Bulkington Books

the catalogue, by Melville’s measure

Whales, and books, are reckoned by their heft.

In the chapter on Cetology, Melville sorts the whales as a printer sorts a press — the Folio, the Octavo, the Duodecimo. We keep his shelving.

sort by

The Folio

the great books

The largest heft — histories, treatises, the long arguments that reward a winter.

1889
Anarchy and Anarchists
Michael J. Schaack
1912
Financial History of the United States
Davis Rich Dewey
Cover of The Mantle of Caesar
1928
The Mantle of Caesar
Friedrich Gundolf
Cover of The Tariff in the Days of Henry Clay and Since
1896
The Tariff in the Days of Henry Clay and Since
William McKinley
Cover of The Perils of Amateur Strategy
1926
The Perils of Amateur Strategy
Lt. Gen. Sir Gerald Ellison
Cover of Religion in Soviet Russia: 1917–1942
1942
Religion in Soviet Russia: 1917–1942
N.S. Timasheff
1874
A Short History of the English People
John Richard Green
Cover of The Tariff Controversy in the United States, 1789–1833
1892
The Tariff Controversy in the United States, 1789–1833
Orrin Leslie Elliott
Cover of The War in the Garden of Eden
1919
The War in the Garden of Eden
Kermit Roosevelt

The Octavo

the working volumes

Middling heft — memoirs, dispatches, a life told at the length a life deserves.

1900
American Fights and Fighters
Cyrus Townsend Brady
1930
An American Jezebel
Helen Augur
Cover of Americanism vs. Bolshevism
1920
Americanism vs. Bolshevism
Ole Hanson
Cover of Anecdotes of the American Revolution
1844
Anecdotes of the American Revolution
Various
1898
Anglo-Saxon Superiority
Edmond Demolins
Cover of Archangel: The American War with Russia
1924
Archangel: The American War with Russia
John Cudahy
1922
Cecil Rhodes
Basil Williams
1897
Charles the Great
Thomas Hodgkin
1903
Civilisation in Congoland
Henry Richard Fox Bourne
Cover of Confessions of a War Correspondent
1917
Confessions of a War Correspondent
William G. Shepherd
Cover of Dry or Die
1913
Dry or Die
Clarence True Wilson
Cover of A French Volunteer of the War of Independence
1897
A French Volunteer of the War of Independence
Chevalier de Pontgibaud
Cover of Friedrich Nietzsche: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism
1914
Friedrich Nietzsche: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism
Georg Brandes
Cover of A Frontier Town and Other Essays
1906
A Frontier Town and Other Essays
Henry Cabot Lodge
Cover of German Revolution: 1918-1919
1922
German Revolution: 1918-1919
Ralph Haswell Lutz
Cover of Historical and Political Essays
1892
Historical and Political Essays
Henry Cabot Lodge
1874
A History of American Currency
William Graham Sumner
1846
A History of the American Revolution
John Lauris Blake
1880
A History of the Precious Metals
Alexander Del Mar
1924
Impressions of Soviet Russia
Charles Sarolea
Cover of In Defence of Terrorism
1920
In Defence of Terrorism
Leon Trotsky
Cover of Bolshevism: Mr. Keeling's Five Years in Russia
1919
Bolshevism: Mr. Keeling's Five Years in Russia
H.V. Keeling
Cover of Napoleonic Ideas
1839
Napoleonic Ideas
Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte III
1912
Pitt and Napoleon
J. Holland Rose
1922
Political Ideas of the American Revolution
Randolph Greenfield Adams
1927
The Real Story of the Pirate
A. Hyatt Verrill
1922
Red Dusk and the Morrow
Paul Dukes
1833
A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States
William M. Gouge
Cover of A Square Deal
1905
A Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
Cover of St. Paul and His Mission to the Roman Empire
1909
St. Paul and His Mission to the Roman Empire
Lord Sands
Cover of Twice-Born Men
1909
Twice-Born Men
Harold Begbie
Cover of War in Florida
1836
War in Florida
Woodburne Potter

The Duodecimo

the pocket sort

The smallest heft — pamphlets, orations, the sharp thing said quickly and kept close.

1876
The Age of Elizabeth
Mandell Creighton
Cover of Autobiography of a Reformed Drunkard
1845
Autobiography of a Reformed Drunkard
Anonymous
1920
Bolshevism at Work
William Thomas Goode
1885
Celtic Mythology and Religion
Alexander Macbain
Cover of Demosthenes
1926
Demosthenes
Georges Clémenceau
Cover of The Divine Right of Democracy
1922
The Divine Right of Democracy
Clarence True Wilson
1918
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
William Wood
Cover of French Maxims of the Stage
1894
French Maxims of the Stage
Henri Pene du Bois
1896
History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Edmund G. Ross
Cover of The Lay of the Last Minstrel
1805
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Walter Scott
Cover of Life Changers: More Twice-Born Men
1923
Life Changers: More Twice-Born Men
Harold Begbie
1918
The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims
A. C. Addison
1864
The Printer Boy
William Makepeace Thayer
Cover of Republics Established and Thrones Overturned by the Bible
1875
Republics Established and Thrones Overturned by the Bible
John Crowell
1846
Sam Houston and His Republic
C. Edwards Lester
1919
A Short English Constitutional History for Law Students
Edgar Hammond
1908
A Short History of Puritanism
James Heron
1921
Through Starving Russia
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
1897
What Gunpowder Plot Was
Samuel Rawson Gardiner