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| Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment (New York, 1952). Cover art by Henri Matisse. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Cartier-Bresson to Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Item number one in Christie's catalogue. |
MARILYN MONROE’S PERSONAL LIBRARY
Listed by genre in Christie’s catalogue The Personal Papers of Marilyn Monroe (1999). The categorization was organized by Christie’s for sale lots. Source: Gail Crowther: Marilyn and Her Books: the Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe (2026), pages 253–278. Edited in alphabetic order by Antti Alanen, 2026.
A
Agee, James: A Death in the Family (1957)
Alberti, Rafael: Selected Poems (1944)
Album of the Cambridge Garrick Club, The (1836)
Aldrich, Richard: Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A.
Alexander, F. Matthias: Man’s Supreme Inheritance (1941)
Alexander, F. Matthias: The Use of the Self (1955)
Almanach: das 73 Jahr by S. Fischer Verlag (1959)
Anderson, Maxwell: Joan of Lorraine (1947)
Anderson, Sherwood: Wineburg, Ohio (1919)
Andrews, Matthew: Let’s Make Love (1960)
Anglund, Joan Walsh: A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You (1958)
Anouilh, Jean: Antigone (1947)
Aristophanes: Two Plays: Peace and Lysistrate (1953)
Aristotle: Metaphysics (1949)
Aristotle: Theory of Poetry and Fine Art (1951)
Armstrong, Charlotte: Mischief (1950)
B
Bahâ’í Prayers (1957) [Bahâ’í, founded by Baha’ullah in Iran in 1863, is the most recent worldwide religion, monotheistic and ecumenic]
Bates, Marston: The Forest and the Sea (1960)
Bates, Ralph: Schubert (1935)
Beard, Rebecca: Everyman’s Search (1950)
Becker, Ivan Lawrence: The Vapor Trail (1959)
Beckett, Samuel: The Unnamable (1958)
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories, The (1940)
Bemelmans, Ludwig: How to Travel Incognito (1951)
Bemelmans, Ludwig: To the One I Love Best (1955)
Bessie, Alvah: The Un-Americans (1957)
Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945–1951 (1952)
Best American Short Stories, The (1960)
Bible, The
Blake, William: The Portable Blake (1955)
Bloy, Leon: The Woman Who Was Poor (1947)
Boothe, Clare: The Women (1937)
Boros, Eva: The Mermaids (1956)
Boulton, Agnes: Part of a Long Story: Eugene O’Neill as a Young Man in Love (1958)
Boussard, Jacques: London (1951)
Bowen, Elizabeth: A Time in Rome (1960)
Braden, Anne: The Wall Between (1958) [inside story from the civil rights movement]
Breslow, Paul: The Support of the Mysteries (1960)
Bristol, Claude M.: The Magic of Believing (1951)
Bristol, Claude M.: TNT: The Power Within You (1959)
Brockway, Wallace & Herbert Weinstock: Men of Music (1950)
Bromfield, Louis: The Rains Came
Bronson, Julien: Pet Turtles (1954)
Browning, John: The Poetical Works of John Browning (1949)
Buber, Martin: The Tales of Rabbi Nachman (1956)
Burns, Robert: Poems of Robert Burns, ed. Henry Meikle & William Beattie (1946)
Burns, Sheelagh: The Gingko Tree (1957)
Burrows, Millar: The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956)
Buttle, Myra: The Sweeniad (1957)
C
Caldwell, Erskine: God’s Little Acre (1933)
Campbell, Alexander: The Heart of India (1958)
Campbell, Joseph: The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (1959)
Camus, Albert: The Fall (1959)
Camus, Albert: The Rebel
Carpozi, George: Marilyn Monroe (1961)
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ; Through the Looking-Glass ; The Hunting of the Snark (n.d.)
Cartier-Bresson, Henri: The Decisive Moment (1952)
Cary, Joyce: Mister Johnson
Catechism for Young Children (1936)
Cather, Willa: A Lost Lady
Cather, Willa: Lucy Gayheart (1935)
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia (1918)
Cerf, Bennett & Van H. Cartmell (ed.): Sixteen Famous European Plays (1943)
Chapman, John: Theatre ’53 (1953)
Chekhov, Anton: The Plays of Anton Chekhov (n.d.)
