Monday

Shelve another box of pocket books, and a stack of ephemera, and magazines.
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Born on this date: 1973Nancy Mitford.
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Item of the day:
033953
*Jhonen Vasquez Signed* Invader Zim Mint Tin: I Loooooooove Candy
Jhonen Vasquez

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Saturday

Shelved two boxes of pocket books, a bunch of nice quality recent titles.
Purchased several boxes of textbooks.
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Born on this date: 1946Robert Asprin, 1947 – Mark Helprin.
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Item of the day:
035755
*Johnson Signed* Twilight Zone (the movie)
Robert Bloch; John Landis; George Clayton Johnson (Signed); Richard Matheson

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Friday

Shelved a stack of Heavy Metal comic magazines ranging 1970s to 2006, and a pile of Robert Jordan fantasy novels, and a box of pocket book fiction & romance.
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Born on this date: 1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, 1880 – Helen Keller, 1906Catherine Cookson, 1914Robert Aickman,1929 – Peter Maas, 1941 – James P. Hogan, 1951Anita Diamant, 1953 – Alice McDermott.
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Item of the day:


030553
*Signed 2x* Series of Unfortunate Events Box Thirteen Books
Lemony Snicket (psed. Daniel Handler)

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Thursday

Shelved another small stack of Horror DVDs.
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Born on this date: 1892Pearl S. Buck, 1922Walter Farley, 1931Colin Wilson.
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Item of the day:

001062
*Signed* So What Now
Nevelle Silliman

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Monday

Shelved a large stack of O'Brian Aubrey Martin series novels - in the adventure section with Hornblower.
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Born on this date: 1928 – Michael Shaara, 1936Richard Bach, 1980Becky Cloonan.
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Item of the day:


035641
*Rowena Signed* Crystal Line (Crystal, Vol. 3)
Anne McCaffrey

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Saturday

Shelved some more Vinyl records, a few pieces of  ephemera, and some vintage magazines.
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Born on this date: 1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, 1935 – Françoise Sagan, 1957 – Berkeley Breathed.
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Item of the day:


032980
*Signed* From One Surgeon's Notebook
Davis, Loyal

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Friday

Shelved a few vinyl records, and DVDs.
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Born on this date: 1953Robert Crais.
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Item of the day:


033639
*Signed* The Last Victory: The life and times of a United States victory ship 1945-1992
Jaffee, Walter W

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Thursday

Born on this date: 1945 – Tobias Wolff, 1947 – Salman Rushdie.
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Item of the day:

035041
*Signed* The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy (The Time Warp Trio)
Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith [Illustrator]

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Wednesday

Shelved a stack of quite recent pocketbooks onto the racks. 
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Born on this date: 1949Chris Van Allsburg.
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Item of the day:


035774
*Signed 2x* How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction
Williamson, J. N. [Editor]; William F. Nolan; Richard Christian Matheson

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Tuesday

Purchased a stack of fiction & literature.
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Born on this date: 1927 – Wally Wood.
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Item of the day:

013311
The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories Volume 1 (Hardcover, Leatherbound) Limited Edition
Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Al Feldstein

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Monday

Shelved some kids chapter books, a stack of classics, and several stacks of various non-fiction hardcover books.
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Born on this date: 1896Murray Leinster, 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates.
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Item of the day:


014182
*Signed* Harris Diamant, Assembled Heads, Gazes, Drawings
David Blankenship

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Saturday

Shelved some moderately rare comics, X-Men, Batman, Superman, among them.
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Born on this date: 1811Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1820John Bartlett, 1933Jerzy Kosiński, 1948Laurence Yep, 1949 – Harry Turtledove.
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Items of the day:

035767
*Signed* American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold (1st)
Turtledove, Harry

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035846
*Signed* Days of Infamy; End of the Beginning (Two Book Set)
Turtledove, Harry

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035833
*Signed* Hammer and Anvil (Time of Troubles, Bk 2)
Turtledove, Harry

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035909
*Signed 2x* Armageddon! (There Will Be War - Volume VIII)
Jerry Pournelle [Editor]; John F. Carr [Editor]; Harry Turtledove [Contributor]

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Friday

Put three boxes of pocket book fiction out under the $1.00 table.
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Shelved a box of pocket book fiction, and a stack of Classics & Literature.
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Born on this date: 1893Dorothy L. Sayers, 1945Whitley Strieber.
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Item of the day:

023719
*Signed* The Hunger
Whitley Strieber

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Thursday

Shelved a stack of Spawn comics back issues.
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Purchased & shelved small pile of garbage pail kids cards.
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More dice available.
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Born on this date: 1827Johanna Spyri, 1931Trevanian, 1931 – Rona Jaffe, 1953 – Tess Gerritsen.
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Item of the day:

033512
*Signed* Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: Assassin's Road
Koike, Kazuo (signed) ; Kojima, Goseki

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Wednesday

Shelved a stack of Batman Style Guides on CD-rom.
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Born on this date: 1925 – William Styron, 1945Adrienne Barbeau.
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Item of the day:

035911
*Signed 2x* After Armageddon (There Will Be War, Vol. 9)
Pournelle, Jerry; Harry Turtledove

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Monday

Born on this date: 1925Keith Laumer, 1943 – Joe Haldeman, 1954 – Gregory Maguire, 1956Patricia Cornwell.
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Item of the day:

035908
*Lupoff Signed* Again, Dangerous Visions Vol. 2
Harlan Ellison [Editor]; Richard Lupoff [Signed]

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Sunday

Born on this date: 1910 – John W. Campbell, 1947 – Sara Paretsky.
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Item of the day:


035831
*Pournelle Signed* The Best From Galaxy Volume 4
Baen, James (Ed); Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle

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Saturday

Re-filled the $1.00 & quarter table & cart. Lots of Religion, Self-help & hardcover fiction.
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Born on this date: 1899Elizabeth Bowen, 1954Louise Erdrich.
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Item of the day:


035885
*Rowling Signed Hologram* Harry Potter Deathly Hallows (2nd) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Rowling, J. K. (Signed); GrandPre, Mary [Illustrator]

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Friday

Shelved a stack of Life magazines from 1963-1965.
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Born on this date: 1799Alexander Pushkin, 1875Thomas Mann, 1923V. C. Andrews, 1973Patrick Rothfuss.
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Item of the day:

027001
SHANGRI-LA No. 17, Jan., 1950
Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society

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Thursday

Purchased a stack of Life Magazines, and some DVDs. Shelved a stack of DVDs.
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Born on this date: 1919Richard Scarry, 1949Ken Follett, 1964 – Rick Riordan.
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Item of the day:

016908b
*Signed 3x* Faces Of Fear: Encounters With The Creators of Modern Horror
Douglas E. Winter (Robert Bloch *Signed*, Richard Matheson *Signed*, Dennis Etchison *Signed*)

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Wednesday

Purchased a few stacks of books in several collections.
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Born on this date: 1951 – Wendy Pini, 1955Val McDermid, 1972 – Joe Hill.
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Item of the day:

035942
*Vess Signed* The Book of Ballads
Vess, Charles; Emma Bull, Charles De Lint, Neil Gaiman, Sharyn McCrumb, Jeff Smith, Jane Yolen, Terri Windling, Midori Snyder

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Monday

Born on this date: 1840Thomas Hardy, 1929Norton Juster, 1913 – Barbara Pym.
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Item of the day:


021110
*Signed* 32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business (1st)
Earvin Magic Johnson

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Sunday

Born on this date: 1937 – Colleen McCullough.
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Item of the day:


026782
*Signed* Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
King, Stephen; Wrightson, Bernie [Illustrator]

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