moving sale (books, CDs, DVDs)
At the end of this month, I have to move across the country (over 1000 miles); I'm in financial difficulties and a friend has generously offered to let me stay with them while I keep looking for a job.
Because I can't afford to hire movers, or even U-Haul, I can only take with me what I can pack into a Honda Civic or reasonably afford to mail. That means getting rid of many, many books and things. Selling them will also help me afford the trip.
So: this is my final, giant, blowout, everything-must-go sale on books, CDs, and DVDs. Many bargains within! Everything I have for sale is listed, including many items not previously offered; this post supersedes all previous book/music sale posts.
Signal-boosting is very welcome, by the way. Please feel free to post about this sale or mention it to anyone who might be interested.
Item condition: All books are paperbacks unless otherwise noted. All books are in reasonable used condition (may be worn but are not water damaged, smelly, torn, etc.) and are not written in unless otherwise noted. CDs and DVDs may show signs of wear to jewel cases, boxes, and artwork/inserts, but discs play fine. If you have any questions about condition or even "what's this book about?", feel free to ask.
Pricing: My prices are competitive with online retailers and my shipping is cheaper. However, if there's something you really want but you can't afford what I'm asking, make me an offer and we can discuss it. All prices are in US dollars.
Shipping: Shipping within the United States is $3 for the first book or DVD set, $0.50 for each additional book/DVD to the same address. For CDs it's $2.50 for the first, $0.20 for each additional CD to the same address. If you're buying a lot I may be able to reduce the price still further; it depends on weight and bulk. Outside the U.S., shipping is the exact cost of postage plus $1 for the envelope (a little more if I have to buy a box). Non-US buyers should be aware that there is no surface/cheap shipping from the US to other countries--be prepared to pay at least $10 and sometimes substantially more for heavy items.
Payment: Payment by PayPal unless I've known you for a while, in which case I'll take a check if necessary.
How to Buy: Comment on this post with your name and mailing address (comments are screened) and I'll get back to you with my PayPal address. (Regarding names: I have to ask for a name--just an initial and surname is fine--because I worry that a package without a name may be misdelivered or, worse, flagged as a suspected letter-bomb and destroyed. I will not reveal your name, I don't keep records of names or mailing addresses after the package is sent, and I promise that every name is gone from my memory an hour after the package is mailed. I'm no good at remembering names even if I wanted to.)
Poetry
Adonis. Transformations of the Lover. Trans. Samuel Hazo. Ohio UP. ISBN 821407554. $10.
Lucan. The Civil War. Trans. Nicholas Rowe. Everyman. ISBN 046087571X. $3
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala. Pharaoh's Daughter. Gallery Press. (Irish text and English translation on facing pages.) ISBN 1852350563. $4
O'Connell, Eileen Dubh. Lament For Art O'Leary. Trans. Malachi McCormick. Stone Street Press. ISBN 0943984645. [This is a limited edition handmade book, number 126 of 1001 copies, signed by McCormick. Handmade wraps and endpapers, Japanese 4-hole binding. Irish text and English translation on facing pages. Due to a binder's error, four extra pages are inserted out of order between the introduction and the text, but both introduction and text are complete and in order. Condition is good but not pristine--there are bumped corners and slight scuffs on the wraps.] $20 or best reasonable offer.
Poets From the North of Ireland. Ed. Frank Ormsby. Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0856401358. $3
Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam. Norton Critical Edition (2nd ed.). ISBN 0393979261. (Near-new condition.) $5
Fiction
For the convenience of m/m slash fans, I've marked m/m slashy books with an asterisk [*]. Books with actual LGBT characters portrayed in a way I consider reasonably non-homophobic have a hash mark [#].
General Fiction
Austen, Jane. Emma. Ed Alistair M. Duckworth. Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism edition. ISBN 0312207573. $3
Bainbridge, Beryl. Master Georgie. ISBN 078670697X. $2
Balzac, Honoré de. Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes. (In French.) Folio. ISBN 2070364054. $4
*Barker, Pat. Border Crossing. ISBN 0312420196. $2
Barker, Pat. Double Vision. ISBN 0312424108. $2
Barker, Pat. Life Class. British edition. ISBN 9780141019475. (Near-new condition.) $2
Barker, Pat. The Man Who Wasn't There. ISBN 0345369548. $2
Barnes, Julian. The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. ISBN 0679731377. $1.50
Barnes, Julian. Love, etc.. Hardcover. ISBN 0375411615. $3
*Barnes, Julian. Talking It Over. ISBN 0679736875 . $1.50
Barrett, Andrea. Ship Fever. ISBN 0393316009. $2.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Ed. Linda H. Peterson. Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism edition. ISBN 0312035470. $2
#Burgess, Anthony. A Dead Man in Deptford. ISBN 0786711523. $2
Chabon, Michael. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection. ISBN 9780060777104. (This is lightly disguised Sherlock Holmes fanfic. You know you want it!) $3
*Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road. ISBN 9780345502070. $2
Fforde, Jasper. Lost in a Good Book. ISBN 0340733578. $2
Fforde, Jasper. Something Rotten. ISBN 014303541X. $2
Fforde, Jasper. The Well of Lost Plots. ISBN 0143034359. $2
Gale, Patrick. Notes From an Exhibition. ISBN 9780007254668. $1.50
Granta 16: Science. $2
Granta 46: Crime. $2
Granta 52: Food. $2
Granta 100. $2
#Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. Hardcover. ISBN 0670833428. [Spine is broken but pages are not loose. Inscription on endpaper.] $2
#Kureishi, Hanif. My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571139817. $1.50
#Kureishi, Hanif. My Beautiful Laundrette and Other Writings. (Also includes The Rainbow Sign; Eight Arms to Hold You; Bradford; Wild Women, Wild Men; and Finishing the Job.) Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571177387. (Underlining and notes in ink in My Beautiful Laundrette.) $1
#McCann, Maria. As Meat Loves Salt. ISBN 015601226X. $3
Murdoch, Iris. The Green Knight. ISBN 0140243372. $1.50
Rushdie, Salman. Shame. ISBN 0679722041. $2
*Van der Post, Laurens. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. ISBN 0688025048. (Film tie-in edition with David Bowie on the cover!) $2
#Warren, Patricia Nell. The Front Runner. ISBN 0452260728. $2
#*Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin series
$3 each. All of these are Norton paperbacks, numbered by series order; some have the new-style covers as indicated (the ones with the black backs) and the rest have the old pastel ones.
I'm also selling a naval history reference books by O'Brian, listed at the end.1) Master and Commander, ISBN 0393307050
6) The Fortune of War, ISBN 0393308138
7) The Surgeon's Mate, ISBN 0393308200
8) The Ionian Mission, ISBN 0393308219
9) Treason's Harbour, ISBN 0393308634
10) The Far Side of the World, ISBN 0393308262
11) The Reverse of the Medal, ISBN 0393309606
12) The Letter of Marque, ISBN 0393309053
13) The Thirteen-Gun Salute, ISBN 039330907X
14) The Nutmeg of Consolation, ISBN 0393309061 (new cover)
15) The Truelove, ISBN 0393310167
16) The Wine-Dark Sea, ISBN 9780393312447 (new cover)
17) The Commodore, ISBN 0393314596
18) The Yellow Admiral, ISBN 0393317048
19) The Hundred Days, ISBN 0393319792
O'Brian, Patrick. Men of War: Life in Nelson's Navy. Hardcover. ISBN 0393038580. $3.
