Medlem: dkathman

feliz TG!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:42 am (EST) Nov 26, 2009

hey that's my line!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:35 pm (EST) Nov 20, 2009

Found it on ABE. This is the 1905 Maclehouse-Glasgow edition. Unannotated, but who'd ever sign up to annotate something that long? AMS reprinted this edition in the 1960s, but that reprint seems even scarcer than the former. Anyway, cost me an arm and a leg, but it sure looks nice on the shelves. Wonder whether I'll ever make my way through the entire set. ABE has a few other of these sets listed, but I chose one of the cheapest.

Purchas isn't as focused on actual voyages as Hakluyt, especially in the earlier volumes, and has lots of Raleigh-esque world-history commentary. But sumptuous nevertheless.

inlägg gjort av jfclark vid 10:55 am (EST) Oct 24, 2009

odd story-- i actually got it by accident... when i saw it on the remainder list i was thinking it was mcwhorter's Our Magnif Bastard Tongue, and only realized my mistake later. however it does look interesting anyway...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 1:16 pm (EST) Oct 22, 2009

i hate the 1975 cincinatti reds...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 9:47 am (EST) Sep 20, 2009

nope - its been in my tbr stack for months [at least its not filed away!] but keeps getting bumped by other stuff. sigh... if only i had two heads....

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:11 am (EST) Aug 9, 2009

The Horse The Wheel and Language!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:30 pm (EST) Aug 8, 2009

Dave,

I've noticed you're pretty diligent about listing your books--I wish I was. I've several thousand books in my collection, but have only listed 237 of them so far. I really like the concept, but have yet to summon the energy necessary to make full use of it. I hope you had an enjoyable and productive trip to England. It looks like you picked up a number of interesting books.

Clark

inlägg gjort av cjh5801 vid 9:18 pm (EST) Jul 27, 2009

hmmmm... betram joseph... hows that book?
and hey, you bought a book i sell! the posner...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:26 pm (EST) Jun 7, 2009

oy!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:35 pm (EST) Jun 5, 2009

What an interesting school project. China your potential opponent that many years ago. Had an unreal moment 8 years ago when I heard a twin ask her brother..what are you playing (about 5 or 6 years old), "World War III". Pokeman influence ? Where did this come from.

What really interests me about the book is how many things he anticipated in detail that did not concern war.For example, detailed explanation of how the USSR was imploding...5 years in advance.

Not to belabor this.

inlägg gjort av carterchristian1 vid 9:11 pm (EST) May 28, 2009

I see that you too have just added Third World War. What did you think of it

inlägg gjort av carterchristian1 vid 10:38 pm (EST) May 16, 2009

Where did you acquire your copy of "The English Alehouse, a social history 1200-1830" ?

inlägg gjort av Carolynemurphy vid 9:42 am (EST) May 9, 2009

oooh! 3rd reich @ war! ive been watching for a good price. i read the first two and was very impressed.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 9:02 pm (EST) Mar 24, 2009

yeesh, yeah i meant No Bed for Bacon. Stoppard and his cowriter deny its influence-- who knows. In a way its closer to Blackadder II than to Sh in Love.

That Henry IV book is on a remainder list im looking at [the imnport] and i was wondron if i shd spend $4 on it. i think i will. tnx

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:35 pm (EST) Mar 24, 2009

in the last year or so ive been less able to track what academic stuff is coming out. i need to check out the u del site for one thing. ive put halio in my amazon cart. tnx for the tip.

have you ever read A Bed for Bacon? if not, itd be a hoot for you i think. many historical inaccuracies as the author admits, but still.

i'm about to look up and see if you have the Ian Mortimer book on Henry IV. if you do, any thoughts?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:20 pm (EST) Mar 24, 2009

i mean med-lit not edlit

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 9:40 pm (EST) Mar 20, 2009

no manning. contribs surnames: eska, hoenigswald, k h schmidt, stempel, c watkins, sims-wms, bhaldraithe, o cuiv, ahlqvist, l joseph, nagy, slotkin, tymoczko, radner, melia, bosch, gillies, dorian, t a watkins, p mac cana, gruffydd, c a mckenna, matonis, p k ford, klar, loesch. caerwym wms, le du.
i know of ford, sims-wms and caerwyn wms from welsh lit studies, and a couple other names might be familiar [mckenna? nagy?].

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:59 pm (EST) Mar 18, 2009

that hamp fetschrift has a lot of interesting stuff in it, though of course some of it is way over my head, linguistically. i bet yr powells has it, coz i got it from powells wholesale.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 6:40 am (EST) Mar 18, 2009

thanks. i'm chipping away at it again, but now i gotta do SAA homework!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 9:45 pm (EST) Mar 14, 2009

somehow i missed yr march 4 and 5 books too. looks like some good stuff. i was looking up that Coryate -- any comments? and i guess the House of Wisdom is a new release?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 6:21 am (EST) Mar 10, 2009

that's the 1966 AMS reprint i was telling you about. i bet powells has it for $100, though i got it for half that thru work...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:05 am (EST) Feb 22, 2009

yeah that's the imnpression i got of it from the catalog copy. i just got one as a remainder here for the crackpot/humor value. tnx for the reviews!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:45 pm (EST) Jan 30, 2009

you know this book?
http://www.librarything.com/work/4959561

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:58 pm (EST) Jan 30, 2009

Thanks for your quick, informative reply. The Douglas book is definitely on my TBR list for this year. I know of a local library where it's available. Are you enjoying our Chi area winter?

inlägg gjort av historianwannabe vid 1:08 pm (EST) Jan 27, 2009

I'm digging your Norman History library. You've got a great colleion about that time period. Just a quick question: how is the David C. Douglas book "William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England"? I've read that it's more of a popular history, which doesn't bother me. Would you agree?

inlägg gjort av historianwannabe vid 10:18 am (EST) Jan 27, 2009

ah, and i see you knocked off another one of my singletons w/ yr richard southern!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:08 pm (EST) Jan 21, 2009

just saw this on a thread on the Medieval Europe group on LT:
---------------
Ladurie's good for readability but not so good for historical accuracy.

