A Certain Inability to Count
Sep. 22nd, 2012 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowA while back, I decided to do a complete reread of Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolò and Lymond Chronicles books. I just finished Caprice and Rondo, which I thought to be the last of the Niccolò books - indeed, the front matter only lists the seven volumes up to that point. Before tackling the Lymond books, though, I got it into my head to look up the precise internal connection between the two series... which is when I discovered that there is an eighth volume, Gemini - which, of course, I do not have.
Amazon indicates one seller with a new copy, for upwards of $140, and several with used copies, beginning at about a buck fifty (which does not, to my mind, bode well for the condition of the book). The university library has only one Dunnett book, and it's not that one.
I'm feeling irritated, at least partly towards myself: I vaguely recall hearing that there were eight Niccolò books, but allowed the short list in the front matter of the volumes I have to overrule that memory.
:sigh: Hunting is in the offing.
Amazon indicates one seller with a new copy, for upwards of $140, and several with used copies, beginning at about a buck fifty (which does not, to my mind, bode well for the condition of the book). The university library has only one Dunnett book, and it's not that one.
I'm feeling irritated, at least partly towards myself: I vaguely recall hearing that there were eight Niccolò books, but allowed the short list in the front matter of the volumes I have to overrule that memory.
:sigh: Hunting is in the offing.
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Date: 2012-09-23 05:29 am (UTC)