📚
Playing thriftbooks roulette
Sometimes they will send you an unnerving movie tie-in cover, other times they will send the most gorgeous 20th century editions you’ve ever seen…may fortune smile upon thee
recommendation image
image
@isthefruitstillgood
Jan 21, 2025
see likes

Comments (4)

Make an account to reply.
image
@phantomshred
love both of these books 😍
Mar 3, 2025
image
@rabidwell
great score! I have that same Ficciones, that Calvino is beautiful!
Jan 21, 2025
image
@isthefruitstillgood
rabidwell Twins!! First printings of the Ficciones edition we have are going for a couple hundred dollars online (I got an eleventh printing but I’m still feeling lucky)
Jan 21, 2025
image
@isthefruitstillgood
isthefruitstillgood I also just finished Cosmicomics this morning, highly rec! It was super imaginative, but as someone in the Earth sciences I could still recognize most of the scientific concepts that seeded each story
Jan 21, 2025

Related Recs

👓
i like thriftbooks!
image
@bbyblue13
Feb 23, 2024
recommendation image
😃
Perusing thriftbooks irl
image
@turnerpgreens
Jan 30, 2025
recommendation image
📚
Thrift books
I love going to a bookstore but there’s only really one good used one near me so thriftbooks is literally the greatest thing ever All these books were like $70 and would genuinely probably be like $300 at Barnes and noble use thriftbooks
image
@grahamheydorn
Feb 28, 2025

Top Recs from @isthefruitstillgood

recommendation image
🪦
decorative faces on Early American tombstones
Cute!
image
@isthefruitstillgood
Feb 26, 2025
recommendation image
🐎
Developing a horse obsession
Lately the only things I feel compelled to draw for tattoo practice are horses (and greyhounds—the horse of dogs)
image
@isthefruitstillgood
Jan 4, 2025
recommendation image
🪡
bad taxidermy at the Natural History Museum in Vienna
They really managed to capture a look of abject horror or disgust in each of their little faces
image
@isthefruitstillgood
Dec 27, 2024