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theselkiesea · 6 months

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Scotts Poetical Works

With a dedication from 1852

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borninwinter81 · 20 days

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Continuing on the Clive Barker rediscovery, I decided I have entirely too few of his books so I've been searching ebay. I was incredibly lucky to find the fully illustrated hardback edition of the second Abarat book for only £8 - when you consider how much these can go for that's insanely good. I got the first one at a charity shop a number of years ago, also very cheap.

Could I possibly be as lucky with volume 3? We will have to wait and see.

#clive barker #abarat #Days of magic nights of war #beautiful books #books and reading #limited edition #dark fantasy #illustrated book #dark art #thrift finds #charity shop finds #thrifted books #Charity shop books #second hand books

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dickensianenglishbulldog · 5 months

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“So what are you worried about right now?”

Most People: Oh gosh well, there’s the cost of living crisis; there’s the price of housing, wars; poverty; racism. So many things.

Me: That sticker. Look at that sticker. I bet it’ll leave a slightly sticky residue that I will then have to wipe off. Look at it. Just look at it:

#literature #booklr #hilarious #h rider haggard #book stickers #first world problems #minor annoyances #let me refrase that: MAJOR annoyances.#charity shop books #bookish #books

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batwynn · 3 months

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2024 FIRST SHOP DROP!

We've got new new stuff, never seen before outside of Patreon stuff, some charity stuff, and old stuff come back to haunt us.

This 20 page sterek artbook is also the last-last one ever. For realsies this time!

#Loki #Loki series #Loki merch #fan merch #sterek #stiles x derek #shop drop #merch drop #dragons #year of the dragon #acrylic charms #keychains #chibi #tom hiddleston #art book #dojinshi #crows #stickers #charity shopping

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enbysiriusblack · 1 month

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grabbed my copy of julius caesar to to read on the train to uni today and i only just realised it's got this slip inside of it with a list of people's names. because it's from an old boy's grammer school library from the 60s (next to the names is when they checked the book out and it goes from 1960-1964). so happy ides of march to them ig

#i can't remember where i got it from #it was either a charity shop or one of the books i got from that old dead man #I'd like to romantise life more and believe it was from the old dead man and he stole it from his library during grammer school #because he was a huge fan of brutus and had a best friend in his life who he thought of as a caesar and sorta read it imagining that #... did i just make the old man gretchen from mean girls???#or peter pettigrew tbh???#ides of march

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lukas-broken-bow · 23 days

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my younger sister [12 years old]: listen I know I cleaned the downstairs bathroom two days ago but I feel icky just standing inside of it and I know there's dust in the corner over there so I'm going to clean it again

me: is that a magnus archives reference?

my kid sister [7 years old]: I'm really afraid of people watching me without my knowledge, it freaks me out so much and at any given time I don't know if I'm alone or not because anyone could be watching and I'd never realise

me: is that a magnus arch-

my neighbour: I keep finding these random tape recorders all over my house, I don't really need them, and I don't know where I got them, but I'm probably just going to keep getting rid of them, do you want some?

me: is that a magn-

my friend: you know what you remind me of? a depressed, paranoid, sleep deprived librarian or archivist of some kind, but like, in a spooky way? you get what I mean? I don't know if it's the way you dress, or the way you act, but you just really give off those vibes.

me: IS THAT A-

#all of this has happened in the last few days #i don't know whether to be excited or terrified #am i jonathan sims the archivist confirmed?#better not buy any suspicious children's books at a charity shop #tma podcast #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #the archivist #tma

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abigail · 1 month

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she’s so me

#absolute win for me personally in the charity shop today btw #huge box set of angelina books (that i had a kid !!) for just £8 . you KNOW i swept it up the second i spotted it hehe #a #angelina ballerina

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fullsaw · 4 months

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oh hiii can you draw this funny guy ?

Geronimo!!!!

#the charity shop i volunteer in got a haul of stilton books awhile back but they were all in spanish #geronimo stilton #cw smoking #digital art #furry #furry fandom #fullsaw art

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soulmvtes · 8 months

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hey girlies how's your day going?

#i dilly dallied today (whats new)#went 2 the market and got some old books from a lil book stall #and then i went to the charity shops n found some linen trousers n a long black skirt !#also got this cute blue ceramic plate which is soo pretty :)#diary

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nostalgia-tblr · 5 months

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someone donated a bunch of tudor-y history books to the charity shop!!! and now they are mine!! and also the charity has the money from selling them to me!! merry christmas me!! and charity too i guess!!!

#4 non-fiction and 1 fiction which is That Josephine Tay Novel about how Richard III did nothing wrong!!! \o/#someone into tudors had died or decluttered - they also had some historical fiction and some non-fiction ones i already had #into the overly long to-read queue they go!#(look they were secondhand AND the proceeds went to charity i am ethically in the clear on a few extra books i might not get round to)#books and reading #history fandom #i only went into the shop for a pack of christmas cards with some sort of secular-looking animal on them #(REINDEER IN A WOOLLY JUMPER BTW!!!!)

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evidently-endless · 2 months

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“pre-order special exclusive limited anniversary edition sprayed edges illustrated extra material signed—”

why don’t you go buy a musty secondhand paperback that’ll change your life and maybe you’ll calm down

#im so tired of being sold things!! every single thing i look at!! every one!!#i appreciate the aesthetic of some fancy editions but it is THE SAME BOOK as the one you can buy in a charity shop for like £2 please help #personal #books

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theselkiesea · 6 months

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T e n n y s o n ' s W o r k s

1887 Edition

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parakeet · 6 months

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Michael Jackson ticket found in a copy of michael Jackson’s ‘moonwalk’ at the charity shop today guess they were maybe a michael jackson fan

#love looking through the books at charity shops for stuff like this #also found a pamphlet for a 1986 Welsh celebration in another book today

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maggiecheungs · 1 year

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Illustrations by Tai Tun-Pang from the FLP edition of Dream of the Red Chamber

#dream of the red chamber #hongloumeng #hong lou meng #story of the stone #dream of red mansions #chinese literature #chinese art #books #Tai Tun-Pang #cao xueqin #ellis reads #i found another edition of hongloumeng in a charity shop yesterday but then jo reminded me that i'm poor :/#and also it was a translation that i already own in physical format (see above pictures)#but if it's still there when i go back i'm going to get it #bc it's a 4-vol massmarket paperback version & thus much easier to read/carry around than the hardback edition of the yang trans that i own #and i've been feeling the urge to reread it lately <3333

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beluosus · 3 days

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#book haul #secondhand books #charity shop finds #dark academia #grey academia #chaotic academia #books and coffee #coffee #coffee shop #livres #littérature #littérature francophone #ἐποίησα

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the-magpie-archives · 1 year

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I think you'll all be happy to know that this very ominous spiral-core message is pasted inside the window of the shop next to the Notting Hill Gate Oxfam.

#Furthers my point that London is just one big TMA reference :/#Sadly they didn't have any good cursed books this time #Twas a good charity shop run though‚ did find a few weird dolls but didn't buy any :(#tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #tma memes #tma reference #tma the spiral #tma the vast #jonathan sims

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