Book Hauls!

[TheShadowsandSilence]

That's a good haul...

Thanks, I'm trying to build a good weird fiction collection, the Centipede Press editions are ideal: affordable, high quality and fairly comprehensive.

Just purchased:

Mr Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters - John Langan
A History of Britain (all three volumes) - Simon Schama

 

[dask]

I need another short story anthology like I need another birthday, so I got three of them which, like birthdays, seem necessary to keep living:

FIFTY GREAT SHORT STORIES edited by Milton Crane. Bantam paperback from 1967. Just looked good.

THE PANORAMA OF MODERN LITERATURE, 1934 hardback with no editor but sporting an introduction by Christopher Morely, who claims in his introduction, that he isn't the editor even though one of his stories is included. With the word Modern and the date 1934 brought together between these covers you can imagine the brilliance of the table of contents. Or as Mr. Morely puts it: How tempting a miscellany of neatly packaged provenders, ready for urgent appetite or freakish taste.

THE WORLD'S BEST ONE HUNDRED DETECTIVE STORIES, Volume Four of Ten, edited by Eugene Thwing. Strange looking 1929 hardback about the size of a modern day paperback. What did I get this for? Well it wasn't for the G.K Chesterton stories, of which there are two; nor the Agatha Christie stories, of which there are also two; nor the James Hay, Jr. stories, of which there are, you guessed it, also two. I got it for the story by George Allan England, of which there is lamentably only one: "The Case Of Jane Cole, Spinster." They don't come along very often so you have to grab them when you see them.

 

[Randy M.]

I need another short story anthology like I need another birthday, so I got three of them which, like birthdays, seem necessary to keep living [...]

I resemble that. I've been reining in my buying this year and yet I've still picked up 11 or 12 anthologies/collections, including two omnibus volumes of John Dickson Carr mystery novels, and As You Were a 1943 anthology edited by Alexander Woolcott.

Recently, finally, purchased The Man Who Collected Machen by Mark Samuels and The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan, both collections.

When will I read them, you ask? Why? What's that got to do with it?


Randy M.

 

[dask]

I resemble that. I've been reining in my buying this year and yet I've still picked up 11 or 12 anthologies/collections, including two omnibus volumes of John Dickson Carr mystery novels, and As You Were a 1943 anthology edited by Alexander Woolcott.

Going to keep an eye peeled for AS YOU WERE.

Found a few more I couldn't live without:

 

[The Bluestocking]

Just picked up most of John Green's books at 30% off RRP (which seems to be the best deal I can get where I am) from my local bookshop.

Hoping they are as good as the raves from all the critics and fans indicate they would be...

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Reached a used book store in Tellico Plains, Tennessee just at closing time, but they stayed open for us, so we gave them some business. Of SFF interest was a paperback of The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein.

 

[Extollager]

By mail, an early Norton Critical Edition of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. I'm inclined to avoid recent editions of classic texts packed with the frou-frou of fashionable theory, but this one dates to 1975.

I kind of like the design, too.

 

[Rodders]

My copy of Star Wars the original trilogy Storyboards by J. w. Rinzler's arrived this morning.

I also thought I'd start collecting the Star Wars RPG books too.. The old WEG books used to be a great source of stories, information and art so I picked up the Edge of Empire and Dangerous Covenants.

Not too thrilled at Amazon's packing.

 

[Extollager]

I enjoyed Farson's Caucasian Journey earlier this year,

so I got a copy of The Way of a Transgressor, just arrived:

 

[dask]

Went on a Time-Life Book craze today:




Fifty cents each.

 

[Extollager]

A cold war thriller, Red Alert, 1963 Ace reprint of a 1958 novel by Peter Bryant (Peter George):

 

[Extollager]

Tolkien's Beowulf came in today's mail. I'm happy to see that the story "Sellic Spell" is 25 pages -- so a real addition to the Professor's creative output.

 

[Extollager]

PS I've started a thread where people can comment on this new Tolkien book. I have a few remarks about "Sellic Spell," the original "folk tale reconstruction" by Tolkien that is included in it.

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/foru...ay-2014-beowulf-book-now-out.html#post1817227

 

[JunkMonkey]

Picked up a box of ratty old paperbacks on eBay for a pound last week. This is the stuff I'm keeping. The rest is going straight back to eBay or off to the charity shop:

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I didn't look at the listing too closely so opening the box when it arrived was a real lucky dip. This was my favourite cover of the lot:

French girls also appear to have lopsided boobs...
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Though I was slightly annoyed to find this one was missing the first six pages:

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[dask]

All that for a pound? Wow, good going!

 

[Extollager]

Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road. I need to read Between the Woods and the Water first....

 

[dask]

Ninety-nine cent Goodwill goodie:

 

[hitmouse]

Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road. I need to read Between the Woods and the Water first....

Hah still havent read Broken Road. 2 weeks in S of France in July should be good for that. Woods and Water is marvellous.

 

[Extollager]

I've no interest in academic philosophy but I can enjoy some, at least, of Plato's dialogues. Got the Penguin Clssic edition of Philebus today.

 

[Extollager]

I haven't been in a used book store for a long time, but today spent a happy 50 minutes or so in BDS Books in Fargo, North Dakota. Some of the sf seemed overpriced and I didn't end up buying any, but did go for the Hemingway Complete Short Stories and the Hackett (publisher) edition of Books 3 and 4 of Spenser's Faerie Queene. I have the complete FQ in the Penguin Classics edition, but this Hackett edition has lots of notes, etc.

BDS is clearly a place for people who like to be surrounded by books! But the guy knows where stuff is. However, there was a great moment there this afternoon. My wife mentioned her interest in bagpipes. No, the owner didn't think he had anything on that topic. "Yeah you do!" -- and I whipped out a book I'd just happened to see called The Bagpipers!