Nice haul there!!
My friend hits the library book sales here every month, and usually makes off nicely. Myself, I have gone a couple of times. More recently though, the one library has started a permanent shelf full of hardcovers that are for sale ($1 for small paperbacks, all others $2). I picked up this week the Oprah Book Club edition of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" as well as an excellent condition "The Gathering Storm" for a total of $4. Was rather happy with that.
My friend hits the library book sales here every month, and usually makes off nicely. Myself, I have gone a couple of times. More recently though, the one library has started a permanent shelf full of hardcovers that are for sale ($1 for small paperbacks, all others $2). I picked up this week the Oprah Book Club edition of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" as well as an excellent condition "The Gathering Storm" for a total of $4. Was rather happy with that.
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?
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?
Death to the Regressives of the GOP and the TeaParty. No mercy for Conservatives. Burn them all at the stake for the hateful satanists they are.
I just robbed a library
- 20/06/2010 08:55:05 AM
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I love it when libraries sell books
- 20/06/2010 09:25:05 AM
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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
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