Time/Life Reprinted Classics

I didn’t know this for a long time, but select Time/Life sets continued by reprinting books that were referenced in their content. And they did a great job, too, with leather covers, gilded pages, quality paper, and so on.

I don’t come across them very often, so when I get a chance, I pick them up!

I only have two of the World War II books, but I have a decent number of the series on Epic of Flight, The Civil War, and The Old West. I think I have maybe 30% of all four of these reprint sets, so there is a way to go! (And yes, I put the two Eldorado books together after this photo was taken!)

Beep… Thump… Beep… Thump… Beep… Thump…

Another reason to dislike those resellers (Do you see… it?) that go through every single book at the thrift store so that the selection isn’t as good as it should be.

They have these scanners and they quickly scan every single book, with a “beep” and the sound of the book being shoved quickly back into place. Over, and over, and over… with every book in the store, while actual book people are trying to concentrate on the books for sale.

This guy didn’t put each book back where he found it, everything was askew. My guess is that this isn’t a book-reading kind of guy, he’s just there to fill his online store, or is working for someone else.

092626 • Thrift Store Finds

I got lucky today and found most of these at the Arvada ARC, and all at reasonable prices when not Saturday half-off. They just put them on the shelf; usually by the time I get there, all the good stuff has been picked through, often by the resellers who go through every book with their scanners and block the aisles with their buggy full of the best of the crop of books. Not a fan of those resellers.

A Time To Kill

This book from 1951 sat at the thrift store for about five weeks. It was somewhat unique, as it had the same title as one of John Grisham’s earlier novels, one that I read many years ago. This one had a battered dust jacket that I fixed.

It sat, week after week, even after its blue sticker was the non-sale tag a second time, so it went through the entire sale tag cycle at the ARC thrift.

I finally bought it for several reasons: I’ve been reading a lot of old books lately; it isn’t very long, it is a genre that I like, and nobody else wanted it. I saved a book. Obviously, I can’t save every book, but this one? Okay.