just bought "the man with the axe," which is a book about alfred jarry, illustrated by bill griffith. i was stoked to find it in hardcover, since i wasn't aware one ever existed.
got a bunch of books from fantagraphics too- most excited about jimbo in purgatory and jimbo's inferno by gary panter.
― #NAME? (ytth), Saturday, 27 December 2008 07:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i have stopped buying books and started reading them, huzzah
― thomp, Saturday, 27 December 2008 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i try to be ambidexterous that way.
― #NAME? (ytth), Saturday, 27 December 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I made my first bookstore run since mid-November. I bought:
Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, used trade paperback in standard shape, at my favorite thrift shop for $3. The cashier informed me this book is very fashionable now, as it has been linked to the magical name of Obama. I expect good things from it.
The Prelude: Version of 1805, William Wordsworth, in an Oxford Standard Authors blue-cloth hardbound edition, reprint of 1949, with a dust cover (somewhat tatty), and some light pencil underlining for $10. I got this at Powell's Books, where browsing the shelves makes for as pleasant a way to spend an aimless winter's afternoon as I am ever likely to find.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
A really nice, compact paperback edition of Don Quixote Victor Serge - Birth of our PowerYasunuro Kawabata - Beauty and Sadness
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Solzhenitsyn's 'The Gulag Archipelago', complete set. Which I may eventually get around to reading!
Anne Applebaum's 'Gulag'.
Douglas Coupland, 'Generation X'.
Granta 103 - The Rise of the British Jihad.
― AndyTheScot, Friday, 16 January 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
a coworker just bought me the 20th anniversary, 1968, edition of 'other voices, other rooms' by truman capote, as an engagement present. pretty awesome gift, considering i've had my eye on it for awhile now.
― just1n3, Friday, 16 January 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i am still waiting for the january-surprise book gift mentioned upthread.
― just1n3, Friday, 16 January 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah me too.
― #NAME? (ytth), Friday, 16 January 2009 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to my local super-cheap charity bookshop today and books kept jumping into my hand.
Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads and Traditions of the People, ed. B.A. Botkin, copyright 1944 hardcover, 918 pp. for $3. The editor was in charge of the Folk Song Archive, Library of Congress. A quick browse shows this to be a pretty good mirror of USA folkways, up to and including racism and egg-sucking dogs.
Morte D'Urban, J.F. Powers, trade paper NYRB Classics, $1. Looked interesting. Blurbs very persuasive.
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions), Kurt Vonnegut, mass paperback, 50 cents. Read this long ago and have forgotten every words of it. Time to re-read it.
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, ed. Carl Van Vechten, mass paperback, 50 cents. Not a favorite author, but she has few, if any, peers, so worth having a selection.
The Greek New Testament, Matthew, Mark, God, et. al., in a vinyl cover, for $1. I must admit I bought this mainly to resell at Powell's for more than I paid for it.
A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament, Dana & Mantley, hardcover, for $1. Purchased for the same reason as above.
― Aimless, Sunday, 18 January 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
For xmas, all used:
Generation Ecstasy, Simon ReynoldsReasons and Persons, Derek ParfitThe New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thompson
And earlier tonight, from Half Price Books, for 67 cents,Escape From Freedom, Erich Fromm
― Kyle Clewett (bassace), Sunday, 18 January 2009 07:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i kind of wish i knew people who gave me used books for christmas.
― thomp, Sunday, 18 January 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The Reynolds is well-written, and told me all I want to know about that world.
― alimosina, Sunday, 18 January 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
what, the 90s?
― thomp, Sunday, 18 January 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I enjoyed it and it sent me in the right direction on the things I was curious about, though I kinda lost interest 2/3rds of the way through.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 January 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
John Dos Passos, The U.S.A. trilogy (in Paperback)Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives (reading this one right now)Warren Beck, Joyce's Dubliners: Substance, Vision, Art (just came in the mail)Will Chirstopher Baer, Kiss Me Judas (hasn't arrived yet)Dave Sim, Cerebus (mentioned this in ILC; has not arrived yet either)
― Test Tube Teens from the Year 1754 (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 18 January 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
So do I. Bought 'em with cash.
