eBay Top 10 for December 2010

The latest eBay Top 10 Books info is at The BookThinker at the link below.  As usual, interesting information, and I'd urge you to subscribe.

eBay Top 10 December 2010

An Interesting Retrospective

Joyce Godsey writes interesting articles, some of which have appeared here. In the current AE Monthly, she has
yet another real gem on the book business:  AE Monthly

Ciao, Ciao, Bambino or Ave atque Vale

 For the last two months I've been locked in Ancient Rome, with the Colleen McCullough series on Julius Caesar; three of the Conn Iggulden Roman series; Tacitus; Suetonius; Livy; an excellent new biography of Cicero of "Quam diu Catalina" third-year Latin  fame; Ruth Downie's Medicus series; Lindsey Davis's Falco series; and I'm now rereading the John Maddox Roberts mystery series, having just finished Morris West's Clowns of God.

Never a Dull Moment

Since we are a small store, we must limit the genres that we carry - we don't carry psycho-babble self-help books; best sellers unless they are best sellers that have proven their enduring worth, and then only in First Editions;  popular biographies of glitterati; or the rest of the genres we consider to be crap. An individual came in yesterday looking for sociology, which we don't have. He then asked for Kalil Gibran, which we do. Then came the real question: "Where are your books on hemp ?"

Recommended Internet Dealers Here at Home

I can, without any equivocation, most highly recommend several on-line dealers who are not only based in Las Vegas, but also have brick-and-mortar stores here:

Plaza Books:  Plaza Books

Cat's Curiosities:  Cat's Curiosities

Amber Unicorn Books: Amber Unicorn

And, Greyhound's Books sells only in the store, but does have a web presence:  Greyhound's Books

This just in from a Colleague

 I do tend to bemoan the lack of professionalism demonstrated by many - not all - on-line book sellers. The true Bookmen are OK, but these folks comprise only about a quarter of the internet selling community. One of our colleagues sent the following our to our Bookmans Guild members for our information, and delectation:

 From Our Colleague to "Better World Books", Indiana regarding a copy of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale they have for sale, a purported First Edition:

Wondering whether this copy of "Casino Royale" could really be a Macmillan 1953 or '54 edition (as advertised) in the classic red & green dust wrapper, not the far more common book club edition in gray banded DJ with tiny silhouettes of babe and pistol (of which every used book dealer has thrown away dozens)

Our Motto: Books of Worth In All Genres

If a book is good, we try to stock it irrespective of price, given our limited space, If a book is very good, we try harder to have it available for our customers. If a book is great...