Science Fiction and Fantasy
#Bending the Landscape: Fantasy. Ed. Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel. Trade paperback. ISBN 1585675768. $2
#Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Heritage of Hastur. ISBN 0886774136. $1.50
Brockmeier, Kevin. The Brief History of the Dead. ISBN 9781400095957. $2
Delany, Samuel R. Empire Star. ISBN 0553234250. $1.50
Doctorow, Cory. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leave Town. ISBN 0765312808. $2
Fast Ships, Black Sails. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. ISBN 9781597800945. $5
#Flewelling, Lynn. Luck in the Shadows. ISBN 0553575422. $1.50
#Flewelling, Lynn. Stalking Darkness. ISBN 0553575430. $1.50
James, P. D. Children of Men. ISBN 0307279901. $2
Kay, Guy Gavriel. A Song for Arbonne. ISBN 0451453328. $1.50
#Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot. ISBN 0932870422. $2
*Kurtz, Katherine. Lammas Night. ISBN 0345295161. $1.50
Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea. ISBN 0553137670. $1
Le Guin, Ursula K. Worlds of Exile and Illusion. (Contains three Hainish novels--Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions--in one volume.) ISBN 0312862113. $4
Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror. ISBN 0345329457. $1.50
Lovecraft, H. P. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. ISBN 0345337794. $1.50
Lovecraft, H.P. The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. ISBN 0345326040. $1.50
#Lynn, Elizabeth A. Dragon's Treasure. ISBN 0441011969. $3
MacLeod, Ian R. The House of Storms. Hardcover. ISBN 0441012809. $3
#Monette, Sarah. Melusine. ISBN 0441014178. (This is a signed copy--just the author's signature, no personal inscription.) $4
#Monette, Sarah. The Virtu. ISBN 9780441015160. $1.50
The New Weird. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. ISBN 9781892391551. $4
#Patton, Fiona. The Painter Knight. ISBN 0886777801. $1.50
#Scott, Melissa. Point of Dreams. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312867824. $2
#Scott, Melissa. Shadow Man. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312858000. $2
*Scott, Melissa. The Shape of Their Hearts. Hardcover. ISBN 0312858779. [Note: May be of special interest to fans of The Professionals. It's this novel, rather than Scott's Points books, that makes me think of a Pros pastiche.] $2
Tarr, Judith. The Golden Horn. ISBN 0812556038. $1.50
Tarr, Judith. The Hounds of God. ISBN 0812556054. $1.50
#*Tarr, Judith. The Isle of Glass. ISBN 0812556003. $1.50
VanderMeer, Jeff, ed. The Thackeray T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases. Hardcover. ISBN 1892389541. (This is a beautifully designed and illustrated book with contributions from Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Liz Williams, and many others. Excellent condition, like new except for minor wear to the dust jacket.) $9.50
#Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo. ISBN 0932870872. $2
Doctor Who
*Ebbs, Paul. The Book of the Still. BBC. (This Eighth Doctor Adventures novel is out of print and rare. The cheapest copy at bookfinder.com is $19 and in some places it's listed for over $100). ISBN 0563538511. $12 or best reasonable offer.
Mystery
#Cracker: Best Boys. By Gareth Roberts and Jimmy McGovern. Hardcover, ex-library copy but in ordinary binding (no plastic over the dust jacket). This is a novelization of the TV episode. ISBN 0312204981. $2
*Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Trade paperback. ISBN 075533437X. (Near-new condition.) $3
*Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, vol. 1. Ed. Loren D. Estleman. ISBN 0553212419. (Includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (except "The Cardboard Box") and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.) $3
*Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of Four. ISBN 0755334493. $2
#Nava, Michael. The Burning Plain. Trade paperback. ISBN 1555838138. $2
#Nava, Michael. The Death of Friends. ISBN 0553577638. $1.50
#Nava, Michael. Goldenboy. Trade paperback. ISBN 1555833667. $2
#Nava, Michael. The Hidden Law. ISBN 0345384067. $1.50
#Nava, Michael. How Town. ISBN 0345369874. $1.50
#Nava, Michael. The Little Death. Trade paperback. ISBN 0932870961. $2
Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward. Oversize paperback. ISBN 0879513519. $5
Rendell, Ruth. The Babes in the Wood. Hardcover. ISBN 0091794463. $3
Rendell, Ruth. The Copper Peacock and Other Stories. Hardcover. ISBN 0892964650. $2
Rendell, Ruth. Kissing the Gunner's Daughter. Hardcover. ISBN 0892963905. $3
Saylor, Steven. Last Seen in Massilia. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312209282. $2
#Saylor, Steven. The Judgment of Caesar. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312271190. $2
Male/male romance
#Keegan, Mel. Fortunes of War. (16th century gay pirates!) ISBN 1902852087. $3
#Virga, Vincent. Gaywyck. (First published in 1980 and possibly the first male/male romance novel ever. 19th century setting, fun use of Gothic conventions.) ISBN 1555835848. $5 (or if you want Vadriel Vail as well, $6 for both)
#Virga, Vincent. Vadriel Vail. (A sequel of sorts to Gaywyck. Different main characters, but the guys from Gaywyck make an appearance.). ISBN 155583583X $2 (or if you want Gaywyck as well, $6 for both)
Comics and Comics-Related
Neil Gaiman's Sandman series
7) Brief Lives. $10
8) World's End. $8
9) The Kindly Ones. $8
Gaiman, Neil et al. The Sandman: Endless Nights. ISBN 140120113X. $3
Hellblazer and relatedFear and Loathing by Garth Ennis (#62-67). ISBN 1563892022. $5.50
Tainted Love, by Garth Ennis (#68-71, Vertigo Jam 1, Hellblazer Special 1). ISBN 1563894564. $5
All His Engines, by Mike Carey (standalone graphic novel, marketed as a movie tie-in but definitely comicsverse). Hardcover. ISBN 1401203167. $5.50
Chas: The Knowledge, by Simon Oliver (miniseries). ISBN 9781401221270. $5
Other Comics
Smax, by Alan Moore. ISBN 140120290X. $10
V For Vendetta, by Alan Moore. ISBN 0930289528. $4
Watchmen, by Alan Moore. ISBN 0930289234. $4
Lucifer vol. 5: Inferno, by Mike Carey. ISBN 1401202101. $6
Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud. Hardcover. ISBN 1563897598. $15.
LGBT studies, gender studies, history of sexuality, and related
Boswell, John. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Hardcover, no dust jacket. ISBN 0679432280. $3
Bredbeck, Gregory W. Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Cornell UP. ISBN 0801499453. [Underlining and marginal notes in ink on about 30 pages.] $4
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge. ISBN 0415900433. (Underlining and notes in ink on about 60 pages; yes, that is as far as I got.) $2
Clark, John R. Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 BC-AD 250. U of California P. ISBN 0520229045. $11
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature, ed. Byrne R. S. Fone. ISBN 0965684172. $5
Deitcher, David. Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918. This is a book club edition, if that matters to you. ISBN 0810929961. $9
Eisenbichler, Konrad, ed. Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. U of Toronto P. ISBN 0802071449. $14.50
Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Reclaiming Sodom. Routledge. ISBN 0415907551. $6
Goldberg, Jonathan. Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. ISBN 0804720517. $10.50
Jarman, Derek. Modern Nature. Hardcover. Overlook Press. ISBN 0879515201. $2
Laqueuer, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud. ISBN 0674543556. $5
Lochrie, Karma, ed. Constructing Medieval Sexuality. U of Minnesota P. ISBN 0816628297. $18
Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914. Ed. Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt. ISBN 0395837057. $2
Queering the Renaissance. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Duke UP. ISBN 0822313855. $7
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. U of California P. ISBN 0520078748. (Writing on about 50 pages.) $3
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Tendencies. Duke UP. ISBN 0822314215. (Writing and highlighting on about 10 pages.) $3
Sinfield, Alan. Cultural Politics -- Queer Reading. U of Pennsylvania P. ISBN 0812215427. $3.
