Overstock Sale at University of Notre Dame Press

University of Notre Dame Press (http://undpress.nd.edu/) is having their annual Overstock Sale, in which they discount most overstock titles to $5 or $10. The list of discounted titles can be found here: http://www3.undpress.nd.edu/catalogs/OVERSTOCK%20SALE%202012.pdf

(I purchased 10 titles, with a total list price of almost $450, and the final cost (with shipping) was $79.)

Ack, Way too tempting. ;-)

And just when I had decided not to buy more books this month...

I bought 5. Disconcerting to see so many titles I've already bought on the list, including at least a couple I picked up at Kalamazoo this May.

>4 cemanuel:: About 2/3 of the volumes I have from ND Press have been bought from previous years' sales (sometime in August or early September, they set up vast tables of overstock books in the breezeway of Hesburgh Library on Notre Dame's campus, where the $5 and $10 books become $3 (paperback) and $5 (cloth) -- as a graduate student, I'd stop by on the way up to my carrel and come away with armfulls a day).

I'll post a link to the new batch when they come in...

I ended up purchasing six books from the list. Thanks for the heads up.

19 books with a list price of $649 ended up being $123 with shipping.

Thank you! I had a lot of fun picking out these books, so thank you for the heads-up! Of course, my wife has a few words for you..

>7 deslni01:: My wife wasn't thrilled, either. :-)

My acquisitions from this sale:
Pope Innocent III (1160/61-1216) : To Root Up and to Plant by John C. Moore
Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England by David Aers
Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara Hanawalt
The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis by Amanda Jane Hingst
The Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers, ed. Jill Mann
Jan van Ruusbroec, Mystical Theologian of the Trinity by Rik Van Nieuwenhove
Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ by Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
Gregory the Great: A Symposium, ed. John Cavadini
Water and the Word: Baptism and the Education of the Clergy in the Carolingian Empire, Volume I, A Study of Texts and Manuscripts and Volume II, Editions of the Texts by Susan A. Keefe

I received my books and I have a question if anyone can answer it. Reading the Medieval Book, Caxton's Trace and Writing the Oral Tradition came without dust jackets. If I had bought these normally rather than as part of a sale would they have had dust jackets or are they always issued jacket free? Reading Medieval Culture came with a jacket under the plastic wrap so I am assuming the ones that came without are always like that but I was just curious.

>10 Thulean:: I only ordered two cloth-covers (I was cheap and went with the papers when I could), which were the two volumes of Water and the Word. They did not come with jackets, and I suspect that they were never issued with jackets, as the cloth covers are very nicely embossed and the volumes are highly specialized textual editions -- the majority of purchasers of which will be research libraries that don't keep jackets for volumes like these. (I'm pretty sure that it's fairly standard for textual editions by houses like Brepols not to use jackets.) I did purchase Reading the Medieval Book from last year's overstock sale, and it too did not come with a jacket (and that was when I bought it from the on-site sale at Notre Dame).

On the other hand, I have quite a few Notre Dame Press books that do have jackets, e.g. Voices in Dialogue and Books Under Suspicion. As I think about it, though, there is only one volume I have acquired through these overstock sales that came with a jacket -- Masters of the Sacred Page, while others that seem like they should but do not, e.g. Poetry Does Theology.

In other words: I think it may be a crapshoot.

Thanks for the info. At $5 a piece I guess I can't complain either way.