Supposedly he took information contained in the
Inquisitorial records about other villages and applied it to Montaillou.
He was able to paint a much fuller picture of the village than he would
have been able to otherwise.

You can find more on this from Leonard Boyle's, "Montaillou
Revisited: Mentalite and Methodology," in _Pathways to Medieval Peasants_, ed. J. Ambrose Raftis (Toronto, 1981), pp. 119-40.
---------------------------------

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 1:54 pm (EST) Jan 18, 2009

as to bowers dekker you can get a decent set of 4 ex-lib for a little over 200. or it appears cambridge is abt to issue em in pb for $50 a shot.
hoy's commentary to em is scarcer but cambridge is also pb'ing those un 2009, abt $35 ea...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:57 pm (EST) Jan 14, 2009

ooh-- higham! he's on the road from dumville to green. i hope youre not disappointed in green. he has a flaw in that he repeats the same info in diff formulations, then sums up, more points, re-sums, then sums up his various summing... you find yrself muttering 'i know i know, you jusr told me'. that being said his style is ok and his structure is good and arguments are careful...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:50 pm (EST) Jan 14, 2009

thanks- ive just glanced at it so far but it looks fairly thorough [for something on that scale] and up-to-date. they cite david dumville, the leader of the anti-historical-arthur squad and also list tom green's concepts of arthur which just came out in 2007. i like the idea of a historical arthur-- its one of the things that drew me towards arthurian studies but dumville is pretty sharp and green's book is pretty convincing. green shows [building on others] that for centuries all the earliest welsh lit, refs, poetry depict the figure of arthur as a folkloric/mythical 'protector of britain', akin to finn macool in ireland, or a bear-figure not unlike arcturus; and in the 9th century the author of the historia britonnum conflated that figure with the ambrosian saxon-resistance narrative of gildas; but aside from works directly influenced by the HB, arthur continued as a folkloric protector in celtic areas, even post-geoffrey in some places. green et al like arthur[etc] too -- theyre just realistic about the value of the source material. on the Arthurnet listserv there are several hardcore 'historicals' who just gnaw the subject to death and Hate dumville and they remind me not a little of the antistrats sometimes...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:59 pm (EST) Jan 11, 2009

you book nut!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 2:14 am (EST) Jan 11, 2009

do you know this book? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:27 pm (EST) Jan 10, 2009

hi dr. kathman - do you know if 'Elizabethan handwriting, 1500-1650 : a guide to the reading of documents' phillimore, 1981 is the same book as 'Elizabethan handwriting, 1500-1650 : a manual' norton, 1966 ? it seems to be 14 pp longer. i wonder if its a revision of 1966 or a whole other approach to the subj... tnx

the cheese and the worms!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 1:22 pm (EST) Jan 9, 2009

thanks-- we now co-list alan's reed cambrdige...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:04 pm (EST) Jan 1, 2009

since youre right there i'll follow up on this... would you be willing to insert the middle initial H in the authors name for your listing of alan nelsons Cambridge REED? then it could be combined with my copy. i ask becasue the Plain Ole alan nelson page may not be combined wit the alan h nelson page, as the former has more than one person named alan nelson on it...

i'm now off work till jan 12 and will be putting my saa paper together over the next 2 wks. started reading the new mardie this a.m. but havnet got to longs revu yet...
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inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:41 pm (EST) Dec 31, 2008

harpo new yr!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:24 pm (EST) Dec 31, 2008

that's quite an economical, and high quality, haul! four ShSu's!
and montaillou! i had forgotten that book-- i read it in 1989 [i usually cant pin the date down like that but in this i recall it was just after i started with olssons and i was at that location from 1988-1990]. i just went to find my copy but it is gone! though i do have the same author's Carnival in Romans and i can see by looking at it that i only got about 2/5's of the way thru it, right after i finished montaillou. i shd get another copy...
whats the name of yr hole in the wall shop? btw, i combined politics of unease so now it shows we both have it...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:54 pm (EST) Dec 27, 2008

aha-- yer combining now, huh? good...
actually i wd have combined that this eve... i enter about 15 books then go back and 'fix' the authors and editions [i combine variant listing of authors too], and i had Just entered that book. so you saved me the work! tnx
you see our # of books in common is well over 400 now [and im closing in on the big "3"]

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 4:42 pm (EST) Dec 26, 2008

ho ho ho!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:38 am (EST) Dec 24, 2008

daoud dwd-- i managed to snag a mardie 08 from amazon for 35+sh!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 6:30 am (EST) Dec 18, 2008

dwd- my sh q listing is up; cut n paste [ n edit ] if you like.
-dwd

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:42 pm (EST) Nov 30, 2008

as always no hurry; just reminding...

maybe i'll do my ShQ's later this weekend. i'm going to have to slow down on LT in order to speed up on SAA; but i have a vague goal of trying to get thru more or less All my Sh/RenDram material before i calla temporary halt, which is about another dozen shelves or so; not even gonna touch medievel or resto dram, let alone other categories til after paper firmed up. when was the deadline gonna be- feb?

and Where Did You Get a copy of John Jeffrey's Life and Work of Philip Rosseter?????? ive looked hi and low on all the bk sites for year and finally had to xerox it at the folger. [or wait-- did you send me a xerox of yours? my brain cells are dryin up] right now im crankin on rosseter and his probable patronage network, since it was his patent that perry more or less took over. itll be an appendix to the SAA paper. i suspect i'll have a 10 page paper and 50 pages of different appendices! which people can ignore if they want, thereby getting me under the page limitation. ive found some records online [recent research somebody posted] that confirm some of my suspicions about PR's connexions. i'm drawing up a family tree and chronology for him and i'll send you that and a copy of that other guy's research [which i think you'll find interesting] vaguely soon.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 6:24 pm (EST) Nov 29, 2008

ive finished 'detailing' my entry for RORD. you may find it convenient to cutnpaste parts for yr entry...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:56 am (EST) Nov 28, 2008

happy TG

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:15 pm (EST) Nov 26, 2008

actually it was mardie 2 i was thinking of when i said Classic. not only does it have ingram's whitefriars piece, it also has cerasano's playhouse as an inventment and long's a bed for woodstock, as well as many other interesting things. volume 1 does have berry's globe bewitched [and other good stuff] though.
and its actually 6 and 11, not 4 and 11 i need. and 4 has mcmillin's seven deadly sins...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:39 pm (EST) Nov 25, 2008

i went into 2 or 3 bookshops in charing cross rd when i was in london with my ex in 1987 [86? 88?] but i cdnt tell you which ones. i know i bought one of my bowers' bnf's there. at this point i'm not sure if i'll ever get over there again unless circumstances change...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 7:48 pm (EST) Nov 25, 2008

old MARDIES-- #1 at least is a real classic...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:19 pm (EST) Nov 25, 2008

and of course those 5 stars for our elusive willy were ironic... probably negative 5 stars wd be better...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:40 am (EST) Nov 24, 2008

*Bacon and Shakespeare on Vivisection*???
As it happens i have wadsworths book in my amazon cart on your previous recommendation-- about $5.50 including shipping.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:00 pm (EST) Nov 23, 2008

for what its worth here's my [probably complete] Auntie [& pro] Strat tag. mostly run of the mill but a few unusual items i think

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 4:20 pm (EST) Nov 22, 2008

theres a book call Sh as groom of the chamber?

see these
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:15 am (EST) Nov 22, 2008

when you have a moment check out cyril tourneur's author page.

maybe youll do 2600 at the same time i do 2222....

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 4:58 pm (EST) Nov 21, 2008

LLTQ

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 6:15 am (EST) Nov 18, 2008

ive fixed the Rene Weis now. you go to the rene weis author page and theres a link that says combine editions.
one lodger is the paperback galley [arc], the other is the 'real' hardback copy.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:42 pm (EST) Nov 17, 2008

hmmm- i dont have lewis-sh docs--- theres only one on LT and it aint mine...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:30 am (EST) Nov 17, 2008

oh, right... it's over in my Sh bio etc [includes strat-antistrat] shelves which i havent got to yet...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:35 pm (EST) Nov 16, 2008

ive fixed the friedman ciphers listing so we shd [soon] show as sharers. i had to first combine authors, as some of them were listed under just him and others on a separate author page under them, and yet a third under a tangled variant of them. once they were all under the same author, then i cd combine the title listings. ive gotten pretty good at combining authors and titles. some cases though are hopeless. imaginary example: King Leir - some may list it with no author, some as Anon, some under editor A, some Editor B, some editor C. there's no [proper] way to combine those onto one author page [which is the key] and without a unified author page, title combining cant proceed. supposedly theyre going to improve all this eventually.

i have just way too many LPs, cassettes and CDs to envision listing them here, unless i hit the number and can retire. [i managed a record store for 10 yrs before i switched to bookstores, and olssons was a combination book and music store.] so eventually i will probably list CDs of music roughly 1450-1650 as it ties in with the dominant theme of my book library, and many of them of course feature texts [lyrics] by shakspere, campion, etal, or tunes referred to in plays. and i'll also list spoken word CDs, which i consider to be actual books transmuted.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:12 am (EST) Nov 16, 2008

so is there a webgroup for invented languages? esperanto is essentially an indo-european language in mosts respects i assume, tho a hybrid. but i'm guessing klingon was made to structurally resemble no 'earthly' language? how abt your language?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:16 pm (EST) Nov 15, 2008

phew! now you gots ta go BUY more to get over 2600! outline of history, huh? i have my dad's old copy. not very fasha-nobble no more. i wonder if it's been translated into klingon?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:08 am (EST) Nov 15, 2008

i read the foundation trilogy and liked it, though it was probably around 1975; and its 3 of only about a dozen scifi things ive read. i see you have the ruth noel book on tolkiens languages. in the 'field' that is now considered to be inaccurate and wrongheaded. nowadays theres a controversey in the tolkien scholar/fan community about his languages between those who want to study the languages as they exist in his texts published and unpublished and those who want to be able to speak elvish; and the two groups divide somewhat along the scholar vs fan line, with the latter wanting to speak what is now called 'neo-elvish'. the problem, you may know, is that jrrt never fleshed his linguistic inventions out as fullfledged languages, but rather at half a dozen different times over a 60 year period worked up [unfinished] glossaries and grammars, and wrote texts mostly poems and songs, in elvish to be imbedded in his tales. but his conception of his languages,and the rules and vocalbulary changed each time he worked on it, because he was doing more for his own pleasure than in order to actually created a fullblown language. and so the folks who want to speak elvish have to [forcefully] yoke together different conceptual layers [from 1917, 1930, 1952, 1970, e.g.] and invent *words so that they can have conversations etc. there are some very clever and industrious people who have websites for neo-elvish and books [e.g. A Gateway to Sindarin] but the position of most tolkien scholars [the 'Tolkien Studies' set] is that it may be fun to do but its not tolkien - albeit ISNOIRED by tolkien; for one thing neo-elvish is much more regular than a real language would be because they have to deduce rules from what already exists and then extrapolate from there for new rules and new vocab. there are 2 or 3 scholarly periodicals devoted to studying Quenya and Noldarin and Sindarin as jrrt left them, and in most issues they include a short unpublished text from the tolkien archives. [as much extra stuff as theyve published in the 10 vol History of Middle Earth theres till a ton of unpublished stuff.] i have one of the scholarly linguistic periodicals but i have to admit its too thick in heavy linguistics for me.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:40 pm (EST) Nov 11, 2008

