Book Hauls!

[Extollager]

Gateway impressed me and I really enjoyed Who?

 

[dask]

A couple of fellows, one in the Seattle area, one in Philadelphia, send me boxes of books to give away to students and friends (or to keep). Yesterday's mail brought a nifty batch of about 40 books, from which this morning I shipped off 15 science fiction volumes to a friend in California, including Damon Knight's anthology of sf of the 1930s, five van Vogts (The Wizard of Linn, The Beast, etc.), Anderson's Star Fox, Blish's Earthman, Come Home, etc., and including a late Gardner F. Fox novel I'd never heard of -- Conehead. Anyone ever hear of that?
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I'm not sure exactly what I will keep for myself, but at the moment I've set aside a book of Leigh Brackett's Eric John Stark stories...[/URL]

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That's the first thing I thought when I saw Conehead. I've got several Fox Ace Books but never seen nor heard of this one. (But some one on SNL probably has.) Oh, to get a box or two like this in the mail, wow![/URL]

 

[Extollager]

The photos aren't the editions I received, but ones with the same cover art. The books were generally in good condition, but maybe not quite good enough to make collectors' eyes light up. My Seattle friend works in a bookstore and my understanding is that the books he sends are often ones the store couldn't use -- maybe bought as books in a lot, and weeded out. My Philadelphia book supplier has access to a lot of good library discards and the like, I gather.

For myself, from the latest box, I'm keeping some titles including these:

That Jane Austen novel is a new addition for my orange-spine Penguin collection. I've read To Kill a Mockingbird a couple of times but somehow didn't own a copy.

 

[dask]

Another great bunch of books. Is the Austen as good as the cover?

 

[hitmouse]

A couple of fellows, one in the Seattle area, one in Philadelphia, send me boxes of books to give away to students and friends (or to keep). Yesterday's mail brought a nifty batch of about 40 books, from which this morning I shipped off 15 science fiction volumes to a friend in California, including Damon Knight's anthology of sf of the 1930s, five van Vogts (The Wizard of Linn, The Beast, etc.), Anderson's Star Fox, Blish's Earthman, Come Home, etc., and including a late Gardner F. Fox novel I'd never heard of -- Conehead. Anyone ever hear of that?

From the Seattle box I also set out about 17 books for our giveaway table on campus, including some literary classics and also a nice copy of The Hobbit, Eddison's Mistress of Mistresses and Fish Dinner in Memison (to which I added a battered copy of The Worm Ouroboros from my own spare copy collection), etc. So when students come back Monday perhaps a few will be interested in the new offerings.

I'm not sure exactly what I will keep for myself, but at the moment I've set aside a book of Leigh Brackett's Eric John Stark stories...

I have that edition of Wizard of Linn. It is the sequel to Empire of the Atom, one of van Voght's better efforts.

 

[Extollager]

Another great bunch of books. Is the Austen as good as the cover?

It's over ten years since I read it, but I've no doubt it's a fine novel worthy of multiple readings, though not right in the vein of her most witty books. But the one I'd like to reread most at this time is Mansfield Park.

 

[dask]

A Little History Of The World by E.H. Gombrich
The Flowering Of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
Arrived today all the way from the Amazon.com

 

[pambaddeley]

Another great bunch of books. Is the Austen as good as the cover?

It's the last she completed and was published posthumously. Differs from her other books because the main character is an older woman whose romance was derailed years before. Need to re-read it myself as read it a long while ago.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

A Little History Of The World by E.H. Gombrich

I love this book

 

[Vince W]

Well looky what the post left for me.

 

[dask]

Cool cover.

 

[dask]

I love this book

All right! Looking forward to it.

 

[K. Riehl]

Some recent acquisitions:
Girl from Mars (1929) is the first published story by Jack Williamson. The Green Girl followed in 1930

 

[Bick]

Those magazines look great KR

 

[Extollager]

Some recent acquisitions:
View attachment 33267 View attachment 33268 View attachment 33269 View attachment 33270 Girl from Mars (1929) is the first published story by Jack Williamson. The Green Girl followed in 1930

I have a battered copy of that issue with "The Son of Old Faithful." The multi-page letters section is practically a fanzine in its own right with letters from Forrest Ackerman and Donald Wollheim.

