Book Hauls!

[AE35Unit]

Originally Posted by J-Sun

I think that's 1950.

Yep thats it!
M=1000
C=100
L=50
If a lower value precedes a higher value it is deducted from it. And if the lower value appears second it is added to the higher value.

Hence M,1000
CM, 100 off 1000= 900
Add 50 (L)

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Much appreciated. Thank you both.

[Diggler]

Dead in the West, The Night Runners, Bubba Ho-Tep and A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale. All of them were 99c each on Amazon Kindle at the moment.

[dask]

Originally Posted by dask

LECTURES ON THE HARVARD CLASSICS edited by William Allan Neilson, 1914 hb --- looks like a first printing though it doesn't say so ---

Wrong! It may look like a 1st but doing some self-destructive snooping on google I found an earlier edition from 1909. Hmmpf. Still worth $0.99.

[Connavar]

10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing (inspired by reading Things Fall Apart)
Merkabah Rider: The Mensch with No Name by Edward M.Erdelac

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Today is the first day of this year's library Leap Year Book Sale. All books, unless otherwise marked, are a dollar each. Not working right now going to a book sale is probably the last thing I should have done, but there are always certain titles I'm willing to pay at least a buck for and I actually found one of them today, the Stegner. The other two looked worth the money and truth is I've only been off work for three days so I'm not completely destitute yet. Besides if I waited for half price day on Thursday these three would almost certainly be gone. There were a lot of irresistible books there and I'm almost certainly going to go back Thursday and pick carrion, working or not.

[dask]

Went back and found one more:

It's hard to determine the year this book came out. All it says is the translation is copyrighted 1930 and the illusrations 1949. Still, quite a find for the cost of half a cup of coffee. The dust jacket shows slight wear probably from repeated ogling but the pages look unmarred by the hands of man. I'm surprised no one picked it up before me.

[J-Sun]

I have the Sheffield (I had to pay 3.98 for mine! (though it was new and not a library book)) and the Boccaccio (though I have the one translated by Musa/Bondanella). I understand the Aldington is supposed to be older but very good. Odd cover, though. And they always say "unexpurgated!". I'm never sure if they are properly advising you it isn't a bowdlerized version or if they're trying to entice you with risque reading. IIRC (been awhile) there's some stuff that wouldn't pass the Hayes Code but nothing too out there. We were glad to be alive and had to repopulate, y'know? Anyway - good finds. I don't know Stegner and haven't really read much Faulkner but I suspect they're all good finds.

[dask]

One of the reasons I got the Boccaccio was Rockwell Kent's name on the cover. I'd never heard of him until last night when one of his original paintings was featured on Antiques Roadshow and valued between $250,000 and $350,000. I've always wanted THE DECAMERON but deffered for one reason or another. Now the time and price seemed perfected in rightness.

[Connavar]

Its annual book sale in Sweden late February as usual and i just made my best second hand book haul ever!


The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Oxford World's Classics) by G.K Chesterton
The Master of Ballantrae & Weir of Hermiston (Wordsworth Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Woman in White (Wordsworth Classics) by Wilkie Collins
The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories (Penguin 60th special) by O. Henry
The Secret sin of Septimus Brope (Penguin 60th special) by Saki

Each cost a sale price of 10 kronor which is barely 1£.

[Extollager]

Originally Posted by Connavar

Its annual book sale in Sweden late February as usual and i just made my best second hand book haul ever!
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Oxford World's Classics) by G.K Chesterton
The Master of Ballantrae (Wordsworth Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Woman in White (Wordsworth Classics) by Wilkie Collins

I must reread that Chesterton; his Man Who Was Thursday really is one of the outstanding books of my whole life.

That Stevenson book deserves to be better known.

The Woman in White is a great entry book into the English Victorian novel.

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by Extollager

I must reread that Chesterton; his Man Who Was Thursday really is one of the outstanding books of my whole life.

That Stevenson book deserves to be better known.

The Woman in White is a great entry book into the English Victorian novel.

Stevenson book i have seen many times in second hand bookstores so it must be well read anyway. Just he has written other huge classics that overshadow it.

Chesterton blew me away with the wit, languege,prose he wrote the two Father Brown short stories i read in Penguins Mini classics book. I cant wait to read that book before i buy brand new best condition hardcover/paperback there is of The Man Who was Thursday.

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Originally Posted by Diggler

Dead in the West, The Night Runners, Bubba Ho-Tep and A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale. All of them were 99c each on Amazon Kindle at the moment.

Wasn't Dead in the West originally published by Gordon Linzner's Space and Time? I remember writing for S & T 23 years ago.

Anyway, my publisher does a lot of classic reprints and he's sending my Frankenstein, Alice, Sherlock Holmes (many collections), Dracula, The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds. I'll be busy for a few months.

chris

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Fifty cents each.

[AE35Unit]

Got my first Neal Asher book today. Got The Skinner for free from bookmooch!