That was a legit book find! It’s almost like having a book haul when you find awesome old stuff you were looking for. Great reactions to James and especially Faulkner.
Quite amazing finds there. I wonder how collectible those Tarzan books have become--I'd bet those are worth a fortune today. I couldn't but groan when I fell for that old and cheap STEPHEN KING trap (The Rim of Morning) where the publishers tried to trick you into buying books that were not King's by emphasizing his name over the original author, not to mention having King's name all over his own book covers back in the 1980s mass-market softcovers. Loved this video a great deal: some tension and thrills, easy going and slapstickally humorous.
I always love going thru books that I haven't seen in years! It's really fun. Hey, as soon as the weather warms up, I'm going up to the book attic and check out some old books!!! Right now, the outside temperature is 11F heading for -8F tonight.
Knight and Knave was indeed the last Mouser book, save for a fragment from a 1930s book called The Tale of the Grain Ships. Enjoyed that dive into the Lost Treasures.
A tidbit about Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser - DC acquired rights to the characters in 1972 and first used them in a cross-dimensional story in which Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser teamed up with Wonder Woman and Catwoman in a story by Samuel R. Delany, illustrated by Dick Giordano.
Buchan is pronounced Buck-an, with an even emphasis on both syllables . Your Books that Time Forgot was my fav series of videos. I loved watching the boxes being unpacked. Glad you found another one!
Michael, your collection is awesome. I hope you have a reputable book dealer friend who can assess the value of some of your books. You are literally browsing in a goldmine.
Trouble is, though, you'd have to sell the books to get their monetary value. That's a rubicon across which most of us bibliophiles won't easily cross.
Any video that mentions books by Paul Chadwick, Mark Schultz, and Roy G. Krenkel is okay with me! That series of Tarzan books also has some very nice artwork by Michael Kaluta, Charles Vess, and Gary Gianni. The Alien adaptation by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson was indeed reprinted later, and in one format that was oversized somewhat like an Artist's Edition in black & white.
Whoa I did not know they made an original comic version of Conan the Destroyer that is really cool! Yeeeees Cadillacs and Dinosaurs! God I NEED Alien The Illustrated Story SO BAD...it is so damn cool. I've never finished the Annihilation Trilogy even though I really really like the first two books, I need to finish the trilogy. The Orpheus Process has been on my wish list for so long haha. The Totem is one I need to get to eventually as well. Great video!
Simonson did the best stuff in the Michael Moorcock's Multiverse comic. I have found some interesting Edgar Rice Burroughs tribute novels by J.T. Edson recently, his Bunduki novels.
Catching up on some of these. Interesting about the lost, unfinished Tarzan book. That does look like a really nice version of the Beasts of Tarzan…. I feel like novels are always a little more fun with some illustrations. Didn’t I see you with another version of that 39 Steps book a long time ago? I only read the first Annihilation book. It was decent, but I didn’t love it… not sure if I’ll ever read the rest. I have numerous different versions of the Foundation books… I’ve got the the original trilogy in that version you have there. Enjoyed seeing another episode of this series!
_Nice._ I've recently found that same Modern Library Mysterious Island; quite exciting, but I compared with my French copy and unfortunately not _all_ the illustrations are there (and they should have gone easier on the toner, at least in mine). There's a _lot_ of illustrations, but I guess maybe half of them made this edition. Still a good copy to have as Verne goes - the main concern is that the translator isn't a hack has historically been the case with Verne in English - my goal is to one day be able to read my french copy for the real deal. But until then, I've got some sweet modern translations of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with the old illustrations - hopefully all of em) and Around the World in 80 days (Robert Ingpen's grand colour illustrations), and Journey to the Center of the Earth (sans pictures 😣 ).
Yes, I remember Concrete! I bought some of those issues when they were first published decades ago, and still have them somewhere buried in The Williamson Archives. The Big Sky is from the Time/Life Reading Plan series more commonly seen in paperback. I bought three of those hardcovers for a quarter each just a few weeks ago!
Ooo.. I like the Tarzan The Lost Adventure faux pulps, super covers, the Conan graphic and the RGK art book also looks really good too. I remember Concrete. Jane Austen was a notorious laudanum fiend, the fevered halucinations and disturbing dreams haunted and fueled her passion for horror.. so I'm led to believe. Amused by the 'biggest' Louis L'Amour western, if the publishers intended it to be a pun I don't know but I thought it was funny.
