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Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, 1873-2013

17. Pauling Personal Library. 1806-1998.

The 4,000+ volumes that form the personal library of Linus and Ava Helen Pauling are detailed in this section. Arranged according to author's last name, the books in the Personal Library bibliography are illustrative of the Paulings' many interests -- from pure science to sociological surveys to detective stories to crossword puzzles.


4,111 books

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Vacher, Arthur.A Primer of Chemistry : Including Analysis. London: Churchill, 1877. QD40 .V341 1877.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Valenstein, Elliot S., ed.The Psychosurgery Debate : Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1980. RD594 .P73.
Vallières, Pierre.Nègres Blancs d'Amérique. English; White Niggers of America; The Precocious Autobiography of a Quebec "Terrorist". Translated by Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971. F1027 .V313.
Van Druten, John.The Distaff Side. A comedy of women in three acts. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1934. PR6043.A4 D5 1934.
Van der Post, Laurens.The Heart of the Hunter. With drawings by Maurice Wilson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, in association with Hogarth Press, 1965. DT764.B8 V31 1965.
Van der Post, Laurens.The Seed and the Sower. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966. PR9369.3.V33 S41 1966.
Vander, Arthur J.Human Physiology and the Environment in Health and Disease : readings from Scientific American with introductions. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1976. QP82 .H93.
Vander, Arthur J.Nutrition, Stress, and Toxic Chemicals : An Approach to Environment-Health Controversies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981. RB151 .V33.
Vaux, Kenneth L.Subduing the Cosmos; Cybernetics and Man's Future. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1970. BJ59 .V35.
Veljkovic, Veljko.A Theoretical Approach to the Preselection of Carcinogens and Chemical Carcinogenesis. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1980. RC268.6 .V4413.
Book review by Linus Pauling laid in. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling laid in.
Verlag Zeit im Bild.Dresden : A Commitment to Peace. Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1985. D757.9.D7 D74 1985.
Vernes, Arthur.Qu'Apporte l'Institut Prophylactique? Paris: Les Editions inter-nationales, 1967. R45.I57 V41 1967.
Verrett, Jacqueline and Jean Carper.Eating May be Hazardous to Your Health. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1975. TX553.A3 V461 1975.
Verwey, Evert Johannes Willem and Jan Theodoor Gerard Overbeek.Theory of the Stability of Lyophobic Colloids; The Interaction of Sol Particles Having an Electric Double Layer With the Collaboration of K. van Nes. New York: Elsevier Pub. Co., 1948. QD549 .V452.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Vickery, Donald M. and James F. Fries.Take Care of Yourself : A Consumer's Guide to Medical Care. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1976. RC81 .V5 1976.
Viet Nam; A sketch. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1971. DS557.A7 V418 1971.
Vietnam Working Party, American Friends Service Committee.Peace in Vietnam; A New Approach in Southeast Asia; a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee [by a working party]. New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. DS557.A6 F73.
Vietnamese literature / Historical Background, Nguyên Khac Viên; presentation of authors and works, Huu Ngoc, translation, Mary Cowan. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1980. PL4378.55.E5 L58 1980.
Vighi, Roberto.The New Museum of Villa Giulia. Intraduction [!] by Renato Bartoccini. Rome: Tipografia Artistica, 1955. N2932 .A571 1955.
Info sheets on Linus Pauling laid in.
Villars, P. and L.D. Calvert.Pearson's Handbook of Crystallographic Data for Intermetallic Phases. Materials Park, Ohio: ASM International, 1991. TN690.4 .V55 1991.
Villars, P. and L.D. Calvert.Pearson's Handbook of Crystallographic Data for Intermetallic Phases. Metals Park, Ohio: American Society for Metals, 1985. TN690.4 .P43 1985.
Vincent, Eric W. and Percival Hinton.The University of Birmingham, Its History and Significance. Birmingham, England: Cornish brothers ltd., 1947. LF35 .V5 1947.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling.
Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl.Cellularpathologie. English; Cellular Pathology as Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology. Translated from the 2d German ed. by Frank Chance. With a new introductory essay by L.J. Rather. New York: Dover Publications, 1971. RB25 .V82 1971.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling.
Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl.Disease, Life, and Man, Selected Essays. Translated and with an introd. by Lelland J. Rather. New York: Collier Books, 1962. R117 .V51 1962.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling on back inside cover.
Virgil.Virgil's Aeneid Books I-VI. With introduction, notes, and vocabulary, by H.R. Fairclough and Seldon L. Brown. Boston, New York: B.H. Sanborn and Co., 1913. PA6111.S8 V5 1913.
Handwritten ownership signature and notes of Linus Pauling.
Vision : Education of Tamagawa. Tokyo: Tamagawa University Press, 1970. LG271 .T231 1970.
Vitiello, Gregory A., ed.Pegasus on America. New York: Mobil Services Co., 1975. E18 .P41 1975.
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Vitoria, Francisco de.Die Grundsatze des Staats- und Volkerrechts bei Francisco de Vitoria / Antonio Truyol Serra, ed. Zürich: Thomas Verlag, 1947. JX2158 .P715 1947.
Vladimir, Rojansky.Introductory Quantum Mechanics. New York: Prentice-Hall, inc., 1938. QC174.1 .R6.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Vlavianos-Arvanitis, Agni, ed.The Bio-Environment. Athens, Greece: Biopolitics International Organisation, 1988. JA75.8 .B561 1988.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Võ, Nguyên Giáp.People's War against U.S. Aero-Naval War. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1975. DS557.7 .V633.
Vogl, Otto and Edmund H. Immergut, eds.Polymer Science in the Next Decade : Trends, Opportunities, Promises : An International Symposium Honoring Herman F. Mark on His 90th birthday. New York: Wiley, 1987. QD380 .P644 1987.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Volkenshtein, Mikhail Vladimirovich.Stroenie i fizicheskie svoistva molekul. German; Struktur und physikalische Eigenschaften der Molekule. [Deutsche Ubersetzung: Klaus Gottel, et al.]. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1960. QC173 .V81616.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Volpe, Erminio Peter.Human Heredity and Birth Defects. New York: Pegasus, 1971. RB155 .V65.
Voltaire.Saul. Adapted from the French version with historical notes and comments by Maurice Huet, ed. Privately printed, 1959. PQ2077.S5 H81 1959.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author. Of the 250 copies privately printed in 1959, this is number 4.
Von Hippel, Arthur Robert.Dielectric Materials and Applications; Papers by Twenty-Two Contributors. Cambridge: Technology Press of M.I.T.; New York: Wiley, 1954. QC585 .V6 1954b.
Von Hippel, Arthur Robert.Molecular Science and Molecular Engineering. In collaboration with Richard B. Adler [and others]. New York: Published jointly by the Technology Press of M.I.T. and J. Wiley, 1959. QC173 .V6.
Ownership stamp of Linus Pauling.
Von Neumann, John.The Computer and the Brain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. QA76 .V6.
Ownership stamp of Linus Pauling. 1 page typed book review by Linus Pauling laid in.
Vos, Bert John.Essentials of German. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914. PF3111 .V951 1914.
Handwritten ownership signatures of Linus paulting and Ava Helen Pauling. Handwritten notes.
Vu, Can.North Viet Nam : A Daily Resistance. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1975. DS560.4 .V82.