a dollar a piece:
the penguin complete sakiew hornung - raffles: the amateur cracksmanelizabeth bowen - eva troutelizabeth taylor - hester lilyelizabeth taylor - the soul of kindnessdorothy carrington - granite islandmalcolm lowry - hear us o lord/lunar causticdh lawrence - letters to thomas & adele seltzerlouise desalvo - conceived with malice: literature as revengethe concise oxford dictionary of french literaturefrancis james child - the english & scottish popular ballads vol. iv
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Wow
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
The Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire, unabridged, translated by Peter Gay, in two used hardcover volumes, slip-cased, for $10. In the bookshop I randomly opened to several different passages and read them, and decided it looked like some pretty awesome stuff in there.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
oh, and wow, no lime tangier! that's some ace used book nabbing.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
not bad for thirty minutes attendance at a book sale. sort of regretting not picking up some of the countless henry james titles that were lying around.
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
That's a great haul. Raffles is fun and very, very gay. The Bowen and the Taylors are excellent.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 9 June 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
I was at a wedding recently and the place where they held the reception had a giant library, clearly used for decoration. At my girlfriend's instigation I stole Joy In The Morning, following the logic that books are to be read, not displayed.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 11 June 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
All IN THe Downs Shirley Collins memoir. America Over The Water was a fantastic read so hope this is as good
Hippie Hippie Shake Richard NevilleOz editor's memoir of the 60s
― Stevolende, Monday, 11 June 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
This is wise. Once stayed in a hotel that had a library where the books had obviously been bought by the metre based on spine colours. But managed to make off with a couple of St Expurys and a Molly Keane.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:36 (five years ago) link
Tom Stoppard - Arcadia (loved it and already ordered The Coast of Utopia trilogy to follow up)Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama (basically new and £1!)Antonio di Benedetto - Zama (had to pick it up after seeing the film)Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier and Humphrey Bogart biographies (I've forgotten the authors but they were £2 each and I presume they were all donated by the same enthusiast to Oxfam)
And in advance of September jaunt: Paul B. Henze - Layers of Time: History of EthiopiaRyszard Kapuściński - The Emperor (this was absolutely fascinating)
― I'm Finn thanks, don't mention it (fionnland), Monday, 18 June 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
Amazon:Paul Celan - Complete Prose Holderlin - Hymns and Fragments
2nd hand:Gyula Krudy - Knight of the Cordon BleuKenzaburo Oe - A Personal Matter
1st hand: Georg Buchner - Lenz (This is a birthday present for a friend)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Bloody hell, that Oe. It's very good but, oh god.
― Tim, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
Its in a really pretty tuttle edition too. Looking fwd to it :-)
Really happy about the Krudy as well, that's as good a find as I'll have all year (quite a few Krudy books on Corvina, but I don't think the publisher exists anymore)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
(I've probably banged on a bit about The Fifth Seal by Ferenc Santa, also on Corvina? Amazing book. Corvina was a Hungarian state publisher, I always assumed, but now I realise I have no particular basis for that assumption.)
― Tim, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that was my impression too - maybe Soros need to get on top of that
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
I bought a couple of Zsigmond Móricz titles on Corvina last year, and found the first boring enough that I haven't troubled the second yet.
― Tim, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
needed to pick up some Henry James:
What Maisie KnewThe Wings of the DoveThe Aspern Papers & The Spoils of Poynton
a couple Roald Dahl books for our kid:
BoyThe Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
john cowper powys - a glastonbury romance
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Bof. ^That's extraordinary. Read it in Fiji of all places.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
have to admit the size of it is somewhat intimidating, though once i got stuck into wolf solent i sped through that so here's hoping (will also be reading it in the south pacific, if not in quite so warm climes)
need to read! just got hold of a copy of the documentary.
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Gyula Krudy - Knight of the Cordon Bleu How much did you pay? That goes for crazy money, sometimes
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
lol, really. I paid 3 quid for it.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
"The End of the Novel of Love," Vivian Gornick
― cakelou, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
A couple of thrift store buys:
The Sicilian Vespers, Steven Runciman, Cambridge U. Press. It's a hardcover in good condition w/ dust jacket, a Book Club edition. $2.
Zen and the Birds of Appetite, Thomas Merton, New Directions paperback in good condition, $2. A small collection of his essays.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Some great 2nd hand finds:
Pavese - This Business of Living Strindberg - Inferno/From an Occult DiaryRilke - Selected Letters
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 12 July 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
^that strindberg is something i have to revisit
thomas bernhard - extinctionalfred döblin - a people betrayedadolfo bioy casares - asleep in the sun
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 19 July 2018 05:46 (five years ago) link
Kit Pearson, The Sky is Falling
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 4 August 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
"Reading Rilke," William H. Gass"How Fiction Works," James Wood"By Night in Chile," Roberto Bolaño"Moravagine," Blaise Cendrars"No Place on Earth," Christa Wolf"In Patagonia" and "The Songlines," Bruce Chatwin"The Years," Annie Ernaux"Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius," Ray Monk"The Avignon Quintet," Lawrence Durrell
― cakelou, Thursday, 9 August 2018 07:10 (five years ago) link
a compilation of 3 Henry Miller texts from his centenary& Rock and Roll Doctor by Mark Brent on Lowell George and Little Feat
― Stevolende, Thursday, 9 August 2018 08:22 (five years ago) link
Brecht - Poems Part Two 1929-1938Brecht - Poems Part Three 1938-1956Dezso KosztoLanyi - Anna Edes
Note to Londoners - Judd books had quite a few Hungarian books in their shelves last week when I picked up Anna Edes.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 August 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
Well you're disqualified from borrowing my copy of Anna Edes now.
― Tim, Saturday, 11 August 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link
I am sure I will qualify to borrow something else from your Hungarian collection soon enough.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 August 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
Dudes, if you are interested in Hungarian come over to Beszélsz magyarul?
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 August 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
Yesterday I ordered (through alibris) a used copy of the Everyman Library hardcover containing three novels of Penelope Fitzgerald: Offshore, Human Voices, and The Beginning of Spring, for $7.30, shipping included.
Today I took books to Powell's Books to sell. From the proceeds of selling about a dozen books, I was able to purchase these six books:
Doting, Henry Green, NYRB trade paperback, new (remaindered), $9.
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor, used trade paperback, $3.
The Rise and Fall Athens: Nine Greek Lives, Plutarch, trans. Scott-Kilvert, used Penguin Classics, $2.
The Face of Battle, John Keegan, used trade paperback, $2.
Maigret Gets Angry, Georges Simenon, used trade paperback, $3.
The Hot Kid, Elmore leonard, used mass market paperback, $3.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
Doting, the Fitzgeralds, Mrs Palfrey and the Simenon all great. The Hot Kid is disappointing--Leonard did seem to be running out of puff towards the end.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
Mrs Palfrey is vg but made me v sad.
― Tim, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 06:12 (five years ago) link
Bohemians by Dan Franck a book on the Birth of Modern art in Paris in the early 20th century
Robert Plant A Life Paul Rees.biography of midlands singer, like.
Didn't buy Johnny Rogan's Neil Young biography cos the pages were brown down the outside which looked very suspicious in a 2nd hand book. Shame want to read that.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 08:13 (five years ago) link
2nd hand:
Tanizaki - A Man, A Cat and Two WomenThe Psalms
1st Hand:
Dag Solstad - Armand V
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 August 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
I went a bit wild today and bought more books than I have in a single day for as long as I can recall. Used, of course. Cheap, relatively so. But I rarely buy more than three at a time. I guess it will be time to clear more space on my shelves and get rid of some dead weights.
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust, the Kilmartin update of the Moncrieff translation, in 3 hardcover volumes published by Random House (1981), for $12 total. Approx. 3200 pp of languid fiction that I don't know when I can find the time for.
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym, used trade paperback, Penguin, $3.
Iceland's Bell, Halldor Laxness, used trade paperback, $4.
The Human Factor, Graham Greene, used Everyman hardcover, $3.
A Malgudi Omnibus: Sawmi and Friends, Bachelor of Arts, English Teacher, R. K. Narayan, used trade paperback, $4.
The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson, used trade paperback, $4.
The Dog of the South, Charles Portis, used trade paperback, $4.
The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell, used NYRB paperback, $4.
The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macauley, used NYRB paperback, $2.
The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald, used trade paperback, $1.50.
I also bough some nice replacement copies of Herodotus and Thuycidides, in Penguin Classic editions, for $3 each, because my old copies were kind of bunged up.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 2 September 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
Found a 2nd edition of CV Wedgwood's Kings Peace for £2, excited to read
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 2 September 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
Wow, Aimless, good haul
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 September 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
At a well-organized used bookstore before a movie, both in unread condition:How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti, $8O Pioneers!, Willa Cather, $5
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Elijah Wald Dylan Goes electricI really enjoyed teh book on Delta Blues, Leaving The Delta and have been meaning to grab this for a while.
Snow Upon The Desert Frank Mcflynn biography of Richard Francis Burton the victorian explorer and translator.I picked this up and then saw there was another biogrpahy of him from the same year 1990. Not sure what the significance of that is yet. centenary of something?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
Not purchases as such, but have recently been going through a dozen big boxes of unread books that have been in storage for over a decade, so at the moment my house is like an ideal 2nd-hand bookshop circa 2005.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 September 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Mick Farren The Black Leather Jacketinteresting find in a local newsagents I don't tend to go near. Have to check them out more frequently. THink I've seen some interesting rock stuff in there before cheaply. TThis was €1.99. Not asure why something like this would be popping up in there but do like his writing .
― Stevolende, Thursday, 6 September 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
Frederik Pohl: THE WAY THE FUTURE WAS - a memoir.
― the pinefox, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Cool. Old edition or did they recently put out a new one?
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 September 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
No, an old hardback, 2nd hand, for £3!
― the pinefox, Friday, 7 September 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
Bought at the big-ish NYRB sale @ Gower st Waterstone (there are I'd say nearly 50 titles going for a fiver each):
Poems of the Late T'AngProensa An Anthology of Troubadour PoetryUmberto Saba - ErnestoYoel Hoffmannn - The Sound of One Hand 281 Zen Koans with Answers
1st hand:
Gerald Murnane - The Plains
2nd Hand:
Nabokov - Speak, Memory An Autobiography RevisitedBae Suah - A Greater MusicMaeve Brennan - The VisitorDante - La Vita Nuova
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
I should check out this sale.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link