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: