To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History | |
| Biophilia: The human bond with other species | |
| Professor and the Madman, The | |
| Philosophical Investigations | |
| Blue Note Jazz Photographs | |
| Guinness Book of World Records 1997 | |
| Total books | 220 |
You’re going to sell Eliot? And isn’t the Blue Note photo book a gift from your brother?
Comment by j wreezy — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
How could you sell your Larry Lessig book?
Comment by Adam Rosi-Kessel — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
Isn’t that the Classical Algebra (3rd Edition) that your great grandfather gave you before succumbing to a debilitating euchre injury?
Comment by chris r — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
j wreezy: I’m selling Eliot because I’m trying to pare down my book collection to what’s absolutely essential, and Eliot isn’t, really.
Adam Rosi-Kessel: A friend bought me a signed paperback copy of Lessig’s book, so I’m selling off the hardcover copy that I bought.
chris r: My family still speaks of that euchre injury the same way we speak of ‘women getting the vote’ and ‘the dropsy’.
Comment by Steve Laniel — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
Do you think there is a chance you’re going to regret some of these book sales years from now the same way you regret selling most of your music collection years ago?
Comment by agerard — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
It’s highly doubtful that I’ll regret them. For one thing, I’m keeping my all-time favorites (Bellow’s Herzog and Mr. Sammler’s Planet will never leave my collection). For another, I get all my books now from the library, and I have thoroughly kicked the book-buying habit: I go into stores now, browse, find books that interest me, then get them out of the library.
I’m thinking of selling off my CDs, too, now that I have them all on MP3, but that’s tantamount to piracy and I probably won’t do it.
Comment by Steve Laniel — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
It ain’t nothin’ but a thang, but I bet you would have said this about the Pearl Jam and Led Zeppelin CDs you sold years ago, as well.
Just looking out for you. But I’m sure this is all for the best.
Comment by agerard — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
Ahem. He did. And on finding out that you no longer consider Eliot to be essential, Spammo: “After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”
Comment by j wreezy — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am
“I go into stores now, browse, find books that interest me, then get them out of the library.“
Wait, is that illegal file sharing? I’m confused. How will the record companies make a profit?
Comment by chris r — January 1, 1970 @ 8:00 am