LTR Loves Library Book Sales
March 29th, 2004The past few days have been a blur of pool halls and library book sales for poor LTR. On the subject of pool halls he has nothing to say; however, old habits die hard, and he just can’t resist buying dirty old used books.
During lunch on Friday he took a walk to the Peachtree Branch of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library and ended up with the first four volumes of Michael Moorcock’s “Dancers at the End of Time” series, Moorcock’s The Jewel in the Skull, and mint copies of Frankenstein and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt (hardcover). Total cost: $2.75!
Lady Crumpet told LTR about a sale at the main DeKalb County Public Library branch in Decatur, so he made my way over there on Sunday (bumping into Lady C. and her husband in the parking lot!). Although he arrived too late for anything but the dregs, he found some good stuff:
- The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury, featuring the original graphics from The Strand Magazine
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer, one of the better Holmes pastiches
- Last Letters from Hav, by Jan Morris, an excellent fictional travel narrative
- The Edward Hoagland Reader, collecting selected pieces by one of the best 20th century American essayists
- The Everglades: River of Grass, by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, the environmental activist for whom LTR’s high school was named.
Total cost: $2.50!