good afternoon friends

lately, sunflower and i have been spending our saturday mornings going to estate sales. we really enjoy looking at the houses more than the stuff for sale, but once in a while we fid great stuff.

the first book i ever bought with my own money was a ballantine paperback edition of the beasts of tarzan by edgar rice burroughs. it was printed in 1963, and cost fifty cents. i still have it. over the next few years, i bought all of the burroughs stuff i could find, and i still have most of them. they are all rather battered and worn.

at one of todays sales, i found a complete set of the tarzan novels and about half of the martian novels (including two that i no longer had) from the 1972 printing and in pristine condition for fifty cents each.

i am looking forward to re-reading these. it will be like visiting an old friend.