Garage Sale Science Fiction Books

DSCN0431 I bought 337 SF books for $20 including the bookshelf.

I just lugged them out onto the enclosed porch. I’ve read about 1/4 of them and at least half I don’t think I will read, but at 6ยข a book, I have no choice.

These are mostly 1980’s and 90s, but there are many old books from the 1960s and a few from the 1950s.

I will make boxes of 10 or so books each that I want to sell, during the next few weeks. For instance, I like Robert Asprin, but I am not interested in reading the Thieve’s World Books. There are a dozen or more of these, so I will be selling them as a lot.

I now own about 600 books, not counting my original stash. I will read about 300 of them, maybe more.

I have been too busy at work to finish my book selling web site. It is about halfway through. I will sell the books there for a dollar or less, and figure the cheapest way to ship. I want to make it so you get a discount for buying more books, as well as saving on shipping. One good thing is that most books weigh about the same so shipping is easy to calculate.

It is interesting that the person that read these (sadly, it was an estate sale) had very similar tastes to my own. I am not as much into Niven and Pournelle as he was, and he had literally everything by M.Z. Bradley. He did, however have lots of great Ace Doubles (always a good trashy read), and stuff by George O. Smith, H. Beam Piper and Murray Leinster (my sf spirit guide). He had a least 30 Andre Norton’s including a few that I’ve never read. He had all of Bradbury and all of Heinlein and most of these were early first edition paperbacks. I’ve already thrown out the L. Ron Hubbard’s and I hope to make more room I as I read and sell them.

3 Comments

  1. .e. Jim Shannon wrote:

    Ok let me get this straight, your selling those 337 books for $20?

    If they’re in good condition I’ll buy. I can get you a West Union Mo over to you next weekend (US funds of course)

    Keep the book shelf though. WHat about postage, it’s going to kill me no doubt.

    Can we deal?

    Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 6:42 pm | Permalink
  2. Keith wrote:

    Sorry,

    I changed the first sentence. I bought these Saturday. I am already putting some out on eBay.

    Tell me what you want and I’ll ship them to you for the price of postage. I have many more books than I want. I’d like to find someone who would like some of the ones that I won’t read.

    I was hoping to trade, if possible, or else just give away some of them.

    I want to keep the golden age ones, but I am not that interested in the modern ones, especially the high fantasy and military.

    I’ll make a list of the ones that I don’t want.

    Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 6:54 pm | Permalink
  3. .e. Jim Shannon wrote:

    i tried using UPS calculator but got lost when it came to duty.

    How would we go about doing this?
    I’m in unchartered waters here.

    Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Permalink