Limbo Books and Records

04/04/2026

For the last six months any orders coming from the US on the Biblio website have a 20 euro shipping rate when it should be 50. I have it at 20 because that platform's really rudimentary and obsolete shipping matrix does not allow setting rates just for the US. Anywhere else in the world it's 20 euros. The same stupid shipping matrix has also not taken UK out of the EU but that is a separate beef. So this is the message I send US clients on Biblio and I hope some day things will "get back to normal":

Sadly there are a number of issues for shipping to the US at this time. First and foremost is Trump's tariffs, not just the tariff itself but the ripple effects. Second is the Biblio website. This duplicity between MAGA and corporate interests is the source of the world's problems. Biblio charges a commission on the shipping fees and not just on the price on the book. They also have a payment processing fee with the same percentage structure (price of book AND shipping) In today's world that results in their fees surpassing the value of the book (for books in the under $15 category). Their antiquated shipping matrix does not allow for setting rates just for the USA. This book can be shipped anywhere in the world for 20 euros but for the US it is 50. You will see I have this same book on ABE with 55 euro shipping rate because that website allows setting rates by country. Get rid of Trump and hold corporations accountable (which means that dirty word "regulation" and stop relying on litigation) then your shipping rates will be halved!!!

21/03/2026

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. MacKay, Charles. Harmony Books 1980. POS on front pastedown, $9.95 written in pen on title page, no other markings. DJ faces look nice but edges rubbed with closed tears and fraying at both spine extremities. Bottom boards rubbed from shelf wear. Binding is square. Soiled page edges, clean text, 724 pages. "With facsimile title pages and reproductions of original illustrations from the editions of 1841 and 1852. With a Foreword by Andrew Tobias." Sold for 30 euros.

21/03/2026

Tomorrow we will be participating in the bookfair in Veretz for the first time. The pictures are from our last bookfair but the set up tomorrow will be more or less the same. Drop by if you are in the area. https://www.veretz.fr/14-224/mes-loisirs/agenda/fiche/broc-livres-2eme-edition-avec.htm

19/03/2026

This is my notion of an iconic title. Immortal, recognizable at a glance, useful but not in a bad way, some thing that makes the world a better or at least happier place, evokes feelings far beyond its purview. Ball Blue Book: The Guide to Home Canning and Freezing [1989 Edition 32] Clean interior ; covers substantially scuffed and rubbed, corner wear and sticker scars, illustrated staplebound 21,3 x 27,6 cm., 112 pages. Sliker 334 sold for 15 euros.

19/03/2026

L)a Lettre et l'image: La figuration dans l'alphabet latin du VIIIe siècle à nos jours - Massin ; Roland Barthes (1996). Bel exemplaire, presque neuf. 978207112579. Beau livre 24,8 x 31,2 cm., 300+ pages, preface de Raymond Queneau. Sold for 40 euros

16/03/2026

We did fairly well in yesterday's clearance sale at the Blois Library annual benefit sale (25% of the proceeds goes to them). These are the books we sold -- almost all for 2 euros (except for those marked otherwise below but none more than 10). The subject categories was how they organized the tables at the sale. Being librarians they couldn't help themselves.

A - livres anciens

Petite fadette 5
Malet moyen age 4e 3
Contes et legendes de Gascogne (Pezard) 3
Le grand meulnes
La fontaine et ses fables (Taine)
Ricordo de Firenze
Tu seras soldat
Fontaine fables (hachette 1890)
Du tchad au rhin, du rhin au Danube 10

B - biographies

Dictionnaire biographies lozeriens 5
Le derniere journee de Stefan zweig
brel seghers
Anquetil tout Seul
Moi Lafayette
Mon pere forgeron Marechal ferrant
Seraphine de la peinture a la folie

C - BD adultes

Boule et Bill #12
Les ados #1
En Chemin Elle rencontre
Naruto #65
Naruto #38
Black butler #3
Phantom seer #1
Dead rock #1
Blitzkrieg

E - enfants et BD enfants

Les plus belles histoires du pere castor v3
Guy Mapassant contes etranges (Kelek)
La venture d’isee
Vieux frere de petit balai

F - animaux

Oiseaux de cage
Les oiseaux en france (Mauxion)
Mammiferes sauvages d’europe

G - geographie

En normandie (Herval) 5
Malet l’orient et la grece 3
6 milliards d’autres 3

H - histoires, essais politiques

La ruee vers la seine
Des dieux regardent les etoiles
Nous etions maquisards 3
Operation Barbarossa
Patrouilleur #109
Les corbeaux d’alep
Et la lumiere fut
Metronome
De Gaulle et le conseil national de la resistance
Des histoires de France des Gaulois a de Gaulle (2 vols)
2 vols par Claude lecouteux

