Saturday, January 2, 2010

List of Armour's books

The list is from Wikipedia, with some additions. Books owned by this collection are in bold type.

Title, Year, Subject/Notes
  1. Light Armour, 1954
  2. It all Started with Columbus, 1955, American history
  3. It all Started with Eve, 1956, (History of women)
  4. It all Started with Europa, 1955 European history
  5. It all Started with Marx, 1956, (History of communism)
  6. The Classics Reclassified, 1963, Famous books (parody)
  7. Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, 1957, Parody
  8. English Lit Relit, 1970, English Literature
  9. AmericanLit Relit, 1970, American Literature
  10. Nights with Armour, 1958, -
  11. Barry Cornwall: A biography of Bryan Waller Procter, 1935 -
  12. Punctured Poems, 1969 -
  13. Coleridge the Talker, 1940 Co-edited with Raymond F. Howes
  14. Our Presidents, 1983 Woodbridge Press, California. ISBN 0-88007-134-6
  15. It All Started with Hippocrates, 1966, Medicine
  16. The Medical Muse, 1963, (Humorous medical poetry)
  17. It all Started with Nudes, 1977 Art appreciation. Illustrated by Campbell Grant.
  18. Going Like Sixty, 1974, Humorous look at aging. McGraw-Hill, first Edition, first Printing, long inscription
  19. The Academic Bestiary, 1974, Humorous look at higher learning. William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1974 . ISBN 0-688-02884-5
  20. To These Dark Steps, 1943, Stage play (life of John Milton), with Bown Adams
  21. An Armoury of Light Verse, 1964
  22. For Partly Proud Parents, 1950, Light verse.
  23. Golf Bawls, 1946, Light verse.
  24. Private Lives, 1944, Light verse.
  25. The Spouse in the House, - Light verse.
  26. Yours for the Asking, - Light verse.
  27. Armour's Almanac, 1962
  28. Educated Guesses, 1983, Education (serious)
  29. A Diabolical Dictionary of Education, 1969
  30. Drug Store Days, 1959, Autobiography
  31. Going Around in Academic Circles, 1966, Higher education.
  32. Golf is a Four-Letter Word -
  33. The Happy Bookers, 1976, Librarians. Written with and Campbell Grant.
  34. It All Started with Freshman English -
  35. It All Started with Stones and Clubs, 1967, Warfare and weaponry.
  36. My Life with Women -
  37. Out of My Mind, 1972, About Bryan Waller Procter/Barry Cornwall
  38. A Safari into Satire, 1961
  39. A Short History of Sex, 1970
  40. Through Darkest Adolescence, 1963
  41. Punctured Poems: Famous First and Infamous Second Lines, 1982, Illustrated by Eric Gurney. Woodbridge Press
  42. Writing Light Verse and Prose Humour -
  43. All in sport, 1972, With drawings by Leo Hershfield. New York, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0070023026
  44. The Strange Dreams of Rover Jones -
  45. The Adventures of Egbert the Easter Egg - Children's book.
  46. All Sizes and Shapes of Monkeys and Apes - Children's book.
  47. Animals on the Ceiling - Children's book.
  48. A Dozen Dinosaurs - Children's book.
  49. Odd Old Mammals - Children's book.
  50. On Your Marks: A Package of Punctuation - Children's book.
  51. Sea Full of Whales, 1974, Children's book.
  52. Who's in Holes? - Children's book.
  53. Insects all around us, 1981
  54. Leading with my left, 1945, With caricatures by Joseph Forte.
  55. The Year Santa Went Modern, 1964, Children's book.
  56. Anyone for Insomnia? A Playful Look at Sleeplessness by a blear-eyed insomniac, 1982
See some of Armour's works in Poetry: An Introduction. 4th ed. Ed. Michael Meyer. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004.





The collection of books by Armour

This section will list the books in the collection, their condition, and note any inscriptions or signatures.

Going like Sixty
First edition, first printing.  With jacket.  Excellent condition.

"For Helen & Ken, whom we came to know in Freiburg in 1933 and were happy to have in our home in Claremont fourty-four years later, with the warm regards and best wishes of their playful, positive, personal writer about what can be a satisfying time of life, Dick  November 10, 1977"

Correspondence from Armour in the collection

This section will reproduce correspondence from Richard Armour to Helen and Kenneth Thompson.

Photos of Richard Armour

I believe there are photos of my parents during their stay in Germany.  These photos may show the Armours as well.

Richard Armour in Kenneth Thompson's memoir

Kenneth Thompson has an unpublished memoir, but it's not in my possession now.

Other memories of Armour