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23skidoo 20th Nov 2024		William Welwood The Sea-Lavv Of Scotland	Cover and title page (and online searches) confirm correct spelling of this book is "Sea-Lavv" with 2 v's. However the site's font renders the v-v as a w anyway.
Steel-River-Wet SUBS 18th Nov 2024		Jo Bloom Ridley Road	Will add scans when time permits.
JPGR&B SUBS 17th Nov 2024		David Sheff Yoko: A Biography	The full text from the publisher's website: An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy. John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.” She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain—an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko’s part has been missing—hidden in the Beatles’ formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono’s life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage. Yoko’s life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history. This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John’s murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko’s nine decades—one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived. Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono’s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.
Steel-River-Wet SUBS 15th Nov 2024		Claire Rayner Festival	Will add scans when time permits.
pinkleton123 15th Nov 2024		Terry Wilson Let It Be: The Making Of The Beatles' Final Album	Oops. Sorry about that.
JPGR&B SUBS 15th Nov 2024		Terry Wilson Let It Be: The Making Of The Beatles' Final Album	I have changed this to hardback [Mod].
annaloog ● 14th Nov 2024		Terry Wilson Let It Be: The Making Of The Beatles' Final Album	Thanks, I had thought of that - both entries indicate paperback.
pinkleton123 14th Nov 2024		Terry Wilson Let It Be: The Making Of The Beatles' Final Album	One's hardback, one's paperback.
23skidoo 14th Nov 2024		Jean Marie Stine The Prisoner: A Day In The Life	The Prisoner novels have been reprinted periodically. Does anyone know if #3 has ever been reprinted under the author's current name, Jean Stine? I don't know when she changed name; if it was within the last 20 years I don't know if there have been any reprints of it. The first book by Thomas Disch tends to be the one that gets reissued a lot.
annaloog ● 14th Nov 2024		Terry Wilson Let It Be: The Making Of The Beatles' Final Album	Is this a duplicate entry?
pinkleton123 14th Nov 2024		Terry Wilson Let It Be: The Making Of The Beatles' Final Album	From the "Four Sides Of The Circle" guy.
Magic Marmalade 14th Nov 2024		Paulo Coelho The Alchemist	Rated 8/10 This is one that would probably be a good one to teach in schools. Simple, crisp, clear language, in the old style in which such tales were told, that conjures great images in the mind of the reader, telling a magical, extended parable / fable about a shepherd boy setting off to the pyramids to find a treasure he dreamt of. It's about having a dream, following that dream, understanding it, and not giving up. Very good read. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
kab2112 SUBS 12th Nov 2024		Robbie Busch Rock Covers	Called into a sshop this morning looking for a prersent for a mate. Didn't get one.... but.... Got this for myself. not cheap at £20, but there you go.
23skidoo 11th Nov 2024		George Eliot Middlemarch	Publisher name is correct: at the time of this edition (late 1890s), there was a comma after "Rand" which was later dropped.
23skidoo 11th Nov 2024		Barbara Hambly Beauty And The Beast	Cover scans added.
ppint. 11th Nov 2024		C. J. Cherryh Regenesis	the sequel to ''cyteen'' (1988), q.v. i believe "regenesis " would stand alone perfectly satisfactorily, but will need to re-re-re-read it to be certain to of this. - you'd certainly miss a great deal of the political differences and rivalries within reseune, as well as those on cyteen outside that company, and of the various crises the death of ariane emory triggered - not to mention several of those that have been slowly arising from decisions taken during the company war by more than one powerful actor in the struggle for union's existence - and the almost accidental birth of the merchanter alliance. ''cyteen'' started a decade-long argument amongst quite a number of merkin sf fans who were labouring under the misapprehension that that major work was primarily - or even solely (!) - a ''whodunnit''. . .
johnnyhotspur 10th Nov 2024		Steve Behling My Ultimate Super Hero Manual	Some great vintage Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Johnny Romita, John Buscema etc images throughout this book,
johnnyhotspur 10th Nov 2024		Peter Sanderson Classic Marvel Super Heroes	My copy came in a presentation box with some character figures.
MICKDOOM67 9th Nov 2024		Alan Hunter Gently Floating	Back cover image added.
JPGR&B SUBS 9th Nov 2024		Stella Barnes Lyrics To Live By: The Beatles	According to Amazon the publication date for this book is now 6 January 2026.
Magic Marmalade 7th Nov 2024		Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum	Also worth noting, that there is more than one Foucault of historical note.
Magic Marmalade 7th Nov 2024		Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum	Rated 8/10 What a tangled web we weave! This is one for the conspiracy theorists, especially those who got entangled with the likes of The Da Vinci Code, and The Holy Blood, And The Holy Grail... Except this is work of (overt) fiction is a almost a masterpiece of deadpan satire of conspiracy theories. In fact, given the author was an absolute master of medievalism (he knew his historical, and indeed his "historical" stuff!), this leaves those other works in the dust, due to his total command of the material in ways others can only dream of. Essentially, within the framework of the plot, of a trio of cynical, esoteric book publishers who decide to make a little publishing enterprise by concocting a global "masterplan" based on their combined knowledge of all things "secret society", freemason, and Knights Templar etc., they weave a massive web of horseshit for their target audience, built form the accumulated mass of almost every piece of history and "history" not nailed down that you can think of... (Seriously, almost any historical figure or place you care to mention pops up at some point, and even the most learned or familiar among you will struggle with some of these references) ...Only to discover, once dark events and happenings around them may suggest their created plan may actually be true! .....And now it seems it may be after them. There's plenty of twists here, naturally, and I think it may be somewhat too dense with historical reference at times, but that only serves to highlight the psyche of the conspiratorial mind, by taking it, and running further with it that most of them are able, or willing to go. It gets to be like a joke told deadpan, that just keeps going and going, and getting more and more elaborate and funnier, not necessarily because of the content, but due to the absurdity of persistence. It is also great at breaking this down, and showing the mechanics of conspiracy, and the conspiratorial mind, and how such people are susceptible and vulnerable to such intrigues. So not only a masterpiece of satire of the whole "world" of conspiracy, but actually quite useful for those wishing to seek some objectivity... or indeed... sanity. Ultimately, there is no conspiracy, and everybody else knows it but you :) ...Or is there? ✔︎ Helpful Review?
ppint. 6th Nov 2024		Paul Preuss Core	harpercollinspublishers p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by bob corley (unsigned, credited) cover price £4.99 400pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Nov 2024		Paul Preuss Core	the hearst corporation avon books avonova imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition cover art by alan ayers (unsigned, credited) cover price (canada $6.99) u.s. $5.99 400pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising
ppint. 6th Nov 2024		Paul Preuss Core	the hearst corporation william morrow h/cvr first printing, first edition (so stated in indicia) cover (d-j) art by jerry lofaro (probably credited on d-j back flap; found on artist's website) cover (d-j) price $23.00 u.s./canada (check d-j) 356pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards
ppint. 6th Nov 2024		Robert Petyo The Institute	thank-you jimess.
ppint. 6th Nov 2024		Fred Hoyle Andromeda Breakthrough	thank-you.
JimEss SUBS 6th Nov 2024		Robert Petyo The Institute	Added covers.
MICKDOOM67 5th Nov 2024		Fred Hoyle Andromeda Breakthrough	Front and rear images added.
Steel-River-Wet SUBS 5th Nov 2024		Tina Turner My Love Story - The Autobiography	Will add scans when time permits.

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