Can you believe I paid 25 cents for this?

[RetroLounge]

Garage sale find. 25 cents.

First Edition, 1960, later printing, hard cover with dust jacket.

It now has a place of honor on my book shelf at home!

Great book, great copy of a great book...

:woohoo:

RL

[YDogg]

1. sweet!

:-)

[RetroLounge]

12. Yeah, It is...

I took my brand new Trade paperback version off the shelf and put it up for sale in the store.

:hi:

RL

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. First edition...

Great find!

Pay attention to garage sale vintage stereo gear as well, lest those expensive tube amps slip through your fingers :)

[Pierre.Suave]

9. Hey you...

are you giving away my secrets again?

:P

[truedelphi]

21. Can you explain about the stereo gear??

What is a good thing to get?

When we moved I couldn't find our bookcase speakers, so on impulse I bought these oversized clodhoppers at a thrift store. The sound has been great.

And good thing too - it was about eight months before the original speakers surfaced.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Retro!

Outstanding!

What a great find, and such a terrific price!

I wonder if the folks selling it knew what they had? And didn't even care!!!

:yourock:

[KitchenWitch]

4. My all time favorite book!

:woohoo:

[UrbScotty]

5. One of my favorites!

[krispos42]

6. Unbelievable

You waaaaaaaaay overpaid, dude...





:rofl:


Great find!

[GoneOffShore]

7. WOOT!!

[Callalily]

8. I'm seething with

jealousy! ;) That is my all-time most favorite book!

Good find. At least I know it has gone to a good home!

:hi:

[Dangerously Amused]

10. Hah. You didn't leave us to "see the kids" last night.

You went home to fondle your book!

[RetroLounge]

11. You said Fondle!

:rofl:

RL

[DarkTirade]

13. The local library is having a big book sale this weekend

a bit picked over by the time I got there, but I got some good finds. Four books (one of them a hardcover) for $1.25. :)

[RetroLounge]

16. Yeah, i go to those when i can

:hi:

RL

[Midlodemocrat]

14. GIMME A QUARTER.

[sasquatch]

Like you should talk

:eyes:

[sasquatch]

31. Like you should talk

:eyes:

[Roon]

34. I saw that mess about the tweeker wanting a quarter

How about being asked "Loan me a dollar!" Oh really, when are you going to pay me back? Shall we talk interest?

[Midlodemocrat]

35. What are the terms of said loan? Huh?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. oddly enough, that is probably what

it went for new

[RetroLounge]

18. You might be right...

:D

RL

[bigwillq]

17. Sweet!

That's awesome! :) :hi:

[Critters2]

19. Congrats! Quite a find. I don't suppose you have this book?

I need it for my continuing ed class. I only need to read two essays, but I keep ordering it from the library network website, and it never gets here. So, I guess I'm gonna have to buy it.

Anyway, congrats on _To Kill a Mockingbird_. Quite a good hunter you are!

[Debi]

20. Bargain!!

Lucky you! :bounce:

[khashka]

22. Wow!

I once bought a first edtion, signed book that was out of print for less than five bucks. I almost told the bookstore owner he was making a mistake, but thought "Buy it and keep your mouth shut". Looked it up later and the usual asking price was several hundred dollars.

Khash.

[cabbage08]

23. cool

[Hand]

24. Fantastic!

Says here current selling price is 12,000-$15,000!

http://www.bookride.com/2007/01/to-kill-mockingbird-by-harper-lee.html

[RetroLounge]

25. Nah, it's a 1st edition, book club printing

probably $200 at most...

still a good find.

:hi:

RL

[Hand]

28. I think I had that same edition years ago.

It was a book club edition--that's where I bought it--whether it was first edition I don't know, but it had the same dust cover.

:hi:

[Rhythm]

26. There are days when i really don't like you...

Days when you find something that cool, and i don't...
those are the days i don't like you.

:hug:

Nice find, hon... bravo!

[RetroLounge]

27. Hee hee

Yeah, I would be more excited were it a real $12,000 first edition and not a book club 1st Edition.

But it is still very cool.

:hi:

RL

[Rhythm]

29. Kinda like the time about 15 yrs ago when i stumbled upon a 1st Ed. hardback of

Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" in some sprawling backwoods used bookstore in Virginia. Mint condition, and i paid $10 for it; i resold it a month later at a horror con for about $500.

Would have held onto it, but a friend of mine had given me a signed 1st Ed. for Christmas the year before...

[RetroLounge]

32. ooh, nice!

:hi:

RL

[otherlander]

30. I got Darkness at Noon AND two books by Kenneth Rexroth for $2.

:woohoo:

To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the few books that the high school made me read that I actually liked. :thumbsup:

[Roon]

33. A little off topic

but I found out awhile ago, that the guy who played Dill in the movie died of aids.

[RetroLounge]

36. I think I read that too...

sad.

:hi:

RL