Science Fiction Bookshop Visit & Book Haul, DAW & Dealer Warehouse (Again!)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Once again the author of '100 Must Read Science Fiction Novels' visits Zardoz/Allyouneedisbooks in Westbury, England and leaves with 31 books- mostly SF- plus a dodgy Von Danniken...
Music: Steve Holmes (C)
#booktube #bookcollecting #sciencefiction #bookrecommendations #literaryfiction #fantasybooks
![ILLSLICK - WINTER IS COMING [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dwTMeM1zIhQ/mqdefault.jpg)
You can watch Jules Burt's account of our trip here : th-cam.com/video/GBCfTzuqXvU/w-d-xo.html
What a great selection, thanks for sharing!
Good God what a vault. Every time you visit it, OB, I'm verdant with envy and think; "this guy knows how to live". An embarrassment of riches to be sure. I was tempted to buy that Zelazny (Roadmarks), same cover art, hardcopy but can't remember the publisher, a couple years ago at my favorite used bookstore they wanted $20 US. I thought it exorbitant. But your comment that the one you showed was 100 quid easily caught my attention. Laughed out loud at your dirigibles comment. Great, charming, classy episode sir. You have great taste in your book haul choices. Cheers.
Amazing shop. Even more amazing shirt, Steve. THIS is what we want. Love it!
New channel just launched, Clive, with an Out & About filmed in Bath- check the community page for the link, or search 'prior park bath walking bookseller' in youtube.
Great video! I've never seen that particular cover for Zelazny's Roadmarks, and it is really nice.
Yes, it's a very uncommon book in hardcover, though it has the same artwork of the first UK paperback which appeared a year later from the same publisher, which I can now move on for space reasons- 4 copies of one Zelazny is a bit much! Good to hear from you as ever!
Great artwork on those covers. Don't seem to bother as much anymore. Happy reading.
Paperback book covers are thrown together these days- done on computers, slathered in text...boring!
Fabulous videos as always Stephen. These bookshops you visit always look fascinating.
Cheers John. There are so few places like these, if they are near me, I find them.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Do you think General Public visit local libraries less these days? And are home libraries becoming more popular. With books being reasonably priced Stephen?
@@johnmooney9403 Libraries have been in massive decline in terms of lending and even stocking wide ranges of books for at least thirty years in the UK. Reference and academic libraries are different, but even when I was managing a campus bookshop (1994/5 and again 1999-2008) many journals had gone electronic. I think libraries probably do as much work with web access now,
Superb video, along with more to add to my to-read list and a new supplier to buy from.
There are at least eight other videos like this on the channel, check the 'book shopping and book hauls' playlist here.
Mr. Andrews I love that shirt!
Yes, it's a good one- I'm so overweight currently due to my medication that I can't get into a lot of my best togs for shooting, but this was a new buy.
Amazing shirt!! We need the Stephen E Andrews Guide to Fashion NOW!!
If I weren't massively overweight currently due to my medical condition, you'd get it. Most of my good clothes are in storage until I get back down to my regular weight. Sad but true!
I have just picked up 2 of the Moorcock books with the Woodroffe jacket artwork myself - just stunning (just uploaded video with my copies). Would love to see how you 'restore' and clean up your favourite finds ready for bagging. Perhaps an idea for a future video. Love the jacket artwork on the Aldiss, thanks for sharing your haul Steve
Pleasure. Yes, those PW jackets are lovely, great artist.
Hi Steve. Thanks for another great video.
It was really great to see The Gate of Worlds featured. I find Jim Burns' artwork entrancing and one of the things I want to do is get all the Majipoor books in A format with the burns covers, what a fantastic set that will make. My initial reaction to Gate of Worlds was one of disappointment, before scalding myself for being stupid, the sense in which it didn't deliver to me was very superficial. Needless to say GoWs didn't fall victim to the great purge, so I still have my original copy.
In my opinion, To Challenge Chaos is one of the best early Stableford novels, if I recall correctly, based on The Iliad. I remember his first novel The Cradle of the Sun being surprisingly good, The Blind Worm as rather experimental, the Dies Irae novels as being distastefully violent.
I understand your reticence on becoming a completest for Silverberg and Stableford because between them, there's something like 300 novels and what, 600 short stories? That's quite the load! What's more, early Silverberg does have signs of his later brilliance, but is definitely of its time. You really only want to go into that depth if you want to trace their development as writers or you fixate so hard that you have to read everything!
Thanks again.
I'm reading a late Silverberg now, thoroughly enjoying it, but I think he gave so much of himself in the 68-75 period and was frustrated by the comparative lack of sales. I found 'Gate' minor, but then it is meant to be a children's book. I probably won't buy much more Stableford as I look at how many books I have to read and think that if I bought more, I probably wouldn't get through them all....
And my TBR grows yet again! 😊
what a great haul! if only i lived in england instead of america and could visit that shop. i suppose i could order online but i like seeing the books with my own eyes and all that. alas!
Didn't know Mick Farren wrote any books. I've got some of his music from when he played with the Deviants, and his solo album Mona - The Carnivorous Circus. There seemed to be a whole scene of people like him in West London, around Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove, which included Moorcock of course.
When i went to visit back in february he'd just acquired the new £1 site, and it had very little in it then. Good to see it full o' books!
It was in a different location originally, as you probably saw in a previous video, but the new place is much better. I'd go and work there if (1) I lived nearby and (2) Maurice could pay me enough. I liked it a lot, but the warehouse is the thing, though the lighting there is terrible currently.
Great books. Those Moorcocks are gorgeous.
