OMG, booksale
Apr. 26th, 2007 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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derien called and told me about a book sale at our public library beginning at 5pm. If she'd given me any greater notice I'd have tipped off littleredhead and groundcntrl. As it is I ended up arriving at about 5:05.
The atmosphere wasn't exactly my native buying environment. I'm a slow buyer who likes to stand by himself and think a lot. The place was busy. There were tables for certain things (religion, cooking, selfhelp), but fiction was spread randomly throughout seven or more tables, mysteries in with romance, in with horror, in with classics. I wasted some time just trying to figure out what was where as people grabbed books madly and professional buyers used barcode scanners on handhelds to select for resale value. Eventually I was sucked in to picking up a book and after that it was all over.
All hardcover except where noted:
Roald Dahl "Kiss Kiss"
Robert Heinlein "Glory Road" 3rd printing, with dustjacket
Spalding "A Treasury of Irish Folklore and Humor"
Whitman "Poems"
Isaac Asimov "The Robots of Dawn", with dustjacket
Isaac Asimov "Extraterrestrial Civilizations", with dustjacket
John Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath"
Robert Silverberg "Tom O'Bedlam", with dustjacket
Tom Clancy "Red Storm Rising", with dustjacket
Devin A. Garrity "44 Irish Short Stories", with dustjacket
"The Columbia History of the World", with dustjacket
"The Year's Best Science Fiction, 3rd annual", large softback
"The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces", large softback
Total cost: $23
derien called and told me about a book sale at our public library beginning at 5pm. If she'd given me any greater notice I'd have tipped off littleredhead and groundcntrl. As it is I ended up arriving at about 5:05.The atmosphere wasn't exactly my native buying environment. I'm a slow buyer who likes to stand by himself and think a lot. The place was busy. There were tables for certain things (religion, cooking, selfhelp), but fiction was spread randomly throughout seven or more tables, mysteries in with romance, in with horror, in with classics. I wasted some time just trying to figure out what was where as people grabbed books madly and professional buyers used barcode scanners on handhelds to select for resale value. Eventually I was sucked in to picking up a book and after that it was all over.
All hardcover except where noted:
Roald Dahl "Kiss Kiss"
Robert Heinlein "Glory Road" 3rd printing, with dustjacket
Spalding "A Treasury of Irish Folklore and Humor"
Whitman "Poems"
Isaac Asimov "The Robots of Dawn", with dustjacket
Isaac Asimov "Extraterrestrial Civilizations", with dustjacket
John Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath"
Robert Silverberg "Tom O'Bedlam", with dustjacket
Tom Clancy "Red Storm Rising", with dustjacket
Devin A. Garrity "44 Irish Short Stories", with dustjacket
"The Columbia History of the World", with dustjacket
"The Year's Best Science Fiction, 3rd annual", large softback
"The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces", large softback
Total cost: $23
