Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

apollinaire - the poet assassinated and other stories
leonora carrington - the house of fear: notes from down below
samuel beckett - echo's bones
blaise cendrars - moravagine
alfred kubin - the other side
andrei bely - complete short stories
restif de la bretonne - les nuits de paris
rayner heppenstall - saturnine, four absentees
nathalie sarraute - portrait of a man unknown
alain robbe-grillet - in the labyrinth, la maison de rendez-vous

THird Ear book on Reggae.

& put aside the biography of Alex chilton.

library book sale this morning.

proust box - vintage softcover/moncrieff/kilmartin (this is kinda what i've been wanting to find. my two volume hardcovers that i've had for years is so unappealing.)

jennifer egan - a visit from the goon squad (i guess i'll be the last person to read it. i still don't want to read wolf hall though...)

laura e. richards - captain january (kid's book from 1892. it looks great. and its a 1892 edition too.)

mary ellen chase - the plum tree (it took 60+ years but the library is finally getting rid of its mary ellen chase collection)

mary ellen chase - dawn in lyonesse (they've been holding on to this one since 1939...)

mary ellen chase - the white gate (i was tempted to buy them all, but i just got three...this is a first edition she wrote in 1954 while teaching here at Smith College.)

eric ambler - the light of day

eric ambler - doctor frigo

lesley egan - the hunters and the hunted (seedy california crime circa 1979.)

edna ferber - so big

edna ferber - saratoga trunk

janet frame - towards another summer (i didn't even know this existed. posthumous. i thought i had it all.)

portable chekhov (in case i need some emergency chekhov while i'm on the go...)

frederick barthelme - natural selection

Always wondered about Ferber, author of Giant and several others made into v. watchable movies.
Recently got a Simenon from the library shop: Aunt Jeannie---didn't know about alt. titles for his, so haven't looked it up yet; is it good?

Also got (new) Luc Sante's The Other Paris. He says that, vs. at least one recent review, it's not meant as a successor to Low Life, about hi-jinks in a neighborhood of very pre-Robert Moses NYC: this 'un has more range, and is as much about working class per se as low lifers. Haven't read it yet so dunno. Looks great though, incl.striking pix.
Splendor In The Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader, edited by Jan Reid & Kip Stratton, intro by Dave Hickey. Lewis was a strong longform journo in early Rolling Stone and others---title piece is on location for The Last Picture Show---also incl. short stories, poems and excerpt from unfinished memoir. I still remember bits of the Stone work from orig. publication, and whole thing looks v. worthwhile.

A Man Called Destruction Holly George Warren (Alex chilton bio)
Joseph Campbell The Masks of God :Occidental Mythology
Chaos James Gleick
In Search Of Iraq Richard Downes
Set Your Voice Free Roger Love
When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishigoro } 25c charity shop
1001 Country Household Hints Mary Rose}" " " "
The Devotion of Suspect X Keigo Higashino
Pattern Recognition William Gibson
How To Be A Woman Caitlin Moran
His Illegal Self Peter Carey

Julian, Gore Vidal, used mass-market paperback, $1. I read it nearly 40 years ago and recall it as worthwhile. Julian was a bit of a prig and an ass, but nowhere near as priggish and assholish as his sworn Christian enemies were. This copy is just to keep handy for when I'm in the mood for some light reading.

from the two used shops in town. (i really need to get out of town though. i'm itching to hit some of the better spots in the area...)

sci-fi stuff:

grass - sheri s. tepper

dilation effect - douglas r. mason

the integral trees - larry niven

galactic cluster - james blish

unearthly neighbors - chad oliver

daybreak - 2250 a.d. - andre norton (original title: star man's son)

the stars are ours! - andre norton

the star fox - poul anderson

destiny's road - larry niven

normal people books:

many inventions - rudyard kipling

the day's work - rudyard kipling (both kiplings from the 15 volume authorized edition of 1893/1899. i totally would have bought all 15 if they had been there...)

the complete poems 1927-1979 - elizabeth bishop

the collected poems - wallace stevens

st. lucy's home for girls raised by wolves - karen russell

don't cry - stories - mary gaitskill

bark - stories - lorrie moore (read most of them in the magazines they appeared in just waiting for that five dollar hardcover nice price...)

the eye of the story - selected essays & reviews - eudora welty

novelists in interview - john haffenden (80's interviews with martin amis, malcolm bradbury, brookner, carter, golding, hoban, lodge, mcewan, murdoch, pritchett, rushdie, storey, tennant, weldon.)

Sex, Drugs And rock'N'Roll Zoe cormer a popular science book on the science of hedonism and tythe hedonism of science which could be fun if remotely accurate, or otherwise for that matter.

