Best charity shop/thrift store book find?
>>25201848I'm amazon-only.
I found a ton of great-condition Easton Press books at a thrift shop. I only bought two because my backlog is huge, though.
>>25201889Forgot pic.
Bought this for £2 at an oxfam some years back
>>25201899Got the same for £4.
I work in apartment building so sometimes people leave shit behind or it gets thrown out. ended up finding a nice old hardcover of platos complete dialogues in a bag by the dumpster in the alleyway
>>25201891>maupassantnice
One time I got a book that had dry blood glueing a bunch of pages.Does this count?
i got a copy of bataille's accursed share (vol. 1) at a uni booksale for a toonie. i frankly expected to go my entire life without seeing a copy - too bad that this one has insipid and not-particularly-insightful marginalia
>>25201899>>25202070Seems complete Shakespeare is the ubiquitous "best deal" you can get in these shops. I also got a cheap one and it's probably the best deal
>>25203514Yeah, though I’ve picked up some decent stuff in the past from that same shop. Got Ulysses (Oxford edition 1922 text) for 50p which was cool too. I wonder how much say, a new penguin classics copy of just Hamlet costs though?
>>25203520>a new penguin classics copy of just Hamlet costs though£7 I recall of an unadorned paperback (no index or introduction etc)
>>25201848Honestly library book sales usually are much better than thrift stores.
>>25203747That’s 3.5x more for less than 1% of his works… lol.
Moorcock's The Dancers at the End of Time in hardback for £1.Several books in a charity shop closing sale (it still hurts) for 10p each.
>>25204049Ouch, what books I wonder.
>>25204053Off the top of my head:Stapledon's Last and First MenDeath at the Bar by Ngaio MarshThe Portable Karl Marx
>>25201848I got a 1st edition/1st run copy of Atlas Shrugged in near mint condition. It was being used to decorate a bookshelf in an antiques store and the guy sold it to me for like $5. I knew a Randtard at the time and he tried to convince me it was in my self-interest to maximize the value of the book and, as it meant more to him than it did me, I should give it to him. I laughed in his face. I also found the first editions (in English) of Doctor Zhivago and Doctor Faustus the same way but the dust jackets on them are pretty fucked. As for the books themselves, Zhivago is in great condition but Faustus is a little brittle. Protip: look at bookshelves in antique stores.
>>25201848Picked up this Oxford complete works of Shakespeare (printed 1914) from Oxfam Books for £10 a couple weeks ago. I visit the local one on a weekly basis and mostly collect black paperback Penguin Classics from the 60s-70s. Yesterday I visited Harrogate for the first time and chances upon an absolutely incredible second-hand bookshop called Books For All, in which I found this Oxford complete Chaucer (printed 1967) for £4.50. I also got an abridged paperback of Pepys' diary and a book on Homeric Grammar for a few quid each but those are not really beautiful enough to be worth posting. I didn't have a great deal of time in the bookshop and my gf wasn't feeling well so cut my visit short, but I will be returning and employing the use of the ladder to delve into the floor to ceiling shelves. It was probably the best second-hand bookshop I've ever visited (Blackwells in Oxford the best for new books). The ground floor was all hardbacks and mostly rare/expensive books, upstairs was a combination of hard/paper and was divided into genres/categories. General paperback literature occupies an entire wall floor to ceiling. Very sizeable language, poetry, philosophy, history, biography, etc, sections spanning two large rooms. Worth a visit to any fellow Bong anons
>>25201848First edition of horcynus orcaFirst edition of malone dies
>>25201848Got a full 60 volume set of the 1990 release of the Britannica Great Books for $20.I was lucky because I happened to see them unboxing donations and overheard them say "No one will buy these, should we just toss them?" so I made an offer and they seemed glad to be rid of them.Still making my way through the ten year reading plan three years later.
>>25201848Basically all my books are from charity shops. Yesterday I found picrel for £1
>>25205648I recently got a Laymon and a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring for that exact amount.Man, do I love our charity shop culture.
