{"id":18216,"date":"2019-01-19T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T21:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18216"},"modified":"2024-08-25T14:54:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T19:54:48","slug":"quaint-and-curious-volumes-of-forgotten-lore-5-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18216","title":{"rendered":"Quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore (#5 in a series)."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to do a full Lawrence<\/a> here, but I want to mention a couple of interesting things I’ve found at Half-Price Books recently:<\/p>\n

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Not much to say about this one: anybody who knows me well, or even regularly reads this blog, understands why I had to pick this one up.<\/p>\n

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Spoiler: that “bizarre menace” is…LSD.<\/p>\n

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I actually already have, and have read, The Ravens<\/a><\/strong>, and rather liked it. (Christoper Robbins also wrote Air America<\/a><\/strong>, which the Robert Downey Jr.\/Mel Gibson movie<\/a> was based on.) But prices on this seem to be all over the place, and I thought it might be worth taking a flyer on for $7.99…<\/p>\n

…and then I took a look at the title page:<\/p>\n

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If you can’t read it, this appears to have been signed to somebody named “Chris” by multiple former Ravens. I think this is kind of nifty, and will probably hang onto this copy. (I might flip the other one.) I don’t think the “Chris” in question is the author, as he died in London in 2012, and his bio doesn’t say anything about military service. I suspect there’s a sad story behind this ending up at HPB that I don’t really want to think about, but I hope wherever “Chris” is, he knows that someone values his book.<\/p>\n

Also, just to drive one or two of my friends crazy: I picked up some more Jack O’Connor. The two volume Hunting on Three Continents<\/a><\/strong>, which I found for $14.99 (minus 20% because it was after Christmas), and the Jim Casada edited The Lost Classics of Jack O’Connor<\/a><\/strong>. which I probably overpaid for. But both are in mint shape. I actually do not remember if I already have Lost Classics<\/strong>, but if I find it in one of the boxes I’ll flip it. I know I didn’t have Three Continents<\/strong> previously: that was a real find.<\/p>\n

Probably the next thing I’m going to curl up with, though, is Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to a Holy Happy Hour<\/a><\/strong> which was a Christmas gift from my beloved and indulgent sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to do a full Lawrence here, but I want to mention a couple of interesting things I’ve found at Half-Price Books recently: Not much to say about this one: anybody who knows me well, or even regularly reads this blog, understands why I had to pick this one up. Spoiler: that “bizarre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,97,15,217,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-guns","category-history","category-mixology","category-oconnor","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18227,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions\/18227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}