Love & Cholera on Babbitt's Main Street

Photo of stack of antique bound books from the site Pictures of Old Books.

Shopping for books always seems as if Amazon is the lone Internet dealer. Shopping for books in New York was always The Strand where they were all to be found in bins and dusty shelves, everything that could be read could be found with enough searching. Back in my more youthful days living in small-town America, shopping for books included the sweet hunts in odd corners -- the Salvation Army store in Hudson, NY where I found a first-edition of Harold Lasky's The American Presidency.

There were also yard sales at churches and the wonderful book sales at The Woodstock Library. Last January a magical book sale appeared in the parking lot next to my motel near The Falls in Miami where a lovely lady sold me all the books that would fit in my suitcases for the trip home for $4. The shopping can be as much fun as the collection and both almost as satisfying as the reading.

2007 has brought us the Internet, PayPal and plastic money. Check out my Amazon links and Buy.com for books. I found Love In The Time Of Cholera at widely different prices and a rather complete selection of Sinclair Lewis' works at Buy.com.

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