----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au> To: "Rene Ribic" <
rribic@optusnet.com.au>; <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002
9:47 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Second Hand Rose (...or
Williams) - in praise of charity stores
>
> ----- 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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