Shakespeare & Co.? Wasn't that the big bookstore that had all the poets come in and read live? Where the poem "Scream" was first heard read publicly by Allen Ginsberg? Could be wrong. The Big Sky seems to be missing a cover.
If my grandmother was alive she would box your ears for throwing Faulkner like that because she knew him because she was a college professor who taught literature and music in Louisiana when he was living across the river in Mississippi
I remember Concrete. I never read it but remember the manager of my comic shop loved the title, always happy to recommend it, and his rant when Rob Liefeld's Youngblood came out. He felt Badrock borrowed a bit much. Haven't seen that version of Alien since the 90's. A female friend picked it up at a Dragon*Con. With Heavy Metal in supposed dealing with tough times if they still have any rights to this they may want to consider a reprint. Though not sure of the numbers on the current Marvel run.
Michael... I know that a lot of these are free on Project Gutenberg, but there are those of us who prefer physical books, and either way - you're costing us time/&/or money in getting awesome books!!! If Roger didn't really know what he was talking about, there would be a peasants revolt against Vaughan Manor! ("let them eat pulp!" 😜😝🤣😂)
J. Allen St john is the illustrator of the Tarzan book. A few years ago I found a box of books that had been hidden behind stuff for many years. They were all occult books. Blavatsky, Eliphas Levi, Dion Fortune etc. I swear I do not have a clue where they came from. I certainly don't remember buying them.
Can we expect a World's Finest edition about Concrete? The reaction to Portrait of a Lady was hilarious. The Oxbow Incident was made into a film, i think starring James Stewart.
Found your channel recently and really enjoying watching through some of your videos. Our reading tastes definitely align which means I now have a lot of great recommendations to check out! A couple vid ideas, you could do specific genre/subject recs like on westerns or nautical novels. Or you could talk about the different publishing collections - modern library, penguin, library of America etc. and what you like about them. (Also maybe I just don't get it but watching your Books That Time Forgot series it really does seem like you could get rid of some of those duplicates you keep around...often you'll say something like you have a new one but keep the old because you love it. So why not get rid of the new? Are you against using the old one to actually read?)
Shadow books? Tarzan: The Lost Adventure? This box has some amazingly coincidentally titled books for a missing box. What a fun cosmic coincidence! If you pull out a novelization of Raiders of the Lost Arc by the end of this video, I'm going to freak out... :)
I would love to get my hands on the Tarzan and Concrete books. I remember seeing Concrete all the time at the comic shop, but never picked up any of his issues.
Throwing books !! I dont think I've ever seen that on booktube. About time someone did it, I do it all the time. 😉 I've never read any Henry James, and I certainly wont now 🤣 I pronounce Buchan so it rhymes with....you know.... I havent read Once an Eagle but I have it. I have the same misgivings, I need a read along to help me I think.
You must not watch Daniel Greene, he's know to throw books he likes around, but then he's got a thing for shocking his audience a bit - may or may not be how channel blew up.
Michael I’m trying to find the video where you talk about the novel that Siegel and Schuster based Superman on. What was it called? “The Champion?” Who was the author?
I was laughing at your reactions to Faulkner and Henry James. Guess they were bland and boring. I've never read them. My rule of thumb: if a book holds my interest for the first ten minutes, I'll continue reading until I finish with it. 😁❤📚📖
I've read ONCE AN EAGLE and enjoyed it. It was made into a TV movie with Sam Elliott who was very young at the time. It also was good. I recommend both.
Don't know why but I get the feeling you're not a fan of Henry James. I did like Portrait of a Lady when I read it quite a long time ago, but despite I've somehow never been inspired to pick up any more of his stuff apart from a collection of his ghost stories. Both of those William Sloane books are great. A damn shame he never wrote any other novels after those. The only book that ever inspired me to toss it like you did that Faulkner was Ayn Rand's For the New Intellectual, more than half of which is taken up by excerpts of her other books, and more of than half of that is taken up by bits of Atlas Shrugged including the whole of "This is John Galt speaking". It was at some point during the latter that I finally lost my shit and physically threw the book from me. UGH.
Love this video and I’m hoping to read the Swords books again later in the year. If we time it right it would be great to buddy read it? I need to get going on my reading events first….awesome selection of books and love the sleep sickness moments. Haha. I haven’t read Robinson Crusoe yet but have it to read….I’m wondering if that might be a bit dry…..?
