I CAN'T Believe I Found THIS Rare Book at Half Price Books! (BOOK HAUL)
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- čas přidán 10. 02. 2024
- BOOK HAUL!!! I found SO many great books at Half Price Book's 20% off sale, including one of my rarest holy grail finds. I cannot believe I found such a collectible book at Half Price Books for so cheap! IT by Stephen King is so hard to get as a first edition unless you're willing to shell out $60 or more. Now this has a happy place in my Stephen King first edition collection, along with all the other awesome books I found at the sale! I hauled so many great books, including some vintage horror paperbacks, Goosebumps books and early works by R.L. Stine, vinatge science fiction and fantasy books, Baby-Sitters Club, Sweet Valley, scary middle grade books, new thrillers, books by Alice Hoffman, and so many more books for my ever-growing collection. I hope you enjoy this book haul. Please let me know if you would like to see more. :-)
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I stumbled upon a Stephen King goldmine a couple of years ago at a library book sale. I'm talking 30ish books, most of them either first or second printings, $2 a piece. Promptly bought them all and brought them home and realized they all had come from a woman's collection who had recently passed. It's sweet because almost each book was gifted to her from different members of her family as they were being published (there's little inscriptions in most of them). I can only hope it would make her happy to know a fellow Constant Reader has given them the same love she has. They're all prominently displayed in my library as my pride and joy 😂
Aww, I love this!! I’m glad her books went to a loving home. I hope the same for my own library one day. Maybe by then they’ll be displayed in museum. Only time will tell if these books will garner that kind of treatment in the future.
That's awesome!
Omg… that’s so cool… I love the idea of the books going to someone who loves them after being deceased .. glad you had the whole collection too!!
@@LibraryMacabre I think I have said this once already.. but in fact think your library will surpass your life as well❤ the idea of museum sounds nice , I hope it does.. but if not there’s hope for your future kids .. look .. idk ok… 😂 your collection will go around for sure. It has so much geeky love in it and I can feel it even though I’m not a horror fan. ( I just recently picked up a goosebumps book because of you .. and I agree with your thoughts on it , they might be simply written but the plot is actually quite fun .. I quite enjoyed them )
I have to say it, your library must smell like heaven with all these vintage horror paperbacks on the shelves. if i were a ghost, i'd very much love to haunt it ❤😄
Haha It does smell good! You may have to compete with all the other ghosts to haunt it though. The place is riddled with them. 😂
Hi. Would you maybe make a video about how to identify first editions of books? I think it would be very helpful. :)
I sure can! I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. :)
Also RL Stine is currently working on a comic book series with Boom Studios. It’s called Stuff of Nightmares. On the darker side of things and is pretty good.
I’ve read it! It’s pretty good. I especially liked the Christmas one shot.
@@LibraryMacabre where do buy these stuff which website
I am new to channle wanted to know where u buy it from
I found Turbo Cowboys in a little free library outside of the excellent City Museum in St. Louis. I wish my copy was in as good a condition as yours.
Nice find! I hope to find the other books in the series soon. I need to know what these are all about 😅
Thank you for the nostalgia and some gothic books I have now added to my list! The Only One Left is now at the top. I also have Murder She Wrote on DVD. Murder Takes the Bus, Incident in Lot 7 (Psycho house ep) and Nan's Ghost are my top 3 favorite episodes. Cozy mysteries are the best. I recommend Midsomer Murders for cozy British mysteries. 😊
Murder Takes the Bus, YES! I love that one! I need to watch Incident in Lot 7 pronto!
The cover of Galactic Dreams by Harry Harrison is a special kind of great. Just as a painting it's a universe unto itself!
Couldn’t agree more. These old sci-fi and fantasy books have covers I’d love to live inside 😅
I really wish Canada had stores like half priced books! Your hauls and finds make me want to take a road trip to the States just to book hunt lol
You should one day! I have a friend in the UK who does that.
