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06:09 / 31.03.04

A lunch of zines and minicomics sounds lovely, cj. I'll PM you.

07:34 / 31.03.04

Grey Area's Craaaayzeee Book Giveaway, Part the Second

This batch has an 'adventure' section!

Rules are the same as the last one. PM me what you want, together with your address (which should include your full name btw) and I'll get it winging it's way towards you in exchange for good thoughts and a promise to recycle the wrapping paper.

- Teach Yourself Dutch, A Complete Course For Beginners
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt T!
- Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams & The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy T!
- Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Douglas Lindsay, The Long Midnight of Barney Thompson
- Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (aka Jackie Brown) T!
- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice & Salt

Adventure section, just time for the slow start of sun-bathing season:
- Clive Cussler, Dragon
- Clive Cussler, Flood Tide
- Robert Ludlum, The Hades Factor
- Robert Ludlum, The Cassandra Compact
- Robert Ludlum, The Icarus Agenda

And for people with a nostalgic bent, we have the following:

A-Z Master Atlas of Greater London, Edition 3a T!

I have no idea how old this is, but the M25 is marked as being under construction, and not all the way around London either. And the Underground map includes the (to me) unknown lines of 'Fleet' and 'East London Section'. So you can figure that it's totally out of date. But it is a nice hardback. You could wallpaper your kitchen with the pages or something like that. I don't know. It's free, anyway.

12:32 / 31.03.04

The Sack o' Zines has been claimed! Yay, thanks for helping me get this out of my apartment!

Ex

07:26 / 01.04.04

Second batch (you'll notice the slenderness of all these tomes as I'm feeling stingy on postage - the complete Mallory will have to go some other route).

Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
A Nietzsche Reader (Penguin, with depressing tree on cover)
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5
Rose Macauley The Towers of Trebizond
Robert Graves Goodbye to All That
John Braine Room at the Top

A slightly melancholy bundle. And I'm happy to post to false names and work addresses if anyone wants to preserve their anonymity.

The idea of a Barbelith Bring and Buy sale appeals. With a cake stall.

07:41 / 01.04.04

'Take my camel', said my Aunt Dot...

13:36 / 01.04.04

Ex; could i please get;
A Nietzsche Reader (Penguin, with depressing tree on cover)

Thank you very much indeed.

Easter hols are in 2 days so soon i should have time to do some tidying/sorting and find some books to put up.

Phex: Dorset Doom

18:50 / 01.04.04

Yay! Slaughterhouse 5 at last. Uh, I'm allowed to claim more than two books on this thread right? I previously bagged one from Grey Area, but then I did give two people six eBooks each. Is my Karma okay on this?

10:01 / 03.04.04

Just a notice to those who requested books from me that as of this morning everything's been posted off. Expect books to be landing on your doorstep in the course of the next week, wrapped in anonymous brown paper that will make your postie think you're buying naughty toys.

If anyone wants the books still available (see posts on page 1, anything without a T! after it is still up for grabs) then PM me by Monday. After that they're wandering off to Oxfam.

16:00 / 04.04.04

One Item Only:

My spring cleaning has unearthed a stack of 2000AD's, dating from about Jan 1998 through to about mid-1999. They include the complete Red Durham revival saga, the Sinister Dexter story-arc that ended with them breaking up and a ton and a half of other quality comics. Run is nearly uniterrupted except towards the end where it gets patchy.

This item is offered as one complete item only. You get all the 2000AD's, as well as the DV8 satchel they're currently stored in, 'cause I don't want it.

Note: This stack is too heavy for second class postage, so whoever wants it will have to work something out with me to help cover the cost of shipping. I know this doesn't really make it free but I figured I'd ask in here before dumping them in the recycle bin.

15:06 / 06.04.04

Chaps:

Having succumbed to the lure of the new Jack Staff tpb, I find myself with a redundant copy of 'Jack Staff: Yesterday's Heroes' by Paul Grist, free to one interested party, first come, first served. This collects the first 6 issues of the black-and-white run of Jack Staff. I know you can now get all of them in the new tpb, but hey, it's free gratis and for nothing, so...

