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― Aimless, Friday, 18 May 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
That's the middle one of the Shelby Footers, isn't it? I bought them for my dad a while ago. I remember thinking that he was maybe a bit pro-Southern... the stuff in the first book about how Jefferson Davis would only punish any of his slaves after they had been convicted by a jury of their peers struck me as being a bit O RLY. And in the volume you have he never even mentions Joshua Chamberlain at the battle of Gettysburg.
Sorry, that's my inner nerd coming out.
The Figes book is great crack. Maybe I should read it from cover to cover some time.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 20 May 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link
IR buy with birthday book tokens:
William Dalrymple's The Last Mughal, about the last Mughal Emperor and the Indian mutiny. I get the impression that this book will be a bit sadface. I've been meaning to read something by Dalrymple for a while, and am currently on an India kick (having just finished Mike Dash's Thug
Alan George's Jordan, a book about the country of Jordan. I am not *that* interested in Jordan, given that it is a boring country made up of leftover bits of other countries, but I found Alan George's book on Syria very interesting.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 20 May 2007 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link
two textbooks! the resettlement of british columbia: essays on colonialism and geographic change by cole harris and a double issue of bc studies from 1997/98.
― derrrick, Monday, 21 May 2007 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
We had a Vancouverite poet read tonight, and I liked her work. N@talie Simps0n.
― Casuistry, Monday, 21 May 2007 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I seem to be on an east Asian religion bender lately. Yesterday I bought:
The Diamond Sutra, translated by Red Pine, with extensive commentaries, from Sanskrit and Chinese. Trade paperback in excellent condition. It was US$14.00 at Powell's, but I had $13.50 in trade and I used that.
The Book of Tea, Okakuro Kakuzo, used hardcover in a slipcase, a bit warped, but in decent shape. This is one of the older Tuttle editions that were printed in Japan. I owned this long ago and I don't exactly consider it indispensible, but it was nice to find a cheap (US$3.00) copy in OK condition.
― Aimless, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
i do not know that poet, but will recognise her name now if i see it!
i had a good day at value villiage: -"night of the shooting star" by dan vipond. a 1970's conspiracy/thriller, set entirely in the canadian wilderness! -"fellowship of the stars", a 1974 sci-fi anthology focused on "the friendship between humans and beings from other dimensions" -"the tent peg", by aritha van herk. western canadian lit, about misfits ending up in the yukon. -"survival: a thematic guide to canadian literature", by margaret atwood. a classic and a steal at $1.99 -"roadside empire: how the chains franchised america" by stan luxenburg. from 1985, all about the historical development of franchising in the US and the subsequent effect on cultural expectations. -"act of faith: an illustrated history of the reform party" - a 1991 history of the western-based PC splinter that became canada's official opposition by 1997 and, in a vague sense, is currently in government.
― derrrick, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I bought 2 Coetzees today, 'Waiting for the Barbarians' which is one of my favourites, and 'The Life and Times of Michael K' which I've not read before. Also 'Pale Fire' because I don't own a copy and was feeling rich.
― franny glass, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Also 'Pale Fire' because I don't own a copy and was feeling rich.
Damn good excuse.
― R Baez, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I prefer to think of it as a rationale.
― franny glass, Thursday, 28 June 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link
A remainder-fest:
Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse, and Parasites Like Us (can't remember either author, but looked promising) Mark Salzman: The Soloist, The Laughing Sutra Robert Frost:Early Poems The Letters of Sacco & Vanzetti Somerset Maugham: Mrs. Craddock, The Razor's Edge Hesse: Siddhartha (I'll probably regret this one, even at $3) Hannah Arendt: Between Past and Future DH Lawrence: England, My England and Other Stories Iris Murdoch: The Good Apprentice, The Bell Pynchon: Vineland DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk Conrad: `Twixt Land and Sea Garland: A Son of the Middle Border
― James Morrison, Thursday, 28 June 2007 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I visited my favorite cheapie bookstore today and came away with:
One Man's Meat, E.B. White, a collection of essays from the WWII years and just prior. A 1944 "new and enlarged' edition, hardcover with dust jacket, in good shape, $3.
Saints and Strangers, George F. Willision, in a 1945 hardcover edition, $1. This is a history of the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, starting from their days in England, up through exile in Holland and the voyage to North America. It seems to paint a pretty realistic picture of them.
