Oh snap! How'd I miss this earlier? I'll do that!
Your Latest Thrift/used Book Store Finds
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yes they very much are!
Lol that's funny! Yeah I know how you feel they do look nice all together but I need to store my old children's books somewhere else and arrange them differently.
Hahaha um......vaguely by height
Found Hailemann and Halperan's Game Change in hardcover for $2! Was planning on buying a new copy soon. Also got David McCollough's 1776 and a nifty copy of A Tale of Two Cities.
Hope to find a good SK book soon!
Hope to find a good SK book soon!
OMG! THE NERVE OF SOMEPEOPLE!!
I have a hardcover copy of every King novel, even the DT. Back when he published volume 5, Viking re-issued the first 4 in HC and naturally I had to have them. Mine are in order of publication on the shelf, with a couple of them being kind of tired, or "much enjoyed" if you prefer.
You are crazy organized!OMG! THE NERVE OF SOMEPEOPLE!!
I have a hardcover copy of every King novel, even the DT. Back when he published volume 5, Viking re-issued the first 4 in HC and naturally I had to have them. Mine are in order of publication on the shelf, with a couple of them being kind of tired, or "much enjoyed" if you prefer.
I'm not sure about organized, but I can manage obsessive occasionally.
Just found a nice 1st printing hardback of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany at Goodwill!
Just picked up a hardcover first printing of Justin Cronin's The Twelve (sequel to The Passage) at our local library's book sale for $1.00.
John
John
Well, I've hit the jackpot over the past 2 weeks. KFF (Linda) sent me: The Bachman Books, Thinner, Cell, Desperation, The Regulators, The Dead Zone and Firestarter. Then my husband hit it big at a thrift store and brought home: The Talisman, It, The Stand, The Dark Half, Cell, Desperation, and Four Past Midnight - all hardcover, and Everything's Eventual last week. And Tuesday this week he scored Nightmares & Dreamscapes. So my collection just increase by 16 books (mostly hardcovers, excellent condition) in 14 days. YAY me!
Poor Charlie! I'll show you a picture of all my books to make you feel better. It'll probably take me all weekend. I don't have a smart phone, so I have to snap it, download camera to laptop, and then upload to site. It's such ancient technology.I got a rock.........
I went to my Half Priced Books in Okc because usually I can find a hardcover SK book for about three bucks but the last two times I went nothing...I mean not even in paperback. I think someone cleaned them out.
'Twas me!
Just teasing!
I have been looking for this book for months. No luck so far! Finding lots of The Passage tho.....
It's an ex-library copy, but the only indication of its being a library copy is a sticker with a bar code stuck on the front cover. No other markings at all. The rest of the book doesn't look like it's been read more than once. I'm very pleased.
John
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Way to go Renee!
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Wow, spoiled much?
I think I have all of his stories available in books now (apart from the baseball fan review one) - I don't have SK goes the movies because all of those stories are available in other collections. So I have just ordered 5 novel collection book of H.G Wells - The Time Machine, War of the worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men In The Moon, & The Island of Dr Moreau. I was looking for just War of the Worlds, which started at £1.74 to about £4.50 for a used copy, and I saw the '5 great novels' book for £2.69 so it pretty much made sense. (Btw, I use Play.com and Amazon.co.uk so they are like online thrift stores.)
You have them all? Man, if only! But then the quest would be over. I like the hunt, actually going to the stores to browse. And I don't buy them new (not anymore). I used to wait anxiously for them to come out in mass market paperbacks, but those yellow and get bent out of shape, so I'd pass them on. Now I'm on a quest to own all hardcovers. It's a fun game! I also like to collect books I loved as a child - Judy Blume, Paul Zindel. And I love British Chic Lit.