Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

Great 2nd hand haul today:

Platonov - The Portable Platonov (this has a few poems, stories, a play and a couple of excerpts from the untranslated Chevengur). Also scored a copy of the Harvill ed of Happy Moscow
Han Kang - The Vegetarian
Hjalmar Soderbergh - The Serious Game

aimless how is the greek display?

The greek typeface on my Kindle is clear and legible, properly accented and resizable.

I can't comment on the critical apparatus or whether it has reference numbers that match standard texts, because my greek is limited to knowing the alphabet, moderately correct pronunciation, and knowing the meaning of a handful of words, so these scholarly necessities are meaningless to me. It lacks any notes, as far as I can see. It should be good enough for rough-and-ready reading, if you can read ancient greek.

Richard Dadd the Artist and the Asylum.
Meant to grab this when it came out. Was doing other stuff so forgot. Got it now and its got a lot less of the fairy/magical art than I hoped. So wondering if there is more available somewhere outside of the 70s exhibition catalogue which is now pretty expensive.

xp if the text is taken from the loebs as well, then iirc the most they tend to add is the occasional note on textual variants, interpretations, etc. (of the nature of 'h.m.s. oldmother says OUXI here, we say OU KI'), so there's not a lot of value added even for people who can read ancient greek; i was just thinking more about the text flow, hilightability on a par w/ latin text, etc.

sounds good then, it would be nice to have the moralia in an accessible form

I should also note that I haven't found any easy way to switch back and forth between the greek text and its translation, so there's just no duplicating the facing pages of the Loeb printed text. For me that is not much of a problem, since the greek text is little more than a curiosity for me.

ow, that kinda renders it 90% useless to me

but still, $2.51 for the english ain't bad at all

Lately, Samuel Delany's Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities, Carla Speed McNeil's Finder: Third World, merritt kopas's series of collages and bitter jokes about gender politics, THESE WERE FREE ON MY BLOG, and some issues of Em Rose's perzine Ghost Lungs, still in transit.

collected Raymond Carver, which I have hardly read at all yet, just one essay about his father that's near the back of the book. mustve read the majority of his stories at one time or another, just nice to have them collected. i go to victoria bc quite a lot, on a clear day you can look across the strait of juan de fuca and see port angeles, wa, where Carver spent the last part of his life. i always feel like going over on a ferry for the day and checking it out, though apparently there's not much to the town, and little remnant or memorial of Carver other than his grave.

tristes tropiques by levi-strauss. quite enjoying this, one of those books ive been meaning to read since i was a teenager.

Found super cheap:

Willa Cather, My Antonia
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Paid a visit to the LRB bookshop as I wanted to get hold of Sergio Pitol - The Art of Flight. Been reading about him for weeks and the marketing worked! (oh and the excerpt I linked to on the Spanish Lit therad was great)

Then a half price find at Skoob: Miklos Szentkuthy - Towards the One and Only Metaphor.

3/$10:
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

https://goo.gl/photos/Cs88s4eyKLAyZxtb6

All opshopopshop cheap or free, so about $10 all up

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
MARY BARTON
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (spare copy)

10p each !

Some cheapie paperbacks I bought yesterday, all in good condition:

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, $1.
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington, 50 cents.
The Big Money, John Dos Passos, 50 cents.

I just bought a used hardcover copy of Lyrics of the Troubadours and Trouveres, Frederick Goldin, for $25 online. I used to own a copy decades ago, but sold it. I've missed it more than I thought I would. This is a small press reprint of the Anchor Doubleday edition I once owned.

I also bought a used paperback copy of Gunslinger, Edward Dorn, from the Wingbow Press, 1975, for $8.95. I notice now that it claims to be one of 4500 copies of a first paperback edition, released simultaneously with 500 hardcover copies, but I basically bought it just to read and the whole first edition thing has never impressed me.

