Upcoming used book sale- have an elusive book you'd like me to keep an eye out for?

So for the next two weeks there will be a massive used book sale taking place in my office building. I usually wait for the last weekend when everything is half price and stock up (last year I got 38 books for $83).

In the spirit of LT and BM, I'm willing to keep a look out for anything folks here especially want. If you want to add a book to that list, please post the title and author (and preferred format if you have one) here and I'll create a nice spreadsheet.

Obviously, if the list gets huge and I'm successful at finding a bunch, then mailing might take some time. Because of the nature of the sale, there are a lot of random and esoteric books available, not just popular fiction (though there is a lot of that as well).

The last day of the sale is Oct 25th so please post by Oct 23rd to give me time to finalize the list...

Oooh! Thanks for offering to do this, it is very nice of you :-)

I'm very interested in hardcover copies of the following:

Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Backup by Jim Butcher
Melusine, The Virtu, The Mirador and Corambis by Sarah Monnette
The Horse is Good by Viggo Mortensen

There are a few paperbacks I'm very interested in as well:

Polymorph by Scott Westerfeld
Book-worm Droppings: An Anthology of Absurd Remarks Made by Customers in Second-hand Bookshops by Shaun Tyas
Here Be Dragons: Tales of Dragoncon by Robert Asprin and others

Thanks again!!

The main thing that I am looking for right now are books by the British Politician Tony Benn. Thanks to the generosity of another LT'er I have Free at last but I do not have anything else.

The other author that I am trying to collect is Tamora Pierce. Pretty much anything and everything at this point. I had ALL her books as a child, gave them away, and am now kicking myself. lol!

Thanks for doing this for us!

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Well, I'd like any kind of copies of Behind the Veil by Linda Chaikin and Deus Ex Machinaby Maria Aragon

Thanks for doing this! :)

Ohhh, I've got a bunch of series I'm trying to complete. Oddly I seem to have a knack for getting either the 2nd one, or the 1st and 3rd.
Looking for:

Billy Bones Have 2nd one
The Tree Shepherd's Daughter The Faire Folk Trilogy - Have 2nd one
Last Dance & Witch Ball & Sword Play The Seer Series - Have 1st and 5th
Gifted: Out of Sight, Out of Mind Gifted Series - Have 2nd
Baby BeBop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, Witch Baby and whatever else there is in the Weetzie Bat series - Have Weetzie Bat and Necklace of Kisses
and the one I'm looking for most of all:
City of Ashes Mortal Instruments Trilogy - Have the 1st and the 3nd

Pretty esteric, but I've been meaning to post my list, hoping someone here might have them. :)

Grrrr, touchstones!

That is so nice of you!

There are so many on my wishlist- but here are a few. Thanks so much for looking!

The Strain
The Lost Symbol
Love Your Dog Pictures: How to Photograph Your Pet with Any Camera (or really any photography type book)
You Can Cope with Peripheral Neuropathy: 365 Tips for Living a Full Life
The Unseen Academicals
LA Magdalena (Theo Nikonos Mystery)

>Mareofthesea I have managed to acquire all of Tamora Pierce's books in a fairly short time and since she's my favourite author *ever* those books aren't going anyway ;)

Foreigncircus - You're a gem for offering to do this :)
I've been trying to desperately to find a copy of The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons which matches my copies of the first two books (they have a almost solid colour cover with shadowy images of people at the bottom i think they're 2004 editions) Edit I have uploaded the cover of my copy of The Bronze Horseman and the cover of the second book is in the same style but blue
And I would be eternally grateful if a copy of Pagan's Scribe and Babylonne both by Catherine Jinks were found as it's near impossible to get them over here without paying exorbitant postage fees from the US.
Oh and if anything by Elizabeth Chadwick is there that'd be great I'm trying to build up a collection her books (although i do have Shadows and Strongholds & The Wild Hunt already)
So long as they're in decent condition (no major creases or tears) that's fine and I'll smooch you points back if you manage to find any of them :) I've got loads of points to spend and none of the books i want ever seem to turn up.

ETA: bolded bit :)

I'd love to have any books by David Goodis. Thanks for looking!

Thanks FC for offering.

