Book Hauls!

[Connavar]

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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My versions are reprint by Paizo/Planet Stories that have reprinted alot of classic SF,Sword and Sorcery, Science Fantasy.

I can take bad cover for the cozy factor of reading fresh reprints in my hands and yeah my Robot cover is cooler

 

[Fried Egg]

Despite my drive to minimise my book hauls while I clear the backlog, I have recently aquired:

"Finch" by Jeff Vandermeer. I enjoyed "Shriek" when I read it a while back so I thought it worth reading trying another one of his "Ambergris" novels.

"The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (Wordsworth Edition) by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's high time I actually got around to reading something by this author and Sherlock Holmes in particular.

 

[dask]

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

Thanks for the idea. I'll try it next time.

 

[Grunkins]

Just got back from strange bookstore nearby, picked up two Monster Hunter books, along with two The Iron Druid books, and a couple Honor Harrington books.

6 new books for 15 bucks!

 

[Extollager]

I must admit that, since moving back to Austin just over a month ago, I've been very lucky on that score. Not too many contemporary sf/fantasy books, but quite a few classics in the field, as well as a lot of really neat older books. Most of these were going for ridiculously low prices: a 6-volume set of the works of Washington Irving published in the 1880s; a 9-volume set of Bulwer from the same period ($5 each); and an 1824 set of the Newgate Calendar; not to mention some oddities such as Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land by "An American" from 1841 (this last was a 2-volume set they were selling for $1!!!), and a host of horror anthologies. The prize, though, was getting a 1795 edition of Johnson's Idler for a price I could afford; now that really made my day (week, month, year...). This was the best book haul I've had in a long, long while.

That last is the one you are reading right now -- correct?

 

[Extollager]

Last night I picked up PB editions of....

Mr Baggins Part I - John Rateliff*
Return To Bag-End Part II - John Rateliff*

*These books publish for the first time the original manuscript by Tolkien of The Hobbit; dredged up after 50 years along with orginal sketches and what looks to be a very well researched series of books on Tolkien's classic story. I've been looknig forward to checking these out for a while now and I think JD and Teresa may have already got their hands on a copy, so better late than never.... So far it looks good and I'm already discovering several things I didnt know about the orginal script.

Yes... I mean to spend some significant time with these. Lately I have been delving into the critical editions of Tolkien on Fairy-Stories and Smith of Wootton Major. That last tale seems to be surprisingly little known, considering how famous Tolkien is.

 

[j d worthington]

That last is the one you are reading right now -- correct?

Indeed it is. Quite enjoyable, really... both the text (showing a somewhat gentler side of Johnson, in the main) and reading it in this edition... though even for me, who love such things, the amount of use of the "long s" took a bit of getting used to....

And I finally broke down and ordered a replacement for my long-lost copy of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, in a facsimile reprint of the 1702 edition. I've had my eye on this for a few years now, and decided to bite the bullet rather than regret letting it pass....

 

[blacknorth]

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.

Sometimes a little squirt of lighter fliud and, if you leave it for a moment, the gum dissolves. One thing that restores many old paperbacks to lustre is Clear Cover Gel - I've resurrected many a paperback or dust-jacket with that.

 

[Grunkins]

The mail was good to me yesterday. It brought me:
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupa
Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks

 

[Extollager]

After a bit of a dry patch, I have a haul to report -- all of these, in this and the following messages, from today's mail.

More in a moment....

 

[Extollager]

More...

Some of today's haul is intended for distribution to other readers, but I thought you'd be interested even though the books aren't all for my own library.

 

[Extollager]

That edition of Scruton's book was a mistake: I thought it was something different from this book below, which is the hardcover edition. I shoulda just ordered that. But no matter. I look forward to getting into the little paperback pictured earlier.

 

[D_Davis]

 

[Extollager]

...Oh, and this one, which is one of the ones to give away:

Some of these books were sent by a correspondent of mine who nabbed them at library book sales etc.

My agents are everywhere.......

 

[Extollager]

...Finally, 2 copies of this annotated, illustrated fantasy classic, to give away (which is practically what they are doing at bookdepository.co.uk):

 

[D_Davis]

...Finally, 2 copies of this annotated, illustrated fantasy classic, to give away (which is practically what they are doing at bookdepository.co.uk):

That looks nice. How are the illustrations?

 

[Extollager]

That looks nice. How are the illustrations?

The Phantastes illustrations in this edition are noteworthy for at least two reasons: they are attractive designs by Arthur Hughes; and Hughes was, in fact, a friend of the George MacDonald family. (In fact I think maybe he married one of GM's daughters.) They should give a pretty good idea of how GM visualized these scenes.

They are printed on good, bright white paper. However, they aren't as crisp and clear sometimes as I'd like them to be. I can't imagine that this edition worked with the originals.

 

[j d worthington]

My copy of the Magnalia came over the weekend. I've only had time to browse through it a bit and refresh my memory here and there... but oh, it's a lovely thing to have back on my shelves again!

 

[Rodders]

Exogene by T. C. McCarthy. (Book two of teh Subterrene War.)

 

[Connavar]

I wont use bookdepository site to buy new books ever again! They sent me a copy of Robot Have No Tails by Henry Kuttner that have pages that are sliced around the edges. Slightly torn pages is for okay only when its second hand.

I buy 99% of my book hauls from my real specialist fav bookstore and only use that site sometimes for their discounts. Im pissed....