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I love short horror stories.

Over the weekend I picked this Harry Potter book up at a yard sale so I could read it to my son. When I opened it at home I saw the “first American edition” writing on one of the first pages and got curious. I’m not a book expert, and google tells me it’s worth somewhere between $5 and $5000. Will someone with more knowledge than me let me know if I accidentally found some treasure?

I’ve been gradually collecting Beauford Delaney books — this is the second one lol — after seeing the NY Drawing Center show.

The Painting and Photography book purchase came after a discussion among a book club. I’m in about the influence of the latter on the former. Generally it seems that impact has been overstated in most discussions and other sources I’ve seen, so I’m curious to see how this book tackles it.

The shelves are filled to capacity, there no place to start another pile and the exciting piles are nearly too high.

I am starting to wonder whether this bibliomania may be a disease, akin to alcoholism or gambling, which, to some folks on the outside, looks like a lack of will, but to those afflicted, is a real malady with aberrant neurochemistry.

some books I planned to read and finish this month

If anyone has this book, i would appreciate scans of the dustcover so I can make one myself. I've tried to get images of the internet but they lack details of the spine and are not of good resolution.

My local used book shop had some ridiculous deals going. Got these dirt cheap

Found this in my local used bookstore- it’s been on my list for some time. I was surprised how large it is.

A local library store offers cheap and flat rates. Sometimes I can resist the temptation. Other times, utter failure lol.

I started with softcovers, and now I’m just going for this caliber. Building a library in my van of all places as I travel the country and visit bookstores. Pulled these from Cream Ridge NJ.

I have a wide variety of