Anything by Elizabeth Bear in her Promethian Age Series.
I had all the Foxhall Academy Books as a kid and got rid of them so now I'm trying to collect them again. The author was Alison Hart.
Also the books for The Always Friends Club series by Susan Meyers
And Jane Yolen's new book Dragon's Heart (Touchtone didn't work)
Besides that anything off my wish list would also be apreciated.
~ Missy

If you find of Vladimir Nabokov's book (minus Lolita, which is the only one I own), I would love if you could nab them for me!

Robin Hobb is another author I'm looking for and I don't own any of her books so if find any, I'd love it if you could grab them as well.

Thanks for doing this! It's really generous!

Hey FC - so nice of you to do this for everyone :)

Thanks foreigncircus, you're sweet! :)

I'd love:

• Heaven by Randy Alcorn
• Anything by John Buchan (let's say Greenmantle, Witchwood, and Huntingtower)
• A Rogue's Life, After Dark, I Say No, Mr Wray's Cash Box, The Dream Woman, and really almost anything by Wilkie Collins
• Anything by Georgette Heyer (let's say Sprig Muslin, False Colours, A Civil Contract, April Lady, Arabella, and The Corinthian, to name a few)
• Anything by P. G. Wodehouse

Thank you so much for doing this! Happy hunting :)

Thank you so much for searching for us!

In no particular order:

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison by T.J. Parsell
I Love You Phillip Morris by Steve McVicker
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister by Nonna Bannister
Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge

I am interested in:

A Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Little Book: A Novel by Selden Edwards
Things We Couldn't Say by Diet Eman
Two Guys Read the Obituaries by Terrence Hill
Anything by Maria von Trapp

Thanks for looking!

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that's so great of you! The chances are slim, but if you see "Fiction of the Forties" by W.Burnett (ed.) can you please get it for me? Thanks so very very much!

Into the Dark Lands (Sundered, Bk 1)
Children of the Blood (The Sundered, Bk 2)
Lady of Mercy (The Sundered, Bk 3)
Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light (The Sundered, Bk 4) :: Michelle Sagara West

what a great response- I'm sure I'll be able to find at least some of these based on my previous experiences at this sale. If not, well at least we tried! Keep them coming folks- I'm working on a spreadsheet and will have little elves helping me search the tables...

Little elves? I am so jealous of you!! :)

Have your little elves look for:

China Star, Shanghai Station, or White Rhino Hotel by Bartle Bull

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

The City and the City by China Mieville

or ANYTHING by David Foster Wallace

no preferred formats. I'd even accept unbridged CDs - if they're more expensive I'll mooch you extra points.

Oh yes, ditto that about the unabridged CDs. I love audiobooks! If you find a Heyer audiobook I will love you forever :D

Thanks so much for being willing to do this, ForeignCircus!

I wasn't going to post to this, because I can see you getting swamped -- but since you've got "elves", I'll give it a try.

I'm looking for several books by:

Gerald Durrell:
"The Aye-aye and I"
"Garden of the Gods"
"Gerald & Lee Durrell in Russia"
"Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons"
"The Stationary Ark"

And a couple of books by:
Euell Gibbons:
"Stalking the Wild Asparagus"
"Stalking the Healthful Herbs"

I know that this is a long shot, because these are not the type of books normally found at booksales, but I'd love it if you'd take a look.

Thanks again!
- Geophile

I am looking for a book"The Merry Month of May" by Mary White. I had this hardback book but loaned it out and never got it back. It contained two novels and I can't remember what the other one is. I have tried for years to find it and can't.
Thanks for offering your help.
rphalliburton

That's so nice of you.Could you keep an eye out for these

Saturnalia -John Maddox Roberts
The River God's Vengeance-John Maddox Roberts
Oracle of the Dead-John Maddox Roberts
The King's Daughters - Nathalie Mallet

I also didn't want to weigh you down until I knew about the elves. So kind of you to offer to do this. What I'm looking for is not specific books but some particular cover art. If this is too hard to look for that's okay, but just on the offchance that either you or your elves are familiar with what I'm after - Anne Bascove (known as just Bascove) is one of my favourite contemporary artists. To my knowledge she has illustrated covers for Robertson Davies books and the Cadfael books by Ellis Peters (and maybe some others - but apparenty only on the US editions) and is credited on the back covers. As long as the front cover is in good condition I'm not bothered about the rest of the books so that should keep postage down. Please don't waste too much time hunting for these - it's a bit of a cheeky request, to be honest, and I'd rather you concentrate on those who actually want 'real' books.

