a petal falls. an instant. an age. visionary and everyday

(some books for summer reading)

- carter e. forster - edward hopper - skira - 2009
exhibition catalogue for show in milano, roma, lausanne

- hiroshi sugimoto: nature of light - izu photo museum - 2010
exhibition catalogue for show at the izu photo museum in shizuoka

- john cage - zen ox-herding pictures - george braziller - 2009

- athanasius kircher - athanasius kircher's theatre of the world: the life and work of the last man to search for universal knowledge - inner tradition - 2009

- francois le lionnais - the orion book of time - the orion press - 1959/1960
title from this book - haiku by basho

- donald judd: architecture - hatje cantz - 1991/200
- donald judd: architecture in marfa, texas - birkhauser - 2007
had these around at work and never found it necessary to buy until they went op
another coming out soon on chinati buildings by marianne stockebrand

- roberto schezen (photography) - adolf loos: architecture 1903-1932 - the monacelli press - 1996/2009
(wagner - olbrich - plecnik - hoffmann - loos - wittgenstein - good architects for fine young citizens)

- yukio futagawa (photography) - wooden houses in europe - a.d.a. edita - 1978/1991

- bram stoker - dracula (1897) - everyman's library - 2010

- h.g. wells - the man that could work miracles: the supernatural tales of h.g. wells - tartarus press - 2006

- george eliot - the mill on the floss (1860) - everyman's library - 1908/1992

- j.l. carr - a month in the country (1980) - nyrb - 2000

- italo calvino - fantastic tales: visionary and everyday - random house - 1983/1997

- tarjei vesaas - the boat in the evening (1968) - peter owen modern classics - 2003

- leo tolstoy - the death of ivan ilyich & other stories - alfred a. knopf - 2009
includes the forged coupon, aka, l'argent

- joseph sheridan le fanu - uncle silas (1864) - penguin books - 2000
- joseph sheridan le fanu - best ghost stories of j.s. le fanu - dover publications - 1964

- the haunted looking glass: ghost stories chosen by edward gorey - new york review books - 1959/2001

- three gothic novels: the castle of otranto by horace walpole, vathek by william beckford, the vampyre by john polidori and a fragment of a novel by lord byron - dover publications - 1966

- m.r. james - count mangus and other ghost stories - penguin books - 2005
- m.r. james - the haunted dolls house and other ghost stories - penguin books - 2006

- lord dunsany - in the land of time and other fantasy tales - penguin books - 2004

- cornell woolrich - the black angel (1943) - pegasus books - 2008

- w.f. harvey - the beast with five fingers (1928) - wordsworth editions - 2009

- fredric brown - here comes a candle (1950) - millipede press - 2006

- patricia highsmith - the selected stories of patricia highsmith - norton - 2001

- heinrich von kleist - selected prose of heinrich von kleist - archipelago books - 2009

- larry mcmurtry - dead man's walk - simon & schuster - 1995/2004
- larry mcmurtry - comanche moon - simon & schuster - 1997/2003

- robert walser - the microscripts - new directions - 2010
forthcoming

- h.g. wells - the time machine, the invisible man, the war of the worlds - everyman's library - 2010
forthcoming - read the second 2 last year, truly overwhelming, esp. the war of the worlds
slept with the lights on for a month - also of interest: daphne du maurier's the birds

(thanks to the wool and elevator libraries for many of the novels)