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ITT: We share stories of interesting finds at used book stores/garage sales (or any other ofc).

I like old books, so here's a copy of Meditations that was published in 1905. I found it at a small town used book store and paid $2.

>> No.2151091

bump.

>> No.2151123

La Debacle, Zola, 1914. Bought on the south bank (of the thames..) book fair earlier this month. A little unnecessary information; there was some sort of Christian flashmob while we were browsing. They sang traditional hymns. It was quite pleasant.

>> No.2151129

1934 leatherbound 2 volume edition of Remembrance of Things Past, for 5 bucks.

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Everyone Poops
Taro Gomi

Adventure of a liftime! Roller coaster of an adventure! Nothing is better

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I found on the discard shelf of my local college library Hannah Arendt's Between Past and Present (Not this Penguin, but a 1968 printing) all for the price of 50 cents

...Well I liked it. Everything else was such outdated crap

>> No.2151619

Everything and More: A Complete History of ∞
by DFW.

1st ed. for 10.00 was offer 20.00 for it by the guy behind me.

Not old but I am happy about it.

>> No.2151627

True story: I found a first edition of "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand at a thrift store for 50 cents, bought it, went home and sold it on ebay for over 100.00 dollars.

I wish shit like that happened more often to me.

>> No.2151687

>>2151627

Who would pay $100 for that?

A tea party conservative. That's who.

>> No.2151689

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. circa 1920. Gold leafed design on front with swastika.

>> No.2151692

>>2151687
Or an Objectivist sir.

>> No.2151703

>>2151692

or an auto-sadist.

>> No.2151706

>>2151689

do want.

>> No.2151708

>>2151703
you mean a masochist?

>> No.2151717

>>2151708

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosadism

idgaf

>> No.2152170

bump

>> No.2152186

Eurofag here

Got myself a shitlaod of books for 10 Euro at a used book store.

Virgil - Aeneis
A collection of stories by Satre
The complete short stories by Mark Twain
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The Stories of Robert Louise Stevenson
Eiji Yoshikawa - Musashi

>> No.2152204

>>2152186

damn quite a nice find.

I'm jelly on the Robert Louis Stevenson collection