I love the pressed flowers, 4 leaf clovers, and notes that I've found, too. A pleasant reminder of someone else's life.sweetandsour wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 08:34I always try to buy used books instead of new, via Amazon and elsewhere. One never knows what will be found tucked away or written in a book, especially older books.FredS wrote: 13 Nov 2024, 11:18 I bought a stack of local history books at auction and I'm working my way through this one, published in 1959. It's cool enough on it's own, but I found someone else's treasure map notes inside!
Also, this book was published only 3 years before I was born but it's publication date is closer to some of the 1800's mining and exploration it describes than it is to today. Good grief I'm old.
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Thriftbook . com is my go to. I've been surprised at the number of signed copies I've unknowingly received. I asked Durangopipe if, as an author, the used book market bothered him since he loses out in payments. Being his gracious self, he said it did not, he's just happy people read his work. Then I fessed up to buying four of his books used myself.Hugo Drax wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 16:31I love the pressed flowers, 4 leaf clovers, and notes that I've found, too. A pleasant reminder of someone else's life.sweetandsour wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 08:34I always try to buy used books instead of new, via Amazon and elsewhere. One never knows what will be found tucked away or written in a book, especially older books.FredS wrote: 13 Nov 2024, 11:18 I bought a stack of local history books at auction and I'm working my way through this one, published in 1959. It's cool enough on it's own, but I found someone else's treasure map notes inside!
Also, this book was published only 3 years before I was born but it's publication date is closer to some of the 1800's mining and exploration it describes than it is to today. Good grief I'm old.
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So I received my first order from thriftbook today. Sure enough there is an inscription inside the cover of one of the books (1976 printing of Andy Adams’ Campfire Tales).FredS wrote: 20 Nov 2024, 08:57Thriftbook . com is my go to. I've been surprised at the number of signed copies I've unknowingly received. I asked Durangopipe if, as an author, the used book market bothered him since he loses out in payments. Being his gracious self, he said it did not, he's just happy people read his work. Then I fessed up to buying four of his books used myself.Hugo Drax wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 16:31I love the pressed flowers, 4 leaf clovers, and notes that I've found, too. A pleasant reminder of someone else's life.sweetandsour wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 08:34
I always try to buy used books instead of new, via Amazon and elsewhere. One never knows what will be found tucked away or written in a book, especially older books.
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Merry Christmas. Thanks for asking me to dance.
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