Current Trade Fodder

My current books for trade.

Folio Society (BRAND NEW):
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Allingham the Diaries
Les Liaisons dangereuses
The Mill on the Floss
The Plums of P.G. Wodehouse
Voyce of the World
The Wind in the Willows

Folio Sociey (used, but PERFECT condition):
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Cautionary Tales and Other Verses

Easton Press (NEW):
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Essays of Ralph Waldo Emmerson
A Farewell to Arms
Federalist Papers
Huckleberry Finn
Last of the Mohicans
Les Miserables (not shrink wrapped, but new and unread)
Peter Pan and Wendy
Pilgrim's Progress
Pygmalion/Candida
Sea Wolfe
Three Musketeers
Treasure Island
War and Peace
The Water Babies

*Poetry Series*: Blake, Bronte, Browning (Robert), Browning (Elizabeth), Burns, Donne, Eliot, Hopkins, Hughes, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Yeats-

Easton Press (used, but PERFECT condition):
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Aesop's Fables
At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft)
Of Mice and Me
The Marvelous Land of Oz (Baum, slight wear)
Poems of Byron, Poems of Frost, Poems of Longfellow
Sonnets of Shakespeare Vol I and II (from Shakespeare library, OOP)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Poe)
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Ambrose Bierce)

What am I looking for? Well, let me know what you have for trade :)
I'm interested in FS, Easton Press, and Centipede Press books. I'm located in the US...

cheers,

-astropi

I don't have very many Folios. I don't suppose you'd like a Grimms Fairy Tales or Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales?

2: perhaps... are they Folio Society books?

Which FS Les Liaisons dangereuses? 1962 Aldington/Hawthorn -- or 2007 P.W.K. Stone?

3 - Yes, both are FS books. From memory I would describe them as new, but let me go take another look at them to make sure.

4: 2007 edition... I mean, after all, it would be hard to keep a FS book unopened for over 40 years :)

cheers,

-astropi

The first two years are the hardest. Actually, the first 2 days are the hardest. Once you've resisted opening it for two days, 40 years is a snap.

>7 jburlinson:

There is truth in what you say: many of my LEC books look as though they have never been read, and I bought an LEC edition of The Odyssey a few years ago in an estate auction that was still in the original UNOPENED mailing box--published date, 1981.

astropi, the fairy tale books are in as new condition. I'd be interested in trading for Peter Pan and Wendy, and the Wodehouse.

Anybody want the Book of Exploration, by Ray Howgego? It's not actually published by the Folio Society, but it came with my Notebooks of Da Vinci set when I renewed...

Anyone intereseted in a never read like new "Legends of King Arthur"? This is the 3 volume set : Arthur, Tristan, and The Holy Grail.

If you are interested let me know what you have to trade.

I have two Easton Press books I'd like to trade: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in very good condition, and Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame in near mint condition. I'm in the US, let me know if you're interested.

Updated! Added some more books, removed those that have been traded :)
If anyone is interested in any trade, drop me a line!

I am looking to acquire Jekyll and Hyde by RLS, the 2006 edition.

Anyone that has read this and Probably wont read again, I would be willing to trade or buy.

Thanks

> 1: Does each poet you listed in Easton Poetry Series have an individual volume? Or is that one volume with poems from each?

> 14: May I ask... RLS?

Robert Lewis Stevenson

>15 JamesIII:
The Easton Press Poetry series are individual volumes for each poet: http://www.eastonpressbooks.com/leather/product.asp?code=0319 . So I guess that's what he means.

RLS is Robert Louis Stevenson.

> 16, 17: Ha! Is there an "embarrassed" emoticon on here? When I typed the question I was thinking RLS was an acronym for a publisher of which I was unaware. :)

15: yes, each poet gets his/her own book.
I have multiple copies from most of these poets, so that's why I'm trading these :)
If you have any interest in trading, just let me know.

Sir Folio, what type of Folios might you be looking for as a trade?

