Piled To The Rafters

More books than I know what to do with.  Books given to me from my parents (mainly from my father's youth [special notes about the book or handwriting inside the book is detailed in brackets]), in no particular order:

• Kingdom Songs, The choicest hymns and gospel songs of all the earth, for general use in church services, Sunday schools, and young people's meetings, edited and compiled by I.E. Reynolds and Robert H. Coleman, published by Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tenn., (c) 1921
• The Music Hour, Two-Book Course, Upper Grades, (c) 1934, 1938, by Silver Burdett Company
• The Modern Hymnal, copyright page missing [from Central Baptist Church, Fountain City, TN]
• Bible Picture ABC Book, by Elsie E. Egermeier, (c) 1924, 1939 by Gospel Trumpet Company [To Richard Capps/Hill, "From Mam-maw, Christmas 1942"]
• Billy Graham Campaign Songs, Singing Evangelism, Compiled by Cliff Barrows, (c) 1950 by the Rodeheaver, Hall-Mack Company
• Blaze of Noon, by Ernest K. Gann, (c) 1946 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
• On The Bottom, by Commander Edward Ellsberg, (c) 1928, 1929; (c) 1944 by Dodd, Mead & Company [from Springfield Hospital, Springfield, Mass.]
• Victory Through Air Power, by Major Alexander P. De Seversky, (c) 1942 by Simon and Schuster
• Aerial Warfare, The Story of the Aeroplane as a Weapon, by Hal Goodwin, (c) 1943 by The Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.
• Queen of the Flat-Tops, The U.S.S. Lexington and the Coral Sea Battle, by Stanley Johnston, (c) 1942 by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. ["The information herein has been inspected by the Office of Censorship, which found no objection."]
• Daniel Boone, Master of the Wilderness, by John Bakeless, (c) 1939, published by William Morrow & Company
• War Planes of all Nations, by William Winter, (c) 1943 [from USS Casa Grande - LSD 13]
• Bob and Alf Taylor, Their Lives and Lectures, The Story of Senator Robert Love Taylor and Governor Alfred Alexander Taylor, by Paul Deresco Augsburg, (c) 1925 by Morristown Book Company, Inc.
• The Philosophy of the Christian Religion, by Andrew Martin Fairburn, M.A., D.D., LL. D, (c) 1902 by The MacMillan Company ["Thelma Eldridge Senior 1934," Carson Newman]
• Masters of English Literature, Volume I, Edited by Paul Spencer Wood, (c) 1947
• English Writers, Revised Edition, (c) 1940 by Tom Peete Cross, Reed Smith, Elmer C. Stauffer, and Elizabeth Collette in the Philippine Islands ["Jean Raulston"]
• Someone Cares, The Collected Poems of Helen Steiner Rice, (c) 1972 by Fleming H. Revell Company ["To Rick with love from Nana, Christmas 1980"]

To paraphrase a popular saying, I don't have time to die - I have too many books to read!