The BURIED Book Club discussion

Found recently in those mega-markdown racks outside of large used bookstores:

Richard Watherwax: Cat Tales (1979)
Dennis Corrigan: The Amusement Park (1982)

This will be an ongoing project aiming at the not-really-made-for-kids oddities.

Excellent. Thanks for the fine fare.

Quick hijack. Rather than buried picture books, here be picture OF buried books, some of which read, some waiting toberead.

Please click here.

top row: Prince Ishmael; The Sea-Rabbit; Or, the Artist of Life; 43 Fictions; Dread; Three Short Novels.

mid row: Pallaksch, Pallaksch; Annie Salem; yes, SIRONIA, TEXAS; The Catastrophe; The Crimson Bears.

bot row: Fur; Semmelweis; Lives of Wives; Defoe; A Hundred Doors.

Recent acquisitions, or collected acquisitions?

I also have that Prince Ishmael in the upcoming queue!

Nate D wrote: "Recent acquisitions, or collected acquisitions?

I also have that Prince Ishmael in the upcoming queue!"

All but the Boyle and Sironia--meaning the Sun & Moon ones--were acquired a few months ago at a local used book place. Within close enough proximity to Mr Messerli's Wilshire office to have been targeted as recipient of mass liquidation, I should think: some hundred volumes, all in mint cond., and some still in shrinkwrap. Got a great deal, and that's not the half of what I hauled back home!

Sironia was picked up in January or December, for $5 at a library sale. (Same library where I picked up my Women and Men for $3, a few years ago).

And the Boyle from Alias Books on Sawtelle, collected sometime last year. Best bookshop in West LA.

P.S. I read the first several pages of Ishmael a few weeks ago and it looks GOOD.

Yes: Alias Books. Great stuff there.

Caroline wrote: "Yes: Alias Books. Great stuff there."

Yes, and yes. Their selection is small--but mostly because they only care to stock the good stuff: last time I was in there, the owner had just picked up a complete, or else near complete, Works of Ruskin!!

May I please add the magnificently illustrated large-format https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ?

This was partially ‘rescued’ by Sumach Press, London, (publ. November 27th 1992); having not been reprinted since 1934 (first published 1933).

^ wrote: "May I please add the magnificently illustrated large-format"

Oh that looks nice. You have any images to share?

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "^ wrote: "May I please add the magnificently illustrated large-format"

Oh that looks nice. You have any images to share?"


>>> I've now added a couple (June) to the book record.