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truepennyUsed bookstore trawling again. My haul is not as gargantuan as sometimes, but a couple real coups are included, so I am a happy little bibliogeek.
Booth, George. Booth Again!: More of George Booth. Kansas City: Andrews & McMeel, 1989. [This is a total coup, because I didn't even know it existed before I found it on the shelf.]
Classic Ghost Stories. Ed. John Grafton. New York: Dover Publications, 1998. [Contains stories by, among others, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and of course the inestimable M. R. James. (This makes four books on my shelves containing "'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad.'" Somehow, that doesn't even seem excessive.)]
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1902. Ed. Robert Kimborough. 2nd ed. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1971. [I realized, as I was standing thoughtfully in front of the Norton Critical Editions, that in taking my Norton anthologies of this and that to the used bookstore on the last go-round, I had inadvertantly gotten rid of our only copy of Heart of Darkness. Problem recognized and rectified in the space of about five seconds, which is not bad as a turn-around time.]
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground. 1863. Transl., ed. Michael R. Katz. 2nd ed. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. [Because I've wanted to read it for an embarrassingly long time, and because it was there and I was there.]
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Five Red Herrings & Murder Must Advertise. 1931, 1933. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, n.d. [Hardback! Hardback! I now have the last five Sayers in hardback, plus the collected short stories. This is, believe me, tremendously exciting.]
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two. The History of Middle-earth 2. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. [Likewise, hardback! A library discard and thus only $4. The paperbacks of The History of Middle-earth are ugly, squat, unreadable bricks, and I dislike them deeply. Acquiring the hardbacks is going to be slow and piecemeal, but, you know, that's half the fun of bookstore trawling.]
Booth, George. Booth Again!: More of George Booth. Kansas City: Andrews & McMeel, 1989. [This is a total coup, because I didn't even know it existed before I found it on the shelf.]
Classic Ghost Stories. Ed. John Grafton. New York: Dover Publications, 1998. [Contains stories by, among others, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and of course the inestimable M. R. James. (This makes four books on my shelves containing "'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad.'" Somehow, that doesn't even seem excessive.)]
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1902. Ed. Robert Kimborough. 2nd ed. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1971. [I realized, as I was standing thoughtfully in front of the Norton Critical Editions, that in taking my Norton anthologies of this and that to the used bookstore on the last go-round, I had inadvertantly gotten rid of our only copy of Heart of Darkness. Problem recognized and rectified in the space of about five seconds, which is not bad as a turn-around time.]
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground. 1863. Transl., ed. Michael R. Katz. 2nd ed. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. [Because I've wanted to read it for an embarrassingly long time, and because it was there and I was there.]
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Five Red Herrings & Murder Must Advertise. 1931, 1933. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, n.d. [Hardback! Hardback! I now have the last five Sayers in hardback, plus the collected short stories. This is, believe me, tremendously exciting.]
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two. The History of Middle-earth 2. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. [Likewise, hardback! A library discard and thus only $4. The paperbacks of The History of Middle-earth are ugly, squat, unreadable bricks, and I dislike them deeply. Acquiring the hardbacks is going to be slow and piecemeal, but, you know, that's half the fun of bookstore trawling.]
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Date: 2004-10-25 04:39 pm (UTC)And hooray for the Sayers hardbacks, and the classic ghost stories!