April 30th, 2009 / 3:12 pm
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HTMLGIANT Book Exchange

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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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36 Comments

  1. Blake Butler

      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 Lish
      Frances 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 Beckett
      Three 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)

  2. Blake Butler

      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 Lish
      Frances 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 Beckett
      Three 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)

  3. Lincoln

      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 Brown
      My 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

  4. Lincoln

      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 Brown
      My 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

  5. Matthew Simmons

      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 Sparling

  6. Matthew Simmons

      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 Sparling

  7. Nathan Tyree

      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.

  8. Nathan Tyree

      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.

  9. sam pink

      yo i’ll trade you nohow on for something. is “peru” good?

  10. sam pink

      yo i’ll trade you nohow on for something. is “peru” good?

  11. Blake Butler

      i hear ‘peru’ generally referred to as ‘his best book’

      i liked it, i just have 2 of them

  12. Blake Butler

      i hear ‘peru’ generally referred to as ‘his best book’

      i liked it, i just have 2 of them

  13. sasha

      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.

  14. sasha

      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.

  15. tao

      lincoln, i ‘really want’ ‘my funny body,’ i can paypal you $7 or trade something

  16. tao

      lincoln, i ‘really want’ ‘my funny body,’ i can paypal you $7 or trade something

  17. Nathan Tyree

      Thank you! I’m going to order that tonight.

  18. Nathan Tyree

      Thank you! I’m going to order that tonight.

  19. Lincoln

      Either way is cool, i’d probably prefer a trade though.

  20. Lincoln

      Either way is cool, i’d probably prefer a trade though.

  21. christian

      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.

  22. christian

      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.

  23. Lincoln

      I’d actually love a copy of Last Days. Any other wants than Nightwatchmen??

  24. Lincoln

      I’d actually love a copy of Last Days. Any other wants than Nightwatchmen??

  25. Catherine Lacey

      did you read the loss of leon meed? or is it still “unread”?

  26. Catherine Lacey

      did you read the loss of leon meed? or is it still “unread”?

  27. Lincoln

      I have like 5 new copies of it. Is it worth reading?

  28. Lincoln

      I have like 5 new copies of it. Is it worth reading?

  29. Ken

      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.

  30. Ken

      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.

  31. christian

      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.

  32. christian

      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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  34. drew

      will trade the berman book (actual air) for the mirandy july book? email romper66@gmail.com

  35. drew

      will trade the berman book (actual air) for the mirandy july book? email romper66@gmail.com

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