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HTMLGIANT Book Exchange
HTMLGIANT Book Exchange is a place to post lists of books you want or books you’d like to get rid of in return for other books.
It’s pretty simple: in the comments section, post your lists. Then if you see a book you want, nest your reply under the list you found it. Though it’s up to you and the other person to work out details of the trade, we will manage the lists and hopefully make a market of it, perhaps one more closely-knit and attentive to ‘good books’ over ‘just any old thing,’ in light of the now overrun book trade sites like Bookmooch and etc.
[In that mind, when you are listing books, please try to be selective in your ‘what I have’ lists, avoiding the common things that most anyone would have or could easily find, and instead try to focus on books that might not be as readily available for trade: i.e. less classics, more contemporary. If someone is looking for, say, Stephen King or Mark Twain, they can ask for it by name, and then you can follow up.]
[Also, if you post a list and want to go back and add more, make a note nested under your original and we can consolidate. Don’t make more than one node post of haves/wants, as that will get messy.]
This will be chaotic and wonderful to begin with. We’ll learn as we go, and if plans go as plans might, we plan on developing the thread into a page of its own. More on that later.
For now, a good way to search for a specific book you want once the list populates, use the Find command in your web browser, and hope it got spelled right.
Please post your lists, use some discretion (a compendium of every book you have in your attic is not necessary). Let’s do some sharing.
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HAVE
The Evil B.B. Chow by Steve Almond (hardback)
The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian (hardback)
Edisto by Pagett Powell
The Exquisite by Laird Hunt
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Houseguest by Thomas Berger
The Law of Averages by Frederick Barthelme
The Pharmacist’s Mate by Amy Fusselman
NOON issues 2007 2008
Peru by Gordon LishFrances Johnson by Stacey Levine
Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth collection by Chris Ware
Collected Short Fiction by Kenneth Koch
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha by Edward Falco
WANT
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Book of Frank by CA Conrad
Nohow On by Samuel BeckettThree Novellas by Thomas Bernhard
Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard
Dirtmouth by Alan Singer
Tampico by Toby Olson
Collected Poems by A.R. Ammons
The Red Truck by Rudy Wilson
Like Blood in Water by Yuriy Tarnawsky
The Book of Portraiture by Steve Tomasula
Jakob von Guten by Robert Walser
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Juice by Renee Gladman
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer
I Remember by Joe Brainard
The End of the World Book by Alistair McCartney
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
(most any FC2 book I don’t already have, I have a lot, email me if you have some ‘less known’ ones)
HAVE
The Evil B.B. Chow by Steve Almond (hardback)
The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian (hardback)
Edisto by Pagett Powell
The Exquisite by Laird Hunt
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Houseguest by Thomas Berger
The Law of Averages by Frederick Barthelme
The Pharmacist’s Mate by Amy Fusselman
NOON issues 2007 2008
Peru by Gordon LishFrances Johnson by Stacey Levine
Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth collection by Chris Ware
Collected Short Fiction by Kenneth Koch
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha by Edward Falco
WANT
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Book of Frank by CA Conrad
Nohow On by Samuel BeckettThree Novellas by Thomas Bernhard
Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard
Dirtmouth by Alan Singer
Tampico by Toby Olson
Collected Poems by A.R. Ammons
The Red Truck by Rudy Wilson
Like Blood in Water by Yuriy Tarnawsky
The Book of Portraiture by Steve Tomasula
Jakob von Guten by Robert Walser
My Life by Lyn Hejinian
Juice by Renee Gladman
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer
I Remember by Joe Brainard
The End of the World Book by Alistair McCartney
Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
(most any FC2 book I don’t already have, I have a lot, email me if you have some ‘less known’ ones)
Oh man, I have stacks of unread books around me right now if anyone wants them. Some that people might want:
Underworld – DeLillo
NOON 2007
Night of the Gun – David Carr (hardcover)
Basically every Annie Proulx book.
Hip-Hop for Dogs
The Groucho Letters – Groucho Marx
Lathe of Heaven – UK Le Guin
Four Seasons in Rome – Anthony Doerr (hardcover)
My funny body – Jeffrey BrownMy Custom Van – Michael Ian Black
the loss of Leon Meed – Josh Emmons (hc and pb)
Cosmopolis – DeLillo
tons of huge crossword puzzle books
No one belongs here more than you – Miranda July
Falling Man – DeLillo
Mostly mainstream, but all unread.
WANTS
A Short History of Decay – E.M. Cioran
The Tennis Handsome – Barry Hannah
The King – Donald Barthelme
Carolyn Forche books
Dave Berman’s poetry book
Gordon Lish books
Oh man, I have stacks of unread books around me right now if anyone wants them. Some that people might want:
Underworld – DeLillo
NOON 2007
Night of the Gun – David Carr (hardcover)
Basically every Annie Proulx book.
