| Title | Author | Publication Date | Activity | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabethan Essays | T. S. Eliot | 1934 | Borrow | Jul 1, 1936 | Nov 16, 1936 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1916 | Borrow | Jul 1, 1936 | Nov 16, 1936 |
| Moby-Dick; Or, the Whale | Herman Melville | 1851 | Purchase | Dec 9, 1939 | Dec 9, 1939 |
| Typhoon | Joseph Conrad | 1902 | Purchase | Jan 22, 1940 | Jan 22, 1940 |
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Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art
Vol. 1, no. 1, Jan 1940
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- | - | Purchase | Jan 22, 1940 | Jan 22, 1940 |
| Brief Candles: Stories | Aldous Huxley | 1930 | Purchase | Mar 4, 1940 | Mar 4, 1940 |
| What I Believe | E. M. Forster | 1925 | Gift | Mar 4, 1940 | - |
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