Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds
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If you think that's funny seeing Story by Nimoy on the front cover of the Star Trek VI novelization is "funny" you should see what's on the cover of Fearful Summons the sequel to Star Trek VI.
Top of the front cover says the Fearful Summons is written by one of the writers of Star Trek VI
Top of the front cover says the Fearful Summons is written by one of the writers of Star Trek VI
Speaking of old Star Trek movie novelizations, the Star Trek V novelization is different than what goes on in the movie I think.
In the novel, Sybok was pretty much a former student of Spock I think while in the movie they're half brothers
In the novel, Sybok was pretty much a former student of Spock I think while in the movie they're half brothers
Scored a few books at the Value Village in Kirkland. We were there for the Jethro Tull show on Sunday night. We came over on Saturday and spent the night. Found these:
And this cool T-shirt. I've never seen one like it before:
Also got a book on making Steampunk jewelry and an Obama Hawaiian Tee.
And this cool T-shirt. I've never seen one like it before:
Also got a book on making Steampunk jewelry and an Obama Hawaiian Tee.
©1985 and I suspect it's been sitting in the used book store since about 1987...
....nice haul girl!.....love the shirt-like you, I've never seen the like.....Scored a few books at the Value Village in Kirkland. We were there for the Jethro Tull show on Sunday night. We came over on Saturday and spent the night. Found these:
And this cool T-shirt. I've never seen one like it before:
Also got a book on making Steampunk jewelry and an Obama Hawaiian Tee.
So I moved into the city coupla months ago, and kept noticing a faded homemade sign outside a house across the 'rud and about a block away. One day the sign had been redone, and now clearly read "For Sale: vinyl records and...(wait for it)...COMICS"!
Great Kirby's Ghost! Its one of those old men who's wife either died or left him, and took with her any sense of self control the guy had. Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, longbox upon longbox of vintage newsprint COMICS! "This room is for #1s, that ones for fifty cent'ers, this one has full storylines packaged together, etc., and everything out in the garage is 25 cents."
I had to stop myself from doing the Walter Huston prospector dance from Treasure of Sierra Madre.
Damn it, I shouldn't have told you people. Don't get no funny ideas. That motherlode is mine, see, MINE! You'll wait till I'm asleep and brain me with a frying pan. I know what yer up to. You gotta wake up early if you wanna get one over on Fred C. Dobbs!
'Don need no steenking batches...
Great Kirby's Ghost! Its one of those old men who's wife either died or left him, and took with her any sense of self control the guy had. Wall to wall, floor to ceiling, longbox upon longbox of vintage newsprint COMICS! "This room is for #1s, that ones for fifty cent'ers, this one has full storylines packaged together, etc., and everything out in the garage is 25 cents."
I had to stop myself from doing the Walter Huston prospector dance from Treasure of Sierra Madre.
Damn it, I shouldn't have told you people. Don't get no funny ideas. That motherlode is mine, see, MINE! You'll wait till I'm asleep and brain me with a frying pan. I know what yer up to. You gotta wake up early if you wanna get one over on Fred C. Dobbs!
'Don need no steenking batches...
I love this thread! So many awesome finds! I am a big fan of all of the weird and wonderful thrift finds.
When I got the green light to teach my SK class last I set out to hunt down a full SK collection from thrift stores, garage sales, book sales. Prior to this most of my SK reading has been through borrowed library books/audiobooks.
Friends of the Library book sales are the BEST! I have a running list of the sales in my area and have been able to start a pretty good collection from the sales alone. So much so that SK now officially has his own bookshelf in my house (no other author, even Faulkner--who occupies a whole chapter in my dissertation--has that kind of real estate in my place)! The sales are also a good chance to explore my city and get acquainted with some new libraries. Across four sales I got 29 SK books plus some other awesome texts for under $20. I am including photos from two of the sales (for some reason I can't post the other two). I think I would have gotten everything even cheaper had the books been paperback. But $20 is still pretty good (and it's going back to the best possible place-the library).
A fun note: the only SK book that I found across all book sales thus far has been On Writing. I think that is very, very interesting.
