new stuff. with pictures!
leaveittoweaver, maintainer of the wonderful searching for alice blog, started a group on a website called good reads for alice, called all things alice. i also saw that she keeps track of some of her alices with the site, because there is a fairly vast catalog of various editions of books on there. so i copied her. and i was able to find 45 of mine, so far. the list, or "shelf", is here: yay!. this is the best way i know of to keep track, so far.

i recently sat at my alice shelf with a notebook (an alice notebook, who'da thunk?) and wrote down all the isbns (of the ones that had them)... and tried to google them... and ran into a bounty of problems with this. some of the numbers linked to entirely unrelated books, or were not found at all! after not very long of futzing with this, i abandoned it altogether. which was a sad thing, because it took me like an hour and a half to hand-write all the numbers down! ahh well, it was at least a good chance to check for bookworms and other such problems that sometimes accompany collections of books.

i'm in florida on vacation right now. jay and i are visting his mom, and a feature of these visits tends to be that we visit many thrift, consignment, and used book stores. i am always on the lookout for alices :) last time i only found two, my alice for the very young and my ultimate illustrated edition. this time, i've found 7!
i figure this places me somewhere around 100.
eep!

i'm including pictures for once ever!

this one i got today at a place called the book lover's cafe, which is where i found my alice for the very young. jay actually spotted this first. i was happy because it was one i've been wanting. it's from 1986... it's my age :) see, however, the booworm-hole in the binding near the top :( i do not believe this is an ongoing problem, but i'll still treat it when i get home)




got this one at an antique store in mout dora. i tend to like ones that are a part of a collection of classics :) 1961.


another from the antique shop in mount dora. it has bad spine damage and the first couple pages want to fall out. 1955. possible mold on the bottom :(... not entirely sure why i paid $8 for this.


also from the same antique shop in mount dora. at one point, this cost 50 cents! from 1960 (i think it looks older by how the paper has aged), with foreword by horace gregory.


got this at a thrift store here in gainesville :) i think it was like 20 cents or something. 2005.


i probably already have this somewhere, because i had a lot of these as a kid. "let's begin now! *chime!*" books/tapes. this did not come with the tape. but it was 10 cents. at the same thrift store as the last one. 1979.


from the same thrift store. similarly cheap. just a cute little storybook. it's actually pretty well adapted. 1996.