Saturday Collecting Update

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I wasn't expecting much collecting to happen this weekend. It has been raining here in Leicestershire for the past two days so the fields where the car boot is looked a little sodden as I drove passed earlier. But somehow the worlds conspired against me (or for me).

We went into Ashby de la Zouch this morning and parked in the library car park, which we rarely do. As we got out of the car I noticed signs in the windows of the library announcing a Book Sale today. I think my wife despaired when I pointed them out.

So we popped in and there were many boxes of books on the tables inside at 25p per book. And there were a few I decided needed a new home. All are paperback and to keep unless noted

Matt Forbeck - Blood Bowl: Dead Ball
Kelley Armstrong - Men of the Otherworld
Kelley Armstrong - Tales of the Otherworld
Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire (Dupe)
Robert J. Sawyer - Flashforward (Dupe)
Shaun Hutson - Dying Words
Brian Lumley - Blood Brothers
Scott Westerfield - Midnighters: Touching Darkness
Nicky Singer - Gem X
Keri Arthur - Bound to Shadows
Keri Arthur - Generation 18
John Saul - The Unwanted
Stephen King - The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah
Christine Feehan - Dark Gold
Suzanne McLeod - Spellcrackers.Com: The Bitter Seed
ed. Charlaine Harris - Crimes by Moonlight
ed. Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner - Death's Excellent Vacation
Charlaine Harris - Deadlocked
Joanna Russ - The Female Man SF Masterworks Edition
Glenn Duncan - The Last Werewolf
Terry Brooks - Genesis of Shannara: The Elves of Cintra (Dupe)
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson - Hellhole Awakening Trade Format
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm HC
Christine Feehan - Dark Lycan HC
Kate Elliot - Traitors' Gate Trade Format

Onto Coalville and there was a bring and buy book sale in the Church Hall on Ashby Road. So I had to pop in.

Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (Dupe)
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast (Dupe)
Mervyn Peake - Titus Alone (Dupe)
Clifford D. Simak - Cemetery World Prism Edition
Robley Evans - Writers for the 70s: J. R.R. Tolkien
Isaac Asimov - Foundation Panther Edition - Chris Foss cover
Isaac Asimov - Puzzles of the Black Widowers (Dupe)
Terry Pratchett - I Shall Wear Midnight (Dupe)
Bob Shaw - Ship of Strangers Pan Edition
Chris Beckett - Dark Eden
Ian McDonald - Cyberabad Days
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend SF Masterworks Edition (Dupe)
Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail (Dupe)
Paul Hoffman - The Left Hand of God
Charles Darwin - Voyage of the Beagle
Michael Smith - Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park HC

Not too bad for two surprise lots.

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