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I just robbed a library A Deathwatch Guard Send a noteboard - 20/06/2010 08:55:05 AM
Or rather, I bought books the library had on sale, but I feel like I robbed it. My friend and I bought 70 books for $65. Some of them were nearly a century old leatherbound versions of such things as the works of Rudyard Kipling or Voltaire.

We ended up dividing the books between me, my friend, and my other friend who sadly was not with us. I ended up with half the books since it was my money they were all bought with, lol. Here is a list of some of the titles I can remember off the top of my mind.

The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Works of Rudyard Kipling
Ivanhoe
War and Peace
a better version of Paradise Lost, as well as Paradise Regained
Robinson Crusoe
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
A Thousand and One Nights (in three separate books, called volumes 1 through 6, and over 4000 pages total!)
a new (actually older) version of Decameron
The plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
Man and the Universe (or something about man and universe, don't recall the actual title) by Aristotle
some history book by Plutarch
a book about Cromwell
a book of Gogol
etc, many more

I'd say this is pretty excellent for a day's work, and only $70 spent! The librarians and all the people stared at us like we're insane yet also their heroes, yet why would anyone not buy books for such excellent prices?
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I just robbed a library - 20/06/2010 08:55:05 AM 564 Views
I love it when libraries sell books - 20/06/2010 09:25:05 AM 412 Views
That's excellent! - 20/06/2010 09:29:17 AM 361 Views
So envious. *NM* - 20/06/2010 09:37:33 AM 166 Views
Sounds amazing. - 20/06/2010 01:00:59 PM 387 Views
Awesome. I need to find a sale like that. *NM* - 20/06/2010 01:41:29 PM 170 Views
I want a list!! Are you some sort of doppleganger of me or what? You are obviously a kindred spirit! - 20/06/2010 03:18:03 PM 447 Views
Re: I need another bookcase too. - 24/06/2010 01:04:56 PM 345 Views
I find that oddly endearing. Or not maybe not so oddly. - 25/06/2010 03:50:27 AM 356 Views
*drool* so awesome! *NM* - 20/06/2010 07:16:16 PM 208 Views
Man. I haven't been to a sweet book sale for so long. *NM* - 21/06/2010 06:24:48 AM 167 Views
How nice - 21/06/2010 02:27:55 PM 417 Views

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