Clunes Booktown

On Saturday we went to the Clunes Booktown. Clunes is a small town midway between Castlemaine and Ballarat, and every year it has a special book festival. We heard about it from Suzannah, and it had plenty of the vintage novels about which she likes to blog. We had a great time in Clunes, although the shops and stalls were not particularly pram-friendly. Here is what we bought:

• Constantine and the Conversion of Europe by A. H. M. Jones
• Misreadings by Umberto Eco
• Two first editions by G. K. Chesterton - Alarms and Discursions and Tremendous Trifles
• The Travels of Marco Polo - we were both interested in this after reading William Dalrymple's In Xanadu, which chronicles a journey that retraces Marco Polo's steps.
• A book of stories by O. Henry
• Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley by Marguerite Henry - Kara collects Henry's horse stories
• The first two books of the Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope - The Warden and Barchester Towers
• A book which Clifton Fadiman edited containing, quite simply, his favourite pieces of writing
• The Women of Israel by Grace Aguilar - This book was published in 1889. John is writing a thesis on the women in the Book of Samuel, and while this book doesn't cover all of them, it does have the wise women of Tekoa and Abel.
• God's Gold: A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem by Sean Kingsley
• Letters to Children by C. S. Lewis
• The Colveneres of the Old Netherlands by C. C. Culvenor
• The Southern States of North America by Edward King. London: Blackie & Son, 1875. Cr. 4o, 806pp.
• Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire - winner of the 1940 Caldecott Medal.