Books for Sale (with photos)

[Charlie]

I’m selling my books! Over the years I’ve amassed what I consider to be an outstanding collection. I recently got an iPad and don’t need the books anymore. My loss is your gain.

Huge harcover Chinese English dictionary: 80 yuan

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind – Suzuki Roshi: 60 yuan

Fodors Thailand: 40 yuan

Faster – James Gleick: 60 yuan

Lonely Planet China, 4th edition (real copy): 60 yuan

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Phil K Dick: 60 yuan

The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma: 40 yuan

On The Road, Jack Kerouac: 60 yuan

Chinese Situational Dialogues: 30 yuan

Intercontinental’s Best of China: 40 yuan

Lonely Planet Laos: 60 yuan

The Hot Zone, Richard Preston: 50 yuan

Southeast Asia on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet: 60 yuan

The Death of the West, Pat Buchanan: 60 yuan

Teach Yourself Travel Writing: 50 yuan

Walden, or, Life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau: 60 yuan

Adventure Capitalist, Jim Rogers: 60 yuan

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins: 60 yuan

Lonely Planet Iran: 50 yuan

200 Situation Chinese Dialogues: 20 yuan

Essential Mandarin Chinese: 20 yuan

Practical Chinese Reader (1, 2, & 3): 60 yuan for the set

Off the Rails in Phnom Penh, Amit Gilboa: 40 yuan

Rough Guide to China: 40 yuan

The Beach, Alex Garland: 50 yuan

Lonely Planet Cambodia: 40 yuan

Lonely Planet Phillippines: 40 yuan

One City, Ethan Nichtern: 50 yuan

First Time Around the World: 50 yuan

Modern Times, Paul Johnson: 80 yuan

Kanji Starter: 20 yuan

The Pocket Interpreter: 20 yuan

A bunch of soft cover learn Chinese books: 20 yuan each

Oxford Pocket Chinese/English Dictionary: 30 yuan

This Is Your Brain on Music, Dan Levitin: 60 yuan

The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell: 60 yuan

The Ring, Koji Suzuki: 60 yuan

A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking: 50 yuan

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, Neil Strauss, 70 yuan

Investment Biker, Jim Rogers: 60 yuan

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham: 50 yuan

Straight A’s Never Made Anyone Rich, Wess Roberts: 40 yuan

The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin: 60 yuan

Vagabonding, Rolf Potts: 50 yuan

The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot: 50 yuan

Whew, ok. Here are the pics:

[Chris Ziich]

Stumbled across this post while hoping to find a a thread about where to find books in Chengdu.

Are these still for sale?

Also, does anyone know where I might be able to find some books in English?

[Charlie]

I ended up selling some of these but most are still for sale. Let me know what you’re interested in and I can cut you a deal. PM me.

[skinny panda]

If you are looking for English books in Chengdu, the Loft Hostel(aka 四号工厂) near Kuan Zhai Alley, is a place you could check out.

Down the first floor, at their little shop inside of the build, you can buy or exchange whatever you have to the same amount of books. Most are fiction from what I’ve seen. But you can always ask or call their info desk(some staff members speak decent but not fluent English and Mandarin Chinese)

Here is the link. http://www.lofthostel.com/

Good luck! 🙂

[7]

I mean no offense by this, but are used book prices that high there? If so, I should have packed all mine up to take with me instead of selling them before moving.

[Charlie]

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I mean no offense by this, but are used book prices that high there? If so, I should have packed all mine up to take with me instead of selling them before moving.

Yeah, they’re really expensive. At a place like the Bookworm (which is the best English language bookstore in Chengdu by far) paperbacks are well over 100 yuan. We gave away a copy of “Harvest Season” a few months ago that cost 140 yuan, about 250 pages paperback.

But if you go to some large Chinese bookstores they’ll have an English section with classics like The Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein etc for 20 yuan. Nothing in between though.

[7]

Too bad. I literally gave away a huge box of paperbacks and took a bunch more to a local store to trade in for credit which I gave to my dad.

I like your taste in books BTW, though I doubt I’ll buy any as I prefer e-books as well.

[Ray]

@Charlie: I noticed LP “Iran”! Man, did you manage to get in? Beautiful country, great people BTW…

[Brendan]

Do you still have Electric Sheep? Want.

[Charlie]

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I like your taste in books BTW, though I doubt I’ll buy any as I prefer e-books as well.

Thanks! I can’t blame you though, ebooks are so convenient. I wish there was some way for me to digitize these so I could have electronic copies, unfortunately it looks like I’ll have to re-purchase some of them.

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I noticed LP “Iran”! Man, did you manage to get in? Beautiful country, great people BTW…

I haven’t made it yet, but I will! I grew up with a lot of Persian friends and would love to visit Iran. That book was given to me by one of my best (Persian) friends when we met in Thailand to get me more interested in traveling to Iran. I’m totally interested.

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Do you still have Electric Sheep? Want.

Yup, I still have it. I will hold onto it for you.

[Chris Ziich]

I want Investment Biker and Capital Adventurist if I like the first book. Probably some of the learning Chinese books. I’ll let you know by the next time we have a chance to meet up.

[Charlie]

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I want Investment Biker and Capital Adventurist if I like the first book. Probably some of the learning Chinese books. I’ll let you know by the next time we have a chance to meet up.

No problem. Those are both great books. Jim Rogers is the man.

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