Book Hauls!

[Extollager]

Its annual book sale in Sweden late February as usual and i just made my best second hand book haul ever!
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Oxford World's Classics) by G.K Chesterton
The Master of Ballantrae (Wordsworth Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Woman in White (Wordsworth Classics) by Wilkie Collins

I must reread that Chesterton; his Man Who Was Thursday really is one of the outstanding books of my whole life.

That Stevenson book deserves to be better known.

The Woman in White is a great entry book into the English Victorian novel.

 

[Connavar]

I must reread that Chesterton; his Man Who Was Thursday really is one of the outstanding books of my whole life.

That Stevenson book deserves to be better known.

The Woman in White is a great entry book into the English Victorian novel.

Stevenson book i have seen many times in second hand bookstores so it must be well read anyway. Just he has written other huge classics that overshadow it.

Chesterton blew me away with the wit, languege,prose he wrote the two Father Brown short stories i read in Penguins Mini classics book. I cant wait to read that book before i buy brand new best condition hardcover/paperback there is of The Man Who was Thursday.

 

[Triceratops]

Dead in the West, The Night Runners, Bubba Ho-Tep and A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale. All of them were 99c each on Amazon Kindle at the moment.

Wasn't Dead in the West originally published by Gordon Linzner's Space and Time? I remember writing for S & T 23 years ago.

Anyway, my publisher does a lot of classic reprints and he's sending my Frankenstein, Alice, Sherlock Holmes (many collections), Dracula, The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds. I'll be busy for a few months.

chris

 

[dask]

Fifty cents each.

 

[AE35Unit]

Got my first Neal Asher book today. Got The Skinner for free from bookmooch!

 

[dask]

THE PORTABLE SAUL BELLOW, really nice Viking Press paperback. 25 cents.

CASANOVA'S WOMEN by John Erskine, 1941 hardback, no dust jacket, from Frederick A. Stokes Company. Quite a personal find for me. Erskine's books are rare around here, the last one I saw at a used bookstore,
GALAHAD, cost $10. This was at a benefit sale and cost me fifty cents. I intend to get every book of his I can find if I can afford them.

SEVEN GOTHIC TALES by Isak Dinesen, with an introduction by Dorothy Canfield. 1934 hardback, fourth printing, no dust jacket, from Harrison Smith And Robert Haas (never heard of this publishing firm before). Okay, J.D., how gothic is it? Just in the munday way or is it gonna creep me out?

 

[j d worthington]

They aren't "gothic" in the usual sense, but there's some powerful stuff there, some of which is quite unsettling, albeit in a more subtle way than most of the original Goths, at least. If you like this, you should try (if you haven't already) her Winter's Tales, as well....

 

[dask]

Sounds like I'm gonna get my fifty cents worth. Many thanks for the info. And I'll keep an eye peeled for WINTER'S TALES. By the way, it's interesting to note at this time, 1934, according to Canfield, no one was quite sure whether Dinesen was male or female which kind of makes her the James Tiptree of her era.

 

[dask]

Went looking for more Dinesen and found these instead:

 

[dask]

To celebrate being called back to work I went to Goodwill and had a good time:

 

[Connavar]

The first cover of Robot Have No Tails look very cool, the second a bit too modern pc game looking.

I ordered those two books from Bookdepository and cant wait to have them in my hands!

 

[dask]

Here's what I've accumualted over the years. Your "Tails" is better than mine. Is that a reprint book of some kind? Looks great.

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[J-Sun]

I have the same Robots as you, dask, and agree that Conn's is much better. And, yeah, it's a relatively recent reprint. More of mine (same editions, but from the web and not my actual books):

The Well of the Worlds
The Time Axis
The Mask of Circe
The Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner (omnibus of The Portal in the Picture/Valley of the Flame/The Dark World)
Fury
The Best of Henry Kuttner (another Gallagher cover)
Two-Handed Engine

I also still have Bypass to Otherness though I think it only has one story I don't otherwise have.

(Sorry for all the linkage but, while the IMG tags worked this time, they made a giant mess and I can only do five of them anyway.)

 

[dask]

Just came from the Salvation Army and found this early Barry Malzberg novel. I absolutely hate the price stickers they use. No matter how careful you try to peel it off with a sharp blade it still rips the cover up with it. Pressed it back down as firmly as I could and stuck a small piece of scotch tape over it to prevent further damage. Fifty cents, get what you pay for I guess.

 

[dask]

I have the same Robots as you, dask, and agree that Conn's is much better. And, yeah, it's a relatively recent reprint. More of mine (same editions, but from the web and not my actual books):

The Well of the Worlds
The Time Axis
The Mask of Circe
The Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner (omnibus of The Portal in the Picture/Valley of the Flame/The Dark World)
Fury
The Best of Henry Kuttner (another Gallagher cover)
Two-Handed Engine

I also still have Bypass to Otherness though I think it only has one story I don't otherwise have.

(Sorry for all the linkage but, while the IMG tags worked this time, they made a giant mess and I can only do five of them anyway.)

Cool links, thanks.

 

[dask]

Well, now that you kot me in a Kuttner mood:

 

[J-Sun]

Ah - thanks for reminding me - I have that Citadel but forgot to link it. Cool No Boundaries - is that Powers?

Here's today's book haul (by mail - got tired of looking for it):

Except mine's in truly horrible condition. Except for the medieval one, that completes the "The Mentor Philosophers" set for me. The excerpts are mostly useless as I have almost all of any substance, but I hope the overview is nice, it serves to divvy up sections on my shelves and, like I said, it completes the set.

 

[Extollager]

That Mask of Circe cover ... I wonder if I had a copy about 40 years ago? If I did, I never read the book... what happened to it? But it looks familiar.

 

[dask]

Cool No Boundaries - is that Powers?

Can't find his name anywhere but I'm sure it is. I'm positive it is.

By the way, I was surprised to find out this movie was based on a Kuttner story.

 

[VideoChrist]

Just came from the Salvation Army and found this early Barry Malzberg novel. I absolutely hate the price stickers they use. No matter how careful you try to peel it off with a sharp blade it still rips the cover up with it. Pressed it back down as firmly as I could and stuck a small piece of scotch tape over it to prevent further damage. Fifty cents, get what you pay for I guess.

Put the book in the freezer for a few hours (well protected, of course), and then peel the label off. That usually works.