I was out all day yesterday, the first stop being the Goodwill Outlet.
Gah, is that place crowded in the mornings. I was lucky to find the last available parking spot. And at first, I couldn't find a cart.
If you're not familiar with Goodwill Outlets, they're Goodwill stores, but with one special difference.
Or actually two.
Or maybe three.
First of all, the pricing: books and records are priced at 25 cents each.
Glass and pottery are 49 cents per.
Shoes are $1.25.
Everything not in those categories are $1.25 a pound.
So there's that.
These stores are a bit smaller than you're average Goodwill store, and everything is out on tables. Not flat tables, deep-ish tables that you root through. Practically everybody is wearing gloves. Nobody wants to get stuck with pointy things, or get yucky-ness on their hands.
Every two hours or so, one section of tables will by whisked off into the back room, everybody is told to move from that area, and soon the tables will come out again, with all all different stuff on them.
SO exciting!!
Once the tables are out, you're allowed to approach them. However if you run toward them, - there's a sign on the front door that if you're caught running in the store, you will be kicked out. So no running, but a heck of a lot of race walking.
These stores usually have a LOT of books, and a LOT of people with their carts piled high with books, which they will then spend hours scanning for what this or that book will sell on Amazon.
They have zero interest in old books that don't have UPC codes. Which is good news for me, because I make TONS o' muns on those old books.
Wanna see what I got yesterday?
Sorry, didn't take a good picture. This is several bound years of Peterson's Magazine, starting with January 1855. Marvelous prints galore.
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There were several bound volumes of Godey's Magazine, most of which were missing their covers. But which had AWESOME prints like this:
Sorry for the blurry image. It's dated March 1869.======================================================================
VICTORIA Queen and Empress 'The Mother of Kings, The Devoted Wife, The Good Queen, The Noble Woman'
This book came out in 1901, shortly after Queen Victoria passed away.
Some FABULOUS prints in this book.
Sorry for the substandard photo.
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The Path to Home by Edgar GuestThis is the 1919 first edition.
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Frank Leslie's Chatterbox This was actually published by Mrs. Frank Leslie. Frank Leslie's Chatterbox ran from 1885-1886.
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David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson
Anything with N. C. Wyeth illustrations is well worth whatever you pay for it. I paid a quarter.
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The Fun House by Benjamin Appel
Another first edition. There's lots of info on the 'net about this book.
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Insignia and Decorations of the U.S Armed Forces
' 2,476 Reproductions in Color'
Here's some:
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The Nations of Europe: The Causes and Issues of the Great WarThis book is dated 1914. The war began in July of that year, so I'm a little confused why it was called the Great War, when it had pretty much just started.===========================================================================
Electric Refrigerator Recipes and MealsWhoo hoo! Electric refrigerators!!
My maternal grandmother didn't get an electric refrigerator until the late 1940s.And to her dying day, she still called it an 'icebox.'
My other grandmother probably did get an electric fridge when they first came out. My grandfather was remembered as 'a good provider,'* although Grammom tore up all pictures of him when he passed in the early 1950s.
The first time I saw a picture of him was five or six years ago, from a cousin who had it. He also recounted a story he was told by my father's cousin, who remembered being taken, along with my father, to swim in a lake in New Jersey via a chauffeur-driven car.
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I also bought a paperback of Because of Winn-Dixie, which I first read years ago. One of those novels for kids that are enjoyable for people of all ages.
I also got The Onion Ad Nauseum. Should have some fits and giggles.
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My total was fourteen books, twelve of which qualify as 'antiquarian.'
The total: $3.50.
