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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

1. A.

(Page: 1 - 100)


Abbey, Edward.The Brave Cowboy. New York: Pocket Books, 1957. PS3551.B2 B671 1957.
Abbott, Edwin Abbott.Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions. Illustrations by the Author, A. Square [i.e. E.A. Abbott], with an introduction by William Garnett. Oxford: Blackwell, 1944. QA699 .A21 1944.
Handwritten note from Linus Pauling to Crellin.
Abbott, William Norman and E.F. Fowler.A Collection of Articles on the Electrical Factor in Metabolism. Wellington: Commercial Print. Co., 1947. RB147 .A2 1947.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Abbott, William Norman.Poliomyelitis in Relation to the Recent Advances in Our Techniques and Concepts Concerning Protein, Radiation and Viruses. Wellington: Commercial Print. Co., 1948. RC180 .A61 1948.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Abelard, Miles R.Physicians of No Value : The Repressed Story of Ecclesiastical Flummery. Winter Park, Florida: Reality Publications, 1979. BL2775.2 .A23.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Abernathy, Robert, et al.The First World of If. Kingston, New York: Quinn Pub. Co., 1957. PS648.S3 W661 1957.
About, Edmond.Le Roi des Montagnes. Edited with introduction, notes, exercises and vocabulary by Frances B. Wilson. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. PQ2151 .R5 1919.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Abrahamson, E.M. and A.W. Pezet.Body, Mind, and Sugar. New York: Holt, 1951. RC857 .A2.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling. Handwritten note to Linus Pauling.
Abramoff, Peter and Robert G. Thomson.Laboratory Outlines in Biology. II. San Francisco: Freeman, 1972. QH317 .A21 1972.
Abramowitz, Isidore.The Great Prisoners ... The First Anthology of Literature Written in Prison. Selected and edited by Isidore Abramowitz. With analytical introductions to the time and place and circumstances of each prisoner and imprisonment, a general preface to the whole, and a selected bibliography. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, inc., 1946. PN6014 .A2.
Handwritten note on front free endpage.
Abrams, Irwin.The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates : An Illustrated Biographical History, 1901-1987. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. JX1962.A2 A25 1988.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Abramson, Paul R.Political Attitudes in America : Formation and Change. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1983. HN90.P8 A27 1983.
Academia Republicii Socialiste România.Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania : Organization [and] Research. Bucharest: Academia Republicii Socialiste România, 1965. AS345 .B3931 1965.
Accra Assembly (Organization).Selections from the Papers of "The Accra Assembly" / [edited by Julian Mayfield]. Accra, Ghana: Government Printing Dept., 1963. JX1974.7 .S441 1963.
Data sheet laid in.
Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution.The Triple Revolution. Santa Barbara, California: The Committee, 1964. HM221 .A3 1964.
Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Aims and Goals.Aims and Goals of the California Institute of Technology. A preliminary report. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, 1969. T171 .C15321 1969.
Adams, John M.Viruses and Colds; The Modern Plague. New York: American Elsevier, 1967. RF361 .A3.
Adams, Ruth and Frank Murray.Body, Mind, and the B Vitamins. New York: Larchmont Books, 1972. RM259 .A3241 1972.
Adams, Ruth and Frank Murray.Megavitamin Therapy. New York: Larchmont Books, 1973. RM259 .A31 1973.
Adams, Ruth and Frank Murray.Minerals: Kill or Cure? New York: Larchmont, 1974. RA784 .A321 1974.
Adams, Ruth and Frank Murray.The Good Seeds, the Rich Grains, the Hardy Nuts for a Healthier, Happier Life. New York: Larchmont Books, 1973. RA776.75 .A31 1973.
Adams, Ruth and Frank Murray.Vitamin C, the Powerhouse Vitamin, Conquers More than Just Colds. New York: Larchmont Press, 1972. QP772.A8 A3331 1972b.
Adams, Ruth and Frank Murray.Vitamin C, the Powerhouse Vitamin, Conquers More than Just Colds. New York: Manor Books Inc., 1972. QP772.A8 A3331 1972.
Adams, Ruth.Eating in Eden : The Nutritional Superiority of "Primitive" Foods. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1976. TX353 .A3 1976.
Adams, Ruth.The Complete Home Guide to All the Vitamins. New York: Larchmont Books, 1972. TX553.V5 A31 1972.
Addams, Jane.Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader. New York: Macmillan, 1960. HN5 .A3 1960.
Handwritten note sheet laid in.
