One of the wonderful things about a used bookstore is that all manner of books find a temporary home here, from the falling-apart, underlined $1 copy of Crime and Punishment to the $3,000 first edition of Cat in the Hat. Virginia Woolf once described "secondhand books" as "wild books, homeless books . . . [which] have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of a library lack." Although we have a vast and variegated flock indeed, I'm sure that some passersby just keep on walking when they see us, thinking that we carry vintage and rare titles only.
If you are at all familiar with us, though, you know that we have hundreds upon hundreds of books that have come out within the past two or three years. Most are still in excellent condition. Better still, most are inexpensive--70% to 80% off of the cover price, to be exact. When you tally up the original cover price of the six books featured below, the total comes to $163.30. Babbitt's price for the same six books is $31.
Babette thinks that's a great bargain.
If you want your Christmas dollar to go far, these books--these prices!--cannot be beaten. You can find these books and hundreds of others on our new arrivals shelf and in the history aisle. The ones below are all hardcovers with dust jackets, but we have plenty of three- and four-dollar trade paperbacks to fit your needs, too.
David McCullough's 1776.
Cover price: $32Our price: $4
Cover price: $27.95
Our price: $5
Cover price: $24.95
Cover price: $27.50
Our price: $6
And Babette is always right!
ReplyDeleteIs it wrong to ask you to set aside AMERICAN LIGHTNING and THE MAN WHO MADE LISTS for me? I think Scott would like both and he's not easy to buy for.
ReplyDeleteNot wrong at all! Books are on hold, Julie.
ReplyDeleteThanks, S! I will come by tomorrow or Tuesday. The early bird puts the worm on hold!
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