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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

12. L.

(Page: 1 - 100)


Lachman, Arthur.Borderland of the Unknown; The Life Story of Gilbert Newton Lewis, One of the World's Great Scientists. New York: Pageant Press, 1955. QD22.L57 L3 1955.
Handwritten note from the author.
Lachman, Leon, Herbert A. Lieberman and Joseph L. Kanig, eds.The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy. With 35 contributors. Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1970. RS192 .L33.
Lackner, Stephan.Friedfertige Natur. English; Peaceable Nature : An Optimistic View of Life on Earth. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1984. BD581 .L1813 1984.
La Compagnie Canadienne de l'Exposition universelle de 1967.Terre des Hommes. Man and His World. Photo Faber, introduction Gabrielle Roy. Montreal: La Compagnie Canadienne de l'Exposition universelle de 1967. T752 1967 .T45.
Lader, Lawrence.Breeding Ourselves to Death. With a foreword by Paul R. Ehrlich. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. HB875 .L34.
La Fayette, Madame de Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne.La Princesse de Cleves Roman. Avec une notice biographique, une notice historique et litteraire, des notes explicatives, des jugements, un questionnaire sur le roman et des sujets de devoirs, par Maurice Favergeat. Paris: Larousse, 1941. PQ1805.L5 A71 1941.
La Fontaine, Jean de.Fables. Chronologie et introduction par Antoine Adam. PQ1808 .A1 1966.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling.
LaFollette, Douglas and Anderson, Peter.Wisconsin's Survival Handbook. Racine, Wisconsin: Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, 1971. HC107.W63 E54 1971.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Låg, Jul, ed.Excess and Deficiency of Trace Elements in Relation to Human and Animal Health in Arctic and Subarctic Regions. Oslo: Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1990. QP534 .E94 1990.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Låg, Jul, ed.Human and Animal Health in Relation to Circulation Processes of Selenium and Cadmium. Oslo: Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1991. RA1231.S45 H85 1991.
Laguerre, Michael.The Four Scriptural Mysteries and Their Revealed Interpretations. New York: Carlton Press, 1972. BL610 .L31 1972.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author laid in.
Lamb, Helen Boyden.The Tragedy of Vietnam; Where Do We Go from Here? New York: Basic Pamphlets, 1964. DS557.A6 L26.
Lamont, Corliss.Freedom is As Freedom Does; Civil Liberties Today. New York: Horizon Press, 1956. JC599.U5 L26.
Autographed copy. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Lamont, Corliss.The Philosophy of Humanism. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1982. B821 .L33 1982.
Lamont, Corliss.The Philosophy of Humanism. New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. B821 .L33 1957.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Lamorie, Andrew.How They Sold Our Canada to the U.S.A. Gravenhurst, Ontario: Northern Book House, 1963. E183.8.C2 L3.
Lander, Louise.Defective Medicine : Risk, Anger, and the Malpractice Crisis. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1978. R729 .L36 1978.
Landeshauptstadt-Messestadt.Hannover : Landeshauptstadt, Messestadt. Hannover: Steinbock-Verlag, 1964. DD801.H1644 H31 1964.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Landsteiner, Karl.The Specificity of Serological Reactions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1945. QR181 .L2 1945.
Handwritten ownsership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Landsteiner, Karl.The Specificity of Serological Reactions. Springfield, Illinois; Baltimore, Maryland: C.C. Thomas, 1936. QR181 .L2.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling. Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling laid in.
Lane, Anthony Milner.Nuclear Theory; Pairing Force Correlations and Collective Motion. New York: W.A. Benjamin, 1964. QC173 .L26.
Lane, I. William and Linda Comac.Sharks Don't Get Cancer. Garden City Park, New York: Avery Pub., 1992. RC271.S55 L363 1992.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling laid in. Laid in is 1 page TLS from the publisher. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Lane, Mark.Conversations with Americans. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. DS557.A67 L28.
Lane, Mark.Rush to Judgment; A Critique of the Warren Commission's Inquiry into the Murders of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J.D. Tippit, and Lee Harvey Oswald. With an introd. by Hugh Trevor-Roper. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. E842.9 .L3.