Smith, Bruce R. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics. ISBN 0226763668. [Underlining and notes in ink on about 40 pages.] $13
Stein, Edward, ed. Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy. Routledge. ISBN 0415904854. $2
Stein, Edward. The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation. Oxford UP. ISBN 0195142446. $2
Tropiano, Stephen. The Prime-Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV. Applause Books. ISBN 1557835578. $5
Medieval and Early Modern literature and criticism
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives. Ed. Oliver Lawson Dick. Nonpareil Books. ISBN 1567920632. $4
Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher. The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Ed. Benjamin W. Griffith. Barron's Educational Series. 1963 edition, no ISBN. (Some underlining in the introduction but none in the play text.) $1
The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare. 2nd edition. ISBN 0312248806. (Underlining and marginal notes in ink on about 40-50 pages.) $3
Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko and Other Stories. Ed. Maureen Duffy. Methuen. ISBN 0413413608. $1.50
Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets. Ed. Hugh MacLean. Norton Critical Edition. (Includes Jonson, Corbett, Herrick, Carew, Shirley, Cowley, Lovelace, and others). ISBN 0393093085. (Writing on about 10 pages.) $1.50
Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier. Ed. Daniel Javitch. Norton Critical Edition. ISBN 0393976068. $2
Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier. Trans. Charles S. Singleton. Anchor-Doubleday. ISBN 0385094213. $1.50
Dryden, John. All For Love. New Mermaids. ISBN 0713628936. $2
Erasmus, Desiderius. Praise of Folly. Trans. Betty Radice. Penguin. ISBN 0140446087. (Intermittent underlining and marginal notes throughout.). $1
Erasmus, Desiderius. Ten Colloquies. Trans. Craig R. Thompson. Macmillan. ISBN 0024206202. $1.50
Ford, John. Three Plays: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeck. Penguin. ISBN 0140430598. $1.50
Froissart, Jean. Chronicles. Trans. Geoffrey Brerton. Penguin. ISBN 0140442006. (Underlining and marginal notes in ink on about 50 pages.) $2
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets. Ed. Mario A. Di Cesare. Norton Critical Edition. (Includes Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell, Vaughan, and Traherne.) ISBN 0393092542. $2
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. U of Chicago P. ISBN 0226306542. (Condition note: Marginal notes and underlining in ink in about half the book.) $4
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. ISBN 0393928802. $3
Greville, Fulke. Selected Poems. Carcanet Press. ISBN 0856358568. $8.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge UP. ISBN 052142240X. (Intermittent writing and highlighting.) $2
Harrison, William. The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life. Ed. Georges Edelen. Dover. ISBN 0486282759. $5.50
Helgerson, Richard. Self-Crowned Laurestes: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System. U of California P. Hardcover. ISBN 0520048083. $15
Jonson, Ben. Selected Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel. Yale UP. ISBN 0300012594. (Writing throughout.) $1.50
Jonson, Ben. Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair. Penguin. ISBN 014043013X. $1.50
Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. B. A. Windeatt. Penguin. ISBN 0140432515. $2
The Lancelot-Grail Reader. Ed. Norris J. Lacy. Garland. (Translation; writing on about 80 pages.) ISBN 0815334192. $5
Malory, Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur. Vol. 1. Ed. Janet Cowen. Penguin. (Modern spelling.) ISBN 0140430431. $2
Massinger, Philip. A New Way to Pay Old Debts. New Mermaids. ISBN 0510340210. $2
Middle English Lyrics. Ed. Maxwell S. Luria and Richard L. Hoffman. Norton. (All poems in original spelling.) ISBN 0393043797. $3
Nashe, Thomas. The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works. Ed. J. B. Steane. Penguin. ISBN 0140430679. [Notes and underlining on about 120 pages--in The Unfortunate Traveller only.] $1.50
Of Love and Chivalry: An Anthology of Middle English Romance, ed Jennifer Fellows. Everyman. (Middle English, original spelling, writing on about 20 pages.) ISBN 0460872370. $2
Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. Ed. Douglas Gray. Oxford UP. (Middle English, original spelling, writing on about 30 pages) ISBN 0192822454. $3
The Piers Plowman Tradition. Ed. Helen Barr. Everyman. ISBN 0460870505. (Underlining and notes in ink on about 30 pages.) $5
Selected Poems of Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller and John Oldham. Ed. Julia Griffin. Penguin. ISBN 0140424040. $2
Shirley, James. The Traitor. U of Nebraska P. 1965 edition, no ISBN. $1
Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Ed. Maurice Evans. Penguin. ISBN 014043111X. [Notes and underlining throughout.] $1.50
Sidney, Philip. The Old Arcadia. Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford UP. ISBN 019281690X. [Notes and underlining throughout.] $1.50
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience. Ed. A. C. Cawley and J. J. Anderson. Everyman. Original spelling. ISBN 0460871013. (Underlining and notes in ink on about 20 pages.) $1.50
Spenser, Edmund. The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser. Ed. William A. Oran et al. Yale UP. ISBN 0300042450. (Underlining and marginal notes in PENCIL in The Shepheardes Calendar.) $3
Strohm, Paul. Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts. Princeton UP. ISBN 0691015015. $4
Tudor Plays: An Anthology of Early English Drama. Ed. Edmund Creeth. Anchor. Original spelling; includes Fulgens and Lucrece, Johan Johan, King Johan, Royster Doyster, Gammer Gurton's Needle, Gorboduc, and Cambises. 1966 edition, no ISBN. This is a good scholarly reading edition with textual and content notes. $4
Watkins, John. The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic. Yale UP. Hardcover. ISBN 0300058837. (Excellent condition.) $20
History and Art History
Aveni, Anthony. Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures. Kosansha. ISBN 1568360738. $3
Backhouse, Janet, and Christopher de Hamel. The Becket Leaves. British Library Manuscripts In Colour Series. ISBN 0712301410. $6
Bertman, Stephen. Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Oxford UP. ISBN 0195183649. $5
Brandt, Anthony, ed. The North Pole: A Narrative History. National Geographic Adventure Classics. ISBN 0792274113. $2
Braudel, Fernand. The Structures of Everyday Life. U of California P. ISBN 0520081145. $15
Cameron, Euan. Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History. Oxford UP. Hardcover. ISBN 0198205287. $8
Coogan, Tim Pat. Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland. Roberts Rinehart. ISBN 1570980756. $2
Girouard, Mark. Life in the English Country House. Hardcover. ISBN 0300022735. (Condition note: spine is broken, but there are no loose or damaged pages.) $5.
Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. Norton. ISBN 0393318664. $3
Lennon, Colm. Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest. Gill. ISBN 0717116239. $8.50
Levin, Carole. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover. ISBN 0333658655. (Inscription by author on title page; like new otherwise.) $6
Lockyer, Roger. Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714. 2nd edition. Longman. ISBN 0582353084. (Highlighting on about 10 pages; writing in ink on about 30 more.) $2
Miller, Helen. Henry VIII and the English Nobility. Blackwell. ISBN 063116863X. (Some underlining and marginal notes.) $8.
O'Kelly, Michael J. Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory. Cambridge UP. ISBN 0521336872. $4
Roberts, Jane. Holbein. Hardcover. ISBN 1870630661. $4
Spufford, Francis. I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination. ISBN 0312220812. $2
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. Abridged edition. Harper Torchbooks. ISBN 0061319791. (Highlighting on about 40 pages.) $2
Yelling, J. A. Common Field and Enclosure in England, 1450-1850. Hardcover. Archon. ISBN 0208016988. $20
Young, Alan. Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments. Hardcover. Sheridan House Press. ISBN 0911378758. $4.50
Theory
Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Basic Books. ISBN 0465017738. (Extensive writing throughout.) $2
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. U of Minnesota P. ISBN 0816612412. (Writing and some highlighting throughout.) $1.50
Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith. Vintage. ISBN 0394710975 $2
Leader, Darian, and Judy Groves. Introducing Lacan. Totem Books. ISBN 1874166315. $2
Dictionaries and Language
Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin. Hardcover. ISBN 0025225804. $8
Irish-English Dictionary/Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla. An Gúm/An Roinn Oideachais. ISBN 1857910370. $20 (shipping for this book is $4 because it's heavy.)
Le Nouveau Bescherelle 1: L'Art de Conjuger: Dictionnaire de 12000 Verbes. Hatier. Hardcover. ISBN 2218048892. $10
Le Nouveau Bescherelle 3: La Grammaire Pour Tous. Hatier. Hardcover. ISBN 221805891X. $3
Robinson, Andrew. Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0965421244. $2
Science
Jones, Martin. Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA. ISBN 1559706791. $1.50
Leroi, Arman Marie. Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. ISBN 0142004820. $2
Cookbooks
Shipping cost for all cookbooks (except Hints and Pinches, which ships at regular price) is $4 for the first book, $1 for each additional book because of weight and size.
Bertolli, Paul, and Alice Waters. Chez Panisse Cooking. Hardcover. ISBN 9780307290762. $5
Clements, Carole. Cook's Companion: The Ultimate Cooking Course and Kitchen Encyclopedia. (Includes both U.S. and metric measurements.) ISBN 1843092689. $2
Flay, Bobby. Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire. Hardcover. ISBN 0743254813. $6
London, Sheryl and Mel London. The Gourmet Garage Cookbook. ISBN 0965142477. $5
Peterson, James. Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making. Hardcover, 2nd edition. ISBN 0471292753. (Dust jacket is a little battered, but the book is in good condition otherwise.) $4
Walter, Eugene. Hints and Pinches: A Concise Compendium of Aromatics, Chutneys, Herbs, Relishes, Spices, and Other Such Concerns. Hardcover. ISBN 9781567317749. $2
DVDs
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 6. (CONDITION NOTE: There's a flaw in one disc which means the first three minutes of "Once More With Feeling" will not play. Set is fine otherwise.) $3 or free with purchase of $6 or more.
Nip/Tuck, season 3. $10
Music CDs
Rock/Pop
Baker, Chet. Chet Baker Sings. $4
Barenaked Ladies. Barenaked for the Holidays. $1.50
Belle and Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap. $3
Belle and Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress. $6
Belle and Sebastian, Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant. $2
Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister. $2
Belle and Sebastian, Tigermilk. $4
Blur, The Great Escape. $1.50
Blur. Leisure. $2
Christmas Calling. Epic Records. (Tracks by Travis, Macy Gray, Fiona Apple, Tenacious D, Fuel, Phantom Planet, Kaki King, Shannon Kurfman, Keb' Mo', and the Thorns). $2
Death Cab for Cutie. Transatlanticism. $4
Death Cab for Cutie. Something About Airplanes. $3
Editors. The Back Room. $3
Editors. An End Has a Start. $2
Harding, John Wesley. Awake. $4
Harding, John Wesley. Why We Fight. $2
The Hidden Cameras. The Smell of Our Own. $2
Interpol. Antics. $2
Interpol. Turn on the Bright Lights. $3
Jackson, Joe. The Best of Joe Jackson. $2
Jackson, Joe. Night and Day. $2
Kings of Convenience. Riot on an Empty Street. $3
MacIsaac, Ashley. hiTM how are you today? $1
Mould, Bob. Workbook. $2
Oysterband, Deserters. $5
Oysterband, Here I Stand. $5
Oysterband, Holy Bandits. (Jewel case is broken.) $1.50
Oysterband, Step Outside. $5
The Proclaimers, Sunshine on Leith. $2
REM, Reveal. $2
Simon, Paul. Graceland. $3
Snow Patrol, Eyes Open. $2
Snow Patrol, Songs For Polar Bears. $3
Thompson, Richard. The Hannibal Sampler. (Includes "Tear Stained Letter," "When I Get to the Border," "Shoot Out the Lights," "Wall of Death," "The Wrong Heartbeat," "Angels Took My Racehorse Away," "Flee as a Bird" [no, that's not a typo], "Roll Over Vaughn Williams," "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman," "Don't Renege on Our Love," "I'll Regret It All in the Morning," "Calvary Cross," and "Night Comes In.") Jewel case is broken. $2
Thompson, Richard. Rumor and Sigh. $2
Thompson, Richard and Linda. Shoot Out the Lights. $3
Townshend, Pete. Empty Glass. $2
Townshend, Pete. Psychoderelict. $2
TISM, www.tism.wanker.com, $5
Travis, 12 Memories. $2
The Velvet Underground, Loaded (2-disc "Fully Loaded" edition). $3
The Verve, A Northern Soul. $2
Yo La Tengo, President Yo La Tengo/New Wave Hot Dogs. $5
Early Music
Cappella Nova. Sacred Music for Mary, Queen of Scots. Vol. 4. ASV/Gaudeamus. $15
Deller Consort. Shakespeare Songs. Harmonia Mundi. $4
Gothic Voices. The Spirits of England and France: Music For Court and Church From the Later Middle Ages. Hyperion. $5
The Hilliard Ensemble, Sumer is icumen in: chants médiévaux anglais. Harmonia Mundi. $8
Marie Keyrouz, Chant Byzantine: Passion et Resurrection. Harmonia Mundi. $3
Salve Regina: Gregorian Chant, performed by the Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice and Saint-Maur, Clairvaux. Philips. $3
Schola Discantus. Echoes of Jeanne d'Arc: Missa de Beata Virgine, Reginaldus Liebert. Lyrichord. $5
Sequentia. Hildegard von Bingen: Symphoniae. Editio Classica, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. $5
Sequentia, Trouveres: Courtly Love Songs From Northern France, c. 1175-1300. 2 discs. $9
Folk/Traditional
Amhráin ar an Sean-Nós. RTE. (This is an album of "old style" unaccompanied Irish songs, recorded mostly in the 1950s and 1960s by various traditional singers. Includes a booklet with notes in Irish and English, and lyrics in Irish with English summaries. If you're curious about what sean nós sounds like, you can hear some examples [not from this album] here on Amazon.) $15
The Bothy Band, 1975: The First Album. $10
Déanta, Déanta. $5
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Because I can't afford to hire movers, or even U-Haul, I can only take with me what I can pack into a Honda Civic or reasonably afford to mail. That means getting rid of many, many books and things. Selling them will also help me afford the trip.