it's a little tricky tying down which of my books are devecmon's--often the only way to tell is to find his loopy-handwritten notes in a book as he usually didnt owner-name them. so sometimes i think a book might have been his becasue i remember buying it from the same store at about the same time and its the sort of thing he would have had. he did sign his copy of Greenwood's Ben Jonson and 'Shakepeare'; and a couple WJ Lawrence books have his notes; but aside from the ShSoc stuff his neatest things are a copy of An Apology for the Believers [1797] and a copy of his own In Re Sh's Legal Acquirments which he had rebound with blank pages interleaved and added lots of corrections and other annotations.
i need to get a copy of Sh & his betters-- i THINK thats the book i read back in high school when i was first getting into shakespeare because it was one of the odd selection Sh books my local public library had. or am i confusing it with The Sh Claimants?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:12 am (EST) Nov 11, 2008

its not the complete sh soc publications but its most of them...i got them in i think the mid-80s... the local used bk chain 2nd story bks apparently got a bunch of things from the library of baltimore attorney William C Devecmon author of 'In Re Shakespeare's Legal Acquiredments: Notes by an Unbeliever Therein' [1899] a reply of sorts to Lord Campbell's 'Sh's Legal Acquirements Considered' [1859]. Devecmon's book is quoted in one of the variorums-- M4M i think or maybe MV. anyways, being in baltimore he was kinda local and i think someone else mustve had a lot of his library between his demise and 2ns story getting it-- but the upshot was i got a dozen or more different Sh things of his from them, a lot of it outdated turn of the century stuff but some of it nice.... and the crown jewel was Devecmons almost complete set of the Sh Soc papers, which unfortunately are in not real good condition, many of them haveing lost their spines and a couple more or less disbound-- but all still usable, AND before Devecmon they had belonged to Sh Soc member Wm Durrant Cooper [so WDC to WCD] who edited the RoisterDoister/Gorboduc volume for the society. most of these have Cooper's bookplate and or signature in them, usually both; a number of them have notes by cooper and or devecmon in them AND one of them had a letter from John Payne Collier to Cooper pasted into it! the letter i long ago gently detached from the book, put it between two small sheets of glass, sealed the edges and keep it from diredt sun. kinda neat though there's nothing remarkable about the letter. collier mentions where he is on a couple projects, sends regards to coopers ma and sis and thats pretty much it. if you were doing a micro study of colliers progress on certain things he edited it might be useful, but...
therell be a collier tag and a WDC tag and a WCD tag... these all overlap much but not all, as i have some other collier related stuff and some other things from Devecmons liberry. well, i guess all the cooper stuff is also devcemon stuff but its not all collier stuff...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:25 pm (EST) Nov 10, 2008

i dont really consider myself an autograph hound-- i dont go for them in any other area--well, i'm pleased to have signed copies of novels by a handful of novelists i admire like richard russo, pat barker, david lodge, john mortimer, michael frayn-- but not from 'celebrities' like movies stars or singers or jocks. i guess it started when i noticed that i happened to have bought things that had been in someone's library or at least had been in someone's hands who shared the same interests-- and it made me feel connected, especially back when i was 'in the wilderness'. [thanks for getting me out.] the sheer volume of books i have in the field more or less created the signature 'collection' and all i had to do was notice and tabulate em. the only time ive gone out of my way to get them has been at the couple of saa seminars where i brought stuff to get signed-- it seemed like an opportunity not be be missed, having so many 'stars' in one room. and theyve all been gracious, somewhere between amused and flattered, as academics dont get much opportunity to do 'fan signings' as a commercial writer would.

but i'm back to listing real books now-- even if they do have the bookplates of a minor victorian ren-drama scholar. out of the thousands of things i'll list i bet i wont have 100 non-books by the end. unless you count periodicals-- but there i think i'll just give one listing each for ShQ, ET, Rord etc and list the issues i have in the comments box for reference; though i did list 'my' N&Q separately already... [blush]

oh i guess i forgot my intention to list my lps, cassette, cds, and dvds of shakespeare plays -- but those are genuine 'texts' [albeit recorded in a different media than print] of the plays that in a way are the core of collection...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 7:31 pm (EST) Nov 9, 2008

i entered that Assignment Syllabus not because of what it was but because it was signed by early 20c Sh scholar Matthew W Black. i was working thru a pile of Sh-related ephemera that includes an 1824 macbeth playbill [entered earlier], a program from a maurice evans tour of macbeth etcetc. i have various kinds of ephemera [though not organized collections like you] but i'm only entering things that have a clear connection to categories in my 'book-library', essentially theater ans Sh. And signatures of Sh-scholars is a specific area i collect. i just found that i have a kenneth muir sig i didnt know i had...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 1:34 pm (EST) Nov 9, 2008

don't you just hate Exploded INTL? i know i do...

you mention the unlisted RORD but dont forget the ET and the ShQ...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 7:38 am (EST) Nov 9, 2008

hah! i bet yr dad's autograph is out there at a bb collectibles show somewhere... did he sign his onw name or a ballplayers? i know a guy who has been mistaken for phil donahue a couple times and once asked for his autograoh, so he signed his own name. not sure what they thought...

ive archived a lot of our commnets justin the interst ofnot having pages n pages of commnets up here on the profile page, but i can still see em if i go to the archive. i left comments by other guys just to remind me im 'incontact' with them; you i know im in contact with...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:54 am (EST) Nov 8, 2008

Wace! do you read anglo-norman, or french? ive thought of getting that ed of his brut just for the english translation. i had another wace here somewhere but i seem to have lost it. recently i was struggling my way thru layamon's middle english, the arthurian section of his brut and found it not as rough going as i thought it wd be seeing as its, what, a century-and-a-bit earlier than the chaucer/langland/pearlpoet stuff we're used to in mid-eng...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:59 pm (EST) Nov 7, 2008

i have half a dozen bill james books but certainly not all of em!
do you ever look at the site baseball-reference.com?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:59 am (EST) Nov 6, 2008

i still write in my books, ususally in oencil, and i dont mean underling or highlighting which i consider a pernicious practice.

i dont hav em listed yet but from yer new random list i have and liked both the posner-jfk book and the rob ney line-ups book...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:00 am (EST) Nov 6, 2008

yeah, i like the random books feature; in a big library randomness=intersting.

i know what you mean about someone with 40 of yer books and 38 are shakespeares plays. before i had put in very much of my shakespeare when i wd look at people with more than 20 or 30 or my books at least half the time it wd be somene with just a bunch of mermaids or regents [not that those arent cool] and nothing unusual

it turns out shakespeare had the same middle name as you and me-- joseph.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 5:11 pm (EST) Nov 5, 2008

the reason i ask about the shubert theatre in chicago is something that arose when i was LTing my variorum shakespeares. over the years i had accumulated a number of the dover reprints and a handful of the big old brick colored hardbacks, then a few yrs back -- 5 or 6? -- i was at the Second Story Books warehouse out here and they had 19 of the bricks for $500, almost all in very nice condition, including a few of the scarcer ones like hyder rollins' 2 vol sonnets. i didnt pay $500-- i forget the exact circimstances but i think they were having a sale at the time and i also had a largish store credit from selling them a bunch of stuff, and i grabbed em even though i had a number of em in pb or cloth. [eventually i sold my paperbacks and duplicate cloth eds thru olssons who also stocked used books on consignment from me and a couple other employees.] i petted them a bit, noticed there were some clippings in some of them and put em on the shelf and havent looked at them much since.
so when i catalogued them last week i looked at them much more closely and it turns out they all belonged to a wealthy new york woman named Marie L Russell, daughter of a big-deal new york judge of the late 19c. she apparently never married and was a shakespeare nut [or culture vulture in general as google etc reveals she left some art to the met in her will of 1946 and belonged to the NY historical society etc]. the 'clippings' turned out to be a few actual newspaper and mag clippings laid in, but also a pretty fair number of theatre programs dating from 1895 to at least the mid-30s, clipped-up and pasted onto various front and rear endpapers. some volumes have only 1 or 2 programs, but a few have half a dozen or more. [it wdve been nice if she laid em in instedda clip-n-paste but what the hey.] among the shows she saw back in the day were sarah bernhardt in hamlet, john barrymore as richard iii, lionel barrymore as macbeth, basil rathbone as romeo with judith anderson as nurse and orson welles as tybalt, richard mansfield as king john, raymond massey as hamlet, and fritz leiber and e h sothern/julia marlowe in a number of things. ive detailed some of these in my LT listings but there a number of programs i havent [yet] detailed there. anyways most of these were in new york but a few were staged by the 'chicago drama society' [or some such, i fergit] at the Shubert Theatre, and i was unsure whether she went to chicago to see these or if the chicagoans were visting nyc. now i know she went to chi; i dont think she moved there, just visited, as both her chicago plays and nyc plays span a number of years.
also pasted in the R&J is a note from HH Furness who has copied out a quote from the play for her at the request of the friend who gave her most of the variorums as gifts.
i'll have to make a more comprhensive list of these programs at some point...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 4:11 pm (EST) Nov 5, 2008

just waiting for someone to notice!
i owe you replies on other comments but i got home late last night exhausted from a corporate 'retreat'.
more later

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:33 am (EST) Nov 4, 2008

grrr... i just typed out a reply to yr last commnet but it seems to have disappeared instedda psting! something like...

"that's quite a nice haul. ive just added 1000 years of lit mss to my amazon cart and am going to check out that annals book too. youll have to take rima to bookstores more often ;-}
you and i are the only ones here with that wallace book. there's a wallace book ive never seen listed anywhere except in biubliographies 'three london theatres' you have that one xeroxed? i think its in a collection of u nebreska press papers. if i ever get to the folger again..."