Chekhov, Anton: The Viking Library Portable Chekhov (1947)
Chekhov, Michael: To the Actor
Christman, Henry M. (ed.): A View of the Nation: An Anthology: 1955–1959 (1959)
Clune, Henry W.: Six O’Clock Casual (1960)
Colette: Short Novels of Colette (1951)
Colette: The Short Novels of Colette (1953)
Collier, John: Fancies and Goodnights (1951)
Collier, Robert: The Magic Word L-I-D-G-T-T-F-T-A-T-I-M (1940)
Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Agent (1955)
Corbett, Jim: Jungle Lore (1955)
Corbett, Jim: Man-Eaters of India (1955)
Corbett, Jim: My India (1958)
Cordier, Daniel: Jean Dubuffet (1960)
Corwin, Norman: More by Corwin (1945)
Corwin, Norman: Thirteen by Corwin (1949)
Corwin, Norman: Untitled and Other Radio Drama (1947)
Cost, March: I, Rachel
D
Davidson, Irwin & Richard Gehman: The Jury Is Still Out (1959) [case study of US legal system with seven youths in a murder trial involving a multi-ethnic NY gang, co-inspired West Side Story]
De Mille, Agnes: Dance to the Piper (1952)
Del Piombo, Akbar & Norman Rubington: The Hero Maker (1960)
Devi, Indra: Forever Young, Forever Healthy (1957)
Di Donato, Pietro: Three Circles of Light (1960)
Dickinson, Emily: Selected Poems (1924)
Dolci, Danilo: Report from Palermo (1959) [“Gandhi of Sicily” on post-WW Sicily, including Mafia]
Doresse, Jean: The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics (1960)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (1950)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The House of the Dead (n.d.)
Douglas, William O.: Russian Journey (1956)
Douglas, William O.: The Right of the People (1958) [justice during the Cold War, by the most liberal justice in U.S. Supreme Court history and the longest serving]
Draper, Theodore: The Roots of American Communism (1957) [classic history of the American Communist Party]
Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy (1948)
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie (1927)
Dumas, Alexandre: Camille (n.d.)
Dunlop, Hazel Peckinpaugh: Flower Arranging for Fun (1959)
Durrell, Lawrence: Balthazar (1958)
Durrell, Lawrence: Justine (1957) first edition
Durrell, Lawrence: Justine (1960)
Dustan, Alice: Landscaping Your Own Home (1953)
E
Eddy, Mary Baker: Poems, including Christ and Christmas (1925)
Eddy, Mary Baker: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1934)
Edman, Irwin (ed.): The Philosophy of Plato (1928) [from: The Republic, The Symposium, Apology, Phaedo, Crito]
Edman, Irwin: The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1928)
Ehmann, K.: Christliches Vergissmeinnicht (n.d.)
Einstein, Albert: Out of My Later Years (1950)
Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man (1952)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Essays
Evergreen Review. Volume 2. Number 6 (1958)
Ewen, David: Music for the Millions (1950)
F
Fast, Howard: Spartacus (1952)
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying (1946)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender Is the Night (1934)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (1953)
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (1957)
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (n.d.)
Fleming, Ian: From Russia, with Love (1957)
Flender, Harold: Paris Blues (1957)
Form of Daily Prayers, The (1922)
Fowler, Gene: Good Night, Sweet Prince
Frazer, James G.: The Golden Bough (1940)
Freeman, Lucy: Troubled Women (1959)
Freeman, Mary: D. H. Lawrence: a Basic Study of His Ideas (1955)
Freud, Martin: Glory Reflected (n.d.)