 

[dask]

Some recent acquisitions:
View attachment 33267 View attachment 33268 View attachment 33269 View attachment 33270 Girl from Mars (1929) is the first published story by Jack Williamson. The Green Girl followed in 1930

Stunning.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I'm popping out this lunchtime to buy The Essex Serpent - looks great.
Another The Lie Tree, hopefully.

 

[Paul_C]

Does a Kindle binge count as a haul ?

If it does then this evening I skimmed through the free and cheap sci-fi currently on Amazon and added 7 items to my Kindle

Qubit - Finn Mack (Free)
The Time Machine - HG Wells (I have this in paperback but it was free and might come in handy one day)
How The Marquis Got His Coat Back - Neil Gaiman (a short story add-on to Neverwhere, I've heard the radio adaptation already)
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (I've got a feeling this was serialised on the radio recently but I didn't hear it)
Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein (one of many classics missing from my shelves and on my list to acquire, along with . . . )
Star Maker & Last And First Men - William Olaf Stapledon

so two free and the other five cost me £5.10 which is a pretty good haul (and three ticked off my list) if they're accepted - if not then apologies and I'll keep future Kindle purchases for elsewhere

 

[GOLLUM]

Does a Kindle binge count as a haul ?

If it does then this evening I skimmed through the free and cheap sci-fi currently on Amazon and added 7 items to my Kindle

Qubit - Finn Mack (Free)
The Time Machine - HG Wells (I have this in paperback but it was free and might come in handy one day)
How The Marquis Got His Coat Back - Neil Gaiman (a short story add-on to Neverwhere, I've heard the radio adaptation already)
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (I've got a feeling this was serialised on the radio recently but I didn't hear it)
Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert Heinlein (one of many classics missing from my shelves and on my list to acquire, along with . . . )
Star Maker & Last And First Men - William Olaf Stapledon

so two free and the other five cost me £5.10 which is a pretty good haul (and three ticked off my list) if they're accepted - if not then apologies and I'll keep future Kindle purchases for elsewhere

Hi Paul,

You seem to have similar tastes to myself, at least if your favs of 2016 including Vandermeer, Harrison, Chiang et al plus here Gaiman, Wells, Zamyatin etc.. are anything to go by.

I don't know if you are familiar with the VG series both the SF and Fantasy Masterworks?. I have all the numbered title in both series as well as additional unnumbered items in the ongoing SF series (that I don't already have an alternative copy for). These are generally excellent titles to collect if you are looking to build on your library.

Links are below.

SF Masterworks - Wikipedia

Fantasy Masterworks - Wikipedia

Cheers.

 

[Paul_C]

Hi Paul,

You seem to have similar tastes to myself, at least if your favs of 2016 including Vandermeer, Harrison, Chiang et al plus here Gaiman, Wells, Zamyatin etc.. are anything to go by.

I don't know if you are familiar with the VG series both the SF and Fantasy Masterworks?. I have all the numbered title in both series as well as additional unnumbered items in the ongoing SF series (that I don't already have an alternative copy for). These are generally excellent titles to collect if you are looking to build on your library.

Links are below.

SF Masterworks - Wikipedia

Fantasy Masterworks - Wikipedia

Cheers.

I started many years ago, reading a lot of Azimov, Arthur C Clarke and EE Doc Smith, and more recently a lot of Iain M Banks, M John Harrison and Alastair Reynolds, but while I have read (and own) bits and pieces of other authors, there have always been a large number of "classic" books that I've never got round to reading, both old and modern.

I have begun to rectify this, and my recent registration to this forum is part of my attempt to catch up with as much of what I've missed over the years as I can.

I've got a list of authors and books collated from various Top 50 this and Top 100 that, and having had quick look at the SF Masterworks list I can see that there are a few I own, quite a lot that are on my list, and a few more to add to it

The bit that both excites and intimidates is that there are many that, if I really enjoy them, could lead to lots more books going on the list.

My recent splurges have so far increased my sci-fi "waiting to be read" pile to around 25, but the "yet to buy" list is increasing at the same time