Have you read the Henry James novels? I've been reading several of his books lately. I've got a character in some of my stories I've been writing that I named after Henry James.
The “Portrait of a Lady” reaction had me cackling!
That was a legit book find! It’s almost like having a book haul when you find awesome old stuff you were looking for. Great reactions to James and especially Faulkner.
Henry James puts you to sleep, but Montague Rhodes (MR) keeps you awake…
WOW! That Alien comic took me back. I was big into that and the first few runs of the Dark Horse Aliens comics in the late 80s.
This was a pleasant surprise! I loved this series! Awesome!
Hello Pax! Yeah, finding this box was a pleasant surprise for sure.
Quite amazing finds there. I wonder how collectible those Tarzan books have become--I'd bet those are worth a fortune today. I couldn't but groan when I fell for that old and cheap STEPHEN KING trap (The Rim of Morning) where the publishers tried to trick you into buying books that were not King's by emphasizing his name over the original author, not to mention having King's name all over his own book covers back in the 1980s mass-market softcovers.
Loved this video a great deal: some tension and thrills, easy going and slapstickally humorous.
I always love going thru books that I haven't seen in years! It's really fun. Hey, as soon as the weather warms up, I'm going up to the book attic and check out some old books!!! Right now, the outside temperature is 11F heading for -8F tonight.
Oh man, I’m really glad I live in California.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 After the fact: It actually hit -llF with a wind chill of -40F
Knight and Knave was indeed the last Mouser book, save for a fragment from a 1930s book called The Tale of the Grain Ships. Enjoyed that dive into the Lost Treasures.
A tidbit about Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser - DC acquired rights to the characters in 1972 and first used them in a cross-dimensional story in which Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser teamed up with Wonder Woman and Catwoman in a story by Samuel R. Delany, illustrated by Dick Giordano.
What a weird team up!
Throwing shade at my man, Henry James! Don't worry, Henry, I still love you.😃
Buchan is pronounced Buck-an, with an even emphasis on both syllables . Your Books that Time Forgot was my fav series of videos. I loved watching the boxes being unpacked. Glad you found another one!
Thanks!
Michael, your collection is awesome. I hope you have a reputable book dealer friend who can assess the value of some of your books. You are literally browsing in a goldmine.
Trouble is, though, you'd have to sell the books to get their monetary value. That's a rubicon across which most of us bibliophiles won't easily cross.
@@stews9
Absolutely. I totally know what you mean. It’s like selling family.
Well, all the good stuff I’m keeping!
Any video that mentions books by Paul Chadwick, Mark Schultz, and Roy G. Krenkel is okay with me!
That series of Tarzan books also has some very nice artwork by Michael Kaluta, Charles Vess, and Gary Gianni.
The Alien adaptation by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson was indeed reprinted later, and in one format that was oversized somewhat like an Artist's Edition in black & white.
Whoa I did not know they made an original comic version of Conan the Destroyer that is really cool!
Yeeeees Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
God I NEED Alien The Illustrated Story SO BAD...it is so damn cool.
I've never finished the Annihilation Trilogy even though I really really like the first two books, I need to finish the trilogy.
The Orpheus Process has been on my wish list for so long haha.
The Totem is one I need to get to eventually as well.
Great video!
It was this series of videos that helped me to find your channel. Glad to see another one! :)
This was great! I haven't heard of half of these books but I still enjoy seeing them and getting your reaction. Thank you!
Simonson did the best stuff in the Michael Moorcock's Multiverse comic.
I have found some interesting Edgar Rice Burroughs tribute novels by J.T. Edson recently, his Bunduki novels.
Catching up on some of these. Interesting about the lost, unfinished Tarzan book. That does look like a really nice version of the Beasts of Tarzan…. I feel like novels are always a little more fun with some illustrations. Didn’t I see you with another version of that 39 Steps book a long time ago? I only read the first Annihilation book. It was decent, but I didn’t love it… not sure if I’ll ever read the rest. I have numerous different versions of the Foundation books… I’ve got the the original trilogy in that version you have there. Enjoyed seeing another episode of this series!
Concrete! I just bought one of his back issues today!
_Nice._ I've recently found that same Modern Library Mysterious Island; quite exciting, but I compared with my French copy and unfortunately not _all_ the illustrations are there (and they should have gone easier on the toner, at least in mine). There's a _lot_ of illustrations, but I guess maybe half of them made this edition. Still a good copy to have as Verne goes - the main concern is that the translator isn't a hack has historically been the case with Verne in English - my goal is to one day be able to read my french copy for the real deal.
