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Man, is having to re-train my 6+ years' worth muscle memory of the sequence of keypresses and mouse clicks I perform as I work through cataloging a cart of books ever A Thing. grrrrargh.


...really, MIT Press? That's what you went with for the cover art here?

My library has discarded its set of The Golden Bough by James Frazer. Unfortunately this is not a complete set and is missing the first two volumes (which I guess must have been an introductory volume and then Part I, since "volume 3" is labeled Part II). Don't believe the year in the call number; this edition is New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963 (some volumes say 1966).


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I didn't take a picture of the inside of any of these, but the paper seems in decent condition, somewhat yellowed but not like the one below. Free of internal markings as far as I can see.

There is also this extremely condensed illustrated volume which seems to contain just a few selected chapters from the first two to four or so parts (Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, The Dying God) and some from the later Balder volumes (part VII). New York: Avenel Books, 1981; 407 pp; ISBN 0517336332. Considerably age-yellowed, as you can see in the second picture. The jacket art also seems fairly faded on the spine.

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All have library processing: besides the labels you can easily see in the photos, there are call numbers written in pencil on endpapers or title page; plastic jacket covers that have been taped on (although I don't guarantee the tape is still holding on every corner); stamps on edges of pages; glued-in checkout card pockets or the remains thereof; and barcode stickers.

Free to anyone who wants them - pay shipping.

‘1984’ sales soar after Trump claims, ‘alternative facts’:

First published in 1949, Orwell’s classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak” topped the best-seller list of Amazon.com as of Tuesday evening.

Well I flippin' well hope so!

I wonder if people are buying it for themselves, or if e.g. people are buying quantities to distribute, or something like that.

eta: Apparently the publisher has ordered a new print run to meet demand. crikey.

We've discarded a copy of Graves' The White Goddess from my library. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966 Amended and enlarged edition, paperback, 1981 printing, this cover art. Good condition with usual sorts of library stamping, labels, etc.; no marks within the text that I saw. Would anyone be interested in having it? I would ask a few dollars to cover shipping.

eta: transaction pending.

I am not knowledgeable on YA fiction and the like, so, signal boost: jarandhel is looking for suggestions of "fantasy/sci-fi books or movies that are really big with kids, teens, or the college aged right about now [...] Things that inspire a sense of wonder."

Book in hand to be cataloged: The Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings, 2012 reissue of 1969 with new foreword. The back blurbs say:

"What do you mean 'parodies are exempt' from copyright law?" --J.R.R. Tolkien
"Narcs? Boggies? This sounds totally fake." --Harry Potter
"Books haven't changed much, I see." --A man coming out of a forty-three year coma
"Guys, we filmed the wrong book." --Peter Jackson

My icon is probably in somewhat poor taste since my mother fell and broke her right humerus two days ago. :-/

Erynn Laurie's (erynn999) A Circle of Stones is now back in print from Immanion Press in a somewhat revised second edition: http://searchingforimbas.blogspot.com/2012/05/return-of-circle-of-stones.html ; http://www.immanion-press.com/info/book.asp?id=430

From the jacket flap of Queer (In)justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States which I am just cataloging:

"...examination of queer experiences as 'suspects', defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes--like 'gleeful gay killers,' 'lethal lesbians,' 'disease spreaders,' and 'deceptive gender benders'--to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed."

I get "disease spreaders" and "deceptive gender benders" (sad as it is that people think this way). But I can't say I've heard of "gleeful gay killers" or "lethal lesbians" (?! sounds like some kind of B-movie).

explosiontastic says:
"Updraging to Windows 95" gee, i wonder why Pauline [one of the librarians] wants to weed this?
err Upgrading
lol
"Updraging" probably is what you did to 95, or Vista
Enotsola says:
ME.
explosiontastic says:
that too

Geez, does Alfred A. Knopf publish anything that isn't "A Borzoi book"? I swear it's on everything I catalog. (NB: may not be literally true, it just sure feels like everything from Knopf that crosses my desk bears this imprint) At that point, why specify? It's not like you're differentiating from other non-Borzoi you publish. Wha?