Addinall, Carl Rupert.The Story of Vitamin B1. Rahway, New Jersey: Merck and Co. Inc., 1937. QP801.V5 A331 1937.
Adelung, Johann Christof.Mithridates, oder, Allgemeine Sprachenkunde : mit den Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in bey nahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten. Berlin: Vossische Buchhandlung, 1806-1817. P201 .A31 1806.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Adlam, George Henry Joseph and Leslie Slater Price.A Higher School Certificate Inorganic Chemistry. London: John Murray, 1947. QD151 .A351 1947.
Adler, Francis Heed.Adler's Textbook of Ophthalmology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1969. RE46 .G5 1969.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Adler, Irving.How Life Began. Illustrated by Ruth Adler. With a pref. by Linus Pauling. New York: New American Library, 1957. QH325 .A3.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author. Handwritten note on inside front cover.
Adriani, John.The Chemistry of Anesthesia. Springfield, Illinois: C.G. Thomas, 1946. RD81 .A28 1946.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Adriani, John.The Pharmacology of Anesthetic Drugs; A Syllabus for Students and Clinicians. Springfield, Illinois: Thomas, 1960. RD81 .A3 1960.
Adrianus, P. Aelius, Emperor of Rome.Translations, literal and free, of the dying Hadrian's address to his soul. Collected and arranged by David Johnston. Bath: Chronicle Office, 1876. PA3998.H13 .A251 1876.
Handwritten note to Ava Helen from Linus Pauling on the front free endpage.
Afro-Asiatisches Solidaritätskomitee in der DDR. Vietnam-Ausschuss.The Truth about U.S. Aggression in Vietnam; GDR Authors Unmask Imperialist Crimes. Berlin: Vietnam Commission of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee of the German Democratic Republic, 1972. DS557.A63 T78 1972.
Agran, Larry.The Cancer Connection : And What We Can Do About It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. RC268 .A37 1977.
Agras, W. Stewart.Panic : Facing Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety. New York: Freeman, 1985. RC535 .A37 1985.
Agreement on Diplomatic Relations between Finland and the GDR Initialed. Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1972. JX1796 .A85.
Ahmed, Paul I., ed.Living and Dying with Cancer. New York: Elsevier, 1981. RC262 .L52.
Airola, Paavo O.Cancer : Causes, Prevention and Treatment; The Total Approach. Phoenix, Arizona: Health Plus, 1972. RC263 .A571 1972.
Ajisaka, Tsugio.Education by Dr. Obara. Tokyo: Tamagawa University Parks, 1960. LB775.O3 A51 1960.
Akademiia nauk SSSR.Vitamin B15 (Pangamic Acid) : Properties, Functions and Use. Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1964. RM666.P28 V571 1964.
Akihito, Emperor of Japan and Empress Michiko.Tomoshibi. English and Japanese; Tomoshibi = Light : Collected Poetry. Edited by Marie Philomene and Masako Saito. New York: Weatherhill, 1991. PL845.K456 T66 1991.
Akizuki, Tatsuichiro.Nagasaki 1945 : The First Full-Length Eyewitness Account of the Atomic Bomb Attack on Nagasaki. Translated by Keiichi Nagata; edited and with an introduction by Gordon Honeycombe. London: Quartet Books, 1981. D767.25.N3 A3613 1981.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Al-Haq/Law in the Service of Man (Organization: Rām Allāh).Punishing a Nation : Human Rights Violations during the Palestinian Uprising. Ramallah, West Bank: Al-Haq/Law in the Service of Man, 1988. DS119.75 .P86 1988.
Alameda County Cancer Registry.Incidence of Cancer in Alameda County, California, 1960-1964. Berkeley: Dept. of Public Health, 1967. RC277.C3 A73 1967.
Albert, David H., ed.Tell the American People : Perspectives on the Iranian Revolution. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Movement for a New Society, 1980. DS318.8 .T44.
Albrecht, Gustav.Scientific Publications of Linus Pauling. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1968. QD22.P3 A4331 1968.
Alder, Henry L. and Edward B. Roessler.Introduction to Probability and Statistics. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1968. QA273 .A43 1968.
Alder, Henry L. and Edward B. Roessler.Introduction to Probability and Statistics. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1972. QA273 .A43 1972.
Aldiss, Brian W. ed.Penguin Science Fiction : an anthology. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1965. PS648.S3 A351 1965.
Alexander, Dale.Good Health and Common Sense. West Hartford, Connecticut: Witkower Press, 1960. RA784 .A531 1960.
Handwritten note to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling from the author.