The Golden Casket: Chinese Novellas of Two Millenia{, tr. into English by Christopher Levenson, from a German translation from the original Chinese. (Whew!) This is a used Penguin paperback in marginal condition and I don't think it ever sold very well, because I've never seen it before today. It seemed worth a tumble for 50 cents.
― Aimless, Thursday, 28 June 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Beauty and Sadness - Kawabata Yasunari The Stain in the Snow - Georges Simenon Breakfast with the Ones you Love - Eliot Finushel Alphabet of Thorn - Patricia McKillip Varieties of Disturbances - Lydia Davis Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman
― Arethusa, Thursday, 28 June 2007 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Lonely (or is it Lovely?) Bones. Seems to be good. Fast Food Nation (for less than 3 dollars!) Cheap ass chicken recipe book (less than a dollar!) Children Recipe book
― nathalie, Saturday, 30 June 2007 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I traded a bunch of books at Powell's yesterday and used up some of my credit to upgrade my paperback copy of The Dream Songs by John Berryman, to a used hardcover copy. It is a first printing (which I don't care about) in standard condition, and was heavily marked in pencil by the previous owner, so it was marked down to $15 from an overly optimistic $30. I have been busily erasing the pencil markings.
I also picked up a nice harcover edition of The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pisan and translated by Earl Richards. It was only $7.
Earlier this week I picked up a used copy of Ernie Pyle's posthumously published Home Country for $1. It's a just cobbled-together rehash of his journalism from before WWII, but I enjoy Pyle's style and observations, just as his millions of loyal newspaper readers did, so it's fine by me. He was another of those Indiana boys who mastered typing, like Vonnegut.
― Aimless, Sunday, 1 July 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Bookmooched recently:
Jose Ortega y Gasset - History as a System Christopher Lasch - Revolt of the Elites
― o. nate, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Impulse bought Someday I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman and that Miranda July book, borrowing the new Arthur Philips and Consider the Lobster.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I do like that Book of the City of Ladies.
I think I am off to the Strand now.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 3 July 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought one of those Aberystwyth detective novels, in the hope that my unread book mountain will assume critical mass and blow up the world.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and I also bought Gore Vidal's memoir, Palimpsest, which was on sale at the Strand Annex.
― o. nate, Thursday, 5 July 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yesterday:
JR by William Gaddis, in a used in-new-condition Penguin paperback edition, $4.99. Constant favorable effusions by ILBers led me to buy this book.
Plutarch's Lives VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar in a used Loeb classical library edition, $2.99. I cannot pass up any Loeb edition less than $5. I just can't.
― Aimless, Saturday, 7 July 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Gifts from people (birthday etc.):
Charles Rosen - The Frontier of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on MusicGeza Csath - Opium and Other StoriesSergio Pitol - Mephisto's Waltz (Selected Short Stories)Miguel de Palol - Garden of Seven TwilightsYu Miri - The End of August
Otherwise I have bought v little over the last six months.
Honore de Balzac - The Quest of the AbsoluteWilliam Shakespeare - MacbethMircea Cartarescu - Solenoid
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 10:43 (nine months ago) link
What did you think of Solenoid?
― dow, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:51 (nine months ago) link
The past few purchases have all been book club readings
Clarke, Piranesi
Enger, So Brave, Young and Handsome
Grann, The Wager
Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:54 (nine months ago) link
that csath collections is... interesting? also at times somewhat gruesome
think the only book i've purchased at all recently is the updated edition of the electric muse by lang, dallas, denselow & shelton
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 17 August 2023 08:05 (nine months ago) link
Just reading the Csath now. It's an amazing book.
― dow, Thursday, 17 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Looking to crack it open in the next month.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 09:39 (nine months ago) link
I found two more books on the cheap, ofc.
Thomas Bernhard - GargoylesMarguerite Duras - L'Amour
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link
Sold a bunch at Skoob for:
Gottfried Benn - Primal VisionSamuel Beckett - Three NovellasLouis Ferdinand-Celine - Fable for Another TimeEuclides da Cunha - BacklandsHans Magnus Enzenberger - Mausoleum
Also:
William Shakespeare - Romeo and JulietHenry Green - Caught
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 09:06 (eight months ago) link
Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfeautobiographical novel by a writer I was turned onto as an influence on Jack Kerouac about 40 years ago. I may have read this back then. BUt found it for a euro yesterday so Thought I'd take the plunge.
