Book Hauls!

[dask]

Not really a recent book haul. These were missing for over thirty years but the other day I found them stuffed out of sight behind a stack of trade paperbacks on one of my bookcases. Have no recollection of putting them there.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Today, through the post I got a envelope.

Someone I had bought Belgian/French comics from previously on eBay just sent me, from France, free of charge, and for no discernable reason, other than as a random act of kindness, a pile of 11 Tintin comics from 1970/1.

I am really touched. Je suis très ému.

 

[AE35Unit]

Charity shop haul

 

[AE35Unit]

Got this early Niven yesterday. Another on the way

 

[Vince W]

Love that cover.

 

[AE35Unit]

Love that cover.

Kinda sci fi cliché tho

 

[Elentarri]

Kinda sci fi cliché tho

At least it's unique and doesn't look like a stock photo crop job.

 

[Vince W]

Kinda sci fi cliché tho

Yes, but in a good way.

 

[AE35Unit]

Another Niven from Abebooks...

And a crime book by a new to me author. McIllvanney's first Laidlaw book reissued, found in a charity shop.

 

[Randy M.]

Laidlaw has been lurking on my shelves for decades and I never get to it in spite of it being on at least one list of top 100 crime/mystery/detective novels. (H. R. F. Keating's list)

 

[AE35Unit]

Laidlaw has been lurking on my shelves for decades and I never get to it in spite of it being on at least one list of top 100 crime/mystery/detective novels. (H. R. F. Keating's list)

Hmm not heard of H. R. F. Keating

 

[Randy M.]

Hmm not heard of H. R. F. Keating

Haven't read anything by him, myself, but he was well respected back when as a writer and as a reader and historian of the mystery genre.

Just to add, H. R. F. Keating's 100 Best Crime and Mystery Books

 

[Quokka]

A few more crime masterworks

 

[AE35Unit]

Haven't read anything by him, myself, but he was well respected back when as a writer and as a reader and historian of the mystery genre.

Just to add, H. R. F. Keating's 100 Best Crime and Mystery Books

Hmm an Ed McBain in there too

 

[Vince W]

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1979. A lot of Barry B. Longyear in 79.

 

[Extollager]

This is an image I found online. I don't have a copy; but the cover art's kind of intriguing. It came to mind when I saw AE35Unit's posting above with different cover art.

 

[AE35Unit]

I like that cover

 

[hitmouse]

I like that cover

Yeah so do I. Haven’t seen that before. I have the one posted by @AE35Unit above.

 

[Vince W]

This is copy I have.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

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This is an image I found online. I don't have a copy; but the cover art's kind of intriguing. It came to mind when I saw AE35Unit's posting above with different cover art.

A while back, I did some research for an article on the magazine appearance of the novella version of this novel, and found out that this first edition cover art was recycled from an earlier book. You can see that it has been reversed also.