Backyard Book Sale
6 Nov
In a bid to clear the space on my bookshelf (and to earn some money for year-end travelling � December fuel surcharges are seriously threatening my ability and desire to travel out), I’ve decided to put out a couple of things for sale. And where else would be better to advertise than the book-loving crowd I’ve got here? Great CDs and bags and other assorted things I can bear to sell are next.
*Fiction*
Martin Amis, Dead Babies — $6
Martin Amis, Money — $6
Martin Amis, Yellow Dog (hardcover) — S$12
(Or take all the Martin Amis books for S$22.)
Monica Ali, Brick Lane — $6
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist — $5
Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveller — $6
Elfriede Jelinek, “Women As Lovers”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1852422378/104-1986349-3430347?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance (Nobel Prize for Lit, 2004) — $8
(All of these authors need no introduction, I presume. Take the whole set of these, for $22 too.)
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting — $5
Irvine Weslh, Ecstasy — $5
Irvine Welsh, 4Play — $5
(Take all the Irvine Welsh for $12.)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse — $4
Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies — $5
Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry — $5
Jean-Paul Sartre � Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories (Hardcover) — $8
Jean-Paul Sartre, Age of Reason — $5
*Local and Southeast Asian Writing*
_Poetry_
Alfian bin Sa’at, A History of Amnesia — $5
Koh Beng Liang, Last Three Women — $5
Aaron Lee, A Visitation of Sunlight — $5
Alvin Pang, Testing the Silence — $5
(All from the Ethos Books local poetry series; take them all for $15.)
_Fiction_
Daren Shiau, Heartland — $5
F. Sionil Jose, Olvidon and Other Stories — $5 (Filipino lit heavyweight)
Celene Loo, Confessions of a Virgin Backpacker — $3
Claire Tham, Fascist Rock — $3
Ovidia Yu, The Mouse Marathon — $3
Colin Cheong, Poets Priests and Prostitutes — $3
(Or take everything for $15.)
_Plays_
Fat Virgins, Fast Cars, and Asian Values — $5
(A collection of 9 local plays from Theatreworks’ Writers’ Lab)
*Travel-Related*
Malaysia Tatler’s “Malaysia’s Best Restaurants 2005″ — $4
Foodster’s Guide 2005/06 (published by “Friedchillies”:http://friedchillies.com/foodstersguide.php) — $4
(both are excellent if you’re planning a trip to Kuala Lumpur soon; the Foodster’s Guide, for example, has annotated, hand drawn maps of _makan_ areas like Jalan Alor and Petaling St, as well as restaurant reviews and feature articles; while the former is similar to Tatler Singapore’s Best Restaurants.)
Lonely Planet Cambodia (2005) — $5 (this is, I think, a high quality ‘copy’ purchased in Siem Reap, but in full colour and full text, only slightly misaligned on some pages; but how was I to know then?) You get a a copy of Visitors’ Guide to Siem Reap and Phnom Penh (May 2005) thrown in.
Footprint India 13th Edition — $40 (purchased in Kinokuniya in July 2005 for S$72. If $40 isn’t met, then I won’t sell it at all).
Condition of all the novels and local poetry is excellent; I’d rate them between 8/10 and 9/10, with those in lesser conditions only slightly yellowed with age. No books go bad with me. The Singaporean novels and plays are only slightly aged. Footprint India is 9.5/10 � it looks like something you just picked up from Kinokuniya, but minus the shrinkwrap. Email or leave a comment to reserve; all books to be self-collected from SMU, or similar.
