The Sunday Haul (on 22-12-2024)

 Even after buying more than half a dozen titles on my two visits to the 37^th Hyderabad National Book Fair that began on the 19^th of December I couldn’t resist going to Abids on Sunday. Most of the sellers had set up stalls at the Book Fair and were missing at Abids. But that wasn’t the reason why I found only one book last Sunday at Abids. 

 

I found a copy of ‘The Barbarous Coast’ by Ross MacDonald that I got for fifty rupees. Ross MacDonald is one of my favourite writers and so I bought the book thinking I did not have this title in my collection of MacDonald’s titles. But when I later checked in my bookshelves I saw the copy of ‘The Barbarous Coast’ that I had bought long back. I wasn’t disappointed since the copies had different covers.