$900 Grandmothers aka Out Of Print Book Price Sticker Shock: Post Yr Links Here

Btw, koogs otm, Climbers does seem to have, um, climbed down quite a bit.

£0.01 Used - Like New
+ £5.98 Delivery
owlsmart_usa

owlsmart seem to do this a lot - sell you the book for nothing but charge double for the postage. Annoys me a bit.

Dug this out the other day, copy bought from a Glasgow charity shop a few years ago. Looked inside at the pencil price that I paid - £1.50.

https://beta.photobucket.com/u/Andrew_Littlefield/p/c86e7e73-9163-40fe-8356-410c16bf4dbe

I'm genuinely embarrassed at how poor I am at posting links, that was meant to be my copy of 900 grandmothers. I give up :-(

https://beta.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/c86e7e73-9163-40fe-8356-410c16bf4dbe.jpg

Thank you!

Awesome!

impressive find

I bought a beaten-up copy of Lafferty's Past Master for $1.95 earlier this year, but used copies are selling for as little as $40 on Amazon, so it wasn't as much of a steal as I'd hoped. I'm pretty sure that's the only time I've ever seen a Lafferty book in a bookstore

Yeah, the only two other Laffertys I have are an 80s reissue of Past Master, and the UK paperback of Fourth Mansions seen here in this Guardian article on RAL from a few years ago (still waiting on those reissues!):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/13/ra-lafferty-secret-sci-fi-genius-poised-for-comeback

> (still waiting on those reissues!)

amazon has the following upcoming releases

The Best of R. A. Lafferty – 7 Feb 2019 (few details)
9.99 Paperback

and

R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master - 20 Sep 2018
10 quid for Kindle edition, 15 for the paperback

(
also the following were reissued since the article:

The Man with the Speckled Eyes (The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Four) 14 Mar 2017
Hardback

The Man Underneath: The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Three: 3 - 3 May 2016
Hardback

The Man with the Aura: The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Two: 2 - 17 Mar 2015
Hardback

don't know if those were limited editions but they go for a premium now)

plenty of other kindle editions too, 900 grandmas is two quid...

lol

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007FBNLI/?coliid=I333JKYULNX5G3&colid=2KLWUX9O6RPOC&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Used 2018 paperback of The Right Stuff, $100: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30015305990

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Celine-Critical-Biography-Nicholas/dp/B010DSX0GE

(picked up a copy for less than ten dollars a few years back)

The Lost Worlds of 2001 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0283979038/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_r.b9CbYR675SH

$ 437 39 $862.25 Save $424.86 (49%)
& Free Shipping

The price of the Pohl book in the link Οὖτις posted seems to have come down a bit.

There must be some "Artsy" Clarke completists out there.

Lots of these have come down, actually.
Villa-Lobos I posted is now at only $89.62
+ $3.98 shipping. Bunch of others are now about $7 or so.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celine-His-Vision-Erika-Ostrovsky/dp/B000PK56RW

Hopefully one day you will come across a reasonably priced Celine bio, nlt.

i came across that maybe ten years ago for the (checks book) price of $12.50... have been thinking about rereading it to get its full value.

also recently found another copy of the bs johnson i posted way up there^ to replace the one i lent out and ended up paying twice the price for it at an outrageous $10

Since he just passed this weekend, I was seeing whether I could find a copy of a book I've only read excerpts from...and then: https://www.amazon.com/Shy-Novel-Kevin-Killian/dp/0895943484/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=shy+kevin+killian&qid=1560783473&s=books&sr=1-1

:( I was figuring this thread bump would be related to a Kevin Killian book

One Touch of Venus (script and libretto) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007DSIKO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IimdDbWWX0RG3
$ 264 18
& Free Shipping
Note: Not eligible for Amazon Prime

*bump*

O_o ...guess i shouldn't have given my copy away perhaps

ya ho wtf

I own a copy if anyone's interested!

https://www.amazon.com/Alejandro-Jodorowsky-Thoughts-Documenta-English/dp/3775728635

I like how the kindle price is 5$

I Need More, More Than $249.99.

An ebook cannot by definition be out of print so I'm not sure why this one costs £99. https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-woman-in-white-217

It''s also available through Barnes & noble for $2.

given that aside from the names and the colour reversal the description is identical to the woman in black I suspect some kind of foul play.

