GIVEAWAY: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Black Dossier)

• The prize is the graphic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Black Dossier) by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Hardcover in very good condition.

• The giveaway is open to all readers with address in the Philippines. One address per reader, one reader per address.

• Entries are accepted through email. Email subject: Extraordinary Giveaway. Please include your full name, complete address, and blog/site (if you have any).

• Deadline is midnight of 15th March, local time. The winner will be chosen using a random number generator.  I'll update this post and announce the winner here.

• UPDATE: Congrats to Gian Faye of Loading-Info | An InfoTechBlog.
  

GIVEAWAY: Totto-chan

It's the middle of the month, time for another giveaway. Here is what's at stake.

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Translated by Dorothy Britton

Illustrated by Chihiro Iwasaki.

Please note that this giveaway is open only to readers in the Philippines.

The book is not new but the pages are in very good condition. It has a fold on dust jacket and front cover. It's a mass market paperback, with dust jacket.

Learn more about this book from the publisher's page.

The rules are too simple. Just drop me an email. Subject: "Hello, Totto-chan". Include your full name and your full mailing address (within the Philippines only). One address per reader, one reader per address. A winner will be chosen from the entries using a random number generator.

The deadline is midnight of August 31st, local time. I'll update this post and announce the winner here.

Good Luck!

UPDATE (Sept. 2): Congratulations to Faye of Dasmariñas City.

GIVEAWAY: 69

"Nineteen sixty-nine was the year student uprisings shut down Tokyo University. The Beatles put out The White Album, Yellow Submarine, and Abbey Road, the Rolling Stones released their greatest single, "Honky Tonk Women," and people known as hippies wore their hair long and called for love and peace. In Paris, De Gaulle resigned. The war in Vietnam continued. High school girls used sanitary napkins, not tampons."

So begins Murakami Ryū's novel Sixty-Nine, an anthem for revolution and youth. It's the book I'm giving away this month. Please note that this giveaway is open only to readers in the Philippines.

The book is not brand-new but in quite good condition. It's in trade paperback edition, with dust jacket. It's translated by Ralph F. McCarthy and published by Kodansha International. 

The rules can't be simpler. Just drop me an email. Subject: "Seize the Year". Include your full name and your full mailing address (within the Philippines only) with the email. One address per reader, one reader per address. A winner will be chosen from the entries using a random number generator.

The deadline is midnight of July 31, local time. I'll update this post and announce the winner here.

Good Luck!

UPDATE (August 2): Congratulations to the winner, Karlo of (Mis)readings.

The winning case of the random number

 
Thanks to all who joined my first book giveaway. All of you, who can be counted in the toes of the happy feet of a penguin. The random number generating machine I used almost bogged down. The algorithm went berserk. I had to use an alternative power source to crank up the calculus. The software was out of its AI wits deciding the big win. :)

I used MS Excel™ to choose the winner. I assigned a number to each entry and calculated the lucky number using the magic formula: =RANDBETWEEN(1,x) ; where x is the last number, in this case 4.

Congrats to JM of QC for winning. Kanpai! Watch out for my second book giveaway, sometime next week. Maybe something by a French or a Japanese novelist.

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GIVEAWAY: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

Open only to readers with address in the Philippines.

This will be my first book giveaway to celebrate... To celebrate space. I’m trying to mitigate the perpetual chaos residing in my room. My room is spilling out boxes of books – I don’t have a shelf – and so, starting now, I might have a monthly book giveaway to recover some space.


The book:

The book is The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, "newly updated and expanded" 1999 edition. It's got 756 pages. I can't find the ISBN in the book but the cover is similar to what's pictured below.

It’s in hardcover, very good condition, though there’s a tear in the front bottom right edge of the dust jacket. There’s a tag price at the back, and there are some wearing in the edges of dust jacket but they were minimal. It’s pretty solid.

It's illustrated by Graham Greenfield, with additional illustrations by Eric Beddows, and maps and charts by James Cook. Published by Knopf Canada.

Blurb from the back cover: "For the intrepid literary traveler, an invaluable guidebook to more than twelve-hundred places-that-never-were"


Rules:

Just drop me an email, with the subject "A DICTIONARY ENTRY" (case sensitive). Include your full address with the email. Only readers with Philippine address can join. One address per reader, one reader per address. The winner will be randomly chosen from the entries.

This contest ends on July 2, eight in the evening, local time.

Thank you and happy reading to all.

EDIT (July 3): Congratulations to JM for the win.