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
2nd hand:
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
I read the Violteete leduc about 1990 thought it was pretty good, was there a 2nd volume of it or something.PIcked it up in a charity shop at the time.May still have it somewhere.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
From what I can see there is a 2nd volume that appeared 10 years later called Mad in Pursuit. What I do have is this first volume, published in '64. This is an edition on Panther books.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah Think it was taht Mad in pursuit I had too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
The Books of Earthsea is out. 1008 pages collecting the 5 Earthsea novels, Tales from Earthsea, early and late uncollected stories, a couple other bits, and illustrations by Charles Vess. Buy one for every middle schooler in your life.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
I have an earlier omnibus of the novels that I picked up a couple of years ago. Only got though the first one. Must get back and read more.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
Picked up the DK books on Pollitics & Shakespeare yesterday from a charity shop.
Also a thing called Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters by Andrew Simmscos it interests me to some degree and I've come across the tesco monopoly both in other books and attempts on the local streets.
pickled up an encyclopaedia of JRR Tolkien or something to that effect in a charity shop last week too.
& a DK Chilli Lovers cook book last week or the one before.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
crossposted from the amazon thread:
this is weird: Booksellers Protest Amazon Site’s Move to Drop Stores From Certain Countries
On Saturday night, in response to a query from a reporter, AbeBooks issued a statement saying it was dropping the countries because “our third-party payment service provider is closing at the end of the year.” It added that, “We regret that we cannot continue to serve all sellers.”
Asked how many booksellers and countries were affected, Richard Davies, an AbeBooks spokesman, said, “I am not adding anything else to that statement.”
Mr. Brown, one of the dealers organizing the protests, said that for many of the booksellers, AbeBooks’ actions underlined both Amazon’s power and its refusal to be accountable for it.
“The biggest e-commerce giant in the world apparently finds it too complicated to do business in Prague,” he said. “You have to wonder who’s next. We’re all vulnerable to Amazon’s capricious actions.”
The complete lack of information makes it hard to understand what’s going on here. It’s not clear whether they are withdrawing from specific markets or cannot service specific sellers. I don’t really understand how a change in payment provider or system would affect specific countries. I guess it’s possible that some seller systems may not report in a way compatible with the new software or platform. But they also seem to be citing unspecified complexities and expenses associated with named markets.
The complete lack of notice and public comms from Abebooks are both very poor.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
Particularly shitty since, for the most part, Russia, Sth Korea, Hungary and the Czech Republic all have flourishing lit scenes/pasts and their own languages, so plenty of people outside those countries who want texts in those languages will now be stuffed, since ABE had swallowed most of the used/rare book market.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
Yes. I mean, Abebooks and Amazon's acquisition of Abebooks was obviously a real shot in the arm for the second hand bookseller. Also encouraged some interesting practices like acquiring and holding on to single copy stock because they know they can sell it to US universities/colleges for hugely inflated prices and the ability to tap into those insanely lucrative steam train and military markets.
There is also afaict no alternative middle platform provider in the market, which may account for Abebooks' complacency.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
nyrb classics on sale for 7$ at campus bookstore
ge fei - invisibility cloakwilliam sloane - the rim of morningqiu miaojin - notes of a crocodilejohn wyndham - chrysalidsdorothy b hughes - in a lonely place
― flopson, Friday, 9 November 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Cool
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 November 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
A used hardcover omnibus of all Dashiell Hammet's novels, no dust jacket and kinda cheap binding, for $1. I've read them all, but may want to re-read them sometime.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 November 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
For $1 how could you not
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 9 November 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
I purchased a used copy of The God Particle yesterday solely because I opened it up to find it was previously owned by David Van Koevering
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2018/01/31/david-van-koevering-has-died/
― crüt, Friday, 9 November 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
BKS Iyengar - Light on the Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliUwe Johnson - AnniversariesChrista Wolf - Cassandra
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 November 2018 12:30 (five years ago) link
gombrowicz - bacacaylispector - the foreign legionmina loy - the last lunar baedeker
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
& to round out the year:
knut hamsun - panrobert walser - selected stories
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 29 December 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
the walser is a nice carcanet hb from the eighties which i think is the same as the nyrb reprint?
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 29 December 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
1st hand:Josep Pla - The Gray NotebookVarious - A Hidden Landscape (ed. Mark s)
1st hand (xmas gifts - giving):Four Books - Yan LiankeNatalia Ginzburg - Family Lexicon
xmas gifts - receiving:Wyndham Lewis - Tarr (The 1918 Version)
Jonathan Swift - The Major WorksMarina Tsvetaeva - A Captive Spirit (this is an awesome score, love her writings, read this years and its A+)Various - Petrarch in EnglishPaul Bowles - The Sheltering SkyAntonio Munoz Molina - Like a Fading Shadow
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
Jesse locke some Heavy Metalloid MusicSimply Saucer biography finally found this available from Book Depositry so cheaper tahn going staright to the publisher. Think it was reprinted last August or something.
Couple of books on Aubrey Beardsley.Amazon could do with getting its categorisation and differentiation of product better sorted. I bought what I thought was the hardcover of a V&A related book on his work only to find out it was a different thing, a biography. Both had the same title since it's his name. & both were going pretty cheap <£1 for one and slightly over £2 for the other plus p+p so hopefully got some good stuff to look at shortly.
The Naked Man Dennis Morris' book on the male body I already have his the Naked Woman companion volume on the femnale body which I picked up in a charity shop a couple of years ago.
The Hustler Walter Tevis.Had been thinking about him being the writer of both the Man Who fell To Earth and the Color of Money the day before since there wasa Bowie biography or repeat of a programme on people who died in 2016. Can't remember exactly which since both have been on over the last few days. & this is the book that Color of Money was the sequel to.
latest edition of Ugly Things, not quite a book but almost full enough of info to be. Hopefully be here over the next couple of days.
― Stevolende, Monday, 14 January 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link