2024 Acquisitions

 

Well, it’s that time of year, time to look back and see what’s been added to the collective this year. There’s still another month, of course, and I may get other things, but I’m not ordering anything for myself. But Christmas, well, you never know what may be coming. Last year I only listed books; this year I include toys, DVDs, and comic books.

This year I made quite a lot of nostalgic purchases of kid books; luckily not many of them were very expensive. You can, of course, look up any of these items on the blog and find out not only about them but the reasons why and the circumstances in which I bought them.

 

The Book of Taliesin, tr. Gwyneth Lewis & Rowan Williams

On the Shoulders of Hobbits, Louis Markos

Knock Three Times!, Marion St. John Weber

Matthew Looney’s Invasion of the Earth, Jerome Beatty Jr.

Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, Dorothy L. Sayers

Matthew Looney’s Voyage to the Earth, Jerome Beatty Jr.

Maurice Baring Restored, Paul Horgan

The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, Joseph Pearce

Ustinov at Large, Peter Ustinov

Gilliamesque, by Terry Gilliam

Ustinov Still at Large, Peter Ustinov

Matthew Looney in the Outback, Jerome Beatty Jr.

Laughing Shall I Die, Tom Shippey

Teaching With Authority, Jimmy Akin

Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, Joseph Pearce

The Visitors from Oz, L. Frank Baum & Eric Shanower

Sky Island, L. Frank Baum

From Time to Time, DVD

Mickelsson’s Ghosts, John Gardner

The Compass Rose, Ursula K. Le Guin

Freud’s Last Session, DVD

Dragon Slayer, Rosemary Sutcliffe

Finn and Hengest, J. R. R. Tolkien

Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings, Tom Shippey

More Tall Tales, Jeff Smith

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Pu Songling

Tolkien: Lighting Up the Darkness, Willy Duraffourg

The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis

Grendel, John Gardner

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Quest for Shakespeare, Joseph Pearce

The Truth About Dragons, Hazard Adams

Time Bandits, Marvel Movie Special

You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown, DVD

The Madwoman of Challiot, DVD

Big Jack, DVD

The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen #4, NOW Comics

Anne of the Thousand Days/ Mary Queen of Scots, DVD

The Uncle Wiggily Book, Howard R. Garis

Cromwell, DVD

The Water of the Wondrous Isles, William Morris

The Everlasting Man: A Guide, G. K. Chesterton & Dale Ahlquist

El Blanco: The Legend of the White Stallion, Rutherford Montgomery

Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Anonymous

A Man for All Seasons, DVD

The Boy and the Heron, DVD

The Annotated The Man Born to be King, Dorothy L. Sayers

The Sword and the Satchel, Elizabeth H. Boyer

The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman

The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien (3 vols.)

Thorn, Jeff Smith

The Mystery in Dracula’s Castle, Vic Crume

Escape to Witch Mountain, Alexander Key

Bullwhip Griffin, Sid Fleischman

The Shaggy Dog, Elizabeth L. Griffen

Gore Vidal: Five Novels

Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works

Murder Trials, Cicero

Jurgen, James Branch Cabell & Ray F. Coyle

The Monk, Matthew Lewis

 Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, Rhianna Pratchett

The Fantasy Book, Franz Rottensteiner

Guns for San Sebastian, DVD

Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art, John Vinycomb

Enchiridion, Epictetus

Didache, ‘The Apostles’

Wicked Witch of the West, McFarlane’s Movie Maniacs

The Book of Bill, Alex Hirsch

A Sense of Tales Untold, Peter Grybauskus

 

That’s 70 items total, including :

9 DVDs

9 ‘rebuys’ (books that I had before, in one form or another)

10 ‘old kid’s books’

8 ‘by and about Tolkien’ books

2 comic books

There may be some overlap in that list.

Last year there were 48 books, 10 of which were rebuys and 9 of which were Tolkien or Tolkien related.