Book Hauls!

Here are some:

Out Of Space & Time by Clark Ashton Smith
The Croquet Player by H.G. Wells
The Nightmare & Other Tales Of Dark Fantasy by Francis Stevens
 
Well, I'm back from a trip to Southern California. While I was there I went book shopping. This is what I returned with.

Note: listed in order of publication date; titles bought used are in italics.

The Golden Bough, by James G. Frazer (originally published 1890 in two volumes; one-volume edition 1981) mythology/anthropology; hardback

The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James (lectures delivered 1901 - 1902; 2002 edition) religion/anthropology/sociology; trade paperback


The Medieval World: Europe 1100 - 1350, by Friedrich Heer (1961) history; mass-market paperback

They Studied Men, by Abram Kardiner and Edward Preble (1961) anthropology; mass-market paperback

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, by W. H. McNeill (1963) history; winner, 1964 National Book Award; mass-market paperback

Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, by H. R. Ellis Davidson (1964) mythology; mass-market paperback

Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (1967) fiction; mass-market paperback

I Will Fear No Evil, by Robert A. Heinlein (1970) fiction; mass-market paperback

Partners in Wonder, by Harlan Ellision and others (1971, 1975) fiction; mass-market paperback

Again, Dangerous Visions, Vol. 2, edited by Harlan Ellison (1972) fiction; mass-market paperback

Digging Up Jerusalem, by Kathleen Kenyon (1974) archaeology; trade paperback

Stalking the Nightmare, by Harlan Ellision (1982) fiction; mass-market paperback

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, by Daniel J. Boorstin (1983) history; trade paperback

Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson (1992) fiction; mass-market paperback

The Good Book, by Peter J. Gomes (1996) religious studies; hardback first edition

Desire of the Everlasting Hills, by Thomas Cahill (1999) history/religious studies; hardback first edition

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann, (2005) history/anthropology; trade paperback

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, by Adam Hochschild (2005) history; National Book Award finalist; trade paperback

Tutu Deadly, by Natalie M. Roberts (2007) fiction, mass-market paperback first edition

Can you tell I had a good time? :D
 
Indeed, LMA -- that's quite a haul! Hmmm. Sounds like I'm not the only one who's gearing up for some Ellisonia....:D

By the way... on the DV paperback... is that the edition that was divided into ... 3 volumes ... I think? Or is it all in the single pb? (That is one rather good-sized anthology!)
 
As far as I can tell, j. d., the one volume contains the lot of it. I don't see any indication of it being one of a set. Anyway, the introduction is titled "Thirty-Two Soothsayers", and there appear to be at least that many stories in the book. And, yes, it is fairly long...514 pages.

I had hoped to pick up all the volumes of Again, Dangerous Visions, but the store where I got it had three or four copies of volume two and no copies that I could find of volume one. Oh, well. Part is better than none. I just wish I still had the hardbacks of both books, but they got lost somewhere along the way.

By the way, the list of books might have been much longer if I had been able to spend more time in Acres of Books. Having finally visited there, I fully believe their claim to have around a million volumes in stock.

It was a little like Christmas in April, Allegra. The amazing thing to me is that I spent less than a third of the money I had allowed myself for book purchases. And, goodness knows, I spent more on the four books I bought new than I did on the fifteen I bought used.
 
As I noted earlier -- that is quite a haul. The anthropology books also sound quite interesting; and that seems to be a field that is making quite a lot of news lately.....
 
Picked up today:

Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury *Part of my Bradbury binge*
The Drawing Of The Dark - Tim Powers Part of SFF Masterworks series.
 
My review copy of the UK edition of the highly critically-acclaimed The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss turned up today. Looking forward to it once I finish the exceptionally good Un Lun Dun by China Mieville.
 
That Drawing of The Dark by Tim Powers is good I'm only sorry that at the time I did not buy the limited editon Quarter bound but I am still happy with the paperback hope you enjoy it.:)
 
Yay! Finally, The Last Colony (John Scalzi) has arrived!

It's the third part of a thrilogy and I've been waiting for it since I read the first two.

Just one chapter into it, it seems as good as the first two so far.
 
Yay! Finally, The Last Colony (John Scalzi) has arrived!

It's the third part of a thrilogy and I've been waiting for it since I read the first two.

Just one chapter into it, it seems as good as the first two so far.

I didn't even know this book existed. It's not on his website, so it's now on my wish list for next month. Thanks for the heads up.:cool:
 
I didn't even know this book existed. It's not on his website, so it's now on my wish list for next month. Thanks for the heads up.:cool:

You're welcome. I'm glad to meet other people here who also enjoy his books :)

He's blogging about the promotional tour he's having for it, over at Whatever
 
Yay. Endless Things, the fourth and final book in John Crowley's Aegypt sequence arrived today. And it's signed too.
 
I went for another rummage in my favourite Exeter bookshop again today. Ah, I love that place. For a mere £9.60, I bought the following:

The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
The Bull and the Spear - Michael Moorcock
The Oak and the Ram - Michael Moorcock
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
 
Gee Hoopy, that's a nice haul! I spent that much for a copy of The Gormenghast Trilogy alone. Have a good time!:)
 
Hoopy the Moorcock ones are good with Corum did you get the Quartet ones with the Patrick Woodroffe covers, the 3rd and final one is The Sword and the Stallion.:)
 
I did indeed get the Quartet ones! I've already read the Knight and the Queen of the swords (and King is glaring down from my bookshelf, waiting to be read). Alas, I couldn't find the final book, hopefully I'll find it before I work my way through the other books!
 
I went for another rummage in my favourite Exeter bookshop again today. Ah, I love that place. For a mere £9.60, I bought the following:
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Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
I'll be interested to read your thoughts of IMO the best EPIC fantasy author out there today. GOTM is fairly weak compared to the remainder of the series so far, so if you can get through that book the following novels are rich reward indeed.
 

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