Saturday, January 17, 2015

Used Book Stores

They still exist! I got the Brothers Karamazov and an Agatha Christie, both in hardcover, for $14. It is a glorious mess!







7 comments:

  1. Books galore! Reminds me a bit of a used book store at St. Nicholas Market in Bristol.

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  2. Which one is this, if you don't mind saying?

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    1. It's "Back Door Books" on Throckmorton Street in Fort Worth, TX.

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  3. When I lived in Post Falls, ID, there was a used/rare bookstore in the next town which essentially had a key to the liturgical "basement" of nearby Gonzaga University whenever they wanted to stock their shelves. They knew not what they sold. O for the days before Summorum Pontificum and cheap second-hand liturgical books!

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    1. Wow. What a treasure-trove that must've been. I daresay even in preconciliar times they knew not what they sold - they might have even had Breviaries!

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  4. I get almost all my books from used bookstores on the internet. Why? Because that's the only way to stay sane these days...

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  5. When I first moved to London in the early 1990s there was a bookshop, John Thornton, that had very good liturigcal stock. In the garage that adjoined the shop on the Old Kings Road there were Breviaries piled up for £5.00 per set of four. That soon went up to £20.00 for some reason.

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