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Elmdale Bookfest
Feb. 23rd, 2018 08:10 pmToday we went to the second-hand book sale at Elmdale public school. While not as big as the one held in June by the Friends of the Experimental Farm, it was still pretty much everything I think a book sale like that should be - a variety of books on a variety of subjects, both recent and decades-old, from authors and publishers both mainstream and obscure. We emerged with a small carton of 15 books plus a couple of movies (Apollo 13 and Gravity/Gravite (bilingual 2-disc special edition).
Here, in more or less random order, is what we bought:
ARRL Antenna Book 18th edition (for the ham in the family)
Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden (hardcover, near mint-condition)
Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott, by Mark Abley (also hardcover and near mint condition)
Rosshalde, by Hermann Hesse
Born Naked, by Farley Mowat (paperback, like new, c.1993) - memoir
Perry Mason solves the Case of the Careless Kitten (paperback, c.1950)
G. by John Berger, c. 1972
The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile, by Bartholomew Gill
The Couple Next Door, by Shari Lapena (trade paperback, c. 2016)
Black Rock: An Eddie Dougherty Mystery, by John McFetridge, c.2014 (police procedural set in Montreal during the 1970 FLQ crisis)
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages; by Ammon Shea (c2008, hardcover, another near-mint condition; it's about a man who set out to read the entire Oxford English Dictionary - and succeeded, and lived to tell the tale!)
Spilsbury's Coast: Pioneer years in the wet west, by Howard white and Jim Spilsbury (trade paperback, 1987)
The Only Snow in Havana, by Elizabeth Hay (paperback, 1992; "a personal reflection about Canadian identity, a poetic history about snow and fur, and a travel book about origins")
Supermarket Vegan: 225 meat-free, egg-free, dairy-free recipes for real people in the real world, by Donna Klein
The Great Vegetarian Cookbook, by Kathleen DeVanna Fish
The above should keep me happily engrossed for a while - plus I still have five of the seven library books I borrowed just over a week ago!
Here, in more or less random order, is what we bought:
ARRL Antenna Book 18th edition (for the ham in the family)
Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden (hardcover, near mint-condition)
Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott, by Mark Abley (also hardcover and near mint condition)
Rosshalde, by Hermann Hesse
Born Naked, by Farley Mowat (paperback, like new, c.1993) - memoir
Perry Mason solves the Case of the Careless Kitten (paperback, c.1950)
G. by John Berger, c. 1972
The Death of an Ardent Bibliophile, by Bartholomew Gill
The Couple Next Door, by Shari Lapena (trade paperback, c. 2016)
Black Rock: An Eddie Dougherty Mystery, by John McFetridge, c.2014 (police procedural set in Montreal during the 1970 FLQ crisis)
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages; by Ammon Shea (c2008, hardcover, another near-mint condition; it's about a man who set out to read the entire Oxford English Dictionary - and succeeded, and lived to tell the tale!)
Spilsbury's Coast: Pioneer years in the wet west, by Howard white and Jim Spilsbury (trade paperback, 1987)
The Only Snow in Havana, by Elizabeth Hay (paperback, 1992; "a personal reflection about Canadian identity, a poetic history about snow and fur, and a travel book about origins")
Supermarket Vegan: 225 meat-free, egg-free, dairy-free recipes for real people in the real world, by Donna Klein
The Great Vegetarian Cookbook, by Kathleen DeVanna Fish
The above should keep me happily engrossed for a while - plus I still have five of the seven library books I borrowed just over a week ago!
