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OldMod67 3rd Nov 2021		Book Damon Galgut - Der Betrüger (2011)	Announced tonight, the author has just won the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel, The Promise.
OldMod67 2nd Nov 2021		Book Michael Compton - Pop Art (1970)	Good little book this! I picked mine up second hand around 1984 in Longmans, Westover Road, Bournemouth for £2.25. It survived intact until last year when we homed two cats from a sanctuary. One had a chewing phase and this is the volume he found in the bookcase. Only nibbled at the corners, but even so.... As far as I can see mine is identical to the one illustrated so well here by dr.zoze, right down to the adhesive SBN inside -EXCEPT no printed price on the flap. Mine originally had a sticker, long since gone.
OldMod67 28th Oct 2021		Book Paul McCartney - The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present (2021)	A teaser...... [YouTube Video]
OldMod67 27th Oct 2021		Book Chris Charlesworth - The Complete Guide To The Music Of The Who (1995)	Requested movement of image and mine deleted (for obvious reasons!) Thanks in advance
OldMod67 26th Oct 2021		Book Paul McCartney - The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present (2021)	@JPGR&B Yes that's the one! The competition isn't open to employees; not sure how I could possibly cheat (I wouldn't anyway). Good luck to you!
OldMod67 26th Oct 2021		Book Paul McCartney - The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present (2021)	The company I work for had a competition, when buying the standard (but still nice) edition, your name went 'in the hat' to win one of these. Unfortunately, the draw was not open to emp!oyees. Bugger!
OldMod67 11th Oct 2021		Book Ray Bradbury - The Cat's Pajamas Stories (2005)	The rear cover states twenty- two stories, all but two previously unpublished. The index, however, lists tweny-one, which also includes the Introduction and Epilogue. There is a story included in the book but not listed in the index. This is called Triangle and is in between The Cat's Pajamas and The Mafioso Cement-mixing Machine.
OldMod67 10th Sep 2021		Book Eric Burgess - Assault On The Moon (1966)	Frontispiece shows 'The crater Delambre, off the South-West shore of the Mare Tranquillitatis, photographed by Ranger VIII, February 20, 1965 (Photo: NASA, JPL) Preface by Eric Burgess, Los Angeles, June 1966 Front flap price 42s. Pencilled notation (presume bookseller) : 2/67 Black boards under jacket, spine title in gilt.
OldMod67 4th Sep 2021		Book Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1965)	I've entered a 1965 date on this, as although I bought it new in the last twenty years I believe it's still just a reprint of that same edition.
OldMod67 3rd Sep 2021		Book J. D. Salinger - Franny And Zooey (1994)	Slightly better images added, for now.
OldMod67 28th Aug 2021		Book Mike Ashley - Yesterday's Tomorrows (2020)	Front cover illustration : Artwork by W.R.S. Stott for The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle. Back cover illustration: Artwork by Henri Lanos for When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells. Cover design by Rawshock Design. Book frontispiece: When the Sleeper Wakes, H.G.Wells, illustrated by Henri Lanos from The Graphic, 21 January 1899. My genre entry may look odd, but the book is branded along with the British Library Science Fiction Classics series. So, it's a non fiction reference book about science fiction...
OldMod67 26th Aug 2021		Book Francis Meynell - The Week-end Book (2005)	Photos from freebie copy (including Duckworth letter) added. So-called belly band left on. Please consider these 'holding images' in lieu of better quality from a fellow 'catter.
OldMod67 23rd Aug 2021		Book Arthur King - The Observer's Book Of Garden Flowers (1957)	Priced on inside flap at 5/- NET. Pale green boards under d/j
OldMod67 12th Aug 2021		Book Ray Bradbury - The Toynbee Convector (1989)	Jacket image added. Illustration by Wendell Minor
OldMod67 9th Jul 2021		Book Edward Gorey - The Gashlycrumb Tinies (2019)	[YouTube Video] There are various versions of this, but this one's pretty good!
OldMod67 3rd Jul 2021		Book Don Martin - Don Martin Bounces Back! (1963)	Images added, eventually!
OldMod67 3rd Jul 2021		Book Edward Gorey - The Gashlycrumb Tinies (2019)	Pages un-numbered. Retailer's ads list 64pp, manual count of pages from title page to endpapers is 60pp. Bloomsbury issued the previous edition to this in 1998, with different ISBN and no slipcase.
OldMod67 3rd Jul 2021		Book Joan Aiken - A Small Pinch Of Weather (1969)	I've added items at times, after my scanner/laptop died and nowadays add holding images via a Kindle. I have absolutely no issue with items being added without image. Some catters are unable to do so and a fellow member will add, or in my case update one of my later, poorer quality images for better. In my view I'd rather have the book (or whatever) logged on here for collectors, than not. It's also possible whoever added this will post an image later. Either way it's interesting (and helpful) that it's here.
OldMod67 20th Jun 2021		Book Josiah Thompson - Last Second In Dallas (2021)	Follow up to Six Seconds in Dallas (1967)
OldMod67 6th Jun 2021		Book Jim Marrs - Crossfire (1993)	I haven't put an image up for this one as unfortunately despite buying mine on publication, the construction was not particularly strong. Yes, although it's very well read, I'm not a destroyer of books; this one however ended up with me having to apply tape. If another catter has a copy for an image I'd really appreciate it. By the way, the film JFK was adapted from two books, this being one of them.
OldMod67 1st Apr 2021		Book Various Authors - The Mersey Sound (1983)	My cover finally added (apologies as usual for my Kindle photos). My copy is 1983 revised edition, 1986 reprint.
OldMod67 1st Apr 2021		Book Duncan Wherrett - Jaguar MkII (1990)	Added covers
OldMod67 1st Apr 2021		Book Colin Burnham - California Classics (1990)	Added my cover, at last!
OldMod67 1st Apr 2021		Book Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (1969)	Yes, my edition states First Sphere Books edition 1969. Reprinted 1971. Reprinted 1973, 1976. Actually, this is probably as good example as any to support a second date drop down, which would pinpoint the edition, followed by the reprint date of that edition.
OldMod67 13th Mar 2021		Book Thomas Hardy - Selected Stories Of Thomas Hardy (1966)	Cover added
OldMod67 3rd Mar 2021		Book Bournemouth And The Telephone 1886 - 1986 (1986)	These were free, mine coming from my father who worked for GPO/ Post Office Telecommunications / British Telecom for 44 years. Printed by Fir Tree Press, Wimborne, Dorset.
OldMod67 3rd Mar 2021		Book Various Authors - Bournemouth (2004)	The front cover shows Kinson stores and Post Office, around 1905. This building is still here (Oddfellows Hall) and in non-lockdown times, currently home to my barbers.
OldMod67 3rd Mar 2021		Book Various Authors - Bournemouth (2004)	I have just popped this, another of my old local books on. I discovered today that co-author Ian Andrews passed away on January 13th this year. I knew he had been very ill for some time, but being furloughed I'm out of the loop, so to speak. I met Ian at the end of the eighties in his role with Poole Historical Trust, whom I later ordered a lot of books from, starting back in the bookshop's Ottakar's days. Until he fell ill he always dropped off the stock personally, usually the following day. A mine of information, an important link in local history and local bookselling will no longer be there on my return in April.
OldMod67 28th Feb 2021		Book Vespa - Polo Books (1999)	I purchased this from a bookstall at a market in Rome in the Summer of 2001. I think it cost about £3.
OldMod67 21st Feb 2021		Book Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (2008)	Not this edition, but worth a look. Only 100 numbered copies apparently..... [YouTube Video]

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