Freud, Sigmund: Letters of Sigmund Freud, ed. Ernest L. Freud (1960)
Freud, Sigmund: Moses and Monotheism (1957)
Freud, Sigmund: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Fromm, Erich: The Art of Loving (1956)
Frost, Robert: Robert Frost’s Poems ed. Louis Untermeyer (1959)
G
Gallie, Menna: Strike for a Kingdom (1959)
García Lorca, Federico: Poet in New York (1955)
Gary, Romain: A European Education (1960)
Gatlin, Dana: Prayer Changes Things (1952)
Gaver, Jack: Critics’ Choice (1955)
Gellhorn, Walter: American Rights: The Constitution in Action (1960) [top ranking legal scholar]
Gibran, Kahlil: Jesus the Son of Man (1949)
Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1950)
Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1951) (duplicate)
Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1953)
Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet (1961)
Gill, Brendan: The Day the Money Stopped (1957)
Ginzburg, Benjamin: Rededication in Freedom (1959). Two copies. [against McCarthyist thought-control as a threat to American freedom]
Giovannetti, Pericle Luigi: Max (1957)
Glassner, John (ed.): Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre (1939)
Gorchakov, Edith: Stanislavsky Directs
Goudeker, Maurice: Close to Colette (1957)
Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock (1958)
Greene, Graham: The Potting Shed (1957)
Greenwald, Harold: The Call Girl (1958)
Gross, Milton: His Brother’s Keeper (1961) three-page extract from Reader’s Digest
Guthrie, Woody: Bound for Glory (1943)
H
Halldór Laxness: Independent People (1946)
Halliday, E. M.: The Ignorant Armies (1958) [US military in the Intervention Wars in Russian Archangel in 1918].
Halsey, Margaret: The Demi-Paradise (1960)
Hamilton, Edith: Mythology (1955)
Hamilton, Edith: Mythology (duplicate)
Harris, Mark: Wake Up, Stupid (1959)
Hart, Moss: Act One (1959)
Hatcher, Harlan: Modern American Dramas (1949)
Hávamál, The by D. E. Martin Clarke (1923)
Hecht, Ben: Miracle in the Rain (1943)
Heine, Heinrich: The Poetry and Prose of Heinrich Heine by Frederic Ewen (1948)
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Hersey, John: The War Lover (1959)
Holy Scriptures, The, According to the Masoretic Text (1952)
Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts. Nov. 1959, Jan. 1960, March 1960
Housman, A. E.: A Shropshire Lad (n.d.)
Hudson, W. H.: Green Mansions (1936)
Hughes, Emmet John: America the Vincible (1959) [advisor to Eisenhower and Rockefeller]
Hughes, Richard: A High Wind in Jamaica (1932)
Hugo’s Pocket Dictionary. French-English and English-French (n.d.)
Hurnscot, Loran: A Prison, A Paradise (1959)
Huston, John: Frankie and Johnny (1930)
I
Ibsen, Henrik: An Enemy of the People, edited by Arthur Miller
J
James, Henry: The Complete Plays of Henry James (1949)
Jameson, Storm: A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill (1957)
Jeffers, Robinson: Medea (1948)
Jeffers, Robinson: Selected Poetry (1938)
Johnson, Osa: I Married Adventure
Jones, Ernest: The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud I–III (1959)
Josephson, Hannah & Malcolm Cowley: Aragon, Poet of the French Resistance (1945)
Joyce, James: Dubliners (n.d.)
Joyce, James: Ulysses (1934)
K
Kahler, Erich: The Tower and the Abyss: an Inquiry into the Transformation of the Individual (1957) [cultural historian]
Kandel, Howard & Don Safran: Stoned Like a Statue: A Complete Survey of Drinking Cliches, Primitive, Classical and Modern (1961)
Kanin, Garson: Blow Up a Storm (1959)
Kanin, Garson: Born Yesterday (1946)
Kany, Charles & Mathurin Dondo: Spoken French for Travelers and Tourists (1946)
Kapelner, Alan: All the Naked Heroes (1960)
Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Last Temptation of Christ (1960)
Kazantzakis, Nikos: The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises (1960)
Kennedy, Joseph A.: Relax and Live! (1953)
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road (1957)
Kersh, Gerald: Fowlers End (1957)
Kertzer, Morris: What Is a Jew? (1953)
Kopplin, Dorothea S.: Something to Live By (1948) [poems and aphorisms for a life in harmony by a Mother of the Year]
Kovacs, Ernie: How to Talk at Gin (1962)
Kunstler, William: First Degree (1960) [18 murder prosecutions discussed by noted DA]
L
Lambert, Gavin: The Slide Area (1959)
Lang, Daniel: From Hiroshima to the Moon (1959)
Lanyon, Walter C.: And It Was Told of a Certain Potter (1922)
Laurence, William: Men and Atoms (1959)
Lawrence, D. H.: Etruscan Places (1957)
Lawrence, D. H.: Selected Poems (1959)
Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers (1922)
Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers (1960)
Lawrence, D. H.: The Portable D. H. Lawrence (1959)
LeCron, Leslie & Jean Bordeaux: Hypnotism Today (1947)
Lee, C. Y.: The Sawbwa and His Secretary (1959)
Lembourn, Hans Jørgen: The Best of All Worlds, or, What Voltaire Never Knew (1961)
Lerner, Max: The Unfinished Country (1959)
Liebman, Joshua Loth: Peace of Mind (1946)
Lin Yutang: The Importance of Living
Love Poems and Love Letters for All the Year (n.d.)
