Your most interesting second hand book find

i found a first edition hardcover Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in really good condition in a room full of trash in an abandoned house i was exploring. i later loaned it to an employee who said he’d never read it before, and then he never came back to work and ghosted me. i want that fricking book back you midget.

I need to go to them more often, I don't think I've ever found anything good, all I ever see is Christian books and other random stuff. I almost got a copy of a Gravity's Rainbow hardcover off Amazon for $185.00 which I believe should have been worth ~$300.00 if the seller was correct about the condition, but they ended up cancelling the order

i cant remember the name of the book but i found it randomly in the history section of a used book store because it was in a bin for books about the 1840s and i thought well i like the 1840s this might be good and it was really interesting, the diary of some dude who was a fur trader and then became a politician

i found a book about the origin of Ebola called “The Hot Zone.” it was a disgusting and graphic read about what Ebola does to your body and the journey to understand how it spreads etc. it is an experience i wish i could relive as i’ve always been interested in medical history.

I picked up Catch Me If You Can out of a free book bin once, it was a pretty fun read and probably something I wouldn’t have read otherwise

The memoirs of richard nixon ans the downfall of the Russian of monarchy. Got them very cheap in Holland and very interesting.

I found The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 and Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War in the same second hand book store.

The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 is a comprehensive book on the history of colonization in Africa, mostly drawing from primary source documents. Very interesting to see the reasoning and methods put forward at the time.

Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War is pretty much all primary documents on the Soviet Union's support during the Spanish civil war with some explanation in between. Good but kinda boring to be honest.

UPDATE: THIS IS WHAT I FOUND TODAY

I wasn't able to stay too long because a local crack head stopped next to me and was prowling the area.

But the book shop had 5 big boxes of books! The most I'd ever seen.