But until then, I've got some sweet modern translations of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with the old illustrations - hopefully all of em) and Around the World in 80 days (Robert Ingpen's grand colour illustrations), and Journey to the Center of the Earth (sans pictures 😣 ).
Well, I’m glad it has some of the illustrations at least. I really bought it for the translation anyway.
That was a great box of books you had there!
Good morning Michael and Roger at lovely Vaughan Manor. 🌞
Yes, I remember Concrete! I bought some of those issues when they were first published decades ago, and still have them somewhere buried in The Williamson Archives. The Big Sky is from the Time/Life Reading Plan series more commonly seen in paperback. I bought three of those hardcovers for a quarter each just a few weeks ago!
I used to go to Gray Wolf Books back when it was Phil Roskie's Bookstore. I could spend days there. So many bookstores gone.
Ooo.. I like the Tarzan The Lost Adventure faux pulps, super covers, the Conan graphic and the RGK art book also looks really good too. I remember Concrete.
Jane Austen was a notorious laudanum fiend, the fevered halucinations and disturbing dreams haunted and fueled her passion for horror.. so I'm led to believe.
Amused by the 'biggest' Louis L'Amour western, if the publishers intended it to be a pun I don't know but I thought it was funny.
A Henry James novel... funny, I just uploaded a review of 'Washington Square'. And I get it! Same reaction; to nod off.
Highly enjoyed Annihilation. just started reading authority yesterday.. Weird and Wonderful
That it is.
Shakespeare & Co.? Wasn't that the big bookstore that had all the poets come in and read live? Where the poem "Scream" was first heard read publicly by Allen Ginsberg? Could be wrong.
The Big Sky seems to be missing a cover.
William Faulkner... I tried but failed as well. The Pullitzer and Nobel notwithstanding.
I use Henry James as a sleep aid. Ambien in book form.
I love Books That Time Forgot!
Woah! What’s the Roy G. Krenkel book? I’ve never seen that, and now I must have it. Have it, I shall! Tremendous!
It’s fantastic! Just a beautiful book. You do need it.
I’m sure you know this already but ERG inc are reprinting the dust jackets for those old Tarzan HBs. I have a couple I’d like to recover.
Everybody needs a sidekick but no their mummy! ha ha
If my grandmother was alive she would box your ears for throwing Faulkner like that because she knew him because she was a college professor who taught literature and music in Louisiana when he was living across the river in Mississippi
Don’t worry, that damned book is indestructible.
I remember Concrete. I never read it but remember the manager of my comic shop loved the title, always happy to recommend it, and his rant when Rob Liefeld's Youngblood came out. He felt Badrock borrowed a bit much.
Haven't seen that version of Alien since the 90's. A female friend picked it up at a Dragon*Con. With Heavy Metal in supposed dealing with tough times if they still have any rights to this they may want to consider a reprint. Though not sure of the numbers on the current Marvel run.
I remember Concrete. Haven't had a chance to read it yet. Looks really cool.
I loved this series
I'm looking forward to your in depth Henry James appreciation. (might be a long wait)
It might be.
Michael... I know that a lot of these are free on Project Gutenberg, but there are those of us who prefer physical books, and either way - you're costing us time/&/or money in getting awesome books!!! If Roger didn't really know what he was talking about, there would be a peasants revolt against Vaughan Manor! ("let them eat pulp!" 😜😝🤣😂)
(& if not free on Project Gutenberg, then probably free in less reputable parts of the Internet...)
Sorry NP! At least the books ARE awesome!
J. Allen St john is the illustrator of the Tarzan book.
A few years ago I found a box of books that had been hidden behind stuff for many years. They were all occult books. Blavatsky, Eliphas Levi, Dion Fortune etc. I swear I do not have a clue where they came from. I certainly don't remember buying them.
I suspect a supernatural explanation.
Can we expect a World's Finest edition about Concrete? The reaction to Portrait of a Lady was hilarious. The Oxbow Incident was made into a film, i think starring James Stewart.
I’m sure Steve and I will talk about Concrete eventually.
Love the old Berkeley REH books - from my youth!
Yeah, that was a great set of books.
Yeah, that Faulkner moment. . . I feel you
Found your channel recently and really enjoying watching through some of your videos. Our reading tastes definitely align which means I now have a lot of great recommendations to check out!
