Monday, August 10, 2009

10 Books A Day: #110

The Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes...ed. James Sutherland...Pocket Books

Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time...Dr. Laurence J. Peter...Bantam Books

The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said...Robert Byrne...Fawcett Crest

The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said...Robert Byrne...Fawcett Crest

What Was Hot...Julian Biddle...Pinnacle Current Events

Anguished English...Richard Lederer...Laurel

Gallimaufry To Go...J. Bryan, III...Laurel

The Dictionary Of Misinformation...Tom Burnam...Ballantine Books

More Misinformation...Tom Burnam...Ballantine Books

The Straight Dope...Cecil Adams...Ballantine Books

The Penguin Dictionary Of Saints...Donald Attwater...Penguin

Roget's Pocket Thesaurus...ed. by C. O. Sylvester Mawson & Katharine Aldrich Whiting...A Cardinal Book

Dictionary Of Foreign Terms...ed. Mario Pei & Salvatore Ramondino...Laurel

Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary Of Unusual, Obscure, And Preposterous Words...Josefa Heifetz Byrne...Washington Square Press

The Book Of Questions...George Stock...Workman



I have more volumes of "Best Things" and "Straight Dope" books, but they are in trade paperback form and in storage. What Was Hot takes a year by year look, from 1950 to 1993, at what was popular in areas like books, movies, sports, fads, and music. And most of these books, dealing with words and information, have very dull covers, usually only the titles. The picture above is from the front of The Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes.



Book Count: 1274.

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