Book Hauls!

[hitmouse]

Good little essay on compulsive book buying. The comments are worth a read:

Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying

 

[AE35Unit]

Well I tried the freezer treatment on The Pnume. The sticker on the back peeled off easily but not the one on the front. Hairdryer next...

 

[Bick]

I've started collecting the Dickens novels in Everyman's Library HB's. I've ordered Dombey and Son and Little Dorrit, and I have a voucher coming with which I shall pick up another 4. I always wanted nice hardback editions of Dickens works with all the original illustrations, so very happy this 'project' is finally underway.

 

[Bick]

Well I tried the freezer treatment on The Pnume. The sticker on the back peeled off easily but not the one on the front. Hairdryer next...

Ha ha - keep us updated. Honestly, this should be a stickied thread

 

[AE35Unit]

I've started collecting the Dickens novels in Everyman's Library HB's. I've ordered Dombey and Son and Little Dorrit, and I have a voucher coming with which I shall pick up another 4. I always wanted nice hardback editions of Dickens works with all the original illustrations, so very happy this 'project' is finally underway.

I once had a complete set of Dickens books, all with nice green leatherette covers. But when I relocated to up north I couldn't take them with me and my brother bought them off me.

 

[Bick]

I once had a complete set of Dickens books, all with nice green leatherette covers. But when I relocated to up north I couldn't take them with me and my brother bought them off me.

Shame, will you ever get another set do you think?

D&S arrived in the mail this morning, as it happens. Beautiful edition, with the original Chesterton introduction, as well as a more modern intro, two authors prefaces (to 1848 and 1867 editions) and illustrations by Phiz. Lovely binding and paper quaility; overall I'm overjoyed. This is next on the rank after the Wodehouse I'm reading.

 

[Paul_C]

two more acquired (eBay auctions won):

Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe

 

[AE35Unit]

Shame, will you ever get another set do you think?

Probably not due to lack of space. I do have a paperback of Oliver Twist tho. And a couple of ebooks.

 

[Rodders]

I picked up a first edition of James Luceno's Millennium Falcon.

 

[Paul_C]

After picking up Memory Seed on Saturday I thought I'd take a break from book buying, so when I had to make a couple of purchases for my daughter yesterday so to bring the total up to £20 for the free postage I added:

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert

and then later on I had another browse through ebay's cheap book selection and came up with:

Adam Robots: Short Stories - Adam Roberts
Singularity Sky - Charles Stross
Cities In Flight - James Blish
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Dragon's Egg - Robert L Forward

 

[Paul_C]

In my defence I did sell a bass ukulele to a friend on Saturday so I do have some spare funds

 

[AE35Unit]

Nice Haul there Paul!

 

[Paul_C]

Ta!

(might have bought three more today, but don't tell anyone)

 

[Son of Valhalla]

Yep Paul. Old Man's War. Have check, will buy.

 

[Extollager]

A friend sent 23 Simaks and a Brunner as gifts.

 

[Paul_C]

nice gift !

 

[Vince W]

Everyone should have friends like that.

 

[AE35Unit]

Nice Simak haul!

 

[Bick]

OMG!, to use a facebook generation phrase I loathe

What a haul, I'm jealous indeed. And delivered on a flying carpet, too!

 

[J-Sun]

A friend sent 23 Simaks and a Brunner as gifts.

I expect to see you on the Rediscovery of Clifford D. Simak thread. And I mean, like, a lot.