At the Friends of the Library Book Sale. Why? What did you think I meant?
Some of you people need to get your minds out of the gutter.
Here’s what I picked up (click to enlarge). Paperbacks were fifty cents (when did keyboards stop containing the cents symbol?) and hardcovers a dollar.
Some of these are duplicates, such has the REH titles, the Frazetta, The Saberhagen Dracula books, the SF Hall of Fame, some of the Bova and Drake. In some cases I wasn’t sure which ones I had and in others I was upgrading. The Hecate’s Cauldron was a steal for $0.50; the last time I checked, it was selling for around $20 on ABE.
My main objective was to fill in gaps in Bova’s Grand Tour series, and I managed to pick up a couple I didn’t already have. Most of them, though, are upgrades or reading copies of titles I have that are signed. Everything else was gravy.
Not bad for $23.50 total.
Whoa! That IS a score! Can’t believe they even had the Hank Reinhardt (RIP) book. Always nice to pick up some Bova, though I’m not as big a fan as I was 30-40yrs ago.
Once again, great haul!
It really is. The Friends of the Library Sale has always been good to me. I’m very grateful at times that God has me where I’m at, as frustrating as some aspects of my current job are at times, because of some of the things unique to this area like this sale, the Cowboy Symposium, etc.
I went after the Bova titles because I’ve been wanting to read more near future SF set in the solar system. I am not a huge Bova fan, but everything I’ve read by him has usually been solid.
Well that’s a terrific haul
Sweet! I have the (I think) 11th book in that Saberhagen Dracula series. I’d never known of it, and I’m not reading that far ahead first. So if you’ve duplicates of those, hang on to them for me.
These are the first two, and they are duplicates. I will pass them along the next time I see you. I’ve got at least one other duplicate of either the third or fourth, I think. I will have to dig it out. There may have been others at the sale from later in the series. When I go back for the winter sale, I’ll keep an eye out for them.
And I’m still looking for EoV III for you but haven’t seen it.
Great score!
when did keyboards stop containing the cents symbol?
When you went from an EBCDIC (mainframe) keyboard to an ASCII (Vax/Unix/PC). 8-bit EBCDIC has a code for the cents symbol; 8-bit ASCII does not. (Although I am sure there is a Unicode for it someplace.)
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