So: this is my final, giant, blowout, everything-must-go sale on books, CDs, and DVDs. Many bargains within! Everything I have for sale is listed, including many items not previously offered; this post supersedes all previous book/music sale posts.
Signal-boosting is very welcome, by the way. Please feel free to post about this sale or mention it to anyone who might be interested.
Item condition: All books are paperbacks unless otherwise noted. All books are in reasonable used condition (may be worn but are not water damaged, smelly, torn, etc.) and are not written in unless otherwise noted. CDs and DVDs may show signs of wear to jewel cases, boxes, and artwork/inserts, but discs play fine. If you have any questions about condition or even "what's this book about?", feel free to ask.
Pricing: My prices are competitive with online retailers and my shipping is cheaper. However, if there's something you really want but you can't afford what I'm asking, make me an offer and we can discuss it. All prices are in US dollars.
Shipping: Shipping within the United States is $3 for the first book or DVD set, $0.50 for each additional book/DVD to the same address. For CDs it's $2.50 for the first, $0.20 for each additional CD to the same address. If you're buying a lot I may be able to reduce the price still further; it depends on weight and bulk. Outside the U.S., shipping is the exact cost of postage plus $1 for the envelope (a little more if I have to buy a box). Non-US buyers should be aware that there is no surface/cheap shipping from the US to other countries--be prepared to pay at least $10 and sometimes substantially more for heavy items.
Payment: Payment by PayPal unless I've known you for a while, in which case I'll take a check if necessary.
How to Buy: Comment on this post with your name and mailing address (comments are screened) and I'll get back to you with my PayPal address. (Regarding names: I have to ask for a name--just an initial and surname is fine--because I worry that a package without a name may be misdelivered or, worse, flagged as a suspected letter-bomb and destroyed. I will not reveal your name, I don't keep records of names or mailing addresses after the package is sent, and I promise that every name is gone from my memory an hour after the package is mailed. I'm no good at remembering names even if I wanted to.)
Poetry
Adonis. Transformations of the Lover. Trans. Samuel Hazo. Ohio UP. ISBN 821407554. $10.
Lucan. The Civil War. Trans. Nicholas Rowe. Everyman. ISBN 046087571X. $3
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala. Pharaoh's Daughter. Gallery Press. (Irish text and English translation on facing pages.) ISBN 1852350563. $4
O'Connell, Eileen Dubh. Lament For Art O'Leary. Trans. Malachi McCormick. Stone Street Press. ISBN 0943984645. [This is a limited edition handmade book, number 126 of 1001 copies, signed by McCormick. Handmade wraps and endpapers, Japanese 4-hole binding. Irish text and English translation on facing pages. Due to a binder's error, four extra pages are inserted out of order between the introduction and the text, but both introduction and text are complete and in order. Condition is good but not pristine--there are bumped corners and slight scuffs on the wraps.] $20 or best reasonable offer.
Poets From the North of Ireland. Ed. Frank Ormsby. Blackstaff Press. ISBN 0856401358. $3
Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam. Norton Critical Edition (2nd ed.). ISBN 0393979261. (Near-new condition.) $5
Fiction
For the convenience of m/m slash fans, I've marked m/m slashy books with an asterisk [*]. Books with actual LGBT characters portrayed in a way I consider reasonably non-homophobic have a hash mark [#].
General Fiction
Austen, Jane. Emma. Ed Alistair M. Duckworth. Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism edition. ISBN 0312207573. $3
Bainbridge, Beryl. Master Georgie. ISBN 078670697X. $2
Balzac, Honoré de. Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes. (In French.) Folio. ISBN 2070364054. $4
*Barker, Pat. Border Crossing. ISBN 0312420196. $2
Barker, Pat. Double Vision. ISBN 0312424108. $2
Barker, Pat. Life Class. British edition. ISBN 9780141019475. (Near-new condition.) $2
Barker, Pat. The Man Who Wasn't There. ISBN 0345369548. $2
Barnes, Julian. The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. ISBN 0679731377. $1.50
Barnes, Julian. Love, etc.. Hardcover. ISBN 0375411615. $3
*Barnes, Julian. Talking It Over. ISBN 0679736875 . $1.50
Barrett, Andrea. Ship Fever. ISBN 0393316009. $2.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Ed. Linda H. Peterson. Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism edition. ISBN 0312035470. $2
#Burgess, Anthony. A Dead Man in Deptford. ISBN 0786711523. $2
Chabon, Michael. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection. ISBN 9780060777104. (This is lightly disguised Sherlock Holmes fanfic. You know you want it!) $3
*Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road. ISBN 9780345502070. $2
Fforde, Jasper. Lost in a Good Book. ISBN 0340733578. $2
Fforde, Jasper. Something Rotten. ISBN 014303541X. $2
Fforde, Jasper. The Well of Lost Plots. ISBN 0143034359. $2
Gale, Patrick. Notes From an Exhibition. ISBN 9780007254668. $1.50
Granta 16: Science. $2
Granta 46: Crime. $2
Granta 52: Food. $2
Granta 100. $2
#Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. Hardcover. ISBN 0670833428. [Spine is broken but pages are not loose. Inscription on endpaper.] $2
#Kureishi, Hanif. My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571139817. $1.50
#Kureishi, Hanif. My Beautiful Laundrette and Other Writings. (Also includes The Rainbow Sign; Eight Arms to Hold You; Bradford; Wild Women, Wild Men; and Finishing the Job.) Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571177387. (Underlining and notes in ink in My Beautiful Laundrette.) $1
#McCann, Maria. As Meat Loves Salt. ISBN 015601226X. $3
Murdoch, Iris. The Green Knight. ISBN 0140243372. $1.50
Rushdie, Salman. Shame. ISBN 0679722041. $2
*Van der Post, Laurens. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. ISBN 0688025048. (Film tie-in edition with David Bowie on the cover!) $2
#Warren, Patricia Nell. The Front Runner. ISBN 0452260728. $2
#*Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin series
$3 each. All of these are Norton paperbacks, numbered by series order; some have the new-style covers as indicated (the ones with the black backs) and the rest have the old pastel ones.
I'm also selling a naval history reference books by O'Brian, listed at the end.1) Master and Commander, ISBN 0393307050
6) The Fortune of War, ISBN 0393308138
7) The Surgeon's Mate, ISBN 0393308200
8) The Ionian Mission, ISBN 0393308219
9) Treason's Harbour, ISBN 0393308634
10) The Far Side of the World, ISBN 0393308262
11) The Reverse of the Medal, ISBN 0393309606
12) The Letter of Marque, ISBN 0393309053
13) The Thirteen-Gun Salute, ISBN 039330907X
14) The Nutmeg of Consolation, ISBN 0393309061 (new cover)
15) The Truelove, ISBN 0393310167
16) The Wine-Dark Sea, ISBN 9780393312447 (new cover)
17) The Commodore, ISBN 0393314596
18) The Yellow Admiral, ISBN 0393317048
19) The Hundred Days, ISBN 0393319792
O'Brian, Patrick. Men of War: Life in Nelson's Navy. Hardcover. ISBN 0393038580. $3.
