Today's book is a book of poems called, "Diminutive Revolutions," signed by the author Daniel Bouchard on January 16, 2005.
Today's book is "Season of the Oxford Local," a book of poems signed to Sherri Tucker on June 4, 1972 by author, David Beecher. From collecting the book I learned that William Faulkner, Nobel laureate in literature lived in Oxford, Mississippi.
Today's book is a book of poems, "Happy Family" by Jane Shore. It was signed September of 1999 at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Today's book is "Language and Communication," by George A. Miller published in 1951. It's signed on March 14, 2002.
That's it for the weekend as I am traveling. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Today's items are two issues of "Linguistic Inquiry," one from Fall, 1973 signed by Noam Chomsky and one from Winter, 1975 signed by Noam Chomsky, from the advisory editorial board; Ray Jackendoff, who wrote the article, "On Belief-Contexts;" and Samuel Jay Keyser, the editor.
Today's book is, "Nature's Gambit: Child Prodigies and the Development of Human Potential," signed by the author, David Henry Feldman. (The book has a co-author, Lynn T. Goldsmith.) It was signed on May 10, 2001.
Today's book is called, "Quarterly Review of Literature: Poetry Books" and is signed by a translator, Diana Der-Hovanessian of the poems by Maria Banus. Diana is the longtime president of the New England Poetry Club, based in Cambridge and is a poet, herself. The book is signed on September 30, 2004.
Today's book is "Psychology: The Science of Mental LIfe," by George A. Miller. He signed it on October 17, 2002.
Inside the book are two letters: One a flyer for a poetry competition from the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution for 2003, in an envelope from the Swedenborg Library at Bryn Athyn College, postmarked October 10, 2002. The original letter is missing. The other is a newsletter from the Hans Sachs Library and Archives at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, postmarked October 11, 2002. Today's book is "Words and Rules" by Steven Pinker. I think it was signed at a book release event, at Harvard University where the author teaches now.
Today is an issue of a journal from 1967, called "Daedalus," the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with the title, "Toward the Year 2000: work in progress." I had the article, "Some Psychological Perspectives on the Year 2000," signed by the author, George A. Miller on August 14, 2003. Inside the book is a sheet of stationery from the Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory that Mr. Miller wrote down the web address for Word Net 2.0.
That address is no longer valid. Today's edition is at: https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ There is also a postcard the collector put there of a man flying with a book under his feet, by Quint Buchholz "Eines Morgens Im November." |
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