The absolute highlight of my book hunting this month was a visit to Dorset Bob to purchase some wonderful vintage sci-fi books. As well as so many fantastic books for sale, Bob very kindly showed my his library of first edition Science Fiction hardbacks and his Badger and Pan collection. Just superb. Jules Burt did one of his wonderful videos at Dorset Bob’s recently so have a look.
Many of the wonderful books I got from Bob at a very reasonable price are on this month’s finds page. As is a 1966 Penguin edition of The Kraken Awakes (cover by John Byrne) that I’ve been after for ages (I’ve added a scan of it to ISFDB where it was missing) and a bit of a battered copy of a compact edition of Judith Merril’s Shadow of the Hearth.
The Compact was from Zardoz book shop a regular haunt of mine as I live locally (online shop or those who don’t is here). Rather amazingly all books are just £1.00, so I always end up buying a dozen or more. Alongside the Merril, I got two other lovely compacts.
While the majority of books in my collection are from the 60s/70s, I do love fifties sci-fi books but its very hard to find them in reasonable, let alone good condition these days. I did manage to get three early Ballentine’s this month from a couple of different sources.
And finally, I’m increasingly on the look out for Mayflower Dell Sci-Fi. Some of there cover are great! Here’s three I got this month.
Vintage Paperback Treasure 