link to my biblio listings

I figured out how to view my biblio.com listings by "most recently added."

Updated catalog entries

Updated catalog entries today (with links added):

Wisman, Ken WEIRD FAMILY TALES I & II, Dark Regions '95, 1st, (a journal of familial maledictions; Pete Crowther intros; 47+47 pages bound dos-à-dos), as new 8.00

O'Leary, Patrick THE IMPOSSIBLE BIRD, Tor, 3/03, (There is a place—a world—where famine and poverty do not exist. Nor sickness nor misery nor unhappiness of any kind. Is it Heaven? As two brothers are about to discover, it’s more like Hell), {hc is still available @ $25.95}, trade pb, new 14.95 [30%]

GAUNTLET: Exploring the Limits of Free Expression #12, '96, (Natural Born Tiller: Harrelson Hawks Hemp, Wenatchee Witch Hunt: Child Abuse or Political Posturing?, Recovered Memories: Convictions Come Crumbling Down, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, more; 112 pages), new 9.95

---#13, '97, (Political Correctness Suffers a Setback; Murder By the Book: The Controversy over Hit Man, Andrei Codrescu on Romania's Made-for-Television Revolution; Banning Beetle Bailey) • ---#14, '97, (Porn in the USA 2; Al Goldstein on the cowardice of the porn industry; Amateur Porn: The New Wave; Dworkin & Mackinnon Conquer Canada; The Future of Porn on the Internet; S/M: An alternative you can live with; etc., etc. etc.; 128 pages), new, each 6.95

Speaking of covershots, a couple weeks ago I added a set of mostly-vintage paperbacks that turned up when our water heater sprang a leak and I had to move a bunch of books out of harms way. This box got pretty wet but it looks like the books survived without too much damage. At least they were still ready for their close-ups. Don't know when I will ever get them cataloged. One, though -- Flower People, listed yesterday -- didn't fit in their new box, so it is listed. (Pandora's has it for $195 on Amazon!)

revised listings with added links

A bunch of books had to be moved out of the way to put in a new water heater (in the center of the cellar), so I have a few of them here beside me. I've added links and perhaps expanded or revised descriptions/prices on a few of the books already, but I've only now decided it might be a good idea to add them to the blog as they occur. I'll just put them in this subsidiary "notes" blog, though. I really should come up with more posts for the main blog too. But meanwhile, here's the latest revised listings with added link to covershots:

Wilder, Cherry DEALERS IN LIGHT AND DARKNESS, Edgewood ('95), (1st), (complexly achieved short stories with a wry mythopoeic vein; an unusual and worthwhile collection; 166 pages), new 9.00

Lannes, Roberta THE MIRROR OF NIGHT, Silver Salamander '97, one of 500 perfectbound SIGNED copies (860 total), (horror stories; don't buy this book for Harlan Ellison's intro), as new 18.00

Wilcox, Don & David V. Reed THE WHISPERING GORILLA Plus RETURN OF THE WHISPERING GORILLA, Gryphon, 3/99, 1st edn, (first world book publication of a science fiction legend!; from Fantastic Adventures, 5/40 & 2/43; Philip Harbottle intro), as new $20

Wisman, Ken WEIRD FAMILY TALES III: Maledictio Redux, Dark Regions '99, 1st, (strange and supernatural stories of family members), as new 8.00

As I deal with more books, I will copy their listings to here. Of course, you can find them all here too.

working on links

Despite the fact that there are several far more pressing things I ought to be doing (I'm talking to you, e-mailer), I'm bogged down just now trying to redo the links to other documents in my various catalog-data pages. I would have thought that a simple copy and paste would get the job done, but for some reason the links get stripped out of the text when I do this. So I'm going through them and methodically doing them by hand. Best to go ahead and get it done, before I forget how (although there had to be a better way.)

netbook musings

I've been doing the update on my catalog listings that Google Documents offers. This allows me to make them look more like they did in my old paper catalogs (e.g. hanging indents -- but I haven't figured out how to do a tab leader yet). For fun I picked up a little Windows netbook a couple weeks ago, to kind of see what it is like for Windows people to do stuff. All along I've always used Macs. The netbook might be fine once I get used to it, but so far: headache after headache. Right now, when I try to go to any of my Document links (for catalog entries), only the first window pane or so gets loaded. I had kind of wondered what it must be like for slower connections or PC users to try to view these links, thinking it might be better if I broke them up into smaller units, but if I had my druthers the whole thing would be in one Document file. There are limits to how big a file you can upload, though. I figured I'd go with as big of files as I could get away with, hopefully leaving room for some future expansion, to avoid having to jump around from place to place looking for things.
Anyway, the updated versions of the documents do seem to take a while to load up, and even on my Macbook the search function doesn't seem to go to listings I might be looking for, although I can scroll down, unlike with this netbook -- which only seems to get so far before it stops. Well, I still only have the Windows Starter system installed. Maybe with an upgrade to the Home Premium everything will work the way I think it should.

batch of books from book sale

If anyone is curious, here's where you can see the books I picked up at the Planned Parenthood Book Sale in Des Moines yesterday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdrummbks/sets/72157626251697807/show/
It's anyone's guess when any of these might ever be cataloged -- I've become more of a hoarder than anything else. A lot of them I bought because I thought I'd like to read them myself (the especially worthless ones).

email from Sarob

Email rec'd:

Hi Chris

 Sarob Press is pleased to announce details of our Spring (April) 2011 title as follows.

Mark Nicholls: Dark Shadows Fall

Dr Nicholls is the President and Librarian at St John's College, Cambridge – surely a terrific place to soak in the atmosphere of centuries and quietly dream up tales of delicious and rather pleasing terror. Previously published in Ghosts & Scholars, All Hallows, Supernatural Tales, Enigmatic Tales and Black Rose, this is Mark's first collection of ghost stories. Here are 12 traditional tales, some Jamesian, some antiquarian, all ghostly and all dark and icily chilling.  Afterword by Mark Nicholls. Illustrations by Paul Lowe.   Limited Edition Hardcover. Printed Boards. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies.  Limitation will be reviewed if pre-publication interest suggests a larger print run is appropriate.

BOOK PRICE

UK: UK £20 

Europe: 25 euros

USA & Rest of World: US $35

Full details at http://sarobpress.blogspot.com

I hope to hear from you shortly.

Cheers, Robert.

---I will be getting this in. The previous Sarob title I've had here for a while, but I've been neglectful about getting it listed. In fact, only just yesterday I managed this:

Ward, C.E. SEVEN GHOSTS AND ONE OTHER, Sarob '10, Limited "Numbered" Edition, one of 200 copies, (author's long-awaited second ghost story collection; eight Jamesian tales include two new long and previously unpublished supernatural stories and the authorised completion of M.R. James' unfinished “The Game of Bear”), as new no dj as issued (pictorial boards) 40.00

---The slight bump up in price is owing to the fact that it is sold out at the publisher, and to allow for the 10% discount I give.