Nah. I have a perfectly nice copy. If I FOUND one of the Father Cody copies I'd be tickled pink, but to spend that much on a single book? Nope.
Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds
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Bought a copy of Helter Skelter at the thrift store today. Also, an early Crichton paperback (don't remember the title because I gave it to my mom right away! 
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Bought a copy of Helter Skelter at the thrift store today. Also, an early Crichton paperback (don't remember the title because I gave it to my mom right away!
That book freaked me out when I first read it as a teenager. The almost pictures in it were both fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
Helter Skelter freaked me out, too and it was along time ago I read it.
It was one he!! of a book. The movie was on TV a few weeks ago and I watched it again. It still
makes me cringe.
makes me cringe.
Today I stopped at Goodwill on the way home from work and found a very nice hardback 1st of Boy's Life by Robert McCammon!
Brand new hardcover of Hannibal by Thomas Harris, and a few Jane Austen novels
The Nameless
M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
The "take one, leave one" service has opened up again in my local shopping centre, where you can take any books you want for free and you're encouraged to donate any you don't want to keep the system going. I got the 3 remaining touch of frost books I didn't have and koko by Peter straub.
Nabbed a copy of The Shining yesterday--thought it might be a first edition. When I got home and checked, it's a second. Ah well--good book anyway I can pass it along. I got a stack the other day, but heck if I can remember the titles, except for The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan)--I've been looking for that one for a while! Oh, and The Edible Woman (Atwood), on a recommend from Neesy .
I can pass it along. I got a stack the other day, but heck if I can remember the titles, except for The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan)--I've been looking for that one for a while! Oh, and The Edible Woman (Atwood), on a recommend from Neesy .
If the dustjacket is in good shape you could always sell it on Ebay by mentioning that the buyer could use the dj on a real 1st printing if their dj is in bad shape. I did this with one of my copies (I was the buyer) and it looks great. There's no difference in the dj's from a 1st to 2nd printing.Nabbed a copy of The Shining yesterday--thought it might be a first edition. When I got home and checked, it's a second. Ah well--good book anyway
Neesy
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Wow - I recall reading that one when I was maybe 18 or 19? Now you now just how old I am!Nabbed a copy of The Shining yesterday--thought it might be a first edition. When I got home and checked, it's a second. Ah well--good book anyway
Well not really - I read it quite a few years after it was published, but still - I am getting up in years now
At least you're still getting up, so count your blessings!!Wow - I recall reading that one when I was maybe 18 or 19? Now you now just how old I am!
Well not really - I read it quite a few years after it was published, but still - I am getting up in years now
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Over the weekend, I found an awesome antique curio cabinet that I am repurposing for a book case. Specifically, a book case for my SK book collection. It needed minimal work to get it ready and it was a great deal. I also found a huge print of a painting from 1876 and they just went perfect together. Once I figure out how to post a picture of it, I will share. It looks pretty awesome with all those decorative dust covers. I had room to put my Joe Hill and Edgar Allen Poe books in their also. It was truly a good weekend indeed.
Pics as soon as you can!!!!
I don't remember how to upload them!!! I'm a dunce on a computer.
Lol....I know! I kept trying all that and it wouldn't work. I finally realized the picture was too big but I have not figured out how to resize it. I'm working on it!
Flake was the genius with resizing. Mayhap another will know how- all I know is that there are programs. Good luck!
Today I came home with a nice mass market paperback of Joyland, a 2nd printing trade paperback of the revised edition of The Gunslinger and and audio CD edition of It Grows On You which is read by Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Frank Muller and Grace Slick. Stories contained are It Grows On You, The Fifth Quarter, The Night Flier and You Know They Got A H*ll Of A Band.