Book hauls
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- Robspierre
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Book hauls
Today I took two boxes of books to the used book store. I picked up all five books in Stephen Donaldson's Gap series and R. Scott Bakker's first novel, all for $3.49 with tax
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Nice find mate! Well done!
Leto II is gone for good, except for OM. The "pearl" was just that; a miniscule portion of what Leto was, and not a compressed version of the whole. The pearl that the worms have do not make them Leto, or in any way similar to him.
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Re: Book hauls
I recently bought over 200 old magazines, assorted books, and 30-year-old advertisements (all stuff that can be sold for quite a bit individually) for only $20. Always a great feeling to get a good haul for cheap.
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- lotek
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didn't you find an outline for the new coolest adventures of Thomas Covenant the magical cyborg too in on eof those boxes ? (yeah I know he's not dead )Robspierre wrote:Today I took two boxes of books to the used book store. I picked up all five books in Stephen Donaldson's Gap series and R. Scott Bakker's first novel, all for $3.49 with tax
Rob
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Re: Book hauls
S03B03 out in a coupla months!
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- Robspierre
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Picked up at my used bookstore yesterday:
The Jesus Incident
The Lazarus Effect
The Ascension Factor
All by Herbert and Ransom
Space Viking H. Beam Piper
Terraforming Earth Jack Williamson
Rob
The Jesus Incident
The Lazarus Effect
The Ascension Factor
All by Herbert and Ransom
Space Viking H. Beam Piper
Terraforming Earth Jack Williamson
Rob
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Re: Book hauls
Read the Herbert/Ransom before, Rob?
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"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."
- Carl Sagan
I'm still very proud of The Quarry but … let's face it; in the end the real best way to sign off would have been with a great big rollicking Culture novel.
- Iain Banks
- Carl Sagan
I'm still very proud of The Quarry but … let's face it; in the end the real best way to sign off would have been with a great big rollicking Culture novel.
- Iain Banks
- Robspierre
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Re: Book hauls
No I haven't. I'm putting them in my bag for when I sub to read when I get breaks.Hunchback Jack wrote:Read the Herbert/Ransom before, Rob?
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Thanks, you have mentally scarred me for life.lotek wrote:didn't you find an outline for the new coolest adventures of Thomas Covenant the magical cyborg too in on eof those boxes ? (yeah I know he's not dead )Robspierre wrote:Today I took two boxes of books to the used book store. I picked up all five books in Stephen Donaldson's Gap series and R. Scott Bakker's first novel, all for $3.49 with tax
Rob
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- A Thing of Eternity
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This one's neat. He actually is the person who coined the term terraforming (much earlier than this book though).Robspierre wrote:
Terraforming Earth Jack Williamson
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A Thing of Eternity wrote:This one's neat. He actually is the person who coined the term terraforming (much earlier than this book though).Robspierre wrote:
Terraforming Earth Jack Williamson
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I bet his college classes, he was a professor at Eastern New Mexico University, would of been very interesting.
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My husband was thinking about getting me a set of hardback Dune books for $50 from SFBC.
Five books/six stories. Do y'all think that's a good deal or are there better ones out there?
$10 a book doesn't seem that bad for new hardbacks but I know I could be wrong....
Five books/six stories. Do y'all think that's a good deal or are there better ones out there?
$10 a book doesn't seem that bad for new hardbacks but I know I could be wrong....
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Re: Book hauls
I don't think you could get them any cheaper.
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SFBC books are inexpensively made, and the paper yellows quickly. Also, I don't like the art on the current editions from them. But, the price is right for new books. I often see Dune hardbounds in used bookstores in good shape for $5 - $12 each. The new hardbacks are between $16 and $26 each.Eyes High wrote:My husband was thinking about getting me a set of hardback Dune books for $50 from SFBC.
Five books/six stories. Do y'all think that's a good deal or are there better ones out there?
$10 a book doesn't seem that bad for new hardbacks but I know I could be wrong....
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Thanks, Well I guess I know what I'll be getting for Christmas then from him. (if he reads this or doesn't forget)
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Re: Book hauls
Latest book haul.
CJ Cherryh
Heavy Time
Hellburner
JohnCarter
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
Robert A. Heinlein
Tramp Royale
Danica McKellar
Math Doesn't Suck
Kiss my Math
Hot X: Algebra Exposed
Brave New Worlds Anthology
Robert E. Howard
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Some guy named Frank Herbert
The Book of Frank Herbert
The only one I paid full price for was the REH book which is part of the Sub Press offerings.
Rob
CJ Cherryh
Heavy Time
Hellburner
JohnCarter
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
Robert A. Heinlein
Tramp Royale
Danica McKellar
Math Doesn't Suck
Kiss my Math
Hot X: Algebra Exposed
Brave New Worlds Anthology
Robert E. Howard
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Some guy named Frank Herbert
The Book of Frank Herbert
The only one I paid full price for was the REH book which is part of the Sub Press offerings.
Rob
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Ive never heard of that Heinlein
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Unpublished during his lifetime. It was written after he and Ginny traveled around the world in '53.Omphalos wrote:Ive never heard of that Heinlein
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I did not know until now, that "Winnie Cooper" wrote books on Math.
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Not just written, she has a degree in mathematics, taught some at the college level, and is coauthor of a mathematics physics theorem.
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That's hot.Robspierre wrote:Not just written, she has a degree in mathematics, taught some at the college level, and is coauthor of a mathematics physics theorem.
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I'd do her.merkin muffley wrote:That's hot.Robspierre wrote:Not just written, she has a degree in mathematics, taught some at the college level, and is coauthor of a mathematics physics theorem.
Rob
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Very.merkin muffley wrote:That's hot.Robspierre wrote:Not just written, she has a degree in mathematics, taught some at the college level, and is coauthor of a mathematics physics theorem.
Rob
Edit to add: Seems that the theorem concerns the spontaneous magnetization of a material once it is raised above its Curie temperature then brought down again in the presence of a magnetic field. Statistical mechanics stuff, i.e. well beyond me.
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I'm pretty excited about this find, almost positive it's a first edition- first state Ozma of Oz!
Gotta piece together bits of description from abebooks and biblio but it really looks like it's
all there;
The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907, Original Cloth. First State, with all points of issue called for:
"The Reilly & Britton Co." on spine
"O" in Ozma present on 5th line, p. 11
p. 221 in color
publisher's advertisement facing half-title offers two titles: "Land of Oz," & "John Dough and The Cherub"
colored plates throughout with pictorial endpapers
270 pages
The cover is faded, spine cracked, bumped corners, but the pages are perfect and still tightly
bound with no names or doodles. Found it in a small antique shop on a trip to Lake of the Ozarks.
Gotta piece together bits of description from abebooks and biblio but it really looks like it's
all there;
The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907, Original Cloth. First State, with all points of issue called for:
"The Reilly & Britton Co." on spine
"O" in Ozma present on 5th line, p. 11
p. 221 in color
publisher's advertisement facing half-title offers two titles: "Land of Oz," & "John Dough and The Cherub"
colored plates throughout with pictorial endpapers
270 pages
The cover is faded, spine cracked, bumped corners, but the pages are perfect and still tightly
bound with no names or doodles. Found it in a small antique shop on a trip to Lake of the Ozarks.
Leto II is gone for good, except for OM. The "pearl" was just that; a miniscule portion of what Leto was, and not a compressed version of the whole. The pearl that the worms have do not make them Leto, or in any way similar to him.
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