Used book stores

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From: eli+ at gs211.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: (urth) Used book stores
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:54:33
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BraveSaintCroix at aol.com wrote:
>     Just to throw something out there: how many people here find their Ge=
ne=20
> Wolfe at used book stores?  Fishing through shelves of tattered paperbacks
> in cramped book stores is hobby of mine, but Gene Wolfe always seems scar=
ce.

For a while I couldn't turn around without tripping over drifts of
lonely orphan _Soldier_ paperbacks that nobody would take home.  But
you're right, Wolfe is mostly not one of the authors who turns up a
lot used.  A fair bit of _New Sun_.  Last summer, SoHo Books (of that
ilk) had quite a stash: _Castle_, _Storeys_, _Peace, _Devil_, _Doctor
Death_, I forget what else, all like new.  Probably Tor surplus. :-(
Wolfe is definitely one of the authors whose books I don't wait to
find used, both because that's not so easy and because I'd prefer to
buy a copy.

--=20
     Eli Brandt  |  eli+ at cs.cmu.edu  |  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/

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