Maybe that's why they were shelved that way. Whoever did the stocking just saw the cover and assumed romance???
Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds
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That's very true. An entire thread would probably reveal a treasure trove of changing covers of a book's published life. It is fascinating to see the evolving covers of books, especially genre fiction.
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Any of you Sidney Sheldon lovers ever read Burt Hirschfeld? Oooowee!!! Talk about sex! Those pages are just a-dripping with sex! I read about 4 of them back in the late 70's (Aspen, Fire Island, etc.). Just about burned my eyebrows off.....
...yes dear....Pfft! I could live with it if he hadn't been such an Ogre with his response to my disappointment. It turned into a whole foul soliloquy on my character. This is why he's an Ogre. But the bedspread itself was totally not what we had discussed getting. He ordered it before we discussed it. For $35. You get what you pay for. He can use it in the spare bedroom where he'll be sleeping for a while.
Harold Robbins got em all beat. Stuff like The Adventurers, Goodbye, Janette, Descent from Xanadu. Coke-fueled 1970s sleaze fiction at its finest!
It wasn't exactly a thrift store or used book store, an amalgamation of antique kitch, rare musical instruments. .. It's an obscure store at twelfth st and Northern. The kind of place set within a run down stucco shopping plaza you pass every half mile. These places usually have a thrift store, a Latino market, a cell phone shop, a laptop repair shop, a barber, and an "Internet cafe" (those usually come and go within months- right along with the laptop stores-they're underground casinos and they get raided every other day in this city)
I digress: this one store, I've frequented because it's nearby and alluring. Today, I chatted with the owner, played the keyboard, took note of the number of creepy naked dolls for sale, the Steinbeck novel, the antique Fender, and something caught my eye- I bent down to grab it, turning to the owner with an old, rusty scyth in my hand,
"This is what I came for today!"
We had a laugh.
As I was leaving, another customer buying a pair of Birkenstocks said to the guy "every time I come here, I find exactly what I need! It's almost like (we said in unison) "Needful Things"
She looked at me with this huge, shocked smile on her face "yes, oh my God, by Stephen King! Have you read it?"
"Yes, I'm Naomi, by the way."
"Nice to meet you Naomi, I'm Holly!"
That's what happened at the "Vintage Resale" store TODAY.
I digress: this one store, I've frequented because it's nearby and alluring. Today, I chatted with the owner, played the keyboard, took note of the number of creepy naked dolls for sale, the Steinbeck novel, the antique Fender, and something caught my eye- I bent down to grab it, turning to the owner with an old, rusty scyth in my hand,
"This is what I came for today!"
We had a laugh.
As I was leaving, another customer buying a pair of Birkenstocks said to the guy "every time I come here, I find exactly what I need! It's almost like (we said in unison) "Needful Things"
She looked at me with this huge, shocked smile on her face "yes, oh my God, by Stephen King! Have you read it?"
"Yes, I'm Naomi, by the way."
"Nice to meet you Naomi, I'm Holly!"
That's what happened at the "Vintage Resale" store TODAY.
....there are times that the universe is a very small place.....
I do like to look around and chat, but I've yet to purchase anything. (I seriously considered the scythe and the Steinbeck novel).
...you stand next to me, you're small...it's axiomatic...Who're you calling small?
Well, there is that. But what about if I wear my 4 inch platform shoes I had in 8th grade? Lord, I'm cringing just thinking about those d*mn things and how many times I twisted my ankles wearing them....how stupid can 'fashion' be?
4 inches? Pics or it didn't happen 
. . Six inches will really wreck the toes.
. . Six inches will really wreck the toes.
We didn't have cameras back then....4 inches? Pics or it didn't happen
. . Six inches will really wreck the toes.
Today the mailman delivered a very nice PPK 1st of Black Berets: Contract-Terror Summit #10 in the series by Mike McCray (aka Michael McDowell) which completes my collection of these titles and a 1st limited of Under Venus by Peter Straub published by Stealth Press. Got them both from thriftbooks.com for a good price.
Sounds like a rare find, how much do they usually go for?
I know nothing about the relative cost of rare books. I could probably make a killing if I sold my collection.
I have many books, but none of them rare ...... well, maybe some are obscure, but probably not worth much....
A hardcover of The Shining in new condition... not a first edition, but I already have one. This copy will be for reading.
You should look them up on alibris. You might find that you have something worth a lot of bucks.