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[killercrab]

Today I bought The Camp on Blood Island by J M White and Val Guest 0- Granada 1982 printing. First published in 1958 - parting with 50p for this wasn't rocket science. Eat that Ebayers...

KC

[lordfroggy]

I've managed to snag a few bargains this past week at a local flea market...

Paperbacks (just 50p for the following titles )

Someone is Bleeding - Richard Matheson - Banner Books (1953)
The Hephaestus Plague - Thomas Page - Corgi (1975)
The Rivals of Dracula - Ed. Michel Perry - Corgi (1977)
The Black Arts - Richard Cavendish - Pan (1969) 2nd Edition
Moominsummer Madness - Tove Jannsson - Puffin (1971)

Hardcovers (£5.00 for the following titles)

Waves of Terror - Ed. Michel Perry - Gollancz (1976)
Best Horror Stories - Ed. John Keir Cross - Faber (1957) :'(sadly missing the very nice dust jacket picture elsewhere on this forum...

[sean]

Only 2, and both of them SF (although I did recently pick up a copy of 'Mr Norrell and Johnathan Strange' by Susannah Clarke - has anyone bothered with this one?)

10,000 Light Years from Home - James Tipree Jr (some seriously good Sf from the early 60's and 70's)

The Paradox Men - Charles Harness (finding this was one of those weird book type coincidences which happen sometimes. I was reading a story called 'The Rose' by Harness in the massive 'Science Fiction Century' and was seriously, seriously impressed with it. It had the same feel as some of Ballard's 'Vermillion Sands' stories. Anyway, the next day I went to the local second hand shop, and pretty much the first book I saw was 'The Paradox Men', which Brian Aldiss raves about in 'Trillion (Billion) Year Spree', so I'm looking forward to this one)

[mattofthespurs]

"Horror 7" edited by F Pickersgill
"Detours into the macabre" Haining
"Great Ghost Stories" Ed Herbert Van Thal
"Book of Strange Stories" ed Herbert Van Thal
"Guide to the Supernatural" (complete with nude lady on cover ;D) Raymond Buckland
"Nightmare Reader" Vols 1 &2 P Haining
"Witchcraft Reader" P Haining
and finally
"The Ghost's Companion" P Haining.

Also bought, from new, "Mammoth Book of True Hauntings", again Mr Haining.

[dem]

Nov 4, 2008 22:39:33 GMT lordfroggy said:

I've managed to snag a few bargains this past week at a local flea market...

The Black Arts - Richard Cavendish - Pan (1969) 2nd Edition

Waves of Terror - Ed. Michel Perry - Gollancz (1976)

Any chance of a cover scan/ contents list for Waves Of Fear, Lord Froggy?

I wish you well with The Richard Cavendish book! To say i found it a struggle ...... It's a terrible admission to make, but I far prefer reading up on the exploits of the Black Magicians (Toytown chapter) who seemingly spent the 'seventies and beyond exposing themselves to News Of The World journalists than this terrifyingly brainy stuff.

[Johnlprobert]

Apologies for being away - been so busy it hurts, but in a good way. On the way back from giving one of my infamous after dinner speeches at a posh manor house in the depths of the Smerset countryside last night I picked up the following:

Pit & the Pendulum - tie-in with the 1961 AIP picture with gorgeous poster art as the cover

Tandem horror 2 - Ed by Richard Davis

Reign of Terror Vol 1 Michel Parry - Hardcover 1st Ed

and


Pocket Chiller Library No 1 - The Body!

I am far more chuffed about this ratty little comic book than any sane person should ever be, but it's wonderful starting point towards rebuilding my collection

[lordfroggy]

I took a quick picture (I don't have a working scanner at the moment) as you can see it's not got the world's greatest DJ I would have preferred Best Horror Stories to have a DJ... If you'd still like a scan I can take it to work on Monday?

