Hi Sarah,
What a great trawl!!! Our local municipal library have a trolley up front as you walk in. They are always culling, at the moment the books are all 50cents aussie. The only one that caught my eye this trip was "Matthew Flinders' Cat" by Bryce Courteny, I am not a fan of Courteny's however it has a beautiful cat on the cover, so that sold it for me!!!

Isn't it terrific to score like that? I visit the library used book sale regularly and almost get something nice. My last pick was a picture book about cats and gardens - the cat on the cover is a dead ringer for mine.

Our library system does this twice a year, in April and October. This was a particularly fruitful year for some reason.

Sarah; What a wonderful and varied lot! I am fortunate in having several libraries nearby and a number of charity shops. They all have cheap books but I am so short of space in my one-bedroom and only one main room home. I have been picking up childrens books for the two ( three in May!) GGchildren. The books have to be checked for scribbles, toothmarks etc. but I have found some good as-new ones. The latest find was about a tooth fairy and had a little silk bag embedded in the cover for the first baby tooth that comes loose!

Nice haul, Sarah.

The libraries around here don't have library sales, but both the municipal library and the National Library have tables of free books, the former on a "take one, leave one" system. The main branch of the municipal library also has cull shelves where they sell off books they have culled. I recently picked up a book on Icelandic customs and traditions in past centuries that I am going to re-bind in some really gorgeous red leather. It's being re-issued after having been out of print for a couple of decades, but the bindings on new books are so terrible that I preferred to get this old and slightly worn copy and re-bind it.

Wow, Netla. How cool to do your own book-binding...

And congrats to Sarah on the finds. I would be interested in reading the Rumpole book as I have heard so much about this author and his character, but never actually read him. I was invited to see John Mortimer do a lecture, but as I had never heard of him, I declined. Now I rather regret doing that as he has died. However, his written words still continue.

When you go to the FoL book sales, do you go with a list of titles and stick to it? Or do you wander around and see what grabs your fancy?...

I agree - Wow! Netla. Please post some pictures of the finished product.

lemonhead -- I prefer to just wander around and see what grabs my attention. I went back the second time with my DH to look specifically for Grisham books, but managed to find some more that I was interested in. :-O

I just love my local library, especially the so sweet girls that run it, I live in a country town so we all know each other. I received a phone call from them yesterday to tell me that they are culling heaps of talking books, my husband is unable to read print, also lots of big print books for our little retirement village library. These girls are just so caring.

There was a huge FOL sale a week ago in my new adopted city. I finally got dizzy looking at all the tables of goodies. However,I managed to find 2 Xmas gift books for friends which were in mint condition, as well as some favorite movies, for a couple of bucks apiece. They even had antiquarian books for sale....

My FoL book sale was last weekend, and like many of you, I was overcome with weakness when I went in there and ended up with these:

* Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages - Phyllis Rose (NF)
* Bliss and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield
* Something Happened Yesterday (columns from newspaper writer in UK) - Beryl Bainbridge
* The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Marten Troost (NF travel)
* The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
* The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kambwanba (NF about wind energy in an African village)
* Jewel in Crown - 1st in Raj Quartet - Paul Scott
* War Brides of WWII - Elfreda Shukter and Barbara Scibetta
(NF)
* No Fond Return of Love - Barbara Pym
* Beach: Short Stories about the coast - Ed. Lina Lencek and Gideon Bosken
* The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
* Queen Camilla - Sue Townsend (What if Camilla became Queen of England?...)
* Independence Day - Richard Ford
* The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
* Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
* The Long Weekend: Social History of Great Britain Between 1918 and 1939 - Robt Graves and Alan Hodge (NF)

So - quite a haul and lucky that DH wasn't around so I could get them in the house and and spread out to blend them all in... Tee hee.