Oh, My Orchard!--My Sweet, Beautiful Orchard!

Despite steady flurries, it was actually fairly warm today.  As such, Dmitrii and I decided to take a walk down to Queen St. to check out Owl's Nest, a second hand book store.  We arrived just as the gentleman in charge was getting ready to close up an hour early, as no customers had been in since he had opened at noon.  We managed to convince him to stay open a little longer, on the promise that we'd buy something.  I ended up with the usual types of things I get from second hand books stores: plays (Chekov, Miller, Sophocles, and Marlowe) and classics (Les Misérables), and Dim ended up with his usual stuff; namely 70s and 80s Sci-Fi, with some vintage Clarke or Asimov thrown in for variety.  But, it was a trip to one of the upstairs rooms that proved the most amusing and enjoyable.

Up there was where all the roleplaying books were kept, largely old Palladium and White Wolf games.  But, hidden in among the since long deprecated White Wolf books, was a graphic novel.  Why it was there, I don't know.  Perhaps the store keeper didn't know where else to shove it.  But there, for me to drool over, was one of the books from the original printing of Neil Gaiman's Stardust.  Although it is book 2, and I'm missing the other three, it's the first time I've ever seen a copy, and now it's mine!  All mine!

Additionally, I picked up copies of the first edition AD&D books; largely just for amusement, as I'm not a huge D&D fan.  While they aren't first printings, they are pre-revision copies, meaning they have the really horrible covers.  In addition, the Dungeon Masters Guide appears to be an earlier printing than the previous two; which makes it very odd to look at an AD&D book that only lists a total of two other books available for people to buy.

Grand total: $60 spent by me, $30 by Dim.  When we left, the shopkeeper told us that we had made his day.  I don't doubt it.

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