Lowry, Malcolm: Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things (1957)
Ludwig, Emil: Napoleon (n.d.)
Lynes, Russell: Snobs (1950)
M
Mailer, Norman: The Deer Park
Malamud, Bernard: The Assistant (1957)
Malamud, Bernard: The Magic Barrel (1958)
Maltz, Maxwell: Doctor Pygmalion (1958)
Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories (1956)
Mann, Thomas: Last Essays (1959)
Mann, Thomas: The Thomas Mann Reader (1950)
Markel, Lester (ed.): Background and Foreground. An Anthology of Articles from the New York Times Magazine (1960)
Marquis, Don: The Life and Times of Archy and Mehitabel (1950)
Martin, Peter: The Building (1960)
Marx, Karl: Das Kapital (New York, 1906) [milestone English edition]
Maugham, Somerset: Of Human Bondage (n.d.)
Maugham, Viscount: The Truth About the Munich Crisis (1944) [defense of appeasement]
Maugham, W. Somerset: The Summing Up (1951)
Maule, Hamilton: Jeremy Todd (1959)
Mawson, C. O. & K. A. Whiting: Roget’s Pocket Thesaurus (1953)
Maxwell, Elsa: How to Do It, or, The Art of Lively Entertaining (1957)
Maxwell, Gavin: God Protect Me from My Friends (1956)
McCarthy, Mary: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)
McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
McGinley, Phyllis: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (1958)
Menninger, Karl: Man Against Himself (1938)
Merritt-Farmer, Fannie: The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1951)
Michener, James: Hawaii (1959)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Collected Sonnets (1941)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Collected Sonnets (1959)
Miller, Arthur: En mands ansigt (1946) [Focus, 1945]
Miller, Perry: The American Puritans: Their Prose and Their Poetry (1956)
Milner, Esther: The Failure of Success (1959)
Milton, John: The Poetical Works of John Milton, ed. H. C. Beeching (1941)
Molière: Plays by Molière (n.d.)
Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Story of Esther Costello (1953)
Morris, Charles: The Open Self (1948)
Munro, Daniel Colin: Man Alive, You’re Half Dead! (1948) inscribed to Renna Campbell, MM facialist
Murphy, Joseph: The Miracles of Your Mind (1953)
N
Nannes, Caspar: Politics in the American Drama (1960)
Narayan, R. K.: The Guide (1958)
Nesbitt, Arthur: Say You Never Saw Me (1957)
New World Writing Number 16 (1960)
New York State Vacationlands (1959)
O
O’Casey, Sean: I Knock at the Door (1949)
O’Casey, Sean: Red Roses for Me (1944)
O’Casey, Sean: Selected Plays I–II (1950)
O’Casey, Sean: The Green Crow (1956)
O’Connell, Alberta: Strange Prologue (1960)
O’Kearney, John: Red Mirage (1958)
O’Neil, Russell: Jonathan (1959)
O’Neill, Eugene: Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / The Hairy Ape (1937)
O’Neill, Eugene: Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956)
O’Neill, Eugene: Long Day’s Journey into Night (1959)
Odets, Clifford: Clash by Night (1942)
Odets, Clifford: Golden Boy (1937)
Odets, Clifford: Six Plays of Clifford Odets (1939)
Odets, Clifford: The Country Girl (1951)
Oppenheimer, George: The Passionate Playgoer (1958)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert: The Open Mind (1955)
Outpost Nurseries, publicity brochure
P
Paine, Thomas: Rights of Man
Paley, Grace: The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
Pappenheim, Fritz: The Alienation of Modern Man (1959)
Parker, Dorothy: The Collected Short Stories (1942)
Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker (1958)
Partch, Virgil: VIP Tosses a Party (1959)
Pasinetti, P. M.: Venetian Red (1960)
Pearson, William: A Fever in the Blood (1959)
Penguin Book of English Verse, The, ed. John Hayward (1956)
Piper, Watty: The New Little Engine That Could (1930)
