Used bookstore finds 2025

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Got back from my favorite used book store Half-Priced Books and found some fun books:

Man from U.N.C.L.E. 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 13

V the novel

Pillow Talk novel (Doris Day & Rock Hudson)
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[Nostalgiabuff]

nice score!

[palitoy]

Oh wow, I love this thread idea. Great score! TV tie-in novels were my jam as a kid. We travelled a lot and every town had a used book store.

[Nostalgiabuff]

i think that V novelization is the only one I do not have in my library. Loved V as a kid. I tried re-reading the book series a year or so back but could not really get into it. I think I maybe read 4-5 of them before stopping

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The problem I have now is finding time to read. As is I am listening to audio books while going through my Dad shop.

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IMG_20250829_222626.jpg So BF and I had to pick up Nephew for the weekend so we stopped at a used bookstore.

The Master of the Universe hardback were well used but I never read them back in the 80's.

Marvel Generation X I may have packed away but for $3 I am not going to turn it down.

Dolphin Summer is a book we will read together since we both like Sea stories next month during fall break.

The crochet doll book was for my Mom. She does crochet and making those dolls is a fun project. Making Frankenstein will be interesting. There is a Moby Dick and Captain Ahab in there.

Yeah we picked up a new bag for obvious reasons.

[KingKickass1983]

Oh man... I LOVE used book shops!! I'm always on the hunt for the original 37 Mack Bolan novels by Don Pendelton. .

[MRP]

Half Price Books was having their Labor Day sale, so we dropped in this morning and browsed around for a while. I came home with a stack of mostly vintage paperbacks and one lone comic book.

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A closer look at some of the stuff....

I read a lot of crime and detective fiction, so I got a bunch from that genre, mostly filling in holes in series....

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One of 2 Stephen King Hard Case Crime novels (the other is Joyland which I already owned and read). I love the Hardcase Crime line overall.

I've gotten big into Robert Parker's Spenser novels recently. Loved the Robert Urich tv series form the 80s (recently watched most of the first season on DVD from the local library but didn't start picking up and reading the novels until last year. The Ed McBain 87th Precinct books are a great series about a police department, much in the vein of Hill Street Blues and from what I understand the McBain books were an uncredited inspiration for Hill Steet Blues which "ripped off" elements from it and there were lots of threats of lawsuits and posturing between McBain (i.e. Evan Hunter) and Stephen Bocho and the producers of the show. A friend of mine turned me on to the 87th Precinct books a few years back.

More misc. books...

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The Batman Animated Series Chapter books were in the clearance section for a buck each (minus sale discount) so I couldn't pass those up. Talbot Mundy is one of those pulp adventure writers who influenced Robert E. Howard and others. I'd read one of two stories by him from anthologies in the library, but didn't own any, now I do. Added another of the Striker Lone Ranger novels and a Max Allan Collins book form a series I didn't have. The Scalzi book was the most contemporary book I got. I've read and enjoyed the first 2 books of the Collapsing Empire series but hadn't got around to picking up the third yet.

More in the next post.

-M

[MRP]

More from HPB today....

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I am excited about getting the Ron Goulart history of the pulps volume. A random Conan pastiche I didn't have, the first of the Bantam Doc Savage series (also the first Doc adventure to be published in the pulps). I had a nifty hardcover version of this with different art, but I love the cover art on the Bantam editions so I was happy to snag this one for $2 minus discount. I've never read Farmer's Doc Savage life before, so grabbed that too. The Tolkien language book is one I used to own, but it got lost when I moved out to Ohio 20+ years ago so I was happy to grab this replacement copy finally.

I didn't have much time to go through their comics, but there was one issue of Green Lantern that was sticking up at an odd angle in the row, and it was one I didn't have, so I snagged it...

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I've really been focusing on reading stuff I owned this year, so I hadn't been grabbing much from used book stories this year, but it was nice getting out and digging through shelves today. I won't get to any of these until at least October, as I am participating in the Cimmerian September reading event, and have a stack of Robert E. Howard stuff to get to this month.

-M

[monitor_ep]

Nice haul!!

[TrekStar]

Cool pickups, you have some neat books to read, and I always love seeing the old school comic books too. I remember going to the drugstore or variety store and they were on that squeaky book rack when they cost 25 cents.

[MRP]

Cool pickups, you have some neat books to read, and I always love seeing the old school comic books too. I remember going to the drugstore or variety store and they were on that squeaky book rack when they cost 25 cents.

I'm going to our local quarterly comic and Toy show this coming Sunday (The Jim & Dan Comic & toy Show on the campus of Wright State University) so I'll probably have a bunch of comics coming home with me then (and possibly more vintage paperbacks as there are a couple of vendors who usually set up at the show that have decent selections of those). I don't usually post my comic book pick ups here, but I've picked up some cool (at least to me) back issues lately ranging from the 40s to the early 2000s.

-M