After two visits to the “little free library” that popped up recently on Keswick Road we got a lesson in the free market – for free books.

We wrote in 2012 about these homemade take-a-book, leave-a-book small  “libraries” when the Village Learning Place brought the idea (born in Wisconsin a few years ago) to Baltimore.

They’re about the size of a small kitchen cabinet, styled like a birdhouse or Victorian cottage or school bus and the only rule is, don’t re-sell the book. (They’re stamped, “Not for resale.”)

Anyway, The Brew peeked at this new one in North Baltimore across from the Johns Hopkins at Keswick campus last week and snapped a picture of what was on the shelf.

We returned six days later clutching Jonathan Franzen’s simultaneously-riveting-and-enervating “Freedom” looking for something to trade.

Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” was gone. So was  Gore Vidal’s “Lincoln” and Rita Leganski’s “The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow.”

But there was “Cigar Aficionado’s World of Cigars” and a fat Robert M. Parker Jr. wine guide and “Slavery in the Family” by Edward Ball and a Harry Potter book and an Andreas Feininger photo book.

Carl Hiaasen’s young adult novel “Hoot” was snapped up, but a paperback version of the E.B. White’s classic “Stuart Little” is now there.

We didn’t find anything to take today, but maybe you will?

If you stop by, leave us something good.