Book Hauls!

[dask]

Originally Posted by Connavar

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ?

Is that a rare book or an in printed easy to get collection ? Let me know the quality of the book dask. Its very interesting sounding book. Several authors i wanted their sf like Poe,Bierce,London.

Seems fairly available. A quick (actually not so quick with my machine) check with Amazon showed 32 new and used, as low as $4.85 and as high as $98.82. Mine is a 1978 revised edition Oxford University Press paperback in what looks like near mint, unread condition with that sturdier than normal cover paper. Cost me $4.95 in a little bookstore across town.

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

If you do so, let me know which it is, if you wouldn't mind....

99.9% sure I've zeroed in on the 1974 Ballantine paperback of AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. You may remember this run, there were at least six of them, pure black backgrounds with fantastically bizarre faces ready to bite you if you looked away by cover artist John Holmes. The stories are: "At The Mountains Of Madness"; "The Shunned House"; "The Dreams In The Witch-House"; "The Statement Of Randolph Carter".

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by dask

99.9% sure I've zeroed in on the 1974 Ballantine paperback of AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. You may remember this run, there were at least six of them, pure black backgrounds with fantastically bizarre faces ready to bite you if you looked away by cover artist John Holmes. The stories are: "At The Mountains Of Madness"; "The Shunned House"; "The Dreams In The Witch-House"; "The Statement Of Randolph Carter".

Oh, you bet I remember them; and (save for textual problems which I've learned about since) with a great deal of fondness... which is why I've still got copies of 'em on my shelves. There were, indeed, six of them -- The Tomb and Other Tales; At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror; The Lurking Fear and Other Stories; The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror (which is actually by Derleth, though published under the joint byline of HPL & AD); and the two volumes of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. They were reprints of what was originally an eleven-volume set put out by Ballantine's subsidiary, Beagle, under their Boxer imprint, which also included: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Lurker at the Threshold (another Derlethian piece published under the joint byline); The Trail of Cthulhu and The Mask of Cthulhu (both by Derleth), and a selection of his revisions, The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions. And if you think the Holmes artwork was strange, you should see some of the covers for those (yes, I've got that entire run, too). There used to be a site which had reproductions of them all, but only one is showing up now -- the last, on sale at Amazon:

Amazon.com: Nine Chilling Tales from The Horror in the Museum and other collaborations (The Arkham Edition): H. P. Lovecraft, Elizabeth Berkeley, Hazel Heald, William Lumley: Books

I first discovered HPL through a combination of the Beagle Tales, the Arkham House edition of At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, and the Beagle edition of The Lurker at the Threshold... and there was no turning back at that point....

Sorry for the ramble, but your mentioning that particular book brought back some very good memories.... Thanks....

[dask]

Hey, I've actually got one of them: THE TRAIL OF CTHULHU by Derleth. No artist is credited but psycho cover is right. Even the photo of HPL on the back gives me the creeps. Looks just like a Ballantine except for the Beagle Boxer logo. Maybe it's their edgy/crazy reader division.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by dask

Maybe it's their edgy/crazy reader division.

LOL... Could be....

[Nikitta]

I went to my favourite book pusher, planning to buy 3 books and leaving with 8. To be fair, two of them was at a very reduced price and when it turned out that one of those two was damaged, he gave me that one free. Well, my haul (and reasons) was:

The Forgotten Beats of Eld by Patricia McKillip - my main reason for going to the shop. Recommended in the chrons.
Anansi Boys and Stardust by Neil Gaiman - the other two books I had planned to buy. Anansi Boys was specifically recommeded to me elsewhere.
Ubik and Now Wait For Last Year by Philip K. Dick - I had thought of buying these before, but never gotten around to it until now.
The Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks - the whole trilogy was on display and looked interesting enough to give the first book a try.
Song in the Dark by PN. Elrod - ehm- it was very cheap and it has vampires in it!
Keeped of the Ring Also very cheap and also includes vampires. This is the one they decided to throw in free, since it turned out to be slightly damaged. Something, I hadn't noticed, myself; it's nothing that a little glue won't fix.

[Rodders]

Just bought "Star Wars Fate of the Jedi: Abyss."

I must say that Leia looks superb on the cover. Clearly in the SW Galaxy, their moisturisers clearly work.

[Fried Egg]

Just picked up "Chocky" by John Wyndham and "The Wind from Nowhere" by J. G. Ballard.

[GOLLUM]

Just picked up....

The Story Of Mr. Sommer - Patrick Suskind *Famous of course for the novel Perfume. I also have the novella Pigeon but spotted this illustrated book which I think is now out of print, so had to grab it.

A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

[Allegra]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Just picked up....

The Story Of Mr. Sommer - Patrick Suskind *Famous of course for the novel Perfume. I also have the novella Pigeon but spotted this illustrated book which I think is now out of print, so had to grab it.

I enjoyed Perfume (both book and the film). Haven't read anything else by the author. Let's know what you think about Mr. Sommer when you are done.

Just ordered pTerry's Nation pb.

[AE35Unit]

Originally Posted by Fried Egg

Just picked up "Chocky" by John Wyndham and "The Wind from Nowhere" by J. G. Ballard.

You know we do seem to be on the same wavelength when it comes to books! I've not read those two butt they are on my wishlist.

[Fried Egg]

Originally Posted by AE35Unit

You know we do seem to be on the same wavelength when it comes to books! I've not read those two butt they are on my wishlist.

I guess it's because we both like a bit of vintage SF...

[Tillane]

A matter of life and death for me. Finally got round to buying Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, along with Nick Cave's new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro.

[Connavar]

Second hand haul i couldn't resist

My Name is Legion by Roger Zelazny
Beyond by Theodore Sturgeon
The Damsel by Richard Stark

[joolzred]

The last dune novel - Sandworms of Dune, cheapest copy inc P&P was play.com @ £5.68

[AE35Unit]

Do downloads count as hauls? If so I just got The Purple Cloud by M P Shiel, Skylark of Space by E E Doc Smith, Deathworld by Harry Harrison and The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson. All free from Gutenburg Project and readable on my phone (.epub format)