A library sale late in the month helped boost my acquisitions in January. I got 27 books in total (including one gift), as well as one magazine and 13 movies on DVD. Highlights include several of the Horatio Hornblower novels, which I’ve never read; Murray Leinster’s The Forgotten Planet, which I’ll be reading in March as part of Roger’s Cheap Old Book Club, created by Youtuber Michael K. Vaughan; a set of the original Planet of the Apes movies; and one of my favorite mystery movies from the 1940s, Murder, My Sweet, starring Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in a movie based on Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely.

Books:

• Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, by C. S. Forester. Pinnacle Books, 1978 (originally published 1958.
• Assassins Have Starry Eyes, by Donald Hamilton. Gold Medal Books, 1956.
• Assignment — Amazon Queen, by Edward S. Aarons. Fawcett Gold Medal, 1974.
• The Best Cartoons from France, by Edna Bennett. Simon and Schuster, 1953.
• The Big Bust, by Ed Lacy. Pyramid Books, 1969.
• Casebook of the Black Widowers, by Isaac Asimov. Fawcett Crest, 1980.
• Commodore Hornblower, by C. S. Forester. Pinnacle Books, 1978 (originally published 1945).
• Crimson Snow, ed. by Martin Edwards. British Library, 2016.
• The Dreadful Lemon Sky, by John D. MacDonald. Fawcett Gold Medal, 1975.
• Flying Colors, by C. S. Forester. Pinnacle Books, 1977 (originally published 1938).
• The Forgotten Planet, by Murray Leinster. Ace Books, 1954.
• Girl on the Run, by Edward S. Aarons. Fawcett Gold Medal, 1954.
• Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, by Mary Mapes Dodge. Junior Deluxe Editions, 1954 (originally published 1865).
• John Payne and the Menace at Hawk’s Nest, by Kathryn Heisenfelt. Whitman, 1943.
• Lord Hornblower, by C. S. Forester. Pinnacle Books, 1978 (originally published 1946).
• Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis. HarperSanFrancisco, 2001 (originally published 1952).
• Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, by C. S. Forester. Pinnacle Books, 1978 (originally published 1950).
• The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne. Grosset & Dunlap (originally published 1875).
• Northwest of Earth, by C. L. Moore. Planet Stories (Paizo Publishing), 2007.
• Otto of the Silver Hand, by Howard Pyle. Charles Scribner’s Sons (originally published 1888).
• Simon Rack: Earth Lies Sleeping, by Laurence James. Sphere Books Limited, 1974.
• Six-Gun Bride of the Teton Bunch and Seven Other Action-Packed Stories of the Wild West, by Les Savage, Jr. Ed. by Martin H. Greenberg and Bill Pronzini. Barricade Books, 1995.
• Swords and Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy, Volume 4, by David A. Riley. Parallel Universe Publications, 2022.
• The Threefold Cord, by Francis Vivian. Dean Street Press, 2018 (originally published 1947).
• To Be Hanged, by Bruce Hamilton. Published for the Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.
• The Toynbee Convector, by Ray Bradbury. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
• Wrath of the Lion, by Jack Higgins. Fawcett Gold Medal, 1964.

Magazines

• Cirsova Vol. 2, No. 13 (Winter 2022). Cirsova Publishing, 2022.

Movies on DVD

• Advance to the Rear (1964)
• Belle of the Yukon (1944)
• A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
• Duel in the Sun (1946)
• Foxy Brown (1974)
• Murder, My Sweet (1944)
• Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
• Stopover Tokyo (1957)
• All the original Planet of the Apes movies:
  • Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
  • Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
  • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
  • Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)