It was the usual Sunday morning routine except for a small change. None of the usual friends I meet at Abids turned up so I did the browsing all by myself. Before I reached Abids I got down at Chikkadpally as usual where I found two good titles.
The first find was a nice copy of 'The Loser' by Thomas Bernhard that had a striking cover. I think I already have some title it not this by Thomas Bernhard that I had found sometime last year. I have to check my notes and confirm it. I got this book for eighty rupees only. With the first find a good title I set off hoping to find more. I just now checked my notes and realized that I had found three titles by Thomas Berhard. One was 'Gargoyles' and the others were 'Gathering Evidence' and also 'Corrections; by Thomas Bernhard and that I had not read them yet.
The second find was a copy of 'Light at the Edge of the World' by Wade Davis that I knew I had to buy. Not only the cover pulled me to it the fact that it was a sort of travel title by an anthropologist convinced me to buy it.
I have this habit of buying multiple copies of titles I already have. So when I saw a wonderful and almost brand new copy of 'Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China' by Colin Thubron I picked it up though I have a copy of it on my bookshelf that I can see even as I type this blog post. The earlier copy I had found long back and was a good enough copy though I have yet to read it. I got it for eighty rupees.
I had seen a lot with a seller that contained quite a few books of history and literature. I had seen them the previous Sunday and had thought I would check again this Sunday. One of the titles I wanted to buy was gone and the other I had thought of buying was a copy of 'History of the Pelopennosian War' by Thucydides that I picked up. I have a faint memory of buying a copy of this same title somewhere a long time back but since I wasn't sure I picked up this copy as well.
Once again I came across a copy of a book that I had found a long back and that which I had given away after reading it. But when I saw that the copy of 'Road Runner' by Dilip D'Souza that I spotted was a copy signed by the author I picked it up. I got it for a hundred rupees.
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