... something to that effect.

say, is there still a theatre in chicago called The Shubert?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:39 pm (EST) Nov 2, 2008

that's a pretty good haul. ive just added that 1000 yrs of mauscripts to my amazon cart and im gonna check out the annals too. i see you and i are the only ones with that wallace book. the wallace book i despair of ever finding-- never seen it listed anywhere but in bibliographies-- is 'Three London Theatres'. i think it's in a u nebraska press collected studies book. you got that one xeroxed? if i ever get to the folger again...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:24 pm (EST) Nov 2, 2008

its easier to combine tags into a new category than it is to break out a smaller category from a large one, which is why im questioning some of my large ones. on the other hand many of the desired smaller categories already exist. for instance Hamlet gets the tag-codes rd, emp, ws, wsp which include the large inclusive tags Renaissance Drama and William Shakespeare; and the smaller tags plays:shakespeare and plays:early modern [and the latter includes the former].
but what if i want to see all non-sh plays? or all RD books exclusive of WS books? i'd have to bring up the larger list and then wade thru new-tagging. i guess poweredit wd help but it wd still be a task. well, i may never need to; but one thing im hoping LT will be useful for is provding instant home-bibliographies when tackling some subject or other. hence for instance ive tagged the 5 play anthology 'The City and the Court' for Richard Brome because it contains Sparagus Garden-- something i wdnt necessarily recall if i just went to the Brome section in my dramatists wall...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:08 am (EST) Nov 2, 2008

dude - as i'm thinking about my tag system i'm looking at yours. you have 200some renaissance engl drama and 500some shakespeare.
but arent all shaksepare books [except a few hardcore poetry or bio books] his works or about him as a ren-engl-dramatist? so its clear your definitin of the ren-engl-drama Tag must be a restricted one. what are the boundaries there? my ren-drama tag is inclusive [ws plays, other plays, theatre hist, rendramcrit, bios of playwrights etcetcetc] and so its a beeg number. but maybe your system wd be more useful for me...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 7:57 am (EST) Nov 2, 2008

hmmmm... i dont think i realized it til now but it appears that Arden II never did a volume of The Sonnets. the last A2s were T&C and Hamlet in 1982 and the first A3s were Titus, H5 and A&C in 1995. and no A2 sonnets, though of course A3 has done them already.

just coming out now is Three Renaissance Usuary Plays ed by Lloyd Kermode which has 3 plays of interest to us both-- 3 Ladies o London, Englihsmen for my money and Hogg has lost his pearl.
"usuary"??

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 9:12 pm (EST) Nov 1, 2008

neat! you shd try putting those storeis out there again somewhere.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:19 pm (EST) Nov 1, 2008

yeah periodicals are a shadowy category. baseball card magazines probably dont belong [though i think the argument could be made] but MaRDiE and Shakespeare are, strictly speaking, periodicals in that they are edited annual collections of short pieces-- yet they have isbns and are counted by most as 'books'. i think ShQ, RORD, etc should count as entries [in my library anyways] and will eventually enter them by hand.
i'm starting to plough my way thru shakespeare but took a break to enter all my william trevor books as kauders asked me which trevor to read...
my nov 1 moratorium wont actually start till nov 3, as thats when the weekend ends...
dosvedoanyah, koneechiwa and bore da!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 2:57 pm (EST) Nov 1, 2008

curses, foiled again! moo-ha-ha!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 9:40 am (EST) Nov 1, 2008

yo- do you know about this book and perhspa others in this series [which i aint nevah hoid of]?
http://www.librarything.com/work/3210441

finally got to 1500... whew... as of nov 1 im going to self-impose a moratorium on LT listing until after i crank out a solid-ish draft/outline of the william perry thing for SAA. deadline for abstract is Dec 1. sorry i cant recall [head like a sieve]-- did you tell me you had a subject chosen?

Gaelg-- is that scots-gaelic?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:44 am (EST) Oct 26, 2008

i see you have 12 books from boydell and brewer. the eponymous derek brewer died two days ago following his wife elisabeth by a couple weeks, both frail and el
lerly. much wailing and gnashing of teeth on my arthurian listserv, as he was a great specialist in that area and in medieval studies in general; elsewhere too perhaps.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:52 pm (EST) Oct 24, 2008

i fixed the st botolph so now we matched. i see i also have a typo in the list of parisheds [at least one,maybe more] where i types s instedda a. i can fix mine but cant fix yrs. i didnt list dates and marriage vs burials etc since all i needed was qucik search Which parish

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:23 am (EST) Oct 22, 2008

dkathman,

Thanks for tagging my library, which I view as the barnacly memorial to my ever-shifting tastes in literature. 16th-17th century literature has been a more constant love of mine than other areas, though, and while I'm something of an English scholar manque (i.e., never spent enough concentrated time studying to be able to do serious writing), I am committed to building up a solid library in the field. I'm particularly interested in Shakespeare and Tudor/Stuart theological writing. Since the summer I've read relatively little other than Shakespeare, in fact, and this week it's 2 Henry VI again.

I've been practicing in the 1940 Act area since I graduated from law school (9 years ago). For the past 5 years I've been at Putnam (yes, yes, I know--but I'm in Legal!), doing both registered investment company work and general corporate stuff. What areas do you focus on at Morningstar?

Crypto-Willobie has now written me a few times and I see that LT really does foster some genuine scholarly interchange. My wife hardly believed me when I told her that there were not one but two other LT-ers with the same classic tastes as mine!

I gather from some of the comments in your profile that you're interested in Elizabethan performance practice--fascinating stuff, if somewhat esoteric for me. IN my recent Shakespeare reading I've noted a fair bit of discussion about "provincial" or "touring" performances of some of Shakespeare's plays as explanations for some of the editorial oddities of the texts, including some of the bad quartos (e.g., Romeo and Juliet, Richard III). Is that something you've researched?

Anyway, glad to meet you. I look forward to sharing book recommendations and other arcana!

