Re: RARA-AVIS: Rare finds

From: Joy Matkowski (jmatkowski1@comcast.net)
Date: 03 Apr 2009

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    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:
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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)
    >>
    >> Unbelievable.
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