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Used Book Store Finds
Was in West Lafayette, IN this weekend and was wasting time at store with a pretty sizable basement full of used books. Picked up these two books for less than 20 bucks total. Baseball Americana - Treasures From The Library of Congress from 2009 and Baseball: An Illustrated History by Ken Burns and Geoffrey Ward from 1994. The books are like new and the latter was a gift from Serge to his Dad on Christmas in 1994 based on the inscription. Enjoyed flipping through the pages on the flight back. Have y’all found any gems at a used book store?
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Depends on how you define it. I was an afficionado of the history of the West and I found some very tough first-person accounts type of books about Tombstone and the Hole In The Wall Gang at a used book store in San Francisco in the cheap books bins. Long out of print and very interesting reads.
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Used book stores are full of gems. I hit every one I can, as often as I can. I have made a private library of thousands of volumes mostly acquired from them over my life. For even just a buck or two in the clearance bins you can find some wonderful stuff and knowledge. Impossible to beat a good book for value. The real challenge is not spending ten hours there picking through absolutely everything
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Library sales are also great places to find obscure little gems - I had a number of books on Asian history and philosophy from local libraries that had sales back in the mid-late 90's in Memphis.
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The best thing I ever found in book store was copy of the Bucky Harris Story autographed by everybody on the team, including Walter Johnson, for $3.50. Unfortunately, I was only 16 at the time, and Goodwin Goldfadden soon talked me out of it.
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Cool book, thanks for sharing.
I remember winning an REA auction of some D304s that were in spectacular condition. They were found in a book. It was about 32k for 4 of them, again, if I remember correctly. That was quite a bit at the time. I have gotten cards, several times over the years, from bookstore owners who found them in books. I think 1 of those cards in the book may be one I used to own too, unless it's the other one known! .
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Yes, I'm an engineer that works on water projects and I have a small library of historical books on water systems in the west that I've picked up over the years. This is the first time I actively looked for anything related to the hobby though. It's definitely something I'll be doing next time I'm in a used book store though.
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Incredible! That book was titled "Playing the Game" by Harris and is nearly impossible to find with a dust jacket in decent shape. How much did he give you for it?
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Yup, best things I've ever found were at Library Sales, before the used books sellers could find them. Once found a full year bound volume of a Civil War era Police Gazette (edit: faulty memory, it was "Harpers Weekly Illustrated") for like a 100 bucks or so. It was at a fairly big library, 1st night of large weekend sale known to all the local book and antique dealers. They had it set aside in a special "Antiquities" section of higher end books. I honestly couldn't understand how one of the book dealers there didn't grab it before I did, as I was hardly the first one there. Last edited by D. Bergin; 04-12-2024 at 10:24 AM. |
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I traded it for baseball cards, and Goodwin didn't put a very high a value on them, so I probably did OK.
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Aniquarian
I found this one at an Antiquarian Book Fair quite a few years ago and got it graded shortly thereafter. At the time, SGC was the only TPG that could grade oversized cards.
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