We should be those people! Lets start doing it. So cheap, too.
― Kyle Clewett (bassace), Monday, 19 January 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
splurged on a bunch of stuff:
White Teeth Zadie SmithCorregidora Gayl JonesDrinking Coffee Elsewhere ZZ PackerA Visitation of Spirits Randall KenanRevolutionary Road Richard YatesJoe Turner's Come And Gone August WilsonAssassination of the Black Male Image Earl Ofari HutchinsonTree of Smoke Denis Johnson
― WE FUCK YOU (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I got The Plague from a charity shop today (which I've read before, but I also got The Fall, which I haven't) and then had a bit of an awwwww fuck when I opened it and saw that someone had annotations in it. But then they gave up on the third page. Phew.
Taking good advantage of offers and a £5 off voucher I also got The Corrections, Fathers and Sons, Women in Love, Revolutionary Road and White Noise from Borders for £21, which isn't too bad.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"A Visitation of Spirits" is one of my favorite books of all time. I re-read the last page on a weekly basis. So good.
I just picked up Cowley's "Exile's Return".
― silence dogood, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
tonight:
Pride & PrejudiceInfinite JestMary Gaitskill, Two Girls, Fat and ThinWilliam Manchester, A World Lit Only By Fire
― sad man in him room (milo z), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i found a clearance table in an academic branch of waterstones.
david jenemann, adorno in americamurat aydemir, images of bliss: ejaculation, masculinity, meaning
― thomp, Sunday, 25 January 2009 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i found this box of books outside by the dumpster, all in really good condition. probably the most interesting books were some film books from hungary from the early '70s, a series called "szemtol szemben". small paperbacks, one book each on fellini, antonioni, welles, wajda, and bergman. can't read a damn word of them but still...
― the gush of yesterday (omar little), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
lol there was a huge dumpster outside the Albion College Library full of books, and one night before it rained I climbed in and got a bunch of weird/cool textbooks abt schizophrenia, and an interesting book that has made my reading list called "The Inner World of Mental Illness" edited by Bert Kaplan...
― seppuku toothbrush (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
also:
lately I've boughtXaime Hernandez, The Girl from HOPPERs (death of Speedy Ortiz and whatnot)Xaime Hernandez, Perla La Loca (Wigwam Bam, bang on some spam)Collected Poetry of Wallace StevensShakespeare, Henry IV Part 2Frank Kermode, Shakespeare's Language (found this in Brighton abt 5 yrs ago & liked it a lot)
― seppuku toothbrush (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm about to bid on the big palomar and locas collections by the los bros on ebay in about 4 minutes. we'll see if i win them. i bought deitch's pictorama yesterday - i'm pretty excited to read it.
― #NAME? (ytth), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
so ytth were u successful?
― seppuku toothbrush (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
nope, he got outbid. probably a good thing, since the antiquarian book fair is coming up soon.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
just as well. Locas was my intro to L&R but the hardcover was unwieldly, and "Flies on the Ceiling" wasn't included...he should really look for the new TPBs on Amaz0n...The Girl from HOPPERS (which DOES have "Flies") cost me only $7...and that was with S&H!!!
Also I don't know if I've mentioned anything yet, but it deserves to be said, too many times...ab3b00ks.c0m is the abs0lut3 sh1t!
― my brain hurts a lot (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't really use abe that much, but it's good place to check if a price on another site is realistic, e.g. some idiot on ebay trying to sell a copy of carver's 'what we talk about when we talk about love' (first ed.) for $750... go to abe and you can find copies in the same or better condition for MUCH cheaper.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Today I went to Powell's Books and to Goodwill, where I purchased:
The Manyoshu, ed. Donald Keene, used hardcover pub. in 1965 by Columbia U. Press, for $8.95. This is a collection of 1000 poems extracted from a Japanese poetry anthology from circa 780 A.D. that contained about 4500 poems.
The poems are translated into English, along with transliterations into Romanji (a more-or-less phonetic representation of the Japanese using the latin alphabet). It's in nice shape, with a dust cover that's a bit worn along the edges. I already owned a paperback copy of this, but it is on its last legs. For $9, this was a steal!
