Today I puchased about six books from the library's bookshop, quite a bargain at that. All six books were only $3-, they belong to a set of "Harvard Classics" colletcion. Of the ones I bought they include: "Elizabethan dram vol.2", "Lecture", "I Promessi Sposi by Manzoni" (no idea who the guy is), "Ep[ic and Saga", "Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur", and "Locke, Berkeley, Hume"...absolutely worth the purchased because they're the harback cover editions from 1910. The collection is avoer a 100 yeards old! There are some volumes left in the store, but I ran out of cash since my last pruchased. I had bought a whole collection of nobel prize literature, 20 volumes.
It is likely that the remianing volumes will still be there by tomorrow, enough time for me to gather soem change around home. Unfortunately the set should be 50 volumes and about 6 volumes are in the library. So even with all 12 books together, I'll be getting a incomplete set. I hope the volumes will present themselves onlie at similar bargain. I hear some make quite a profit by buying cheap books online and selling them for high prices online to suckers. I hope the same won't do to me.
Another thing, I found the most beautiful antique book at preatty much deserted town; well the shop is much unknown truth be told. Bacxk to the book, It is "the tale of Reynald the fox", a popular fable from the middle ages dating from 1866(or either was it -68 or -67, around that date) in a blue hardcover. Unfornutaly the seller is asking for $75 even though he had that book over 2 years in his store. I doubt I'll see tjhis volume somewhere else, so someday I pucharse it myself. By now I should be considered an antique book collecter. A wide number of my books are about or over 100 years old. There's a joy to collecting these volmues, and reading them. Oh- do I ever enjoy reading such things.
 Dungen_Wolf · Wed Aug 12, 2009 @ 12:13am · 0 Comments |
