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I consoled myself after the tree incident by attending one the highlights of the booklover’s year, the Sydney Uni Chancellor’s Committee booksale. My mother came down from ‘the country’ to attend also. Luckily we were interested in similar sections so we formed a two-pronged attack, getting in the door just after it opened.

(Just to gloat) I bought:

Fifty ‘Bab’ Ballads W.S. Gilbert
Poems St John of the Cross
Ariel Sylvia Plath
Winter Trees Sylvia Plath
Remains of Elmet Ted Hughes and Fay Godwin
The Vernacular Republic Les Murray
The Long Game and other poems Bruce Beaver
What I came to say Raymond Williams
Literary Sydney: A walking guide Jill Dimond and Peter Kirkpatrick
Reading Australian Poetry Andrew Taylor
Heat 7
The Historical Novel Georg Lukacs
A Primer of English Versification James McAuley
Gone Bush Roger McDonald ed.
A Mother’s Disgrace Robert Dessaix
Correction Thomas Bernhard
The Simple Gift Steven Herrick
North of the Moonlight Sonata Kerryn Goldsworthy
One-Eyed Cat Paula Fox
The Glade Within the Grove David Foster
Religious Commitment and Secular Reason Robert Audi
John shines through Augustine A.P. Carleton
Sporting Fever Michael Parkinson
and 12 kids picture books.

And I paid $39.

Yes, I am feeling very pleased with myself.

Dean at Happy Antipodean has also blogged his purchases.

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