Handwritten ownership signature of Ava Helen Pauling.
Lane, Mark and Dick Gregory.Code Name "Zorro" : The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1977. E185.97.K5 L3.
Lange, Norbert Adolph and Gordon M. Forker, eds.Handbook of Chemistry, a Reference Volume for all Requiring Ready Access to Chemical and Physical Data Used in Laboratory Work and Manufacturing ... with an appendix of mathematical tables and formulas by Richard Stevens Burington. Sandusky, Ohio: Handbook publishers, Inc., 1946. TP151 .L331 1946.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling. Handwritten ownsership signature of Linus Pauling.
Langer, Susanne Katherina Knauth.Philosophical Sketches. New York: New American Library, 1964. B945.L273 P45 1964.
Lanham, Edwin.Murder on My Street. Penguin, 1961. PS3523.A612 M871 1961.
Lansdell, Norman.The Atom and the Energy Revolution. New York: Philosophical Library, 1958. HD9698.A2 L34.
Ownership stamp of Linus Pauling.
Lanza, Robert, ed.Medical Science and the Advancement of World Health. New York: Praeger, 1985. R853.S64 M43 1985.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Lanza, Robert, ed.One World : The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Health Press, 1996. RA441 .O54 1996.
Lapp, Ralph Eugene.Atoms and People. New York: Harper, 1956. QC778 .L32.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Lapp, Ralph Eugene.Kill and Overkill; The Strategy of Annihilation. New York: Basic Books, 1962. UA11 .L3.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Lapp, Ralph Eugene.Must We Hide? Cambridge, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Press, 1949. UF767 .L3.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Lapp, Ralph Eugene.The New Priesthood; The Scientific Elite and the Uses of Power. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. Q127.U6 L3.
Lappé, Frances Moore, et al.Aid As Obstacle : Twenty Questions about Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry. San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1980. HC60 .L32.
2 pages laid in.
Lappé, Francis Moore and Joseph Collins.World Hunger : Ten Myths. San Francisco, California: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1982. HD9000.6 .L343 1982.
Larcher, Hubert.Le Sang Peut-Il Vaincre la Mort? Paris: Gallimard, 1957. QP91 .L271 1957.
TLS to Linus Pauling from the author tipped in. Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Larson, Gena.Fact/Book on Better Food for Better Babies and Their Families. New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Pub., 1972. RJ216 .L34.
Larson, Martin Alfred.The Religion of the Occident, or, The Origin and Development of the Essene-Christian Faith. New York: Philosophical Library, 1959. BR129 .L36.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Larssen, Kare.Food for All Food for Peace. Quetta, Pakistan: [s.n.], 1980. HD9018.D44 L371 1980.
Larsson, Lena.Barnens Vra. English; Your child's Room. Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books, 1965. NK2117.C4 L33 1965.
Lasagna, Louis, ed.Obesity: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment. New York: MEDCOM Press, 1974. RC628 .O24 1974.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Lasagna, Louis, ed.The Good Drugs Do to Better Your Health. Contributors, Morris E. Chafetz, et al. New York: Medical Tribune, Inc.: distributed as public service by Pfizer Laboratories and Roering divisions of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, 1978. RM301.15 .G61 1978.
Lasky, Barry.The New Careers Directory : Internships and Professional Opportunities in Technology and Social Change. Washington, DC: Student Pugwash USA, 1993. T14.5 .N46 1993.
Latham, Arthur and T. Crisp English, eds.A System of Treatment by Many Writers. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. RC55 .S91 1913.
Latham, Michael C.Scope Manual on Nutrition; Dept. of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Harvard University. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Upjohn Co., 1970. RC585 .S37 1970.
Latimer, Jonathan.Black Is the Fashion for Dying. New York: Random House, 1959. PS3523.A773 B521 1959.
Handwritten note from the author.
Latimer, Wendell M.The Oxidation States of the Elements and Their Potentials in Aqueous Solutions. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1938. QD561 .L26.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Latimer, Wendell M.The Oxidation States of the Elements and Their Potentials in Aqueous Solutions. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952. QD561 .L26 1952.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Latimer, Wendell M. and Joel H. Hildebrand.Reference Book of Inorganic Chemistry. New York: The Macmillan company, 1929. QD151 .L2.