15:30 / 06.04.04

I`ll take it of your hands.. I live in norway though.. is that a prob?

19:01 / 06.04.04

Oh goody...another excuse to abuse the post system at work...

I've proberly got quite a few i get get rid of but as i've recently moved they still need soting out a bit...

However i do know that i've got spare copy of these if people want em...

THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE by Robert Irwin

One of my favourite books ever...I've ranted about it in another thread and can't be arsed to repeat myself so...

'It follows Balian, a Christian pilgrim in Cairo in 1486 and his encounters with various characters in a story within a story, dream within a dream Arabian Nights way. He's pursued by the Father of Cats, who has knowledge and mastery of the Nine Dream Zones of the World of Images or Alam al-Mithal, and his disciple the sinister english alchemist Michael Vane. He meets Fatima The Deathly, Yoll The Storyteller and the prostitute Zuleyka who teaches him serpent techniques such as Karezza, the Dolorous Kiss and the Abyssian. Throughout the book hangs the spectre of the sleeping disease The Arabian Nightmare and the coming of the 5th Messiah. An absolute stunning book full of Sufi magick, weird drugs, sinister dwarfs and talking apes. Like Borges, Calvino and City of the Red Night era Burroughs. If you like them you'll love this. I'm raving i know.'

And also Lovely Biscuits by Grant Morrison...don't need no introduction of course...got a second copy as a birthday pressie...and it's signed by the baldy bloke as well

PM me if you're interested (again proberly only uk i'm afraid...maybe europe)

20:36 / 06.04.04

Lovely biccies has been nabbed up...

06:52 / 07.04.04

I think Norway should be all right, Mr Zenboy...

07:58 / 07.04.04

Thanks (Mr Zenboy.. hmmm.. I like that..) I`ll PM you my address..

14:39 / 09.05.04

I have two copies of Nick Hornby's 31 Songs ; one was free and the other was a present. I would like to continue this 31 Songs-related largesse by offering the free copy that I got to the first person who claims it...

Also Grey Area, do you still have The Years Of Rice And Salt to give away, or has that gone to the charity shop now? If not I would quite like it.

Whisky Priestess

18:29 / 09.05.04

Deva was kind enough to shower me with yummy Pound, so she has first refusal on all the below, but make bids for them anyway if you fancy them and I'll send them off just as long as Deva doesn't want them.

Ego, a bonkbuster about male models, by Tim Geary
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
The duration of a Kiss, crap gay novel by Peter Wells
Counsels on the Spiritual Life (Thomas a Kempis)*
Prophet, Madman, Wanderer (Kahlil Gibran)*

* these are both Penguin 60s mini-books, only about 50pp each

More laters.

10:49 / 21.08.05

Surprisingly little loot from my house-move (I'm afraid most of the books we got rid of have gone to the Mind shop and/or Oxfam), but here are two - with a deadline of Wednesday 24th August (on that date I will either post them for free from campus, as my last act of petty revenge against my now-ex-Head of School, or give them to Oxfam). They are Eve Kofosky Sedgwick's Tendencies and Myra Macdonald's Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media. First to PM me with an address gets them.

11:15 / 21.08.05

I did something like this with my comic collection, wayyy back in the days of Barbelith's 'Market' forum. Felt great afterwards and, since we're having problems storing books/comics in the new flat, may do so again...

13:26 / 21.08.05

I'd like to put my hand up for the Myra MacDonald if I could Deva.

PM on the way ...

16:14 / 21.08.05

Loomis has bagged the Myra MacDonald, and may I congratulate him on his discernment and taste. Any takers for Eve Sedgwick?

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:15 / 22.08.05

Me please! You already have my address, and I would love a copy of Tendencies.

08:38 / 22.08.05

Taken! Enjoy! It is my favourite book.

Goodness Gracious Meme

10:46 / 22.08.05

Hurrah. I love it too, and it seems Wrong that I don't have a copy. But now I do!

Thankyou Deva, for fulfilling all my bookish needs

(burned through the Hothead Paisan in total 'yay' mode, thankyou very much for that)

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