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What's happening at the shop? What strange volumes have we come across this week? What bookish philosophical musings is Patrick rambling about today?
  • Ephemera from Max Eastman

    Strangest Book of the Week #2 - Max Eastman

    What peculiarness do we have in store today? Today it is more about the ephemera found within the book than any peculiarity of the book itself. Like the last one,...

    Strangest Book of the Week #2 - Max Eastman

    What peculiarness do we have in store today? Today it is more about the ephemera found within the book than any peculiarity of the book itself. Like the last one,...

  • Antiquarian Geology

    Antiquarian Geology

    Many years ago we dealt with an estate that had an impressive amount of geological surveys of the United States and books on mining and similar, mostly from the 19th...

    Antiquarian Geology

    Many years ago we dealt with an estate that had an impressive amount of geological surveys of the United States and books on mining and similar, mostly from the 19th...

  • Whither Mankind signed by Dr Hu Shih

    Strangest Book of the Week #1

    Whither Mankind, a Panorama of Modern Civilization signed by Dr. Hu Shih, John Dewey, with a handwritten letter from the editor Charles A. Beard. First edition 1928. First post in...

    Strangest Book of the Week #1

    Whither Mankind, a Panorama of Modern Civilization signed by Dr. Hu Shih, John Dewey, with a handwritten letter from the editor Charles A. Beard. First edition 1928. First post in...

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  • Beauty and the Beast Disney VHS

    Valuable VHS?

    Originally posted in July 2016. This post got a bunch more views than most of our posts because people do tend get fired up over clickbaity claims that their old...

    Valuable VHS?

    Originally posted in July 2016. This post got a bunch more views than most of our posts because people do tend get fired up over clickbaity claims that their old...

  • Book Buying at Library Book Sales; Some Rules

    Book Buying at Library Book Sales; Some Rules

    Originally posted in June of 2017, and only mildly amended. For pandemic reasons, and reasons of moving across the country twice, I haven't been to a library book sale for...

    Book Buying at Library Book Sales; Some Rules

    Originally posted in June of 2017, and only mildly amended. For pandemic reasons, and reasons of moving across the country twice, I haven't been to a library book sale for...

  • Desirable Mass Market Paperbacks

    Desirable Mass Market Paperbacks

    Originally posted on our old wordpress blog in October 2016, with a couple edits and additions: To people who want to read the recent best sellers but don’t want to...

    Desirable Mass Market Paperbacks

    Originally posted on our old wordpress blog in October 2016, with a couple edits and additions: To people who want to read the recent best sellers but don’t want to...