Latimer, Wendell M. and Joel H. Hildebrand.Reference Book of Inorganic Chemistry. New York: The Macmillan company, 1940. QD151 .L2 1940.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling. Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Latorre R., Moisés et al.El Estudiante Universitario : Sus Problemas y Aspiraciones. Santiago, Chile: Arancibia, 1967. LB3605 .L381 1967.
Lattimore, Owen.Ordeal by Slander. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. E743.5 .L3.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Lattimore, Owen.Pivot of Asia; Sinkiang and the Inner Asian Frontiers of China and Russia. With the assistance of Chang Chih-yi and others. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. DS793.S62 L3.
Lau, Benjamin.Garlic for Health. Wilmot, Wisconsin: Lotus Light Publications, 1988. RM666.G15 L381 1988.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling.
Laue, Max von.Geschichte der Physik. Bonn: Universitäts-Verlag, 1947. QC7 .L23 1947.
Ownership stamp of Linus Pauling.
Laue, Max von.Materiewellen und ihre Interferenzen. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest and Portig, 1948. QC174.2 .L3 1948.
Laue, Max von.Rontgenstrahl-Interferenzen. Mit 120 figuren und 1 ausschlagtafel. Leipzig: Akademische verlagsgesselschaft, Becker and Erler kom.-ges., 1941. QC481 .L4221 1941.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Laughlin, Henry Prather.The Neuroses in Clinical Practice. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1956. RC530 .L3 1956.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Laumer, Keith.Catastrophe Planet. New York: Berkley Pub. Corp., 1966. PS3562.A84 C3 1966.
Laumer, Keith.The Great Time Machine Hoax. New York: Pocket Books, 1965. PS3562.A87 G71 1965.
Laurence, William Leonard.Men and Atoms; The Discovery, the Uses, and the Future of Atomic Energy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. QC773 .L3.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Laurents, Arthur.The Turning Point. New York: Signet, 1977. PN1997.T87 L28 1977.
Lawrence, D.H.Fantasia of the Unconscious, and, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971. BF173 .L26 1971.
Lawrence, D.H.Lady Chatterley's Lover. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1960. PR6023.A93 L2 1960.
Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee.The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; a play. New York: S. French, 1972. PS3523.A934 N5 1972.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Layzer, David.Constructing the Universe. New York: Scientific American Library, Distributed by W.H. Freeman, 1984. QB981 .L33 1984.
Lazarsfeld, Paul F. and Wagner Thielens, Jr.The Academic Mind; Social Scientists in a Time of Crisis. With a field report by David Riesman. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1958. LB2332 .L3.
Ownership stamp of Linus Pauling.
Le Carré, John.A Murder of Quality. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. PR6062.E33 M81 1964.
Le Compte, Herman.Magie et Medecine. Message de Maurice Messqu. Kapellen-Bos: Banana Press, 1973. RC71.3 .L41 1973.
Le Compte, Herman.Qui Encore A Peur de Moi? (Le credo du Dr. Herman Le Compte). Avec un Avant-propos du Ministre (A.) Verbist et une Lettre à Maitre Salvador Dali, avec en Exclusivite 11 Documents-Photos et un Collage du Dr. Le Compte. Kapellen-bos: Banana Press, 1973. R117 .L4.
Le Compte, Herman and Northcote Parkinson.Wir Kinder des Methusalem : Alters-Chancen der jungen Gesellschaft. [Ubers. d. engl. Ms. von Ursel Reinecke]. Düsseldorf; Wien: Econ-Verlag, 1978. HN8 .L4 1978.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Le Ghait, Edouard.No Carte Blanche to Capricorn; the Folly of Nuclear War Strategy. New York: Brookfield House, 1960. UA11 .L4 1960.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling. Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Le Guin, Ursula K., ed.Nebula Award Stories, Eleven. New York: Bantam Books, 1978. PS648.S3 N41 1978.
