I had been meaning to visit Evee and Peebles for ages, but life got in the way, mainly all that house selling and moving stress. But we managed to get down to Peebles a few weekends ago and took the chance to visit the Peebles Peace Group annual book sale. What an amount of books they had gathered together for the sale! All sorts of books although the fiction was mainly modernish I did manage to pick up a few oldies as you can see, if you twist your neck, sorry about that I should have rearranged the photo.
As you can see, Jack reigned himself in compared with me, as usual. I might read these ones too sometime.
I bought:
The Gardens of the National Trust by Stephen Lacey
Marion Alive by Vicki Baum
Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie
The Lowlands of Scotland – Glasgow and the North by Maurice Lindsay
A Cathedral Courtship by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Penelope’s Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Those Fragile Years by Rose Franken
Hans Andersen His Classic Fairytales. Illustrated by Michael Foreman
Some Whispers from Fairyland (lovely illustrations) was bought from the Oxfam shop in Stockbridge, Edinburgh
At Peebles Jack bought:
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The other two, Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Promised Land by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice, he bought elswhere.
A great day out was had by all, I’ll show you some photos of our walk along the banks of the River Tweed soon.
I got A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon ( I lent out my copy of the trilogy years ago and never got it back), the Jacobite trilogy by DK Broster which I loved when I was young, and see no reason why I shouldn’t still love it, a small book by Catherine Poynton Slater, called Marget Pow, and some Gaelic song books that I never thought to look at first, only to find they aren’t in stave form but in sol fa form, and I can’t read that! I’ll donate them to the choir as I know at least one of the altos could read it! It was a great sale! Lovely to see you both! Enjoyed the walk too, up to a point! My black eye has healed but my ribs are still very painful! I’ll leave you to tell that story!
Evee,
You got a great haul too. Of course I now wish that I had bought that book on roses that I swithered about. I’m lookinhg forward to the next sale already. I’ll get around to our Tweed walk soon!
I hope you enjoy “Those Fragile Years” by Rose Franken. Are you familiar with her “Claudia” books? I have several, including your latest acquisition, plus an omnibus edition called “The Complete Book of Claudia”.
It’s a series I came across in my teens and which made a deep impression on me – I can always re-read them with enjoyment.
Valerie, NZ,
I haven’t read anything by Rose Franken but I remember someone mentioning the Claudia books though. I bought it because the same publisher was publishing books by other authors which I have read and enjoyed. I’m looking forward to reading this one soon.
What great stacks of books! I love those older bindings, the ones I think are hard to find these days for reasonable prices. Happy reading!
Joan,
One of the books had an old pencilled price of £15 on it, so I was very happy to get it for £2.
Nice finds! Does the garden book have lots of photos and make you want to go traveling to see them all?
Stefanie,
It does have lovely photos and I have already managed to see some of the places featured but of course I now want to see more of them.