The Strand has them sometimes.
@RBrookhiser I once had the opportunity to purchase a complete set of the 11th edition...with the covers removed. It would have had to be rebound. I passed, with a bit of remorse.View quoted post on X
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Denis Boyles Everything Explained That Is Explainable is a fascinating tale of the writing of the 11th edition, I reviewed it for the Claremont Review Winter 2016/17.
@RBrookhiser An incipient vocation.View quoted post on X
A little later when I was growing up we had an Encyclopedia Brittanica
My life or at least my bookshelves became complete years later when I bought an 11 th Edition.
My life or at least my bookshelves became complete years later when I bought an 11 th Edition.
Years later Lafayette discussed a slave trade ban with Czar Alexander at the Congress of Vienna. The Czar was in favor, but admitted the call might come with ill grace from a country that still held serfs.
As I recall the Congress condemned it, without proposing any actual ban.
As I recall the Congress condemned it, without proposing any actual ban.
@RBrookhiser Had it not been for South Carolina and Georgia we also would have gotten a condemnation of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Declaration.View quoted post on X
Golden Book encyclopedias? You bet, I got them all. Some wonderful graphics, especially the country maps.
@ShiversShana @mitcham_tim They were available at Griders in Oklahoma City in the early ‘60s. I think @RBrookhiser said they were also available in grocery stores in upstate New York.View quoted post on X