Le Poer Trench, Brinsley, Lord Clancarty.The Flying Saucer Story. New York: Ace, 1966. TL789 .L41 1966.
Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel.Montaillou, Village Occitan de 1294 a 1324. English; Montaillou, the Promised Land of Error; translated by Barbara Bray. New York: Vintage Books, 1979. DC801.M753 L4713 1979.
Le nature et les proprietes des liaisons de coordination. Paris, 27-31 octobre 1969. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1970. QD471 .C59 1969.
Leavis, Frank Raymond.D.H. Lawrence : Novelist. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964. PR6023.A93 Z65 1964.
Lebedinskii, Andrei Vladimirovich, ed.Sovetskie uchenye ob opasnosti ispytanii iadernogo oruzhiia. English; What Russian Scientists Say about Fallout. [Translated from the Russian by George Yankovsky] With a new introd. by James F. Crow. New York: Collier Books, 1962. QH652 .L4313 1962.
Lederer, Charles Michael, Jack M. Hollander and Isadore Perlman.Table of Isotopes. New York: Wiley, 1967. QD466 .L37.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling. Handwritten notes of Linus Pauling.
Lederer, William J.A Nation of Sheep. New York: Norton, 1961. E744 .L35.
Lee, Marshall M.Winning with People : The First 40 Years of Tektronix. Beaverton, Oregon: Tektronix, Inc., 1986. HD9696.E53 T41 1986.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling.
Lee, Royal and William A. Hanson.Protomorphology; The Principles of Cell Auto-Regulation. With an Appended Article on "Cytotoxines," by K.R. Victorov. Milwaukee: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1947. QH581 .L4 1947.
Lees, Lester.Smog: A Report to the People. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, 1972. TD883.5.C2 C34 1972.
Lefever, R. and A. Goldbeter, eds.Molecular Movements and Chemical Reactivity as Conditioned by Membranes, Enzymes, and Other Macromolecules : XVIth Solvay Conference on Chemistry, Brussels, November 22-November 26, 1976. New York: J. Wiley, 1978. QP517.M65 S551 1978.
Lehmann, Hermann and Richard George Huntsman.Man's Haemoglobins, Including the Haemoglobinopathies and Their Investigation. With a pref. by F.G. Young. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. QP96.5 .L4.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Leiber, Fritz.The Night of the Wolf. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. PS3523.E4583 N485 1966.
Leiber, Fritz.The Silver Eggheads. New York: Ballantine Books, 1961. PS3523.E46 S561 1961.
Leibler, Isi.Soviet Jewry and Human Rights. Victoria, Australia: Human Rights Publications, 1965. DS135.R9 L35 1965.
Leibovitz, Brian.Carnitine : The Vitamin BT Phenomenon. New York: Dell, 1984. QP772.C3 L41 1984.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Leighou, Robert Benjamin.Chemistry of Engineering Materials... Rewritten by the following members of the chemistry faculty of the Carnegie Institute of Technology: J.C. Warner (editor) Thomas R. Alexander, Paul Fugassi, D.S. McKinney [and others] ... New York; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1942. TA403 .L4 1942.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Lein, Allen.The Cycling Female, Her Menstrual Rhythm. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979. RG161 .L44.
Leith, C.K., J.W. Furness and Cleona Lewis.World Minerals and World Peace. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1943. TN19 .L4.
Handwritten ownership signature of Linus Pauling.
Leitner, Stanley A.Last Chance to Live. Chesterfield, Missouri: Wade Allen, 1978. R733 .L441 1978.
Lengyel, Cornel Adam.The Atom Clock [play]. Los Angeles: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1951. PS3523.E553 A8 1951.
Handwritten note to Linus Pauling from the author.
Lengyel, Cornel Adam.The Master Plan. Georgetown, California: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1978. PS3523.E553 M37 1978.
Lens, Sidney.The Futile Crusade; Anti-Communism As American credo. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964. E744 .L38.
Lens, Sidney.The Maginot Line Syndrome : America's Hopeless Foreign Policy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Pub. Co., 1982. E840 .L43 1982.
Lens, Sidney.The Military-Industrial Complex. Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970. HC110.D4 L43.