I hope mr redd doesn't mind the thread drift here. I found an interview with the author who grew up on (sic) horse stables and says "I love writing it imagination"
https://www.smashwords.com/interview/Horrorebooks123

It's cool, no worries.

Peter’s Room, by Antonia Forest
Paperback
from $453.99

I bought Wim Wender's photography book Written in the West, Revisited in 2015 for, I think, $40, and now it's going for $400-$900. Never know where to sell these things, though.

*Wenders's

Abe is what even my more occasional bookseller friends use, as well as what my bigger bookseller friends use.

James Redd and the Blecchs, are you an Antonia Forest fan? I love Peter's Room and will be keeping my copy no matter how valuable it gets.

The hunt scene in particular is genius imo.

Ha, Lily Dale, I know nothing about it all really, just saw it mentioned in M. John Harrison’s recent “anti-memoirSl

“Anti-memoir”

I wish Peter's Room were more available, because there are so many people I would recommend it to if it were. The series doesn't sound like much when you describe it - they're books for children/young adults, half set at boarding school and the other half at home (home being a largeish farm/estate that their father unexpectedly inherits in book three and that they're still settling into by Peter's Room). But Forest is brilliant at characterization and atmosphere and just uses that basic school-and-home YA framework to do whatever the fuck she wants, and there's a particular stretch of three or four books in the middle where she's at the height of her powers and the effect is extraordinary.

To give a quick snippet of her writing I'm going to copy out all of "All the Birds of the Air...", the very short chapter where the main character finds that her beloved hawk has died in the night. The book, though it takes place over just a few weeks, is very episodic: lots of set-pieces and vignettes and chapters that could be self-contained short stories. This chapter is slipped in between two much longer ones, and Sprog is never mentioned again.

So it had happened at last.

Last summer, the very morning she'd met Patrick and Jael for the first time, her father, talking of hawks in general, had said: They can be perfectly well when you leave them at night and next morning you'll find them stone dead. As her eyes took in the feathered shape, dangling inertly from its jesses, that had been The Sprog, Nicola knew that deep in her mind she'd remembered that sentence each time she opened the hawkhouse door and each time been reprieved. Till today. Patrick had said you couldn't keep merlins through the winter.

As if that somehow made it partly his fault she thought hatingly that it was a good thing he wasn't here to see how right he'd been. Lawrie, on the other hand, had been wrong: crying didn't have to burst out, even though when animals died it was always misery past bearing: one would always much rather it were one of the family. Crying inside was another matter altogether; but at least people couldn't look at you sideways and ask, madly tactfully, what was up, had you got a cold?

And presently, when everything was tidied away and Sprog buried, she found herself trudging back over the snow-covered down to home and breakfast--not that she wanted either, but she supposed there'd be a terrible huha if she just didn't turn up; and an enormous scarlet moon was ballooning down the dark western sky and that was something she wouldn't see again; from now on she'd be able to stay in bed like other people.

Instantly, at the unguarded thought, tears flooded her eyes and furiously she blinked them dry. If she was going to behave like this every time she thought of him, it was going to be simply ghastly. In a way it would have been better if it had happened at school; it was so much more difficult to cry there. But already Trennels had come into view, a pattern of lighted windows against the dark morning, and she stood still, deliberately thinking Sprog until the name was just a bruised sadness--so if she could manage it so that she didn't tell anyone till tonight, better still tomorrow, she ought to be all right--

A sentence wrote itself across her mind: Our poor little cat is dead. Emily is sorry. She thought it again as she went on towards the house, and the clenched, wrung feeling inside her began to slacken. She couldn't have said why Emily Bronte's long-ago sorrow should have been comforting, but it was probably that Charlotte had told her it was wrong to care too much about animals, just like Ann always said it to her, Nicola, too.

Minor formatting fail: the lines spoken by Nicola's father, and the quotation from one of the Brontes, are supposed to be in italics. I didn't realize that block quoting would italicize everything.

No worries, on zing it works fine. And thanks so much for that, it lived up to its billing.

i started reading this on internet archive the other day. have learned to trust LD on kids' books. it's very good.

Oh, didn’t think to look there, good idea!