I love book sales.
Jun. 23rd, 2008 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pebblerockerThe book sale this weekend wasn't as big as last year's, but it was still most enjoyable. Being able to get all the way around all the trestle tables in an hour and be sure I'm not missing anything amazing is a good thing, really; with limitless books to look at I keep going until I collapse from hunger and neck strain.
The haul:
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula LeGuin - a short story collection
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space by Wilfred Burchett and Anthony Purdy - with 32 pages of illustrations! Published 1961. Should be very interesting.
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin - I've heard about this book and had to snatch it up. The author is a white man who turned himself black through the magic of make-up and ventured into the southern United States to experience racism first-hand.
The Frightful First World War and the Woeful Second World War by Terry Deary and Martin Brown, one of the Horrible Histories series. I like to borrow these (and the Murderous Maths ones too) from my little brothers. They're highly educational and have the added attraction of describing practically everything as "pants".
And half a dozen Fighting Fantasy gamebooks - paperbacks were going at five for a dollar, so I brought them home and can recycle them through next year's sale if they're no good. I am most frustrated by having misplaced Citadel of Chaos just as I thought I had figured out how to get past the hydra; maybe a pile of new adventures will console me.
The haul:
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula LeGuin - a short story collection
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space by Wilfred Burchett and Anthony Purdy - with 32 pages of illustrations! Published 1961. Should be very interesting.
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin - I've heard about this book and had to snatch it up. The author is a white man who turned himself black through the magic of make-up and ventured into the southern United States to experience racism first-hand.
The Frightful First World War and the Woeful Second World War by Terry Deary and Martin Brown, one of the Horrible Histories series. I like to borrow these (and the Murderous Maths ones too) from my little brothers. They're highly educational and have the added attraction of describing practically everything as "pants".
And half a dozen Fighting Fantasy gamebooks - paperbacks were going at five for a dollar, so I brought them home and can recycle them through next year's sale if they're no good. I am most frustrated by having misplaced Citadel of Chaos just as I thought I had figured out how to get past the hydra; maybe a pile of new adventures will console me.
