Unbeatable! What is a library bookstore?
On 03/04/2009 12:29 PM, dermdocsx2 wrote:
> Thought the group would appreciate this. All found during a half-hour session browsing through an Orange County, California library bookstore:
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> - 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
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> - 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
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> Price for all four books: $1.50
> (Lyons and Thomas: 2 for $1, Hammett and Sallis: $.25 each)
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> Unbelievable.
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-- Karin Montin
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