Book Hauls!

[Bick]

I got trhe "Battle of Jedha" hardback
I might stop collecting the Disney era books. I don't read them and they are of no interest to me.

Sound like decent reasons!

 

[Snicklefritz]

So which books have you recently spent your hard earned cash or pocket money on

What little gems couldnt you resist and ended up on your bookshelf

I have to be careful with my pennies these days so the only books that get onto my bookshelves (yep got more than one) now are my favourite authors works.

There was a special offer on (last week) at the book club I am a member of and I've sent for -

Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Grass for his Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn

Havent' got them yet but eagerly awaiting them

So which books have you recently spent your hard earned cash or pocket money on

What little gems couldnt you resist and ended up on your bookshelf

I have to be careful with my pennies these days so the only books that get onto my bookshelves (yep got more than one) now are my favourite authors works.

There was a special offer on (last week) at the book club I am a member of and I've sent for -

Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix
Grass for his Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn

Havent' got them yet but eagerly awaiting them

I just got Genesis Quest by Donald Moffitt in exchange for a Paperback Swap credit. This is my first Moffitt book. It was suggested to me by a local librarian, who saw me returning Magician Master — also a first author encounter

 

[AE35Unit]

Little charity shop haul.
I already have a copy of Empire of the sun but this edition has the sequel too, so the one I have can be donated.
And I have a copy of Lord of the Flies but mine has writing in it, done in biro. Someone had been making notes! So that can just be recycled

 

[Bick]

Nice haul. It’s interesting that the Golding incorrectly says he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The prize is in Literature. You see this error quite often and it pushes my pedantry button

 

[Pyan]

Just got a copy of one of the best naval reference books ever.

 

[AE35Unit]

Nice haul. It’s interesting that the Golding incorrectly says he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The prize is in Literature. You see this error quite often and it pushes my pedantry button

I'd never have noticed

 

[hitmouse]

I was sorely tempted to pick up these bad boys spotted in a 2nd hand bookshop in the Marais, Paris today. I assumed I would be able to find something on eBay, but no luck. Maybe I should modify my search. Has anyone heard of this imprint. I looked up BR Bruss. Very dubious reputation as a civil servant in the Vichy Govt during WWII .

 

[Rodders]

The Gaunt's Ghost series by Dan Abnett is one of my absolute favourites. The Black Library has just released the first three in Print on Demand hardback. I've ordered them as i don't thing these have been printed in hardback before.



It looks like i got in just in time as it's sold out online.

 

[Extollager]

That book’s. 70 years old. The cat’s almost five.

 

[Pyan]

Another addition to my Dreadnought library...

 

[AE35Unit]

Another addition to my Dreadnought library...

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I wonder if Jane's did books on steam locos...

 

[Pyan]

I don't think so - Fred T. Jane

I hadn't realised that, like H. G. Wells, he was a pioneer of table-top miniature wargaming.

 

[Rodders]

A couple of cheap Kindle purchases.

Terry Patchett - Pyramids.



Locking down another Discworld book on Kindle for a massive re-read. Not too keen on this cover. I loved the original artwork. (Josh Kirby, wasn't it?)

Timothy Zahn - Star Wars: Choices of One.



Zahn is my favourite Star Wars writer.

 

[Astro Pen]

Little charity shop haul.
I already have a copy of Empire of the sun but this edition has the sequel too, so the one I have can be donated.
And I have a copy of Lord of the Flies but mine has writing in it, done in biro. Someone had been making notes! So that can just be recycled
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Midnight was the first Koontz book that I read. I enjoyed it and immediately bought The Watchers. Both serve as a good introduction to his style.

 

[AE35Unit]

Couple from a charity shop. A big horse encyclopdia and a paperback about rescue cats, 50p each!

 

[dask]

Today, used but in near mint:

 

[Rodders]

Star Wars: Battle Scars by Sam Maggs.


I know that i was thinking of stopping collecting these hardbacks, but i adored Jedi: Fallen Order and this is a prequel story setting up Jedi: Survivor is kind of a no brainer. (No comments necessary. )

Star Wars: The Art of Visions



This book explores the artwork involved in he recent Star Wars animated shorts. I haven't seen these shorts, so i'm looking forward to cracking this one to explore the artwork.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I was sorely tempted to pick up these bad boys spotted in a 2nd hand bookshop in the Marais, Paris today. I assumed I would be able to find something on eBay, but no luck. Maybe I should modify my search. Has anyone heard of this imprint. I looked up BR Bruss. Very dubious reputation as a civil servant in the Vichy Govt during WWII .View attachment 100181

Just noticed this. Fleuve Noir (Black River) were very big and important in the early days of French SF. Concentrating more of the Gosh Wow factor adventurous end of the market. They published a lot of Stefan Wul's stuff.

