Christ is risen!  Happy Easter, day 4 of 8.

Dh is on vacation this week, so I was able to take a trip to my favorite used book store.  Books are not catalogued, and hand-priced by the owner.  It takes me a couple of hours to look through the Old Stuff and Kids sections, and today I found some real gems!

An 1896 hardcover copy of Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin in great condition.

David Macaulay’s Cathedral and Underground in hardcover with dust jackets for $6 each.

Large hardcovers of Tomie dePaola’s An Early American Christmas and Walter Edmonds The Matchlock Gun.

A pocket-sized 1897 copy of Love-Songs of Childhood by Eugene Field.  While it does not have Winken, Blinken, and Nod, it does have The Duel, which I love!

Joan of Arc by Josephine Poole.  Beautiful illustrations; told in the Catholic tradition.

American Heritage Junior Library Americans in Space and a Troll Young Biography of Thomas Alva Edison, both very cheap.

And the most interesting book is a thick, oversized, hardcover, Mylar-wrapped dust jacketed book called The World in 1492.  The lead author is Jean Fritz, since she writes the first section about Europe, but the book also has sections on Asia, Africa, Australia & Oceania, and The Americas in 1492, each by a different author.  It contains a lot of photographs and color graphics.  I’m looking forward to reading through it. 

And to think I didn't buy a single science book. 

The trip was good for my soul.  Thanks, Dh!