Poems, Christina Rossetti, a selection in a small used hardcover, Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, for $1.99. I didn't need her Collected Poems. A small selection meets the need quite nicely.
The Voyages of Captain Cook, ed. Christopher Lloyd, used hardcover, 375 pp., for $2.99. Selections from Cook's journals. He wrote quite readable prose and the subject matter is pretty fascinating, too. (From what I can gather, Mr. Cook's first name must have been Captain, since no one uses any other.)
― Aimless, Sunday, 15 March 2009 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I picked up a used paperback copy of The Road by Cormac McCarthy for $2 a couple of days ago. It's in the queue now, but may take a while to rise to the top.
― Aimless, Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled (B&N)Richard Peck, Don't Look and It Won't Hurt (abebooks)Honore de Balzac, A Harlot High and Low (abebooks)
― the soft boy of karate (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying EarthOctavia Butler, Dawn (omg this was the best SF novel I have read since Left Hand of Darkness!)Gene Wolfe, On Blue's ShoreGK Chesterton, The Man Who Was ThursdayMichael Chabon, The Adventures of Kavalier and ClayBrian Stableford, The Walking Shadow
― ears are wounds, Monday, 30 March 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Not quite my most recent purchase, but I picked up an essay collection by Arne Melberg at a sale, and, well, it tempted me to start an ilb cover-connections thread:http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c133/OysteinietsyO/cc-melbergoggass.jpg
― Øystein, Thursday, 2 April 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140442243.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/1847491049.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0199553890.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
I go on (and on) about these duplications here.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 2 April 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Not quite the same thing, but Atkinson Grimshaw is the go to man for Victorian Ghost stories and collections of 'em.
― Abbe Black Tentacle (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 3 April 2009 09:04 (fifteen years ago) link
My neighbourhood finally got a used book store this weekend - went to the Grand Opening and held myself back enough to only buy 2: Wodehouse, How Right You Are, Jeeves and Jim Thompson's After Dark, My Sweet.
― franny glass, Saturday, 4 April 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Imagine the plot of those two books combined--'After Dark, Jeeves': Bertie Wooster gets mixed up with a femme fatale, and only Jeeves can make the hit that saves him...
― James Morrison, Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I bought a book on saturday in which this Tony Parker guy interview loads of lighthouse keepers. The book is a reprint, originally published in the 1960s or something. I am hoping for lots of "I hates the sea, and everything in her" action.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 6 April 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
― James Morrison, Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:26 (Yesterday)
I would buy this.
― franny glass, Monday, 6 April 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest.
― alimosina, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Nathalie Sarraute - Do you hear them?Marguerite Duras - The Ravshing of Lol SteinProust - The Way By Swann's (Lydia Davis Translation)Henry Green - Party GoingElfiede Jelinek - The Piano TeacherRobert Musil - The Man Without Qualities (3 vol Picador ed)Klaus Kinski's autobiog.
A couple of others I'm sure I've forgotten...
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 April 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
today my husband won me a SIGNED copy of raymond carver's 'where i'm calling from' on ebay - it's a hardcover first, not too common to find signed (lots of franklin library editions, though) - for a mere $70!!!! i never ever thought i would own a signed copy of one his books, a book that he actually signed and isn't just a bookplate or bound-in signed page.
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm still in shock- today my wife bought me Heat Wave by charles bukowski... i never thought i'd own it, although i am a little concerned about where she found the money to afford it.
― hokey pokey squiggle tops (ytth), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
lol you
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i think that's a hint
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Thursday, 7 May 2009 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis, used hard cover, no dust jacket, via Alibris for $18. Not as talented as Lorca, but he's greek, not spanish, so that the light is very different where he stands.
― Aimless, Thursday, 7 May 2009 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Got a used copy of the Complete Collected Essays by V.S. Pritchett in the mail yesterday. Goddamn is it ever big and heavy -- I think I need to get myself a reading desk to go along with it.
― Øystein, Thursday, 7 May 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Bought Oliver VII by Antal Szerb (loved Journey by Moonlight, found Pendragon Legend shrill and tiresome), and The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald, after recommendations everywhere.
― Abbe Black Tentacle (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:26 (fifteen years ago) link