Hard To Find Books
Shopping for hard to find books has always been a passion of mine. I love everything about books. I love the smell, the texture, and of course the words they contain. As much as I like new books, hard to find books are even better. When you buy a rare or hard to find book, you feel like you have found a real treasure.
I used to go to a store with my Mom that sold used and hard to find art books. It was called Bookbeat, and was located a couple miles away from our house. They had a pretty lousy selection of poetry, and even their fiction selection was only okay, but they specialized in out of print art books and rare magazines. Sometimes, I would just go there to look through the hard to find books section. They were pretty tolerant even though I was looking through some antique books and wasn’t very old. They kept an eye on me of course, but in general they let me comb through what I wanted to comb through.
Looking through those hard to find books, I actually discovered some artists that I wouldn’t have been into otherwise. I was especially intrigued with some of the graphic designers they had there. I wasn’t really aware that you could take letterforms and make them into art before I saw it done in an art book. I was only 12 at the time, so you can understand how I hadn’t been exposed to a lot.
Of course nowadays, I get a lot of my hard to find books on the Internet. Sometimes I feel guilty about not supporting my local bookstore more, but in general I’m pretty happy to buy books online. It used to take me months and months to find a particular book, but now I can go to Amazon
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