New

Lauren Berlant & Lee Edelman, Sex, or The Unbearable
Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behaviour
Mary Gatiskill, Because They Wanted To
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
Lorrie Moore, Like Life
Flannery O'Connor, Collected Works (Library of America collection)

Used

Pat Barker, Regeneration
Sara Jeannette Duncan, The Imperialist
Jamaica Kinkaid, A Small Place
Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
John Richardson, Wacousta
Sinclair Ross, As For Me and My House
Sheila Watson, The Double Hook
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Bought Boutique London by Paul Lester last night. Will be a while before I get it though. Book about the clothes shops of London from 60s to 70s. It was recommended by the same people who recommended Day of The Peacock the thing about male dandyism at the time.

Franco Moretti, THE BOURGEOIS

new hardback for just £6 from Oxfam

Andre Gide - Diaries 1889-1949. This is a selection from the four-volume set. Never got into Gide but Sontag so rates this I'll give it a go.
Joseph Roth - Hotel Savoy, w/the old terrific Picador cover, has a couple of other stories I've not read.

Chris Kraus - Summer of Hate
Leslie Marmon Silko - Almanac of the Dead
Annie Mok - Ley Lines #1: Unholy Shapes

Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Brendan Behan, as a used mass market paperback in fair condition, $1. Behan was a loudmouth drunk, but he understood what he was doing and there aren't many authors who cover his subject matter who also write well.

Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Letham, as a used trade paperback in good condition, $1. I will save this for one of those rare times when I want to read Letham.

Another huge used pile, all things needed for the PhD:

Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Timothy Findley, The Wars
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
A.M. Klein, The Second Scroll
Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night
John Stuart Mill, Essays on Sex Equality
Susanna Moodie, Roughing It In The Bush
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
Martha Ostenso, Wild Geese
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Willa Cather - My Antonia (Dover Thrift edition)

Took a jaunt to a thrift shop and bought:

The Third Reich, Roberto Bolano, used trade paperback in very good condition, $4. Other than knowing the author, I haven't a clue what to expect.

Creation, Gore Vidal, used mass market paperback in very good condition, $2. I read this several ages ago and I'm curious to reread it, having seen it praised lately in a context I can't recall, but which piqued my interest.

The Return of Eva Peron & The Killings in Trinidad, V.S. Naipul, used mass market paperback, in good condition, $1. Another book I've seen praised in a way that aroused my curiosity.

Joseph Roth - What I Saw (a collection of journalism from the Weimar period)
Tarjei Vesaas - Spring Night

michel tournier - the four wise men
granta - new american stories (have read a few of these already, as usual some great and a few howlers, very rare to find an anthology where i like all the stories)

Joseph Roth - What I Saw (a collection of journalism from the Weimar period)

Hofmann has also translated the imminently-to-be-published 'The Hotel Years', another excellent collection of Roth journalism

Yes James I saw this excellent excerpt of it: http://linkis.com/www.newyorker.com/bo/fyNOK

Sold a bunch for:

Carlo Levi - Christ Stopped at Eboli (total classic, read it before and then gave it as a gift, now have it again)
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice - this is the Warner Bros. film cover ("The Novel Prize-winner's great Novel of Sensual Awakening")

More 2nd hand at Judd:

W.H. Auden - The Dyer's Hand
Woolf - To the Lighthouse

At LRB Bookshop: Deszo Kosztolanyi - Kornel Esti: A Novel

there's a guy in town with a huge warehouse-like space where he sells books on amazon and it's open some days for retail. he has humongous industrial-sized cardboard tubs of books outside at all times that he buys in bulk from the salvation army. went there on sunday after playing tennis with cyrus. he had a lot more sci-fi than he usually does. everything is pretty cheap.

china mieville - looking for jake

terry pratchett - the colour of magic (never read him.)

patricia highsmith - the boy who followed ripley (didn't have this for some reason.)

thomas hardy - jude the obscure (never read it.)

james purdy - color of darkness (edition i don't have. i buy any purdy cover variation.)

henry kuttner - fury

poul anderson - the star fox

philip jose farmer - flesh

eric brown - helix

roger zelazny - damnation alley

the ultimate threshold (penguin collection of soviet SF.)

shine (recent collection of "optimistic" SF)

fredric brown - rogue in space

robert sheckley - the alchemical marriage of alistair crompton

r.a. lafferty - the devil is dead

zenna henderson - holding wonder

larry niven - crashlander

larry niven & brenda cooper - building harlequin's moon

frederik pohl - the cool war

joe haldeman - all my sins remembered

Scorsese on Scorsese.
Cronenberg on Cronenberg.
& Flann O'Brien The Hard Life
in one €2 purchase.

