At the Library Sale, July 2021
After being suspended for more than a year due to the covid-19 epidemic, last week the local library resumed its biannual Book Sale, holding it over a three-day interval in a normally vacant storefront in a nearby shopping center.
It was well attended, with a nice selection of both paperback and hardback books at the sci-fi section. All of these were not much more than a dollar a piece. I came away with a nice collection of paperbacks from the 60s and 70s (above).
And then there was a 1992 anthology of Weird Tales stories, all published from 1927 to 1953, that deal with vampires. I was motivated to pick up this 442-page tome mainly due to the favorable reviews of many old Weird Tales stories that have been posted by MPorcius at his blog.
There always is a good turnout of parents and kids at these sales, which feature a large selection of books for juveniles. I don't know if it's peculiar to the greater Charlottesville area, but it seems that reading remains a popular pastime for many families, even in a era that is increasingly post-literate. Hopefully these younger people will advance, in time, to reading Old School sci-fi........... and help keep this Blog relevant......................
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