Book Hauls!

Freebie from a neighborhood roadside library:
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I was going to put the Twain in the roadside library to exchange for the Elmore Leonard western anthology I picked up the other but decided it was too good to part with so traded the Cheever instead. Both were library freebies.
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The Cheever I used was a mass market paperback in really good shape. The above is an image I snagged off the internet.
 
AE35Unit said:
From Abebooks today
I know these books look like juveniles, but they're really not. Just fun space opera adventures. View attachment 125809
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I just finished the 1st one The Tar-Aym Krang. Indeed, fun and enjoyable space opera.
Yesterday, we went to an oxfam in the South of England and I found these two:

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These arrived the other day from an eBay seller.
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They were only a couple of quid each - the Ace, Pawns of Null-A has seen better days. It has been obviously glued back together at some point - but not as good as I would have done. Still, it's readable, and I don't often see mid 50s Ace pb.s for sale at prices I'm willing to pay.
 
The other day I was in Stornoway’s bookshop, examining some books of short stories etc which look very nice indeed. Some were on themes that I like - one was called Tales Of King Arthur, and was actually selections from Thomas Mallory’s classic version, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, another was calling “Dying Planet” and was variations on the downfall of civilisation and so on.
I decided best not indulge, because then I would want more, and where would it end (I’ve since looked them up online, and there are 64 books in all)

And then today, a friend decided to reduce her TBR piles by giving away a few books. She gave me a volume from these books I’d been admiring. Epic Fantasy Short Stories.
So then of course I went back to the bookshop and got myself Alternate History Short Stories, and the two books like nice together.

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Books which I did not buy in the end, though sorely tempted. The early edition Ballards are probably a steal at £9.99 apiece. Quite a lot of erotica too. Interesting what turns up in the local Oxfam bookshop, and I am glad that they understood what they were given.
Brian Stapleford died in this town in February.
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hitmouse said:
Books which I did not buy in the end, though sorely tempted. The early edition Ballards are probably a steal at £9.99 apiece. Quite a lot of erotica too. Interesting what turns up in the local Oxfam bookshop, and I am glad that they understood what they were given.
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I'd have had those Ballards! No such luck in our oxfam shop
 
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