New Arrivals: July 2012

More goodies we acquired this month include:

• Steven Paul Martini  The Simeon Chamber. A Near Fine First Edition Book in a Near Fine Jacket. Steve Martini's extremely scarce first book.
• John Camp  Fool's Run. A Very Good minus First Edition Book in a Good plus Jacket. John Sanford's quite scarce first fiction book.
• Robin McKinley The Blue Sword.  A Very Good First Edition Book in a Very Good minus Jacket. Ms McKinley's Newbery Honor book, and first in the Damar series.
• Richard Castle Heat Wave. A Fine First Edition in a Fine Dustjacket. Castle lives on ABC, and plays poker with James Patterson, the late Stephen Cannell, and Michael Connelly

Let's Hear It For the Lesbians !

Sometimes there are idiots who sell via the internet, but not on the usual book-search venues.  Don't ask - I have no idea how this one came up on one of my searches: 

Best Lesbian Erotica 1998
Tristan Taormino. USED in GOOD Condition. Paperback. 200 pgs (no rips, tears or missing pages). Released in January 1998 by Cleis Press $ 40.00


I was fascinated, so I checked the usual listing sites: ABE, Alibris, Biblio, and found the same book offered for sale with prices ranging from $ .99 to $10.00. After adding $4 .00 postage, it's still 25% - 88% cheaper to buy off the internet.


I've therefore resolved to sell all my $ 10.00 books for $ 40.00, and make sure that they're in good-only condition.


IDIOTS !

July Acquisitions

It's already been an excellent month for finding books that are worthy of being in our store, and more importantly, worthy of our customers.  Here's a sample:

Plaza Books - Off-Line and Now On-line

Our esteemed colleague Ann DeVere, owner, operator, and queen of Plaza Books - one of the top three bookstores in Las Vegas -  has sold books on-line through the better web-hosted book venues for many years in addition to selling them in her store. She now has added a full-time web site to her selling options. Check it out: Plaza Books

Our Friend Vin Would be Proud !

Doing some research this morning on a book that we bought, I came across this description from an on-line seller. See, they aren't all morons, and some do have standards: 

June Additions to Our Stock

We've found some interesting things this month.  All, of course, are First Edition, First Printings unless otherwise specified. They include:

Deke Castleman  Whale Hunt In The Desert  A Very Fine book in a Very Fine dustjacket. Inscribed by  Castleman and his ghost writer, with promotional materials laid in.

Hazel Rossotti  Fire: Technology, Symbolism, Ecology, Science, Hazard  A Very Fine book in a Very Fine dustjacket.

Harold Wilkins  Flying Saucers Uncensored. a Very Good book in a Good dustjacket.

George Will  The Leveling Wind  A Very Fine book in a Very Fine dustjacket. Inscribed by Will.

Joe Jeff Goldblatt  Special Events: The Art and Science of Celebrations. A Very Fine book in a Very Fine dustjacket. Inscribed and dated by Goldblatt.

Scott Turow  One L. A Very Good book in a Good, chipped dustjacket. Turow's first book.

Coffee & Tea With I.C.S.

As Barbara & I were having our early morning revitalizer today, she mentioned that the I.C.S. books we bought this week had an excellent suggestion: dust your windows before you wash them. Now, this may be obvious to many of you, but for us it was a revelation. Also, you may be asking what the hell are I.C.S. books. Aha ! Gotcha.