New books: August

Now, I can’t put prices on these as I can’t recall how much I paid for some of them. However, brace yourselves. There’s a few.

• Victor Hugo –  Notre-Dame de Paris     50p
• F. Scott Fitzgerald –  The Collected Short Stories     50p
• Evan S. Connell –  Mrs Bridge     99p
• Patrick Hamilton –  Hangover Square     99p
• E. M. Forster –  The Obelisk     £1.49
• Evelyn Waugh –  Vile Bodies     99p
• Robert James Waller – The Bridges of Madison County     20p
• Mary Shelley – Frankenstein The 1818 Text     20p
• Roald Dahl –  The Enormous Crocodile     50p
• Seth MacFarlane –  A Million Ways to Die in the West
• Donald Barthelme –  Sixty Stories
• Christopher Marlowe –  The Plays

• Apollodorus –  The Library of Greek Mythology
• Herodotus –  The Histories

• John Kinsella –  Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful
• William Congreve –  Incognita
• Three Revenge Tragedies
• Anne Fadiman –  Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
• Brian Friel –  Translations     –     Making History
• Edwin Morgan –  The Play of Gilgamesh
• Beaumarchais –  The Marriage of Figaro

These seven were all from the book sale at Webberley’s, the bookshop I mentioned in the July books post.

• Jeffrey Brown –  Star Wars: Jedi Academy

• Jane Austen –  Mansfield Park
• Jules Verne –  Around the World in Eighty Days
• Edward Bellamy – Looking Backward

Now, the reason that I never got this post up in August or September was because in late August I ordered a number of William S. Burroughs books off eBay and Amazon, and Royal Mail being what it is, these took a while to arrive. However, there should have been another book arriving that never did, and it was waiting for this one that held me up. We contacted the seller after several weeks, and they sent another out. However, as I type this, I’m still waiting for either copy to turn up. Luckily, we were able to get our money back, but I was a little bit pissed about it.

• William S. Burroughs –  Naked Lunch     –     The Yage Letters Redux     –     Cities of the Red Night     –     The Burroughs File     –     The Western Lands     –     My Education: A Book of Dreams     –     Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

A slightly pedantic point: the edition of ‘Naked Lunch’ shown here isn’t actually the one that I ordered. The one I ordered was the one from the same series as ‘Last Words’ and the copies of ‘The Soft Machine’, ‘The Ticket that Exploded’ and ‘The Place of Dead Roads’ that I got from Oxford back in June. My wife says that she prefers this cover that came, but I’m not too sure.

New Books: April

As promised on my last book-purchases post, here are my new acquisitions from April (albeit a tad late):

 

• Geoffrey Berg- The Six Ways of Atheism: New Logical Disproofs of the Existence of God     10p
• Patrick Moore- The Guinness Book of Astronomy     10p
• Lesley and Roy Adkins- The Keys to Egypt: The Race to Read the Hieroglyphics     20p
• Suetonius- The Twelve Caesars    99p
• Caesar- The Conquest of Gaul     99p
• The Paston Letters     10p

 

• Charles Dickens- Great Expectations     20p
• E. W. Hornung- Raffles     20p
• Penelope Lively- Moon Tiger     20p
• Yevgeny Zamyatin- We     £2
• Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man     £2
• Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace     50p
• Mary Shelley- Frankenstein     10p
• Philip K. Dick- The Man in the High Castle     50p
• Jonathan Swift- Poems Selected by Derek Mahon     Bought for me
• William Shakespeare- Henry IV Part 2, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night     50p each

 

Also, I had these bought for me (which I’d asked for):

• Timothy Taylor- The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture
• Evelyn Waugh- Brideshead Revisited
• Hermann Hesse- Strange News from Another Star and Other Stories
• Dante- The Divine Comedy Volume I: Inferno, The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory, The Divine Comedy III: Paradise (I translated by Mark Musa; II translated by Dorothy L. Sayers; III translated by Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds)