Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

Quite a coup by xyzzzz__

picked up 'cause they were cheap:

naomi mitchison/wyndham lewis - beyond this limit
alasdair gray: critical appreciations and a bibliography

what's the mitchison/lewis nlt?

very short fantasy novel published mid-thirties, text by mitchison with illustrations & some ideas from lewis. fairly sure i read a description of the period of its composition in paul o'keefe's lewis biog. given their completely divergent beliefs... should be interesting?

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maybe one day i'll even be able to bring myself to read the copy of left wings over europe i picked up god know how long ago :-/

hadn't heard of/had forgotten abt the mitchison tho have read the biog. be interested to hear what you think.

I can't remember the exact status of LWOE - '30s "populist" pamphlet? (Lewis' populism is weird). I seem to recall it's usually seen as one of the most damning testaments to Lewis' German Nazi sympathies (x-ref with the favourite fascists ILB thread).

Was it the Krudy that was a coup alimosina? Its a NYRB title which is widely available. Just that I normally get my books 2nd hand.

More finds:

Eugenio Montale - Poems (this is the European Modern Poets, and its a compilation of his three main books!)
Arthur Schnitzler - Selected shorter fiction (don't know why I sold this)
The Existential Imagination - From De Sade to Sartre (talk about this in some other thread) but its a compilation of 'existential' bits of fiction.

all 3 volumes of proust's "remembrance of things past" for $3
jean rhys' "wide sargossa sea"

A whole bunch of out-of-print Hungarian fiction (in English trans) for around $5 a book - will report back

Relocation sale at Blackwell's in Charing Cross road. Everything's half price, mostly picked up stuff for my late-blooming interest in theory/philosophy:
Badiou - Being and event
Derrida - Writing and Difference
Deleuze - Difference and repetition
Foucault - Order of things
Jameson - Late Marxism
Skinner - Foundations of Modern Political Thought v2
Godelier - Rationality and irrationality in economics

Hey, I also just bought Being and Event, as I said in the Zizek-thread. Also, 'Jean-Luc Godard - Cinema Historian' the first english-languauge monograph on Histoire(s) du Cinema, which should be very good. And I got a collection of short stories by Julio Cortazar from my book club.

I am also a fan of Denton Welch! From the journals, I think, I vaguely remember art school in London and later his companion darning socks with colored thread, sort of any which way ...

the Denton welch journals are excellent. he's a good writer. part of a v slender 20th C strand of v late aestheticism.

will have to swing by blackwells on Saturday but feels like it might be gone all gone by then.

It was Burroughs, a major fan, who led me to Denton Welch. I have a very nice old (expurgated) hardcover of Welch's journals, with a cover photo of him that looks like something out of Peake, or Beardsley.

Am also looking forward to that 'Jean-Luc Godard - Cinema Historian' monograph - late Godard studies is really becoming its own thing, now.

Who was it that called Denton Welch 'Our Proust' again?

Just looked this up: Richard Hell said of him: Denton Welch is like a British baby Proust in his astounding grasp of his own (usually mundane) experience. Nothing much happens in his books but the most wonderful writing.

oh huh when i was in the blackwells it was only 30%. got the penguin modern classics celan. did they have much philosophy left?

and will they be still be there on sunday when i am next in london

Yeah, philosophy was ok – the routledge & verso display seemed pretty full, so there's that, and philosophy itself wasn't anything like picked clean – a fair bit of secondary and some canonical-primary stuff (blue Cambridge Kant paperbacks, for instance).

Poetry and lit crit was disappointing, but I might pick up some Arden 3rd series if I can get back tonight.

I took the following from the Lewisham Way book phonebooth scheme:

Lewis Mumford - The City in History
Gary Indiana - Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story

Anyone read either?

long time ILMer, first time ILBer, with a question for the stoners out there. Is it a thing when high to order books online at such a rate that you'll never catch up? i couldn't believe it when a fellow pot head was like, oh yeah, that's a definite thing

you don't have to be high

Lots of art books, in particular, in the last couple of days.

The Book Of Miracles*
Fritz Kahn*
The Nuremberg Chronicle*
Architecture Now 9*
Green Architecture Now*
Heavenly Bodies ~ Paul Koudounaris
World Film Locations: Moscow
Art Nouveau*
Vienna: Art & Architecture
Rookie: Yearbook Two
Aquatopia: The Imaginary Of The Ocean Deep
An Encyclopaedia Of Myself ~ Jonathan Meades
Wholeness And The Implicate Order ~ David Bohm
The Occult Philosophy In The Elizabethan Age ~ Frances Yates
Folk Devils and Moral Panics ~ Stanley Cohen
British Folk Tales and Legends ~ Katharine Briggs
Aztecs ~ Inga Clendinnen
Anthony Burgess ~ Complete Enderby
Anthony Burgess ~ A Dead Man In Deptford
I Was Jack Mortimer ~ Alexander Lernet~Holenia
The Other ~ Thomas Tryon (NYRB)
Russian Criminal Tattoos vol.3 ~ Danzig Baldaev

*Taschen

Likely to have forgotten a few.

Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander (on this now - it's great so far)
Christina Stead - Letty Fox: Her Luck
Helen Vendler - Dickinson
Northrop Frye - Anatomy of Criticism

I was mainly out looking for something on Japanese art, but couldn't find anything I wanted. :/

Sold a bunch for:

D.H. Lawrence - The Princess and Other Stories/This Mortal Coil and other Stories
Salvatore Quasimodo - Selected Poems (Penguin Modern European poets)

50% off @ Blackwells:

Malaparte - The Skin
Miklos Szentkuthy - Marginalia on Casanova

I was looking for The Skin. You must have beaten me to it.

There were two copies of it yesterday.

Went back and found the last one today, thanks.

four nyrb classics I could probably remember if I tried, 'passing', and the new Ben Marcus, which I have little hope for and would not have bought had it not matched my copy of the flame alphabet , which itself i dislike

you don't have to be high

so true

Seconded

trying not to buy books at moment through a mixture of having more than enough to read and space.

but bought Gold by Blaise Cendras and Les Enfants Terribles by Cocteau from good 2nd hand shop in Brixton.

they have cheap copies of LET in, of all places, Westfields HMV at the moment.

M.H. Abrams - The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism

Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman (need to re-read this)
Manley Hopkins - Selected Poems

graham harman's towards speculative realism just showed up along with a surge protector

Sold another load:

Thomas Hardy - Selected Poetry
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (about time I had my own copy)
Leskov - Selected Tales
Henry Green - Pack my Bag

and a can of coke

i bought a book!!!

the first i have bought in months

one-volume edition of henri lefebvre's 'critique of everyday life'

my life is so much more full of possibility with a new book next to me

i've seen that (online). might get it eventually

I picked up a Loeb Classical Library hardcover copy of Cicero's Orations, volume III, today for fifty cents. It is decent condition, too. Just a bit of water spotting on the spine. I made a pact with myself long ago that I will buy any Loeb edition I find for $3 or less, regardless of title or condition.

LRB 10% off night:

Qiu Miaojin - Last Words from Montmarte
Victor Serge - Conquered City

I spent $11 on these five books today:

The Buccaneers of America, Alexander Exquemelin, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $2.

Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $2.

The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $3.

Three Tales, Gustave Flaubert, used Penguin Classics paperback in good condition, $1.

Collected Stories, 1891-1910, Edith Wharton, used Library of America hardcover in very good condition, $3.

Short stories just don't command very high prices these days, I guess.

Three Tales might be my favorite Flaubert. Or at least the middle one.

Copendium the anthology of Julian Cope reviews. I read a lot of them as album of the months at his site.
Chickenhawk the book about a vietnam helicopter pilot that I started 24 years ago but had nicked at the time. Cheap find in a 2nd hand bookshop.
A book on Mexican cooking. Really must use some of these recipe books and learn to cook.
Flashback! #5 great psych-prog booksize tome.
Need to get
David Stubbs' Future Days krautrock book,
The Victorian Tailor on Victorian Tailoring
and Claire Shaeffer's book on Fabric

Connie Willis - Passage, Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat/Three Men on the Bummel
E. M. Forster - Hardcover omnibus feat. A Room With A View, Howard's End, and Maurice; $2 from a public library book sale

graham harman's prince of networks, last night

The texts for my Fall grad course ("Death and the Victorians"):

Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
George Gissing, The Nether World
H. Rider Haggard, She
Bram Stoker, Dracula

(Wuthering Heights is in there too, but I already own that one.)

Did a bit of recreational book shopping today and brought home:

Emma, Jane Austen. Fifty cents. Haven't read any Austen since college. I probably should revisit her.

My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin. $3. I have not seen the movie made of this, so the book has not been spoiled for me. I hope it is good.

Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas de Quincy. I read this about five years ago, so I may not hang onto it, but I saw one of the Oxford World Classics pocket-sized hard cover copies for $2 and had to bring it home.

Joyce - Ulysses. Probably dumb, needed to get an annotated ed, but I think I'll scribble crap in the margins etc. Its an old ed., with an essay by Ellmann.

Buchner - The Complete Plays. A real, real fkn find. All the plays w/Lenz, a bunch of letters, a lecture "On Cranial Nerves" + intro and annotations. Can't wait to read this.