Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds

[HollyGolightly]

Scored today, all hardcovers, $2/each:
Under the Dome (Morgan - have you already sent this to me?)
The Gunslinger (I only ever had a paperback that got lost a while back)
Mr. Mercedes (can you believe it? I've been thinking recently that I need to get with the program and read this asap!)
Further Under the Duvet (Marian Keyes essays and shorts)
Anybody Out There? (Marian Keyes)
Sushi for Beginners (Marian Keyes)
The Bride Groom (Ha Jin short story collection - I'm mad for a short story collection -have read Ha Jin before, a good writer)

It was crowded and I was on my lunch break. I will be back. What I left: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Cujo, Dreamcatcher - all hardcover, I didn't make it to the paperbacks yet. Anyone want any of those 3 if they're still there?

No Owen King or Joe Hill or Tabitha King at all

 

[Jonesy85]

Gunslinger hardcover is an awesome find. You also don't come across Cujo hardcovers that often. That's a good line-up for a library sale.

 

[AchtungBaby]

Found a Carrie first edition for $2.99.

Y'all. Y'ALL.

I almost wept right there in the thrift store...

 

[morgan]

Found a Carrie first edition for $2.99.

Y'all. Y'ALL.

I almost wept right there in the thrift store...

Hardcover?!

 

[AchtungBaby]

Hardcover?!

Yes.

It's well-worn, but it's a first.

 

[morgan]

Yes.

It's well-worn, but it's a first.

So happy for you! Congrats - what a terrific surprise (and blessing!)!

 

[AchtungBaby]

So happy for you! Congrats - what a terrific surprise (and blessing!)!

I still can't believe I found it. I felt like I was stealing the book since I paid only $2.99 for it.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I still can't believe I found it. I felt like I was stealing the book since I paid only $2.99 for it.

That is thrilling! I don't understand how those end up in thrift stores, but thank God they do. I'm going to have to will my collection to some of y'all younger folks. None of my family would treasure all my books the way you all would. They'd end up at in a thrift store. Or my husband would spend the last years of his life selling them on half.com.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Gunslinger hardcover is an awesome find. You also don't come across Cujo hardcovers that often. That's a good line-up for a library sale.

I did not know that about The Gunslinger. I'm thrilled. I'll go back and get Cujo (if it's still there).

 

[skimom2]

I did not know that about The Gunslinger. I'm thrilled. I'll go back and get Cujo (if it's still there).

I know my first four DT books are trade PBs. When they first come out, it was in limited editions that were (and are) WAY over my budget. I think they've since been re-issued in HB, but I haven't seen any around here. Good find!

 

[kingricefan]

Found a Carrie first edition for $2.99.

Y'all. Y'ALL.

I almost wept right there in the thrift store...

Oh, what an awesome find! That is fantastic! It's beats the $7.99 that I paid for mine at a used bookstore- that copy is close to a perfect copy though, I think it was read once. I just about ran out of the store after paying!

 

[HollyGolightly]

I know my first four DT books are trade PBs. When they first come out, it was in limited editions that were (and are) WAY over my budget. I think they've since been re-issued in HB, but I haven't seen any around here. Good find!

Upon checking it out, I've discovered it's the 2003 printing, so it's not an original. But still nice to have - I can't for the life of me recall who I loaned my paperback to, but it was a MM so probably swollen and yellowed by now. Mostly I'm psyched about Mr. Mercedes, for $2!

 

[CordialJim]

Achtung Baby: Awesome Carrie find! Only 30,000 printed. Does yours have the proper gutter code (P6)?

HollyGolightly: The 2003 Viking Dark Tower hardcovers (Books 1-4) are definitely keepers, especially The Gunslinger which is revised and expanded from the original. I as well can't afford the original four DT limited's (I'm a thrifty collector after all), so these are a must have in hardcover. I've managed to find three of the four in my travels (still missing The Drawing of the Three).

Coincidentally, I just recently found Wizard & Glass at an annual AAUW book sale, along with some other nice finds...

The Game of Thirty (1994) by William Kotzwinkle

Briarpatch (1984, Edgar Award winner) by Ross Thomas

Copy Kat (1992) by Karen Kijewski -- Fourth book in the most excellent Kat Colorado P.I. series

Shock III short story collection (1966, first printing paperback original) by Richard Matheson and On the Run (Fawcett Gold Medal PBO, 1963) by JDM -- aka Johnny Mac!

 

[kingricefan]

Today the mailman delivered a near-perfect copy of Jack & Susan In 1933 by Michael McDowell. It's the third book in the J & S trilogy, with each one taking place in a different time period (1913, 1953), although J & S never age. They're mysteries and are filled with that special McDowell humor!

 

[muskrat]

Today the mailman delivered a near-perfect copy of Jack & Susan In 1933 by Michael McDowell. It's the third book in the J & S trilogy, with each one taking place in a different time period (1913, 1953), although J & S never age. They're mysteries and are filled with that special McDowell humor!

Dontcha just LOVE the mailman sometimes? Mine keeps bringing me hardbacked EC horror comics. I'm gonna bake him a cake, swear to god...

 

[Jonesy85]

Dontcha just LOVE the mailman sometimes? Mine keeps bringing me hardbacked EC horror comics. I'm gonna bake him a cake, swear to god...

Those are sweet. I miss my old EC collection. I'd like to check those hardcovers out. Do they have any old Tales From the Crypt hardcovers?

 

[muskrat]

Those are sweet. I miss my old EC collection. I'd like to check those hardcovers out. Do they have any old Tales From the Crypt hardcovers?

That's what I've been buying lately. TALES vols. three thru five, the last eighteen issues. Full color, sweet as hell.

I had all these once in the black and white 'EC Library' box set when I was a kid. Sold it some years ago. These new ones are even better--remastered, full COLOR. Oh yes, the holy grail of horror comics.

 

[Jonesy85]

I grabbed a copy of the Gunslinger(revised) on CD from Goodwill. Only $2.00... I haven't read the expanded version, so I might try listening to the discs. They span about six hours.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Achtung Baby: Awesome Carrie find! Only 30,000 printed. Does yours have the proper gutter code (P6)?

HollyGolightly: The 2003 Viking Dark Tower hardcovers (Books 1-4) are definitely keepers, especially The Gunslinger which is revised and expanded from the original. I as well can't afford the original four DT limited's (I'm a thrifty collector after all), so these are a must have in hardcover. I've managed to find three of the four in my travels (still missing The Drawing of the Three).

Coincidentally, I just recently found Wizard & Glass at an annual AAUW book sale, along with some other nice finds...

The Game of Thirty (1994) by William Kotzwinkle

Briarpatch (1984, Edgar Award winner) by Ross Thomas

Copy Kat (1992) by Karen Kijewski -- Fourth book in the most excellent Kat Colorado P.I. series

Shock III short story collection (1966, first printing paperback original) by Richard Matheson and On the Run (Fawcett Gold Medal PBO, 1963) by JDM -- aka Johnny Mac!

Thanks for the info! I had no idea! Now I'm excited all over again! I scored!

 

[Blake]

yesterday, at the Salvation Army shop, got two mini biographies on Dali and Picasso.