{"id":15807,"date":"2016-10-31T05:53:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2016-10-31T05:53:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:53:56","slug":"good-book-hunting-october-29-2016-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/31\/good-book-hunting-october-29-2016-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, October 29, 2016: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/30\/good-album-hunting-october-28-29-2016-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\">albums<\/a>, I bought some books from the Better Books section.  I focused mainly on art, local interest, and history because my child&#8217;s behavior was on a countdown timer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I got:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh109.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two books by local attorney Dee Wampler, <em>Defending Yourself Against Cops<\/em> and <em>One Nation Under God<\/em>.  Both are signed.<\/li>\n<li>Two copies of the Med\u00e6nas Monograph for Camille Pissarro.  I thought I&#8217;d picked up copies for two different artists, but it turns out they&#8217;re the same.  It would have helped if the cover had an image and the artist&#8217;s name like the one I just read for <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/book-report-peter-paul-rubens-a-medaenas-monograph-by-susan-c-coffey-1984\/\" target=\"_new\">Rubens<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A collection of art by Hiroshage to ensure I don&#8217;t really care for Oriental art.<\/li>\n<li>A collection of Raphael.<\/li>\n<li>Tolstoy&#8217;s <em>A Confession and Other Religious Writings<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>More True Tales of Old Kansas<\/em>, an anecdotal history of Kansas.<\/li>\n<li>A Winston Churchill history of World War I, <em>The World Crisis<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Swords Around the Throne<\/em>, a history of Napoleon&#8217;s army.<\/li>\n<li><em>Seven Years of Highly Defective People<\/em>, a Dilbert book by Scott Adams.  I don&#8217;t know if I already had this book, but I know I have to start re-buying them as my oldest child has started appropriating other Dilbert books.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Presidents: Tidbits and Trivia<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Old Saint Louis Homes: The Stories They Tell<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A collection of Ozarks photographs called <em>Backroads of the Ozarks<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Cartooning with the Simpsons<\/em>, a book about how to cartoon the Simpsons way.  I bought it for the kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, I was focusing on books I can browse through football games and whatnot.  A more disciplined approach than some days where I&#8217;ve come out of a book sale with 40 or 50 books, but apparently I now save that profligacy for record albums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to albums, I bought some books from the Better Books section. I focused mainly on art, local interest, and history because my child&#8217;s behavior was on a countdown timer. Here&#8217;s what I got: They include: Two books by local attorney Dee Wampler, Defending Yourself Against Cops and One Nation Under God. Both are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15808,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions\/15808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}