Book Hauls!

So... you know... if you need to get rid of any to create more space.

I hear England is a nice place for books to retire to;)
 
Yeh right dream on Kiddo!!...;)

I bought from an antiquarian bookdealer today Blessing Of Pan - Lord Dunsany 1927 First edition. It cost quite a lot!!
 
Gollum, books in English in Japan are really cheap; about ¥1000-1300 each. That's about $10-13 Aussie.

I was there for a couple of months last year, and bought so many books and manga that I had to ship them back.
 
GOLLUM said:
Yeh right dream on Kiddo!!...;)

I bought from an antiquarian bookdealer today Blessing Of Pan - Lord Dunsany 1927 First edition. It cost quite a lot!!
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Yes, I would imagine so. About 15 years ago you could get a lot of Dunsany for a song; now there's actually quite a demand for his work, and a lot of it is back in print ... which is all to the good, I'd say. I got that one fairly recently myself (a recent printing), but haven't yet got around to reading it. Let me know what you think.....
 
Picked up A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. I have discovered that I can spend my Sunday's idling away my time in book shops if I bring home a book for the cheese n kisses to. So she is reading all the Alexander McCall Smith No 1. Ladies Detective Agency books. She reads them quick too, so I get to keep going back for more.

btw. Maybe this should be split into two threads; Book Hauls! and Gollum's Book Hauls! Gol, I hope you have a suitably large cavern for all these books. Let me know when the clearance sale is on. But then, they are probably all too precious.;)
 
As a matter of fact they are...:)

Today...
The Year's best Horror and Fantasy 2005
The Onion Girl - Charles De Lint *World fantasy Award winner
The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth - Rodger Zelazny
Old Kingdom trilogy incl. Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen - Gath Nix *Beautifully packaged!!

Graphic novel:
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore

On order...
The Antelope Wife - Louise Erdrich *World Fantasy Award Winner
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami *World Fantasy Award Winner
Towering Jehova - James Morrow *World Fantasy Award Winner

From Amazon....
Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton*World Fantasy Award Winner
The Physiognomy - Jeffrey Ford *World Fantasy Award Winner
Boy's Life - Roberet R McCammon *World Fantasy Award Winner
 
I started working again yesterday, and am now marking down everything I have to get this includes: More of the Sandman series ( I just got into them), HP when it comes out, LKH's new book.... My list is huge. Oh and everytime I come on this board I end up adding more to my list. I really shouldn't come!!!
 
Not fiction, but I want to tell non the less.

Waterstones has an offer where you hand in your old English dictionary and get 22 Euros off on Collins English Dictionary in hardback and I just did that.

That dictionary is the single biggest book I've ever seen in my life. I can seriously not lift it up with just one hand. Even picking it up with two hands, it's heavy. I could use it for some serious weight lifting if I wanted to!

It also came with a code for accesing their online dictionary and it seems like a good dictionary, as far as I can tell. I just can't get over the size of that book, that's all.
 
Just received the following in the mail:

The Colour of Magic by The Pratch
The First Book of Lankhmar by Fritz Lieber
Gateway by Frederick Pohl
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by P.K. Dick

Looking forward to all of them, even re-reading Sheep for the third time.
 
Some good ones there Supaabaka!

Today I got...

Books 1-3 of the Riverworld Saga - Philip Jose Farmer *Classic of SF
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
The Urth Of The New Sun - Gene Wolfe *Sequel to Book Of The New Sun and fifth and final volume in all.

Second hand bookshop....
A Song For Arborne - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Fifth Head Of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe
Le Morte D'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
The Best Of Clifford D. Simak
The World's Greatest Ghost Stories (over 40) Edited by Richard Dalby
The Northern Girl (Bk 3 of the classic Chroincles Of Tornor trilogy) - Elizabeth A. Lynn

That should keep me busy for a while...;)
 
No problem JD, didn't come up on any link so I'll post you the TOC, besides I need the typing practice NOT....:p ;)
 
Culhwch said:
Honestly, Goll, where do you put all these books? I live in envy.
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As per the pic I posted earlier think 4 shelves and a fifth in the adjoining cupboard plus I'm now making double rows i.e. books behind each other. I've almost completed what I set out to do, which was all the Fantasy Masterworks, as many 'classics' others I could get hold of and the last 15 years for World fantasy awards plus a few antholgies thrown in and some of the SF Masterworks plus a reasonable collection of the better regarded graphic novels. That outta be a reasonable sample of what SFF has to offer. It also means I don't need to go to the library or bookshops very often now as I have it in situ as it were....:D
 
Each day, the rare gollumis melbournis emerges from its den in the heart of Toorak to venture forth into the wilderness that is urban Melbourne. It takes with it a single wallet, containing its single tool; the credit card. The Gollum, as it is commonly known, prowls the avenues and alleys of Melbourne and revisits its marked territories. These territories are often called "bookshops" by the unlearned, but known to scientists and experts as "cashdrains".

The Gollum visits each cashdrain in turn, marking it with its very presence. However, on occasion the Gollum may spy an appetising morsel, known as a book, and would then proceed to catch it using its "credit card". Upon satiating its deep, dark hunger the Gollum will return to its den.

More on topic, I capitulated and bought The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Looking forward to that one.

(And Gollum, I meant no offence by calling you "it") :D
 
No offence taken buddy....:)

Blackburn not Toorak and COD (vs. credit card) but otherwise a pretty apt description....:D :D

I've become a Borders groupie, peace man!....:cool:
 
suupaabaka said:
More on topic, I capitulated and bought The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. Looking forward to that one.
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Hope you enjoy that one. If you do, you should give his The Demolished Man a try, as well; and, if you can find his early collections of short stories, there are quite a few there that you may also find well worth reading....
 
I got these this month:

Foundation (Foundation Series ; Bk 1) - Isaac Asimov
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
Survivor : A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk
Dune - Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells - H. G. Wells
4 Complete Novels - Frank Herbert
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy - Orson Scott Card

I'm waiting on these:

Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2) - Frank Herbert
West of Eden - Harry Harrison
Watership Down
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King

Lots of catching up to do. Wish me luck.:eek:
 
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