Calling all Book Collectors - What have you got? What are you hunting for?

An "Established Poster"? Me?

Well thats the nicest thing anyone's said to me all day. Even nicer than being called "Fillyjonk-Mummy stink of wee" by ds.

March is not a long time really. But long enough that you are An Established Poster now :)

I wish one of these posters that I have found long lost books for would have the decency to come back and be fawningly grateful. Harrumph.

its bloody sucked me in, thats why.

I MN while bfing. Dd is one well fed baby...

I've been here since March, is that a long time? But I used to be much nicer and less contentious, til the forlemort debacle.

Oh was that fairly recently? Yes I think you are right. You know, Fillyjonk, I think you have only started posting prolifically quite recently and I think you are newer than you actually are.

have you not? Really? Were you not FrannyQuiMangeQuinoa or something on the French namechange threads?

Or was that a different Franny?

Don't forget I was filyjonk then...

Hmm Fillyjonk I think you have just outed yourself as a lurker...I haven't been a quinoa eater for ages

You'd be surprised! I've found good bargains in little out of the way bookshops, Scotland seem to be particuarly unaware of his status! I've also got his books in French, Spanish and Greek. Not that I'm obsessed at all!

I like Conan Doyle too. But that is going to be pretty expensive, surely? You have to compete with all those rich old men?

I want first edition of any of Conan Doyle's books. Also first edition of his books printed in a foreign language.

it gets sooooooo confusing, I find

sorry, am i speaking here to frannyandzooey, frannysmith, or the eater of quinoa?

I was assuming all the Fillyjonks were you, Fillyjonk?

3 Fillyjonks now...

Yes lets declatre Tove Jansson week.

Two Fillyjonks, what fun! There is just something so magical about Tove Jansson's books, isn't there? The dear characters who you start to love as a child, and whose depth you only appreciate when you are older. Let's start a republish campaign - we need to read her other books. I believe there are several written for adults. We could enlist as many people as possible and then all contact the publishers in the same week.

KateF - I have managed to get the Pippi books, The Brothers Lionheart, Rasmus and the Vagabond, Mio My Son, Karlsson on the Roof, Karlsson Flies Again, the Confidences of Britt-Marie Hagstrom, a couple of Emil books, Mardie (Madicken in Swedish), and a Bullerby book on ebay. I think that's all... The Karlssons were fairly expensive but not as much as The World's Best Karlsson which someone occasionally tries to sell for about £80! (I think ABE books have it for about £300!). Still looking for Nils Karlsson-Pyssling which I think was published in English as Simon Small - I have never seen this. Of course if you are fluent in Swedish or German you will have no trouble.

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Hi - I dont really collect books per se, but I do love them.

Have spent quite a few years trying to find a book I loved in my childhood - in fact it was my absolute favourite, and I memorised all the words back then!! It is called Tootles the Taxi, unfortunately it went out of print and I have not been able to find it Think my Mum gave it away years ago, with all of my much loved Molly Brett Books .

Brownie

Hej , azroc!

Yeah, lets get on to Sort of books. The Summer Book is amazing, so gentle and yet powerful, I have had to kidnap my mum's copy. It sums up the grandmother/grandchild relationship really well, I think. They need to republish it! They're republishing the Moomin books, I think. I wonder why she stopped doing proper illustrated books?

Hej, kateF, didn't see your post, ASAIK the Pippi Longstocking books are pretty widely avalible, on Amazon marketplace/ABE if nowhere else, the Bullerby children books are replublished in the UK/US as The noisy village children books. The illustrations are the same but for some reason they have changed the boys names! Karlsson on the Roof seems hard to find. . I think the last are great books for a little boy.

I'm watching the one on ebay, but I don't think it will sell. Perhaps we should lobby Sort Of Books - they published the Summer Book so they might republish more if the demand is there.

I must admit I was sort of hoping BagelBird would have come back and sworn undying gratitude to me for finding her book by now

Mycket bra Fillyjonk, hej is a good start!

hang on...if I buy the ABE one, maybe I can sell it on ebay for 800% profit!

Like lighting I am

Ah yes, and if you know Swedish you also know Norwegian, yes?

Not that I've holidayed extensively in Scandianvia on numerous occasions in order to soak up that Moomin feeling, you understand.

And from that I have learnt the following vocab:

Hej.

thank christ I had a bar of green & blacks in my hand before I clicked that link, franny.

Ebay is a good idea though, will stick it on my watch list.