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Kelso

Kelso

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I would just like to thank the person who apparently dumped off their entire Treklit collection at the Goodwill store near my house. I stopped in today just to look around, but wound up walking out with the following...

Vanguard:
Harbinger
Reap the Whirlwind
Summon the Thunder

Titan:
Orion's Hounds
Sword of Damocles
Over a Torrent Sea

IKS Gorkon Bks 1-3 & Klingon Empire

TNG:
Buried Age
Q&A
Greater than the Sum
Losing the Peace

DS9: Prophecy and Change (trade pb)

Classic Trek:
Crucible: Spock
Assignment Eternity

Not a bad haul for $25.50+sales tax! I don't usually buy this many Trek books, but I just couldn't resist! It was hilarious, random people started pointing out books that I hadn't seen to be sure I didn't miss them. I wound up limiting myself to just the ones I really wanted... but I may go back on payday just to be sure. ;)
 
Congrats, it's great fun when stuff like that happens :)

Not bragging or anything (:p), but this my story...
About five or six years ago I picked up three hundred Star Trek books for £20 from an RNIB charity shop. They had a couple of books on display, and while buying them I asked if they had any more backstage - just to have the guy laugh in my face! He led me and my sister backstage, where there were crates and crates and crates full. He wanted rid of them ASAP, I said "£20?" and just like that I was into Treklit :lol:. I still remember sitting cross-legged on the floor at home surrounded by stacks of novels. I could have built a little fortress. Awesome isn't the word. I got pretty much everything from Spock Must Die! to the mid-90's in one go :D.

I was really lucky - loads of charities keep stuff like Star Trek to sell online nowadays.
 
Kelso: Yeah, second-hand shops are great for this sort of thing - I've filled several gaps in my collection due to poking around in 'em. Glad to hear you were lucky - particular with "Reap the Whirlwind", given the troubles everyone's having locating that one. It seems the gods of Trek collection have smiled upon you. ;) In seriousness, Vanguard, Titan, Gorkon, The Buried Age...that's a pretty good haul. I hope you enjoy them :).

KingDaniel: That's quite a find. Three Hundred for £20?! Are you sure you didn't just break into a warehouse somewhere and make off with them all? :p That fortress of Trek novels must have been an impressive sight...
 
I will be getting rid of the Trek books that I have read and won't be reading again at some point. I just don't have the space for them and we'll be moving in about two months.

I don't want to get rid of them, but there really is no point in keeping the ones I'm never going to read again. I'll definitely be keeping the post-Nemesis ones I have, and the series I have, but the rest will go once I have them.

I will also be getting a Kindle sometime soon, so the aim is then to only buy eBooks unless I absolutely have to buy a dtf book.
 
KingDaniel said:
Not bragging or anything (:p), but this my story...
About five or six years ago I picked up three hundred Star Trek books for £20 from an RNIB charity shop. .
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Wow! That was quite a haul. Best deal I ever got on Trek books was getting TOS numbered novels 1-97 on Ebay for about 45 bucks. At the time, I didn't have any TOS novels, so getting all the numbered ones in one fell swoop for less than .50 a book was really cool. And the best part was that from about 60 on, I don't think any of them had ever been opened, let alone read. As a matter of fact, I still haven't read some of them.
 
a coworker gave me some a few weeks ago. his mother had gotten them for him but he wasn't going to read them so he gave them to me

TOS
James Blish's Star Trek 3, 4, 5, and 7
Mutiny on the Enterprise - Robert E. Vardeman
Star Trek The Motion Picture - Gene Roddenberry

DS9
The Way of the Warrior - Diane Carey
#13 Station Rage - Diane Carey

TNG
#31 Foreign Foes - Dave Galanter & Greg Brodeur
Federation - The Reeves-Stevens

I had no idea which ones he was bringing in, so I was thrilled that there weren't any that I already owned or had read before :D
 
I found a pretty big haul at my local Goodwill a few weeks ago, and I always keep my eyes open whenever we hit garage sales and such.

On a similar note, about a year ago my wife found a listing on Craigslist of a guy liquidating his scifi book collection for 50 cents a piece. He had the entire second room of his smallish townhouse filled with giant metal bookcases, and many of the shelves were double stacked. I walked out with three shopping bags and two fruit boxes full of books, and I've hardly scratched the surface of them. Interestingly enough he only had a couple of Trek novels, and I already had them so I started grabbing things like all of his Le Guin stuff, all of the Blish, all of the Brackett, collections of short story award winning compilations, that kind of thing.


