Book Hauls!

[JunkMonkey]

I'm pretty sure that Tim White? cover top left of my post is a second hand reuse too. (An old UK reprint of a Cap Kennedy novel?.... Except the series was renamed Agents of FATE- I think. I'll go dig through the relevent piles when I get home from work.)

I wus rong. I was thinking of this:

though that Tim White painting was also licenced for a CD cover:

https://www.discogs.com/es/release/1584036-Big-Spaceship-Dream-On

 

[AE35Unit]

Got these 2 from Abebooks today. Waiting on a third book...

 

[dask]

Just arrived today from Better World Books. Ex-library copy appears brand new and unread except for maybe being cracked open to check for pictures.

Contains mostly unpublished and uncollected stories.

 

[Sargeant_Fox]

Stuff to keep me busy this month:

 

[AE35Unit]

Little charity shop find. Old Mellifont edition of Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone

 

[Elentarri]

Freaky cover for the Wilkie Collins!

 

[AE35Unit]

Freaky cover for the Wilkie Collins!

Its some weird economy edition, and I discovered the back board is coming off

 

[Elentarri]

Its some weird economy edition, and I discovered the back board is coming off

Either leave it or stick it back on with a strip of paper and wood glue? NOT STICKY TAPE!!!

 

[AE35Unit]

Either leave it or stick it back on with a strip of paper and wood glue? NOT STICKY TAPE!!!

Nah I'll use sticky tape. Its not a precious book, just a reading copy.

 

[dask]

Today’s mail delivery:

 

[AE35Unit]

Finally the third book from Abebooks arrived.
Read it years ago, pre internet days. In fact I remember reading The Sentinel with my sister.

 

[Extollager]

Nah I'll use sticky tape. Its not a precious book, just a reading copy.

And The Moonstone is a good read all right, a good "entry" novel into the enormous wealth of the 19th-century novel for a lot of people. The villain with the pet white mice crawling over him is a classic baddie. No mice here, and not nearly fat enough:

 

[AE35Unit]

And The Moonstone is a good read all right, a good "entry" novel into the enormous wealth of the 19th-century novel for a lot of people. The villain with the pet white mice crawling over him is a classic baddie. No mice here, and not nearly fat enough:

I tried reading the first part while I was in college waiting for my son but I found it a bit of a slog

 

[Extollager]

I tried reading the first part while I was in college waiting for my son but I found it a bit of a slog

It's a long time since I read it. Maybe The Woman in White is a better bet. The opening of that one I do remember. Somehow it's kind of fascinating, this rural scene with the prospect of London, and the idea of walking the night and being in the city by morning -- something like that.

 

[AE35Unit]

It's a long time since I read it. Maybe The Woman in White is a better bet. The opening of that one I do remember. Somehow it's kind of fascinating, this rural scene with the prospect of London, and the idea of walking the night and being in the city by morning -- something like that.

I have that one upstairs...

 

[dask]

Arrived today, another used hardback that looks rarely touched and never read:

 

[Ubergeek]

I tried reading the first part while I was in college waiting for my son but I found it a bit of a slog

AE35Unit . You had 9 months to finish it !

 

[AE35Unit]

AE35Unit . You had 9 months to finish it !

Eh?

 

[AE35Unit]

3 from today...

 

[AE35Unit]

My other half treated herself to this humungous dog book.
Weighs a flipping ton!
Woof!