Hi Matt, good to hear from you. Been meaning to post below your latest video, time short currently- sorry to hear you were struck down again, I got covid twice too, never again hopefully. Yes, the DAW MMs are lovely- although I have multiple editions of his work, I just can't resist them...I'll email soon.
Those book covers! I sure do miss book covers like those. They just don't do many like that anymore. Thanks for sharing.
Same here. Look at the backlist- the 'Book shopping and book hauls' playlist here and the 'Science Fiction Collector Diary' series and you'll see me showing hundreds of 'em.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I certainly will! I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I am working my way through your content. Love it all so far. Keep it coming!
@@mlmattin Thanks very much, welcome aboard!
I put that store on my bucketlist
I was in Bristol a few years back and a friend insisted we go to the old part of the city to the city's oldest market. A few goose eggs in and I unexpectedly found a bookseller. I hadn't intended on buying books while on an overseas adventure, but when I saw what this fellow had, I couldn't resist. I grabbed several UK hardcovers that I'd hunted and hunted for in the US and had never found. He was selling them off for a negligible sum, a pound or two. One's man's schlock was another's treasure, so I ended up being forced to buy an additional piece of luggage for the trip home. Seeing all of those US paperbacks in this shop made me feel simpatico with whomever schlepped all that schlock from the US.
Was it Beware of the Leopard Books?
@@outlawbookselleroriginal That's the one. I had to go look it up to be certain. Fantastic shop.
@@thebookrapport-cx8kh If you look at my video which has the words 'New Wave Score' and 'Bristol' in the title, you'll see me shopping there around 18 months ago
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Very cool! I'll give it a look see.
Hi Stephen. Great tour and some nice pickups. Strangely enough I put an order in with Maurice and you'd already bagged three of 'em in the video. Gives truth to the old adage "snooze you lose." Actually Maurice is the only decent source for reasonably priced DAWs these days. Ebay is just getting stupid - I've seen people charging £7 to 10 for absolute tat. Wouldn't display them in my recycling bin.
Do you have any reasonably priced online SF used book dealers that you could recommend?. No doubt you know more booksellers than I do. Cheers.
Hey Kenny, good to hear from you. Yes, the whole DAW thing is getting silly as regards prices v grading. In terms of dealers, I tend to search individual books of course, though naturally some dealers come out on top- but being a 'tip top condition first at high prices if really necessary' guy, price is always a secondary consideration for me, so I've mentioned most of my favourites here - Dorset Bob, Zardoz, Fantastic Literature, Durdles...otherwise I just try my luck. Hope you are ok, mate, must say I'm feeling my age this week....
I have that paperback version of Elric of Melniboné.
Those late 60s / early 70s Puffin jackets were absolutely gorgeous. The Sword and the Spirit is a great example of that. Why can't todays books be as beautiful?
Totally agree.
Hope you can do another Two Grumpy Old Men video?
I want too, but there are practical and time limitations currently which Graham and I hope to circumvent soon. Ideally, I'd like to do them monthly, as it's great to have someone equally knowledgeable to bounce off in a live situation if you see what I mean. Leave it with me.
Love those dirigibles too, Steve. Good to know I'm not the only one.
You know the Ellison story, "Neon"? It's in 'Deathbird'.....there's a memorable and hilarious mention of dirigibles in that one....
That’s a sharp copy of Nova you found. I found a Sphere SF copy of Nova about a month or two back.
Yeah, although I have 2 other copies, I couldn't leave it behind....
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Yeahhhh that happened to me with Camp Concentration. I found a panther edition despite already having a bantam edition. Can’t pass up the panthers😂.
What a magnificent bookshop! I have a few 'All you need is Books' postcards, but didn't realize they come from there! I can see they also have a website. I'm wondering if they also stock books and magazines not listed on Abebooks or eBay. Your shirt is spectacular, by the way.
It's all secondhand at Zardoz/allyouneedis books. Like any secondhand outlet/platform, of course they may have titles you won't find on ebay (and vice versa), as secondhand stock changes constantly as dealers rely on luck, knowledge and hard work in tracking down collections coming onto the market. Gathering secondhand stock is nothing like buying new, in-print stock from publishers, it's always a roulette wheel, which is why you have to roll the ball constantly.
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Thank you!
I have iBook trade paperback of The Gate of Worlds, with John Harris cover, but copyright reads that it was from 2005. Maybe it is revised edition.
That suggests a revision, or possibly a transfer of copyright. iBooks were nice, shame they went print on demand in the end.
How does one get into Zardoz? I assume its appointment only? Is there a price point one is expected to meet in order to get it?
Contact details are in the video. You can visit the office (depicted in the first part of the video). There warehouse is by invitation only and is a working space used by Maurice to store and process his online orders. Again, website details in the video.
Wondrous-looking place. Unfortunately, it would take me about three and a half hours to drive there, so short of a driving partner or a rental helicopter it’s basically inaccessible to me.
Get onto the website- that's where the best stuff is anyway, in my opinion.
Those Delaney books are quite a score…
Yes, you never see them in that condition.
I've never seen such lovely livery on Neveryon.
If memory serves, here in the States it completely switches style after the first book@@outlawbookselleroriginal
Looks like a great shop. Going gaga for the DAW DAW.
There are at least eight other videos like this on the channel, check the 'book shopping and book hauls' playlist here.
9:21 Untitled western? surely you meant The Book With no Name...
Well, I'll be a pedant here and say it would be 'The Untitled Book' - that's the writer/editor in me - but I think if you wrote a novel called 'Untitled Western', I'd buy it immediately!
Love the shirt! Sock it to me!