-Under the Dome
-Joyland
-Misery
-Black House
-Dreamcatcher
-DT III The Wastelands
-The Dark Half
-The Talisman
-Gerald's Game
-DT VII The Dark Tower
-Bazzaar of Bad Dreams
-Lisey's Story
-The Green Mile
-Mr. Mercedes
-Finders Keepers
-Gwendy's Button Box
-Sleeping Beauties
-From a Buick 8
-Just After Sunset
-Full Dark No Stars
-End of Watch
-The Regulators
-Despertation
-Rose Madder
-Hearts in Atlantis
-DT V Wolves of the Calla
-The Colorado Kid
-DT VI Song of Susannah
-The Wind through the Keyhole
Other, non-SK texts (for a total of $5): Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin--just finished reading this for the first time, my goodness what an extraordinary work!), Mysteries of the Worm (Bloch of Psycho fame-a fun SK-related find given the short story "Jerusalem's Lot"), The Plague (Albert Camus), The oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Asimov Chronicles, A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs), The Fifth Child (Doris Lessing), Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut, and Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon).
When I got the green light to teach my SK class last I set out to hunt down a full SK collection from thrift stores, garage sales, book sales. Prior to this most of my SK reading has been through borrowed library books/audiobooks.
Friends of the Library book sales are the BEST! I have a running list of the sales in my area and have been able to start a pretty good collection from the sales alone. So much so that SK now officially has his own bookshelf in my house (no other author, even Faulkner--who occupies a whole chapter in my dissertation--has that kind of real estate in my place)! The sales are also a good chance to explore my city and get acquainted with some new libraries. Across four sales I got 29 SK books plus some other awesome texts for under $20. I am including photos from two of the sales (for some reason I can't post the other two). I think I would have gotten everything even cheaper had the books been paperback. But $20 is still pretty good (and it's going back to the best possible place-the library).
A fun note: the only SK book that I found across all book sales thus far has been On Writing. I think that is very, very interesting.
-Under the Dome
-Joyland
-Misery
-Black House
-Dreamcatcher
-DT III The Wastelands
-The Dark Half
-The Talisman
-Gerald's Game
-DT VII The Dark Tower
-Bazzaar of Bad Dreams
-Lisey's Story
-The Green Mile
-Mr. Mercedes
-Finders Keepers
-Gwendy's Button Box
-Sleeping Beauties
-From a Buick 8
-Just After Sunset
-Full Dark No Stars
-End of Watch
-The Regulators
-Despertation
-Rose Madder
-Hearts in Atlantis
-DT V Wolves of the Calla
-The Colorado Kid
-DT VI Song of Susannah
-The Wind through the Keyhole
Other, non-SK texts (for a total of $5): Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin--just finished reading this for the first time, my goodness what an extraordinary work!), Mysteries of the Worm (Bloch of Psycho fame-a fun SK-related find given the short story "Jerusalem's Lot"), The Plague (Albert Camus), The oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Asimov Chronicles, A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs), The Fifth Child (Doris Lessing), Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut, and Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon).
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Nice finds!!
Very nice! I too liked Rosemary's Baby, even knowing the outcome from the beginning; it didn't matter. Levin is a master.
Saturday I went Goodwilling with my bestie and came home with these:
Autographed unread hardback 1st of Living Faith by Jimmy Carter
Autographed hardback 3rd of Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt
Autographed Hardback 1st of The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
Bookclub edition of Bare Bones: Conversations On Terror With Stephen King (got this for a friend of mine)
Autographed unread hardback 1st of Living Faith by Jimmy Carter
Autographed hardback 3rd of Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt
Autographed Hardback 1st of The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
Bookclub edition of Bare Bones: Conversations On Terror With Stephen King (got this for a friend of mine)
Same! I knew the whole plot going in and yet, I stayed up until 3am finishing the novel. It was that good. I also had no idea Levin wrote so many amazing novels. I've added The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives to my endless "read this next" list. It's always a joy to discover a really remarkable author (even if I am about five decades late).
Such awesome finds! I've found nice, inexpensive books at Goodwill, but never autographed. Congratulations on your wonderful finds!!!
Rosemary's Baby -- good.
The Stepford Wives -- good.
The Boys from Brazil -- good.
You can't go wrong with any of those.
Now you know to always check the books of authors that you like for autographed copies. I have found so many signed books in the years I have spent shopping at thrift stores. Even found an unread mint hardback of Insomnia signed by Stephen in a small town north of Seattle. I've always wondered just how this book came to end up in that particular Goodwill.....
Don't forget This Perfect Day and A Kiss Before Dying. The only Levin book I wasn't impressed with was Son Of Rosemary.
This Perfect Day didn't do it for me, may need to read that again. Son of Rosemary was okay. Nothing to write home about for sure.
wow, wow, wow, wow. Amazing finds.