XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien
From: theswain@operamail.com
Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:09:37 -0500, Larry Swain
> wrote:
>
>
>>Steve Hayes wrote:
>>
>>>While never as popular as Tolkien or Lewis, Williams has an enthusiastic
>>>following, but his books are difficult to get and rarely reprinted.
>>>
>>>I haven't seen any in bookshops since the 1960s, and my copies are getting
old
>>>and battered.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I love Williams' novels! Great stuff, if you go in for that sort of
>>thing. Anyway, at least here in the US his books remain in print. Wm.
>>Eerdman's keeps them in print and you should be able to find copies
>>easily enough. Or if you ask really nicely ;) since I'll be over in
>>your neck of the woods in late Sept., I can bring a volume or two with
>>me and post them to you from GB and save you the overseas shipping.
>
>
> Thanks very much for the offer, but I'm not in GB, so it would still be
> overseas. But fiction by US publishers is rarely sold here in South Africa
> (some sort of cartel agreement between US and British publishers) and so even
> if they are still in pint, it is unlikely that we'll see them in the
> bookshops, most of which cater only for the most Philistine of tastes.
Ah, sorry about that. Try a service like abebooks or tomfolio that have
international connections. They may be able to find used copies for you
to send.
>
> We see Stephen King in profusion (British editions, naturally), but Phil
> Rickman is hard to find, even though he is a British author, and williams is
> impossible.
>
> But as someone else remarked, anyone who enjoyed Lewis's "That hideous
> strength" should appreciate Williams.
>
>
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