----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002
12:57 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Second Hand Rose (...or
Williams) - in praise of charity stores
> I can also recommend ABE particularly if you live in
North America.In my
> situation the postage is prohibitive, usually more
than the price of the book,
> otherwise I think I'd be a very regular customer.I
personally get a lot of my
> stuff from 2nd hand & charity shops - the idea
is just to forage & pick up
what
> you can, rather than looking for particular
authors/titles.99.99%+ of the
stuff
> in the charity shops is unspeakable junk &
you're highly unlikely to find any
> vintage pb copies (where I live, anyhow) but I have
found many cheapo reprints
> from the 60's& 70's of classic noir authors,
some possibly pirated editions.I
> have many editions (with fairly ugly covers) of
works by Day Keene, Gil
Brewer,
> David Goodis, Peter Rabe etc. These imprints come
from places like Australia,
> Israel, South Africa & even the US. My copy of
"Street of the Lost" by David
> Goodis is a Priory edition, out of Israel.I'm not
aware of this Goodis volume
> being reprinted in any other edition (& it's
probably my fave Goodis book).I
> also have nice sized piles of books by Keene &
Brewer published by Eclipse,
out
> of Australia & the US publishers
MacFadden-Bartell reprinted piles of Keene
(as
> well as a Keene original & a Lionel White, I
think) in the 60's - all these
I've
> picked up for AUS$peanuts, which is half as many
peanuts in $US.Of course, I'd
> rather have these in the original for the same price
(he says, looking with
> green eyes in the direction of US cit's such as Mr
Crider) - but paying 20-50c
> (10-25c US) makes it easier to justify buying
expensive books, or importing
> them, to myself (and more importantly, She Who Must
Be Obeyed) on the rare
> occasions I do.I also feel I'm doing an important
service as a HB
archaeologist,
> preserving these books from eventual destruction.
Happy hunting!
> Rene.
>
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