Latest Finds!

[jamesdoig]

Apr 15, 2017 8:51:31 GMT ropardoe said:

I can send it to you as an e-mail attachment (and to anyone else who is interested), if you like.

Ro, that would be great.

[ropardoe]

Apr 15, 2017 9:22:18 GMT jamesdoig said:

Apr 15, 2017 8:51:31 GMT ropardoe said:

I can send it to you as an e-mail attachment (and to anyone else who is interested), if you like.

Ro, that would be great.

Done.

[jamesdoig]

A nice copy for $2 at Vinnies:

[jamesdoig]

Just testing out the new scanner...

Finished this yesterday - terrific ghostly set in the Arctic:



Was pleased to pick these up for $2 each at the Salvos shop:

[jamesdoig]

Well, the Lifeline bookfair is on again, 4 days that started yesterday and runs until Sunday. It's the first big one since Covid struck, but is at the Canberra racecourse instead of Epic, so much less space. It's meant to be Covid safe with masks recommended, but of course everyone piled in and no one wore a mask. These were 1-2 bucks each:







Couple of Belmont Shadows:

















A few Ballantine Adult Fantasy:









Can't resist Bradbury:









I think these are pennington covers, and in great nick:







Chris Foss cover:



Some Penguins:







And got it into my head to try and complete my New English Library Heinlein collection, so got these:



And a set of Dr Syn:

[helrunar]

Those are extraordinary finds, James! Some of those really evoke an entire vanished era for me. The Ballantine MacDonald editions with the Lin Carter intros... Carter's Tolkien monographs... van Vogt's Weapons Shop of Isher... the Asimov paperbacks... those gorgeous Shadow covers... ah, the memories...

The scene at the book fair sounds kind of scary. May health and happiness be yours!

cheers, Helrunar

[andydecker]

Mar 26, 2021 13:43:16 GMT helrunar said:

Those are extraordinary finds, James! Some of those really evoke an entire vanished era for me. The Ballantine MacDonald editions with the Lin Carter intros... Carter's Tolkien monographs... van Vogt's Weapons Shop of Isher... the Asimov paperbacks... those gorgeous Shadow covers... ah, the memories...

The scene at the book fair sounds kind of scary. May health and happiness be yours!

cheers, Helrunar

Great finds. The Tom Wade looks intriguing. But the Heinleins are beautiful.

What Steve said. It indeed sounds scary. Stay healthy, James!

[jamesdoig]

Mar 26, 2021 17:43:41 GMT andydecker said:

What Steve said. It indeed sounds scary. Stay healthy, James!

All good - we haven't been too badly affected by Covid. One advantage of living on a remote island I guess.

3rd day and still some decent things, though prices for the newer things go up to $3:



Couple of KEW Years Best:





Had to get the 3rd omnibus after getting the first two on Thursday:













And some more Penningtons:

















And an old Signet Heinlein from 1959:

[helrunar]

Trapped in 2000 A.D. ... The horror!!! Oh Dear.

I like the cover for Black Wings of Cthulhu.

Just realized that Augie Derleth must have been a Sax Rohmer fan--he wrote books entitled Mask and Trail of Cthulhu. That's rather a giggle.

May Health prevail!

cheers, Hel

[andydecker]

Mar 27, 2021 3:17:40 GMT helrunar said:

Trapped in 2000 A.D. ... The horror!!! Oh Dear.

I like the cover for Black Wings of Cthulhu.

Just realized that Augie Derleth must have been a Sax Rohmer fan--he wrote books entitled Mask and Trail of Cthulhu. That's rather a giggle.

May Health prevail!

cheers, Hel

I never noticed this. You are right!

We didn't get flying cars in 2000 or cities under the sea, which is still a pity. But we didn't get those funny hats either you always see on those covers, which is a blessing :-)

[andydecker]

Mar 27, 2021 0:43:20 GMT jamesdoig said:

All good - we haven't been too badly affected by Covid. One advantage of living on a remote island I guess.

Good to hear, James.

Again some nice finds. I really have to read van Vogt's Weapon Shop and Null A some time.

[cromagnonman]

Mar 27, 2021 3:17:40 GMT helrunar said:

Trapped in 2000 A.D. ... The horror!!! Oh Dear.

I like the cover for Black Wings of Cthulhu.

Just realized that Augie Derleth must have been a Sax Rohmer fan--he wrote books entitled Mask and Trail of Cthulhu. That's rather a giggle.

May Health prevail!

cheers, Hel

Thank God he stopped before we got a Bride of Cthulhu. Augie's Mythos efforts are on a par with Vogon poetry and exert the same sort of effect upon internal organs.

[samdawson]

There are some lovely editions there. A few I remember from my bookshelves as a teen, or as posters from Science Fiction Monthly. The Shadow's nose is very generously sized! I don't think I've seen him abandon his .45 in favour of a .32 Mauser before. Clearly he has nothing to prove.

[jamesdoig]

The last day was pretty good too - $20 a bag, which you could cram to overflowing. As my rubbish HP scanner is playing up, I took a photo of some vaultish pickings:


asking smileys

Perhaps the best deal was #1-72 of Parade for $20, a mid-20th century equivalent of those Victorian penny dreadfuls of 'true' hauntings, crimes, momentous events and such like:


asking smileys

Jack the Ripper was in #55. There's even a 'photograph' of Mary Kelly's room, which looked uncannily accurate for the early 1950s, no doubt a reconstruction from contemporary drawings:


asking smileys


asking smileys

[Swampirella]

What another great haul; congratulations & enjoy them all!