Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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A trip back in time.

So there's a used record store near me that will occasionally get estate sale lots of paperback books. I go hunting there for crumbling manuscripts that chimera_fancies can use in her jewelry. This evening, I wandered over and discovered that they had apparently become The Land of Amazingly Old Science-Fiction and Fantasy.

For serious.

Below is a list of all the books I bought, along with the publication years of the specific editions. All of them were in mint to very good condition, and in a lot of cases, the degradation seems to be more 'age' than actual wear and tear.

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Andre Norton

The Stars Are Ours (1954)
Sargasso of Space (1955)
Star Born (1957)
Sea Siege (1957)
Star Gate (1958)
The Time Traders (1958)
Shadow Hawk (1960)
Lord of Thunder (1962)
Judgment on Janus (1963)
Night of Masks (1964)
Key Out of Time (1963)
Quest Crosstime (1965)
Three Against the Witch World (1965)
Operation Time Search (1967)
Sorceress of the Witch World (1968)
Lavender-Green Magic (1974)
Spell of the Witch World (1974)
Knave of Dreams (1975)
No Night Without Stars (1975)
Red Hart Magic (1976)
Lore of the Witch World (1980)
High Sorcery (1970)

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Stormqueen! (1978)
Sword of Chaos (1982)

Anne McCaffrey

Get Off the Unicorn (1977)
Dragonsong (1977)
Dragonsinger (1978)
Dragondrums (1980)

Jack Vance

Big Planet (1957)

James Blish

Anywhen (1971)

Tanith Lee

The Birthgrave (1975)

Diane Duane

The Door Into Fire (1979)
The Door Into Shadow (1984)

Cordwainer Smith

Norstrilia (1975)

Alida Van Gores

Mermaid's Song (1989)

David R. Palmer

Emergence (1984)

P.C. Hodgell

Dark of the Moon (1987)

Brian Aldiss

Moreau's Other Island (1985)

Evangeline Walton

Prince of Annwn (1974)
The Children of Llyr (1975)

Will Shetterly

Cats Have No Lord (1985)
Witch Blood (1986)

John Christopher

When the Tripods Came (1988)

E.L. Konigsburg

The View From Saturday (1996)

Peter David

Imzadi (1992)

Anton Strout

Dead to Me (2008)

Tom Glazer

A New Treasury of Folk Songs (1961)

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Now that you've viewed the list, care to guess how much I paid for this amazing trove? Well, counting the CD I bought, and the four books for my housemate...

...$42.12.

I win at life. Also, I have just purchased your childhood.
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Good gravy; that's a major score -- a few of those are probably Seriously Collectible. [I'm trying to remember if the 1979 Door Into Fire is the Dell mass market or the Bluejay edition....]

If I were trolling a collection of that vintage, there are a slew of books I'd scoop up without a moment's hesitation even though I already own copies, just because they've never been reprinted (or at least not widely reprinted) and deserve wider notice than they got at the time. Herewith a short and by no means complete list; years given are dates of first publication, usually but not always in mass market editions. Given this particular audience, many of these titles may already be known to some -- or even most -- of you, but if not, they're all well worth tracking down and acquiring:

"Katherine Blake" (aka Dorothy J. Heydt)
The Interior Life (1990)

Mildred Downey (aka "Bubbles") Broxon
Too Long A Sacrifice (1981)

M. Lucie Chin
The Fairy of Ku-She (1988)

Linda Haldeman
The Lastborn of Elvinwood (1978)
Star of the Sea (1978)
Esbae: A Winter's Tale (1981)

Megan Lindholm (aka "Robin Hobb")
Wizard of the Pigeons (1986)

E. Hoffman Price
The Devil Wives of Li Fong (1979)
The Jade Enchantress (1982)

Just so it's clear, I'm not offering to buy up any copies of these that may be among the presently-described estate collection -- I merely point out that if any of the above titles are available therein, they're scarce enough and good enough that the copies offered are likely to be really, really good bargains for any even marginally interested reader.
Oh, understood. And thanks for the suggestions!