Who loves library used book sales? (edition, cover, literature, classic)

[John Dark]

Went to one this morning, at an area library that usually has a reliably good selection at these things. It was a madhouse, but I walked away with a pretty good haul.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson
Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin
Silverlock, John Myers Myers
The Last Witchfinder, by James Morrow
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Coroner's Lunch, by Colin Cotterill
The Merry Misogynist, by Colin Cotterill
Martin Eden, by Jack London
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn, by John Buchan
Flashman, by George MacDonald Frasier
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiassen
The Gospel According to Biff, by Christopher Moore
Monongahela Dusk, by John Hoerr
Two Penguin classics of Chinese literature
One more I can't recall at the moment

Almost all in very good+ or better condition. Fifty cents each.... 18 books for $9.

Can't wait for the next one.

[DawnMTL]

NICE!!!!!!!

When I lived in CT, aside from the organized sales, they had some racks out front all the time. I usually found something to buy every time I went to borrow.

[soonerguy]

One of my favorite things to do. Sometimes I plan trips and vacations around them.

[Doll Eyes]

OMG. I do! They basically had brand new books these past few weekends at $1.00 a pop. I bought 4 even though I don't even like buying books, just borrowing!

Say you're one of them - Uwem Akpan

The memory keeper's daughter - Kim Edwards

The kitchen house - Kathleen Grissom

Shutter island - Dennis Lehane

[phonelady61]

we have one coming up in June I hope I can find the time to go and the money too . glad someone else likes these too .

[ccc123]

Twice a year the local library has a bag sale all you can fit in a brown paper bag for $2.00. It is an absolute madhouse reminds me of black friday but I love it. They have probably 15 tables set up.

[Tracysherm]

I love them! I'm one of those people who has to own every book I've read, and I read some over and over.

I read in the bathtub, so I don't want to ruin hardcover books with wet hands. So I get duplicates at these library sales, either paperbacks for the hardcovers I've already bought, or hardcovers to put on the shelf if I've already bought the paperback or kindle version.

I have gotten new or near-new hardcover books for like $2. Paperbacks I've never seen before for $.50-$1.00.

I also LOVE the very old vintage hardcover books at these sales. They aren't the valuable first editions, but nice-looking embossed leather or cloth books. With "classic" books, I'll buy a cheap paperback to read, or get it free on my kindle, but then buy a nice vintage hardcover version at the library sale, for keeps.

[20yrsinBranson]

Originally Posted by John Dark

Went to one this morning, at an area library that usually has a reliably good selection at these things. It was a madhouse, but I walked away with a pretty good haul.

Almost all in very good+ or better condition. Fifty cents each.... 18 books for $9.

Can't wait for the next one.

OMG. We had one April 28th and I bought 24 books and I never got past the Psychology/Philosophy table! The only complaint I have is that ours does not have a very robust gardening section (it's all about FLOWERS, not veggies), and the "religion" section means "Christian", but other than that, it rocks. I have a closet full of non-fiction. One day, I'm going to get around to reading them. LOL

20yrsinBranson

[flower54]

Love them!!! There's one here, the second weekend of every month...It's a good thing I don't always remember..I'd have ALOT of books.

[RjRobb2]

We have a library that has a huge one twice a year where they fill an old mall full of books and they are all a $1 or less. They have tens of thousands of books. You could spend a whole weekend going through them.