selkie: (Vermeer)
selkie ([personal profile] selkie) wrote2010-07-07 08:50 pm

The Great Book Cleanout

I meant to make a post about ALA ARCs and gladly sending them off to people for the cost of media-rate shipping, because our living room is cluttered with books right now. I am cleaning out stocks for our eventual move. This is NOT the post about ALA ARCs -- and anyway only Penguin blew their wad this year with pre-release copies -- it is a post about books that I have loved, that I would like to see Go to a Good Home. If you can paypal me anything at all for shipping, they can be yours! 

H.D. Helen in Egypt. Poetry. Way out of print.

Terry Pratchett, Making Money.

Mary Gentle, the Ash series of books (four paperbacks, U.S. release). These books are seriously good, and I will always be fond of them. If you are looking for a summer reading series, I recommend these.

Abraham Lewin, Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto. Out of print, hard to find, esoteric, and expensive in English.

Garth Nix, The Seventh Tower series (complete in two hardbacks).

J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit, excellent leather edition with slipcase. Embarrassing gift inscription from ex-girlfriend, too, but very nicely kept.

Hella Winston. Unchosen: the Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels. Got a paper to write? This one was costy, too.

More to come, I'm sure. If you were at ALA and didn't grab something/wanted something on a day you weren't at the show, let me know, I might have it.

Thank you!

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2010-07-08 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love the Holocaust Reader, too! I hope I am not being too greedy here.

Let me know how much money to transfer and where.

Re: Thank you!

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2010-07-08 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Let me just check once more when I get home -- I have a whole scholarly Judaica shelf, mostly comprised of where-the-hell-did-you-buy-THAT? books. And it is hard not to be greedy about books!

Re: Thank you!

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I DO still have the Holocaust Reader, but it's not the Lewin holocaust diary... It's Bernard somebody? Still good. Email me your address for shipping -- all three should fit in a Priority Flat Rate, which is 4.90 -- and I'll send it along. :)