I'm a weak, weak man.

[kickaha]

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.

Comments

You slut.

[flinx.livejournal.com]

And we even share the same obsession. *gasp*

But there's more than just Pimpernel?!?! There's a series?

Re: You slut.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Apparently not - the cover of the book says "The Scarlet Pimpernel Series"... complete with quotes. So I think it was a bit of deceptive advertising, perhaps trying to say "By the same author of..." "If you enjoyed..." "In the style of..." or somesuch.

It's a wonderful little story though, of two uppercrust Brits journeying to Libya to find a lost Egyptian dynasty in the desert. Would make a *gorgeous* pulp movie, ala The Mummy.

Oh, and the price on the dust jacket? Tuppence. :)