Science Fiction and Fantasy
#Bending the Landscape: Fantasy. Ed. Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel. Trade paperback. ISBN 1585675768. $2
#Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The Heritage of Hastur. ISBN 0886774136. $1.50
Brockmeier, Kevin. The Brief History of the Dead. ISBN 9781400095957. $2
Delany, Samuel R. Empire Star. ISBN 0553234250. $1.50
Doctorow, Cory. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leave Town. ISBN 0765312808. $2
Fast Ships, Black Sails. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. ISBN 9781597800945. $5
#Flewelling, Lynn. Luck in the Shadows. ISBN 0553575422. $1.50
#Flewelling, Lynn. Stalking Darkness. ISBN 0553575430. $1.50
James, P. D. Children of Men. ISBN 0307279901. $2
Kay, Guy Gavriel. A Song for Arbonne. ISBN 0451453328. $1.50
#Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot. ISBN 0932870422. $2
*Kurtz, Katherine. Lammas Night. ISBN 0345295161. $1.50
Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea. ISBN 0553137670. $1
Le Guin, Ursula K. Worlds of Exile and Illusion. (Contains three Hainish novels--Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions--in one volume.) ISBN 0312862113. $4
Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror. ISBN 0345329457. $1.50
Lovecraft, H. P. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. ISBN 0345337794. $1.50
Lovecraft, H.P. The Lurking Fear and Other Stories. ISBN 0345326040. $1.50
#Lynn, Elizabeth A. Dragon's Treasure. ISBN 0441011969. $3
MacLeod, Ian R. The House of Storms. Hardcover. ISBN 0441012809. $3
#Monette, Sarah. Melusine. ISBN 0441014178. (This is a signed copy--just the author's signature, no personal inscription.) $4
#Monette, Sarah. The Virtu. ISBN 9780441015160. $1.50
The New Weird. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. ISBN 9781892391551. $4
#Patton, Fiona. The Painter Knight. ISBN 0886777801. $1.50
#Scott, Melissa. Point of Dreams. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312867824. $2
#Scott, Melissa. Shadow Man. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312858000. $2
*Scott, Melissa. The Shape of Their Hearts. Hardcover. ISBN 0312858779. [Note: May be of special interest to fans of The Professionals. It's this novel, rather than Scott's Points books, that makes me think of a Pros pastiche.] $2
Tarr, Judith. The Golden Horn. ISBN 0812556038. $1.50
Tarr, Judith. The Hounds of God. ISBN 0812556054. $1.50
#*Tarr, Judith. The Isle of Glass. ISBN 0812556003. $1.50
VanderMeer, Jeff, ed. The Thackeray T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases. Hardcover. ISBN 1892389541. (This is a beautifully designed and illustrated book with contributions from Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Liz Williams, and many others. Excellent condition, like new except for minor wear to the dust jacket.) $9.50
#Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo. ISBN 0932870872. $2
Doctor Who
*Ebbs, Paul. The Book of the Still. BBC. (This Eighth Doctor Adventures novel is out of print and rare. The cheapest copy at bookfinder.com is $19 and in some places it's listed for over $100). ISBN 0563538511. $12 or best reasonable offer.
Mystery
#Cracker: Best Boys. By Gareth Roberts and Jimmy McGovern. Hardcover, ex-library copy but in ordinary binding (no plastic over the dust jacket). This is a novelization of the TV episode. ISBN 0312204981. $2
*Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Trade paperback. ISBN 075533437X. (Near-new condition.) $3
*Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, vol. 1. Ed. Loren D. Estleman. ISBN 0553212419. (Includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (except "The Cardboard Box") and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.) $3
*Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of Four. ISBN 0755334493. $2
#Nava, Michael. The Burning Plain. Trade paperback. ISBN 1555838138. $2
#Nava, Michael. The Death of Friends. ISBN 0553577638. $1.50
#Nava, Michael. Goldenboy. Trade paperback. ISBN 1555833667. $2
#Nava, Michael. The Hidden Law. ISBN 0345384067. $1.50
#Nava, Michael. How Town. ISBN 0345369874. $1.50
#Nava, Michael. The Little Death. Trade paperback. ISBN 0932870961. $2
Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward. Oversize paperback. ISBN 0879513519. $5
Rendell, Ruth. The Babes in the Wood. Hardcover. ISBN 0091794463. $3
Rendell, Ruth. The Copper Peacock and Other Stories. Hardcover. ISBN 0892964650. $2
Rendell, Ruth. Kissing the Gunner's Daughter. Hardcover. ISBN 0892963905. $3
Saylor, Steven. Last Seen in Massilia. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312209282. $2
#Saylor, Steven. The Judgment of Caesar. Hardcover, ex-library copy. ISBN 0312271190. $2
Male/male romance
#Keegan, Mel. Fortunes of War. (16th century gay pirates!) ISBN 1902852087. $3
#Virga, Vincent. Gaywyck. (First published in 1980 and possibly the first male/male romance novel ever. 19th century setting, fun use of Gothic conventions.) ISBN 1555835848. $5 (or if you want Vadriel Vail as well, $6 for both)
#Virga, Vincent. Vadriel Vail. (A sequel of sorts to Gaywyck. Different main characters, but the guys from Gaywyck make an appearance.). ISBN 155583583X $2 (or if you want Gaywyck as well, $6 for both)
Comics and Comics-Related
Neil Gaiman's Sandman series
7) Brief Lives. $10
8) World's End. $8
9) The Kindly Ones. $8
Gaiman, Neil et al. The Sandman: Endless Nights. ISBN 140120113X. $3
Hellblazer and relatedFear and Loathing by Garth Ennis (#62-67). ISBN 1563892022. $5.50
Tainted Love, by Garth Ennis (#68-71, Vertigo Jam 1, Hellblazer Special 1). ISBN 1563894564. $5
All His Engines, by Mike Carey (standalone graphic novel, marketed as a movie tie-in but definitely comicsverse). Hardcover. ISBN 1401203167. $5.50
Chas: The Knowledge, by Simon Oliver (miniseries). ISBN 9781401221270. $5
Other Comics
Smax, by Alan Moore. ISBN 140120290X. $10
V For Vendetta, by Alan Moore. ISBN 0930289528. $4
Watchmen, by Alan Moore. ISBN 0930289234. $4
Lucifer vol. 5: Inferno, by Mike Carey. ISBN 1401202101. $6
Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud. Hardcover. ISBN 1563897598. $15.
LGBT studies, gender studies, history of sexuality, and related
Boswell, John. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. Hardcover, no dust jacket. ISBN 0679432280. $3
Bredbeck, Gregory W. Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Cornell UP. ISBN 0801499453. [Underlining and marginal notes in ink on about 30 pages.] $4
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge. ISBN 0415900433. (Underlining and notes in ink on about 60 pages; yes, that is as far as I got.) $2
Clark, John R. Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 BC-AD 250. U of California P. ISBN 0520229045. $11
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature, ed. Byrne R. S. Fone. ISBN 0965684172. $5
Deitcher, David. Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918. This is a book club edition, if that matters to you. ISBN 0810929961. $9
Eisenbichler, Konrad, ed. Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. U of Toronto P. ISBN 0802071449. $14.50
Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Reclaiming Sodom. Routledge. ISBN 0415907551. $6
Goldberg, Jonathan. Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. ISBN 0804720517. $10.50
Jarman, Derek. Modern Nature. Hardcover. Overlook Press. ISBN 0879515201. $2
Laqueuer, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud. ISBN 0674543556. $5
Lochrie, Karma, ed. Constructing Medieval Sexuality. U of Minnesota P. ISBN 0816628297. $18
Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914. Ed. Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt. ISBN 0395837057. $2
Queering the Renaissance. Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Duke UP. ISBN 0822313855. $7
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. U of California P. ISBN 0520078748. (Writing on about 50 pages.) $3
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Tendencies. Duke UP. ISBN 0822314215. (Writing and highlighting on about 10 pages.) $3
Sinfield, Alan. Cultural Politics -- Queer Reading. U of Pennsylvania P. ISBN 0812215427. $3.