Pirandello, Luigi: The Medals and Other Stories (1959)
Plutarch: Lives Vol 3-6 (of six) by William and John Langhorne (1792)
Poe, Edgar Allan: Poe: Complete Poems ed. Richard Wilbur (1960)
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Portable Poe (1957)
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Vol. 70, no. 6 (1947)
Pollini, Francis: Night (1960)
Pope, Alexander: Selected Works (1951)
Portable Irish Reader, The (1956)
Proust, Marcel: Cities of the Plain (1955)
Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
Proust, Marcel: The Captive (1956)
Proust, Marcel: The Guermantes Way (1952)
Proust, Marcel: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930)
Proust, Marcel: Within a Budding Grove (1951)
Purdy, James: Don’t Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories (1956)
Purdy, James: Malcolm (1959)
Pushkin, Alexander: The Poems, Prose and Plays of Alexander Pushkin (1936)
Q
Quayle, Anthony: On Such a Night (1948)
R
Rabelais: The Works of Rabelais (n.d.)
Rand, Christopher: The Twain Shall Meet (1957)
Ratner, Joseph: The Philosophy of Spinoza (1927)
Reynolds, Quentin, Ephraim Katz & Zwy Aldouby: Minister of Death: the Adolf Eichmann Story (1960)
Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet
Rilke, Rainer Maria: Selected Poems (1957)
Robbins, Harold: The Carpetbaggers (1961)
Rodman, Selden (ed.): One Hundred Modern Poems (1953)
Rolan, Lina: Mujer (1961)
Rombauer, Irma S. & Marion Rombauer Becker: The New Joy of Cooking (1953)
Rosten, Leo: Captain Newman, M.D.
Rosten, Norman: Song for Patricia
Russell, Bertrand: Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959)
Russell, Bertrand: Our Knowledge of the External World (1956)
Russell, Bertrand: Why I Am Not a Christian (1957)
S
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de: The Little Prince
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de: The Wisdom of the Sands (1950)
Saint-Exupéry, Consuelo de: Kingdom of the Rocks (1946)
Salisbury, Harrison E.: The Shook-Up Generation (1958)
Salter, Andrew: Conditioned Reflex Therapy (1949)
Sandburg, Carl: Biography of Abraham Lincoln 1–6
Schaper, Edzard: The Dancing Bear (1961)
Scott, Paul: The Mark of the Warrior (1958)
Seghers, Anna: The Seventh Cross (1945)
Seltzer, Thomas: Best Russian Stories: An Anthology (1925)
Sephath Emeth (Speech of Truth): Order of Prayers for the Whole Year (1926)
Seymour, E. L. D.: The Wise Garden Encyclopedia (1938)
Seymour, E. L. D.: The Wise Garden Encyclopedia (1957)
Shakespeare, William: Sonnets, ed. Mary Jane Gorton (n.d.)
Shapley, Harlow: Of Stars and Men (1959)
Shaw, Bernard & Mrs. Purrick Campbell: Their Correspondence (1952)
Shaw, George Bernard: Selected Plays of Bernard Shaw III (1948)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: The Poetical Works of Shelley, ed. Richard Wilbur (n.d.)
Short Story Masterpieces (1960)
Skira, Albert: Renoir (1954) [Pierre-Auguste Renoir]
Snow, Edgar: Journey to the Beginning (1958) [autobiographical about China before 1949]
Southern, Terry: The Magic Christian (1960)
Spencer, Hazelton: Elizabethan Plays (1933)
Spock, Dr. Benjamin: Baby and Child Care (1958)
Stanislavski, Konstantin: An Actor Prepares
Starkey, Marion: The Devil in Massachusetts (1950) [Salem witch trials, inspired Arthur Miller]
Steffens, Lincoln: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Steichen, Edward & Carl Sandburg: The Family of Man (1955)
Steinbeck, John: Once There Was a War (1958)
Steinbeck, John: The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
Steinbeck, John: Tortilla Flat (1937)
Steinberg, Milton: A Partisan Guide to the Jewish Problem (1945)
Steiner, Rudolph: Some Characteristics of Today (n.d.)
