Trinity Secondhand Booksale 2005!

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The Trinity booksale is on this week - Thurs 7th through Saturday. Prob the best value booksale in the country. Don't forget half-price Saturday!

Think i got about 60 books last year after making the mistake of turning up at the Thursday launch wine reception after having a few drinks beforehand. Bought some crazy stuff (including, but not limited to, an entire set of Enid Blyton's Famous Five books! Why? Haven't a clue!)

Ron DMC

Where's it on?
I'd imagine some big hall type place. (Exam Hall?)

foxybrowne

whats the craic?

ApeXaviour

Yeah.. I missed all the others. I'll defo be at this one after seein some of the bargins friends of mine got.

xeduCat

Exam Hall, if you're going on Thursday, just look out for the long queue across Front Square....

I never emerge with anything left in my wallet. And one year I bought a table of leftovers in Saturday's clearance auction...hmmm.

The 16th Trinity Secondhand Booksale will commence on Thursday 7th April at 5.30pm in the Exam Hall, Front Square (Admission €3.00). An auction of rare books will be held that evening at 7.00pm. The sale continues on Friday from 10.00 to 6.00pm (Admission free) and on Half Price Saturday from 10.00am to 2.00pm. A clearance auction will be held at 2.15pm, everything must go.

Ron DMC

Thanks Daithi, clears that up.
But what with that and ball tickets, looks like a poverty stricken term for me.

cuckoo

If you're going, bring bags. Lots of them. Although, there's always a good few cardboard boxes lying around. And cash as credit cards, cheques and IOUs are not accepted.

I've seen some very strange things at this sale. Last year there were some picture books that really pushed that fine line between artistic and arousing...more disturbing was watching one of my lecturers flick through it. :eek:

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woohoo! 300 books for a fiver today in the clearance auction! felt kinda bad paying so little, but didn't have any more money and that was all they wanted...

Kevin_rc_ie

i went there on friday and there were no academic books of any worth.

The latest advances in Cytology - 1969. ???

Where there much better stuff there on Thursday?

ApeXaviour

I went on fri directly after kev and bought 13 books for under 6 euro

No academic ones however..

osd

Went in yesterday and found a 1965 Cambridge Student's Handbook... Tis an interesting read... Will probably sell it on Ebay when I'm finished with it... I'm sure to make more than the 10 cents I paid for it.

Agent Smith

i bought about 200 books, i cant bear to see books being thrown away....


i also got a cambridge student handbook, mine cost 20 cents, i feel robbed

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agent smith wrote:

i bought about 200 books, i cant bear to see books being thrown away....

were you the person who bought the middle table of paperbacks in the clearance auction? damn - i wanted those - ended up with about 50 Barbara f**king Taylor Bradfords in my lot of books. Didn't think it would be polite to leave them behind...

cuckoo

Any unwanted book sale trophies can always be dropped into the charity shop of your choice, the oxfam one on Parliament Street specialises in books.

/end do gooding

/begin moaning

i missed the sale this year!