I do pretty well at library sales, but I suppose it's inevitable that the professional booksellers agre going to get there first and get the best books. I don't want to be a book barracuda.
Sounds like you got a pretty good haul, Kat.
Sorcha, is it the Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles that you're lookinf for? It's available as a paperback reprint from University of Kentucky - Amazon has it for $30. I often see hardcover copies for ten bucks or so.
I think I'd be careful about paying high prices for Lomax books, too - some of them are available as reprints, and I'll betcha most will be reprinted. I'm surprised nobody has reprinted Child since the Dover edition stopped publication.
I suppose we digital people may have an effect on the market. Most of the Child Ballads are in the Digital Tradition, and we certainly have the ability to put the whole thing on a CD - so why should anybody bother to publish it?
-Joe Offer-