Book Hauls!

[Extollager]

WORLD'S GREAT ADVENTURE STORIES, no editor listed. ..... All the usuals you'd expect are here: Doyle, Machen, Irving, Hawthorne, etc.

What were the stories by these four, please?

 

[dask]

What were the stories by these four, please?

"Ring of Thoth" by Doyle
"A Society Adventure" by Machen
"The False Venus" by Irving
"The Gray Champion" by Hawthorne

 

[Extollager]

"Ring of Thoth" by Doyle
"A Society Adventure" by Machen
"The False Venus" by Irving
"The Gray Champion" by Hawthorne

Irving I don't know well enough to be puzzled by the one you list, though it sounds new to me. The Doyle and Hawthorne stories, at least, are familiar. I thought I knew Machen's titles, at least, well, but I didn't recognize that one. However, I found it here:

http://www.unz.org/Pub/GreatAdventureStories-1929-00361?View=PDF

It's not the kind of story for which he is best remembered.

Looking to see if I had that "False Venus" story* in my two Washington Irving books, I noted that my copy of his Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. warrants mention over at the "Back in the Backlog" thread!

*It seems to be recorded at Google only in the Great Adventures book, which leads me to suspect it is the editors' title for a story published under a different name in Irving's day.

 

[Extollager]

Just got this popular astronomy book from 1933, after seeing that JRR's daughter Priscilla Tolkien remembered it from her childhood. My copy evidently never was read, as some of the pages have still not been cut, which I intend carefully to do, as I bought the book intending to read it. [update] Using a paper cutter, I have opened the book at 12 places where it needed cutting. The book was evidently a Scholarship Prize for 1936-7 to James Brewster (name uncertain). It is inscribed as from St. Michael's Church School, Litchfield. There is a Litchfield in Hampshire, but I find no St. Michael's Church. However, there is a St. Michael's church on Greenhill in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

 

[Fried Egg]

I had a little impromptu haul with:

"Fantasms and Magic" by Jack Vance
"A Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsay

Both picked up very cheaping in a local charity shop.

 

[Rangerton]

Just bought A song of ice and fire (all the series, so far) by G.R.R Martin

Cant wait to start them, see what all the fuss is about

 

[dask]

Irving I don't know well enough to be puzzled by the one you list, though it sounds new to me... Looking to see if I had that "False Venus" story* in my two Washington Irving books, I noted that my copy of his Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. warrants mention over at the "Back in the Backlog" thread!

*It seems to be recorded at Google only in the Great Adventures book, which leads me to suspect it is the editors' title for a story published under a different name in Irving's day.

Here's the first sentence to help you locate it under a different title if you haven't done so already: "My friend, the doctor, was a thorough antiquary---a little rusty, musty old fellow, always groping among ruins."

Sounds like good one.

Here's what I picked up the other day on the $3 table:

Someday I'm going to read the Lord and in tandem with the John Meyers Meyers book on the Alamo to see how they compare.

By the way, I forgot to mention one of the books Francis Hackett reviewed in ON JUDGING BOOKS I mentioned a week or so ago was a book called THE GUERRILLA by Lord Dunsany. Not a fantasy along the lines of WATERSHIP DOWN or anything, but a novel about WW2. Hackett liked it.

 

[Extollager]

Here's the first sentence to help you locate it under a different title if you haven't done so already: "My friend, the doctor, was a thorough antiquary---a little rusty, musty old fellow, always groping among ruins." Sounds like good one.

It must be "The Adventure of the Little Antiquary":

http://www.online-literature.com/irving/tales-of-a-traveller/16/

Thanks for checking for me.

 

[Extollager]

Just received this book, which I intend to refrain from looking at for a few weeks -- need to make progress on some other reading.

 

[Rodders]

I've just down loaded The Player Of Games, Weaveworld and the Anvil of Stars (for some reason, they didn't have the Forge of God). I've read them all before, but they're awesome and I'll read them again soon.

 

[Fried Egg]

The new Tartarus Press hard back edition of "Tales of Love and Death" by Robert Aickman turned up today. I'm very excited.

 

[Connavar]

Ruth Maier's Diary: A Young Girl's Life
Tre Komedier - Titus Maccius Plautus

I have read the powerful diary of Ruth Maier before, i have bought it this time as birthday present for me younger sister. Heartbreaking to read that diary of the young intelligent girl, she had a real talent with words too.

 

[Fried Egg]

"Noctuary" by Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean Press) turned up today after a long wait and wasn't sure I would get it at all since they were oversubscribed.

 

[AndrewT]

I recommend http://www.bookfinder4u.com. I've made about 20 purchases there since discovering it 6 months ago. Sorry used bookstores, I know you're losing business!

 

[Fried Egg]

A couple of second hand fantasy masterwork editions to help me towards completing the series:

"Three Hearts and Three Lions" by Poul Anderson
"Gloriana" by Michael Moorcock

 

[hitmouse]

Something that doesn't happen often since the demise of the old second hand book shop and the rise of the internet. Lovely when it does.

I randomly wondered into an Oxfam shop in a small Welsh market town a couple of weeks ago to peruse the books, not really expecting anything.

They had the entire series of Gor books at 99p each. I did not buy them.

I did however acquire, for 99p each, a stack of pristine 1950s Corgi and Panther Asimov (Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Currents of Space, Stars Like Dust, Pebble in the Sky, and a couple of 1960s Penguin Hoyle (Fifth Planet, The Black Cloud.) Must have been sitting on someones shelf for the last 50 years.
The old Penguin SF paperbacks turn up now and then, but one almost never sees the old Panther and Corgis outside of a specialist retailer. Great covers by Josh Kirby.
Copies of the covers from various bits of the web:

 

[Extollager]

Something that doesn't happen often since the demise of the old second hand book shop and the rise of the internet. Lovely when it does. ...I did however acquire, for 99p each, a stack of pristine 1950s Corgi and Panther Asimov....

Nice haul.

 

[K. Riehl]

Scored an ARC of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois Bujold. Off to lock myself in a quiet room to devour.

 

[prizzley]

Re: Recent Buys

Do books on pre-order count?

If so, I am awaiting the publication of Stephen Donaldson's 'Runes Of The Earth' which is the first of four books in a new Thomas covenant series. I hope it's worth the wait.

I downloaded the first 2 chapters some time ago and was VERY disappointed. I loved the first 2 series. In fact, the 1st series was my introduction to fantasy, after LOTR. But those chapters contained chunks from the previous series, which I thought unnecessary. Unfortunately, the "new" stuff didn't engage me either. I hope the book improves after a IMO sorry start.

 

[Rodders]

As a teenager i loved Edmund Coopers books so i thought i'd go back and reread them. I have just down loaded. The Cloud Walker, A Far Sunset, Five to Twelve, The Overman Culture, Seahorse in the Sky, Transite and The Uncertain Midnight. Looking forward to seeing how i'll take them now nearly 30 years on.