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[timill]

A Book Meme, from stevegreen, who got it from pigeonhed, who can’t remember where he got it from.

"List ten books you have which you think nobody else on your friends list might have."

I’ll try to limit myself to one book per subject and avoiding the Really Obscure (like the 40 volumes of Yeadon's Register of LNER Locomotives), in the interest of actually being wrong about some of these:

1. King of the Confessors, by Thomas Hoving
2. Jaguar Sports Racing & Works Competition Cars, by Andrew Whyte (2 vols)
3. Bloodwinter, by Tom Dietz
4. Bradshaw’s July 1938 Railway Guide (reprint)
5. I Saw The World End, by Deryck Cooke
6. Watt’s Perfect Engine, by Ben Marsden
7. Veeck as in Wreck, by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn
8. Coots in the North and other stories, by Arthur Ransome
9. The Inside Story of KZ-7, by Alan Sefton
10. The Trigan Empire, by Don Lawrence.

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

10. The Trigan Empire, by Don Lawrence

For a while we had two copies. I haven't read either of them.

[arwel-p.livejournal.com]

I thought I had the Tom Dietz, but looking through LibraryThing, I seem to have quite a few of his other books, but not Bloodwinter.

I'll throw in:
Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak, by Jim Riordan, and
A History of Motor Vehicle Registrations in the United Kingdom, L.H. Newall.

[cuboid-ursinoid.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I have the Arthur Ransome somewhere.

[jennlk]

reading through friendsfriends....

I have King of the Confessors. Used it as a jumping off place for a paper in college, iirc. Mum had Veeck as in Wreck on her shelves until she moved into an apartment and had to disperse many of her books.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I've had an issue of Reader's Digest that had an excerpt from Veeck. Eh, it's probably long gone.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

1. King of the Confessors, by Thomas Hoving

Got it. Read it.

Was motivated by John McPhee's profile of Hoving.

(This is not in the book, but I once heard a radio interview with Hoving, in which he described Vermeer as described Vermeer as "one of the great 17th-century painters of all time.")

7. Veeck as in Wreck, by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn

I'm no kind of sports fan, but Veeck (as told to Linn) is a great storyteller. I love this book. Have three editions. Have given away copies at times.

I recall the Reader's Digest excerpt Kip mentions-- the time Veeck sent a midget to bat for the St. Louis Browns, on the theory that he had a microscopic strike zone.

[timill]

Eddie Gaedel. But I don't remember what beer he was promoting.

[armb.livejournal.com]

I read The Trigan Empire as strips in Look and Learn, but don't have the book.
I read some of them online not long ago too, but I don't know where. Maybe http://www.triganempire.co.uk had them temporarily and has removed them, or maybe I'm just not looking properly now.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

I have the Cooke, the 1991 OUP paperback edition. As it happens, it's presently shelved next to Anna Russell's autobiography, I'm Not Making This Up, You Know.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The Trigan Empire? Is that the Hamlyn edition of 1978, 0-600-38788-7?

(Printed in Italy, it says here.)

[timill]

That very edition...

[muninnhuginn]

The Trigan Empire as in the Look and Learn comic strip. I loved that. Didn't know there was a book of it.