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Thread #32396   Message #426212
Posted By: Naemanson
26-Mar-01 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: I scored music books @ the library sale!
Subject: RE: I scored music books @ the library sale!
Sorry to hear about your aunt, Kat. It sounds like the world was diminished with her passing.

Woody, I check that sale regularly and have not yet found anything good (music wise).

The best one is the one in Brunswick,given by the Friends Of The Brunswick Library. I have made some good discoveries in there bt you have to get there early and be ready to fight the crowds.

Also the Patten Free Library has a book sale every July 4th. The deal there is to sign up to help set out the books. You get first choice. You still have to pay but you get first choice. In times past I have scored such things as complete sets of Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, and Mark Twain. I think it was there that I found various Burl Ives song books and a copy of Niles as well.

And both sales feature records! (You know, the big black discs with the little hole in the center.) I have some great stuff from those.

One of my greatest purchases came from the flea market at the Saint John's Bazaar. Carl Sandburg wrote the American Songbag. What I didn't know is that he put out a companion set of 78 RPM records featuring himself singing some of the songs in the book. Scored that one and crowed all the way home.