Steinhardt, Herschel: Sons of Men (1959)
Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1953)
Stern, Daniel: Miss America (1959)
Stone, Irving: Lust for Life
Styron, William: Lie Down in Darkness (1959)
Styron, William: Set This House on Fire (1960)
Sullivan, J. W. N.: Beethoven: His Spiritual Development (1949)
Swarthout, Glendon: They Came to Cordura (1958)
Symonds, John Addington: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (n.d.)
T
Tagliabue, John: Poems (1959)
Tannenbaum, R. F. (ed.): Panorama: A New Review (1957)
Teale, Edwin Way: A Book About Bees (1940)
Terry, Ellen & Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence (1949)
This Week’s Short-Stories (1953)
Thomas, Dylan: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog (1954)
Thomas, Norman: A Socialist’s Faith (1951) [presidential candicate in six elections 1928–1948]
Three Famous French Romances (n.d.) [Daudet: Sapho ; Abbé Prévost: Manon Lescaut ; Mérimée: Carmen]
Thurber, James: Thurber Country (1953)
Tilden, Marjorie: Star Crossed (1947)
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America (1958) Vol II only
Todd, Mabel Elsworth: The Thinking Body
Tolstoy, Leo: Redemption and Two Other Plays (1919)
Toynbee, Arnold: A Study in History (1947)
Turgenev, Ivan: Smoke (1951)
Twain, Mark: In Defense of Harriet Shelley and Other Essays (n.d.)
Twain, Mark: Roughing It (n.d.)
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (n.d.)
Twain, Mark: The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches (n.d.)
U
Ustinov, Peter: Add a Dash of Pity (1959)
V
Vailland, Roger: The Law (1958)
Van Druten, John: Bell, Book and Candle (1951)
Vance, Randolph: Who Blowed Up the Church House? and Other Ozark Folk Tales (1952)
Varna, Andrew: World Underworld (1957) [pen name of an international smuggler who wrote about his experiences in the world of crime]
Vesalius, Andreas: De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)
W
Wain, John: The Contenders (1958)
Waley, Arthur: Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet (1956)
Watkins, Sylvestre C.: An Anthology of American Negro Literature (1944)
Weaver, William: Duse: A Biography
Weber, Max: Max Weber (1954) [the American painter]
Webster, Gary: Codfish, Cats and Civilization (1959)
Weeks, Robert P.: Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti (1958)
Wershub, Leonard Paul: Sexual Impotence in the Male (1959)
West, Mae: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It (1959)
West, Morris L.: The Devil’s Advocate (1959)
West, Rebecca: A Train of Powder (1955) [murder trials, including Nuremberg]
Wheeler, Eleanor: Lidice (1957)
White, Theodore H.: The Mountain Road (1958)
Whitman, Walt: The Portable Walt Whitman (1955)
Wilde, Oscar: The Poems and Fairy-Tales (n.d.)
Williams, Oscar (ed.): The Pocketbook of Modern Verse (1954)
Williams, Tennessee: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, and Other Plays (1945)
Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire (1953)
Williams, Tennessee: Camino Real (1953)
Williams, Tennessee: Orpheus Descending (1959)
Williams, Tennessee: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)
Wilson, Edmund: A Piece of My Mind (1956)
Winnett, Ralph: Hurricane Season (1957)
Wolfe, Thomas: A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (1948)
Wolfe, Thomas: Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
Wolfe, Thomas: The Story of a Novel (1949)
Wolfe, Thomas: Thomas Wolfe’s Letters to His Mother (1945)
Wordsworth. Ed. Richard Wilbur (1959)
Y
Yeats, W. B.: Poems of W. B. Yeats
Young, Gordon: The Cat with Two Faces (1957) inscribed by Clifford Odets to MM
Young, Stark: The Flower in Drama and Glamour (1955)
Z
Zola, Émile: Nana (n.d.)
Zolotow, Maurice: Oh Careless Love (1959)
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