Take Phil’s Books (Pay What You Will)

In an effort to declutter my life I’ve decided to give away books that I know I’ll never read again.  My hope is that they’ll find their way into happy homes or at least temporary ownership of other people who get at least one good read out of them.

Here’s the deal:  I’m asking for a little something in return.  Rather than going to eBay and getting each book’s (ahem) fair market price, I turn to the people I know to take these books off my hands at whatever price seems fair and appropriate to you. If you just need a few books to fill your shelves, I’ll give these things to you for free (you could probably offer to cover shipping or bus fare or buy me a drink or something).

If you say to yourself, “This Phil Wells guy seems on the level and, furthermore, he’s getting married soon and paying off an engagement ring and looking to start a new household.  I’m going to surprise him with a big fat donation in exchange for a token gift of one of his old books,” then who am I to shake apart your unique vision?

Claim them in the comments.  Pay what you will (email me for details).  Crossed-out books have already been claimed.  These books are on offer:

Doubt —Jennifer Michael Hecht
When Work Disappears —William Julius Wilson
Teach Yourself Alexander Technique —the Teach Yourself people
The Art of Dramatic Writing —Lajos Egri
Playing Commedia —Barry Grantham
Goat —Brad Land
Fast Food Nation —Eric Schlosser
Hard Wired —Walter Jon Williams
Grant Writing for Dummies
Impro    —Keith Johnstone
Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly —Charles Ludlam
Dan Rice —David Carlton
Republic —Plato
Acting One —Cohen
When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops —George Carlin
Breaking the News —James Fallows
The Prince —Machiavelli
The Major Plays —Anton Chekov
Curtains for Three —Rex Stout
McNally’s Secret —Lawrence Sanders
If You Meet the Buddha In The Road, Kill Him —Sheldon B. Kopp
The Elements of Style —Strunk & White
The Spell of the Sensuous —David Abram
The Fabric of the Cosmos —Brian Greene
How to Know God —Deepak Chopra
A Short History of Nearly Everything —Bill Bryson
Possible Experience: Understanding Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason —Arthur Collins
The World Is Flat —Thomas L. Friedman
Awaken the Giant Within —Anthony Robbins
How to Stop Acting —Harold Guskin
The Princes of Ireland —Edward Rutherfurd
Secrets of a Freelance Writer —Robert W. Bly
A Very Good Year —Mike Weiss
Meet You In Hell —Les Standiford
What Would Your Character Do? —Maisel and Maisel
High Fidelity —Nick Hornby
The Seinfeld Scripts: The First and Second Season —Seinfeld, I guess
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind —Julian Jaynes
The Garfield Treasury (Parts 1 & 3) —Jim Davis
Soaring Spirit: 35 Years of the Ford Thunderbird —Katz
The Difference Engine —William Gibson
The Ghost Hunter’s Guidebook —Troy Taylor
A Challenge For the Actor —Uta Hagen
Theatre of the Oppressed —Augusto Boal
How to Write a Selling Screenplay —Christopher Keane
The Little Pilates Book —Erica Dillman
Small is Beautiful —E. F. Schumacher
Jump the Shark —Jon Hein
Fundamentals of Physics —Halliday, Resnick, Walker
The Player of Games —Iain M. Banks
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles —Some Dude
Six-Figure Freelancing —James Enger
The Aquitaine Progression —Robert Ludlum
The Naked and the Dead —Norman Mailer
Snow Crash —Neal Stephenson
Mostly Harmless —Douglas Adams
Damn! That’s Funny —Gene Perret
The Road —Cormac McCarthy
Stuff White People Like —Christian Lander
Fraud —David Rakoff
Clown Act Omnibus —McVicar
How to Read a Play —Ronald Hayman
The Art of the Laugh —John Sweeney
Acquainted With the Night —Spaar
Writing For Quick Cash —Oberlin
The Stage Manager’s Handbook —Gruver Hamilton
An Inconvenient Wife —Megan Chance
The Alexander Technique —Edward Maisel
MicroSoft Excel 2007 For Dummies —Some Guy
Captivate: The Definitive Guide —Huettner
The WPA Guide to California
How to Audition —Gordon Hunt
Commedia del’Arte —John Rudlin
The House of Sleep —Jonathan Coe
The Sum of All Fears —Tom Clancy
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories —Franz Kafka
Pride and Prejudice —Jane Austen
Skinny Dip —Carl Hiaasen
Alan Greenspan: the Age of Turbulence —Alan Greenspan
Bowling Alone —Robert D. Putnam
Born Standing Up —Steve Martin
An Acrobat of the Heart —Steven Wangh
The Manchurian Candidate —Richard Condon
The Automatic Millionaire —David Bach
The Golden Ratio —Mario Livio
Nickel and Dimed —Barbara Ehrenreich
Teach Yourself Ethics —the Teach Yourself people
Start Your Own Blogging Business
Victorian America —Thomas J. Schlereth
…And the Horse He Rode In On —James Carville
Stupid White Men —Michael Moore
Dreaming of Babylon —Richard Brautigan
The Black Marble —Joseph Wambaugh
Guns, Germs, and Steel —Jared  Diamond
Getting the Love You Want —Harville Hendrix, PhD
Asimov’s Utopia —Allen
Exiles: Volume I —Melanie Rawn
Warriors of the Way —Harry Harrison
A Raisin in the Sun —Jamaica Kincaid
Great Expectations —Charles Dickens
Nectar in a Sieve —Kamala Markandaya
Simulacra and Simulation —Baudrillard
CB Bible —Some Trucker
Anthem —Ayn Rand
Forgotten Heroes —Brian Herbert
AD&D Player’s Handbook (First Edition) —Gary Gygax
Peace Is Every Step —Thich Nhat Hanh
AD&D 2nd Edition Book of Artifacts
AD&D 2nd Edition Complete Thief’s Handbook
HOL: Human Occupied Landfill
The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer’s Bible
Ready, Aim, Specialize! —James-Enger
American Prometheus (Oppenheimer Biography) —Kai Bird
Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers 6th Edition
The Rebels of Ireland — Edward Rutherfurd