With summer past, it’s time for an annual tradition here at many of the local libraries, the 'Annual Book Sale' event. I love books, though nowadays I'm no longer an avid book reader. Some of my friends' family members do participate in either adult or children’s summer reading programs, but I never did.
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| Sunny Library Book Sale Event - Nov 21-22, 2015 |
Last Saturday I went to library to return few books & DVDs and by chance noticed a book sale event was going on there. I do buy books time to time, but I never bought books from Library's Book Sale event. So, I just casually stopped by there to see how it goes... and, many thanks to God Almighty, He made me to stop there !!
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| One bag of books (~ 20 books) cost only $5 !!! |
On a big floor there are so many bin of books from so many categories - Fictions, Novels, Short stories, Puzzles, Comics, Magazines, Travels, Hobbies, Science, Math, Competitive Exams, Arts, Films, Music, Educations, Kids Books, Do-by-yourself stuff, Cooking, and so on and on... Most of the books are there in 'Very Good' to 'Near Mint' condition !!
On Saturday they were selling most of the books (any size) for $1 and Sunday's promotion was, a full bag of books (any size) for $5 !!! Roughly 20-25 big/medium size books can be put in one big bag !!
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| Comics & Graphic Arts section - all books are already sold !! |
I grabbed couple of James Patterson's 'Large Print' novels - I love thrillers, mysteries and detective plots. Then I visited the 'Comics and Graphic Arts' area. Two big tables were full of various comics magazines & books - mostly from DC comics. On one side there was lying a bunch of old "Comics Revue" magazines - each for just 25 cents. I grabbed a bunch of them too.
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| All for just $6.50 !! |
"Friends of the Library" is a group of volunteers in Northern California dedicated to supporting the Sunnyvale Public Library. Most of the libraries here does not receives a penny in the annual city budget, outside of staff payroll to support of programs. The municipal budget provides for buildings with books and other materials, and the people to handle them.
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| Inside Sunnyvale Public Library.... |
The Friends organization, however, transforms those buildings into rich and active community destinations.
Now let's come to the most interesting section of this post - "Comics Revue" magazine. 'Comics Revue' was a bi-monthly anthology magazine for classic comic strips, adventures as well as humor strips, published by Manuscript Press.
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| No. 174 |
It featured full color Sunday comic strips including "The Phantom by Lee Falk, Flash Gordon by Dan Barry, Buz Sawyer by Roy Crane, Tarzan by Russ Manning, Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff, Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell, Krazy Kat by George Herriman, Alley Oop by V.T. Hamlim, Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts, Gasoline Alley by Dick Moores". Daily strips would include "Alley Oop, Sir Bagby, Krazy Kat, Buz Sawyer, Rick O'Shay, and Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell". Most of these are serials, but in every issue a full story is presented. Old, reddish pages immediately bring back great memories and smells of my childhood!
Next day I also went there to buy a 'bag of books' - but I was late - most of the good books were already gone! On next book sale events I'll not do this same mistake again !!
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Hee Hee !!! If you want I can share one of my hard copies (actually paperback !) to you - I love books but not too much of a "collector" ! :) Send me your mailing address, and I'll try to mail you.
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