Dragon books plus tons of Sci-Fi books! Toward end of thread.

Many months ago I had to opportumity to buy thousands of science fiction books. 50% of which are hardcovers and about 95% of those are first editions. I am working through the piles to get them back into the hands of those who will appreciate them and away from the shredding blades of the recyclers.

I post new books weekly if not daily but still have thousands yet to go. No joke, there are thousands. If you have an author you like or know of a book you would like to read and it is science fiction I probably have (or had) it. Feel free to email me or drop a PM to see if I have it. I also take Windstones in trade :). I have worked through almost all of my N’s and Z’s and about half my M’s but most of the other authors are untouched as yet.

Here are my Ebay auctions but I have tons as yet un-listed.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/robinsbooksandotherstuff/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1

Here is the story of how I got those books…

These books came from the personal collection of a local librarian. She took very good care of her books. Most of her books are in wonderful shape and many are first editions. She must have loved Science Fiction and Fantasy stories (especially those by female authors) as they accounted for the vast majority of her collection. I do not know what happened to her. I wish I did. I do know that her books had been packed up, rather haphazardly, and stored away in dozens of large moving boxes at a local storage facility. A few books suffered page damage due to being stored on edge with other books piled on top. Some were “bent” due to being only half supported and then more piled on. I can’t believe that the person who took such loving care of her books would pack them away in this manner, stuffed into every corner and crevice of a cardboard box then tossed without care upon other such boxes. I can not imagine the cause of such obviously hurried packing. Whatever the case, the contents of the unit were then later auctioned off. I’m sure most of you have seen the storage auction programs on TV. It was something like that.

This is where I come in. I am friends of the person who won that auction and was then faced with the task of finding homes for literally thousands of books. It was not something he looked forward to. Many of the first boxes of books he liquidated went to buyers who then turned around and sold them to local thrift stores or went to recycle because the books were “too old” to sell at such establishments. Hundreds of rare hard covers and paperbacks from the early 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were lost to the paper shredder by this process.

I was able to acquire many of the first round of books but sadly could not get them all. I was distressed that so many old classics and out of print books were being lost and approached my friend about a possible purchase of the rest of them. Arrangements were made, huge sums were spent, and I cleaned out our guest room to house the vast collection, which still numbered over ten thousand. It cost me dearly to save these books but I am a lover of such things and feel it is worth the many hours and long nights spent sorting, cataloging and listing.

So here I am , trying to get these books back into the hands of people who will truly enjoy, and even cherish, them. I have thousands more to list so check back often. If you don’t see a certain author or series you are looking for in my current listings, chances are, if I haven’t already listed it, I have it and haven’t gotten to it yet. Keep checking I put up new listings weekly and sometimes daily.