>17 AnnieMod: Yes thank you for correcting me (I was tired)

>21 ironjaw:

Naah - when I started posting your post was not there (need to refresh a bit more often when working while posting)

Barton - To be honest Im not sure... I like to dabble in everything. If you are interested in trading just shoot me a list of what you are looking to trade and I will reply with the same.

Recently updated (see Message 1)... in case anyone wants to trade :)

Updated...
some books traded, some books added, including a brand new copy of The Wind in the Willows :)

I've come up with a spare copy of Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin if anyone is interested in a trade. It has someone's bookplate on the inside front cover. Leave me a private message if so, I'm running off for Easter so probably won't have computer access until Sunday night.

Added quite a few books! Mostly Easton Press books, such as new copies of "Peter Pan and Wendy" and "The Water Babies"! See post #1 for the updated list.

Not a trade, but if anyone is interested in an illustrated Wind in the Willows but missed out on th eFS Limited Edition--

http://cgi.ebay.com/Arthur-Rackham-Wind-Willows-Limited-Editions-Club-/360258264...

These were the very last illustrations Rackham completed before his death--had he lived long enough to sign the edition, it would probably be worth three times the price.

28: Funny you should mention this book!
I have an EP the Wind in the Willows for trade, that includes ALL the Arthur Rackham illustrations! It's basically a reprint of the Limited Editions Club, except that it has a full-leather cover, and obviously is not as rare as the LEC. However, I'm not asking $800 for my copy either :)

>30 Rochefoucauld:

Such snobbery annoys me, too. How are N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle less the artists than the pre-Raphaelites D.G.Rosetti, Holman Hunt, or John Millais? Or their contemporaries Edward Burne-Jones, J.W. Waterhouse, or Alma-Tadema, who often painted works depicting scenes from literarature? (Although I have heard Alma-Tadema's work dismissed as "bathroom art" by a supercilious gallery guide, it still merited the label "art"--and was hanging in the Getty in some rather tony company.) These are the same talentless Sporuses who would call Sean Scully's "paintings" illustrating the second LEC Heart of Darkness "Art"--when to me they look like nothing so much as linoleum tiles from the 30s. Oh well, de gustibus non disputandum est....

>28 Django6924: Django, I saw this when checking the overnight LEC additions on eBay - oh for the exchange rate to be what it was about eighteen months ago! The quality of these early LEC volumes is extraordinary - the bite of the letterpress on the title page is clear despite lousy pc monitor resolution, and the reproduction of Rackham's wonderful illustrations looks exquisite.

>33 HuxleyTheCat:

Huxley, would my income be what it was ten years ago!

> 34, Being employed in the public sector in the UK, I am anticipating austerity measures of Irish and Greek proportions to kick in soon, after which book purchases of any variety may become a luxury rather than the norm.

For those with pots of spare cash and a penchant for the works of Arthur Rackham, here's another currently on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Arthur-RACKHAM-MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS-DREAM-1939-Ltd-Ed-/2004646...

Is anyone interested in "A Month in the Counrty"? I ordered it but was never one of my favourites.
(Corrected for typos.)

Barton, I am interested in A Month in the Country. About half of my FS books are in my library, so if you don't a title you are interested in let me know so I can check the rest of my FS books.

I have the following FS books for trade (all in Near Fine condition, as far as I can say):

P.G. Wodehouse Short Stories (1983)
Charlotte's Web
Heart of Darkness (new, unread)
St Joan of Arc (likewise)
The Gunpowder Plot (likewise)
In Trouble Again
The English Language

As well as an LEC Chronicles of the Cid (book is Near Fine, slipcase has one of the internal sides split along the edge, outer box is completely intact)

Let me know if someone is interested in anything.

Boris, I am interested in The English Language

Lucas, with pleasure. I'd be interested in Slaughterhouse-five if it's for trade. (If not, could you let me know which of your books are?)

Lucas.
Do you have anything of Napoleon or anything of a history bent.