The blood of Others-Simone de Beauvoir Man of Jasmine-Unica Zurn A Night of Serious Drinking-Rene Daumal THANK YOU

Since elves are involved … I would really love a copy of Separation: Seasons in Space by Geraldine Clinton Little.

If you could find Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters I would be so grateful. It's the last book my mom needs to complete her collection.

Anything by Lois McMaster Bujold, P.C. Hodgell, Charlotte MacLeod, William Marshall, or Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Also any of the non-Chrestomanci Diana Wynne Jones books or Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff.

Ooh, thank you for looking! That sounds like a really fun book sale. :)

Things for which I would adore you forever:

The Pirates! in an Adventure With Napoleon by Gideon Defoe
Highlander: An Evening at Joe's edited by Gillian Horvath
Psych: a Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read and Psych: Mind Over Magic by William Rabkin
The Middleman: the Collected Series Indispensability by Javier Grillo-Marxuach (I have tried to buy this twice.)

If you find any Doctor Who (or Torchwood) books, many of them are wishlisted. Episode novelizations (they're smaller, thin, and usually published in the 70s and 80s) aren't usually in as high demand, but most anything published after about 1995 has someone looking for it. I'd ask for specific books, but it's too difficult!

argh, touchstones!

I'm going to add to my list of books by Vladimir Nabokov and Robin Hobb any books by Umberto Eco, minus The Name of the Rose because I own that one already.

I hope we're not bogging you down too much!

#26/29 And further to my last message, if you find just one copy of that Ellis Peters one that also has a Bascove cover, I bow out gracefully to jbergerot. People who want to read the books should always come before people who just want to collect the covers!

I'm looking for "Dragonswan" by Sherrilyn Kenyon, any edition would be great. Thank you so much!

I'm looking for (James Patterson) 's Maximum Ride Series, especially the first book (The Angel Experiment) I would really appreciate this as it is for my daughter (she has expressed interest in this book-- English is not her first language, so I really want to encourage her to read) Not many used book sales or libraries of English language books over here...

>>carolcat: I have The Maximum Ride Series if you can't find it anywhere else and might be willing to let it go- if you can find an angel. I think I have the whole series.

carolcat - I have some of them too, and will be listing them on BM in the next couple of days. Will let you know what I have when the time comes.

Michelle

Hi again. My mom decided she wanted to have me pick out Christmas presents in advance (way in advance) and I was able to order a few of the books on my list. I've struck them out so as not to totally confuse you (see post #2).

Thanks an absolute ton once again for offering to do this!!

Anyone who has the Maxium Ride series I'm also looking for quite a few titles I have the first but I'm looking for the others.
Thanks all!
~Missy

Thank you Michellereads and Macophile! It'll be fanatastic if between the two of you I can get the whole series.

Very generous of you, thank you. I am looking for an out of print book Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art by Bruno Latour for $100 or less if possible.

saschenka
relatively new LT member

Thank you for this generous opportunity!

Overcome by the beauty and quality of the cover artwork and the stories therein, I am looking for any books published by Golden Gryphon Press with the following exceptions:

"The Moon Maid"
"Secret Life"
"The Resurrection Man's Legacy"
"The Empire of Ice Cream"
"Louisiana Breakdown"

I'll immediately mooch any other titles you might find.

Thanks again!

bio = http://www.bookmooch.com/m/bio/psybre

This is so nice of you to do!

I'm looking for any of the Farscape non-fiction books, such as the episode guides for seasons 1-4, the illustrated companions for seasons 1-4, The Creatures of Farscape, Investigating Farscape, Farscape Forever, and Uncharted Territory.

I'm also desperately wishing for (in any format except audio):
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Survivor by Octavia E. Butler
Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse and Marianne, the Madame and the Momentary Gods by Sheri S. Tepper
A Lunatic Fear by Barbara Chepaitis

and my spouse is looking for any of the Arkham House hardcover H. P. Lovecraft books, so I've been trying to get them for him.

