#secondhandbook — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #secondhandbook, aggregated by home.social.
-
We did a bit of second-hand bookshopping yesterday afternoon in Canberra. This is my first time back in Canberra since the pandemic. You can never be sure what businesses survived the pandemic. It was good to see Canty's seems to be thriving.
I don't have a list of books I want any more since my successful trip to the Clunes Bootown festival earlier this year. I still have a sizeable pile of books to read, but I managed to get a nice pile of books from Canty's yesterday.
#Canberra #secondhandbook -
-
"How sure of himself & his innovations in choreography was #Nijinsky? Did the cool reception of 'Jeux' [ballet written by #Debussy] give him doubts? Confident or doubting, any artist who has battled all night with his angel & won through to his own satisfaction must be relatively unconcerned about the way his work is received: to captivate the public scores only five points out of a hundred."
#AmReading NIJINSKY by Richard Buckle
-
"He had always felt sorry for people whose libraries found their painful way to the auction table or the secondhand bookstore...bearing intimate messages of affection on the flyleaf, or demonstrating, by the way they opened readily at certain marked passages, how often they had been read. Whenever he came upon such books, offered for sale & exposed to public gaze, Allan felt sympathetically aware of the wrench with which their owners must have parted from them."
-
Belated (expensive) birthday present to myself just arrived. Seriously happy!
-
I'd never heard of a "proem" (a preface, preamble or preliminary comment) until today, when I came across one in PROUD DESTINY (1947) by German-Jewish novelist #LionFeuchtwanger, tr. by Moray Firth. It sold me on the novel. Another find from the wonderful City Basement Books in Melbourne.
-
Benjamin Disraeli said that he preferred TANCRED; or, THE NEW CRUSADE (1847), the third novel of the Young England trilogy, to all his other novels.
It focuses on Tancred, son of Lord & Lady Montacute, who "bewilders" his parents (a principle I live by) by abandoning London society & going to the Holy Land in search of a fulfilling faith and philosophy, and a solution to the antagonism between Christianity & Judaism.
#AmReading TANCRED by #BenjaminDisraeli
#Books #Literature #SecondhandBook -
Anyone else ever buy a book based on the title/cover alone?
This one will probably end up in my DNR pile. I bought it because the title struck a chord. And because I love the cover art.
Lots of other great titles & covers of L[eslie] P[urnell] Davies's books, but horror/SciFi/mysteries are not really my thing.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/435479.Leslie_Purnell_Davies
-
What about Patricia Nell Warren? Anyone still reading her? This is another recent find at City Basement Books in Melbourne.
Luckily no one tried to ban Patricia's books from our school library, where as a student in the 80s I discovered her most famous work THE FRONT RUNNER, a love story between an athlete & his coach & "the first positive portrayal of gay life to reach #1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1974".
So thought I'd give this one a go.
-
Do people still read Pearl S. Buck? (Her wonderful full name is Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck.) She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 & the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. I enjoyed this recent find at City Basement Books in Melbourne. What a treasure trove that place is.
-
[7 years ago today]
I might have bought this book purely for the LO #ligature on the front. The G, C and A are also unusual. #typography #TypographyInTheWild #book #BookCover #SecondhandBook #LookingBackward #EdwardBellamy
(First posted 30 Aug. 2016 by me [@][email protected])
-
Stroll down memory lane. Fave secondhand bookstore and cafe back where i used to live. Was in a huge basement. Long gone now - moved due to redevelopment and didn't survive the relocation long. Very sad.
-
Disappointed with this charming-looking book edition. The tiny size caught me off guard - not a fan of reading from pocket-size books. Not worth returning, so continuing the search for a better version.
#books #SecondhandBook #PrelovedBook