Thursday, June 30, 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

I Love This Business !

A customer called from California looking for a juvenile series we had never heard of, and we do have a fairly large selection of JSs from the 1920s through the 1950s. Another reason to have an open store - we learned something new today. For your edification, follow the link to TomFolio, another excellent book site:
Robert Schulkers

Boston - 220 Years Apart

As many of you know, I'm an Improper Bostonian, but had many illustrious predecessors, among them General Henry Knox, Bookman manque.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Get an a plane, buy a book, and get it signed !

Our friends and colleagues, Michael & Andy, Two Bears and A Dog Books, Horse Cave, KY,  are having a book signing on the 4th of July ! Big Deal ! Yeah, it is, 'cause the book's title is  Greyhound to Vegas: the Odyssey of Hilda Reynolds Krause, and the author is Robert Dickey.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

When I'm Tired, I Write !

Well, Bookstore 103 is currently available at UNLV.  Now what ? That's easy, at least or me. I just finished up most of the work on:

BookThinker Article

I've recommended many times that you subscribe to The BookThinker. Here's another reason why:

Thursday, June 2, 2011

They wrote the Book - Quill & Brush

Allen and Pat Ahearn, the owners of Q&B are in the very top tier of Bookmen in the country. Think Bauman's with reasonable prices. They also have written THE book on book collecting. And authors, and many other things. Check them out. Yes, this is really what their operation looks like ! Quill & Brush