Thank you!

edited #17 to remove book below, because it is in the mail.

The Sun Sword (The Sun Sword, Book 6) :: Michelle West

First let me say thanks for offering to feed our addictions. :)

I am looking for Ellen Datlow Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. I need volumes 2,4,9,12,16 and 21 in the large quality paperback.

I also need Andrew Lang Fairy books. I only have pink and yellow. I don't care if they are paperback or hardcovers.

Here are a few others I am looking for in hardcover...

The Amorous Umbrella by Marvin Kaye
The Incredible Umbrella by Marvin Kaye
The Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer
The Artful Dodger - Nick Bantock
The Court of The Air - Stephen Hunt
Freedom & Necessity - Steve Brust and Emma Bull
The Year of Disappearances - Susan Hubbard

I will take any or all of these books if you are able to find them or anyone else has them available.

Thanks again!

Jenn

**touchstones hate me

Hi ForeignCircus ,

It would be great if you could find The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian.

Thanks a lot for offering! :)

neonazu - If ForeignCircus can't find any of the Breed series, I have Kiss of Midnight in my tbr pile and if you can wait a couple weeks for me to read it I would be happy to send it to you.

Jenson_AKA_DL:

Really? I will be happy if you would send it to me. :D My nick is neonazu .
I will be waiting :))))

Sure, no problem. When I'm done with my current read, I'll read that one next.

Thanks for offering, FC!

Here are some of my "most wanted" list. Any format is fine to me.

Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles (young adult)
Mistletoe by Hailey Abbott and others (ya)
Girl v. Boy by Yvonne Collins (ya)

Anything by Lynne Connolly
Anything by Sydney Croft
Angel's Blood, Blaze of Memory, Branded by Fire, An Enchanted Season by Nalini Singh
Bound by Flame, Bound by Light, Bound by Shadow by Anna Windsor
Cliff House Strangler, Murder on Nob Hill, The Russian Hill Murders by Shirley Tallman
Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare
Curveball, Squeeze Play, Sliding Home by Kate Angell
Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward

Thank you!

Well, I had held back, but at this point , what are a few more books? (hope you feel that way...)

Anything related to contemporary Asian photography, either photo books, magazines, or books about photogs would be most welcomed :)

If you can find any books on Japanese linguistics, I'd be grateful :) I'm especially interested in historical Japanese, but anything is fine!

And for the "normal" books on my wishlist...

Diane Duane - On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service
Diane Duane - The Book of Night with Moon
Diane Duane - To Visit the Queen
Liza Dalby - Kimono
Shaun Ellis - The Wolf Talk
Philip Jose Farmer - Tarzan Alive
Anything by Charles de Lint.
L. Sims - Roman Soldiers Handbook

Thank you!

Hi Foreigncircus, this is an immense task you've set yourself! Very lovely of you :)
If I'm not too late, I'd love it if you could look out for:
Glory in the Flower and The Sanctuary Tree both by Norma Johnston
Lirael by Garth Nix
The Shamer's Signet and The Shamer's War by Lene Kaaberbol
Guardian's Key by Anne Logston
The Book of Atrix Wolfe and The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia McKillip
Chalice by Robin McKinley
The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen D. Randle
and
Cart and Cwidder, The Spellcoats and The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
Thank you!

I married a bestseller -Sheila Hailey

If you can find any of these books, I'd really appreciate it.

Shadow Mountain by Renee Askins
Beware of God by Shalom Auslander
Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook
Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
Mysterious Skin by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez
Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry
Carnivorous Lamb by Agustin Gomez-Arcos
The Middleman: The Collected Series Indispensability by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Lords of the Sea by John R. Hale
Brethren: Raised by Wolves, Volume One by W. A. Hoffman
Shadow Magic by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
Fortunes of War by Mel Keegan
Casanova: Actor Lover Priest Spy by Ian Kelly
Le Morte D'Avalon by J. Robert King
The Bastards and the Knives by Scott Lynch
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe
The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
Psych: Mind Over Magic by William Rabkin
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton
Defiance by Nechama Tec
The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay by John R. Wennersten

This is my last update, I swear! ;) :D For less confusion, I am re-posting this with the addition about audiobooks. :) This is really nice of you, ForeignCircus. If you can't find these, that's fine, and I don't want to add to an ever-growing pile of books, but I would ask, if you can manage it, for the following to mooch from you.

