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Saturday yard sailing & link roundup
Today was a big day for local yard sales! It's the day the two largest methodist churches have their spring flea market, and the day the historical society has its used book sale. It's kind of the ceremonial opening of the season, so of course we have to go to as many of them as possible.
(It's also free comic book day, so I stopped in for form's sake, but there weren't really any I wanted this year so I didn't bother fighting the crowd.)
So... when I decided to start doing this, I hoped it would prove that I don't buy "mostly books" at yard sales, I buy lots of other things too! This week's haul... does not make that case.
From the GBIA used book sale:
@ 5/$1:
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh by John and Mildred Teal, 1969
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav, 1979 (which I have in a MASSIVE hardcover and decided $.25 was worth trading down to a good-condition paperback, for storage reasons.)
Limbo of the Lost by John Wallace Spencer, 1969
Nature in Downland by W H Hudson, 1923 (because people writing about landscape keep referencing him)
The Pig, the Prince and the Unicorn by Karen A Brush, 1987 (because it felt wrong not to be buying any SF.
@$.50 each:
Basic Bookbinding by A. W. Lewis, 1957
Jump Rope! by Peter L. Skolnik, 1974
How to Build Your Own Living Structures by Ken Isaacs, 1974 (which is SO hippie-tastic, it can get filed next to Dad's old copy of DOMEBOOK)
Seven Came Through by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, 1943
@$1 each:
i before e (except after c): old-school ways to remember stuff by Judy Parkinson, 2008
Fruit Key and Twig Key to Trees and Shrubs by William Harlow, 1946
Pardon me while I whine about this book sale for awhile: first off, they recycle over half their stock from year to year, which means the more often you go, the less you find that you want. Which is fine, I still go. But then they will sometimes pull out all the nonfiction books in a certain subject area and save them for an "appropriate year" (like they're saving all the WWI books they get - except the Eddie Rickenbacher one, which snuck through in the kids' section - until the centennial of the war.) And then they're doing that *really annoying* thing where they check their stock against Ebay or Abebooks or something, and put more and more books every year in the "specially priced" section, where they price it at the level of the highest online price they could find, which is not how online pricing works. But even that would be fine, I could just stay on the bulk-priced side of the room, except that the way they mark the special-price books? Is by pencilling the price into the corner of the title page. Which is exactly the same way every used book store does it. So every year I pull a book or two off the five-for-a-dollar table, take it up to buy, and the cashier sees a penciled-in price, probably from some used book store it passed through two decades ago, and insists on charging that price, no matter what the book is. Which is really annoying, because I will pay $.20 to take a chance on a random SF paperback that I will not pay $2.50 for. If they're going to do that method, they need to go through their entire stock and cross out old prices.
...anyway.
From the GBUMC sale
@$.25 each:
"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" on DVD
"Stargate: The Ark of Truth" on DVD
The Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet by James C. Fahey, 1936 ('Compiled from non-confidential government publications and unofficial sources')
Smith's First Year Latin, 1933 (to see if my Latin-liking friend wants it.)
Circuit Hikes in Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, 2004
Appalachian Trail Guide to Maryland and Northern Virginia with Side Trails by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, 2000
The C&O Canal Trail Companion by Mike High, 1997
Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Virginias by Lillard and Hicks, 1998
Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Virginias by Schere and Hopey, 1998
(Why yes, I do need to just pick up and go hiking one day soon. At least I didn't buy the workbooks for planning a thru-hike! (I have decided I don't particularly want to be a thru-hiker, because the more I learn about thru-hiking the less I like the idea. I'd like to spend a whole summer on the trail some year, maybe, but I would rather go at my own pace than try to push the mileage. That's my general philosophy anyway. Also, ~$3,000 for four months on the trail, not counting gear?? Discounting rent but including all utilities, I can live for an entire year on about $5000!) I almost bought a small tent here too, but they didn't know what size it was and I didn't feel like setting it up in the church hall just to find out it was a kids' tent.)
