Book Hauls!

I just took delivery of some books from B5books.com including Asked And Answered volumes 1 to 5, Crusade: Other Voices volumes 1 and 2, Crusade: What The Hell Happened and Crusade: Behinds the Scenes.

Quite a nice little B5 Library now. :)
 

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Another big box of books for myself and for giving to students arrived from my Philadelphia contact. Keepers for me included a 1939 printing of White's Retro Hugo-winning The Sword in the Stone (I've never yet read this version) and Williams's Descent into Hell, plus a bunch of good lit crit. Most of the books should end up in students' hands. They include an influential classic of criticism, Shakespearean Tragedy by Bradley and some paperbacks in the Lord of the Rings set. My contact seems to have access to fantastic library discards and other free or inexpensive book sources. Thanks to him and other donors, students of mine have acquired hundreds of good free books in the past couple of years.
 
Using up some credit at a local used book/CD/DVD store, we got one of the silliest books we've ever bought.

Pride and Prejudice and Kitties.

Yep, it's the old classic, abridged and retold to some extent, with cute kitty pictures.

Also picked up three books put out by the folks at the mock newspaper The Onion. One is a parody of headlines from each year in the 20th century; one is a parody of a one-volume encyclopedia; and one is a parody of an atlas.
 
Received two: The Queen's Necklace, by our own Teresa Edgerton (which I hope to get to as soon as I finish the current read of Cabell's "Biography"), and a replacement copy of the first in said set by Cabell, Beyond Life....
 
The cover of that Simak is excellent, Vince. It's the book I'm reading now and it is spot on for the story. The cover of my edition has nothing to do with the story, it's generic "irrelevant spaceship" in design. The book is a cracker btw, you should enjoy it I think.

Nice haul with those other books too!
 

Found it at a thrift shop about a block from where I live for a buck. Massive, over a thousand pages. Great condition.
 
I spent this morning wandering around Forbidden Planet, Foyles, Waterstone's and Hatchards and came back with these:

Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian

The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian

Tour of the Merrimack Vol 2 by R M Meluch

The Ninth Circle by R M Meluch

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

Foreigner by C J Cherryh

Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson
 
A friend of mine bought me Excession, by Iain M. Banks for my birthday. He bought it for £2 in a charity shop. The thing is, it's hard back, perfect condition and signed by the man himself. (Banks, not my friend). On the down side it says 'To Steven', and my name is Mark. Can't have it all I suppose.
 
A friend of mine bought me Excession, by Iain M. Banks for my birthday. He bought it for £2 in a charity shop. The thing is, it's hard back, perfect condition and signed by the man himself. (Banks, not my friend). On the down side it says 'To Steven', and my name is Mark. Can't have it all I suppose.

I'd give seriuos consideration to changing my name to Steven if I received such a great gift. Of course I would then have to track the rest of his book so inscribed.
 

Couple of freebies from a local bookstore which puts boxes of books they can't sell for one reason or another out front. The Costain anthology looks like a solid chunk of good reading. The Smith, which shows more age that wear, is in remarkably good condition, not even sure it was ever read, but as is common with Ballantine paperbacks from the 35 cent era the glue has lost its ability to adhere. The pages are barely held together, but it's complete, and the price is right.

Another freebie worth mentioning but not scanning because it hasn't a dust jacket is an intriguing anthology called THE OTHER WORLDS: 25 MODERN STORIES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION Edited by Phil Stong. Many if not most of the names in this 1941 collection are familiar to the current reading audience with all stories culled from Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Amazing Stories, Westminster Magazine, Esquire, and Thrilling Wonder Stories. This copy is woefully mildewy and moldy but impossible to walk away from (I tried and failed) for stories most likely not easily available elsewhere.
 
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Recently purchased Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses by James Joyce, Von Bek (which is actually a couple of novels - The War Hound And The World's Pain and The City In The Autumn Stars) by Michael Moorcock and Running In The Family by Michael Ondaatje.
 
Couple of freebies from a local bookstore which puts boxes of books they can't sell for one reason or another out front. The Costain anthology looks like a solid chunk of good reading. The Smith, which shows more age that wear, is in remarkably good condition, not even sure it was ever read, but as is common with Ballantine paperbacks from the 35 cent era the glue has lost its ability to adhere. The pages are barely held together, but it's complete, and the price is right.

Another freebie worth mentioning but not scanning because it hasn't a dust jacket is an intriguing anthology called THE OTHER WORLDS: 25 MODERN STORIES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION Edited by Phil Stong. Many if not most of the names in this 1941 collection are familiar to the current reading audience with all stories culled from Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, Amazing Stories, Westminster Magazine, Esquire, and Thrilling Wonder Stories. This copy is woefully mildewy and moldy but impossible to walk away from (I tried and failed) for stories most likely not easily available elsewhere.

That Smith is a great find though I only sort of liked the novel (Venus Equilateral is the Smith book for me so far). Still absolutely worth a free read and looks and sounds like a nice copy - better than mine which is a beat up 70s Dell, I think. And I'm so jealous about the Stong. That was the first hardcover SF anthology ever, I think, or near enough, and I've both wanted it and tried to talk myself out of wanting it because I do have some of it and some of it seems a little out of the way, but still... Unfortunate about the condition if it actually makes it unpleasant to handle but, yeah, I wouldn't have walked away from it either. Let me know how it goes.

Some cool stuff I've come across this past month includes
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A dollar each and in good shape (not collectibly mint or anything, but undamaged).

Oh, almost forgot:
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I actually had that Brackett before but it's one of the only two Bracketts I don't like (the other having a good Hamilton on the other side) and I got rid of it. But since it ended up being the only Brackett published in her lifetime that I didn't actually own, when I saw it for a buck with a free story attached, I went ahead and got it back. Now I have the "complete" Brackett and whoever G. McDonald Wallis is. :)
 
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Indeed (y)

You should read the G. McDonald Wallis straight away - I imagine it would put you within a very select group of SF fans. Moreover, if anyone ever comes onto book search and asks what a certain book title is and you know its "Legend of Lost Earth", you'd get about a gazillion kudos points.

(I like the look of the Calvin Knox too).
 

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