Alexander, Dale.The Common Cold and Common Sense : How You Catch the Common Cold and How You Can Avoid It. West Hartford, Connecticut: Witkower Press, 1971. RC82 .A571 1971.
Handwritten note to Linus and Ava Helen Pauling from the author.
Alexander, Dale.The Common Cold and Common Sense; How You Catch the Common Cold and How You Can Avoid It. Los Angeles: Nash Pub. 1971. RC82 .A571 1971b.
Alexander, Dan Dale.Arthritis and Common Sense; illustrated, with menus. Hartford: Witkower Press, 1953. RC933 .A31 1953.
Handwritten note to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling from the author.
Alexander, Dan Dale.Healthy Hair and Common Sense. West Hartford, Connecticut: Witkower Press, 1969. RL91 .A431 1969.
Handwritten note to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling from the author.
Alexander, Jerome.Life, Its Nature and Origin. New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1948. QH325 .A45.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Alexander, Josephine.America through the Eye of My Needle : Common Sense for the '80s. New York: Dial Press, 1981. HC106.7 .A365.
Alexander, Martha.Sabrina. New York: Dial Press, 1971. PZ7.A3777 Sab 1971.
Handwritten note to Linus and Ava Helen Pauling from the author.
Alexander, Peter.Atomic Radiation and Life. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1965. QH652 .A61 1965.
Alfvén, Hannes and Kerstin.M-70 [i.e. M-sjuttio] English; Living on the Third Planet Translated by Eric Johnson. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1972. HN17.5 .A4513 1972.
Handwritten ownership signature and note of Linus Pauling.
Alfvén, Hannes and Olof Johannesson.Sagan om den stora datamaskinen. English; The Tale of the Big Computer: A Vision. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. PT9876.22.A28 W31 1968.
Alfvén, Hannes et al.Max-Planck-Festschrift 1958; mit Beitragen von H. Alfven [et al.] Hrsg. von B. Kockel, W. Macke [und] A. Papapetrou; redigiert und bearb. von W. Frank. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1959. QC3 .M26.
All Souls Church (Washington, D.C.).Memorial Service for Clifford J. Durrs. S.l.: s.n., 1975. KF373.D87 M46 1975.
Handwritten note from Virginia Durr.
Allen, Charles R. Jr.Concentration Camps, U.S.A.. New York: Marzani and Munsell, 1966. HV8964.U5 A62 1966.
TLS to Ava Helen Pauling laid in.
Allen, Charles Russell.Heusinger of the Fourth Reich. New York: Marzani and Munsell, 1963. DD247.H38 A7.
Gift inscription on front free endpaper from Ruth Frank. Handwritten note to Linus and Ava Helen Pauling.
Allen, Steve.The Ground is Our Table. With photos. by Arthur Dubinsky. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1966. HD1525 .A6.
Handwritten note to Linus and Ava Helen Pauling from the photographer.
Alley, Rewi.A highway, and an Old Chinese Doctor; A Story of Travel through Unoccupied China during the War of Resistance, and Some Notes on Chinese Medicine. Christchurch, New Zealand: Caxton Press, 1973. DS710 .A553 1973.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Alley, Rewi.Beyond the Withered Oak Ten Thousand Saplings Grow; poems, chosen and edited by H. Winston Rhodes. Christchurch, N.Z.: Caxton Press, 1962. PR6001.L6725 B4 1962.
Autographed copy.
Alley, Rewi.Chinese Children. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1972. DS725 .A65 1972.
Alley, Rewi.Prisoners, Shanghai 1936. Christchurch, New Zealand: Caxton Press, 1973. PR9639.3.A5 P751 1973.
Autographed copy.
Alley, Rewi.Refugees from Viet Nam in China. Beijing, China: New World Press, 1980. HV640.5.V5 A44 1980.
Alley, Rewi.Travels in China, 1966-71. Peking: New World Press, 1973. DS711 .A733 1973.
Alley, Rewi.Upsurge, Asia and the Pacific; poems. Christchurch, New Zealand: Caxton Press, 1969. PR6001.L6725 U6 1969.
Autographed copy.
Alley, Rewi.Winds of Change; poems. Christchurch, New Zealand.: Caxton Press, 1972. PR6001.L6725 W53 1972.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Alperovitz, Gar.Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam; The Use of the Atomic bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. E813 .A57.
Handwritten ownsership signature of Linus Pauling.
Alpert, Joseph S. and James M. Rippe.Manual of Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. RC667 .A39 1980.
Alplaus, N.Y.The Watergate Cookbook. Charlestown, Massachusetts: Emporium Publications, 1973. TX715 .A46.