Best,

James (jfclark)

inlägg gjort av jfclark vid 9:32 am (EST) Oct 22, 2008

i did em by hand, and i still have to do compendium #2 and st botolph, but thats all i have...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:46 pm (EST) Oct 21, 2008

cool!
im gonna guess that's Lucia B Prochnow who in 1993 was Maunsctipts Editor of "Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy"

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 2:33 pm (EST) Oct 19, 2008

[followup to previous post]
well, mine went on the same page as fran's copy. yours, like the cheese, stands alone. how long ago did you enter it? maybe it will normalize itself over time, as some things seem to do.

btw i just re-noticed my copy of MSC XIII has Bentley's bookplate! i also have his copy of RC Bald's 1938 ed of Hengist with both his bookplate [upside down inside the back cover--oops!] and his signature on the ffep. i've noticed that when i set this on the desk next to v5 of JCS and open the latter to the Hengist entry, the two books seem to vibrate and call to each other...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:58 am (EST) Oct 19, 2008

dude-- trying to figure out an authorpage/combining problem ive encountered...

ive been entering all my MSCs by hand since the good libraries tend to list just the one general title, and Amazon's listings are full of 'ratty' info [as they call it on the Combiners blog].
so i went to the Mal Soc page where i'm cutnpasting the entire TOCs into the comments field [which shd be a good ref source move-- "where were those ipswich records again??"] and perfecting the listing from my hard copies.

one problem is how to list the 'author'. i see some people who list the author as 'Malone Society' which is understandable and some give no author which is frustrating [makes combining from the author page next to impossible]. ive tended to use the General Editor, e.g. Greg in the first seven volumes made up mostly of various short pieces by different authors [Greg included], and this is probably the correct 'liberry science' answer; though it seems unfair e.g. at II.i in the middle of those seven, when the entire contents of the volume is Feuillerat's Blackfriars records. I see someone has used him in the primary author field, which is just but inconsistent.

The upshot of of this MSC author inconsistency is that although a number of people have the identical volumes, they are all told they are unique holders because they are not combinable [as yet].

But what really made me write YOU about this is WR Streitberger. Both you and Fran Connor have MSC XIII, Streitberger's Revels Accounts. You both have the author listed IDENTICALLY as far as I can tell, yet your copy has its own author page, while Fran's is on the same author page as the several copies [including yours] of his U Toronto Court Revels book. So on your pages you are both told you are unique holders of this book. Since you both have conventional listings of it with identical authors entries it shd be fixable but as WRS has two authors pages I cant see how! grrr!

I'm gonna enter mine now and see where it comes up...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 11:40 am (EST) Oct 19, 2008

here's one for ya...

http://www.librarything.com/work/4999268

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 4:35 pm (EST) Oct 17, 2008

oh, youve got plenty of stuff i covet-- the 4 vol greg bib of epd for one... various ashgate titles... different book history stuff...

the garland things were not that expensive or uncommon 15 yrs ago but now theyre either not avaialbe or bring painfully high prices when you find em. ah for the days when i used to see em around here as LOC duplicates for 5 or 10 dollars. i got some but passed on others then, being unable to see into the future...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 2:49 pm (EST) Oct 17, 2008

nope only got the one manningham, 1976.
i'm jealous that you have markham's herod and antipater. garland, right? very hard to find, been looking for years...

sometimes i add identifying info to my title [and sometimes of course it's already there]-- Malone Society Reprint, Revels Plays, Tudor Facsimile Text... or Camden Society; and then on the author's page when you click on the 'combine works' link it will list them with these distinguishing features, and other differences in title as well, even when they are combined as the 'same' Work.
You can see e.g. that 8 people have 'The English Housewife' while three people have 'The English Hous-wife contayning &c'

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:43 am (EST) Oct 17, 2008

if you would list john manningham as the author of yr copy of manningham's diary instead of [as you have it] no one,
i could combine em into a shared book...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:14 pm (EST) Oct 16, 2008

i'll send the jonson out in a few days media mail, so you probably wont get it for maybe up to 2-3 wks tho mebbe sooner. i have yr work address. there, right?
i got the herford and simpson as an almost complete set around 1990 i think, from the same bethesda md bookseller [bartleby books] where i got my mckerrow's nashe and my hebel's drayton. i traded him other books for it including krapp & dobbies complete anglosaxon poetical record, which i now miss. the jonson was lacking 2 of eleven volumes; it had apparently been bought by one RC Nussbaum in the 50s, for vols 10 and 11 were 1952 1st eds and the rest were the 1954 reprint. amazingly, vol 9 was still in print so i ordered one at work-- its slightly smaller and jacketless and so looks odd. then just a few yrs ago i completed the set by getting a volume 2 secondhand on ABE and it turns out to have belonged to mark eccles! so not only was my set complete but i was able to add to my collection of Sh-scholar sigs.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 4:32 pm (EST) Oct 16, 2008

i'll send the jonson over media mail vaguely soon.
no i just happened to stop at 999 when i got too sleepy to continue, though i did notice it and have sorted thru the remaining jonson bks to choose the most worthy of them -- bentley's jonson n shaksper as it happens.
i think im gonna spring for the greg dram doc facs vol, since i have the other one and have recently accumulated some amazon gift-cert credit selling some used cds and some pomo ren-dram-stuff-i'll-never-read. there's one for $250 on amazon which i think is a fairly good price for it.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 4:54 am (EST) Oct 16, 2008

i dont see that you list jonas barish's ben jonson and the language of prose comedy. i have a duplicate which has some marginal writing in it, mostly in pencil, otherwise its vg- with jacket. ya want it for free? or maybe you just havent listed it yet...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:54 pm (EST) Oct 15, 2008

ah!

say, you have the facsimiles volume of greg's dramatic documents, dont you? whatd you pay for it d'ee recall?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:11 pm (EST) Oct 14, 2008

youve really been buildign up yr medieval history...
that londoners occupations book looks real instersting-- have you worked wit it yet? us sellers are charging $90 for it but i can get it from bk depositpory for 15!

