I was at an estate sale on Thursday; there were some magazines I needed to come closer to completing my “America in World War II” set, published 2005-2019. Thirty cents apiece! While this magazine maintains a web site, they don’t appear to still be in print, which is too bad. Many magazines like this are going quarterly, thinner, or just disappearing.

I just noticed that the books in the set on the right are inserted backwards in the case. I had to wait a week for these to become half-off, they were both a great deal! Good for me, but a shame that most people don’t give a hoot about these subjects.

I never see things like this at the thrifts: military books on cd! This was a great deal! I have read Helmet for My Pillow, which is one of the two books that the miniseries The Pacific is based on.

I have a list, the purpose of which is to avoid what happened today: I purchased a book I have already. The line was long, and I just saw the book over the counter, so I bought it because: The title is generic, (World War II: A Photographic History) and the cover was totally different from the book I knew I had at home. However, they were the same size. I had to trek back to the thrift store to exchange it for a book I had my eye on, (Smithsonian: History) but wasn’t half off. Always consult The List.

They were asking $125 for this entire set, two of which are on eBay for $250. My dad got them down to $60 and bought them for me. The second day of a garage sale makes the sellers more open to lowering prices, they had a lot of older books that didn’t seem to be moving, unfortunately. I almost bought a really good book on the Boer War that I already had, so, my list continues to pay off! The Folio Society makes great books, so this was a really good deal.

I passed on this last week (ARC thrift store half-off Saturday) because every single page had writing on it, which is a shame because this is a $35 book from two years ago. Dad bought it today as it was now half-off ($4 > $2), but I can’t stand it when people write in books like this.

Wow, this book is right up my alley… wait… aw.

I bought this set for $200 about ten years ago, but mine isn’t quite as pristine as these. This is the only set on the internet I can find, back when I was shopping for my set, there were around twenty options. Now, there is just this one. They were only published for libraries, so they weren’t available to anybody until a library was done with their set, if they ever had them in the first place. The photo of mine here, has the World War II set as well, purchased for about the same price. I didn’t see the World War II set online at all when I looked this week. Just the World War I set. for $710. I consider these two sets part of the core of my library, if I ever had to pare down my library to the core essentials, these two sets (among some others) would be staying, without question. They are great reads, too. They’d better be!