A couple vid ideas, you could do specific genre/subject recs like on westerns or nautical novels. Or you could talk about the different publishing collections - modern library, penguin, library of America etc. and what you like about them.
(Also maybe I just don't get it but watching your Books That Time Forgot series it really does seem like you could get rid of some of those duplicates you keep around...often you'll say something like you have a new one but keep the old because you love it. So why not get rid of the new? Are you against using the old one to actually read?)
I’m not against reading my old books, thank goodness. I actually did a couples of the videos you suggested already. Excellent ideas. Thanks!
What an excellent find. Poor Faulkner. I would have thrown the Austen.
There is a Shakespeare and company in Paris. It is located by Notre Dame
I’ve been to that one. Glad to know it is still there.
Shadow books? Tarzan: The Lost Adventure? This box has some amazingly coincidentally titled books for a missing box. What a fun cosmic coincidence! If you pull out a novelization of Raiders of the Lost Arc by the end of this video, I'm going to freak out... :)
I would love to get my hands on the Tarzan and Concrete books. I remember seeing Concrete all the time at the comic shop, but never picked up any of his issues.
Most of my knowledge of Concrete was of him being used in advertisements (that cover of him sitting was usually showing him reading Dark Horse Comics)
Throwing books !! I dont think I've ever seen that on booktube. About time someone did it, I do it all the time. 😉 I've never read any Henry James, and I certainly wont now 🤣 I pronounce Buchan so it rhymes with....you know.... I havent read Once an Eagle but I have it. I have the same misgivings, I need a read along to help me I think.
Maybe we can read Once an Eagle later this year. Then we can both complain about it if it sucks.
You must not watch Daniel Greene, he's know to throw books he likes around, but then he's got a thing for shocking his audience a bit - may or may not be how channel blew up.
Michael I’m trying to find the video where you talk about the novel that Siegel and Schuster based Superman on. What was it called? “The Champion?” Who was the author?
The books that time actually forgot xD
The phantoms have probably stashed another box somewhere.
I was laughing at your reactions to Faulkner and Henry James. Guess they were bland and boring. I've never read them.
My rule of thumb: if a book holds my interest for the first ten minutes, I'll continue reading until I finish with it. 😁❤📚📖
I'm a big Firestorm fan so I like Conway but I never knew he wrote Conan. I guess I'll have to check that out.
I've read ONCE AN EAGLE and enjoyed it. It was made into a TV movie with Sam Elliott who was very young at the time. It also was good. I recommend both.
Agree. I have copies of both. I also enjoyed them. I like Meyers books especially The Last Convertible.
Thanks! Good to know.
The Henry James reaction 😂
Hitchcock directed the film for 39 Steps. Great movie.
Just bought The Rim of the Morning
Don't know why but I get the feeling you're not a fan of Henry James. I did like Portrait of a Lady when I read it quite a long time ago, but despite I've somehow never been inspired to pick up any more of his stuff apart from a collection of his ghost stories.
Both of those William Sloane books are great. A damn shame he never wrote any other novels after those.
The only book that ever inspired me to toss it like you did that Faulkner was Ayn Rand's For the New Intellectual, more than half of which is taken up by excerpts of her other books, and more of than half of that is taken up by bits of Atlas Shrugged including the whole of "This is John Galt speaking". It was at some point during the latter that I finally lost my shit and physically threw the book from me. UGH.
I was a bit tough on Henry James here!
I remember concrete!
I don't think I would like to be too close to Roger when he gets excited 😕
You are wise.
Love this video and I’m hoping to read the Swords books again later in the year. If we time it right it would be great to buddy read it? I need to get going on my reading events first….awesome selection of books and love the sleep sickness moments. Haha. I haven’t read Robinson Crusoe yet but have it to read….I’m wondering if that might be a bit dry…..?
It’s pretty good, actually.
Have you read the Henry James novels? I've been reading several of his books lately. I've got a character in some of my stories I've been writing that I named after Henry James.
13:42 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've read a lot of Concrete and just couldn't love it.
I find Henry James more interesting than most of what he wrote.
Ever read "Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock?
Not yet. It’s sitting there in my library waiting for me.
I’ve owned this book for several decades, but never read it. I’m guessing you would recommend it?
@@BookBlather Yes, I enjoyed the first one when I read it 20 years ago. The first sequel was OK and I DNFed the second sequel.
thanks
LOL, is Henry James that boring?
Henry Ja…..😴
Roger has an OnlyFans account.