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On Thursday evening, we got into the Friends of the Old Trees Book Sale on preview night for free because we’re Friends of the Old Trees library. Uncrowded and in a much better space this year (a recently vacated former video store), we had a good time, but unfortunately I suspended shopping a bit early […]
Today, we hit a couple of garage sales nearby. We did not come home empty-handed. Click for full size I got: 9 volumes (of 11, apparently) of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series of historical novels. I don’t think I’ve heard of them. However, they were fifty cents each, and if I like them, I have a […]
After yesterday’s book fairs, today we stuck to yard sales around Old Trees. It was a grey, rainy day, so many of the yard sales in the paper were rolled up before we arrived. Others had wet stock, which sucks for books. However, one in the area had an indoor room with books going at […]
Uh oh, it’s the annual Kirkwood Friends of the Library Book Fair. I hit the Automated Teller Machine Machine, entered my Personal Identification Number Number, and got out a pile of money, and oddly enough, it was just enough: Click for full size That’s $85 in books and $8 in audiocassettes; I bought most of […]
So this weekend marked the first really dangerous book fair of the season: The St. John’s United Church of Christ book fair. We went to this one last year, so I knew what to expect: I picked up a box right when I went through the door instead of pretending I was only going to […]
Beware the Ides of March, indeed. Not only did we attend two very disappointing school-based rummage sales, but it’s also the annual Eliot Unitarian Chapel book fair. This little affair takes place in the library of a little church in the next suburb over, but its hardbacks are $3.00 and other books are also priced […]
On Saturday, we traveled to St. Peters, Missouri, all the way across the Missouri River and everything, to the Adult Hardbacks portion of the Friends of the St. Charles Library book fair. It had hardback mainstream fiction and mysteries for $2 each and videocassettes for a dollar or under. We bought: Click for full size […]
Ah, finally, that time again, my friends. The birds are singing, the sun is shining, the snows that came on Friday have receded by Monday, and it’s book sale season again! Well, not quite full on book sale season, but Heather found something in the city claiming to be a sale of 1000 books, so […]
Gentle reader, I have been holding something back from you. It’s the results of our November 21 trip to yard sales and what books I bought there. I haven’t been buying much in December except for a couple trips to the bookstore or Amazon.com (The Fred File, And Then We Came To The End, Honeymoon […]
Well, it has been a while since I told you about what I’ve bought as far as books go, but that’s because we spent Saturday mornings in the latter part of October looking at sport utility vehicles and minivans because although one can sort of fit a single child seat into the back of a […]
This week, we stopped at only 3 sales because we had prior commitments. However, I found something. Click for full size Firefly; it cost $10, which is more than I would normally spend on media at a garage sale, but all the cool kids like it. The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation; […]
Last Saturday, I did not go book hunting per se; I went to my mother’s yard sale and spent all day down there, talking to the little old ladies (and my mother) and whatnot. However, I did get a handful of material that I bought from others, received as gifts, or reclaimed instead of donating: […]
Another week, another set of yard sales. At the first one we visited, I carried the boy instead of putting him in the stroller, so I didn’t browse too closely the inexpensive books or videocassettes. At the second one, we deployed the stroller, but I was being very selective–as in not looking too closely at […]
Good Book Hunting: September 22, 2007 This week, we went exclusively to yard sales and the local elementary school PTO rummage sale. Here’s what we got: Click for full size A box of 94 comic books, including a number of Marvel mutant titles and GI Joe issues from the middle 1980s. They were marked a […]
This weekend, we hit a couple of garage sales around our municipality, and we had a better result. For starters, it was less annoying; even though our occasional neighbors in Old Trees have signs proclaiming support for drawing and quartering the head of the nation, they’re less frequent than the “we control the horizontal; we […]
Well, it was okay book hunting. We hit some yard sales over in Kirkwood, where books were overpriced and lawns were cluttered with fascist lawn signs “No More Tear Downs” and “Preserve Our National Historic District” and “Taller than downtown” signs protesting an old folks home (that is, all your property rights belong to the […]
No book sales this weekend, but what do you know? One of the garage sales proclaiming that it had books had some books. And some videos. And some records. So for $16.25, I got: Click for full size The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh. I read this book in college after discovering it was […]
The annual book sale at the YMCA in Carondolet provides many people with the opportunity to expand their libraries at low cost. Most hardbacks are $1, but many are $.50, and the selection proves just a little short of overwhelming. We didn’t get a chance to make it down there this weekend, but fortunately for […]
The Ethical Society of St. Louis had a books, music, and video sale today, and we happened to find it. Hardbacks were $1 each or 3 for $2; paperbacks were $.50 or 5 for $2; cassettes were .50 each or something; CDs were $1 each; and albums were $.25 or 5 for $1. Which explains […]
I’ve been a bit remiss in posting the Book Hunting for last reason, and I’m sure you’ll see why; I am ashamed: Click for full size I bought one lousy book, Dr. No. Heather, because she’s into more modern thrillers, found a number of hardbacks to grab and a couple of cassettes and records (she’s […]