A book haul!

[yendi]

Today, the Friends of the Watertown Library had their book sale. Here's what we scored for about $19:

Me: The original MMPB edition of The Disciples of Cthulhu.

Cold Comfort Farm on DVD.

The 1972 TPB edition of Griffith and Mayer's The Movies.

Autoduel Champions (yes, a cross-company super-supplement from the early '80s).

Sci-fi Now: 10 Exciting Years of Science Fiction from 2001 to Star Wars and Beyond, a glossy 80-page movie book.

Science Fiction Anthology, a coloring book of classic sci-fi stories, with a one-page summary of stuff like The Martian Chronicles, Dune, and I, Robot opposite drawings of representative scenes.

The Illustrated Book of Science FIction Ideas and Dreams, by David Kyle. Hardcover.

shadesong: The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

God Stalk (we always need another copy to foist on folks).

Sexual Assault: Confronting Rape in America.

An old hardcover edition of Agnes Grozier Herbertson's Heroic Legends.

A Beginner's Boston. Given the 1973 date, it might not be entirely accurate anymore. :-)

Force of Star Wars, a 1977 book that is aimed to subvert the Star Wars mythology into Christian allegory (while failing to look at the two-ton elephant named Joseph Campbell sitting in the corner).

And Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America.

Elayna: Beginning Japanese Part 1.

A blank journal with a generic picture of Florida on the cover.

Sweet Valley High: Second Chance.

Definitely Cool, by Brenda Wilkinson.

A Japanese Language/30 cassette pack.

Sweet Valley High: Kidnapped.

Webster's New World Compact Japanese Dictionary.

Yeah, we're pretty happy with the haul. Honestly, we could have spent twice as much; it was one of those very dangerous sales.

Comments

[ckd]

Ah, Autoduel Champions. That brings back memories of the John M. Ford story Alkahest: The Deathtoll Solution from ADQ; I later had a chance to tell him that I'd read and enjoyed it at the Boskone 24 Meet-The-Pros party.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

That Playboy collection contains one of my favorite stories ever by Roald Dahl... it just seems like the most boring, pointless... where is this going, what's the point stories...

Then it ends and the last section makes you go.. "woah, that's... dzamn!"

Luckily that story is also in "KISS, KISS" which I found in one of my book haul days!


That anthology book and the Star Wars as Christian metaphor book both sound like they'd be fun time wasters.

[yudinsoha.livejournal.com]

I have the same beginning Japanese book, but the Genki series is much, much better. Much, much more expensive, but I've found it worth the money. Maybe you can talk the grandparents into it when you get around to birthdays (it's available on Jlist).

[phantom_wolfboy]

Autoduel Champions . . . now that takes me back.

[lonesomenumber1]

God Stalk (we always need another copy to foist on folks).

Heh. I foisted one of my copies on Shadesong, lo, these many moons ago.

[shugenja.livejournal.com]

Cold Comfort Farm! Yay!

Nice haul. Elayna is interested in Japanese now, I see. Finished with Latin?

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I had The Force of Star Wars when I was 7 or 8. I remember being horrified by it even then.

[pulzella-gaia.livejournal.com]

Cold Comfort Farm and P.C. Hodgell? Good haul. ^_^