Yesterday we had a family trip away to the big city to see Mr Garth Marenghi on his Terrortome book tour. Daughter Number One got to ask the man a question in the Q and A (a moment rendered more than usually surreal by the fact she'd come to the theatre straight from a drag king workshop and had a beard). Daughter Number Two now has a signed copy. On the return trip we stopped overnight in a motel and I had a total panic because I forgotten to take anything to read. In the foyer of the motel was a charity bookshelf full of the most godawful airport terminal stuff and...

The Virago book of Fairy Tales edited by Angela Carter. Thank you!

Today, in at one of my Favourite Places in the Universe, I spent £50 on second hand books in under 20 minutes.

I finally got myself a copy of Clute's Encylopedia of SF and could then answer a question Number Two Daughter asked me in the middle of a episode of Stargate Atlantis the other day: "When was the idea of Hyperspace invented?" I had no idea. Best I could come up with was that it would have had to come after Einstein had convinced everyone that nothing could go faster than light - but I had no real idea when that was. I seem to recall that in SF's early days, in things like Smith's Skylark books, things just went VERY FAST to get to other star systems. Turns out the answer was almost certainly John Campbell back in 1931.

Then a couple of French Galaxies - one of which contains a half-remembered story I have been looking for for years. A non-SF Digit imprint paperback for that particular obsessive collection, a French translation of a Van Vogt, and a reprint of a 1954 Luck Luke.

A couple of books about comics: History and creators talking about their methods - Volume One of Vertigo's Fables and a pile of individual issues of Alan Moore's Promethea:

And a separate pile of Star Trek encyclopedias / guides which Trek fan Number One son is getting for his birthday. I've planked them out of sight so he can't find them so no pics. But the suckers were big. And HEAVY.

 

[hitmouse]

Just noticed this. Fleuve Noir (Black River) were very big and important in the early days of French SF. Concentrating more of the Gosh Wow factor adventurous end of the market. They published a lot of Stefan Wul's stuff.

Yesterday we had a family trip away to the big city to see Mr Garth Marenghi on his Terrortome book tour. Daughter Number One got to ask the man a question in the Q and A (a moment rendered more than usually surreal by the fact she'd come to the theatre straight from a drag king workshop and had a beard). Daughter Number Two now has a signed copy. On the return trip we stopped overnight in a motel and I had a total panic because I forgotten to take anything to read. In the foyer of the motel was a charity bookshelf full of the most godawful airport terminal stuff and...

The Virago book of Fairy Tales edited by Angela Carter. Thank you!

Today, in at one of my Favourite Places in the Universe, I spent £50 on second hand books in under 20 minutes.

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I finally got myself a copy of Clute's Encylopedia of SF and could then answer a question Number Two Daughter asked me in the middle of a episode of Stargate Atlantis the other day: "When was the idea of Hyperspace invented?" I had no idea. Best I could come up with was that it would have had to come after Einstein had convinced everyone that nothing could go faster than light - but I had no real idea when that was. I seem to recall that in SF's early days, in things like Smith's Skylark books, things just went VERY FAST to get to other star systems. Turns out the answer was almost certainly John Campbell back in 1931.

Then a couple of French Galaxies - one of which contains a half-remembered story I have been looking for for years. A non-SF Digit imprint paperback for that particular obsessive collection, a French translation of a Van Vogt, and a reprint of a 1954 Luck Luke.

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A couple of books about comics: History and creators talking about their methods - Volume One of Vertigo's Fables and a pile of individual issues of Alan Moore's Promethea:

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And a separate pile of Star Trek encyclopedias / guides which Trek fan Number One son is getting for his birthday. I've planked them out of sight so he can't find them so no pics. But the suckers were big. And HEAVY.

I have that exact Frederick Pohl anthology.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

In the small town of Tracy City, Tennessee, there's a thrift store run by the Appalachian Women's Guild. Just a little place, full of old clothes and the like. There's a tiny side room full of books. Fifty cents for paperbacks, one dollar for hardcovers. My intellectual better half got a couple of dozen books, mostly nonfiction, including a Latin dictionary, and I got this one book.

Five original novellas on the theme of interstellar travel, by some impressive names. One is by Silverberg himself, with others by Stephen Baxter, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick, and Walter Jon Williams. A Science Fiction Book Club original from 2004.