I'm a weak, weak man.
Today is the local comics shop's annual Massive Sale(tm). Every St. Patty's Day, they make it basically impossible to get out of there without melting my credit card.
In past years I have resisted.
Today I crumbled.
I walked out with (in addition to the usual week's worth of comics):
First editions, hardbound of:
_Puck of Pook's Hill_, Rudyard Kipling, 1906
_By the Gods Beloved_, Baroness Orczy, no date (Scarlet Pimpernel series)
_The Mightiest Machine_, John W. Campbell, 1947
_The Ghost Seer_, Schiller, 1831
_The Jewel of Seven Stars_, Bram Stoker, 1919
_A Swiftly Tilting Planet_, Madeleine L'Engle, 1978
Also in hardbound:
_Lemuria, the Lost Continent of the Pacific_, W. S. Cerve, 1942 3rd ed. (Vol XII of the Rosicrucian Library)
And in paperback:
_You Only Live Twice_ and _On Her Majesty's Secret Service_, Ian Fleming, 1st paperback printings
Oy. I am such a book whore.
In past years I have resisted.
Today I crumbled.
I walked out with (in addition to the usual week's worth of comics):
First editions, hardbound of:
_Puck of Pook's Hill_, Rudyard Kipling, 1906
_By the Gods Beloved_, Baroness Orczy, no date (Scarlet Pimpernel series)
_The Mightiest Machine_, John W. Campbell, 1947
_The Ghost Seer_, Schiller, 1831
_The Jewel of Seven Stars_, Bram Stoker, 1919
_A Swiftly Tilting Planet_, Madeleine L'Engle, 1978
Also in hardbound:
_Lemuria, the Lost Continent of the Pacific_, W. S. Cerve, 1942 3rd ed. (Vol XII of the Rosicrucian Library)
And in paperback:
_You Only Live Twice_ and _On Her Majesty's Secret Service_, Ian Fleming, 1st paperback printings
Oy. I am such a book whore.