You know what rocks?

[featherynscale]

Finding a copy of an out-of-print book in an obscure subject area for $7.95, when you thought you were going to have to pay a collector $60.00 plus for it, or not get it at all. That rocks.

Downside? According to Powells.com, book is underlined or written in. Well, hell, kids. *I* was gonna write in it.

Yay!
*happy acquisition dance*

Comments

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I've been slowly building my collection of Chas Addams books off ebay, I love it when I find one for a good price.

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

I love reading other peoples thoughts and impressions and even bits of randomness when I buy used books.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in some ways, that's an enhancement. Especially if they were using the book to write a paper. Those are the best.

Re: rare book

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

So, what is the book?

BTW, are you familiar with http://www.addall.com/Used/?

Probably my most savingest find was collection of the Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. I found it for $50, it was $350 most places and $500 retail. Yay!

Re: rare book

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Shiny link. Thanks!

This is Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth. Not terribly rare, but out of print, and possibly the only thing out there that covers glbt/etc. themes in mythology and symbolism across cultures.

Your fish is much bigger :-P

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

Cool. Reminds me, I should get back onto my idle project of annotating my copy of The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

I think I got fifty pages in before I got bored and ambled off to do something else.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Hee. That's about where I stopped, too. I'm sort of alarmed to see I'm not the only person to give that a go, though.

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. That's fricking hilarious.

... When's the next convention coming to Chicago or Milwaukee, to give you an excuse to come visit?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Dunno, man. I've never been to Chicago or to Milwaukee. I think Chicago is not far from here though (I'm still lousy with the geography of the midwest). Perhaps we could come visit.