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LIBRARY  WISH  LIST

Mechanics' Institute members may contribute to the Library collection by donating either the books or the funds required to purchase any of the following titles.
These items may be difficult to obtain because they are expensive or out of print.

Through members' generous donations to the WishList, the Library has been able to acquire the latest edition of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus authoritative reference titles focusing on the works of Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare.
If you would like to assist in acquiring these materials, please contact Craig Jackson, Acquisitions Librarian, at (415) 393-0104 or by email acjackson@milibrary.org
Thank you for your attention to our wish list. We look forward to your participation.


      "WISH  LIST"  TITLES  AND  DESCRIPTIONS
   PRICE
The African American National Biography
edited by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
Eight volume set.  5,568 pages.
      $ 795
      per set
   DONATED
The Baseball Bibliography
by Myron J. Smith (compiler), John Kuenster (forward by).  Revised second edition.
McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
December, 2005. Four volume set.
Paperback, 1758 pages.
      $ 195
      per set
    DONATED
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Premier reference work for the art world. First published in 1911. Published in English for the first time in 2006
Edited and published by Editions Grund of Paris.
English language edition distributed by Omnigraphics.
14 volumes, 20,608 pages.
  
     $ 1,498
      per set
   DONATED
 
Cahiers/Notebooks, by Paul Valéry, edited by Brian Stimpson et al ; Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
Hardcover. 2005.
(English translation of Valéry's notebooks.)
Five volumes are planned. First two currently available.
Volume !,  654 pages     Volume II, 594 pages
  vol. I  $ 95
  vol. II $ 95
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
3 volume set.
This is the first fully annotated modern scholary edition of Jane Austen's complete works.
This introductory set includes the first three out of nine volumes in the edition. 1,576 pages
$ 225 per set
The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
Edited by Gabrielle H. Cody & Evert Sprinchorn
New York : Columbia University Press, 2007
2 volumes. Hardbound. 1,744 pages.
    $ 450
  DONATED
2 -volume set
Encyclopedia of American Indian History
Edited by Bruce E. Johansen and Barry M. Pritzker
ABC-Clio, August 2007. 4 volumes.
Hardbound. 1,300 pages.

    $ 395
4-volume set
  DONATED

Encyclopedia of Social Work
Edited by Terry Mizrahi and Larry E. Davis
20th edition. Oxford University Press, 2008.
4 volume set. 2,208 pages.
    $  395
  DONATED
Encyclopedia of Stress
Edited by George Fink.
2nd edition. Academic Press, 2006.
4 volume set. 3,000 pages.
    $  960
  DONATED
Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Edited by John D. Buenker and Joseph Buenker.
Sharpe Reference, 2005.
3 volumes.  1,288 pp. illus. indexes.
   $  299
  DONATED
Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture
Edited by R. Stephen Sennott
Fitzhenry Dearborn reference work, now published by Routledge, 2004
3 volumes.  1,568 pages, Illus. indexes.
   $ 199
  DONATED
Essential Art House - 50 Years of Janus Films
a celebration of international films collected under the auspices of the groundbreaking theatrical distributor. From The Seventh Seal to Jules and Jim to M and Pygmalion and The 39 Steps....the cream of the crop of the Janus Films catalog.
Number of discs: 50
Includes a hardback book with essays about each film.
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release date: October 24, 2006
    $ 650
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health
Second edition. Jacqueline L. Longe, editor
Thomson Gale, 2006.
5 volumes 3,093 pages.
    $ 985
 5-volume set
  DONATED
Genealogies in the Library of Congress : A Bibliography:  With "Supplements" and the "Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress". / Marion J. Kaminkow.
Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001.
5 volumes.  4,130 pp.
 
    $  395

Italian Frescoes
Text by Steffi Roettgen. New York : Abbeville Press, 2007.
Five volume series: 1. The Age of Giotto, 1280-1400 ; 2. The Early Renaissance, 1400-1470 ; 3. The Flowering of the Renaissance, 1470-1510 ; 4. The High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510-1600 ; 5. The Baroque Era, 1600-1800.  Each volume some 500 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography, inscriptions and index.
   $ 675
 5-volume set
  DONATED

Jazz  a film by Ken Burns (2001)
DVD format - box set, color
PBS Paramount. Released, 2004
10 discs : 1140 minutes
Jazz is a ten-part nearly nineteen-hour documentary series that celebrates America's great original art form.
   $  175
Literary Cultures of Latin America : A Comparative History  Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edited by Mario J. Valdes and Djelal Kadir
3 volumes. Cloth. 2,240 pp. Illustrated.
   $  395
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
Edited by Stanley Sadie.  Oxford University Press. Massive 4 volume set.  5,448 pp., illus.
  
    $  395
 
Official Museum Directory
38th edition. New Providence, NJ : National Register Publishing, 2008.
   $  299
  DONATED
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature.
Oxford University Press.  5 volume set.
December, 2005.
   $  595
Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.  Edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonzalez. Oxford University Press, 2005.
4 volumes. 2,344 pp. illus. index.
   $  525
  DONATED
The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c.1200-1815
Edited by Richard Bonney.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.  540 pp. Bibliographies and index.
  $  170
 DONATED
Standard Periodical Directory 
Edited by Beverly Banks and Jean Ruggles.
31st edition, 2008. Gale : Cengage Learning, 2008.
1 volume. 2,233 pp. index.
  $1,795
 DONATED
World Atlas of Language Structures
Edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
1 volume. 712 pages. Color illustrations throughout.
   $  575
 DONATED
World Monarchies and Dynasties.  
Edited by John Middleton.  M. E. Sharpe, 2005.
3 volumes. 1,200 pp. illus. index.
   $  325
  DONATED
Revised:  December, 2008