[glow=red,2,300]The Waves of Fear - Ed. Michel Parry[/glow]
Table of Contents

Introduction
From the Tideless Sea - William Hope Hodgson
Log the Man Dead - Eugene Burdick
The Phantom Death - William Clark Russell
At Sea - Gut de Maupassant
The Brute - Joseph Conrad
A Psychological Shipwreck - Ambrose Bierce
From the Dark Waters - David A. Drake
Sea Curse - Robert E. Howard
Fishhead - Irvin S. Cobb
Dagon - H. P. Lovecraft
Fire in the Galley Stove - Captain William Outerson
The Slayer - John Russell
The Sinking Ship - Robert Louis Stevenson
More News from the Homebird - William Hope Hodgson
The Devil and the Old Man - John Masfield

[mattofthespurs]

Finally got my grubby little mitts on a;

"The Sleeping And The Dead" ed Derleth four square pb edition
"The Unquiet Grave" ed Derleth four square pb edition
and
"Twisted" ed Geoff Conklin Belmont US pb edition. ;D

[severance]

Nov 8, 2008 10:39:28 GMT mattofthespurs said:

Finally got my grubby little mitts on ;

"The Sleeping And The Dead" ed Derleth four square pb edition
"The Unquiet Grave" ed Derleth four square pb edition

Hmm, I wonder - just got outbid on the second of those. Didn't bid on the former as it had no Clark Ashton Smith, but did win the anthologies Time of Infinity and Other Side of the Moon from the same seller.

[dem]

Nov 7, 2008 23:54:14 GMT lordfroggy said:

I took a quick picture (I don't have a working scanner at the moment) as you can see it's not got the world's greatest DJ I would have preferred Best Horror Stories to have a DJ... If you'd still like a scan I can take it to work on Monday?

Thanks Lord F! When i add this to the WordPress site i'll be sure to give you a credit and a link. If you can provide a scan that would be much appreciated, but please don't go to any great trouble. I've never even seen a copy of Waves .... before!

[bushwick]

Very good haul this weekend.

Leeds Market:

Speed Freaks - Peter Cave
Scanners novelisation
Fox no 14 - Adam Hardy
Women's Battalion - W A Ballinger (Granada/Mayflower 1978, written in 67, WIP stuff, looks sleazy but I could be wrong)
Adam Steele 19

and in the second-hand bookshops of Manchester (glad to say there's still a few there, what a great city, pisses on Leeds...):

Edge 11
David J Michael - Death Tour (NEL, good cover of alligator attacking in the sewers...anyone know owt about this one?)
The Cats - Nick Sharman
The Bamboo Demons - Jory Sherman
The Morgow Rises! - Peter Tremayne
Deathsport - William Hughes ('Now a successful film!' - some Death Race 2000/Westworld type carry on)
Curse - Daniel Farson
The Sanctuary - Glenn Chandler

pleased with this lot. re: the save Vault thread...this is a very 'Vault' selection of books, imho...

[Craig Herbertson]

Paramount Books on Shudehill and the Corn Exchange were brilliant shops in Manchester many years ago. Two months ago I found half of their old stock at twice the price in a shop that used to be the old Grassroots bookshop near Piccadilly square.

Refreshing also to see loads of porn hidden in the back shop. (Honestly, I was only looking for more books) Brought back the good old days of being twelve years old and wading through dodgy shops in search of Nel Paperbacks and having no idea why anyone would want to look at naked women when adventure stories where at hand.

[killercrab]

Speed Freaks
Scanners
Fox no 14
Women's Battalion
Adam Steele 19


Edge 11
Death Tour
The Cats -
The Bamboo Demons
The Morgow Rises!
Deathsport
Curse
The Sanctuary

pleased with this lot. re: the save Vault thread...this is a very 'Vault' selection of books, imho... >>

Noah it's a great list - exactly right - we could shop together - but we'd fight.What year is this ? - why are we talking about peperbacks like this ? is the Vault really still throbbing...

KC

[bushwick]

KC, my mind gets more and more full of this great rot by the day. I've bought and read loads of great stuff recently, and I'm going to take it upon myself to post more reviews. Just did another Track one in the Western section.

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Picked these up yesterday:

Who Needs Men? - Edmond Cooper (Coronet), £1.49 oxfam bookshop

50p Each:

Blood Brigade - Don Houghton (Arrow 1976)
The Sergeant 5: Doom River - Gordon Davis (Corgi 1982)
The Dirty War Of Sergeant Slade - Lou Cameron (Hodder Fawcett 1967)

The covers are great too, so I'll include them here if nobody minds: