I love library book sales. I love used bookstores. I love thrift stores. Why? Cheap paperback books. I used to scour the thrift shops of the East Village for hidden romance treasures, certain in the knowledge that they knew not what they had. And indeed, they didn’t. The following proves it.
I bought this in a bookshop located in the upstairs of an old 18th century building in St.Ives, Cornwall, UK. I can’t remember how much I bought it for but I was stoked by the fact that at that time none of Heyer’s books were in print in the United States.
I believe that I purchased this at a used bookstore here in SLC called Central Paperback Book Exchange. This is a strange story. The hero is married at the beginning of the book and then he is convicted of his wife’s murder. In order to save him, the heroine marries him. There’s a trial.
I first read this book online. I had checked it out as an ebook but then later found it at a library book sale. I paid 25 cents.
I found this on my parents bookshelf. I do not know how it got there. My mother never read Barbara Cartland. The only novel my father talks about reading (though it is not the only one he’s read) is The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, which he hated and never finished. He’s on page 123 and he’s staying there.
I got this at the library book sale last week. It was in the free pile. I have not read it yet.
Library Book Sale. 25 Cents.
Look at the back!
I haven’t read this one either. I should. I mean, hello! or rather Avast! Pirates!
Laura Kinsale will have to forgive me. Despite the words “Note for Resale” printed on the cover, I bought this book at the library book sale. Awesome sauce right?
I had to hunt this sucker down. I can’t remember what I paid but it was waaaaaaaaaay more than 25 cents. I’ve mentioned it in a previous post.
I love this book. It is a delightful romp involving relatives and grave digging. Got it at Central Paperback Book Exchange for $8.00.
Got this in the free pile! Woot. I love the library book sale. LOVE IT!
Salvation Army Thrift Store, NYC. $1.00. The cover is trying very hard to suggest the Pre-Raphaelites.
I got this in Denver for $2.00 at a used bookstore called Two Dollar Books. Apt. I have no idea what this book is about. I haven’t read. Sometimes I just buy books for the covers.
True pulp fiction and all for only a $1.00. Library again. The size of this book is weird, too. It’s more a large square than the rectangular shape we are familiar with. Really more like a magazine or a comic book than book-book.
I pulled this out of a pile of donations someone had given to the library when I was working at Flushing. It’s from the 80’s but the picture looks like 1940’s film noir.
This is just a sampling. I have a lot of books. A lot. I think at last count, it totaled somewhere around 500 volumes. I might need an intervention, but if I don’t rescue these books, who will?
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Wow, I never finished An Uncertain Magic, but I want that special bonus copy!
(Am a big LK fan, just not an equally big fan of all her books.)
Quite honestly, at least a 3rd of the books I own I have not read or finished. Some of them I keep because they are good reference books (anthologies, textbooks, non-fiction) some of them I keep because I’ve always intended to read them but for some reason just haven’t, and some of them I keep because even though I didn’t finish them, they are somehow important or distinct.
Sometimes an author you love, just doesn’t always do it for you. I have the same issue with Diana Wynne Jones.