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 8:15 pm (EST) Oct 14, 2008

dude- i cant believe your copy of Hector of Chermany iss listed under Ventvorth Schmidt! Vas it not Vilhelm ze Heralt?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:03 pm (EST) Oct 2, 2008

yes, mine in the old one volume ed. it belonged to Franklin B Wms Jr, former head of English Dept at Georgetwon U who was an expert on dedications and leicesters ghost. Second story books, the local used chain apparently got his library because i was able to buy probably around 100 different things of his from them, some fairly scarce. his stc is annotated for use in compiling is book on dedications. ive made a tag for him but some stuff ive already entered was his and i forgot to tag it.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:59 pm (EST) Oct 2, 2008

i only hve the old STC-- dont you have the new STC? diff works, really.
yeah ive noticed tings like that where i wonder whyt do THEY have this particular book...
do you know who TheHumbleOne is?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 6:21 am (EST) Oct 2, 2008

ha! i did type 'rgw'! i meant to type 'the'!
i just meant you said 'bummer' and my other friend [a former olssons buyer/mgr like me who is now The Publisher of Basic Books, a division of Perseus -- you proably have some] said 'downer'. and i can only say 'man...' ya know, the 60s...

i'll be catchin up with and passing thefxc soon...
im surpised you dont match tomveal more

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 7:52 pm (EST) Oct 1, 2008

rgw 60s havea lot to account for -- another friedn emailed me that it was a 'downer'. (man...)

have you seen the jfclark library? he's a mutual funds attorney...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 2:56 am (EST) Oct 1, 2008

olssons went to court yesterday and requested that their chapter 11 petition be converted to chapter 7; and then the stores didn't open this morning. that's it.
oct 2008 [tomorrow] wd've been 20 yrs for me.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 2:20 pm (EST) Sep 30, 2008

you mentioned it before and i put it on my amazon wish list. let me know how 'sexy' it is. that bit abt fundraising leading to expansion of playing ties in with yr 1530s-1540s london insights.
btw, speaking of the 'medieval/renaissance divide', where do you divide stuff for tagging? i have a few books tagged both medieval And early modern.

early modern 1500-1700? 1400-1700? 1488-1660?
medieval 476-1488? 800-1400? 410-1460? 1066-1539?
ancient world ends 303? 476? 680s?

... or variatins thereon?

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:17 pm (EST) Sep 29, 2008

hmmph! here i thought i figgered sumpin out! ;O)

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:49 pm (EST) Sep 29, 2008

tag breakthrough! i figured out a way to simplify tag entry. instead of typing out words or even cutting and pasting i use a brief 2 or 3 or 4 letter CODE-- say rd for renaissance drama or emh for early modern hsitroy. then every once in a while i go to my tags page and click on the tag to edit, type out the full form in edit, save, and all the emh's will be expanded and combined with already existing fullform tags.

so befor i enter any more im gonna go thru and thoroughly [though not quite as thoroughly as you do] tag all the stuff ive already entered with the BriefCodes; and then use em for further entries.

emp, ed, bj = early modern plays, renaissance drama, Ben Jonson.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 9:50 am (EST) Sep 29, 2008

i havent read chasing shakespeare but i read several reviews and you told me abt it back when.
i have some more medieval stuff, but not a lot... depending on how you define 'medieval stuff' and where you draw the line. some medieval stuff edges into tudor-stuart and i have a fair bit of the latter; some of my medieval stuff is vikings or germany or spain or wales or general; much of it is medieval lit. but there isn't a lot more 'england 1050-1450' if that's what you mean.
ah, leeds! where tolkien first taught... you a travelin boy!
klausner is a REED editor, right? shd be neat...
i did end up putting up a buncha fave authors and some fave bkstores.
the stuff i bin adding is not very systematic... it's 'books-in-a-row' but jumping around from section to section, shelf to shelf. i think i'm getting my tag system down...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 12:11 am (EST) Sep 29, 2008

did you know you are a listed author here? 'The Spelling & Pronunciation of Shakespeare's Name'... look it up.
but your author page also lacks a favorties link...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:28 pm (EST) Sep 28, 2008

dude- any idea how i can make an author favorite-able? many/most authors you go to their author page and scroll down and there is a link to click on Add to Favorites. But some authors don't have this. I understand why the Haughton page might not becasue i more or less just constructed it by entering stuff; but Chettle already had a page and works listed by other folks, yet he dont have one neither...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 3:04 pm (EST) Sep 28, 2008

phew. i just list my 10 or so pre-1800 books mostly drawing from the folger tho i had to go to BL for one. this took a lot of work making sure [i think] i go tthe right edition/state and noting history and condition in some cases. if you want to check em out its probably easiest to click at the top of the date column which will resort by date, grouping the oldest at the top. it looks like more books than there really are coz one volume is a nonce collection of 5 pre-1800 plays and i listed em separately as well.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 1:37 pm (EST) Sep 28, 2008

but when i got to my page and click on the 21 it says dkathman has of mine it take me to a list of 59 in your library! maybe due to multi eds...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:39 am (EST) Sep 28, 2008

ah! its 56 not 50. ive discovered a way of finding a 4th and apparently more accurate count of shared books. go to the panel where is says 'Members with dkathman's books' and where its says 'Crypto-Willobie (23/218)' click specifically on the 23. this will take you to a list of the 56 books we list in common. oddly, altho the 23 is way outta date, the 218 is uptodate.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:37 am (EST) Sep 28, 2008

now ive got 50 of yours.
i have my regents separate so they havent showed up yet in heywood or marston...

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:32 am (EST) Sep 28, 2008

yeah i kept that one private since i was speculating abt another member. but mostly i wdnt bother. unfortunately to follow a conversation ya have to bounce backnforth between the pages.

inlägg gjort av Crypto-Willobie vid 10:55 pm (EST) Sep 27, 2008