back from vacation

Not much action here for awhile -- sorry, if you've been checking up. Partly it was being away for the better part of a couple weeks. Returned from San Francisco last Friday. Only bought two books (at a library where we stopped for a bit of wi-fi) the whole trip. Tried to stop at an indie bookstore (Stacy's) in Frisco, but it was kaput -- how it goes, I guess, these days.
But when I got back to Polk City there was a box of used books from a consignor waiting on the front porch. Check out the covershots if curious, while I try to get 'round to cataloging them. I'll try to get caught up on other fronts too. (If you think you've been forgotten by me, do keep pestering me. Sometimes it might be what I need to get my priorities right.)

new book arrivals from Tartarus

I've been mightily delinquent in a plenitude of ways, not least the posting of new-arrival listings here, scant as they have been. The listings do go up in my "New Arrivals" document, which should be searchable, but not necessarily through Google. I will try to do a little catch-up here now. To start with, books from Tartarus:

WORMWOOD: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent #12, spr/09, Tartarus, (on Harlan Ellison, Wilkie Collins, etc.), new 14.00

Strong, L.A.G. THE BUCKROSS RING and Other Stories of the Strange and Supernatural, Tartarus '09, one of 300 copies, (author's strange and supernatural stories are collected together in one volume for the first time here; Richard Dalby [ed & intro]), new in dj 50.00

and I forgot to list earlier:

Maupassant, Guy de TALES OF TERROR, Tartarus '08, one of 300 copies, (collects together 32 of Guy de Maupassant's best tales of terror, in Arnold Kellet's glitteringly clear and precise translations; Ramsey Campbell foreword), new in dj 50.00

(discount 15%)

new issue of Cemetery Dance

Here today:

CEMETERY DANCE #60, '09, (Tananarive Due, Ray Garton, Jeff Long, Thomas Sullivan, Thomas Tessier), new 5.00

discount: 20%

new arrival from Ash-Tree

Here now:

Sinclair, May THE VILLA DESIREE and Other Uncanny Stories, Ash-Tree '08, (collects all of author's supernatural, strange, and weird tales in one volume for the first time, and is complemented by Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff's detailed introduction), new in dj 49.00

(discount: 20%)

returned to book sale

Went back to book sale yesterday for another load.

books from nesfa here

Finally managing to get cataloged the NESFA books that have been here for a while now:

• Zelazny, Roger THRESHOLD: The Collected Stories of..., Volume One, NESFA, 2/09, 1st edn, (short works from author's early years through the mid 1960s; the first of a projected six volumes; Silverberg intro; 575 pages), new in dj 29.00
• Zelazny, Roger POWER & LIGHT : The Collected Stories of..., Volume Two, NESFA, 2/09, 1st edn, (covers the mid 1960s, the author's most prolific period; Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Walter Jon Williams intros; 575 pages), new in dj 29.00
• Anderson, Poul THE COLLECTED SHORT WORKS OF…, Volume 1: Call Me Joe, NESFA, 3/09, 1st edn, (Bear intro; 510 pages), new in dj 29.00
• Coville, Bruce THE ONE RIGHT THING , NESFA, 2/08, 1st edn, one of 800 numbered copies, (filled with wit and wisdom and laughter and joy and a touch of the eerie), new in dj 25.00
• Blish, James WORKS OF ART : Selected Short Works, NESFA, 2/08, 1st edn, (literarily ambitious; Feeley intro; 524 pages), new in dj 29.00
• Merril, Judith & C.M. Kornbluth SPACED OUT : Three Novels of Tomorrow, NESFA, 10/08, 1st edn thus, (collects Outpost Mars, Gunner Cade & Shadow on the Hearth; purposely eschews the escape for which science fiction is so notorious), new in dj 29.00
• Oliver, Chad FROM OTHER SHORES : An Omnibus, NESFA, 3/07, 1st edn, (collects Shadows in the Sun, Unearthly Neighbors & The Shores of Another Sea; Zebrowski intros), new in dj 26.00

---These are some very well-made, ample, and well-edited books. Even without the 20% discount I give they would be bargains.

nesfa books ordered

I haven't been ordering from publishers much lately, especially since my printed-paper catalog sending ground to a halt. A few standing orders are still erect, but not by much. I did manage to send a small one out to NESFA Press yesterday, however, catching up on titles they have published since my last order a couple years ago. There are other publishers I wish I were still getting more regularly -- and maybe I will -- but a lot of what I might have been stocking in the past is probably best to left to Amazon to sell.