I’ve always loved horror novels since I was a child but your channel and videos have really made me get back into the hobby of collecting horror novels again. There’s so much out there and places like Half Price Books are just a wallet killer for me now but I’m loving it!
I’m glad I can spread the joys of reading horror and collecting books! It’s not always good on the wallet though, I agree 😅
I literally screamed when you showed the secret book. Congrats, man. It feels impossible to find such a gem nowadays. AND in mint condition??? How???? 🤣👍👍👍
Haha I almost screamed when I saw it 😂 I don’t know how! Just sheer luck. I doubt it had been on the shelf for very long, otherwise someone else would have snatched it up way before me.
The last one left was awesome With a great twist ending. Riley Sager is definitely become one of those authors that I have to read everything he publishes
That’s great to hear! I think I’ll dig it :)
We need more vlogs form you at these bookstores. Seems like your a pro at eyeing these copies. 😅
I have bookish instincts 😅
Everyone else is 👀 at the IT first edition, meanwhile I'm jealous of that Murder, She Wrote boxset! Such a fabulous show!
It’s a great show! Glad to have the box set 😁
I’m in the UK and been looking out for a nice copy of Addison House for ages, so hard to find for a good price! Great pick ups
I hope you find one soon! I wish these books weren’t so rare.
OMG! Murder She Wrote!! My favorite show, I watch it all the time lol.
Yay! Awesome find on the IT and I learned something new today with that Star Wars book!
I’m glad I could introduce you to them! They’re cool books :)
IT and the murder she wrote series are amazing finds. I have started collecting murder she wrote vintage puzzles.
Oh that’s cool!! I didn’t know there were puzzles
@@LibraryMacabre yes they are cool because the puzzles themselves are mysteries to solve
I’m just now starting to rebuild my library. It got destroyed when I was younger, along with the books my mother had lined up to give me when I was old enough for Stephan king and the like, and I’m realizing that I basically quit reading after that. Reading again has been unbelievably uplifting
I’m so sorry to hear that. I can see why that would impact your reading. That would traumatize me. I’m glad you’re getting back into reading!
I knew it was going to be Stephen King’s IT! So happy for you! My country’s too small to ever find first editions of books like that. IT is my favourite book of all time. Interestingly now know I’m 3 years your senior, was always curious.
How did you predict it would be IT?? 😂🤣 Thank you! Yes, I will be 31 in a couple weeks.
Black Easter looks awesome! I didn't realize that Ketchum has a vampire book!!!! I gotta keep an eye out for that but I've only ever found one of his books in the wild ever. Maybe one day.
What a great haul!!!
I have an extra copy of She Wakes! I’ll put it aside for you. 🤗
@@LibraryMacabre eee you are too kind 🥹💖 thank you!
Hey!!! What was sooo wonderful about this haul was how excited you were throughout reminded me of myself talking about books and DVDs you enjoy! I always get newer ideas of books that stickout that are other regular horror or vintage horror too and look them up right away! So thanks for all the fun always can't wait for more vlogs !!!! I am totally invested currently in the point horror!
Dean Koontz, I have many of his books in my house, I haven't read all of them, but the ones I have read read these are my favourites, 1)The Door To December, 2)False Memory, 3)The Good Guy, 4) One Door Away From Heaven, 5)From The Corner Of His Eye.
Thanks for your list! I have read any of those, but I do have From the Corner of His Eye on my shelf.
I always look for you when I go to the HPB in Florence KY. 🤗
You may see me there one day!
I watched MSW from the start. It still comes on TV all the time. These days I turn it on as background noise. In 2004-2005 it came on weekdays for four hours a day and that was my writing time. I wrote a couple of novels that way but I can't tell which ones they are. 😥😄
That’s awesome!! Where can I find your novels?