Colour Victoria Finlay
I think this is the book I read a few years ago after seeing it recommended somewhere, possibly on here. This is the paperback of a book i thought much thicker as a hardback. Think i was thinking of trying to get the copy back out of the library, so glad i went back intio this charity shop cos I didn't see it there yesterday.

and a book called Wanamurraganya The story of Jack McPhee by Sally Morgan story of a half aborigine maverick guy.

st. lucy's home for girls raised by wolves - karen russell

don't cry - stories - mary gaitskill
Haven't caught up w these yet, but did read Russell's Vampires In The Lemon Grove and Gaitskill's Because They Wanted To---awesome collections.

1st hand:

Lazlo Krasznahorkai - Seiobo There Below
Elsa Morante - Arcoeli

2nd hand:

Kawabata - The Lake
Tomas Transtromer - New Collected Poems

The Look the book on fashion over the decades. Been wanting to get a copy for ages I thought it made more sense last week when exchange rate was a bit better

Alice Munro - Dear Life
David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Robert Reid - Year Zero

went to my fave Owl Pen Books today. kinda like heaven if you are me. such a beautiful spot.

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love it when your annex is here:

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Sci-Fi (all hardcover. mostly 2 bucks each)

anywhen - james blish

the left hand of darkness - ursula k. leguin ($1.50 for an early book club edition with jacket)

the lost face - best science fiction from czechoslovakia - josef nesvadba

the listeners - james gunn

froomb! - john lymington

a mile beyond the moon - a collection of imaginative tales - c.m. kornbluth

shoot at the moon - william f. temple

coils - fred saberhagen & roger zelazny

the end of the dreams - three short stories - james gunn

Not Sci-Fi

dream children - a.n. wilson

a heritage and its history - ivy compton-burnett (hard for me to remember which ones i've read. i like having different editions though. so it's all good.)

god's funeral - a.n. wilson

small g - patricia highsmith

found in the street - patricia highsmith (two that i needed.)

mr. jack hamlin's mediation and other stories - bret harte

tales of new england - sarah orne jewett

the girls - edna ferber

Any haul with highsmith and jewett is a good haul. Intrigued by the czech SF too. I wish that I still had 2nd hand bookshops in my area, let alone ones looking like that. The only ones left are paperback exchanges with nothing but grishams/rankins/connollys/cartlands/browns

Got an illustrated Candide by Voltaire

In The Shadow of A Saint by Ken Wiwa about his dad Ken Saro Wiwa .
The Road to Wellville the thing on the birth of Kellogs health cereals

Bury Me Standing on the history of Gypsies
An Astronauts Guide to Life On Earth by Chris Hadfield which looked interesting for 25c

Also thought I'd pick up Emotional Intelligence for the same price. Not ssure fi the whole idea has long since been debunked but thought I'd see what it was all about.

Wellville movie was one of the oddest Hollywood excursions in a while, wonder if the book is as peculiar

I haven't started reading it yet but it did look interesting. Think I came across some other reference to either it or events with Kellog over the last couple of weeks which meant I wanted to go back and se if it was in the shop I saw it in. Charity shop though. But it was so now I have it.

used

wolf hall
plato symposium
paris review - object lessons

new

david grann - lost city of z
jonathan lethem - motherless brooklyn

pdf

muriel spark - the girls of slender means
joseph henrich - the secret of our success (cultural anthropology)
robert gordon - the rise and fall of american growth (epic economic history of USA)

Lots of amazing hauls here lately----I especially want to get xpost Tomas Transtromer - New Collected Poems. Never read any of his until he won the Nobel, when The New Yorker published a good brief intro and a set of poems great in translation.

Speaking of translation, what's happening to my English---must stop for repairs.

IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
and a book on British History since the Normans taht I think is actually for children but looked pretty nicely presented

both from a charity shop I haven't been in for ages.

Transtromer's short memoir is really lovely, too
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JUst found the Alan McGee memoir in a local Dealz for €1.50 which is nice.
Been wanting tio read taht, looks like it might be an ex-HMV copy or something since it said €11.99 on it but it was the standard Dealz price. So I presume they must be connected to clearance houses for some items

Two used books today:

Classics Revisited, Kenneth Rexroth, a New Directions trade paperback in pretty decent shape, $2. Just scrapes together various short pieces he wrote about canonical authors and books.

Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves, in a Penguin Modern Classics copy, a bit dog-eared, but readable and not falling apart, $2. His WWI and post-war memoir published in 1929, in which he shows how a loyal, public school-educated, young British officer becomes completely disillusioned with English society and decides self-exile is to be preferred.

