Book Hauls!

[BAYLOR]

Got Three books for Christmas.

Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B Cave . contains his best pulp horror stores, These are visage stories roughly and from the Weird Tales Era. This book compiled by Karl Edward Wager and publish about the mid 1970's is something of a classic

The Sapphire Goddess The Fantasies of Nuctzin Dyalhis contains nine of his stores. he 13 stoties .

The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories by Clifford Ball had a very literary career write six stories and never writer again . This is a book of his complete works.

 

[AE35Unit]

Which one?

This one ...

Also Signalz by F. Paul Wilson

(Just getting to grips with a new phone)

 

[Randy M.]

The Sapphire Goddess The Fantasies of Nuctzin Dyalhis contains nine of his stores. he 13 stoties .

A name that mutates in my mind to Nicotine Dialysis. Anyway, I think "his" should be "her".

 

[dask]

Got Three books for Christmas.

Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B Cave . contains his best pulp horror stores, These are visage stories roughly and from the Weird Tales Era. This book compiled by Karl Edward Wager and publish about the mid 1970's is something of a classic

The Sapphire Goddess The Fantasies of Nuctzin Dyalhis contains nine of his stores. he 13 stoties .

The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories by Clifford Ball had a very literary career write six stories and never writer again . This is a book of his complete works.

Been wanting the Murgunstrumm for quite a while. Gonna have to check eBay.

Just checked. Guess I can live a little longer without it.

 

[BAYLOR]

Been wanting the Murgunstrumm for quite a while. Gonna have to check eBay.

Just checked. Guess I can live a little longer without it.

The paperback is available on Amazon. Its only $21.00 dollars

 

[Extollager]

Further Yuletide gift from Mrs Extollager, with Giles getting his picture taken too.

 

[dask]

The comic book history was $6 from the Friends of the Library, the other two were from the freebie shelf.

 

[dask]

Today from Amazon:

 

[Elentarri]

@dask: Thanks for the blurb! I like the cover and the book sounds interesting.

 

[Extollager]

View attachment 128259View attachment 128260View attachment 128261The comic book history was $6 from the Friends of the Library, the other two were from the freebie shelf.

I think I've read Sobel's Planets twice and have been reading Longitude, so this Copernicus book sounds interesting.

As a kid I think I heard that name as Copper Nickus. Wonder when I got straightened out on that.

 

[dask]

Freebie from a roadside library. Traded an Anne Perry mystery for it. Might have been a good mystery but...

 

[Extollager]

Steinmann's From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology ought to interest students of the ancient world, Jews, Christians, nonreligious. Another Christmastide gift from the missus. This is the second edition, 2024. Various sellers offer the first edition, which I think is about 25 years old and definitely (according to the author) needed revision. If by any chance you're interested in this subject, don't buy the earlier edition. Ebay sellers are offering copies of the first at prices higher than the corrected current edition. Amazon seems to sell the first edition, also.

From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology, Second Edition - Concordia Publishing House

With new research, additions regarding Jesus’ birth and ministry, a new preface, and updated citations, From Abraham to Paul, Second Edition offers a historical tour of the Bible from the life of Abraham to the second missionary journey of the Apostle Pau

www.cph.org

Anyway I've read a little and it's interesting on different calendrical systems of the ancient world, the business of "inclusive" reckoning of days, etc. The book explains about ancient Hebrew reckoning of the new year from Nisan (in spring) or Tishri (in autumn).
Also, a book I had ordered arrived on the last day of 2024. This is Trench's A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present, edited by A. Smythe Palmer (Routledge, 1906). This book gave me the basis for one posting to the "Today I Learned" thread and will no doubt give me more.

A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present: By ... : Richard Chenevix Trench, Abram Smythe Palmer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

archive.org

This is a reference book I expect to read straight through.

https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/585156/page-37#post-2748172

 

[Dave Vicks]

WEBSTERS ENCYCLOPEDIC UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY:OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 1994.
1,854 pages

 

[AndrewT]

Further Yuletide gift from Mrs Extollager, with Giles getting his picture taken too.
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You're lucky to have such an educated pal.

 

[BAYLOR]

Today from Amazon:
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Marvelous !

 

[AE35Unit]

First hauls of '25...

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I was really on a mission today...