Book Hauls!

Extollager said:
The Ace edition of Limbo seems to be a plain text affair....
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Wow. That would defeat much of the author's intent, I believe.

Here is one of the disturbing drawings from my edition of the book:

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My edition:

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Extollager said:
I liked most of the stories in that Kirk collection, but I'm not sure I finished the two Manfred Arcane stories ("Balgrummo's Hell," "Peculiar Demesne").
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My mistake -- instead of "Balgrummo's Hell," it's "The Last God's Dream" that is the other Manfred Arcane story.
 
Before I got my ereader, I would rely on libraries, book sales and second-hand shops for a reading fix, which often limited what I could get my hands on. These days more titles are available in my territory (this was another frustration, that ebooks were often not available for African distribution, I see less of that these days though)

Of course, now I spend way too much on books because 1 little click spells the downfall of my savings :p

So far this month I've bought The Gaslight Dogs - Karin Lowachee, and a subscription to IGMS. I am not allowed to buy anything else. My TBR list is huge.
 
(Also, I totally lied because I just bought a Janny Wurts book because I have yet to read her stuff. Someone help me, I have an addiction.)
 
Victoria, I looked again at my Ace edition of Limbo and discovered that it does have the drawing you reproduced and at least a few other designs.
 
Interestingly another edition makes the same mistake:

But research reveals it should indeed be MacCreigh.
There is also this edition in a two novel omnibus (with Hidden Universe by Ralph Milne Farley) in which it is published under his own name:
 
About two days ago, i ordered through amazon at less than £5, the Vance Ace Double Dragon Master/ The Five Gold Bands. It just turned up this morning. Very fast service for a start. Opening it, the book was in rather good nick and on top of it a post card with two babies cookaburras, with above it in golden letters Greeting from Meeniyan. How odd! It must have been in the book which was send from the UK and the bookseller didn't want to throw that away! I also realised it was one of the first editions in bookform of the 5 gold bands. Amazing, it made my day!
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Today's arrivals: George R. Stewart's Storm and the Ballantine Fantasy issue of Crawford's Khaled.
 
Claire North's 'Touch', 'We are not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas and 'The Miniaturist' by Jessie Burton......although I have a whole shelf full of books yet to be started....
 
DPWright said:
Claire North's 'Touch', 'We are not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas and 'The Miniaturist' by Jessie Burton......although I have a whole shelf full of books yet to be started....
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Yeah. Similarly, I just ordered China Mieville's Three Moments of an Explosion and Christopher Fowler's Hell Train. Why, when I have dozens of unread books? Because. Just because.


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Extollager said:
Today's arrivals: George R. Stewart's Storm and the Ballantine Fantasy issue of Crawford's Khaled.
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I hope you enjoy Khaled. While not his best work it is, in the main quite a charming fantasy.

I just acquired a copy of the original edition of James Branch Cabell's Straws and Prayer-Books, published before he recast so much of his work into the massive Biography of the Life of Manuel. I'm finding an interest in comparing the earlier and later editions of these works, as they can (albeit at times quite subtly) make them read very differently with the shift in context. (I've got to admit, though, that I wish the later Storisende edition of some of these had retained the illustrations by such artists as Frank C. Papé, or, in the case of Gallantry, etc., Howard Pyle, as they seem to me to be almost as integral to the work as Sime often is to Dunsany. Ah, well....)
 
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(I've got to admit, though, that I wish the later Storisende edition of some of these had retained the illustrations by such artists as Frank C. Papé, or, in the case of Gallantry, etc., Howard Pyle, as they seem to me to be almost as integral to the work as Sime often is to Dunsany. Ah, well....)
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Um, that should have been Chivalry, rather than Gallantry. I've not seen the original of the latter, though I also believe he did the illustrations for the one I'm reading now, The Line of Love. Certainly, Pyle's style and manner would be perfectly suited to both of these as well....
 
First books I've gotten in a while.

Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin) Ace Premium Edition 2010
The Tombs of Atuan (Le Guin) Aladdin Paperbacks edition 2001
 
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