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Promethea by Alan Moore
This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young
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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe: 2 by Terry Pratchett
Guide to Getting It On!: Includes Dating, Kissing, Love, Sex, Romance, Marriage, Oral Sex, Fellatio, Cunnilingus, Intercourse, Orgasms, Masturb by Paul Joannides
An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff
Making History by Stephen Fry
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Because when you search for books to catalogue, it doesn't just turn up names, it turns up editions. Which is mostly a good thing - at least I don't have to suffer the indignity of seeing the ugly, ugly garish new cover (what was wrong with Feiffer's cartoons?) of The Phantom Tollbooth in my catalogue and can approximate my own copy. But, being the compulsive type I am, it leads to misery when I can't find a proper match on Amazon. There are a hundred editions of Lord of the Rings, and the only one I can't find is my own, three hard-covers passed down from my mother; similarly, how can I catalogue Peake without associating him with my battered, beautiful thirty-year-old paperbacks complete with his own pencil drawings on the covers (Gormenghast itself with a perfect, character-defining sketch of Steerpike I've never found elsewhere)? Nothing else feels right, I'm afraid.
posted by gavagai at 6:32 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2006