Friday, June 5, 2009

Acquisitions, May 30-June 5

Fairly quiet week at the book stalls.

  • Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (Oxford pb) (Half Price Books)
  • Hermann Broch, The Guiltless (North Point pb) (HPB)
  • H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon (Everyman pb) (HPB)
  • Thomas Hardy, Wessex Tales (Oxford pb) (Book Store)
  • Homer, The Odyssey, tr. Robert Fitzgerald (Farrar, Straus and Giroux pb) (HPB)
  • Gavan Daws, Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands (University of Hawaii pb) -- On the clearance shelf at Half Price Books for $2.00. I'm delighted to have my own copy of this book; I've been meaning to read it forever. Islomania!