I know this seems like it just happened last week, and that’s because it did!
But this time we were down our own high street and decided to mosey along in to see if they had anything new as we hadn’t been in a month.
And holy cow we struck gold!
The Tom Sawyer edition is from 1958/1959 and was a school prize to someone back in the day, the award plate was still in it! We had just recently bought Far From the Maddening Crowd but couldn’t decide if this cover was nicer so we picked it up to compare, we’re keeping both lol.
I have never read a book by Carrie Fisher and I picked this one up as my husband spotted it, I can’t wait to get to it! [You know, eventually]
Every time we go down the High Street we all like to wander around Waterstones, and while walking around I had paused to look at the copy of Ulysses, it was 10 quid and we just didn’t want to spend that on it, at least not at the moment so we passed it by. Then, we went to the charity shop next to it, and lo and behold, this was 50P on its own but since we bought so many we scored it for 49.5P lol. The book next to it is called Wellington: The Years of the Sword.
I’ve been eying this Mandela biography for a while now, we saw it at a charity shop last week and I had spied it at the library but I’m holding off on more nonfiction from the library until I return my Romanovs survey. So! This was meant to be!
I own Maze Runner and I found it enjoyable and though I have the others on my Kindle I couldn’t help myself. I would have bought Maze Runner again if they had it and it matched and donated my other copy, but, they didn’t. These things are basically brand new and they have such nice covers! The copy I bought was out my library store back in Texas and is lovely but just has some notes scribbled in, and some highlights, I don’t mind though, it’s fun to read what they thought lol. Okay getting off track, anyway look at these pretty books!!! LOOK AT THEM ALL!
In the end, we got 9 books for £4.46, four on the 2 for .99P deal and one ‘full’ price at .50P
There we have it! The post is late today because honestly I was super busy and mini-me had a birthday party. I’m off to watch more of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
[I’ll have a review tomorrow]
Wow you have awesome charity shops! All the ones where I am charge almost as much as a new paperback so I’ve stopped going in. I miss charity shop book hunting. Happy reading!
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Oh no! That’s a shame! I would definitely just buy them new if they were priced like that!
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I do love charity shop bargains! You got a great haul here!
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Me too, and thanks!
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Yeah, I don’t buy a lot actually. Some on kindle when they price drop and a few favourite authors new but working in a library I read a lot from there. A charity shop hunt is fun though. I usually manage to find some if we go on holiday 🙂
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This is the largest amount of books I’ve bought in a while, I’m like you, kindle deals and fave authors. I admit I love finding ones on holiday they’re the best kind of souvenir 😊
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Great selection of books, hope you enjoy! I love going to charity shops and leaving with several books for excellent prices!
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This is an amazing selection! Man, I should really start checking the shops near me!
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Oh wow ! what a steal, omg, specially insane how you manage to find Ulysse RIGHT after looking at how expensive that was.
maan, I wish my charity shops would do deals like that and have interesting book for me 🙈
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What another amazing charity shop haul! I like that edition of Ulysses.
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Oh this is so fun! I always find really cool things in used bookstores, too.
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Don’t you love how you can find the neatest things via secondhand?
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I’ve found really expensive pagan books for my faith brand new at like $10 when they normally go for $25-$30
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That’s great!
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What an excellent trip! Secondhand stores are seriously the best. We had one in my hometown where children’s books were ten cents and adult books were twenty-five cents. My son and I used to come home with just enormous stacks of books, because at that price, why not??? Happy reading!
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I love when they price the children’s books cheaper, since usually kid books are so expensive in stores, glad to hear you were able to have awesome hauls for you and your son!
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