I usually don't post about such things here because I know some authors read and post here and I can just picture them glaring at the screen, teeth clenched, hand grasping their coffee mug almost to the point of shattering...
 
I generally buy the brand new Trek books and after a careful reading, donate them to the library. Sometimes, I get peeved when I see them brand new at the local library book sale, especially when the library doesnt even have that one.
 
Milo Bloom said:
I know some authors read and post here and I can just picture them glaring at the screen, teeth clenched, hand grasping their coffee mug almost to the point of shattering...
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I can beat that. Way back in the early 80s, I made a Star Trek aliens art zine (limited to 100 numbered copies), and was selling them at the break-even price of $5 each. I still had ten or so copies left, about three years later, and a friend was at a small charity convention - and watched a copy of my zine sell in a frantic bidding war for $79! I've also seen online copies go for higher than that in more recent years but, in the mid 80s, $AU 79 was a lot of money for a second hand zine that was technically still in-print.
 
When I lived in Winnipeg there must've been a Trek fan who read fast as I'd go to the used bookstore and sometimes find books that were just out in the bookstore.
I then tried to help by making sure that when I got a new book I'd turn it in to that used bookstore the next day or the day after that.
 
Nardpuncher said:
When I lived in Winnipeg there must've been a Trek fan who read fast as I'd go to the used bookstore and sometimes find books that were just out in the bookstore.
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I've seen the same with music soundtrack CDs and eventually realised that some people are on many "freebie" lists, after having set themselves up as professional reviewers. They get advance titles and read/review them fast, then dump them in second hand stores. The CDs are usually imprinted "Not for retail sale".
 
I actually got The Bulk of my extremely considerable Trek Library...from two or three annual library book sales!

It was a very...big...library, with a very...big...sale.

All three times, I cleaned them out of any Trek novel I didn't already have. Every...single...one.
 
I am being forced to sell the bulk of my collection (what I've read and will not read again specifically) so if anyone is interested, PM me with your email and I will give you a list.

Hopefully, this doesn't count as actually selling according to the mods (feel free to delete this second paragraph), but price is what people are interested in so here it is: $1.50 mmpb or $3.00 hb/tpb, plus shipping to be determined.
 
Starbreaker said:
Sounds like somebody got a divorce and left them sitting around the house. :lol:
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lol. That may very well be what happened!

Deranged Nasat said:
Kelso: Yeah, second-hand shops are great for this sort of thing - I've filled several gaps in my collection due to poking around in 'em. Glad to hear you were lucky - particular with "Reap the Whirlwind", given the troubles everyone's having locating that one. It seems the gods of Trek collection have smiled upon you. ;) In seriousness, Vanguard, Titan, Gorkon, The Buried Age...that's a pretty good haul. I hope you enjoy them :).
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Interesting. I haven't really followed the new series, but now I guess I'll be catching up.

USS Lancelot said:
Wow! That was quite a haul. Best deal I ever got on Trek books was getting TOS numbered novels 1-97 on Ebay for about 45 bucks. At the time, I didn't have any TOS novels, so getting all the numbered ones in one fell swoop for less than .50 a book was really cool. And the best part was that from about 60 on, I don't think any of them had ever been opened, let alone read. As a matter of fact, I still haven't read some of them.
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Holy crap. Yeah, you can find some great deals on ebay.

I wound up going back by the Goodwill store today and picked up a few more adventures of the TOS crew...

Crucible: Kirk
Crucible: Spock
Yesterday's Son
Time for Yesterday
The Final Reflection
Ishmael
Ex Machina
My Enemy, My Ally
The Romulan Way
Swordhunt
Honorblade
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$16.50

I'm trying to limit myself. I think I'm just going to go by after every payday and spend a few bucks to build up my collection. That's one luxury that I wasn't able to afford over the last few years.
 
I once checked out a yard sale which had a garage filled with Trek Novels.

I mean filled. As in...two walls filled with books from top to bottom--two layers.

You know what the worst part was?

I didn't have any cash. :(
 
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