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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 2, 2018 17:20:08 GMT
Has anyone heard of Desert Island Books? They have a Dracula library plus a pretty extensive Soccer Histories library They were founded by Clive Leatherdale, and specialised in sports books - www.desertislandbooks.com/Leatherdale wrote and edited quite a few books about Dracula and vampires though - I've got a signed copy of his Dracula: The Novel & The Legend published by Aquarian Press (sometime in the 80s or 90s I think).
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Post by dem bones on Sept 2, 2018 19:48:22 GMT
Picked this up for $12.50 at a second hand bookshop:
Dr. Elizabeth Miller plays a starring role in To The Heart Of Dracula Country, Daniel Richier's withering account of the inaugeral "World Dracula Congress " ( Udolpho #30, Autumn 1997), still among my very favourite articles on the 'nineties vampire "scene." Would that he'd expanded it into a book encompassing the days v.socs, 'zines and "personalities." To be fair, Dr. Miller comes out of Mr. Richier's nightmare rather better than several of her contemporaries. Nabbed these at Sclater Street Market this morning. Ronald Holmes - The legend of Sawney Beane (Mews, Nov. 1976; originally Frederick Muller, 1975) Blurb THE GRUESOME TRUE STORY OF THE INFAMOUS SCOTTISH CANNIBAL!
SAWNEY BEAN flesh eater and scourge of the Scottish countryside — who, with his family, killed and ate over 1,000 people in 25 terror-filled years. No more infamous monster stalks the pages of fact or fiction than this man whose story is told here in detail for the first time. This is no book for the squeamish!Have read Holmes' wonderfully inconclusive book in the hardcover edition; thought we had a thread for it, but maybe that was the old place. Peter Underwood - Haunted London (Fontana, 1973) Blurb "SOMETHING SHAPELESS AND HORRIBLE" (50 Berkeley Square, Mayfair) "GOOD GOD!" (Martin Tower, Tower of London) "IT'S THE BLACK NUN!" (The Bank of England) "HE WAS NOT TRANSPARENT, BUT APPEARED SEMI-SOLID" (Red Lion Square, Holborn)
In these pages Peter Underwood, President of the Ghost Club, tracks down these and the many other ghostly phenomena that make London the most haunted place on earth; from Hammersmith to Bermondsey, from Hampstead to Chiswick, from the West End to the City.Richard Whittington-Egan (ed.) - Weekend Book Of Ghosts (Associated Newspapers, 1975) Richard Whittington-Egan (ed.) - Weekend Second Book Of Ghosts (Associated Newspapers, 1978)
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 3, 2018 21:01:21 GMT
Has anyone heard of Desert Island Books? They have a Dracula library plus a pretty extensive Soccer Histories library They were founded by Clive Leatherdale, and specialised in sports books - www.desertislandbooks.com/I wouldn't mind getting Dracula Unearthed - Leatherdale's annotated Dracula. I was a bit disappointed with Klinger's edition - his approach of treating the book as factual wasn't a great idea.
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 6, 2018 8:36:01 GMT
2 bucks from the Vinnies store:
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Post by andydecker on Sept 6, 2018 19:03:53 GMT
This is a very nice cover for a Hjortsberg. I particulary like the iconographic image. Well thought out.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 7, 2018 9:34:28 GMT
If that's a first edition it sells for good money. I bought mine for $10 about 15 years ago and was recently offered £100 for it.
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 7, 2018 21:12:03 GMT
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 8, 2018 0:10:54 GMT
2 bucks from the Vinnies store: When I bought this book, I made sure to find a copy with the same cover. As for the story itself, I enjoyed its blend of hard-boiled detective story and occult thriller.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 8, 2018 2:15:07 GMT
Thanks, James, for those wonderful scans. My favorite is the circa 1960 Arrow pb ed of She and Allan. Lovely!
I'd never heard of Hugh Cave, so I ran a search. Kev, I think, calls him "the Original Pulp Man" in one of his notes on a Cave tale. Fascinating to see that he was acclaimed a "Grand Master of Horror," if I'm recalling the wording on that cover correctly. Any thoughts as to whether Cave lived up to such high praise?
All in all, a marvelous yield from the trip for you!
cheers, H.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Sept 8, 2018 2:49:06 GMT
I'd never heard of Hugh Cave, so I ran a search. Kev, I think, calls him "the Original Pulp Man" in one of his notes on a Cave tale. Fascinating to see that he was acclaimed a "Grand Master of Horror," if I'm recalling the wording on that cover correctly. Any thoughts as to whether Cave lived up to such high praise? Cave may not be for all tastes, but I'm fond of his high-pulp style. Particularly his over-the-top vampire novella "Murgunstrumm," collected in (among other places) this beautiful Carcosa Press book: Hugh B. Cave - Murgunstrumm And Others (Carcosa, 1977) Illustrations: Lee Brown Coye
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 8, 2018 8:41:58 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Sept 8, 2018 11:26:14 GMT
Some wonderful finds, congrats, James.
The Parry I ordered online some time ago and was very disappointed when I got the other edition. Advertised were these covers, but I got the Barnes and Noble edition.
I really have to read some more John Blackburn.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 8, 2018 11:39:21 GMT
I'd never heard of Hugh Cave, so I ran a search. Kev, I think, calls him "the Original Pulp Man" in one of his notes on a Cave tale. Fascinating to see that he was acclaimed a "Grand Master of Horror," if I'm recalling the wording on that cover correctly. Any thoughts as to whether Cave lived up to such high praise? All in all, a marvelous yield from the trip for you! cheers, H. I also have my difficulties with Cave. He truly had a long career and an even more colorful life. War correspondent in the pacific, plantation owner. Still I can't work up much enthusiasm for his stories. Of course I have read only a few, and I remember nothing except that I thought Murgunstrumm - which admittedly is a memorable title - too long. Maybe a re-read is in order.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 8, 2018 20:25:04 GMT
Thanks, Andreas and CauldronBrewer, for the comments on Hugh Cave. Another one I just learned about from the back cover blurb on one of Stew Farrar's Witchcraft novels is Ivor Drummond. This turns out to be one of the many pseudonyms employed by one Roger Longrigg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_LongriggI think there may be an element of "taking the piss" in this remark: 'In 1995, the bookseller John Francis Phillimore declared in an interview that Roger Longrigg's horse-racing adventure story Daughters of Mulberry (1961) "is the greatest book ever written in any language by anybody. Everyone who has read it agrees with me."' cheers, H.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 8, 2018 20:50:53 GMT
Thanks, Andreas and CauldronBrewer, for the comments on Hugh Cave. Another one I just learned about from the back cover blurb on one of Stew Farrar's Witchcraft novels is Ivor Drummond. This turns out to be one of the many pseudonyms employed by one Roger Longrigg:' cheers, H. Last year I bought the Ivor Drummond Necklace of Skulls, a Kali and Thuggee novel. Still haven't read it. Wasn't there something in the Vault about this novel?
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