Most libraries around here sell their discards and their patrons'
contributions to the public as a fund-raiser, sometimes daily, often
monthly, or on some other schedule. According to
http://www.booksalefinder.com/, they're in Canada, too.
I went to an annual college library booksale Wednesday and bought
two grocery bags of books at $5/bag, mostly for sale but some to read
that would appeal to the list. (Not good pickings this year: I bought
many more last year.) I'll sort them out and display them to the list
one of these days.
Joy
Karin Montin wrote:
> Unbeatable! What is a library bookstore?
>
>
>> Thought the group would appreciate this. All found during a half-hour session browsing through an Orange County, California library bookstore:
>>
>> - a 1989 first edition hardcover of Fast Fade, the ninth book in the L.A. PI Jacob Asch series by the recently deceased Arthur Lyons, good condition, signed by the author with a personal inscription to someone named Ed Quinn
>>
>> - a 2006 hardcover reissue of the late Ross Thomas's 1978 Chinaman's Chance, in the Wu/Durant series, very good condition, with a new introduction by the author Susan Isaacs
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>> - a 1965 hardcover collection of all five Dashiell Hammett novels, fair condition, no dustjacket, with a short introduction and remembrance by Lillian Hellman, written especially for that collection
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>> - a 1992 first edition hardcover of The Long-Legged Fly, the first book in James Sallis's Lew Griffin cycle, very good condition, from the personal collection of a lady from Birmingham, Alabama
>>
>> Price for all four books: $1.50
>> (Lyons and Thomas: 2 for $1, Hammett and Sallis: $.25 each)
>>
>> Unbelievable.
>>
>>
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