I don't know because I sold them as a ghostwriter. Both had a teenage female protagonist because that was the request. The first one began dream-like. It was a fantasy with magic. The other started faster with a lot of dialogue as a group of friends got ready to go out on the town. It was like a Nancy Drew with magic powers. I can't concentrate well enough to be a ghostwriter now. It's hard to type on this device so sorry if my writing is bad.@@LibraryMacabre
You always find the best hauls. Thank you for sharing your finds with us! Have a great week, Cameron.
Thanks for watching!! 😁🙌
That Black Easter is a jackpot too. The whole loose trilogy (alongside A Case of Conscience and Doctor Mirabilis) are pretty pricy.
I think they’re only a trilogy thematically though. Wikipedia says James Blish only realized they formed a trilogy after the third book, lol.
I didn’t realize it was a trilogy! I’m going to seek out the other books. Thank you for the info! 🙏
Great assortment of rare finds! I’m jealous LoL! Claire McNally is one of my favorites too, I have a lot of hers 😊📚
Thank you!! Happy reading 😊📚
TFS! Great Finds! Love Murder She Wrote I have been on the hunt in the wild but no luck. Hopefully I will find my collection soon too. 🗝️
Good luck! I find them a lot at used bookstores. And I think most are still in print. :)
Congrats on finding that first edition book! Especially in such good condition! Makes me wonder who was holding onto it and keeping it that pristine for so long before you bought it.
Me too! I’m always trying to imagine where these used books were before they ended up in my collection.
What a find!! It’s such a pleasure to find a rare book at a good price! And that box set of Murder she wrote…it was a favourite of mine as a child!! 😄
This Murder She Wrote box set is going to be seeing a lot of action 😅
@@LibraryMacabre As it should be!
My grandpa's first edition of clockwork Orange is my most prized possession 😊😊
Oh my gosh!! What a treasure!!!
@@LibraryMacabre yes it is ,🙂
Love the “Black Easter” cover 🖤
I am happy that you found the first edition of It 😀 I do not like The Funhouse by Koontz. I have never seen Murder She Wrote 😱 my grandma used to watch it when I was a kid so I saw bits and pieces here and there. However, I used to watch Matlock and Diagnosis Murder with my mom 😉. I just recently bought two Clare McNalley books. Can't wait to read them! I have seen a few things on Pango by R.L. Stine that I have never heard of like Golden Sword of Dragonball, Rotten School, Nightmare Room, and Broken Date. But I mostly just knew him for Goosebumps, Fear Street, and Point Horror.
I hope you check out some Murder She Wrote soon! It’s such a lovely, comforting show. :)
IT first printing!!!! Definitely one of my top ten most wanted books! It is in fabulous condition!!!!!!!!!! So jealous! Love your book haul videos and this one did not disappoint! Also love the cover of Black Easter!! One more also...Murder She Wrote is amazing!! So cozy and fun! I would move to Cabot Cove in a minute...minus all the murder :)
I’d move to Cabot Cove even with all the murders 😂😂😂
Flametree Press does a lot of Gothic Horror short story collections that I think you would like. The only catch is that they have a lot of other anthologies which can be hazardous to a completionist.
Yeah, that’s the only reason I haven’t started collecting them… There’s so many, and knowing me I’d have to get them all. 😂
Oh my word! Such a good book haul! I totally forgot about the Time Machine books! I'm pretty sure we had a few of them as kids but unless my older brother still has them, they are probably gone to Goodwill at some point. Also yay for the Star Wars Galaxy of Fear books! I definitely recommend reading books 1-6 in order as they form a complete story arch!
And the Berenstain Bears Freaky Funhouse! Such a fun one too! Also -- Murder, She Wrote is the best! Definitely have all 12 seasons and go back to it regularly!
Thanks, Shaun! I appreciate the tip about the Galaxy of Fear books. I didn’t realize they were connected. 📚
Woohoo! Awesome finds Cameron!
