Book Finds at the Public Library Book Sale

I hope that you remember to check out your local library's annual book sale, especially the main libraries. I went last year and found some good buys, but this year I found many more.
Our library (Charleston County Public Library) sells hardbacks for $3 and softbacks for $.50 each.

I came away with about 25 books for about $50. I had a blast.

Not all that I found were classic, conservative authors. I did find a decent copy of Matthew Henry's one-volume commentary. (If it's a useful book at a great price I buy it so that I can pass it along to someone else.) I also found another copy of AT Robertson's Harmony of the Gospels.

I found some key books by a number of liberal (neo-orthodox, or whatever you want to call them) scholars. I prefer not to pay full price for their works, so it's great to find them for next to nothing.

• Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels by Michael Grant (Scribners, 1977).
• Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography by John Dominic Crossan (Harper Collins, 1994).
• Jesus: A Life by A.N. Wilson (WW Norton & Co., 1992).
• Rabbi Jesus: And Intimate Biography by Bruce Chilton (Doubleday, 2000).
• Jesus Through the Centuries by Jaroslav Pelikan (Harper & Row, 1987).
• A Life of Jesus by Edgar J. Goodspeed (Harper & Row, 1950).
• Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by John Shelby Spong (Harper Collins, 1996).
• Paul and Palestinian Judaism by E.P. Sanders (Fortress, 1989).
  

I also found a copy of The Interpreter's One Volume Commentary.

I also found a book on Bonhoeffer, C.K. Barett on 1st Corinthians, a three-volume PB edition of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Max Lucado's Come Thirsty, a commentary by Barclay, and Lockyer's All the Apostles.

My wife and kids got some books too! :)

So, don't forget to check out your public library's book sale.

Book Finds at the Public Library Book Sale