So Many Books

Pretty much the usual for me (do I have to fight

fjm for the hardback CS books? :-) ). I'm away off to Derby for rubber-swordery on Thursday; back on Tuesday. Phone will be off Friday afternoon to Monday afternoon, but I'll probably turn it on each morning to check for texts.

Oh! - They won't be on your stall, but if you happen to come across a copy of either "The I Hate To Housekeep Book" by Peg Bracken or "Cooking in a Bedsit" by Katherine Whitehorn, I've been looking for both of those for a while. And (really long shot!) a copy of "Mirror Dance" would complete my Vorkosiverse.

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Pretty much the usual for me (do I have to fight fjm for the hardback CS books? :-) )

:) Nah. You taught me all I need to know about Life. (The Acquisition of Older School Stories part of it anyway.) You get first dibs. I'll keep an eye out for the others mentioned.

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shark-hat.livejournal.com

I've got a spare copy of the Whitehorn- well, the HB version of it, Kitchen In The Corner (I got it thinking it was a different book, grr)- do you want me to send it over? I've got another few books I've been meaning to get round to offering on the list anyway.

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If that's really the same book, I'd love it! My mother bought me a copy of it when I had my first bedsit, and I loved it dearly, and it has vanished off the face of the earth!

Let me know your e-mail address, and I'll send you my snail-mail. How much do you want for it? Or what would you like from Ireland in exchange?

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shark-hat.livejournal.com

Have emailed.

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wyvernfriend.livejournal.com

I'm always looking for CS books as well, not necessarily hardback but in readable condition. I have most of the usual suspects and they're all listed on librarything (see Chalet School Books I own/have read list on Librarything (http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?searchmode=Books&searchbox=chalet%20school&searchButton=Search&uniqueID=w3yM4dT1ozPwSg4JCgz1iqEL1RrhUWsb&view=wyvernfriend&shelf=list&sort=authorunflip))

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Okay - that's easy. I tend to grab anything likely to be of interest and bring it home to check, so I'll add pb copies of CS books to the bring-home list and can check anything at home.

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wyvernfriend.livejournal.com

Cool. I'm also occasionally looking for Bruce Graham Books but I don't hold out much hope for them. They're very rare. I have about three at the moment. I may have to start searching on abebooks for him.

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Hmm - had a look on ABE just to get names and not sure: Haven, Two-Faced and something about getting your play published? Or is that another BG? Or other BGs indeed?

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And a check on librarything and abebooks pulls up actually a Bruce Graeme I should have gone to sleep earlier!

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Are you aware of (a) the cutted-ness of the Armada editions, (b) Girls Gone By Publishing (who are reprinting the full texts), (c) the CS transcripts site? I can dig up the link (you need to register/log in, but it's not a big deal) if you want.

I also have a couple of CS duplicates needing homes, but can't say what for sure other than "Princess" (in hardback) atm, my books being a bit chaotic just now.

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wyvernfriend.livejournal.com

this is where librarything comes into it's own. I can list what I have and find out where I have gaps.

Yeah, I know the armada are cut to bits but I'd at least like to read a few of them, longterm getting the better editions is a plan but barring that just reading them is a good thing.

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Any and all older school stories. They are impossible to find here--and cost the earth on Abe Books.

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Well, Dorian taught me well so I grab anything of the sort automatically! (I think the pickings will be slimmer this year since everyone heard of my amazing €80 for one CS book from the dealer, but hopefully we'll get some good stuff still.)

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I've heard about Chalet School for years, but never actually seen one. I think it's most likely I'll have to wait until I can travel some day, and sit in someone's library to read 'em. Like angela forests, they just don't go out into the wild and nobody seems to want to reprint them.

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Check out Girls Gone By Publishing. They have been busily reprinting Chalet School books for the last few years. Many of their editions are out of print already, but can still be picked up second-hand.

Also, I have a few paperbacks that I have replaced with hardbacks; if you want, I could send them to you. (The paperbacks were cut, which is why I am replacing them with hardbacks or GGBP editions, but the main stories are still there.)

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My problem here is that I am stuck in the pimple of the universe, AKA Southern California. *g*

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If some pb CSs don't turn up at the fete I'll be well surprised, but between us we'll get them for half nothing (there or charity shops) and I can pop them over to you. Girls Gone By copies I can almost guarantee will NOT turn up. Like - um - the company that redid all the Beany Malone books. People bought them who weren't able/willing to pay $100 or so for ABE/eBay copies, but then don't get rid of them!

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Do not go to any expense on my behalf! Especially since I am so far in the red zone that even after (if, and it's unfortunately a big if right now) employment happens in September it's gonna be debtpaying for a long while. Blegh. Thats why I say maybe I ought to wait until I get to visit someone who owns these books. (they were long ago cleared out of libraries here--if they were even in them. The last school stories were cleared out in the mid sixties, and despite the Rowlings success, no one seems to be hep to the origins of the school story, only the magic story.)

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No expense - don't worry! Older PBs at the fete go for about 10 cent each ('and cheaper the more you buy' - getting in practice with my line) at the beginning of the day - at the end we'll give them away free. And don't forget my handy-dandy US friend who's over atm and will be over again shortly, who'll gladly take books back with him to post from the States.

Also, I often find a few Angela Brazils, and Dorian doesn't much like her, so no competition on those. As/more relevant to the school story development, so interesting from that perspective.

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I think I only have one or two Angela Brazil's--her first.

This is great--thanks!

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You can order from GGBP online. If you don't want to shell out for something random, I'm happy to send you my spare paperbacks. (And if you get hooked, I can recommend an online second-hand book dealer who carries lots of CS at reasonable prices.)

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I am marking this for when I am employed again. Thank you.

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gair.livejournal.com

Just in case: Doris Pocock's Catriona Carries On, which is one of the only things to have got lost in the gair-and-gerald Bristol/Leeds/Melbourne relocations (any edn); first editions (ha!) of Ruby Ferguson's Pony Jobs for Jill and Jill's Pony Trek.

Have an awesome time at the fete!

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