Hip-Hop for Dogs
The Groucho Letters – Groucho Marx
Lathe of Heaven – UK Le Guin
Four Seasons in Rome – Anthony Doerr (hardcover)
My funny body – Jeffrey BrownMy Custom Van – Michael Ian Black
the loss of Leon Meed – Josh Emmons (hc and pb)
Cosmopolis – DeLillo
tons of huge crossword puzzle books
No one belongs here more than you – Miranda July
Falling Man – DeLillo
Mostly mainstream, but all unread.
WANTS
A Short History of Decay – E.M. Cioran
The Tennis Handsome – Barry Hannah
The King – Donald Barthelme
Carolyn Forche books
Dave Berman’s poetry book
Gordon Lish books
If you don’t mind galleys:
HAVE
All Souls by Christine Schutt
The City in Crimson Cloak by Asli Erdogan
Osama Van Halen by Michael Muhammad Knight
Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames
Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation by Martin Millar
more later….
WANT
Under the Light by Sam Michel
For Those Whom God has Blessed with Fingers by Ken SparlingIf you don’t mind galleys:
HAVE
All Souls by Christine Schutt
The City in Crimson Cloak by Asli Erdogan
Osama Van Halen by Michael Muhammad Knight
Buffalo Lockjaw by Greg Ames
Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation by Martin Millar
more later….
WANT
Under the Light by Sam Michel
For Those Whom God has Blessed with Fingers by Ken SparlingWant:
There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning to Do
Have: over 5,000 books. Anyone with the book listed above ask me for what you want, I may have it.
Want:
There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning to Do
Have: over 5,000 books. Anyone with the book listed above ask me for what you want, I may have it.
yo i’ll trade you nohow on for something. is “peru” good?
yo i’ll trade you nohow on for something. is “peru” good?
i hear ‘peru’ generally referred to as ‘his best book’
i liked it, i just have 2 of them
i hear ‘peru’ generally referred to as ‘his best book’
i liked it, i just have 2 of them
nathan i’m just mentioning this here again, but most of There’s a trick with a knife I’m learning to do exists in the compilation The Cinnamon Peeler, which has the even better Elimination Dance, and also the longer poems in the section Secular Love are great. Plus the books is in print and probably in most bookstores everywhere.
nathan i’m just mentioning this here again, but most of There’s a trick with a knife I’m learning to do exists in the compilation The Cinnamon Peeler, which has the even better Elimination Dance, and also the longer poems in the section Secular Love are great. Plus the books is in print and probably in most bookstores everywhere.
lincoln, i ‘really want’ ‘my funny body,’ i can paypal you $7 or trade something
lincoln, i ‘really want’ ‘my funny body,’ i can paypal you $7 or trade something
Thank you! I’m going to order that tonight.
Thank you! I’m going to order that tonight.
Either way is cool, i’d probably prefer a trade though.
Either way is cool, i’d probably prefer a trade though.
have:
this is a great idea, except i don’t really get rid of books unless i have multiple copies or know i will never read them, because i’m almost guaranteed to come back to even the bad ones sooner or later. that said, right now i have an extra copy of
last days, by brian evenson(though it seems like a lot of folks here have already read it). i also have about a million copies of my first book, but nobody really likes it (that’s not a marketing point — i just got paid in copies and have too many laying around).
want, badly:
the only book off the top of my head that i really want that i can’t find for a decent price is
nightwatchmen by barry hannah.
also:
blake, if you see this: i just read ca conrad’s book of frank and it’s excellent. you should get it whether anyone will trade you or not. sorry, i’m hanging on to mine.
have:
this is a great idea, except i don’t really get rid of books unless i have multiple copies or know i will never read them, because i’m almost guaranteed to come back to even the bad ones sooner or later. that said, right now i have an extra copy of
last days, by brian evenson(though it seems like a lot of folks here have already read it). i also have about a million copies of my first book, but nobody really likes it (that’s not a marketing point — i just got paid in copies and have too many laying around).
want, badly:
the only book off the top of my head that i really want that i can’t find for a decent price is
nightwatchmen by barry hannah.
also:
blake, if you see this: i just read ca conrad’s book of frank and it’s excellent. you should get it whether anyone will trade you or not. sorry, i’m hanging on to mine.
I’d actually love a copy of Last Days. Any other wants than Nightwatchmen??
I’d actually love a copy of Last Days. Any other wants than Nightwatchmen??
did you read the loss of leon meed? or is it still “unread”?
did you read the loss of leon meed? or is it still “unread”?
I have like 5 new copies of it. Is it worth reading?
I have like 5 new copies of it. Is it worth reading?
I can send you For those whom god has blessed with fingers. You can send me any of those books you listed. Galleys are fine. You can email me at
ksparling@torontopubliclibrary.ca if you want to go for it.
I can send you For those whom god has blessed with fingers. You can send me any of those books you listed. Galleys are fine. You can email me at
ksparling@torontopubliclibrary.ca if you want to go for it.
will gladly send last days if you email your address: christian.tebordo at gmail
no, nothing else i want so bad it would get in the way of all the other stuff i have on my shelves.
will gladly send last days if you email your address: christian.tebordo at gmail
no, nothing else i want so bad it would get in the way of all the other stuff i have on my shelves.
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