Books that fly off the shelves at used book stores (1 Viewer)

[PhillyDave]

I have a feeling Buk books fly off the shelves too. http://bookriot.com/?p=103425

 

[Black Swan]

http://bookriot.com/?p=103425

I have 8 out of these 17.
I often look for books in second hand stores and never found a Bukowski. Shop owners tell me that Buk's books are rare and often reserved.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I found all eight volumes of the UK series New Poems and Selected Letters at a second hand bookstore in Somerville, MA over the course of about a year several years ago. Other than that, the only find I can recall is This is Not the Titanic, a poetry journal from '74 that I found for $2 at a used bookstore tucked back from the street about five doors down from where I lived in the fishing village of Stonington, CT back in '90-'92.

 

[number6horse]

I've seen an Ecco collection or two in the used book stores. But do those really count ?

 

[skiroomalum]

Nah.

 

[Joseph K]

Have to say that for a high selling author, buk is mighty hard to find second hand. I guess people really hang on to their copies or pass them to friends, which is the way buk might have liked it.

 

[sean]

Yeah, Bukowski always goes fast, even the Ecco editions. The only Black Sparrow Buk I own is the Martinelli letters from D.G. Will's in La Jolla. Mr. Wills kindly gave me a poster of the same photo PhillyDave has with the text, "an early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing." Classic portrait.

 

[PhillyDave]

The store I most often go to Book Haven always has a few Buk including BSP editions. Really pretty great & pretty lucky.

 

[roni]

In Germany you don't find many Bukowski's in second-hand-stores, but there's a HUGE amount at German ebay on any given day at virtually no cost, so I guess the web is the place, where they fall of shelves.