So on my trip into town today I ended up going into Books and Such, a local used bookstore that specializes in lots and lots of trade paperbacks (with a few scattered hardbacks here and there, unless you’re Stephen King or Anne Rice, in which case there are plenty of hardbacks), and walked out with a few purchases:
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh. I’ve seen a lot of his quotes, but never read him. Found a thirty-seven year-old Dell paperback.
Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara. I seem to remember reading somewhere that this was a great work of noir so I thought I might as well, for the price of a dollar. The Bantam copy I bought, pub’d in ‘66, had the price marked $.75 on the cover.
Great English Short Stories: selected and introduced by Christopher Isherwood. This Dell paperback, pub’d in ‘57, was marked $.50… I laid a buck on the table for it. It features stories by Conrad, Lawrence, Chesterton, Forster, Kipling, Mansfield, and Maugham to name a few. The greenish colored pagers are cool.
From there I went over to the PCDC – a thrift store – and found a nice tweed jacket for dirt cheap and a first edition of Tom Wolfe’s A Man In Full. I’ve never read Wolfe, and judging by the size of the tome, he’s got a lot to say.
