The local friends of the library had another sale today. Here are a few things I picked up. These are the ones I made a conscious decision to buy. Continue reading
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I Scored!
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.
If You Want to Do a Secondhand Bookstore Crawl…
…allow me to suggest Colorado Springs. We were there recently on vacation. I knew there were some good used bookstores in town, having visited some on previous trips. So I planned time and money to be able to visit a few. Over three days, I hit four. Below are some of the treasures I found. Continue reading