Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1910 — When to Buy Books. [ARTICLE]

When to Buy Books.

“When is the best time of the year to buy books?” was the question asked of the man who presides over a sec-ond-hand book stall by a regular customer. “Well, replied the seller, “the best time of the year to buy and the time of the greatest opportunity to pick up bargains is right now. Why? Well, strange as it may seeing there are a lot of folks in this big city who sell their books in the summer time to get the money for a trip out of town, a week’s vacation, and sometimes because their business stagnates with the coining of hot weather and they need the money. Most of them are the kind of people who never think of the pawnshops. That’s a sort of disgrace with them. But they have books that they have read and have no further use for. They get to picking out a lot of them and bringing them to me. It’s cash for them, and as for me, my Btock is always best and there is the choicest picking about this season.”