Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Happy Birthday, askye!
Happy Anniversary, Shari!
she picked the book up for her daughter when she found it at a flea market, where she spent no more than $5 for it. Turns out it's a first edition and worth $12,000 to $18,000, possibly more!
I live in hope that someday I will find a first edition of Something Wicked This Way Comes at a thrift store. It's my impossible dream.
I have a 2nd edition of GWTW that I love and pet often. Not worth nearly as much, but I still loves it.
My happiest book find was at a friends-of-the-library sale where I found the collection of C.L. Moore's short stories that I had been looking for since college. I literally squealed when I saw it sitting on the hardcover table (got a few strange looks from others nearby for that noise). It's not a valuable book at all, but I treasure it.
I have a 2nd edition of GWTW
Me too!
My grandmother owns an antiquarian bookstore, and so I get a lot of 2nd & 3rd editions as birthday & Christmas presents. Not 1st editions because those are actually valuable. But still nice old books.
Happy Birthday, askye!
Happy Anniversary, Shari!
There is a bird outside singing its little heart out. I can't tell if it is a birthday or anniversary song. Maybe both.
DUDE! I just went to the Friends of the Library bookstore last night for the first time. I R DUM. Why've I never gone int here before?? AMAZING.
I've got only a few old books, two from my mom that I really don't care about but keep because they were gifts, and two 2nd-edition MacGuffey Readers that I bought at an Ohio antique store because of their prominence in the Little House books.
We don't have a full-time library store, but they offer sales a few times a year at all the local libraries. At the one where I got my big find several years ago, I didn't get over there until Saturday afternoon, long after all the good stuff had been picked over, so I wasn't expecting to find anything. To get that long-wished-for item was such a thrill!
DUDE! I just went to the Friends of the Library bookstore last night for the first time. I R DUM. Why've I never gone int here before?? AMAZING.
I just learned about the Bay Area Free Book Exchange. I'm not sure my bookshelves are going to be happy about this...
I'd have room for my books again if I didn't have housemates. God, I wish I had the room for my stuff again.