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Your latest thrifty book buys

SFG75

SFG75

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Don't know about anybody else, but I just love going through second-hand places and finding some great books. I went to goodwill yesterday and was very fortunate to find some great works. Here's what I brought home

-Iacocca: An Autobiography
-The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
-Serpico by Peter Maas
-What I saw at the revolution: A political life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan
-Thumbs Up-biography of press secretary Jim Brady by Mollie Dickensen
-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
-A nicely made Buddhist diary book with rough, but highly decorated paper.

I can't say that I've read all of these works(Steinbeck's is the only one I've read) though I'm looking forward to each and every one of them. :)

How about you guys? :)
 
Apparently you can only edit your subtitle. Maybe some moderator can change the main title too? (You'll get more visitors then. ;) )

Edit: Okay.
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Edit 2: Thanks, Ell!
 
SFG75 said:
Don't know about anybody else, but I just love going through second-hand places and finding some great books. I went to goodwill yesterday and was very fortunate to find some great works. Here's what I brought home

-Iacocca: An Autobiography
-The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
-Serpico by Peter Maas
-What I saw at the revolution: A political life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan
-Thumbs Up-biography of press secretary Jim Brady by Mollie Dickensen
-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
-A nicely made Buddhist diary book with rough, but highly decorated paper.

I can't say that I've read all of these works(Steinbeck's is the only one I've read) though I'm looking forward to each and every one of them. :)

How about you guys? :)
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Serpico!! My God I had totally forgotten that book! Right, I need it NOW, dammit, NOW! :D
 
I guess this counts as "thrift" buying... I've been doing a lot of browsing on PaperbackSwap.com, and I've received these in the last couple of weeks:

City of Dreams - Beverly Swerling
On Secret Service - John Jakes
Pompeii - Robert Harris
The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
Swan - Frances Mayes
 
Visited the Strand bookstore in the Village, NYC yesterday. They have tons of books for $1 - and less.
I picked up:
The Fifth Sacred Thing - Starhawk;
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells;
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
 
My library has a small book sale section and paperbacks are 25 cents hardbacks 50 cents, so I always check to see what they have this month I've gotten-
PBs
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
HBs
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Garden of the Beast by Jeffery Deaver
 
I got a copy of 'An Outcast Of The Islands' by Conrad for about the same price as a pair of bananas! I also found a copy of 'Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans' for a few apples.
 
Most of the books I buy are thrifty book buys. The hard cover books I buy on Amazon.com typically cost between $3.50 & & 5.00 each, including shipping. In fact, I just purchased One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz for 1 cent plus 3.49 Shipping.

Life is good!!
 
Nothing makes me smile like a good book sale with a cheap but quality selection - hard to come by at times!!

I posted my recent purchases here, although every time I look for this thread it's nigh-on impossible to locate in the search function, so I don't blame you for starting a new thread SFG. I think this new thread title is much better! Is it possible to link these two threads?
 
I don't know what it is, but my bargain luck is just amazing. Our school library is clearing out some of the old for the new and a lot of books-I just couldn't pass up. I now have two copies of the Grapes of Wrath, as well as a few books by Willa Cather. I also picked up a local history book that traces the history of the county back to it's founding in 1875 until the 1950s. I don't know why, but I'm just horrified at the thought of some of these books finding their way into a trash can. I have some serious book-worm students and I try to match up books with the students who would be interested in them. At least they'll serve a purpose for someone else rather than end up in the trash can prematurely.
 
I bought 4 more books ,for a dollar, at my library today.

Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Wideacre by Phillippa Gregory
 
The other week I found an amazing bargain that I simply couldn't pass up! I managed to find:
-The Hobbit
-The Pilgrim's Progress
-The Decameron of Boccaccio
-Crime and Punishment
-The Once and Future King
-The Great Gatsby...

And I got all these for just $2.86!!!!
 
Bluraven said:
The other week I found an amazing bargain that I simply couldn't pass up! I managed to find:
-The Hobbit
-The Pilgrim's Progress
-The Decameron of Boccaccio
-Crime and Punishment
-The Once and Future King
-The Great Gatsby...

And I got all these for just $2.86!!!!
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LOL-You are the hands down winner of this category. Happy reading!
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Since I don't seem to have it in me to post anything interesting these days, here's what I picked up at the store the other day (traded in a couple of terrible books that I won't name for these)

John Fowles - The Ebony Tower
Lidia Chukovskaya - The Deserted House
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (with a silly insert in the middle with photographs from a movie adaptation)
Angela Y. Davis - If They Come in the Morning (Clearly I'm being on top of current affairs)

I'm going to America on Monday - NYC mainly - so I half-fear that I'll go hog-wild in the many, many bookstores. My list of places to see seems to mainly consists of book stores and, uhm, the library. Shame I'm coming in *just* too late to go hear George Saunders hold a free reading ( Monday at Chelsea 6th Avenue Barnes & Nobles, in case anyone's wondering )
 
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