{"id":240,"date":"2010-03-02T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/?p=240"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:36:14","slug":"for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of you may not know that I\u2019m an amateur collector of old books. I\u2019m not sure why. There is something about having an old copy of something that had it\u2019s place in history, that still contains the message that it contained then, sitting on my shelf. The ancient wisdom, the ages-past perspective, and my thoughts of who\u2019s eyes and minds were stimulated by these very books gets my romantic imagination going. I particularly have a fondness of spiritual writings, and find that many contain truths that are timeless. \"Great<\/a><\/p>\n

For example, I have 20 volumes of commentary by a guy named James Hastings. They were published between 1911 and 1915. They are called \u201cThe Great Texts of the Bible\u201d<\/em> and contain some amazing and unique articles, analogies, histories and perspectives on some of the epic texts that leap off the page of your Bible. I\u2019ll sometimes be stuck on some passage and wander over to this Hastings guy to see if it was a text that he thought was \u201cgreat\u201d. If it was, I read him, and I never leave his feet disappointed.<\/p>\n

I found these in a garage sale in Houston.<\/p>\n

Okay\u2026so enough about my like for old books (I wouldn\u2019t say love\u2026I\u2019ve met folks who love them. They would laugh at me if I said I loved them).<\/p>\n

On eBay, I\u2019m auctioning some of my old books to pay off some new debts. Some of you may be interested or might know someone who is\u2026<\/p>\n