New favorite haunt

Posted by trav in Book Talk, Bookstores      No comments

Apr
11

We spent last weekend over in the Peach State, getting lost in Atlanta. Between bouts of “where the !@#$%^&! are we” I managed to squeeze in a few bookstore visits. My goal was to visit only stores I’d never been to… and I hit the jackpot.

It’s called Books Again and occupies a small store front in Decatur, GA (which is like 5 miles from downtown Atlanta). When I walked in I was greeted by a bookcase of $1 books. You know you are in the place of a like minded book person when they have sense enough to offer $1 books. Don’t get me wrong, he trades in the high-end stuff too. He currently has a collection of all the Pulitzer-winners in first edition (except for one , To Kill A Mockingbird, is the anniversary edition, but it is signed!!!) That collection will only set you back $16,000. He has lots of signed books by Southern authors too.

What I enjoyed is that you could find good solid copies (better than ‘reading copies’) for $4. That’s a GREAT price for a hardback you might be interested in reading.  He has a very drool worthy section of ‘Books On Books’, too. Which is where I picked up my sole purchase Published in Paris (how is that for will power?)

My only regret is that I was so absorbed in the books that I didn’t take any pictures.