The Day Of The Locust Nathaniel WestBook about turn of theh 40s Hollywood that I've meant to read for an age. I saw the 1974 film of it a couple of weeks back then found this in teh charity shop I got the above from. May have a copy in a different imprint floating around somewhere.Also reminds me that I need to read the City of Nets about the same era Hollywood. have had taht sitting around for a while.
Al Capone's Beer Wars John F Binderhistory of prohibition era gangsters in Chicago. Looked good anyway.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 11:06 (eight months ago) link
& I just bought a copy of C. Willett Cunnington's A handbook of English Costume in teh 19th century hoping that it is at least presentable cos it is listed as Poor but the better quality versions are upwards of £50 a copy.Hoping that an ex library version dating back to 1966 with some writing inside is going to be rated as this if not in absolutely pristine condition . Well will see. It is up on archive.org but I do want a physical copy.writer's name sounds like a particularly middle class sexual euphemism or something.
― Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 11:12 (eight months ago) link
went slightly book mad and ended up with close to a year's worth of reading:
kafka - stories 1904-1924grossmith & grossmith - diary of a nobodysomerville & ross - the irish rmanthony trollope - the pallisersivy compton-burnett - parents & childrenivy compton-burnett - a father & his fatesylvia townsend warner - mr fortune's maggotelizabeth bowen - the last septembercapel boake - painted claydali - hidden facesjohn berger - gstig dagerman - games of nightthomas tryon - the othersimenon - maigret sets a traphenry james - english hoursdickens - selected journalism 1850-1870stevenson - dr jekyll & mr hyde/weir of hermistonhorace walpole - castle of otranto/hieroglyphic talesthe common muse: popular british ballad poetryroland barthes - selected writingscervantes - don quixoterabelais - gargantua & pantagruelbalzac - cousin ponsgautier - mademoiselle de maupinflaubert - madame bovarypushkin - eugene oneginbulgakov - the white guardthomas hardy - wessex talesthomas love peacock - novels ofcs lewis - that hideous strengthmichael moorcock - an alien heatmichael moorcock - the hollow landsroger zelazny - isle of the deadjulian symons - bloody murdergraham greene - a gun for salerobertson davies - the deptford trilogyrussell hoban - riddley walkerthomas pynchon - crying of lot 49italo calvino - our ancestorselias canetti - auto da fewilla muir - imagined selvesgeorge painter - marcel proustgerard manley hopkins - poems and prosejoyce cary - the horse's mouthralph ellison - invisible manjoseph heller - closing timedeighton - billion dollar braindeighton - game, set, match trilogy
also a number of pulp/crime/ghost/horror anthologies. now to try and find shelf space for them all.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:41 (two months ago) link
I have come to accept that I do not have meaningful amounts of shelf space left, nor do I have wall space to put shelves against, and I'm just a person who is going to have piles
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:46 (two months ago) link
Carrying all those books will do that to you.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 12:37 (two months ago) link
Just logging my last buys and stuff I got from Xmas gifts now:
S. Yizhar - PreliminnariesMiguel Asturias - Mr. PresidentAlejo Carpenter - Explosion in the CathedralShakespeare - Julius CeasarLucio Cardoso - Chronicle of the Murdered HouseAndrei Platonov - ChevengurStanislaw Witkiewicz - InsatiablityWittold Gombrowicz - FerdeydukeYasunari Kawabata - The Old CapitalYasunari Kawabata - The RainbowV. S. Prtchett - A Cab at the DoorHenry Green - ConcludingJohn Donne - SermonsJeremy Taylor - Four SermonsOsvaldo Lamborghini - Two StoriesHoracio Quiroga - Beyond
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:03 (two months ago) link
if you have piles you could take a book suppositoryor not as the case may be.
― Stevo, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:12 (two months ago) link
Mix of buys and 2nd hand exchange. Year properly beginning in May
Ferit Edgu - The Wounded Age and Eastern TalesJen Craig - WallErnesto Sabato - On Heroes and TombsMontaigne - Essays (tr. John Florio) (the NYRB edition which is called "Shakespeare's Montaigne")Ngugi - Devil on the CrossGerard de Nerval - Journey to the OrientSindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights (tr. Husain Haddawy)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 14:17 (one month ago) link