Smith, Bruce R. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics. ISBN 0226763668. [Underlining and notes in ink on about 40 pages.] $13
Stein, Edward, ed. Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy. Routledge. ISBN 0415904854. $2
Stein, Edward. The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation. Oxford UP. ISBN 0195142446. $2
Tropiano, Stephen. The Prime-Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV. Applause Books. ISBN 1557835578. $5
Medieval and Early Modern literature and criticism
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives. Ed. Oliver Lawson Dick. Nonpareil Books. ISBN 1567920632. $4
Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher. The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Ed. Benjamin W. Griffith. Barron's Educational Series. 1963 edition, no ISBN. (Some underlining in the introduction but none in the play text.) $1
The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare. 2nd edition. ISBN 0312248806. (Underlining and marginal notes in ink on about 40-50 pages.) $3
Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko and Other Stories. Ed. Maureen Duffy. Methuen. ISBN 0413413608. $1.50
Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets. Ed. Hugh MacLean. Norton Critical Edition. (Includes Jonson, Corbett, Herrick, Carew, Shirley, Cowley, Lovelace, and others). ISBN 0393093085. (Writing on about 10 pages.) $1.50
Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier. Ed. Daniel Javitch. Norton Critical Edition. ISBN 0393976068. $2
Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier. Trans. Charles S. Singleton. Anchor-Doubleday. ISBN 0385094213. $1.50
Dryden, John. All For Love. New Mermaids. ISBN 0713628936. $2
Erasmus, Desiderius. Praise of Folly. Trans. Betty Radice. Penguin. ISBN 0140446087. (Intermittent underlining and marginal notes throughout.). $1
Erasmus, Desiderius. Ten Colloquies. Trans. Craig R. Thompson. Macmillan. ISBN 0024206202. $1.50
Ford, John. Three Plays: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeck. Penguin. ISBN 0140430598. $1.50
Froissart, Jean. Chronicles. Trans. Geoffrey Brerton. Penguin. ISBN 0140442006. (Underlining and marginal notes in ink on about 50 pages.) $2
George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets. Ed. Mario A. Di Cesare. Norton Critical Edition. (Includes Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell, Vaughan, and Traherne.) ISBN 0393092542. $2
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. U of Chicago P. ISBN 0226306542. (Condition note: Marginal notes and underlining in ink in about half the book.) $4
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. ISBN 0393928802. $3
Greville, Fulke. Selected Poems. Carcanet Press. ISBN 0856358568. $8.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage. Cambridge UP. ISBN 052142240X. (Intermittent writing and highlighting.) $2
Harrison, William. The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life. Ed. Georges Edelen. Dover. ISBN 0486282759. $5.50
Helgerson, Richard. Self-Crowned Laurestes: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System. U of California P. Hardcover. ISBN 0520048083. $15
Jonson, Ben. Selected Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel. Yale UP. ISBN 0300012594. (Writing throughout.) $1.50
Jonson, Ben. Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair. Penguin. ISBN 014043013X. $1.50
Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. B. A. Windeatt. Penguin. ISBN 0140432515. $2
The Lancelot-Grail Reader. Ed. Norris J. Lacy. Garland. (Translation; writing on about 80 pages.) ISBN 0815334192. $5
Malory, Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur. Vol. 1. Ed. Janet Cowen. Penguin. (Modern spelling.) ISBN 0140430431. $2
Massinger, Philip. A New Way to Pay Old Debts. New Mermaids. ISBN 0510340210. $2
Middle English Lyrics. Ed. Maxwell S. Luria and Richard L. Hoffman. Norton. (All poems in original spelling.) ISBN 0393043797. $3
Nashe, Thomas. The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works. Ed. J. B. Steane. Penguin. ISBN 0140430679. [Notes and underlining on about 120 pages--in The Unfortunate Traveller only.] $1.50
Of Love and Chivalry: An Anthology of Middle English Romance, ed Jennifer Fellows. Everyman. (Middle English, original spelling, writing on about 20 pages.) ISBN 0460872370. $2
Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. Ed. Douglas Gray. Oxford UP. (Middle English, original spelling, writing on about 30 pages) ISBN 0192822454. $3
The Piers Plowman Tradition. Ed. Helen Barr. Everyman. ISBN 0460870505. (Underlining and notes in ink on about 30 pages.) $5
Selected Poems of Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller and John Oldham. Ed. Julia Griffin. Penguin. ISBN 0140424040. $2
Shirley, James. The Traitor. U of Nebraska P. 1965 edition, no ISBN. $1
Sidney, Philip. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Ed. Maurice Evans. Penguin. ISBN 014043111X. [Notes and underlining throughout.] $1.50
Sidney, Philip. The Old Arcadia. Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford UP. ISBN 019281690X. [Notes and underlining throughout.] $1.50
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience. Ed. A. C. Cawley and J. J. Anderson. Everyman. Original spelling. ISBN 0460871013. (Underlining and notes in ink on about 20 pages.) $1.50
Spenser, Edmund. The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser. Ed. William A. Oran et al. Yale UP. ISBN 0300042450. (Underlining and marginal notes in PENCIL in The Shepheardes Calendar.) $3
Strohm, Paul. Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts. Princeton UP. ISBN 0691015015. $4
Tudor Plays: An Anthology of Early English Drama. Ed. Edmund Creeth. Anchor. Original spelling; includes Fulgens and Lucrece, Johan Johan, King Johan, Royster Doyster, Gammer Gurton's Needle, Gorboduc, and Cambises. 1966 edition, no ISBN. This is a good scholarly reading edition with textual and content notes. $4
Watkins, John. The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic. Yale UP. Hardcover. ISBN 0300058837. (Excellent condition.) $20
History and Art History
Aveni, Anthony. Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures. Kosansha. ISBN 1568360738. $3
Backhouse, Janet, and Christopher de Hamel. The Becket Leaves. British Library Manuscripts In Colour Series. ISBN 0712301410. $6
Bertman, Stephen. Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Oxford UP. ISBN 0195183649. $5
Brandt, Anthony, ed. The North Pole: A Narrative History. National Geographic Adventure Classics. ISBN 0792274113. $2
Braudel, Fernand. The Structures of Everyday Life. U of California P. ISBN 0520081145. $15
Cameron, Euan. Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History. Oxford UP. Hardcover. ISBN 0198205287. $8
Coogan, Tim Pat. Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland. Roberts Rinehart. ISBN 1570980756. $2
Girouard, Mark. Life in the English Country House. Hardcover. ISBN 0300022735. (Condition note: spine is broken, but there are no loose or damaged pages.) $5.
Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. Norton. ISBN 0393318664. $3
Lennon, Colm. Sixteenth-Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest. Gill. ISBN 0717116239. $8.50
Levin, Carole. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover. ISBN 0333658655. (Inscription by author on title page; like new otherwise.) $6
Lockyer, Roger. Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714. 2nd edition. Longman. ISBN 0582353084. (Highlighting on about 10 pages; writing in ink on about 30 more.) $2
Miller, Helen. Henry VIII and the English Nobility. Blackwell. ISBN 063116863X. (Some underlining and marginal notes.) $8.
