There are many books that comprised Smithson's personal library; thus the Wish List represents the books that are the PLL's most wanted. This list will grow and change as Smithson books are acquired.
In accordance with the Library's acquisition policy (and due to Tatransky's detailed cataloguing) I am trying to acquire the same edition of the books if possible. I am also following Tatransky's categories in the following list:
ART & AESTHETICS:
The Elementary Structures of Kinship by Claude Levi-Strauss (Beacon, 1969)
Anonyme Skulpturen: Eine Typologie technischer Bauten by Bern and Hilla Becher (Art-Press Verlag, 1970)
Rock Art of the American Indian by Campbell Grant (Crowell, 1967)
How Prints Look: Photographs with Commentary by William M. Ivins (Beacon, 1958)
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy Lippard (Praeger, 1973)
Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay (Walker, 1953)
CRITICISM:
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode (Oxford Univ Press, 1967)
The Cyclical Night: Irony in James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges by L.A. Murillo (Harvard Univ Press, 1968)
Flaubert: A Biography by Philip Spencer (Grove, 1952)
FICTION & POETRY:
The Draught by J.G. Ballard (Penguin, 1968)
Endgame by Samuel Beckett (Grove, 1958)
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (Penguin, 1962)
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (New American Library, 1960)
Notes From the Underground, Poor People, The Friend of the Family: Three Short Novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dell, 1960)
Mallarme by Stephane Mallarme (Penguin, 1965)
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Faber, 1963)
Snapshots by Alain Robbe-Grillet (Grove, 1968)
From Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Kora in Hell: Improvisations by William Carlos Williams (City Lights Books, 1957)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (Penguin, 1967)
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS & ECONOMICS:
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich (Ballantine, 1968)
The Civil War by Harry Hansen (Mentor, 1961)
The Fool: His Social and Literary History by Enid Welsford (Doubleday, 1961)
LINGUISTICS:
The Structure of Complex Words by William Empson (U. of Michigan Press, 1967)
Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification by L. Wieger (Dover, 1965)
PHILOSOPHY:
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hanna Arendt (Meridian, 1958)
Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes (Hill & Wang, 1968)
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke (Univ of Notre Dame, 1968)
The Serial Universe by J.W. Dunne (Faber & Faber, 1955)
Against Entropy by Michael Frayn (Viking, 1967)
Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger (Harper & Row, 1971)
On the Nature of the Universe by Titus Lucretius Carus (Penguin, 1955)
Thoreau: The Major Essays by Henry David Thoreau (Dutton, 1972)
Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Anchor, 1966)
A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Univ of Chicago Press, 1970)
PSYCHOLOGY:
On Violence by Hannah Arendt (Harvest)
The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard (Beacon, 1968)
Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities by Mircea Eliade (Harper, 1957)
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault (Mentor)
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud (Vintage, 1918)
Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung (Dell, 1964)
Hypnosis: Theory, Practice and Application by Raphael Rhodes (Citadel, 1950)
RELIGION:
The Documents of the Vatican II by Walter Abbott, ed. (American, 1966)
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos (Doubleday Image, 1962)
Bhagavad-Gita: The Song of God, Intro: Aldous Huxley (Mentor, 1944)
The Book of the Dead: An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, Trans. E.A. Wallis Budge (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960)
The Cloud of Unknowing by G.K. Chesterton (Penguin, 1961)
A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St. John's Apocalypse by Austin Farrer (Beacon, 1963)
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (McGraw-Hill, 1963)
The I Ching, Trans. Richard Wilhelm and Cary Baynes (Princeton U. Press, 1950)
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis (Image, 1955)
Zohar, the book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem, ed. (Schocken, 1968)
SCIENCE:
The Moon by Isaac Asimov (Follett, 1966)
Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor (Dover)
A Textbook of Mineralogy, with an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy by Edward Salisbury Dana (Wiley, 1958)
The Day of the Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp (Doubleday, 1968)
Principles of Geomorphology by Don Easterbrook (McGraw-Hill, 1969)
Audubon's Butterflies, Moths, and Other Studies by Alice Ford (Studio, 1952)
Logic Machines and Diagrams by Martin Gardner (McGraw-Hill, 1958)
Mapping by David Greenhood (U. of Chicago Press, 1964)
The Realm of the Nebulae by Edwin Hubble (Dover, 1958)
Concepts of Space: The History of Theories of Space in Physics (Foreword by Albert Einstein) by Max Jammer (Harper, 1960)
The Observer's Book of Common Insects and Spiders by E.F. Linssen and L. Hugh Newman (Warne, 1960)
Islands: Their Lives, Legends, and Lore by Seon and Robert Manley (Chilton, 1970)
Landforms of Australia by Vincent Serventy (American Elsevier, 1968)
The History of Atlantis by Lewis Spence (University, 1968)
Perpetual Motion: Electrons and Atoms in Crystals by Alec Stewart (Anchor, 1965)
Polymorphism and Polytypism in Crystals by Ajit Ram Verma and P. Krishna (Wiley, 1966)
Stars: A Guide to the Constellations, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Other Features of the Heavens by Herbert Zim and Robert Baker (Golden Press, 1956)
TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY:
The Deserted Village at Allaire by Alden Cottrell (1960)
The Salton Sea: Yesterday and Today by Mildred de Stanley (Triumph)
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