Twice a year, October and June, the Kalamazoo Public Library hosts a book sale where you can fill a bag for two bucks. This is the booty I got this year;
Faerie Tales Edited by Martin H. Greenburg & Russell Davis
The Bane Of The Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
The Barbarian of World's End by Lin Carter
Whipping Star by Frank Herbert
The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction Edited by Robert P. Mills
Invasion Of The Robots Edited by Roger Elwood
Mike Mars Around The Moon by Donald Wolheim
The Devil Wives of Li Fong by E. Hoffman Price
Fuzzy Bones by H. Beam Piper
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The Golden Apples Of The Sun by Ray Bradbury
The Weird of The White Wolf by Michael Moorcock
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
Raven, Swordmistress of Chaos by Richard Kirk
The Comic Book Killer by Richard A. Lupoff
The Infinite Man by Daniel F. Galouye
Stories From The Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Dr. Cyclops by Henry Kuttner
The Fate of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath
The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock
The Best Science Fiction of the Year Edited by Terry Carr
The Spellstone of Shaltus by Linda E. Bushyager
Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn by Robert Lynn Asprin
The Time Axis by Henry Kuttner
The Man Who Awoke by Laurence Manning
Had I But Groaned by Carter Brown
The Secret of the Martian Moons by Donlad Wollheim
The Secret of Saturn's Rings by Donald Wollheim
The Unknown 5 Edited by D.R. Bensen
After Things Fell Apart by Ron Goulart
The Invaders by Keith Laumer
Exploring Other Worlds Edited bySam Moskowitz
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Telefon by Walter Wager (And,yes, Bronson is on the cover)
Garbage World by Charles Platt
Galactic Odyssey by Keith Laumer
Invaders From Rigel by Fletcher Pratt
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney
Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
Saga of Lost Earths by Emil Petaja
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Coming of the Robots Edited by Sam Moskowitz
The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Mooseheart, The City of Children by Robert W. Wells
A Collection of Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Jewel of Doom by Nick Carter
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Darwin's Blade by Dan Simmons
Synthetic Men Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Savage Pellucidar byEdgar Rice Burroughs
Frankenstein by MAry Shelley (Cool Karloff style monster art on the cover)
The Age of the Pussyfoot by Frederik Pohl
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Flash Gordon: The Plague of Sound by Alex Raymond adapted by Con Steffanson
I am really excited about the Henry Kutner books and the Flash Gordon book. The most bizarre one might be the Mooseheart book. It concerns the city of Mooseheart, Illinois and their link to The Moose Lodge and how they put children first in the city. There is a color section of pictures in the middle that shows how the children are being groomed to go into the world and educate everyone in the wy of the moose. Hilarious!
11 comments:
Great haul! "Con Steffensen" is Ron Goulart, BTW.
The Twilight Zone book and the HG Wells would make it worthwhile, to me! Great haul!
Incredible haul! I myself own all of those Michael Moorcock Elric novels on the list.
Also, when are you going to find the time to read all that stuff?? Or do you just collect them for the covers?
I have quite a few of those.
Burroughs's The Mucker is quite good, sort of an experiment, where Ed tried to see how many genres he could fit into one book.
That " Devil Wives of Li Fu" I'll take off your hands, though.
Thanks Jerry! Luis, I read pretty fast and am currently unemployed so, plenty of time. I love Burroughs, Glen, so I'm glad The Mucker is a good book. Also, not getting rid of The Devil Wives, sorry.
Yeah, Devil Wives is the best Price I've ever read.
Those weird later Burroughs books are cool too, but none are better than Book 2, GODS OF MARS, which is ERB's best fantasy.
Congratulations! Bonus points if that Mucker is the Frazetta paperback.
K-zoo, Michigan? That's where my wife is from. Odd coincidence. I guess I can ask my in-laws to check that sale for me next time :P
Glen, yeah the Mucker is Frazetta. Great cover.
wow. not bad for $2. the mucker is a good one as I recall. and I recently read keith laumer's "galactic odyssey", it's pretty great.
haven't commented before, but have been enjoying your blog!
Excellent score ya got there. Oddly enough, I've seen a lot of those same titles at our local library sales in Mississippi. I think Moorcock must be a library-book-sale universal or something, because they seem to show up everywhere... and I seldom see them anywhere else, oddly enough. The Burroughs books used to show up a lot, but they're becoming scarce... you got a great batch there. I got really lucky a few years ago, because a very obsessive collector of horror/sci-fi/action paperbacks left his incredibly huge collection to a local library, and they didn't know what they had, so I walked out of there with tons of hard-to-find stuff for practically nothing... including crates of old issues of Weird Tales and stuff. I tried to tell them they should put them in their special collections, but they weren't interested, so... I feel no guilt! :)
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