I - Education et sciences sociales

Au pays des vermeilles

J - livres d’art

L’art oriental
Corot
Ingres d’alain 10
Michel Ange (Hibbard) 5
Sens et Destin de l’art
Le mobilier miniature du xvi s a 1930
Une histoire de l’espagne a travers son art
Musee d’orsay chefs d’oevre impressionnistes 5

K - litterature, poesie

Les paroles d’amour
Venus erotica 3
xvi siecle collection litteraire Lagarde & Michard 5

L - loisirs de plein air, sports

Fleurs sauvages guide de terrain
La chasse du peintre

M - medecine et Sante

Pesticides revelations sur un scandale Francais
Sortir du deuil
Le livre de Peres formidables
Le livre des meres parfaites
Le yoga ashtanga
Comportement alimentaire du normal au pathologie 3

N - policier

Les mares noires

O - Maison

L’apprenti antiquaire 3
Les petits trucs de ma grand mere
L’influence des planetes sur les cultures
L’encyclopedie feminine des ouvrages 5

P - philosophie, religion, esoterisme

L’ufologie en touraine 5
De superman au surhomme (Eco) 3
Le moine et le philosphe
Du bonheur un voyage philosophique
Le Bouddha et le bouddhisme (percheron)

R - romans

Villa Amalia
Etoile errante
Ritournelle de la faim
Journal d’un corps
Le dernier hiver du cid
L’elegance du herisson
Confidence pour confidence
L’impasse de bab essaha
Ce parfum rouge
Femme a la mobylette
Heritage (Bonnefoy)
Le premier homme (Camus)
L’ivresse du kangourou
Dans le peau de coventry
Sa preferee
Retour a Montechiarro
Ballerine de Kiev
L’ordre du labyrinthe
Madelaine avant l’aube

S - sciences, techniques, informatique

Patience dans l’azur
L’heure de s’enivrer

T - tourisme, regionalisme

La vie quotidien en Limousin au XIXe siecle
Histoire des Rues de Bourges
Les grandes affaires criminelles de Touraine
La vierge du diable
Loir et Cher de la prehistoire a nos jours 5
La vie quotidien en touraine au temps de balzac
L’andalousie
Les voiliers
Tsangbou entre Nepal et tibet
L’axe du loup

U - cuisine

Marabout lot of 15 books on veggies 5
Terrines et pates
Les miscellanees culinaires mr. schott
Du jardin a la table

X - divers, non repertories

Une Fois et peut-etre Une autre (Maloutas)
Le grand livre du jazz 5

08/03/2026

Henri De Triqueti 1803-1874 : Le Sculpteur Des Princes. Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, et al Hazan 2007. Sold for 45 euros. Some scuffing of back board and a bump to the head of the spine (beginning to chip) otherwise in like new condition. In-4, cart. éd. ill. en coul., 191 pp., 215 ill. en n/b. et en coul. (reprod. photogr.), texte sur 2 colonnes, liste des oeuvres exposées, bibliographie et index. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée au musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans et au musée Girodet à Montargis en 2007-2008.

08/03/2026

I will be participating in a clearance sale this coming Sunday. 300 books most priced at 2 euros each. 25% of the proceeds goes to the public library of Blois.

Bourse aux livres 2026
En panne de lecture ? Participez à la bourse aux livres, dimanche 15 mars 2026 de 9 h à 17 h 30 à la Halle aux grains, organisée par les Amis du Château et les Amis des bibliothèques. Vous y trouverez de nombreux livres pour tous les âges et de tous les genres, à prix réduit.

Entrée libre et gratuite.Pour vendre des livres, inscrivez-vous par mél : [email protected]. Entrée libre et gratuite. Renseignements : amisduchateaublois.fr

08/01/2026

Marine Paintings of Carl G. Evers - Peacock Press / Bantam Book 1975. 44 full page color plates, oblong 28,2 x 22,8 cm. Fine interior, solid binding, covers extensively worn with general scuffing, rubbed edges, and one creased corner. Sold for 12 euros, but fret not, I have another copy listed online in case you feel you missed out

27/12/2025

People often wonder where or how I get my books. For many years (no longer practical since I left the country) one of my favorite places was the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library located in the light industrial zone of town off of Power Inn. Run by volunteers, the boutique is open year round though the days and hours can be limited. It is a nice place. Even better is the giant warehouse behind the boutique that opens every few months selling not just library discards but a huge array of donated books at unbeatable prices. And though I did partake in these joyous events (staff and customers alike are so upbeat there) the real clincher was the annual bag sale. Usually in July and despite the suffocating heat the $5 a brown paper grocery bag blow-out was nothing short of magical. I got literally thousands of books this way including many rare collectibles.