Boris, sorry, but Slaughterhouse-five isn’t for trade. And Barton, sorry, no Napoleon, but I do have some history titles I am willing to trade. Here is a preliminary list in no particular order:

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Medieval People by Eileen Power
Medieval Women by Eileen Power
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Elizabeth I by J.E. Neale
Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
The Monks of War by Desmond Seward
The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen
The Folio Book of Days selected by Roger Hudson
Cities and Civilisations by Christopher Hibbert
Wonders of the World by Godhill, Barber, Rabb & Glancey
The Spy’s Bedside Book by Graham & Greene
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Woodbrook by David Thomson
The Wit of Oscar Wilde
A Treasury of Mark Twain

I also have the EP Famous Editions of Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
and the EP 100 Greatest Books Beowulf translated by William Ellery Leonard and Illustrated by Lynd Ward.

How about an exchange of the Month for the Treasury? This is not knowing the value of each. All the other titles I have already. This is not surprising since history is my main interest.

Lucas, no problem at all. From the list above I'm only interested in The Name of the Rose which would be an unfair trade for you. Do you perhaps have any other books for trade? My main interest is Sci-Fi / Fantasy (which doesn't help, as FS doesn't do them), followed by fairy tales of various sorts, myths and legends, poetry, children's literature and lastly fiction (where again I have a preference for anything to do with the fantastical, though not only).

Boris,
I enjoy science fiction, mainly the hard type. But must of those are paperback and not in really good condition since I do read them. I keeps me from getting to constipated with the "serious" reading I do. What kind of sci-Fi/ Fantasy do you enjoy?

Barton,
Ah, thanks for the question :)

I'm more into Fantasy than Sci-Fi, though I've read all of mainstream Asimov, much of Saimak (who is unjustly disregarded today), Harry Harrison and some Arthur C. Clarke, and am now hungrily catching up with Bradbury. From the newer generation I like Iain M. Banks quite a lot, and some Dan Simmons's books.

I'm more omnivorous with Fantasy, though I find it harder nowadays to read standard High Fantasy (which I did like a lot as a child; Dragonlance, The Dark Elf and such) except for Tolkien. My absolute favourite is Gaiman (I'm a die-hard fan), and I've recently stumbled upon Jim Butcher with his Dresden Files, which I grew to like a lot too (though it's a different league, of course). From the more traditional Fantasy series I liked G. R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

And Tolkien of course, all of his books, and Zelazny's Amber Chronicles and, erm, well, Harry Potter.

If you're interested in fine editions of Sci-Fi/Fantasy, you might want to have a look here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/41317

Boris,
I fear I'll take us well off topic, but I'm just pleased to find another FS scifi & fantasy fan.
Have you read any Vernor Vinge? Also, I didn't see Michael Moorcock in your fantasy list.
I second your Gaiman adoration btw.

LucasTrask,

I sent you a message. Let me know if anything sounds good.

Barton and Boris, I left each of you a PM.

Boris, I also like SF, fantasy (in that order), fairy tales, myths and legends, and children's literature, as well as general fiction. I have several of the SF and fantasy titles published by FS and wish they would publish more. Every year I mention several SF titles when I fill out the survey.

I have recently ordered several titles from Subterranean Press, including teh upcoming The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition.

SirFolio, I replied to your PM.

Boris,
I find a lot of present hard science fiction to be of a military bent . Given my background some is good but too much is just baaaad. I like Gregory Benford as a hard science fiction writer
BTW Boris I was just giving you the idea that I read my science fiction to the point that the covers fall off. I am sorry if you thought that I was butting in.

I dont have anything to trade at the moment but I am about to put a few books on E-bay and I figured I would give you guys first dibs.

I am looking to sell:

Cenitpede press:
Bram Stokers Dracula (signed by Greg Hildebrandt)

Tor Books:
I also have several hardcover editions of Terry Goodkinds Sword of truth series signed by Terry.

If you are interested just shoot me a message.

Any pictures of the centipede press and how much are you looking for?