Thank you!! 🙏
I've started collecting shows my parent's used to watch when I was little & a teen: M.A.S.H., Quantum Leap, Macgyver, Columbo, Tales from the Darkside, & Star Trek. This collection also means video games; so I currently have: Home Alone, Willow, Dick Tracy, & Gilligan's Island.
In fact, when I was in Half Priced Books in Sacramento, I found some Quantium Leap books (about 5 or 6) & snagged them for about $3 each.
Edit: Murder She Wrote is on my to get list.
Sweet! Love all those shows, especially Tales from the Darkside. 👻
What an amazing find for your collection!!! Congrats! 🎉 I also love that you collect the old choose-your-own-ending books! I read every single one in our library as a kid. 😁
Hi Lorie! I hope you’re well. Gotta love those old Choose Your Own Adventure books. They’re a delight!
I have been having extremely good luck at my two local haft price. The haul looks great
That’s great! I hope the luck continues 📚
The covers are awesome!! That IT edition is amazing 🤡😊
Thank you!!! 🙏😊
Fantastic haul! And yes please make a video on identifying first editions.
Will do! Thank you 🙏😊
I also collect first edition King books. I did just find a Dead Zone at the thrift store. Very happy about it.
Oh wow, congrats!!!
Great Haul! I’m definitely going to search for that Black Easter book by Blish! That cover!
I hope you find it! I’m seeing now that one sold recently on eBay for $35. It’s more collectible than I thought!
The suspense killed me on what first edition you found ! So awesome! I loved reading the choose your plot books in elementary school. Mom used to have a few but not sure what happened to them.
Hopefully you can find those Choose Your Own Adventure books!
Haha I was responding to this, but didn’t realize it was you, Robin, until just now 😂😂 Those Choose Your Own Adventure books are definitely gone forever. I’ve never seen them at mom’s house. :(
“Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire” is the name of the P.N. Elrod series.
Thank you!! 🙏
I NEED TURBO COWBOYS hahaha.
Hahhaha Hell on Wheels looks hilarious.
Totally agree on Sci-Fi/Fantasy! I didn't even know there was a novelization of BIG?!?
The Novelization for Funhouse is AWFUL....but the covers are great hahahahaha I was about to offer to send you the Owen West release.
The first edition of IT has great cover. I think I have a book club in that regard because the price tag spot was snipped, so someone somewhere probably tried to sell a bookclub as a 1st edition lol (I got it for cheap).
Psycho II is SO SO SO SO BAD hahahahahahaha, I hated it hahaha.
YES Galaxy of Fear.
Great video!
Ohhhhhh, someone did you dirty with that copy of IT! To pretend it was just “price clipped”…. Dang, that person needs a curse placed upon them 😂
Love the covers 😍
Lots of good ones in this haul! :D
Omg, Dinotopia!!! 🦖
That IT copy looks fantastic, what a great find. Loved seeing these covers. Happy reading!
I’m glad someone else remembers Dinotopia! 🦖
Congrats on the first edition, absolutely beautiful copy, well done. Glad it found its way to you!
Thank you!! 🙏😁
Keep it up man! Love the library and because of you I have been collecting point horror books!
Thank you! I’m glad you’re utilizing your library. :)
Very nice haul.
Thank you! 😁🙌
Great video Cameron:)
Glad you enjoyed it! 😁
I literally gasped and said out loud “no freaking way” at your SK find!!!! Congrats!!!!!! ❤
I know!!!!! I did a happy dance in the aisle and held onto the book throughout the whole store like I was holding an Oscar 😂
Another great haul! And how awesome is that first edition!!
Thank you!! 😊
Wow! Great finds! I actually have a first edition hardcover of Carrie. I didn’t find it at Half Price books though. I searched forever. Half Price books and my local indie book store said they never get that one so I had to get it online. It’s my favorite SK book so far so I wanted to first edition so bad.
Oh my gosh, that’s amazing!! Did you have to spend very much for it?
@@LibraryMacabre I can’t even remember the price but I wanna say somewhere around $120-$150. Still more than I normally splurge on books.
@@spookylittlebooknerd I actually would have gone for that too. Not bad for a first edition Carrie!
Woah! I love the new intro!!!
Thank you!! I love how it turned out. 😊
I hope you do incorporate photography on one of your covers someday! I know it would look amazing! 🖤
Thank you!! I think it would be cool :)
Congratulations on the great It find :)
Thanks, Stan-the-man! 🙌
I was excited to find a 1st edition paperback of Pet Semetery $1.29 a couple of weeks ago! I screamed for joy I have been looking everywhere. But I can't read it. The spine has never been cracked
Ohhh, congrats!! 😃 I found a 1st print paperback of Pet Semetary at a bookstore a couple years ago. I *think* I even captured the moment in a book shopping vlog but I can’t remember for sure. Such an exciting find!!
Amazing haul
Thank you!!
that copy of IT is such a good find! great condition too. i'm so jealous!
When I saw it on the shelf, I was so excited to find a first edition that I didn’t even realize the condition it was in for a while. I would have been happy to find it even if it was in rough shape 😆
So now I have to check all the Goosebumps books at Half Priced for hidden treasures now. Great haul!
Do it do it do it! :D
I wished I lived near Half price books lol 😆
It's a little dangerous! xD
Great video! Congratulations on the IT score!
Thank you!! 🙏 😁
Whoa those Walmart classics are a nostalgia bomb! 🤯
RIGHT?? 😂
I’ve been meaning to comment on this post for a few days now, I was just stuck Floating around and I finally got back to the ground lol. 🎈
Awesome finds and awesome video 👍🏼
Thank you for coming back and commenting, Tony! :D
Awesome shirt 👍
Thanks! 😁
I wish we had a Half-Pricef Books! We just got a B&N this week.
Hi Robin!! I don’t know what I would do without Half Price Books 😅
I guessed the book would be “It,” somehow. Congratulations from a fellow Constant Reader 🎉
Great guess!!
I remember finding out about Dinatopia as a kid after checking a book out from the series from the library and becoming obsessed with the series. This was around the same time I got into Godzilla and Walking with Dinosaurs and now im trying to find them too to re-read them.
I wish you the best of luck tracking them all down! That was such a great time for dinosaur-lovers to be alive. 😅
Hardcovers being $22 in 1986 would be about $45 in today’s date. Thats so expensive for a book.
Indeed! They were rarely that expensive back then. I think because it was so thick, and by then King was a household name so they knew it would sell regardless. I’m sure it was discounted at most retailers though.
Another great video, as always you kill it !! Could you let me know where to buy your books I'm really interested in supporting you and reading your books as they look awesome !
Thanks so much!! 🙏 I appreciate you wanting to check out my books! You can get them using the links in the description of any of my videos and they’ll direct you to Amazon. 🙌
@LibraryMacabre I'll get right to it, and no problem dude I want to support you and your channel in any way I can, it should be me thanking you for all the great content you provide, again thanks on behalf of all of us who watch your videos for continuing to put out video after after video and still keeping the same level of quality, you're the man Cameron
@LibraryMacabre just purchased both of your books less than 10 minutes Ago from the link you shared in your video description, I ordered the paperback autumncrow and the hardback of autumncrow high fresh hell, look forward to reading them both !!!
I found a 1st ed Hardcover of IT in near perfect shape at a garage sale for $10 once, Don't count out places like that for hunting!
That’s awesome!! I’ve found some good stuff at yard sales :)
By the way, the formal title of that Washington Irving book is "The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon"--crayon was a penname.
Oh thanks for letting me know! 🎃
I own the first edition of IT by Stephen King!!! I paid $40 for my copy, though. I got it at Dark Star Books and Comics in Yellows Springs, Ohio.
I love Dark Star Books! I go there a lot. Current Cuisine next door is one of my fave places to get lunch. Haha
@@LibraryMacabre Yes! I adore that used bookstore. It's where I found a lot of my books, first editions. :D
MAN what a find! You shoulda bought a lottery ticket on your way home!
