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🦋 Bags and bags o' books

We three went over to the South Orange/Maplewood Public Library's yearly book sale this morning -- $5 for a bag of used books -- and came away with a bag apiece. Some highlights -- The Hitchhiker's Guide and The Lord of the Rings (box set of paperbacks in poor but perfectly readable condition) were among Sylvia's haul. A nicish edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare and a Bullfinch's Mythology. The Æneid in Latin with copious commentary/glossary from Barbara Weiden Boyd and marginalia aplenty.

(Note of thanks to Juan Gabriel Vásquez without whose columns to read I would not have thought to pick up the Æneid or the Shakespeare)

posted afternoon of Sunday, June 17th, 2012
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¡¡¡Qué Maravilla!!!
That sounds like an amazing journey... filling up bags of books... How I missed that!!!
All the best...
José-Antonio

posted evening of June 21st, 2012 by José Antonio

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