Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Back with Books and Stuff

I hate for this blog to start turning into a beg-fest, especially considering how long it's been since I posted anything. But I'm at one of those places where money is getting very tight right now. Certainly I'm not going to ask for something for nothing, so let me draw your attention to a few things.

First, I've got a stack of antique books, which I've had advertised on Craigslist since they were new! (Okay, that's a slight exaggeration.)
The ad includes the following books:

Hill's Practical Reference Library (4 vols., 1904)
Rudyard Kipling's Verse Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 (1919 edition) (cover is taped)
History of the Hebrew Commonwealth by Albert Bailey, A.M. and Charles Kent, Ph.D,, Litt.D. (1920)
America for Me by Mary Margaret McBride (1941)
Dragon seed by Pearl S. Buck (1942)
"Wildcats" over Casablanca by Lt. M. T. Wordell, U.S.N. & Lt. E.N. Seiler, U.S.N.R (1943)
An American Bible, edited by Alice Hubbard (1946) (Note: This is a book about various historically prominent Americans, originally written in 1912.)
A History of Civilization, vol. 1 by Brinton, Christopher and Wolff (1958)

I asked $4 per volume. (For multi-volume sets, such as Hill's Reference Library, I'd have to ask more.) I thought that was reasonable, but unfortunately I'm getting no takers in the Cleveland area.
So I'm casting the net a little further. I'm willing to consider shipping these within the U.S., if anyone outside of the Cleveland area is interested in them.

(The Craigslist ad includes a 19-volume World Book Encyclopedia set from 1955, but I'm not going to try to ship that!)

Secondly, does anyone out there like science fiction? I've got a big stack of Analog magazines from the early 90s up into early 2003, with a few gaps here and there. (I let my subscription lapse, re-subscribed a few years later, then had to let it lapse again. This wasn't due to the quality of the magazine, which was always excellent. It simply became a luxury that I couldn't responsibly afford.)

Finally, there's another simple way to throw me a little help without having to spend any of your own money. Down below, you'll see a series of links labeled, "My Shareapic galleries." I've mentioned Shareapic before. This Website lets you set up free photo galleries, through which you get paid when people click on your pictures. Be warned that it's a tiny amount of money per click, which means that I need as many of you as possible to go there and click on those images! (And if you should decide that you'd like to join, and set up your own image galleries, here's a link for you to use.)

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