Alsleben, H. Rudolph and Wilfrid E. Shute.How to Survive the New Health Catastrophes. Anaheim, California: Survival Publications, 1973. RC669 .A48.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Altenpohl, D.G., ed.Informatization, the Growth of Limits. Contributors, D.G. Altenpohl ... [et al.]. Düsseldorf: Aluminium-Verlag, 1985. HC79.T4 I545 1985.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Altman, Philip L. and Dorothy S. Dittmer, eds.Metabolism. Bethesda, Maryland: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 1968. QP141 .A52 1968.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Altschul, Rudolf, ed.Niacin in Vascular Disorders and Hyperlipemia. With contributions by Rudolf Altschul [and others]. Springfield, Illinois: Thomas, 1964. QP801.V5 A517 1964.
Alyea, Hubert Newcombe.My Life as a Chemist. As Recorded for the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry. Philadelphia: Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, 1991. QD22.A49 A31 1991.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Amaldi, Edoardo and Schaerf, Carlo, eds.Proceedings of the Second Course, 15-26 July 1968, Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy. Frascati: International Summer School on Disarmament and Arms Control, 1968. JX1974 .I597 1968.
Poster and future conference information laid in.
Ameisenowa, Zofia.Kodeks Baltazara Behema. Warszawa: Auriga, 1961. ND3235.P63 B431 1961.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The Amory Prize Lectures : 1947, by Charles Huggins, 1954, by Terence Millin. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1958. Q11 .A41 1958.
American Chemical Society, Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry; University of Wisconsin; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.Symposium on the Kinetics of Homogeneous Gas Reactions / University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, June 20-22, 1939, Division of physical and inorganic chemistry of the American chemical society and the University of Wisconsin cooperating with section C of the American association for the advancement of science and aided by the Wisconsin alumni research foundation. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: [s.n.], 1939. QC175 .S91 1939.
American Civil Liberties Union.The Trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn by the American Civil Liberties Union. Edited by Corliss Lamont. New York: Horizon Press, 1968. JC599.U5 A4915.
American Foundation.Medical Research: A Midcentury Survey. Boston: Published for the American Foundation by Little, Brown, 1955. R854.U5 A7.
Handwritten note of Linus Pauling.
American Orthopsychiatric Association and World Federation for Mental Health.Behavioral Science and Human Survival. Edited by Milton Schwebel. Palo Alto, California: Science and Behavior Books, 1965. CB425 .S37.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
American Society for Metals.Age Hardening of Metals. This book contains the papers and discussions constituting the symposium on precipitation hardening (age hardening) presented before the twenty-first annual convention of the American Society for Metals held in Chicago, October 23 to 27, 1939. Cleveland: Tower Press, 1940. TN673 .A48.
American Society for Metals.Theory of Alloy Phases; A Seminar on Theory of Alloy Phases Held During the Thirty-Seventh National Metal Congress and Exposition, Philadelphia, October 15 to 21, 1955. Cleveland: 1956. QD135 .A48.
Ownership stamp of Linus Pauling.
Amiel, Jean.Cours de Chimie; Maîtrise de Sciences Physiques, Concours de Recrutement des Professeurs Enseignant dans le Second Degré. Paris: Dunod, 1969. QD31 .A48 1969.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Amis, Kingsley.I Like It Here. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1968. PR6001.M6 I2 1968.
Amrine, Michael.The Great Decision: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Putnam, 1959. D767.2 .A5.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Ananchenko, S.N., ed.Frontiers of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Moscow and Tashkent, USSR, 25 September-2 October 1978. Oxford; New York: Pergamon Press, 1980. QP501 .I487 1978.
Anand, Mulk Raj, Charles Fabri, and Stella Kramrisch.Homage to Khajuraho. Bombay, India: Marg Publications, 1962. NA6008.K5 A53 1962.
Anatolii, A. and Anatoly Kuznetsov.Babii IAr. English; Babi Yar : A Documentary Novel. Translated by Jacob Guralsky, illustrations by S. Brodsky. New York: Dell, 1967. PG3478.8.U894 B23 1967.
Anders, Günther.Der Mann auf der Brucke, Tagebuch aus Hiroshima und Nagasaki. München: Beck, 1959. D767.25.H6 A5.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten note to Ava Helen and Linus Pauling from the author.
Anders, Günther.Die Toten. Rede uber die drei Weltkriege (am 24. Okt. 1964 auf einer Friedensveranstaltung zu Mainz). Köln: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1964. D844 .A59.
Handwritten note by author.