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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3541805, member: 57463&quot;]As long as we are showing off...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]941450[/ATTACH]&nbsp; It is in with my science fiction books. I spoke to the ANA and also our local ArmadilloCon sci fi gathering on the life and work of Riddell. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]941452[/ATTACH]</p><p>On the farthest right a Waite Raymond catalog from 1937. Moving left a first edition second printing Red Book. The <i>History of American Currency</i> by William Graham Sumner could go with my sociology books. Moving left (ahem), <i>American Government and Politics</i> by Charles Beard was radical for its time. The biography of Alexander Hamilton by Henry Cabot Lodge (senior) is another classic.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Not shown, two editions of Newton&#039;s <i>Principia</i> and the recent biography <i>Newton Versus the Counterfeiter</i> by Thomas Levenson. At one time I owned every significant modern telling of Newton&#039;s life. Most historians ignore his 30 years as master and warden of the British Royal Mint. One called it &quot;uninteresting.&quot;)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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