used books not English but foreign language Quite often we get used books & rare books in a foreign language. These present problems that at first you don't fully realize. Last week I saved some of these used books from a trip to the dump. Mostly German language used books, a … Read more
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Get the dirt on dirty used books
The good, a quest for rare and used books Now everyone knows I love looking for rare & used books. You never know when your going to find a little treasure, I have been lucky in my quest for rare and antique & used books. I've met many interesting people, I have thousands of stories too … Read more
Posted in : A day at the bookshop, About books, My Rant, Tuesday talkfest, Uncategorized
Tagged : dirty books, Lake Macquarie, lake munmorah, rare books, used books
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Look at our German rare books
Achtung! German rare books Attention! When it rains it pours its the same in our business see the latest acquisitions among which were quite a few German rare books. German rare books on subjects from art, biographies, military uniforms & medals, pottery, old newpapers, socialism, rocket … Read more
Posted in : A day at the bookshop, About books, Education, News
Tagged : art books, German rare books, rare books
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Rare book collecting and Magic
Magic & Rare Book Collecting At first, you might not quite see the tie in between magic & rare book collecting. For me it usually happens by accident, rather like a spider on a web you quietly sit and soak up all of the minute details, it could be a name, a subject, or half a title a … Read more
Finding new people & used books in Morisset
Travel & used books Everyday I talk to someone that's traveled from abroad to live in our area, whether it be the United Kingdom or the United States, China, Europe, India and Malaysia. Why we even have people moving in from all suburbs of Sydney and dozens of other places around … Read more
A lifetime collection of books all railway books this time
Great Books As a bookseller one of my main goals is getting the best used books I possibly can. A good way is to get these books is buying whole collections it can either be poetry, art or science fiction Australiana books. Its a delight to find collections, most of the good books I get come from … Read more
Posted in : A day at the bookshop, About books, Authors, News
Tagged : rail, Railway, rare books, rare train books, train books, train phamplets, Trains Australia, trains United Kingdom, trains United States, used books
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A shake up in the market
Carrying on from my last post about Angus & Robertson and Borders. Over the past five years, I have been buying books from many the major book dealers around the world for keen collectors. Among the many customers at Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books, one is a keen collector of almost anything … Read more
Posted in : A day at the bookshop, About books, Find a Book, News
Tagged : Book Depository, book finding, bookshop, Dr Seuss, half price, Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books, mega listers, ozzbooks, rare books
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Old Treasures & Flip Books
Every day at Lake Macquarie Secondhand Books I'm asked to find different books for people today is the same, an inquiry came from a very nice voiced person called Karen. I have an old book that is precious to me, its an old book with pictures of my father in a format that is called a flip … Read more
Losing it at the bookshop
As you know I'm always looking find a book for many people, sometimes it’s one book sometimes its more than one book we usually charge a fee for our book finding service its is mostly a fee of ten dollars, but for one reason or other this fee is not rock solid sometime more but mostly less. Now … Read more
Posted in : A day at the bookshop, About books, Find a Book, Uncategorized
Tagged : ABC, black books, bookshop happening, classic books, fiction, good stories, rant, rare books, used books
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The Guys form Hydraulink
We have been at our location for about 2 years, when we first moved into this unit there were two auto shops & a nut & bolt shop, within a month they'd all gone, then I had all the parking bays to just us. But slowly over the past 2 years all of the empty units have been let. The best … Read more
Posted in : A day at the bookshop, About books, Find a Book, News, Uncategorized
Tagged : Advantage Avenue, bunnings, mega market, Morisset, old books, rare books, Ray White, Robert G Barrett, Tim Winton, used books
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