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Old 5th December 2007, 04:47 AM   #1876 (permalink)
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Came home today to find a note from my postal carrier saying he'd quit because of me....

Okay, it's not quite that bad, but some of these things I've been getting are rather large. Today's haul was comprised of:

The Letters of Hart Crane: 1916-1932
The Letters of Hart Crane and His Family
The Lovecraft Papers (containing Pulptime and Scream for Jeeves), by Peter H. Cannon (a replacement copy)
A Vintage from Atlantis (vol. IV in The Complete Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith)
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Old 5th December 2007, 11:25 PM   #1877 (permalink)
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On a book buying mission today I got:
Myth-told Tales R.Asprin
Something Mything
Myth Alliances
Holiday are Hell- Kim Harrison & Co
Heroes and Fools Weis&Hickman
And a non ficton-The Hiram Key
Oh! and a audio book Blood of the Fold. T Goodking because it was only 0.99pence in a sale.
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Old 6th December 2007, 04:33 AM   #1878 (permalink)
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Received a couple more in the mail today: The Annotated Hobbit, by... um, surely you don't need to be told that one!

Beyond the Black River, the seventh in the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard set....
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Old 6th December 2007, 03:56 PM   #1879 (permalink)
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From Ebay I picked up 1st editions of To the White Mountains by John Christopher, Lest Darkness Fall by L Sprague De Camp, and Spacepaw by Gordon Dickson.
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Old 7th December 2007, 04:53 AM   #1880 (permalink)
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Another couple of Howard books (The Best of, vols. I & II) came in today... like all the books of this set, beautiful things, and I very much like the contents....
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Old 7th December 2007, 11:26 PM   #1881 (permalink)
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Got another box from Ebay, Rocket to the Morgue by Anthony Boucher, a signed Psion by Joan Vinge, signed Spinneret by Timothy Zahn, signed Claw of the Concilitor by Gene Wolfe, Lords of Creation by Eando Binder, and Android at Arms by Andre Norton. All first editions.
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Old 8th December 2007, 08:49 AM   #1882 (permalink)
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JD ... have fun with the Father Christmas letters. I love that book.
Second that, Nesa...one of the nicest books I ever read....
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Old 8th December 2007, 09:20 AM   #1883 (permalink)
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Beyond the Black River, the seventh in the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard set....
IIRC, that's the title of Wild West-esque Conan story Rob wrote...one of his best IMO
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For "Sinterklaas," the Dutch equivalent of Christmas presents, I got:

Company by Max Barry
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
Death Proof - A Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino
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Old 8th December 2007, 12:13 PM   #1885 (permalink)
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Another couple of Howard books (The Best of, vols. I & II) came in today... like all the books of this set, beautiful things, and I very much like the contents....

You got let me know how you feel about these editions.

If the stories it has are his better ones.

It the editions are good REH's, aka worth the prize.
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Old 9th December 2007, 01:23 AM   #1886 (permalink)
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Library book sale:

Shōgun - James Clavell
Second Contact - Mike Resnick
Ship of Fools - Richard Paul Russo
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

As with most of my recent purchases, I've not read any of these authors before.
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Old 9th December 2007, 07:50 AM   #1887 (permalink)
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Looks like I'm slighlty behind JD on this one but I too picked up:

The Best Of Robert E Howard - Vol 2 *As he said these are beautifully presented books with a nice set of illustrations.

Also purchased some more graphic novels:

Midnight Days - Neil Gaiman
Violent Cases - Neil Gaiman & avid McKean
Lovecraft - Rodionoff & Breccia *Supposed to be a reasaonably acccurate biographical look at Lovecraft's life, thought it may be interesting to check out in comic book format.
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Old 9th December 2007, 07:56 AM   #1888 (permalink)
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JD ... what are the contents in the Howard books and could you and GOLLUM please tell me if they would be something I might want to be looking out for. Not that I have seen them in stores yet. But a new Borders just opened and you never know what they might have.

Be nice to the postie JD ....
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Old 9th December 2007, 08:02 AM   #1889 (permalink)
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JD ... what are the contents in the Howard books and could you and GOLLUM please tell me if they would be something I might want to be looking out for. Not that I have seen them in stores yet. But a new Borders just opened and you never know what they might have.
For the production values alone they're worth getting, such beautiful covers and internal illustrations.

They are a series worth getting, so I'll PM you on the details now.
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Old 9th December 2007, 08:05 AM   #1890 (permalink)
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Thank you GOLLUM. Morpheus is visiting so I could haul him along down to the new Borders store. And Christmas is around the corner.
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