JANUARY 2012 BOOKS
I got a large number of books this month so I will not post individual covers for all of them. I got 3 of them from the
Quality Paperback Book Club, 1 from
Goodreads in the first giveaway that I won (I have entered many giveaways there but this was the first time I won one, it helped that the author was giving away 25 copies) and the rest from
Ebay.
HARDY BOYS MYSTERIES:
Many know that the author of these books
Franklin W. Dixon was actually a group of authors for the publishing company, but that is a story that has been told before by others and can easily be found by a web search.These first four books I got from one seller on Ebay for and average of $3.00 a piece (some auctions and some fixed price I think) they were ordered in December and I think originally shipped in late December/early January but the post office failed to leave one of those little "orange" pick up slips. Fortunately you can still pick up packages showing you valid photo ID to prove you are who you say you are and you are authorized to pick up mail for your address. I got it 10 days after they had originally tried to deliver it.
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| USPS "Orange" pick-up slip |
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| Hardy Boys #1 The Tower Treasure |
So since I'm trying to rebuild my collection from my childhood, or at least some of the highlights I got the hardback copies of these books. They are the 1960s or early to mid 1970s versions at the newest. I don't plan on getting any newer printings unless the original publication was later for those later numbers. Anyway the Series library numbers I got are 1, 4, 15, 16. These editions are numbered only on the spine, later editions put the number on the front cover. Later still they added a
"flashlight" banner to the top of the front cover. I found an excellent identification website
The Hardy Boys Unofficial Home Page that can help you determine which edition you may have. It might not be perfect but it helped me tons. Anyway the titles of what I got:
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| Hardy Boys #16 A Figure in Hiding |
With the exception of "number one" I had previously owned the others, I even had two different editions of number 16.
Next I had gotten three books from
QPB:
Evidence of the Afterlife by
Jeffrey Long, MD with
Paul Perry
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by
Ian Mortimer
The Vikings: A History by
Robert Ferguson - When I first saw this book in the catalog I thought I already had it because I have a hardback edition of another book titled
Vikings by Magnus Magnusson that has a similar cover.
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E
Next I am building a library of television-tie-in books from a TV series I barely saw as a kid.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. which starred
Robert Vaughn, David McCallum (who plays "Duckie" on
NCIS), and
Leo G. Carroll. The trick to this series is I also plan on getting the UK versions of some of the books which have a different numbering system and sadly didn't publish as many of them there. I am concentrating on getting the US editions first then perhaps as I can find them get the UK ones. There is an excellent website (from a guy in the UK that has a bunch of series listed on his home page) to see the covers of all these books
The Man From UNCLE Books Gallery
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (later printings listed it as #1 and titled
"The Thousand Coffins Affair" this edition only has that title on the inside) by
Michael Avallone
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The Doomsday Affair by
Harry Whittington
03 -
The Copenhagen Affair by
John Oram
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The Dagger Affair by
David McDaniel
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The Mad Scientist Affair by
John T. Phillifent
06 -
The Vampire Affair by
David McDaniel
07 -
The Radioactive Camel Affair by
Peter Leslie
08 -
The Monster Wheel Affair by
David McDaniel
09 -
The Diving Dames Affair by
Peter Leslie
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Affair of the Goldrunners' Gold by
Brandon Keith
The book I got as a freebie from the
Goodreads giveaway by the author is a Sci-fi story
Death Drop by
Sean Allen. That is about all I know about it right now. I moved it to the top of my "to-be-read" list. When I am finished with it I will post a review there as soon as I can. Oh and it was signed
"All my best" by the author..
The last minute addition is just a small one, well a big one a big little one actually.
Journey To The Center Of The Earth - The Fiery Foe by
Paul S. Newman a
"Big Little Book".
When I was a kid my brother had a copy of this book. I'm not sure if he
snagged it years ago upon move out of the family home or if my mom had
put it into a giveaway box years later. I think it was the former.
Anyway this copy I got from Ebay for $8 (the shipping was free) it is in
very good condition but has that really musty old book smell. I might
try that putting it in a plastic container with an unscented clothes
dryer sheet to see if that trick works I don't want to try the kitty
litter trick as I have no cats and would feel strange buying kitty
litter. LOL.
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