O'Kelly, Michael J. Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory. Cambridge UP. ISBN 0521336872. $4
Roberts, Jane. Holbein. Hardcover. ISBN 1870630661. $4
Spufford, Francis. I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination. ISBN 0312220812. $2
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. Abridged edition. Harper Torchbooks. ISBN 0061319791. (Highlighting on about 40 pages.) $2
Yelling, J. A. Common Field and Enclosure in England, 1450-1850. Hardcover. Archon. ISBN 0208016988. $20
Young, Alan. Tudor and Jacobean Tournaments. Hardcover. Sheridan House Press. ISBN 0911378758. $4.50
Theory
Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Basic Books. ISBN 0465017738. (Extensive writing throughout.) $2
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. U of Minnesota P. ISBN 0816612412. (Writing and some highlighting throughout.) $1.50
Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith. Vintage. ISBN 0394710975 $2
Leader, Darian, and Judy Groves. Introducing Lacan. Totem Books. ISBN 1874166315. $2
Dictionaries and Language
Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin. Hardcover. ISBN 0025225804. $8
Irish-English Dictionary/Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla. An Gúm/An Roinn Oideachais. ISBN 1857910370. $20 (shipping for this book is $4 because it's heavy.)
Le Nouveau Bescherelle 1: L'Art de Conjuger: Dictionnaire de 12000 Verbes. Hatier. Hardcover. ISBN 2218048892. $10
Le Nouveau Bescherelle 3: La Grammaire Pour Tous. Hatier. Hardcover. ISBN 221805891X. $3
Robinson, Andrew. Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0965421244. $2
Science
Jones, Martin. Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA. ISBN 1559706791. $1.50
Leroi, Arman Marie. Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. ISBN 0142004820. $2
Cookbooks
Shipping cost for all cookbooks (except Hints and Pinches, which ships at regular price) is $4 for the first book, $1 for each additional book because of weight and size.
Bertolli, Paul, and Alice Waters. Chez Panisse Cooking. Hardcover. ISBN 9780307290762. $5
Clements, Carole. Cook's Companion: The Ultimate Cooking Course and Kitchen Encyclopedia. (Includes both U.S. and metric measurements.) ISBN 1843092689. $2
Flay, Bobby. Boy Gets Grill: 125 Reasons to Light Your Fire. Hardcover. ISBN 0743254813. $6
London, Sheryl and Mel London. The Gourmet Garage Cookbook. ISBN 0965142477. $5
Peterson, James. Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making. Hardcover, 2nd edition. ISBN 0471292753. (Dust jacket is a little battered, but the book is in good condition otherwise.) $4
Walter, Eugene. Hints and Pinches: A Concise Compendium of Aromatics, Chutneys, Herbs, Relishes, Spices, and Other Such Concerns. Hardcover. ISBN 9781567317749. $2
DVDs
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 6. (CONDITION NOTE: There's a flaw in one disc which means the first three minutes of "Once More With Feeling" will not play. Set is fine otherwise.) $3 or free with purchase of $6 or more.
Nip/Tuck, season 3. $10
Music CDs
Rock/Pop
Baker, Chet. Chet Baker Sings. $4
Barenaked Ladies. Barenaked for the Holidays. $1.50
Belle and Sebastian, The Boy with the Arab Strap. $3
Belle and Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress. $6
Belle and Sebastian, Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant. $2
Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister. $2
Belle and Sebastian, Tigermilk. $4
Blur, The Great Escape. $1.50
Blur. Leisure. $2
Christmas Calling. Epic Records. (Tracks by Travis, Macy Gray, Fiona Apple, Tenacious D, Fuel, Phantom Planet, Kaki King, Shannon Kurfman, Keb' Mo', and the Thorns). $2
Death Cab for Cutie. Transatlanticism. $4
Death Cab for Cutie. Something About Airplanes. $3
Editors. The Back Room. $3
Editors. An End Has a Start. $2
Harding, John Wesley. Awake. $4
Harding, John Wesley. Why We Fight. $2
The Hidden Cameras. The Smell of Our Own. $2
Interpol. Antics. $2
Interpol. Turn on the Bright Lights. $3
Jackson, Joe. The Best of Joe Jackson. $2
Jackson, Joe. Night and Day. $2
Kings of Convenience. Riot on an Empty Street. $3
MacIsaac, Ashley. hiTM how are you today? $1
Mould, Bob. Workbook. $2
Oysterband, Deserters. $5
Oysterband, Here I Stand. $5
Oysterband, Holy Bandits. (Jewel case is broken.) $1.50
Oysterband, Step Outside. $5
The Proclaimers, Sunshine on Leith. $2
REM, Reveal. $2
Simon, Paul. Graceland. $3
Snow Patrol, Eyes Open. $2
Snow Patrol, Songs For Polar Bears. $3
Thompson, Richard. The Hannibal Sampler. (Includes "Tear Stained Letter," "When I Get to the Border," "Shoot Out the Lights," "Wall of Death," "The Wrong Heartbeat," "Angels Took My Racehorse Away," "Flee as a Bird" [no, that's not a typo], "Roll Over Vaughn Williams," "Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman," "Don't Renege on Our Love," "I'll Regret It All in the Morning," "Calvary Cross," and "Night Comes In.") Jewel case is broken. $2
Thompson, Richard. Rumor and Sigh. $2
Thompson, Richard and Linda. Shoot Out the Lights. $3
Townshend, Pete. Empty Glass. $2
Townshend, Pete. Psychoderelict. $2
TISM, www.tism.wanker.com, $5
Travis, 12 Memories. $2
The Velvet Underground, Loaded (2-disc "Fully Loaded" edition). $3
The Verve, A Northern Soul. $2
Yo La Tengo, President Yo La Tengo/New Wave Hot Dogs. $5
Early Music
Cappella Nova. Sacred Music for Mary, Queen of Scots. Vol. 4. ASV/Gaudeamus. $15
Deller Consort. Shakespeare Songs. Harmonia Mundi. $4
Gothic Voices. The Spirits of England and France: Music For Court and Church From the Later Middle Ages. Hyperion. $5
The Hilliard Ensemble, Sumer is icumen in: chants médiévaux anglais. Harmonia Mundi. $8
Marie Keyrouz, Chant Byzantine: Passion et Resurrection. Harmonia Mundi. $3
Salve Regina: Gregorian Chant, performed by the Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice and Saint-Maur, Clairvaux. Philips. $3
Schola Discantus. Echoes of Jeanne d'Arc: Missa de Beata Virgine, Reginaldus Liebert. Lyrichord. $5
Sequentia. Hildegard von Bingen: Symphoniae. Editio Classica, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. $5
Sequentia, Trouveres: Courtly Love Songs From Northern France, c. 1175-1300. 2 discs. $9
Folk/Traditional
Amhráin ar an Sean-Nós. RTE. (This is an album of "old style" unaccompanied Irish songs, recorded mostly in the 1950s and 1960s by various traditional singers. Includes a booklet with notes in Irish and English, and lyrics in Irish with English summaries. If you're curious about what sean nós sounds like, you can hear some examples [not from this album] here on Amazon.) $15
The Bothy Band, 1975: The First Album. $10
Déanta, Déanta. $5
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