tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post8034502397626384288..comments2024-03-09T11:34:22.175+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Favourite Finds by Joan LennonMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-68709364267085648422015-08-06T00:17:37.856+01:002015-08-06T00:17:37.856+01:00Sounds like quite a find! I love diving into dusty...Sounds like quite a find! I love diving into dusty old second hand bookshops. There is always something. I used to find very old books - a 1922 Works Of Shakespeare(a Christmas gift), an 1879 Aeneid(a school prize) and an 1880 works of Byron. But more recently, I've only found paperbacks and some hardcovers published in the last twenty years or so. Which doesn't mean I've had no luck. The paperbacks are often out of print books I loved years ago and I've pounced with a cry of delight on books of Celtic myth and legend and Fairytales of countries I have never studied.<br /><br />Another good source of treasure is the remainders bookshop where I find, for a good price, lots of useful reference works on anything from herbs to a history of medicine or the Roman Games. I can use those as well as enjoy them. Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-18802524255841680162015-08-05T18:46:48.236+01:002015-08-05T18:46:48.236+01:00Oh how lovely! I'm envious - must track a cop...Oh how lovely! I'm envious - must track a copy down!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-49678256070258466472015-08-05T09:08:54.067+01:002015-08-05T09:08:54.067+01:00Indeed what a lovely find Joan and you're so r...Indeed what a lovely find Joan and you're so right, browsing charity shops turns up all sorts of interesting finds. One of my favourites is a bird book too - The Reader's Digest AA book of British Birds. It's a big beast with a gorgeous illustration of a bird on each page with all the details about it, and at the back of the book there are chapters on migration, biology etc. There was another I picked up on craft projects written in 1920's that even included the medieval crafts of tablet weaving and naalbinding!Elizabeth Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911841862257909703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-36608037068634058982015-08-05T08:37:37.492+01:002015-08-05T08:37:37.492+01:00What a lovely find, Joan. What a lovely find, Joan. Carol Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05837854482139736944noreply@blogger.com