Aww man, now I wish I would have! 😩😂
Oh my. I have the first edition Stephen Kings IT. 7 years ago I found it in the $1 area in my library. It’s not a library copy. 😮
Oh wow, congratulations! That's a steal!
I'm also currently looking to find a first edition copy of It and I hope I can find one for a good price !
I hope you do too!
Great video, as always! I think I've wiped out all the HPB stores around me, unfortunately.
I always feel that way, but then I'll go one week and find a TON of stuff. Never know when they'll restock. :)
Back on Thursday i got a r l stine book called slime doesn't pay 🎃
I’m going to be reading that one soon! It’s stacked on my nightstand waiting for me :)
Did you know you can get a mini working Zoltan now since mentioned big I thought I should bring it up since he was a big part of that movie pun intended
The Sorority by Tamara Thorne is actually a trilogy. There's Eve, Merilynn and Samantha. It's not bad at all, I found it to be good and creepy.
Thanks for clarifying that! I’ll be on the lookout for the other two books. :)
@@LibraryMacabre Not a problem, hope you enjoy it.
I'm reading dreamcatcher right now. Definitely not my favorite Stephen King book so far but it's pretty good.
I haven’t read that one myself. I hope you end up enjoying it. :)
I have the murder she wrote music running through my head now. 😅
It makes me happy 😂
I feel like I saw the first edition Shining hardcover at that Beavercreek HPB like last month. Have you been out to Browse Awhile Books in Tipp City? They have a bunch of vintage horror paperbacks. They're a little expensive but less than an ebay price.
Hey!! I hope you picked up that Shining hardcover! I went to Browse Awhile about a month ago to drop off some signed copies of my books. I found quite a stack while I was there, though I agree they can be a bit pricey. I have to look hard to find books that are a decent price.
What...the Berenstain Bears had chapter books. I only knew of the little Golden books (same with Cliford & Critters).
Though I do own the whole series of the animated show (Berenstain Bears) on DVD.
Yep, there’s a whole series of chapter books too, and they’re really good :)
If you like historical fiction that has magical realism, check out "The World That We Knew" by Alice Hoffman. So good. Made me cry.
Thank you for the insight! I’ll check it out 😁
give us your thoughts on them finally going with the prom queen solo fear street film.
I. Can’t. WAIT. 😁😁😁 They should have adapted individual books from the beginning, but I’m glad they’re doing it now. :)
I think the people that don't like deckled edges are part of that bizarre trend where some people are shelving their books with the pages facing outward instead of the spine. I am suspicious about if they ever actually read their books, or use them just for decoration.
Yeah, there’s no way anyone who faces the books pages out are actually reading those books. How do they find anything??
Woooow
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How do you feel about the ending of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? I typically love ambiguous endings. Something about Sleepy Hollow doesn’t sit right with me, though.
I love it! It’s told like a real legend where you can’t really know what the actual outcome was 🎃
Wow It 🤡 first edition 😮😮😮
Yes!!! And for so cheap! 😮
What was so different about Psycho 2 that you hated it? I haven't read either the first or the second psycho.
Psycho 2 does some things with Norman’s character that rubbed me the wrong way. I don’t want to spoil it for you or anyone else in the comments, but I recommend the film version of Psycho 2 over the book. It’s a solid movie.
Ahhh, no Half Price Books OR 2nd and Charles near me and the FOMO is REAL!! 😢😂
Ohhh no! I’d be making a road trip to the nearest one 😂
@@LibraryMacabre you know, there might have to be the be in my near future, now that you mention it 🤔
@@Firefairy1212 I do it all the time even though I have some near me 😁
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The condition of that book is unreal. It looks like King personally donated it to the Library Macabre. Congratulations creep!
Murder She Wrote ❤❤❤
Do you have any of the novels? Very cozy mystery series.