Searching secondhand book shops for Camino books.

[David]

Whenever I find a large secondhand bookshop I cannot resist going in and searching for old books about the Camino and pilgrimage in general ... I think this photo sums my obsession up!!!!!

Do you have this affliction??

 

[WycombeMan]

Yes I do, I love nothing more than rummaging around a bookshop, I loose myself for hours, and all excited when finding a book that went out of print years ago, the slightly dusty disorganised feel, but above all I love the smell of a second hand book shop

 

[Thomr]

I do that too, failing finding any on the Camino I look through any guide books on Spain to see what they say

 

[wayfarer]

Whenever I find a large secondhand bookshop I cannot resist going in and searching for old books about the Camino and pilgrimage in general ... I think this photo sums my obsession up!!!!!

Do you have this affliction??


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Judging by that second photo David you have let yourself go just a bit, I think its time for another Camino.

 

[Gailsie]

If only I could keep my second hand book shopping to Camino related books. As a retired librarian, who loves books I can't resist the pull of used book stores. Have to cut back in order to finance my next camino.

 

[emonty]

Whenever I find a large secondhand bookshop I cannot resist going in and searching for old books about the Camino and pilgrimage in general ... I think this photo sums my obsession up!!!!!

Do you have this affliction??


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Absolutely! I am a retired teacher of English (especially American lit) and history. My wife is an English teacher, my son and daughter have degrees in English. We plan trips around bookstores!

 

[Tia Valeria]

Best place for 'bookworms' - Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, UK. It used to be virtually all book shops although there were not quite so many last time we were there. It is just over the border from Herefordshire and on the outskirts of the Brecon Beacons, so good walking too

 

[bystander]

Try http://www.abebooks.co.uk/

The following is my first quick look for Camino de Santiago linked books:

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?kn=Camino+de+Santiago&sts=t

 

[David]

ah, but its not the same .. no smell, no searching, no dust .. no hidden surprises .....

 

[emonty]

ah, but its not the same .. no smell, no searching, no dust .. no hidden surprises .....

True, part of the fun is finding what you weren't looking for.

 

[WycombeMan]

Best place for 'bookworms' - Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, UK. It used to be virtually all book shops although there were not quite so many last time we were there. It is just over the border from Herefordshire and on the outskirts of the Brecon Beacons, so good walking too

I worked the summer many years ago in a youth hostel just outside Hay-on-Wye, I would spend all day Tuesday( my day off) spending all my wages on books, I worked all summer in order to save, alas all I had to show for it were a couple of hundred books, an no where near the amount I needed to buying my first a car. Second hand books shops are becoming an endangered species here, all my favourites have closed.

 

[bystander]

"ah, but its not the same .. no smell, no searching, no dust .. no hidden surprises ....."
Yes, David, I know what you mean.
There used to be a wonderful second-hand bookshop in Guildford called Thorpes (I think), trouble with it was (as would happen to you rummaging through the Hay on Wye bookshops) that if you went for example, looking for a book on the Camino you would probably leave with nothing on the camino but instead a dusty old tome on something like "Cockroach Racing in Medieval Transylvania" !!

 

[David]

soooo much better than going online and trying to Kindle one's interest ....... and that sofa is so made to be sat on!

 

[bystander]

"A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero; also attributed to G. K. Chesterton

 

[bystander]

First try
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[bystander]

Second try,
part of the mess that is my study

 

[David]

you LIVE in a secondhand bookshop!!!!

 

[bystander]

Yes, but one with NO buyers!
I recently worked out, what with all the books that my wife and I have inherited, we have, distributed round the house, nearly 65 metres of books!

 

[JennyH94]

Aah! Second-hand bookshops! No better place to be on a rainy day ... I love them.

My all-time favourite second-hand bookshop is in London ... it's called ...

We have two bookshops here in Cronulla - Berkelouws and The Best Little Bookshop in Town - both stock a good range of second-hand books. They're GREAT, but sadly there's no Manny or Bernard to 'help' us, or Fran to sympathise with over the latest disaster in her life!

I have bought some beautiful second-hand books at both these shops, and several of my Camino books (new) were purchased there too. I appreciate that often books are available online more cheaply, but if I, and booklovers in our area, don't do our bit to support local business, these two treasure-troves could close.

Cheers - Jenny

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

I hope I die before my brother. There is NO WAY I could sort out his books. He has about 11,000 [yes - eleven thousand] on bookcases in every room.
So I hope I don't have to sort out THAT lot!
Hence my wish to depart this life before him ..... but preferably not until after May when I'll be on the Camino Inges

 

[ksam]

ah, but its not the same .. no smell, no searching, no dust .. no hidden surprises .....

That was how I stumbled to another little sign to walk again! Wandered into The Book Trader on 2nd St. in Philly, up the steep stairs to the poetry section and lo and behold!

A slim book of Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The book quite literally fell open to the following page: