the great book giveaway of march 2015

[cynpai]

So I finally went through my bookshelves and have some books that I thought some of y'all might have an interest in. Here's the list, with handy links for the lesser known ones.

Fiction:
The Gun Seller, Hugh Laurie. Trade paperback, great condition.

Coraline, Neil Gaiman. With illustrations by Dave McKean, the movie collector's edition. Hardback, great condition.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window (Book the Third), Lemony Snicket. Hardback, great condition.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill (Book the Fourth), Lemony Snicket. Hardback, great condition.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy (Book the Fifth), Lemony Snicket. Hardback, great condition.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator (Book the Sixth), Lemony Snicket. Hardback, great condition.

Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens), J. M. Barrie. Trade paperback, great condition.

Year of Wonders (A Novel of the Plague), Geraldine Brooks. Trade paperback, good condition.

Catalyst, Laurie Halse Anderson. Trade paperback, good condition.

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden. Trade paperback, great/good condition.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares. Hardback, good-ish condition. Someone drew a little squiggly in permanent marker on the pants.

Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl, Anonymous. Hardback, good-ish condition. Has marks from where the sell sticker on the front cover didn't come off all the way.

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood. Hardback, good-ish condition. Formerly a library book, so it has stuff on it from that.

The Diary of a Chambermaid, Octave Mirbeau. Regular paperback, good condition.

The Princess Bride, William Goldman. Regular paperback, good condition. Includes the first chapter of the long-lost sequel, Buttercup's Baby.

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink. Trade paperback, good condition. In Oprah's Book Club.

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand. Regular paperback, good condition. This fucking book.


Nonfiction:

The Wreck of the Batavia, Simon Leys. Hardback, good-ish condition. It still has the sell sticker on the front.

Living Languages (Contexts for Reading and Writing), Nancy Buffington & Marvin Diogenes & Clyde Moneyhun. Trade paperback, great condition.

Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Leaming. Trade paperback, good condition.

100 Creepy Little Creature Stories, selected by Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, & Martin H. Greenberg. Hardback, good condition. One of those B&N-specific books, still has the sell sticker and bits of the green dot sticker on it.

Hauntings! Real-life Encounters with Troubled Spirits, Hazel M. Denning, Ph. D. Hardback, good condition. One of those B&N-specific books, still has the sell sticker on it.

A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation, Catherine Allgor. Trade paperback, good condition. This particular copy is an advanced reader's edition that was not for sale.

God's Problem, Bart D. Ehrman. Trade paperback, good condition.

Addicted to Unhappiness, Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph. D. & William J. Pieper, M. D. Trade paperback, good condition.

Manga:
Cowboy Bebop 1
Cowboy Bebop 2
Cowboy Bebop 3

How To Arts:
How to Draw Manga: Colorful Costumes
How to Draw Manga: Girl's Life Illustration File

I Won This At A Writing Convention Six Years Ago And It Has Haunted Me Since:
Pornucopia, Piers Anthony. Trade paperback, good condition.


Comment here with which ones you'd like and I'll cross them off ASAP. I'm leaving comments unscreened so if anyone comments and I am not here to cross it off, it'll be visible and I won't have to make comments apologizing for something appearing to still be on the list actually not being on it. If I don't already have your address, please PM it to this journal or email me at smuggering@gmail.com so I can send them out! And if you live in the UK or Canada or way overseas, don't worry about shipping costing extra, just remember that:

seriously please take all this off my hands idc where it goes just take it

Comments

[avoirfaim]

Coraline, Princess Bride, Belle de Jour, Living Languages, Marilyn Monroe, PORNUCOPIA.

[cynpai]

u got it, dude

[dionychus]

Give me the Fountainhead because I'm sure as hell not buying it.

Also 100 Creepy Little Critter Stories, A Perfect Union, and God's Problem.

[cynpai]

it's a super special edition WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY LEONARD PEIKOFF HOLY SHIT WHAT A PRIZE

i went through and pulled off all the little stickies from when i had to read it in 2006 so you can enjoy it ~fresh~

[vendingmachine]

IT'S JEAN HI

can i get The Wide Window?

[cynpai]

of course! i only regret that i don't have the first book for you, too. it was stolen long ago.

[vendingmachine]

duuuuude that sucks i am sorry someone did that

[cynpai]

it's ok they're family i can have my revenge in plenty of ways

[aggressiveapathy]

I'm sorry is that a book by Hugh Laurie on there?

Dibs.

[cynpai]

it's all yours

[thleeny]

hello i would like
HAUNTINGS!
and
Dairy of a chambermaid

please and thank you
i will email you with my address in like 2 minutes

[cynpai]

hello yes you will get them BOTH
ur welc

[missnoface]

Addicted to Unhappiness! Also recipes.

[cynpai]

anything 4 u, doll

[innate]

Peter Pan, Year of Wonders (A Novel of the Plague), and Catalyst if the cake really isn't a lie.

[cynpai]

the cake ain't no lie and will be coming at you like a dark horse soon