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I have worked out my book-buying ya-yas temporarily at Dover Books. Although the site isn't the easiest to navigate and their range can be a little spotty (they have Invisible Man but not 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, for example), in addition to the ubiquitous clip-art books they have reasonably priced editions of public domain works.

I mean REALLY reasonably priced. Although they don't have Gatsby, they do have The Beautiful and Damned for $2.50 and Moby Dick for a (for them) whopping $5. I also picked up a copy of The Prince - at $1.50 I won't have moral qualms about writing in it, and a chance comment by Dr. Weinstein has set me off on a bard hunt... he referred to Iago as a "the new character, a machiavel" so now I want to compare both The Prince and The Book of the Courtier to Shakespeare's plays. (I thought about comparing The Discoverie of Witchcraft to Tempest and MacBeth, but I can't lay my hands on it - the Discoverie, I mean, not my Arden Shakes. Darnit, who knew I was going to need that college textbook 20 years later? Probably dumped it ages ago.)

Date: 2005-09-15 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tchwrtr.livejournal.com
I *think* Discoverie was in the P4F pile. Maybe.

Date: 2005-09-15 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
I wouldn't be surprised at all, I dumped a lot of my historical witchcraft/pagan stuff there. It would be beyond ironic if it got thrown out *that* close to my thinking I'd want it again.

Date: 2005-09-15 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com
Want to replace it? Here -- lots of copies seem to be available at reasonable prices!

Date: 2005-09-15 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Golly, those are reasonable prices for ABE!

Dover has it too - I'm just not sure I want it *that* badly.

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