# Best Used-Bookstore Score Ever

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 2, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-used-bookstore-score-ever/122011 "2002-08-02T13:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-used-bookstore-score-ever/122011/1 "2002-08-02T13:45:42Z")

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I have spent the last week in lockdown at the national sales meeting in Williamsburg, VA (at which I got little-to-no time to actually look at the colonial area across the street). Yesterday morning was departure, so a friend and I took the hour or so we had free to go find souveniers for our wives and daughters and went to the tchochkie district to shop.

We stepped into a used bookstore, and on a shelf I found the ultimate geek ubertreasure. It is a small volume of poetry, published by Blue Mountain Press in 1976, and edited by (shudder) Susan Polis Schutz. It contains such deep and profound thoughts as:

You fill me  
With your love

You fill me  
With your caring

You fill me  
With your thoughts

You fill me  
With your sharing

The title of this slim collection, purchased at the amazing price of three bucks, is _We Are All Children Searching For Love_, and the poet (who should be named laureate of some small island somewhere that produces commemorative stamps and coins) is none other than Leonard Nimoy.

My only comment at the time, and now, is that he excels as a poet to the extent he excels as a singer.

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-used-bookstore-score-ever/122011/2 "2002-08-02T14:41:32Z")

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Hey, are you dissing the man who wrote the epic “Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”? For shame…

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-used-bookstore-score-ever/122011/3 "2002-08-02T20:13:04Z")

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There used to be a great used bookstore here in Arlington, it was in a two-story house that appeared to have been built around WWII. Sadly, it was bulldozed within the past year and replaced with a (still-vacant) minimall.

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**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-used-bookstore-score-ever/122011/4 "2002-08-02T20:36:32Z")

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Congrats on the find, **stofsky!** Sounds as collectible, yet aesthetically painful as my album _Both Sides of the Moon,_ by Keith Moon. He’s as good a singer as Nimoy is.

I’ve found some great stuff in used bookstores. There’s a bookstore in Chapel Hill, NC where I got first-edition paperback versions of the first two _Foundation_ books and a signed UK printing of _Restaurant at the End of the Universe._

Another store had a signed volume of plays by Alestair Crowley, but it was pretty damned expensive, and I couldn’t get it. ☹