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that's a nice edish of Savage Detectives

I'm currently reading The Savage Detectives in that same British paperback edition

I never reread but that's one I've contemplated rereading. I was p young at the time but I was positively radiating something every time I picked it up

I exclusively buy books that ppl mention on this board lol

Cynthia Ozick - The Puttermesser Papers
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty

I found a weird copy of updike's bech: a book, it is physically much thinner than the usual 1st ed (which I happen to have on my shelf)

title page does show knopf as the publisher and 1970 but the following page that would have other printing info is in Japanese or Chinese? all other text of the book is English tho

thinking its maybe some weird knockoff but idk cant really find one like it on abe

Another Side fo Bob Dylan by Victor Maymudes with Jacob Maymudes
memoir of Dylan's road manager.

The Psychic battlefield W. Adam Mandlebaum
book on military and the paranormal which looked interesting for €1.

The Bean book by Rise elliot
vegetarian cookbook based around beans like

got a copy f The Mountain Sgdow the sequel to Shantaram put aside which I might grab next week
Alongside Max Decharne's Straight From The Fridge dad book on hipster slang.

Mountain Shadow. my typing is going to pot.
also that's Rose Elliott not rise.

Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves

I have that on my to-read pile as well.

i got hold of the original version of that some time ago. the later revision is supposed to be quite different (have not yet read either though), supposedly in an attempt to expunge the influence laura riding had on its initial writing.

picked up for cheap recently:
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That jmr collection is full of good things

I know the salvation army are evil but still I was pleased to pick up a copy of ta-nehisi coates's book in their shop for 50p

also it seems that paul morley's bowie book has already started showing up in 2nd hand bookshops, but someone got to it before me in oxfam

They're evil? How so? I want to be forewarned/forearmed next time I shop there.

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Just got another copy of this groovy old fave for a groovy old friend---if image is gone, it's Tales for the Son of My Unborn Child: Berkeley, 1966-1969 Hardcover – 1971 by Thomas Farber. A library copy (his first book, and one of the few apparently be out of print), but good condition, with classic thick soft strong transparent library covering for the jacket---think I might try buying a roll of that---worked in a 90s indie book store & sold plenty of it, but never got my own supply, and the store is long gone.

"apparently be out of print," that is.

"evil" is perhaps overstating it but they are actively homophobic & we should probably divert our support elsewhere until they sort that out because it's 2016

but, so cheap!

Alexander Kluge - The Devil's Blind Spot. 173 short stories/fragments. Love his films - he is very unknown in the anglo world - and this is the find of the year for me.
Jean Genet - The Prisoner of Love.
Thomas Bernhard - Yes.

Got the free Kindle app for my lowly laptop, then got http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/images/atomskcover1.jpg as US $2.99 download, rather than pay collector's prices for very out-of-print original.
If it doesn't show, it's Atomsk, a Cold War thriller by Carmichael Smith, later Cordwainer Smith, thee science fiction cult figure. I haven't gotten very far---not crazy about prospect of reading whole novel on screen---but he already has prototype of inimitable stylistics cranking up, and this (non-SF) story has been associated by some with his (Paul Linebarger's) early CIA expertise in psychological warfare.
More here, incl. excerpts: http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/atomsk.htm

On War by CArl von Clausewitz cos it looked interesting. Hope I get around to reading it.

The God of Small Things by Arundhati roy. ditto.

Got both of those in a charity shop for €11 each yesterday.

Now been and done bought
Need More Love by Aline Kominsky crumb
and 150 Things Every Man Should Know by Gareth may
for €1 each from another charity shop.

So could be good.

got the new james kelman "dirt road" as a b-day present

don't know why I'm getting double 1s when I try to type one 1 but it was €1 not €11.
Dashed keyboard doesn't register when you hit the 1 half the time , maybe that's it.

xxpost as US $2.99 download actually I could download it, and maybe did, but opted to stash it in my portion of Amazon Cloud, read via Cloud Reader, to save disk space, was the idea anyway.

I bought two obscure novellas by Muriel Spark today, for $1 each, in used Penguin editions from the mid-1970s with cheesy covers: Not to Disturb and The Hothouse By the East River. I know nothing about them other than that I generally enjoy any work by Dame Muriel.

Maria Edgeworth, CASTLE RACKRENT

sam quinones - dreamland
elizabeth taylor - complete short stories
barry hannah - long last happy

Petrarch - Canzionere. All 300+ poems. Another top 2nd hand find (even more so than Kluge which I can't quite get into rn)

Haven't read read that Barry Hannah book, but his first novel, Geronimo Rex is frequently funny-ha-ha and funny-strange-to-scary, 50s-60s Southern Gothic living and learning, esp. in Mississippi collegetown--said to be somewhut autobiographical, which seems plausible, especially considering some of his 70s hijinks in Tuscaloosa (writer in residence and then some, at U of AL)