Today's book is "The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood," signed by both co-editors, Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman, on September 30, 2003. What makes the book special to the collector is that it pre-dates her own motherhood by a bit over two years, and it's certainly a miracle to think that parenthood happens to any and all of us!
Today's book is "Communication, Language and Meaning: Psychological Perspectives" edited, and signed by George A. Miller in February of 2005. The book was published in 1973.
Today's book is "Research Methods in Psychology," signed by one of the two co-authors, Paul Nestor.
Today's book is, "Editors: The Best from Five Decades" signed by co-editor Keith Botsford, co-editor with Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, of both the book and the literary journal "The Republic of Letters." What makes this one special is a letter from Mr. Botsford, addressed to the collector about writing for the journal. The letter is dated October 29, 2003.
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.
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