Book sale finds
We went to our favorite booksale on Friday evening, the one which is twice a year, opening on Saturday usually, but opening Friday evening for Friends of the Library (though you can only get 25 books per person). It has a lovely selection of ex-library copies, as well as privately owned and donated copies of books, and we always find around 100 books that we need. Here are the top finds:
A Blunt Instrument and The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer
Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian
The First Rumpole Omnibus and The Second Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer
The first five books in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter
A Portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil
The Wimsey Family by Dorothy Sayers
Do Butlers Burgle Banks and Cocktail Time by P. G. Wodehouse
The Captain From Connecticut by C. S. Forester
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Barnaby Rudge, Christmas Stories, and Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Gluckel of Hamelin by Bea Stadler
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The first six Mrs. Pollifax books by Dorothy Gilman
John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Really nice hunter green hardback with embossed runes, and with Tolkien's illustrations!)
...and 88 others, which I have not time to post
3 comments:
Sounds like you guys hit the jackpot! Are most of these books for school reading? I haven't heard of at least half of them. ;D
Oh, please make the rest blog-fodder when you have time! You got a lot of great books there, and I'd love to read about the rest.
I went to our libray's sale and picked up almost all of Louisa May Alcott's books. Wish we had wonders like yours!
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