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Post by Craig Herbertson on May 9, 2014 11:27:49 GMT
Not seen that Crystal World cover. From memory it was a cracking read although some of Ballard seems to have dated a little. /quote] I read Running Wild a few years back, which wasn't bad - Clock Orangeish. I've always meant to read Crash, but haven't got around to it yet. A biography of him recently appeared by John Baxter, author of the classic book collecting memoir, A Pound of Paper, but I hear it's pretty ordinary. Crash is a bit like that piece of abstract art that you haven't a clue about but you're still convinced it's a masterwork. It is a tough read. The sort of Finnegan's Wake to Portrait of an Artist |
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Post by shanea on May 17, 2014 19:22:31 GMT
Recent found out that my Neighbor across the road is a retired book seller and he let me in his garage and I came away with the following books out of the hundreds he still has in stock. I have posted up pictures of the ones that i could not find on the forum in their relevant threads Gene Wolfe - The Devil in a Forest , Panther books 1985  Forrest webb - Brannington's Leopard, Tandem 1974  Michael Shea - The Colour out of Time,Grafton 1986 Angus Hall - The Scars of Dracula ,Sphere 1971 - Hammer film tie in Petra Christian - The New drifters, NEL 1972 William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki The Ghost Finder, Grafton 1991 Peter Stafford - The Wild White Witch, NEL 1973 R.Chetwynd-Hayes -Gaslight Tales of Terror, Fontana 1976 Fantastic Tales Edgar Allan Poe, NEL 1969 Film Tie-in (although that is debatable according to some threads on here) Sarban -The Sound of his Horn, Sphere 1971 I think I may go back tomorrow!!!! |
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Post by doomovertheworld on May 17, 2014 20:40:40 GMT
my latest find  |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 17, 2014 22:44:12 GMT
Couple of recent ones: This for a buck at the junk shop:  This for $2 at the book fair the other month. As a kid I had the slightly later edition with a photographic cover based in this one, with a fierce looking Dracula reclining in his coffin with obviously fake fangs.  This for $3.50 at a bookshop, an early Panther and probably horribly dated:  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 2, 2014 9:32:00 GMT
Paperback Library Gothic of The Moonstone (1966), complete with single lit upper window. At least they've chucked in an Indian guy, so the artist must have had some idea of the plot:  |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 2, 2014 11:07:20 GMT
I never really thought of THE MOONSTONE as a gothic novel.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 4, 2014 11:23:42 GMT
Good lit upper window spot. Essential imagery. Do we have a vault thread on phallic chimneys? If not this is good example.
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Post by doomovertheworld on Jun 5, 2014 15:59:53 GMT
  for some reason i adore the artwork on the front of the christopher hyde book |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 12, 2014 10:20:51 GMT
These from the YMCA shop, $2 each for the Doc Evans anthologies and a buck for The Noman Way, which is a 1964 Digit book #882:    |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 12, 2014 12:15:16 GMT
For three euros in a wee bookshop in Soest Germany. It's pretty good  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 13, 2014 8:26:53 GMT
A box full of this arrived today, which I'll send off to reviewers. I'm really impressed by the quality - a beautifully produced paperback. Johnny's done well getting in with Salt.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 19:54:20 GMT
fucking over the moon you have those James. And the book was the biggest thrill to work on in my life.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 22, 2014 0:30:09 GMT
There's a mini Lifeline Bookfair on at the moment, a fraction of the size of the big ones in March and September, but a few pickings of Vaultish interest. These for $2 each: Peter Haining selected stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (1967)  1963 copy of Frankenstein  Was pleased to get these unread hardcover Books of Blood for $3 each. Went back to see if the others had been put out, but no such luck.    |
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Post by ripper on Jun 28, 2014 10:56:28 GMT
Bought online for £2 each:
Virago Book of Ghost Stories (1987 edition) and Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2, both edited by Richard Dalby.
Also The Art of Coarse Rugby by Michael Green
Been after the two Dalbys for ages but never a sniff from the charity shops in my area, so decided if I wanted them I would have to buy from online sources.
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Post by Dr Terror on Jun 30, 2014 11:50:26 GMT
If you're looking for some Guy N. Smith books, there are 14 in Coventry's Oxfam bookshop and another one in the indoor market.
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