Book Hauls!

Not exactly a 'haul' more of a rediscovery. Digging my way to the back of the weird little crawlspace where I have been storing all my old Penguin books for the last couple of decades I discovered the last box, right at the back, didn't contain Penguins at all but was, instead, full of Badgers.

A whole box full of Lionel Fanthorpes I had totally forgotten I owned.

There are some bloody awful books in there

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Hoo boy, though -- the titles of many of those Badger books would have been much more enticing to me when I was getting started with sf, than some of the books and many of the short stories I saw in the Galaxy Readers and Best of F&SF volumes. Are the covers at all attractive?
 
I had an interesting book haul from the depths of my mum's attic:
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This series was printed just after the war (first volume is 1946) and the jacket states: "Not war alone, but the demands of a new planned way of living has made it certain that much which our fathers knew and loved in the British scene will vanish soon if, indeed, it has not vanished already...Since 1940 a carefully chosen band of men and women have been busy painting and drawing these threatened objects."

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This set doesn't need much introduction! I've made a few sorties in to plumb the murky depths and it's actually quite interesting though it is very noticeable how Sir Winston is not shy about blowing his own trumpet!
 
Vertigo said:
I had an interesting book haul from the depths of my mum's attic:
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This series was printed just after the war (first volume is 1946) and the jacket states: "Not war alone, but the demands of a new planned way of living has made it certain that much which our fathers knew and loved in the British scene will vanish soon if, indeed, it has not vanished already...Since 1940 a carefully chosen band of men and women have been busy painting and drawing these threatened objects."

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This set doesn't need much introduction! I've made a few sorties in to plumb the murky depths and it's actually quite interesting though it is very noticeable how Sir Winston is not shy about blowing his own trumpet!
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The Recording Britian books look like being a real treasure (not that I mean to seem to disparage the Churchill books, but they are less rare, I suppose).
 
Extollager said:
The Recording Britian books look like being a real treasure (not that I mean to seem to disparage the Churchill books, but they are less rare, I suppose).
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Yes that's what I thought. I mean they're not works of art, all the pictures are sketches or quick, rough water colours etc. But then there are a lot of them and some are much more meticulous. But also the writing describing each is quite light and whimsical. You can just about read the writing on that one that's open.

Actually it would be a fun (??) retirement project to go through the whole book and see how many still exist!
 
The dust jacket illustration on Recording Britain -- can you tell if that is by Joan Hassall?
 
Vertigo said:
Yes that's what I thought. I mean they're not works of art, all the pictures are sketches or quick, rough water colours etc. But then there are a lot of them and some are much more meticulous. But also the writing describing each is quite light and whimsical. You can just about read the writing on that one that's open.

Actually it would be a fun (??) retirement project to go through the whole book and see how many still exist!
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Google Maps Streetview is your friend. (What you need is a bunch of willing volunteers who know their local area... )
 
Extollager said:
The dust jacket illustration on Recording Britain -- can you tell if that is by Joan Hassall?
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I can't tell for sure as it's not acknowledged on the jacket. However she does not appear in the list of artists inside so I rather doubt it. However the style of that jacket image doesn't really match that of any of the artists inside the book. Most of those are more photographic in nature. I don't mean photographic quality but photographic in that they are meant to be accurate recordings of the scenes whereas that cover image is a little more stylised (for example the leaves are nearly as wide as the tree trunk).
 
After watching The Bishop’s Wife last night I found this intriguing book online and decided that rather than using the charge card to buy the paperback I’d use bonus points to download the Kindle edition.
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I just downloaded Jenny Trapdoor by Neal Asher. Anything featuring the Shenanigans of Penny Royal is an instant read.

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"During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. The manipulations of this insane and incredibly dangerous intelligence were grotesque. It granted wishes that were deals with the devil, and transformed its victims into chimeras of the technological and the organic. Hunted throughout the war and beyond, it finally found redemption and apotheosis, as it moved itself beyond time.

Though Jenny is terrified of the trapdoor spider that has taken up residence in her ship, the arrival of the war in her home system soon dismisses it from her mind. But the spider returns in a way she could never have conceived. . ."
 
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