Jim Stokes

Unintentionally poetic and artistic book review.

Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson. 1958, jacket design by Ronald Clyne. #booksky

Giving Dino's account a small boost

a "Stay Below" ... that sounds fairly ominous!

Another absolute cracker of an unintentional book review.

The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists by Arthur Byron Cover. 1976, cover art by Neal Adams.

Variations on a theme

We can hear her thinking, "leggo of me, creep!"
1931, cover art by Delos Palmer

Enter Here for old Books Antiquarian Book Store

Condemned building housing Old Books

Yours truly digging (literally) 🤪 for sci-fi treasures

The three books that I purchased - Delaney's Einstein Intersection, Malzberg's The Day of the Burning, and Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos

Today's road tripping adventure landed me here - The Antiquarian Book Store in Portsmouth NH. Talk about mining for treasures!

eyes wide open

Am gonna work in one more visit before we leave this week...feel like I may have missed a few treasures.

Iconic place. Remember stopping here so many times. Really unique place.

Big Chicken Barn Books & Antiques.

Warning - property protected by highly trained chickens. Not responsible for injury or possible death.

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Road-tripping to Bar Harbor Maine and stumbled onto this place. Did we stop? Did I go in? Did I find a book for tonight's after dinner read?

Yes, yes, yes.

your collection continues to amaze!

The things you find in a Berlin second hand bookshops. If memory serves, the 1959 edition.

#funstuff

Couldn't see what was inside, but had visions of several boxes full of signed 1st edition Heinleins, Lovecrafts, Wilsons, Bukowskis, Fearns, Asimovs, Pynchons, Smiths, Stattens, Browns, etc

If someone made cheaper, better weather-resistant yard sheds, I could move them out of sight more easily.

A man with a stack of books is looking for shelf space. Artist ~ Tom Gauld

I showed my wife this, but she didn't laugh.

the struggle is real

wonderful!

a duel much more exciting than riding atop snails…

victorians 1, medievalists 0

not sure what it is, but apparently it’s not worth dying for

Pumpkins galore in front of home in historic Deerfield MA

Discovered the childhood home of the Great Pumpkin.

would be interested in your post-read assessment - believe I may have a Hoffman or two tucked away in storage box somewhere

Works by Lord Dunsany

It's nice when the back cover provides a glimpse of other works

Guys! Skot is providing fantastical book reviews again.

The Dreaming Earth by John Brunner. 1963, cover art by John Schoenherr. #booksky

Speaking of, I picked this a one up today for my after-dinner reading tonight. Seemed somewhat resonate with October vibes Currently unfolding.

Unhappy Far-Off Things by Lord Dunsany, 1919. This dust jacket didn’t require a lot of artistic effort. #booksky

adding this to my Christmas, birthday or Father’s Day want list

looks like a screenshot from Silksong to me

those damn Stalk Cutters!

saw this book on offer at the Allentown Book & Paper Fair last weekend, had a brief chat with the dealer about it (it was in “good” condition, showing it had been often handled and was well read) - I’m sad now that I didn’t break my budget to bring it home, guess I’ll never learn

tyvm for the details