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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

Nice find mate! Well done!

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.

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

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 )

S03B03 out in a coupla months!



HBJ

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

Read the Herbert/Ransom before, Rob?

HBJ

Hunchback Jack wrote:Read the Herbert/Ransom before, Rob?

HBJ

No I haven't. I'm putting them in my bag for when I sub to read when I get breaks.

Rob

lotek wrote:

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

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 )

Thanks, you have mentally scarred me for life.

Robspierre wrote:
Terraforming Earth Jack Williamson

Rob

This one's neat. He actually is the person who coined the term terraforming (much earlier than this book though).

A Thing of Eternity wrote:

Robspierre wrote:
Terraforming Earth Jack Williamson

Rob

This one's neat. He actually is the person who coined the term terraforming (much earlier than this book though).

I bet his college classes, he was a professor at Eastern New Mexico University, would of been very interesting.

Rob

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....

I don't think you could get them any cheaper.

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....

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.

Thanks, Well I guess I know what I'll be getting for Christmas then from him. (if he reads this or doesn't forget)

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

Ive never heard of that Heinlein

Omphalos wrote:Ive never heard of that Heinlein

Unpublished during his lifetime. It was written after he and Ginny traveled around the world in '53.

Rob

Nice trawl Rob.

I did not know until now, that "Winnie Cooper" wrote books on Math.

Not just written, she has a degree in mathematics, taught some at the college level, and is coauthor of a mathematics physics theorem.

Rob

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

That's hot.

merkin muffley wrote:

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

That's hot.

I'd do her.

merkin muffley wrote:

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

That's hot.

Very.

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.

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.