From the SPUMC sale
@$.25 each:
Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck (missing the instructions)
[birthday present for somebody who might read this journal]
The Original Sesame Street Cast Record on LP, 1970
Birds Do the Strangest Things by Arthur and Leonora Hornblow, 1965, + Fish, Reptiles, and Prehistoric Monsters in the same set (I've only wanted to complete the set since I was, oh, five.)
The First Book of Codes and Ciphers, by Sam and Beryl Epstein, 1956 (I confess that I only bought this one because it has a whole section of HOBO SIGNS. ...I think if I actually do any AT hiking this summer I will used the 'tell a pitiful story' hobo sign to sign the trail books.)
What Next, Charlie Brown? by Charles Shulz, 1956
Sacred Geometry by Miranda Lundy, 2001
Color Drawing for Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior and Graphic Designers, and Artists by Michael E. Doyle, 1993 (I thought I had enough art books, but since this one's for architects, it has sections on things like "How to draw an archetypal stand of evergreens" and "how do draw a hardwood floor" and things...)
Baltimore, An Interesing City, by Jean Kilbourne et al, 1954 (which is actually a ditto packet put out by the city department of education, but it has short bits on things like the history of screen painting and where Native American artifacts had recently been found during redevelopment projects.)
Also $4.75 for a home-made chicken salad sandwich, a deviled egg, and a can of pop for lunch.
Total: 27 books, 2 DVDs, 2 packs of cards and 1 LP = $10
Also, while at the sales, I ran into: my uncle, Pat from church, Mr. W. who taught with Dad, my old preschool teacher and my old third-grade teacher. And they say there's no sense of community 'round here!
Then I went to the library to do 2 hours of volunteer TAing for a "Beginning Computers" class and ended up buying some more books there, but we'll gloss over that.
Then I walked the 1.8 miles home, since it was nice, and on the way back I saw a native American koala! (By which of course I mean a groundhog Marmota monax climbing a tree, which was a new one for me. see the fall 2010 issue of Spotted Turtle for the first known photo of a native koala, taken by my uncle.)
(It's also free comic book day, so I stopped in for form's sake, but there weren't really any I wanted this year so I didn't bother fighting the crowd.)
So... when I decided to start doing this, I hoped it would prove that I don't buy "mostly books" at yard sales, I buy lots of other things too! This week's haul... does not make that case.
From the GBIA used book sale:
@ 5/$1:
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh by John and Mildred Teal, 1969
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav, 1979 (which I have in a MASSIVE hardcover and decided $.25 was worth trading down to a good-condition paperback, for storage reasons.)
Limbo of the Lost by John Wallace Spencer, 1969
Nature in Downland by W H Hudson, 1923 (because people writing about landscape keep referencing him)
The Pig, the Prince and the Unicorn by Karen A Brush, 1987 (because it felt wrong not to be buying any SF.
@$.50 each:
Basic Bookbinding by A. W. Lewis, 1957
Jump Rope! by Peter L. Skolnik, 1974
How to Build Your Own Living Structures by Ken Isaacs, 1974 (which is SO hippie-tastic, it can get filed next to Dad's old copy of DOMEBOOK)
Seven Came Through by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, 1943
@$1 each:
i before e (except after c): old-school ways to remember stuff by Judy Parkinson, 2008
Fruit Key and Twig Key to Trees and Shrubs by William Harlow, 1946
Pardon me while I whine about this book sale for awhile: first off, they recycle over half their stock from year to year, which means the more often you go, the less you find that you want. Which is fine, I still go. But then they will sometimes pull out all the nonfiction books in a certain subject area and save them for an "appropriate year" (like they're saving all the WWI books they get - except the Eddie Rickenbacher one, which snuck through in the kids' section - until the centennial of the war.) And then they're doing that *really annoying* thing where they check their stock against Ebay or Abebooks or something, and put more and more books every year in the "specially priced" section, where they price it at the level of the highest online price they could find, which is not how online pricing works. But even that would be fine, I could just stay on the bulk-priced side of the room, except that the way they mark the special-price books? Is by pencilling the price into the corner of the title page. Which is exactly the same way every used book store does it. So every year I pull a book or two off the five-for-a-dollar table, take it up to buy, and the cashier sees a penciled-in price, probably from some used book store it passed through two decades ago, and insists on charging that price, no matter what the book is. Which is really annoying, because I will pay $.20 to take a chance on a random SF paperback that I will not pay $2.50 for. If they're going to do that method, they need to go through their entire stock and cross out old prices.