i've been rereading pratchett since he died, though sadly i keep buying ugly editions from amazon US instead of having the series of second-hand rediscoveries i was hoping for. the colour of magic is not a good book, i'm afraid

Liz Suburbia - Sacred Heart
Sara Marcus - Girls to the Front
Samuel Delany - Flight from Neveryon
Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

bought

david mitchell - numver9dream
katherine addison - the goblin emperor

yesterday

Penguin Modern European Poets: Zbigniew Herbert, Sandor Weores/Ferenc Juhasz and Vasko Popa

(Note to Londoners - there are quite a few others from both this series and Penguin Modern Poets in Any Amount of Books)

http://www.victoires.com/interieurs-design/atelier-de-creation_motifs-william-morris/
this afternoon as a sealed package, still in cellophane at least. Looked through it a couple of times and the covers come off so binding is useless. TK MAXX purchase so won't have replacement copies.
But if the pages don't all fall apart from each other, it does have a load of great images from William Morris's designs in it, with quite good reproduction so you can see detail in the image and know what it's called and when it was originally done.
Doesn't have much text to it other than that in 3 languages so could do with some more history of him.

i bought a new catullus translation, and also an oxford world's classics edition of martial

gonna get NASTY up in my library tonite

In the hopes that I will start using it more, I just loaded up my mostly neglected Kindle with:

Complete Works of Edward Gibbon, $2.51
Complete Works of R. L. Stevenson, $2.51
Complete Works of Henry James, $2.51
Complete Works of Mark Twain, $2.51
Not Quite Complete Works of H. G. Wells, $2.51

Coupled with the Complete Plutarch I bought a month or two ago, this should give me worthwhile stuff to browse in, fitting a wide variety of moods.

oh yeah i forgot i was thinking of shelling out for that plutarch once i was ~~flush~~

Reasonable prices, but you can get public domain works for free on mobileread.com and many other places. Send them to the Kindle's email address and you're done.

The company (Delphi Classics) assembles the collections, formats them and issues updated editions to correct errors, so that's worth a couple of bucks to me.

found a couple of cortázars secondhand earlier today: the winners & a change of light and other stories

One! Bloody only one Penguin Modern European Poets left in Any Amount of Books and that was the Apollinaire which I have had for bloody donkey's years. Bah. Came away with a novel by Ronald Fraser set in Andalucia in the aftermath of the Civil War and a Georgian thing by Aka Morchiladze called "Journey to Karabakh". So all is not lost.

Game fo thrones finally turned up cheaply and I almost overlooked it, must be tired today.
Also got a Jane Austen omnibus.

& earlier in the week got a thing on British rock art that reproduces concert flyers, posters and some sleeve art.

Also picked up the Tardis handbook since it was going for 50p. Looking forward to looking through that.

Beatles Tune In Mark Lewisohn it was going for €5 in a very decent copy so thought I'd grab it . Have heard it is very deeply researched so probably would want to read it at some point. Think its either the book after this or the one after that that would most interest me concerning them though. But this is going to be interesting on the formative years.

Margaret Attwood The Handmaid's Tale I saw the film a long time ago and have heard that the book was well thought of

World War Z Max Brooks I assume this is the book the film is based on. Looks like its an oral history of the time of the epidemic, and possibly some of its aftermath.

Clive Barker the Books of Blood 1-3 omnibus mainly to make up a 3 for €1.50 deal in a charity shop with the 2 immediatly above
wound up with the 3 plus a biography of the woman who wrote Lark Rise for €2

Stoned2 Andrew Loog Oldham I read the first one several years ago. Possibly shortly after it came out. Been meaning to read this since it appeared too, but lists fo to read books become ever extensive. this just turned up in a charity shop so I grabbed it.

Hope I do get through a few of these.

World War Z is great, million times better than thd boring movie

Check out the audiobook too, plays like a radio-play with diff actor's doing the vouces etc, really great

i got… another copy of wittgenstein

it's different than all the others tho

Foucault, History of Sexuality: An Introduction