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books
Now for the list of books I bought on our road trip. A teeny bit of a disclaimer first: a few of the books may have gotten mixed up as to which store on which date I got 'em. I know they're mostly right but, uh, I may have a minor shuffle here and there (mostly between Downtown in Asheville and Caliban in Pittsburgh). Anyway, all that aside, here's everything I got.
The Captain's Bookshelf, Asheville, NC 7/15:
Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, Morte d'Urban by J. F. Powers, A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, My Sister's Hand in Mine by Jane Bowles, and Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
Downtown Books and News, Asheville, NC 7/16:
All about H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani, Collected Novellas by Arno Schmidt, The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, Sheppard Lee by Robert Montgomery Bird, Cement by Fyodor Vasilievich Gladkov, The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino, In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee, Going to Patchogue by Thomas McGonigle, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo, Wayfarers by Knut Hamsun, Night and Hope by Anošt Lustig, Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar, From the Diary of a Snail by Günter Grass, Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins, and Alembic by Timothy d'Arch Smith
Battery Park Book Exchange, Asheville, NC 7/16:
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë (yes, I already have this book, but it's a first printing (of the translated Grove version) that I couldn't pass up for a few dollars)
Caliban Book Shop, Pittsburgh, PA 7/18:
The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard, Fables of Man by Mark Twain, and a superfluous duplicate of one of those volumes of letters of Franz Kafka's (was suspecting I might have it, but it wasn't much and worth the risk, oh well)
Caliban Book Shop, Pittsburgh, PA 7/19:
Players by Don DeLillo, The Parson's Widow by Marja-Liisa Vartio, Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño, The Root and the Flower by L. H. Myers, Things in the Night by Mati Unt, The Wooden Shepherdess by Richard Hughes, The Last Novel by David Markson, Under the Shadow by Gilbert Sorrentino, Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski, Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Out by Günter Grass, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, Moral Tales by Jules Laforgue, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Nadja by André Breton, The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman, and The Invitation by Claude Simon
The Captain's Bookshelf, Asheville, NC 7/15:
Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, Morte d'Urban by J. F. Powers, A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, My Sister's Hand in Mine by Jane Bowles, and Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
Downtown Books and News, Asheville, NC 7/16:
All about H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani, Collected Novellas by Arno Schmidt, The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, Sheppard Lee by Robert Montgomery Bird, Cement by Fyodor Vasilievich Gladkov, The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino, In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee, Going to Patchogue by Thomas McGonigle, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo, Wayfarers by Knut Hamsun, Night and Hope by Anošt Lustig, Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar, From the Diary of a Snail by Günter Grass, Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins, and Alembic by Timothy d'Arch Smith
Battery Park Book Exchange, Asheville, NC 7/16:
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë (yes, I already have this book, but it's a first printing (of the translated Grove version) that I couldn't pass up for a few dollars)
Caliban Book Shop, Pittsburgh, PA 7/18:
The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard, Fables of Man by Mark Twain, and a superfluous duplicate of one of those volumes of letters of Franz Kafka's (was suspecting I might have it, but it wasn't much and worth the risk, oh well)
Caliban Book Shop, Pittsburgh, PA 7/19:
Players by Don DeLillo, The Parson's Widow by Marja-Liisa Vartio, Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño, The Root and the Flower by L. H. Myers, Things in the Night by Mati Unt, The Wooden Shepherdess by Richard Hughes, The Last Novel by David Markson, Under the Shadow by Gilbert Sorrentino, Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski, Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Out by Günter Grass, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, Moral Tales by Jules Laforgue, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Nadja by André Breton, The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman, and The Invitation by Claude Simon