Heaven, by Randy Alcorn,

Anything by PG Wodehouse,

Lilith, The Wise Woman and Other Stories, by George MacDonald

Temple of the Winds, Confessor, The Law of Nines, by Terry Goodkind

Obsessed, Showdown, Sinner, by Ted Dekker

Out of the Silent Planet, Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, The Four Loves, Reflections on the Psalms, Letters to Malcomlm: Chiefly on Prayer, by CS Lewis

Morgawr, The First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Also any audio books of works by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, TS Eliot, Ted Dekker, or of Jane Eyre, and other Regency Romances would be appreciated.

If you can find any of these, I will mooch them from you gladly. I know that this is a huge list, and any you could find would be great. I really hope all of these requests are not overburdening you, Ma'am. Thanks again for the offer, and God bless. :) *Hugs*

I'm looking for these older mysteries for a friend:

The Philo Vance Mysteries
The Kennel Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
The Garden Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
The Kidnap Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine
The Winter Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine

Some were published as 2 in 1 books.... if one story is in it, then I would like it!!

Thanks!!!

(edited because someone offered me two of them!!)

Sorry this message is late, but I haven't had a chance to check this forum in a while. I'm posting these just in case it is not too late, but I understand if you don't see this post before the sale.

Any mathematics puzzle books by Martin Gardner. An example would be Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles.

The Art Of Computer Programming, any volume, any edition, by Donald Knuth. These are large hard covers, so I will gladly smooch you two extra points for each one you find.

Numerical Recipes in C , Numerical Recipes in C++ , Numerical Recipes in Fortran , Numerical Recipes in Pascal These are also large hardcovers. I will gladly smooch you a two extra points if you should find one of these.

Thanks in advance for offering to search for us!

Sorry I'm late in getting this to you. I've love it if you found a copy of Exposure by Brandilynn Collins. Thanks

50> neonazu, I've finished Kiss of Midnight and did PM you about the book condition (some very significant creasing I didn't remember before). I'm off to post on BM for you if you're still interested. If not, just let me know.

well, we hit the book sale today and I have to say it was not as exciting as in years past- I'd say only about 1/3 the size as last year for example. I've PMed the folks whose books I was able to find, and I apologize to the rest of you that I had no success. Best of luck in your book searches...

You must be exhausted. Hope you found some treats for yourself there?

yeah I got a bunch and so did mom and sis (aka the elves)...

Great. I was just checking out your blog - very nice. I'll PM you....

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Thank you for looking! That was quite a list that you ended up with.

The very thought that someone would go to all this trouble is enough for me! Thank you for trying.

I'll second that!

Thanks so much, ForeignCircus -- I really appreciate you taking the time to do all that compiling and then searching!

The books are secondary -- thanks for your thoughtfulness!

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Thanks for the effort, ForeignCircus! And thanks to your mom and sister too.

Thanks so much for trying! I hope you all had fun.

I'll just add my voice to the chorus of thank yous! It was fantastic of you to do this for us!

Thanks again!

Yes- Thank you so much for trying- I really appreciate it!
Enjoy all the books you got!

adding to the chorus:

Thanks!!

>59 MereChristian: MereChristian, if you didn't mind audiobooks on cassette, I have The Lord of the Rings unabridged, read by Rob Inglis that I could send to you.

awww shucks...you all are so sweet!

No need for thanks- I LOVE browsing at book sales and was happy to look out for books for other folks- kept me from buying them all for myself!

Let me add my thanks to the others. It is greatly appreciated that you offered to help us find the books we are looking for!

Yes, thank you so much FC! (And FC's mom and sister!) :)

Thank you for your time, though! It's really appreciated:)

Is anyone else wondering if Foreign Circus' sister is named Domestic Circus? Is her mom Global Circus?

Nooo...just me, I guess, nevermind.

;)

lol

#81: *snorting with laughter*

Sister's name actually does start with a D- she's a Deirdre...

# 81: I love it!

#83 Oh, how funny!! My daughter is a Deirdre, too! She's here: http://www.librarything.com/profile/Deirdreofmaine
She reads, I just can't get her to post her books to her library.

she's adorable!