Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Orange Books

I put out new (used) books on display, and yesterday it happened that several covers were orangey, so I rounded up some more orange/red covers. (We have been grey and cold here for weeks.)

I'm posting this extra large, so you can see the titles:



We've been getting some great book donations--not just  unread newish books, but--even better--first ed. paperbacks, like that old Fran Lebowitz, which sold immediately, as did an old paperback of Tom Wolf's Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and the collected writings of Ho Chi Minh...

I think --no, I can see, that a lot of visitors to the books area are my age--I owned that ed. of Metropolitan Life. Maybe they did too.

11 comments:

ArtSparker said...

Heh, Vance Packard would be proud.

Frex said...

Hidden Persuader, c’est moi!

ArtSparker said...

I know you really did it for good cheer, I am just an inverate noodge.

Steve Reed said...

I had that copy of Metropolitan Life too! I loved that book!

gz said...

A lovely display.. bright in many ways

Vivian Swift said...

Nice! I manage a used book store (for charity) on the north shore of Long Island and we DO NOT get those kinds of books in our donations. We get about 20 James Patterson novels a week, and lots of 70s novels that no one reads any more (Updike, Michener). But we did get a first edition American of The Bell Jar, which I sold for $100.00 I also had Metropolitan Diary in the 70s, and lord knows that these days Fran Leibowitz is not funny any more, but she did have that one good line: "I'm so lazy that I wish cigarettes came already lit."

Vivian Swift said...

P.S. I just ordered a copy of People I Sleep With on Amazon (don't hate me). What a sweet book.

BTW, You get a lot more money for your books than we do on the north shore of Long Island. We sell fiction fro 50 cents, and non-fiction from 50 cents to a dollar, maybe as high as three dollars but that's very rare. And we don't charge tax, so making change for $1.49 would be a night mare. ha!

Fresca said...

STEVE: Hi! Thanks for visiting! Ha--that's neat you remember that edition of the book too.

VIVIAN: Nice to meet you!

(You saw my comment on Steve's blog, I'm guessing? When I was a teenager, I'd have agreed with you about Mr. Spock being the sexiest, but as an adult, not only did my taste in reading change but my taste in starship personnel did too, I guess, because now I prefer Kirk. :)

Hey, that's so cool to meet another charity book shop manager! I am the only one I know (have only been doing it 7 months).

Oh god yes, spare me from more James Patterson. I just reduced ALL bestselling crime & romance books, even the glossy hardbacks, to 49 cents each, because we too get soooo many of them.

Our book prices are actually a little low for local thrift stores--but we're in a dense urban area, which explains the good donations too, I think.

Michael Leddy said...

Elaine had that paperback of Metropolitan Life when we met. We now have the The Fran Liebowitz Reader. And a friend who quotes FL as appropriate.

Michael Leddy said...

I forgot what I was first going to say: orange book art. :)

Fresca said...

MICHAEL: Ha! I hadn't even thought of oranges, foolish me!