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
THe Fire and teh fury Michael Wolfwondering what of teh books on the trump era are actually worth reading. I know most of what's in here already or have heard the related stories.
Mars By 1980 David Stubbsbought but not as yet received. The book on the history of electronic music by the author of Future Days which I enjoyed and i think only saw very superficial attacks on. I know him from his writing from one of teh music weeklies a couple of decades ago anyway.hopefully will appear by the end of the week.
Ernie Pyle Ernie's War the best of Ernie pyle's WW2 Dispatchesbeen meaning to read something by him since I saw the film of his work with Burgess Meredith I think. THough had Henry Fonda as him running through my head.Saw a copy of something by him somewhere recently and looked it up on Amazon where i bought thsi from the marketplace.
Noam chomsky Understanding powerL The Indispensable Chomskyfrom a charity shop yesterday. Looked good.
a few library books and library giveaways.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 13 September 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
Kenny's choice 101 Irish Books You Must Readlist book of books over the last couple of centuries. One of the brothers who runs one of the local longstanding bookshops writes a couple of page son each, short precis a story connecting the book to the bookshop.looks interesting for 25c and even more interesting on closer perusal.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 13 September 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link
Ghosts of my life by mark fisher
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 13 September 2018 10:09 (five years ago) link
So far this book is fucking good. Reminds me why i used to love music writing and made an ilx account years ago.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 13 September 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Burne-Jones by Martin Harrison and Bill Waters.1989 paperback version of an overview of teh Victorian Pre-Raophaelite painter.I put this aside in a shop a while back and then didn't get around to buying it for ages. Bought a number of other titles from the same shop.When I did go to buy it the counterstaff couldn't find it. They had rearranged their kept stuff in the interimI found it on the shelf today. Or at least a version of teh same book.
Looks great anyway. I like a number of these Pre-Raphaelite and otheriwse Romantic victorian painters.
― Stevolende, Friday, 14 September 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
I have the Penelope Fitzgerald bio of Burne-Jones, need to actually read it.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 15 September 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
I didn’t know you were interested in PKF.
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 September 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
Sundog-Scott Walker (a compendium of his recent and some not so lyrics)The Velvet Underground-New York Art (not essential as literature perhaps, but man is it Beautiful to look at.Mark E Smith-V11 (a wonderful and rare bit of Fall arcana that i scored on ebay recently,illuminates some of the darker corners of his wordage for this yank and lifelong Fall freak. Also just paid 50.00 u.s. for pages out of NME and Sounds etc of Fall inteviews etc from 78 to 80. Figure that kinda stuff's not going to get cheaper)So yeah mostly music stuff here.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 15 September 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
Richard Holmes - Shelley: The PursuitSybille Bedford - A Legacy
Both second-hand.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 15 September 2018 08:16 (five years ago) link
For any Torontonians or anyone in the GTA, U of T is starting up its annual college book sales tomorrow, which are always an embarrassment of riches.
― Federico Boswarlos, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
Mars by 1980 just arrived. Not had a chance to look at it very closely yet. Hoped it might be today but thought storm might delay it.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
Bought the new Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, which is gorgeous. Also Leaving Las Vegas (Venturi, Scott Brown, Izenour) and What a City is For (Matt Hern)
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 21 September 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
Wondered about that Penguin Japan collection, but am dubious about the editor: anyone who thinks Haruki Murakami is amazing and who devotes much of their life to his work is someone whose judgement of what makes for good literature, Japanese or otherwise, is deeply suspect.
Having said that, I'll inevitably end up buying it in paperback.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 21 September 2018 05:55 (five years ago) link
Including Murakami will automatically make the book sell so many more copies, I really can't begrudge that editorial decision. I have no strong feelings on him either way tho so that might help.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 21 September 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, Sianne Ngai
― faculty w1fe (silby), Sunday, 23 September 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
I have heard that that was interesting!
― the pinefox, Monday, 24 September 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Michael Chabon: THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION - £2 hardback from a library sale.
― the pinefox, Monday, 24 September 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
It's a good one.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
Giuseppe di Lampedusa - Two Stories & A MemoryThomas Bernhard - The Lime WorksNatalia Ginzburg - All our Yesterdays
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 October 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
bought mahself a greg tate reader and that ian bostridge book on the winterreise
― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
At the bookshop:The Little Drummer Girl, John CarréThe Vegetarian, Han KangSolar Bones, Mike McCormackMy Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Online:A Hypocritical Reader, Rosie Snadjr
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
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haven't read it in a while. but i remember loving this. apparently the coen bros had an option to film it? don't think it's gonna happen tho.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
2nd hand - Violette Leduc - La Batarde
Dag Solstad - T SingerIlse Aichinger - The Bound ManJuan Rulfo - The Plain in Flames
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link