My book-buying "problem"

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Chris C, Jul 6, 2018.

  1. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    How funny, I was looking for a good book as an overview for the Falklands the other day. I've been on the look out for a South Atlantic Service Medal group with a strong Liverpool connection for my collection and wanted some background reading in preparation. I was two years older at the time, but still spotty!
     
  2. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I would have cracked by now as the subject is worthy, but it is quite a chunk of cash when I don't really know how well he writes/compiles.

    Has the N&MP sale all gone a bit DFS?
    Will it ever end, or does the winter sale just slew into the Christmas, the new year, the spring, forever?
    £12 a pop is not fair on the weak-willed among us. IMG_20190109_152110766.jpg
     
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  3. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Nobody on this yet?

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    MILITARY SUN HELMETS OF THE WORLD

    RRP: £35.00
    Winter Sale: £6.39

    This is a definitive and beautifully illustrated history of the military sun helmet from the British Raj to the Vietnam War and beyond. This book at last gives this helmet its place in the sun.

    MILITARY SUN HELMETS OF THE WORLD - Naval & Military Press
     
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  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Oh, what!?
    That would definitely have gone on the order.
     
  5. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    I was looking at another one. I don't know the first thing about the subject, but 'underground' & 'cold war' is hitting something subliminal and I'm thinking Threads and Blake's 7 meet Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy with retro-consoles all over the show.

    UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES OF THE COLD WAR: The WORLD BELOW
    RRP: £25.00
    Winter Sale: £4.79

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    The secret subterranean structures featured in this fascinating book range from small shelters designed to house three men from the Royal Observer Corps, to a giant bunker where 600 people would have tried to carry on governing what was left of Britain in the event of a nuclear attack. Intriguing and chilling combined.




     
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  6. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    After a bit of bartering I've managed to snap up a copy for a tenner of the Folio edition of Xan Fielding's classic account Hide and Seek of SOE activities in Crete. There's a lovely reproduction map included complete with annotations by Paddy Leigh-Fermor. Happy days.

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  7. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I could go off you.
    Though... That would make a fine present for a dad that spent far longer than in in the ROC, so I will forgive.


    That is handsome.
    And slipcases. Mmmmm.
     
  8. Jonathan Ball

    Jonathan Ball It's a way of life.

    Has anyone ever found one of those coupon codes for free N&M press P+P online?
    Asking for a friend.
     
  9. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Nope.
    Maybe for the best, as if their p&p was free I'd really get carried away.
     
  10. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Not a bad haul, if you like dead museum guidebooks & Osprey. (I know I'm in safe company to admit this...)

    As an aside, the charidee shops are choked with instantly discarded military history of the sort confused people buy their dads.
    Get in there if looking for something recent & 'popular'.

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    And before D says something sarcastic; there are vehicles in each one, so nyah.
    And Osprey books don't count anyway. One is obliged to buy them for a couple of quid.
     
  11. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    So, it's actually improved focus on buying more books.

    Isn't it.
     
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  12. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    This thread shows a number of members do really have a problem a really big problem
     
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  13. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Yeah, shelf space.


    And remembering which books have already been purchased.
     
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  14. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    My Oscar Wilde--esque retort:

    Shurrup.
     
  15. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at extra tall bookcases.
     
  16. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

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    You're not helping with that nagging self-awareness, y'know.
    Am definitely currently 'going a bit wrong' with books again. Passing envious of JB etc's focus, & purchase of single exquisite volumes, but that dread urge to collect, combined with improved finances (and beautiful beautiful shiny/old/weird vehicle books, & N&MP, & Abe, & Amazon & Charity shops) is creating a growing future market for our local suppliers of shelving material.
    Telling myself I'm not as bad as some others I know visit here, but I'm just the same really, only not as far down the track.

    New reading specs next... which can only increase the current affliction.

    I know people who don't really collect things.
    They live in neat, minimal, uncluttered houses.
    Ghastly.
     
  17. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Well at least I know I'm not alone :D
     
  18. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    This thread is no support group, though.
    It's the equivalent of someone standing on a corner whispering "pssst, wanna see a shiny SOE book? Cheap."
     
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  19. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    "It says here the charge is aiding and abetting a bibliophile in the acquisition of six rare volumes..."
     
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  20. idler

    idler GeneralList

    "A man in his fifties has been arrested on suspicion of over 5000 cases of historical bibliophilia."
     
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