Francis A. Miniter wrote:
On 1/8/2011 10:00 AM, Jean B. wrote:
J wrote:
On Jan 3, 7:45 pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote:
I found at Savers, a used goods store, this evening on the
way home, a first printing (1968) of the Grove Press edition
of the Marquis de Sade's *Juliette* , 1205 pages, with dust
jacket (with only minor defects) and light foxing to the top
edges (otherwise fine) and the first complete publication of
the work in America.


Does the increasing demise of old-fashioned second-hand
bookstores
mean more goodies to be found by the dedicated hunter, do
you think?
Or will more books simply be trashed?

Gack! I say this as I contemplate going back to look at what
appears to be a full set of leatherbound works of Robert
Lewis Stevenson. Yesterday, I got several books for $2
each--2 volumes being from the 1700s. I also got some more
expensive books, 1 being a geography book from the 1800s
that contains the most disparaging comments about almost
every nationality....


Nicely done. At what kind of place did you acquire the 1700s volumes?

An antiques shop--and one that I almost never go to because they
normally have no books. I was actually looking for furniture and
espied an overflowing box of books shoved under a table.
Obviously no one had bothered to look at them. I looked through
all of them.... I really like it when people are too lazy to see
what they have!

--
Jean B.