John Prados, Vietnam: The History of an UnWinnable War. Review copy.
Thomas Mann, This Peace. Knopf, 1938. War damage on book and boards.
Amos Oz, Rhyming Life and Death. First UK, slightly damaged.
Anton Chekhov, Forty Stories. Vintage.
Siegred Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Folio reprint.
Paul Stiles, Riding the Bull. Confessions of a Merrill analyst.
Jose Saramago, Seeing. Water damage.
Harlan Ellison, Dangerous Visions. First deluxe paper edition.
Joseph Epstein, Partial Payments. Norton, review copy.
Mickey Pearlman, Listen to the Voices: Twenty Interviews With Women Who Write.
Ben Greenman, Superbad. McSweeney's.
Anne Carson, Men in the Off hours. Signed. Remainder dot, some rubbing on jacket.
George Seferis, Poems. Little Brown, reprint.
Elias Canetti, The Voices of Marrakesh. Sunned spine, water damage.
Lebek: A City of Northern Europe Through the Ages.
Paperbacks: The Silver Stallion, The Hobbit, Lilith
The verdict: All sold to Myopic except the three fantasy paperback, the Epstein (dissing a Chicago writer), the Wall Street book, and the Mickey Pearlmen interviews. They'll all go to the thrift store, the last stop on the food chain. Next take: $46, cash.
Earlier, I went to the Pulp and Paper Convention out in suburban Lombard. Basically, you paid $25 to get into a dealer's room. First table I walk to, first book I see, there it is: Conjure Wife, in the solo Twayne edition. I have been looking for this book for 20 years, ever since I first visited Leiber in San Francisco in the late 1980s. It was $100 and in nice shape, which it never is on the few occasions it shows up. (Three copies online, they all suck.) I figured no one cared, since the dealer's room was in its 10th hour. So I said, as one does, I'll be back. Alas, an hour later it was gone. There's a moral there.
I bought instead a copy of The Farthest Shore, price-clipped but otherwise fine. There's a production flaw on the rear board, but it's still better than my copy (albeit unsigned) and better than any copy online. Cost: $80.
Also, a copy of Whip Hand by Franklin Sanders, otherwise known as Charles Willeford. Published by Fawcett in 1961, it's fine except for an "A" in ink above the title, which will have to be chemically removed. The seller refused to take a check, thinking it might bounce. I gave him $30 in cash. Between the Covers is offering a copy for $400.
Two books at $110, plus $25 admission, minus $46 profit: $89 outlay.