Saturday, January 24, 2009

This Week's Acquisitions

Almost forgot I'd visited any bookshops this week, but stopped in at Brattle late last Saturday and at Raven in Harvard Square on Monday:

- A Bibliography of the Writings of Noah Webster by Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel (Martino Reprint, 2000). Brattle.

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Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts by Johann N. Neem (Harvard University Press, 2008). Brattle.

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Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade; edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (Oak Knoll, 2006). Brattle.

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A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich (Yale University Press, 2005). Raven.

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Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). Raven.

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Writing Early American History by Alan Taylor (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). Raven.

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Caleb Williams by William Godwin (Penguin, 1988). Raven.