Book Hauls!

I've just started the Chabon. About 50 pages in and enjoying it.

For myself, recently bought David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute.

Nothing collectible, but titles I've been curious about.


Randy M.
 
Few things beat a well written comic. The first Batman Versus Predator mini series is a good example (and excellent recommendation if anyone is so inspired).

Neglected to quote AE35Unit's post if anyone is wondering what I'm talking about.:(
 
Picked up Mieville's The City and the City, one of the Benedict Jackas and one of the Robert Galbraiths for a quid total at the charity shop.

As the chap behind the counter said, it would have been rude not to.
 
In the last months I got these from used books stores except (*) which were new:
Star king/The Killing Machine/Palace of Love by Jack Vance in real good shape and great price from Brazilian used books stores, all Brazilian editions.
Alastor Omnibus by Jack Vance ( this was new but I really needed it badly)(*)
American Gods/Anansi Sons hadcover ( this was new but I really needed it badly)(*)
Shadow and Claw , Sword and citadel Gene Wolfe on Abebooks UK ( the shipping costs more than books themselves )
Urth Of the New Sun by Wolfe from a local Brazilian used books store.
I am really reading Gene Wolfe on ebooks but since I loved BoTN I could refrain myself.
 
Arrived in the mail yesterday:

With this acquisition I now have all five volumes in Brooks's series, Makers And Finders: A History Of The Writer In America. I've only read the first volume but I have every confidence the rest will be well worth the time. I almost said "and effort" but there was no effort with The World Of Washington Irving. It was one of those books you hope would never end and truly saddens when the last page is read.
 
Enticing, though brief, comments, Dask! It inspired me to bring inside the only volume that I have from the series, out of "remote storage." I have The World of Washington Irving. Going to Wikipedia, I see the five volumes are:

The World of Washington Irving
The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
The Times of Melville and Whitman
New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915
The Confident Years: 1885-1915

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I wish I'd nabbed the bound volume containing that issue of Time when the university library threw away most of its periodicals archives several years ago.

I'm focusing on English Romanticism these days, but the Irving volume at least would probably nicely complement the study of the second-generation Romantics such as de Quincey, whose biography be Grevel Lindop I am reading now.
 
I just located and bought a near-perfect used copy of All Judgement Fled, by James White.

It's this edition:
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I have been on the lookout since I saw J-Sun and others raving about it. Looking forward to reading this next.
 
Hope you enjoy it. His essay on Poe is a high point, as is his discussion of artists who ventured out into the wild to engage their passion. Thanks for the Time cover.

Seems I was slow on the clicker again. This post is a reply to Extollager's appearing just above Bick's who slipped his in while I was thunking.
 
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I've read All Judgment Fled three times and expect to read it again. My guess is that you'll enjoy it a lot, Dask.
 
We got a big box of books from Dover Press, who mostly put out inexpensive editions of public domain stuff; although, as you'll see, they put out some newer stuff as well. In addition to a bunch of stuff mostly of interest to my more scholarly better half, we got these items of SFF interest:

Dark Reflections (2007) by Samuel R. Delany (mainstream novel about a gay African-American poet in New York City)

The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868) by Edward S. Ellis (said to be the first American science fiction dime novel, and an early example of the genre known as the "Edisonade" [tales of a brilliant inventor and his gadget.])

And nearly a dozen books in Dover's "Doomsday Classics" series, which you can see on the following link. (It would have been an even dozen but I have already read Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair.) These range from the 19th century (After London) to the 21st (some of the stories in Grave Predictions) with the majority in the early and middle of the 20th century. Lengths vary from very short (The Night of the Long Knives is really a novella) to quite long (Darkness and Dawn is really a trilogy.)

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Victoria Silverwolf said:
We got a big box of books from Dover Press, who mostly put out inexpensive editions of public domain stuff; although, as you'll see, they put out some newer stuff as well. In addition to a bunch of stuff mostly of interest to my more scholarly better half, we got these items of SFF interest:

Dark Reflections (2007) by Samuel R. Delany (mainstream novel about a gay African-American poet in New York City)

The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868) by Edward S. Ellis (said to be the first American science fiction dime novel, and an early example of the genre known as the "Edisonade" [tales of a brilliant inventor and his gadget.])

And nearly a dozen books in Dover's "Doomsday Classics" series, which you can see on the following link. (It would have been an even dozen but I have already read Sign of the Labrys by Margaret St. Clair.) These range from the 19th century (After London) to the 21st (some of the stories in Grave Predictions) with the majority in the early and middle of the 20th century. Lengths vary from very short (The Night of the Long Knives is really a novella) to quite long (Darkness and Dawn is really a trilogy.)

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Dover is a brilliant and quite unusual publisher. They have a really eclectic list of public domain non-fiction, and I have picked up lots of their quite random stuff just because it looked really interesting and was inexpensive. I would be interested to know how they choose their lists.
 
Victoria, I remember the excitement of a box of Dovers for the family, back in the day -- nifty things for the kids as well as grownups. Some of those books are still around. Heh -- I think maybe when a Dover coloring book came our way, the thing to do was photocopy the page, and color that, leaving the book page un-colored and able to be copied again some other time for another coloring project. Maybe that was just with some other coloring books... It was a long time ago! It was fun to pass around a catalog and let everyone pick something.
 
Bick said:
I just located and bought a near-perfect used copy of All Judgement Fled, by James White.

It's this edition:

I have been on the lookout since I saw J-Sun and others raving about it. Looking forward to reading this next.
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I don't think I've read this author but it sounds interesting
 
Yesterday afternoon's mail brought a review copy of Clyde S. Kilby's essays A Well of Wonder: Essays on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Inklings. Most of the content dates to the 1960s and 1970s, when Kilby was a notable exponent of these authors. (He founded the Wade Collection of their work at Wheaton College, where researchers often make pilgrimages.) The book reprints nearly all of 1976's Tolkien and The Silmarillion, which contains an outstanding portrait of Tolkien in his seventies, charming, exasperating, deeply impressive. It was good to see that portrait reprinted here, and anyone interested in the man should enjoy it.
 
A simple but quite important book haul today. I had to order this thru Amazon and it's an American import so it took a while. It's the 4th book in the Planet of Adventure series by Jack Vance. I have had the first 3 books for a while and have been waiting to complete the series since I discovered there was a 4th book (originally I thought it was a trilogy)

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AE35Unit said:
A simple but quite important book haul today. I had to order this thru Amazon and it's an American import so it took a while. It's the 4th book in the Planet of Adventure series by Jack Vance. I have had the first 3 books for a while and have been waiting to complete the series since I discovered there was a 4th book (originally I thought it was a trilogy)

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It is a good end to the series. I bought that set in the same edition in a bookshop in Kitsilano, Vancouver called Pulp Fiction in 2005. Ah, nostalgia.
 
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