The first books I bought from Amazon were...

This blog post, The last 13 years of my life in Amazon orders, made me want to track down what my first Amazon purchase was. Now, in my case the stat is slightly misleading because it wasn't the first time I had ordered from the site -- just the first time I did so using my own account. Prior to, looks like, fall of 2001, I would decide what I wanted and give the right amount of babysitting money to my dad, who was The Person Who Used Amazon In The House, and then he would order it.

Anyway:

These were for an independent study I did in high school. If we had a foreign-language bookstore (or even a section) in Milwaukee at the time, I didn't know where it was. (I could have tried the UWM bookstore, although I remember it as being kind of light on non-course books.) I'm not a huge Alberti fan, but I think I was encouraged to not just read Lorca for a full year and call it done. I later lent that biography to a tour guide based in southern Spain; I can't remember whether he mailed it back to me or I gave in and ordered another copy.

Now go look up yours and tell me what you found.