Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds

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kingricefan

All-being, keeper of Space, Time & Dimension.
Jul 11, 2006
30,011
127,446
Spokane, WA
Took a quick trip to Seattle and came home with these lovelies:
1st hardback printing of Black House signed by Peter Straub for $2.99 at Goodwill!
Trade paperback of The Dark Tower Companion by Bev Vincent at Half Price Books
1st hardback printing of This Perfect Day by Ira Levin at HPB for $8.99
paperback of Odd Interlude by Dean Koontz from Goodwill for 99 cents
Hardback 1st of High Cotton by Joe Lansdale from HPB for $12.99

The mailman delivered a hardback of a signed limited Subterranean Press copy of Flaming London by Joe Lansdale (ex-library but looks to have been read maybe 6 times!) that I got on Ebay cheap!
 

morgan

Well-Known Member
Jul 11, 2010
29,353
104,579
North Dakota
Took a quick trip to Seattle and came home with these lovelies:
1st hardback printing of Black House signed by Peter Straub for $2.99 at Goodwill!
Trade paperback of The Dark Tower Companion by Bev Vincent at Half Price Books
1st hardback printing of This Perfect Day by Ira Levin at HPB for $8.99
paperback of Odd Interlude by Dean Koontz from Goodwill for 99 cents
Hardback 1st of High Cotton by Joe Lansdale from HPB for $12.99

The mailman delivered a hardback of a signed limited Subterranean Press copy of Flaming London by Joe Lansdale (ex-library but looks to have been read maybe 6 times!) that I got on Ebay cheap!
Do you collect Koontz books?
 

FlakeNoir

Original Kiwi© SKMB®
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
44,082
175,641
New Zealand
Wish I new how to post pictures. It paperback first edition 1st printing. Free! Apparantly I had 10 books purchased and she gave it to me free!
You can copy and paste from the net, or use the upload feature to post photos. (the Upload a File button is located below the reply box in between Preview and More Options.)
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Just came home with a Viking 2nd printing hardback of The Gunslinger (Revised and Expanded), a Plume Collector's Edition of The Shining, a brand new DVD of Tales From The Darkside which has King's Word Processor Of The Gods and a dvd of 'Locke' starring Tom Hardy!
YOU GOT LOCKE FROM A THRIFT STORE?!?! I SO want to see that movie!
 

kingricefan

All-being, keeper of Space, Time & Dimension.
Jul 11, 2006
30,011
127,446
Spokane, WA
So have I. He's a young man to watch. Yeah, yeah... he's good looking (married, not blind ;D), but more importantly he's a creative, interesting actor.
Never even knew of him until I saw Inception. I can't stop drooling now. He is definately an actor to keep your eye on, I think he's going to become one of our better actors- he's versatile and when he's on screen he keeps you riveted to his performance.
 

17021jude

Well-Known Member
Nov 12, 2009
394
1,915
Kansas
I love finding books at Goodwill, I even have my man and children so interested in finding the few S.K. books I need to complete my collection that they scan shelves also, however does anyone besides me have this terrible habit? I will buy an author thinking I'll go for the whole set, perfect example is Anne Rice novels, I seem to come across her stuff way more often than S.K., so I buy one (if it's one I don't already have), and I think it's just to soften the blow that I couldn't find anything S.K. that I needed...anyhooo I don't like Anne Rice, as a matter of fact I never have! I have been working with myself on this my last couple of trips to the thrift store...repeat after me "Do not buy anything you know you don't want!!":announce:
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Never even knew of him until I saw Inception. I can't stop drooling now. He is definately an actor to keep your eye on, I think he's going to become one of our better actors- he's versatile and when he's on screen he keeps you riveted to his performance.

I can't think of a single thing I've seen him in that he didn't just steal every scene. Even RockNRolla, and that had Idris Elba and Gerard Butler (amongst many other fine, funny actors--lol). He was so funny (and it was a great 'coming out' scene--I loved that they played it against 'type'. The tough guys in most films would be all phobic, but in this one they're mates and stick by one another). Have you seen the Masterpiece Theater Wuthering Heights where he plays Heathcliff? Just mesmerizing! Inception was the first place I saw him, too, and it was like, "Jump back! Who's that?" :)
 

kingricefan

All-being, keeper of Space, Time & Dimension.
Jul 11, 2006
30,011
127,446
Spokane, WA
I love finding books at Goodwill, I even have my man and children so interested in finding the few S.K. books I need to complete my collection that they scan shelves also, however does anyone besides me have this terrible habit? I will buy an author thinking I'll go for the whole set, perfect example is Anne Rice novels, I seem to come across her stuff way more often than S.K., so I buy one (if it's one I don't already have), and I think it's just to soften the blow that I couldn't find anything S.K. that I needed...anyhooo I don't like Anne Rice, as a matter of fact I never have! I have been working with myself on this my last couple of trips to the thrift store...repeat after me "Do not buy anything you know you don't want!!":announce:
'Hello, my name is 17021jude and I'm a bookaholic.' ;;D Anne's books do look nice on the shelf, tho, right? Maybe someday you'll end up giving her another chance and then you'll be set because you'll have all of her books.
 

kingricefan

All-being, keeper of Space, Time & Dimension.
Jul 11, 2006
30,011
127,446
Spokane, WA
I wish I had been there the day you found the signed book - it must have been nerve wracking taking it to the counter to pay for it!
It was a hardback unread mint condition 1st printing of Insomnia. I was in a really small town north of Seattle at a Goodwill (the same town where that I-5 freeway bridge collapsed a while back). To this day I wonder how in the heck an unread autographed Stephen King book made it all the way to this little Goodwill store in a little town in Washington......
 

kingricefan

All-being, keeper of Space, Time & Dimension.
Jul 11, 2006
30,011
127,446
Spokane, WA
I can't think of a single thing I've seen him in that he didn't just steal every scene. Even RockNRolla, and that had Idris Elba and Gerard Butler (amongst many other fine, funny actors--lol). He was so funny (and it was a great 'coming out' scene--I loved that they played it against 'type'. The tough guys in most films would be all phobic, but in this one they're mates and stick by one another). Have you seen the Masterpiece Theater Wuthering Heights where he plays Heathcliff? Just mesmerizing! Inception was the first place I saw him, too, and it was like, "Jump back! Who's that?" :)
I absolutely LOVE Rocknrolla!!!! Everybody is so freaking good in this movie! Yes, Hardy's 'coming out' scene is hysterical! Wuthering Heights is on my 'wish list' on Amazon....
 

Neesy

#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
May 24, 2012
61,289
239,271
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
It was a hardback unread mint condition 1st printing of Insomnia. I was in a really small town north of Seattle at a Goodwill (the same town where that I-5 freeway bridge collapsed a while back). To this day I wonder how in the heck an unread autographed Stephen King book made it all the way to this little Goodwill store in a little town in Washington......
It was sitting there waiting for you to come find it! :angel: