Wells Books (a local used bookstore) is closing soon, and has 70% off everything. I got 3 very nice books, older ones, and interesting. I got ‘Odd Craft’ just because altering books is and odd craft. 
The red one is Pickwick Papers and has the most beautiful Art Nouveau end papers (see below). I would feel bad about cutting it up, only it was just $1.00, before the the 70% discount. The green is a wild flower identification guide, with lots of nice drawings of flowers.
Obviously ex-library, just with discrete stamps, and no real damage. I think I’ll go back there during the course, it’s in the next block, and by then I’ll know if I want to do more, and if the course is what I was expecting.
I explained to the lady at the bookstore what I was doing, and asked if she had any wrecked books, or bits, and she had a little pile of covers that had fallen off other ones. I got two matching ones (not a pair from one book, the cover from each of two books that are the same). She threw them in for free with the books, so my total came to… $5.10.
