Stuart Little ` E.B. White, Garth Williams pictures c.1945 (read with me by my father)
Now We Are Six ` A.A. Milne, decorations by Ernest H. Shepard, c.1927
McElligot's Pool ` Dr. Seuss c.1947
The Long Ships ` Frans G. Bengstsson c.1943: in the 10th century, following the adventures of Orm.
The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle ` Hugh Lofting, illustrations by the author, c. 1950, originally published 1922.
Before and After Dinosaurs ` Lois and Louis Darling c.1959
The Human Comedy ` William Saroyan, illustrations Don Freeman, c.1943
Babar The Elephant ` Jean de Brunhoff c. 1931
The Odyssey ` Francis Fitzgerald translation, Hans Erni drawings c.1961, with dedication "for my sons and daughters."
Jane Eyre ` Charlotte Bronte, originally published c.1847
The Story of Pasquaney 1895-1960 ` C. Mifflin Frothingham c.1960
A Light in The Forest ` Conrad Richter c.1953 (a Fenn School read, Concord MA))
The Appalachian Mountain Club Guide to Trails in the Mountains of New Hampshire ` c.1962
The Elements of Style ` William Strunk and E.B. White c.1959, 1962 ("To Nat Slater- who has style! - 6/10/65 Dad")
In Wildness is Preservation of the World ` Elliot Porter c.1962, The Sierra Club
Walden, or Life in the Woods ` Henry David Thoreau c.1854
Civilisation: A Personal View ` Kenneth Clark c.1969, book version of the television series
A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid ` Watson J.D. and Crick F.H.C., Nature 171, 737-738 (1953), all on one page including a diagrammatic figure produced by whoever.
The Future As History ` Robert L. Heilbroner c.1960 (a Middlesex School read, Concord MA)
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion ` James Frazier c.1915 (a Middlesex School read, Concord MA)
The Poetics ` Aristotle, S.H. Butcher translation, with Francis Fergusson Introduction c.1961 (a Middlesex School read, Concord MA)
Down the Emperor's Road With Hiroshige ` Reiko Chiba edited, Charles E. Tuttle bound c.1965
The Adventures of Tintin ` Georges Remi c.1930-1963
Bird ` Lois and Louis Darling c.1962
Modern Algebra and Trigonometry ` Elbridge P. Vance c.1962 (a Middlesex School textbook, Concord MA)
Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance ` Kenneth Clark c.1960 (The Wrightsman Lectures, New York University Institute of Fine Arts)
Architecture Without Architects ` Bernard Rudofsky c.1964 (A Cornell read)
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years ` Carl Sandburg c.1954
Worms ` Lois and Louis Darling c.1972 {a Cornell read)
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture ` Robert Venturi, with Denise Scott Brown, Vincent Scully introduction, MoMA NY (A Cornell University read, Ithaca NY)
Robert Frost Poetry and Prose ` Edward Connery Lathem and Lawrence Thompson edited (a Cornell University read, Ithaca NY)
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization` Michael Kammen c.1972, Pulitzer Prize for History 1973. (a Cornell course read)
E.B. White ` correspondence c.1978
The Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth ` The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition and Hoving monograph
East of Eden ` John Steinbeck (read in The Frick Art Museum courtyard, and at The Central Park Zoo, during lunch break)
The Moosewood Cookbook ` Mollie Katzen c.1977
On Growth and Form ` D'Arcy Thompson c.1919 and 1992 (A Rockefeller University, University of Pennsylvania, Bockus Research Institute/Bryn Mawr College read)
The Function of Reason ` Alfred North Whitehead c.1929
O Pioneers! ` Willa Cather c. 1913, 1941
Going to the Potty ` Fred Rogers c.1986
I am a Bunny ` Ole Risom, illustrations Richard Scarry c.1963
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information ` Edward Rolfe Tufte c.2001
Harry Potter ` J.K. Rowling
Precalculus with Trigonometry ` Paul A. Foerster c.2007, Key Curriculum Press (Alamo Heights High School, Texas)
"What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t
define it in abstract terms – yet. But I think I can recognize it when I see
it; and I am looking at it now. Ruskin said: ‘Great nations write their
autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of
their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood
unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the
last.’" Civilisation: A Personal View ` Kenneth Clark c.1969, book version of the television series