My book-buying "problem"

Hay-on-Wye, once described as "a hospice for books that no-one can bear to see die in public" by Drif's Guide

Ghastly place...

 

The fairy got me today...

Shopping in town - sat down to have a cuppa - idly browsing Ebay - chance upon economically viable original formation history - buy it now - so did!

Plus the Mackenzie SAS history from Oxfam; fairly certain I haven't got that one.

 

Oh righto mate that old chesnut cuppa and idly browsing doesnt wash here we know our game

 

Maybe if we knew the title of the book we might feel it was justified.

 

34 Armd Bde - also reprinted by NMP.

And it was 'idle browsing, honest. I wasn't really looking for something to buy. But, then, "Why look?" I hear you say.

 

Because it's fun to browse books! And you might hit upon that one volume you were looking for.

I think your selection shows erudition and good taste, and what can we do but applaud?

 

Really you cant
Stationery is another thing how many pens/paper etc do you actually need,
Apparently 1930s retro Cross Calais ( Dunkirkish) which is sort of getting near to WW2 well in fact the lead up to it so the justification is buy it

 

Avoided buying from the military section of Oxfam Books in Chelmsford today by buying records in excellent condition. My wife was present, so this post probably doesn't count, but she did complain that I played them too loudly when I got home. This sounds much better on the vinyl but I marvel at the quality of the recording made so long ago.




Later note:
Four recently acquired volumes placed on a shelf together took up nearly ten inches of shelf width or 22.3 cm and weigh 4.343 kilograms ( two King's Regulations, two 21st century law books ) and cost between 0.58 pence per gram and 1.94 pence.

Five records took up 1.3 cm of shelf width and weigh 1.15 kilo and cost 0.522 pence per gram.

Weight of books is becoming a factor to be considered.

 

Does Marching With The Tigers have much/any on Hong Kong?

I have 1st battalion there under 27 Infantry Brigade from April 1949 until they moved to Korea in October 1951 (or that may be leaving the UK in April).

My notes also say they were at Norwegian Farm Camp from June 1949 and at some stage stationed with the brigade HQ in Kowloon.

 

Bought three new novels (two science fiction and one fantasy) yesterday and... I might just go look at the WW2 section of the big used bookstore now...

 

Thanks, but I'm an idiot.
I just clocked the dates on that book: I'll need the earlier volume (assuming one exists).

 

Not so much a book buying problem, but i have to complain about some t... that did some scribbling over many pages of

STRAIGHT ON FOR TOKYO. The Story of the 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment In Flanders Burma & Japan 39-47. I thought that it would be a rare original & rather good for the price that i paid for it. Did this chap not understand that you (don't) put a pen to a book. What a complete dick.

Regards
Stu.

 

It me be wise that i send the book back to the chap that i bought it from. He not did advertise that a child had done some handwriting on the pages. Its not what you do in my eyes. I can understand if this chap had used a pencil. Anybody got a rubber?

Stu.