Gratuitous vintage booklove!

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I was browsing in one of my favorite used bookshops this weekend and found a fantastic gem - a set of six 1930s Wodehouse books (two Jeeves and Wooster, four not) bound in an amazing color of orange faux leather, with gold-stamped bindings, for US$10 each. And a bonus red-bound, gilt-stamped Wodehouse collection edited by Ogden Nash, which was US$12.50.

See how pretty they are?

Vintage 1930s Wodehouse

Comments

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

SCORE!!

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. :D

[rathanylakan.livejournal.com]

Nice :)

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *Clasps books to bosom* :D

[sweet-fallacy.livejournal.com]

"I say!" indeed.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I could hardly believe it!

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

omgwant. Amazing.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Aren't they LOVELY?

[mutant-biscuits.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow... You lucky thing!

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I feel very lucky! :D

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

I want to go to bed with those books.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I've been clasping them affectionately to my bosom. ^_~

[princesshannah4.livejournal.com]

I KNEW THEY EXISTED SOMEWHERE

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Hee! I didn't, but I was happy to make the discovery. :D

[e-goddess.livejournal.com]

I think I just peed a little bit.

Why don't my used bookshops ever have any Wodehouse? I'd even be happy to see a beat up paperback.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

You know, the last time I went to this bookshop, all I could find was 3 beat-up paperbacks. But this time I got lucky!

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

I covet those books. So badly.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I feel v. fortunate to have acquired them. ^_^

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are just beautiful. What a wonderful find!

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I could hardly believe it! This bookshop is quite disorganized and chaotic, and lots of times I haven't found anything there, but on this occasion my persistence was rewarded. :D

[beeb-almighty.livejournal.com]

The copy of The Code of the Woosters that I checked out from my school's library was one of these. Returning it was sort of difficult. :(

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I can only imagine! I'd never seen editions like this before, but as soon as I saw these I had to have them.

[queen-fiend.livejournal.com]

Very nice indeed!

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Aren't they lovely? :D

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

swooooooon! <3

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I was absolutely giddy when I found them!

[hoskie.livejournal.com]

I am unbelievably jealous.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Er...I'm sorry there aren't enough for everyone! (But I'm keeping these. ^_^)

[jupiterknight.livejournal.com]

You DID buy them right?

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, yes I did. There was no way I was leaving the bookshop without them! ^_^

[jupiterknight.livejournal.com]

Lucky D: I found a first edition J&W at an old bookstore in Northumberland but of course I wasn't carrying any money. Almost cried on the spot.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. *winces in sympathy* Hard luck there!

[drunken-kurage.livejournal.com]

I can never find books of this quality in the used shops I've been to, let alone anything by Wodehouse.

You Sir/Madam, have my envy.

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I feel very lucky to have found these! This bookshop is dusty and disorganized, and for the most part has fairly distressed used books of a more pedestrian variety, but once or twice I've found exceptional things like this.

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

My fingers itch to touch *droools* XD

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

They're very caress-able. In fact, they practically demand it. ^_~

[charie-caphine.livejournal.com]

You are a lucky thing! Would all the books were released this way...

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Agreed on both counts! ^_^

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

oooooo! (is envious)

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

I wish I had enough for everyone! :D

[angelofmadness7.livejournal.com]

You lucky person I would kill for something like them x3

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Hopefully that won't be necessary! :)