...anyway.
From the GBUMC sale
@$.25 each:
"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" on DVD
"Stargate: The Ark of Truth" on DVD
The Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet by James C. Fahey, 1936 ('Compiled from non-confidential government publications and unofficial sources')
Smith's First Year Latin, 1933 (to see if my Latin-liking friend wants it.)
Circuit Hikes in Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, 2004
Appalachian Trail Guide to Maryland and Northern Virginia with Side Trails by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, 2000
The C&O Canal Trail Companion by Mike High, 1997
Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Virginias by Lillard and Hicks, 1998
Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Virginias by Schere and Hopey, 1998
(Why yes, I do need to just pick up and go hiking one day soon. At least I didn't buy the workbooks for planning a thru-hike! (I have decided I don't particularly want to be a thru-hiker, because the more I learn about thru-hiking the less I like the idea. I'd like to spend a whole summer on the trail some year, maybe, but I would rather go at my own pace than try to push the mileage. That's my general philosophy anyway. Also, ~$3,000 for four months on the trail, not counting gear?? Discounting rent but including all utilities, I can live for an entire year on about $5000!) I almost bought a small tent here too, but they didn't know what size it was and I didn't feel like setting it up in the church hall just to find out it was a kids' tent.)
From the SPUMC sale
@$.25 each:
Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck (missing the instructions)
[birthday present for somebody who might read this journal]
The Original Sesame Street Cast Record on LP, 1970
Birds Do the Strangest Things by Arthur and Leonora Hornblow, 1965, + Fish, Reptiles, and Prehistoric Monsters in the same set (I've only wanted to complete the set since I was, oh, five.)
The First Book of Codes and Ciphers, by Sam and Beryl Epstein, 1956 (I confess that I only bought this one because it has a whole section of HOBO SIGNS. ...I think if I actually do any AT hiking this summer I will used the 'tell a pitiful story' hobo sign to sign the trail books.)
What Next, Charlie Brown? by Charles Shulz, 1956
Sacred Geometry by Miranda Lundy, 2001
Color Drawing for Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior and Graphic Designers, and Artists by Michael E. Doyle, 1993 (I thought I had enough art books, but since this one's for architects, it has sections on things like "How to draw an archetypal stand of evergreens" and "how do draw a hardwood floor" and things...)
Baltimore, An Interesing City, by Jean Kilbourne et al, 1954 (which is actually a ditto packet put out by the city department of education, but it has short bits on things like the history of screen painting and where Native American artifacts had recently been found during redevelopment projects.)
Also $4.75 for a home-made chicken salad sandwich, a deviled egg, and a can of pop for lunch.
Total: 27 books, 2 DVDs, 2 packs of cards and 1 LP = $10
Also, while at the sales, I ran into: my uncle, Pat from church, Mr. W. who taught with Dad, my old preschool teacher and my old third-grade teacher. And they say there's no sense of community 'round here!
Then I went to the library to do 2 hours of volunteer TAing for a "Beginning Computers" class and ended up buying some more books there, but we'll gloss over that.
Then I walked the 1.8 miles home, since it was nice, and on the way back I saw a native American koala! (By which of course I mean a groundhog Marmota monax climbing a tree, which was a new one for me. see the fall 2010 issue of Spotted Turtle for the first known photo of a native koala, taken by my uncle.)
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*needs dinosaur icon*
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I think I have the complete original set now, but I'm not sure (there also seems to be a sister-series about sports starts doing "amazing things" but I have trouble caring about those, somehow.) I had the insects one as a kid and one of my classes had the reptiles one! Probably has something to do with my lifelong love of creepy things.
..I should re-upload my Dinotopia icon sets. Even if they don't have feathers. (Yay geology majors! *secret handshake and/or Cummingtonite joke*.)