September 30, 2004

My Favorite Week of the Year

This is the week when the SF Public Library puts surplus books up for sale in a warehouse at Fort Mason. Last year I got Will and Ariel Durant's History of Civilization for a song. This year I got:

The Most of SJ Perelman (hardcover, mint)
The World of Mathematics (hardcover, 4 volume boxed set)
The Horizon Book of Lost Worlds (special chapter on the Etruscans)
An Incomplete Education (hardcover, fine)
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (hardcover, mint)
The Lone Samurai (uncorrected proof of a new bio of Musashi)
The Ascent of Man, by Jacob Bloody Bronowski (hardcover, fair)
A Year in Provence

Now how much would you pay?
I got it all for $44.
Score!

They'll be open 'til Sunday, by the way, and they still have 40,000 books that they haven't put out yet.

1 Comments:

Blogger Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat said...

Which edition of An Incomplete Education? Great bathroom book.

September 30, 2004 at 10:39 PM  

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