Book Hauls!

Went to an Antiquarian Book Fair at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Too rich for my blood; mostly very expensive first editions and such. Did get a three volume set of uncollected writings by Fyodor Dostoevsky for my better half, a big fan of that author, and a biography of Al Jaffee (best known for inventing the "fold in" for Mad) for me.
 
Stephen King's Finders, Keepers in a charity shop for £1.25
 
Still working on the haul I announced a few weeks ago, but here is the pile so far (still waiting for a few more to turn up...)

Strangest thing though, the camera seems to have played up here, just like it did on Facebook....

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Charity shops have recently yielded:

Stephen King (shockingly never read anything by this author)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Carrie

Brian Aldiss (read his early Sci Fi stuff and want to see what his mainstream fiction was like)
Walcott

John Connolly (read and enjoyed The Book of Lost Things by this Author)
Nocturnes

J.G Ballard (read early dystopias by Ballard so looking foreword to this)
Super Cannes

Peter Straub (he's supposedly a big name in horror and I havnt read anything he's written so I'm looking forward to it)
Koko

Hans Fallada (I enjoyed the more famous Alone in Berlin so I snatched this up when I saw this)
Small Circus

All for £12:50
 
My father just turned up with about 3kg of 1950s & 1960s Astounding Science Fiction magazines, British edition. He saw them for sale in a car boot sale. The vendor wanted £3 apeice. My father said that was silly and offered £10 for the lot, which was accepted. Great surprise present.
 
hitmouse said:
My father just turned up with about 3kg of 1950s & 1960s Astounding Science Fiction magazines, British edition. He saw them for sale in a car boot sale. The vendor wanted £3 apeice. My father said that was silly and offered £10 for the lot, which was accepted. Great surprise present.
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Hello Hitmouse,
That is really brilliant and your dad gave them to you? Wow! Some lucky find like this happened to me during my holidays in the Isle of Man a few weeks ago and in a Charity shop in the lovely sea town of Peel. I found a big load of the Unexplained Magazine from the early eighties and bought 15 at 10p each. Read them, love them and we came back the day after, thinking we could have the rest for about a tenner. At the shop, I took the box whith the mags to the sweet old lady at the till. She said 'can't be bothered counting that lot. How much do you want?
-A fiver, said my husband.
-Done, was the reply and we took the lot at the flat. Since then, I'm gleefully entertained with stories of UFO, Fulcanelli, Poltergeists, etc..
However, I've got five issues missing to have the complete set, which would cost me 20 quids on ebay.
 
Oh, lots of stuff - Ancient Egyptian Medicine... stained glass... rokstar bios... But: Can I ever reacquire a copy of A Kind of Justice by Benjamin Seagel?
Had an Avon PB, not a valuable book, but filled with arcane usage of 'elizabethan' era lingo, it was. Can't be found online or in any store, so far, and I can't shop online. Entering 5th year looking for this book, will trade any amount of Archie comics or mainstream DVD scavengings... * )
 
Caliban said:
Charity shops have recently yielded:

Stephen King (shockingly never read anything by this author)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Carrie

Brian Aldiss (read his early Sci Fi stuff and want to see what his mainstream fiction was like)
Walcott

John Connolly (read and enjoyed The Book of Lost Things by this Author)
Nocturnes

J.G Ballard (read early dystopias by Ballard so looking foreword to this)
Super Cannes

Peter Straub (he's supposedly a big name in horror and I havnt read anything he's written so I'm looking forward to it)
Koko

Hans Fallada (I enjoyed the more famous Alone in Berlin so I snatched this up when I saw this)
Small Circus

All for £12:50
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Probably best to read Carrie first as it was King's first published novel.

Straub is quite literary and some of his stuff is very disturbing. His 'Mystery' is one of my favourite novels.
 
pambaddeley said:
Probably best to read Carrie first as it was King's first published novel.

Straub is quite literary and some of his stuff is very disturbing. His 'Mystery' is one of my favourite novels.
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Yeah I just finished reading Carrie and I really enjoyed the story. It was a bit uneven with all the excerpts and diary entries but I expect this with a first novel. I will definitely read more. Do you recommend me getting the next published book - Salems Lot I think - on my kindle or do you reckon I should dip into one of the collections?

Thanks for the info on Straub. I normally prefer more literary authors so I'm hoping I'll enjoy the book.

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Oh and to keep on topic I picked up hardback copies of 3 Alastair Reynolds novels I havnt read yet. Pushing Ice, House of Suns and The Prefect. They were £2.50 each. I really need to ban myself from buying until I've reduced my tbr pile.
 
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Personally I would read the early ones first - 'Salem's Lot and The Shining - though you could also look at Night Shift as I believe that has short stories he had accepted early on. I read all the early stuff, but apart from The Dark Tower sequence and Needful Things, gave up around It and From a Buick 8 because I found them overlong, and derivative of the earlier work. I got the impression that due to his huge bestseller status, editors were too scared to edit him. I have heard that he has come back to form with recent crime novels.
 
Oh man, found a gem of a YA book...Sovereignty, by Anjenique Hughes? Not sure how to say the first name, but the book is PHENOMENAL- I could NOT put it down!! Rare to find such page turners like that...Also reading Salem's Vengeance by Aaron Galvin!
 
Moving my Mum into her new place and it being somewhat smaller than the old has resulted in me picking up a few classics that will require very delicate handling as their pages and bindings are all seriously brittle:

Isaac Asimov: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Pebble in the Sky, The Currents of Space
Arthur C Clarke: Earthlight
Gordon R Dickson: Mission to Universe
Poul Anderson: Guardians of Time, Trader to the Stars
Robert Heinlein: Beyond this Horizon
A E Van Vogt: The Mind Cage, The Silkie

Guess who I picked up the SF habit from! :)
 
Caliban said:
Yeah I just finished reading Carrie and I really enjoyed the story. It was a bit uneven with all the excerpts and diary entries but I expect this with a first novel. I will definitely read more. Do you recommend me getting the next published book - Salems Lot I think - on my kindle or do you reckon I should dip into one of the collections?

Thanks for the info on Straub. I normally prefer more literary authors so I'm hoping I'll enjoy the book.

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Oh and to keep on topic I picked up hardback copies of 3 Alastair Reynolds novels I havnt read yet. Pushing Ice, House of Suns and The Prefect. They were £2.50 each. I really need to ban myself from buying until I've reduced my tbr pile.
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'Salem's Lot and The Shining were big, early successes for King. I should reread both, since it's been so long, but when I read them I thought they were terrific.


As for Straub, Koko is excellent as are the others in that trilogy, Mystery and The Throat; he plays a some with the "reality" of his novels, and I thought reading them in succession was a good idea. There were two other books that are appended to that sequence, lost boy lost girl which I also found excellent, and In the Night Room which didn't work as well for me.


Randy M.
 
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