Saturday

Marked down the rest of the animal section, birds & dogs nearly all to $3.95

Some Young Adult books were traded in.

Sorted 4 or 5 boxes, shelved a around a box or so.

Roger's going to let me use their BEA passes, so will be up in LA on Sunday.

Friday

Cleaned up a bit behind the counter.

Hubbell was here.

Started marking down the Medical & Self Help.

Shelved a box or so of Hard cover & TPB mainly non-fiction.

Thursday

Packaged up online orders.

DVDs traded in.

Looked at some eBay errors, maybe figured out why they happened... now if only can figure out how to fix them..

Accounting.

Wednesday

Ansered emails - some a tad late, guess forgot to check them often enough!

Gobs of trouble with email SSL stuff... but it looks like managed to get it straightened out...

Tuesday

Diamond order processed.

Accounting.


Purchased 3 boxes of medical/nursing books.

Monday

Repriced/marked down the Science & Animals sections, many marked down to $3.95.
Started marking down Philosophy.

Sunday

Marked down the Business, Law, Foreign Language, Dictionary, & Writing sections - many at $3.95 now.

Packed up online orders for shipment... well Tuesday actually.

Saturday

Marked down the Education & Politics sections - many at $3.95 now.

Friday

Paying bills.
Gah ATT is a PITA ! although it _looks_ like it should be fixed now, of course it looked fixed _last month!!_

Hubbell was here.

5 boxes of paperbacks shelved, lots of older fiction, some westerns even, mysteries, a stack of horror.

Going through all those textbooks...

Thursday

Packaged the online orders for shipment tomorrow.

It just started to rain, warm (nearly hot) rain, and thunder. Had to run and pull the cart inside.

3 email coupons returned.

Added Twitter - see sidebar.

Wednesday

Sorted out that load from yesterday.

Tuesday

Packaged the online orders for shipment tomorrow.

30+ boxes of - mostly junk - donation, but there is some older fiction that might be of some intrest.

Monday

3 boxes of paperbacks shelved.
1 box of HB & TPB's shelved.
1 box of history & guns shelved.

Packaged the online orders for shipment tomorrow.

Hubbell was here.

A dog got stuck on the back wall...

Sunday

Fencing

Saturday

Shelved 2 boxes of history, some Japanese erotic art, and books on guns.

Purchased 8 boxes of Architecture and business books (with some old textbooks thrown in).

Friday

Weird $1 Mail

Got an envelope in the mail it had $1.00 postage due. Well it was fairly thick, so thought it might have been something small ordered and forgotten. When opened up was treated to a diatribe about a dozen pages some printed off the Internet about, murderous Jehovah's Witnesses, super-men she-males, with hand written notes on the pages pointing out certain aspects of the articles, how they would make a great novel or song . . .
WOW that was the weirdest mail ever received, almost worth the $1.00 . . .

Shooters bibles, and other books about guns.

Music Baron stopped by, traded flyers.

New Stock on the shelves:
003577 English Gunmakers: The Birmingham and Provincial Gun Trade in the 18th and 19th Century De Witt Bailey and Douglas A. Nie Hardcover Collectible: Very Good Very Good+. /Very Good. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. red dj. The corner front flap of the DustJacket has been price clipped. $111.00

003576 Surface Japan;: Short notes of a swift survey, Don Carlos Seitz Hardcover Used: Acceptable Poor. red boards. tipped in color plates. Silverfish predation to covers. There is rub-through to the corners. severe wear to spine ends. $25.00

003575 Japanese Erotic Art and the Life of the Courtesan (41 color plates) Richard Illing Paperback Collectible: Very Good Very Good-. yellow wraps. Softcover bound book. rubbing to corners, light shelf wear, Sunned - the spine is sun-faded. $17.00

003574 First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis Allison Rossett Hardcover Used: Like New $28.00

003573 IMS Crash Course Steven Shepard Paperback Used: Like New $9.00

003572 Straight on Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham Mary S. Lovell Hardcover Collectible: Very Good Very Good. Very Good. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. ink inscription on fly. $13.00

003571 Phallism in Ancient Worships: Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity Hodder M. Westropp & C. Staniland Wake Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. no dj issued brown boards, title centered on cover. spine title faded. minor fray to spine ends. $28.00

003570 Faking It: An International Bibliography of Art & Literary Forgeries, 1949-1986 James Koobatian Paperback Collectible: Very Good Very Good. ISBN: 0871113201. Softcover TradePaperback (large size paperback) Binding. rubbing to edges, light shelf wear. spine lightly sunned. [While this bibliography does not claim to be exhaustive, it does bring together citations to the great majority of works concerned with this troublesome yet fascinating subject. Due to the international scope of the bibliography and the need to keep it to a manageable length, it was not possible to write annotations for most entries.] $100.00

003569 Archery for All Daniel Roberts Hardcover Used: Very Good Very Good-. /Good+. blue-green dj. $28.00

003568 *Signed* Cyclone Racer Doug Drummond Paperback Used: Very Good This copy is *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by Doug Drummond on the front fly, inscribed. $7.00

003567 Fads and Quackery in Healing; An analysis of the foibles of the healing cults, with essays on various other peculiar notions in the health field Morris Fishbein Hardcover Used: Good Good+. green boards. rubbing spine ends. $19.00

003566 Leg Art: Celebrating a Century of Love and Devotion to the Photogenic Wonders of the Prettiest Girls With the Prettiest Legs in the Most Glamorous Pr Madison S. Lacy & Don Morgan; foreword James Cagney Hardcover Used: Good Good+. /Good-. dark pink dj. Closed tears to DustJacket, $25.00

003565 Audio Engineering 1951 Full Year: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December (Magazine) Hardcover Used: Good Bound collection Jan-Dec 1951. Successor to 'Radio'. 9'' x 12'' (aprox.), Maroon boards. $36.00

003564 Illuminated Manuscripts: Medieval Hunting Scenes Gabriel Bise Hardcover Collectible: Very Good Very Good. /Very Good-. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. white dj. dj somewhat sunned. $25.00

003562 German Pistols and Revolvers, 1871-1945 Ian V Hogg Hardcover Used: Very Good Very Good. /Good. red dj. Closed tears to DustJacket, tape to dj. $19.00

003560 Handguns '89 Wiley M. Clapp Paperback Used: Very Good Softcover TradePaperback (large size paperback) Binding. $17.00

003559 Spacetimewarp paintings (portfolio, complete) Richard M. Powers Unbound Collectible: Very Good Very Good+. /Good. cover complete with all 16 plates. VG+ plates in G cover - rubbing to edges, small closed tears edges, chip bottom rear. SPACETIMEWARP: Paintings R. M. Powers. folio published by Nelson Doubleday in 1983. 16 FULL-COLOR PAINTINGS OF fFLAR AND fFLARIANS SUITABLE FOR FRAMING.Absurreal Algorithm(s). Bivariates. Parapsychotic Landscapes with Figures, Many of Them Visible. Alternate/Simultaneous Universe with Metamorphic Transfigurations. Sublimations. Subversions. Retinal Therapy. $60.00

Thursday

Diamond Comics shipment arrived, some European Hardcover Graphic Novels.

Fixed more amazon listings, nearly all of them now.

Wednesday

Updated some items that wouldn't list on amazon.

Order of Graphic Novels, kids books & SF arrived.

Tuesday

Answered emails and sent pictures all morn.

Music Baron myspaced

*Signed* Brian May (legendary Queen guitarist) BANG! books on the shelf. New $150

GIANT Indiana Jones Crystal Skull poster.

Packed up online orders.
Answered emails and sent pictures all morn.

Music Baron myspaced

*Signed* Brian May (legendary Queen guitarist) BANG! books on the shelf. New $150

GIANT Indiana Jones Crystal Skull poster.


Packed up online orders.

Monday

more $1.00 stuff

dreary day, but didn't actually rain...

Sunday

Mother's Day

Processed & packed the online orders.

Put plastic dj protectors on some books - including a signed Peter S. Beagle.

Did some fixing and maintenance.

5 boxes mostly paperback SF donations.

Sorted some boxes for storage.

Printed more tri-fold flyer/maps - finally got the font re-installed.

Saturday

A stack of young adult hardcover and advance reader's copies traded in.

Spent the morning upgrading junk on the computer.

Friday

Spent the morning doing bills & accounting...

Hubbell was here.

4 boxes of mass market paperbacks shelved, a pile of newer fiction and romance on the racks.

2 boxes of HB/TPB shelved, some Storm Constantine, Wodehouse, others.

Thursday

Nancy Drew - in dustjacket!

Terry's Camera came by and traded in 8 boxes of books, lots of stuff on guns, and other history.

Finished the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories books - all with DustJackets # 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37. Several First Editions. See the descriptions here - with pictures.

Packed up the online orders, including both Australia & Russia. (Paypal's shipping system is such a Pain for international!)

Wednesday

14 boxes donation, mostly Philosophy & Classics.

About a box of newer romance was traded in.

Shelved a copy of Aztec by Jennings, someone was looking for one, but I don't - of course - remember who now.

USPS never showed up to get the packages. :(

Tuesday

Archival Plastic dustjacket protectors available 50 cents each.

Put dj protectors on a pile of 1950's era Nancy Drew's.

Off to see Iron Man.

The baron of bibliomania

The baron of bibliomania

Monday

Caught up on emails.
Found a couple of new places for online ads.


Got a few more things up:

003504 FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2008 SET 12+1 comics Bongo Comics Free-For-All! (Simpsons). X-Men by Carey & Land. The Death-Defying Devil Man - Alex Ross. TransFormers Animated. Marvel Adventures Iron Man & Hulk & Spider-Man. Dan Dare by Ennis & Erskine / The Stranded. HellBoy The Golden Army - Del Toro & Mignola. Hellboy the Mole by Mignola. Broken Trinity Prelude - Top Cow. Superman #1 by Morrison & Quitely. Archie's Pal Jughead @ Geppi's entertainment Museum #1. Sonen Jump Special 3. plus one bonus comic.

003503 Wings Across the World : The Story of the Air Transport Command Hugh B. Cave Dodd, Mead & Co Hardcover The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. complete but much chipped dj. 1 instance of tape to dj cover. $31.00

003502 IBM 5100 Portable Computer BASIC Introduction, BASIC Reference Manual, & Communications Adapter Feature User's Manuals IBM Paperback IBM 5100 Portable Computer BASIC Introduction 2nd Edition, IBM 5100 Portable Computer BASIC Reference Manual 4th Edition, & IBM 5100 Portable Computer Communications Adapter Feature User's Manual 2nd Edition. the 3 loose leaf 3 hole punched manuals are bound together in a simple paper folder. [The IBM 5100 is considered to be the first commercial portable computer, and is nearly the first personal computer, having been beaten to market by the Mits Altair by only a few months.] It is certainly the first personal computer to look the part with a 5" CRT screen and a full Qwerty keyboard (the Altair did not come with a keyboard or screen, it used switches and LEDs!). $150.00

003501 Transformers Beast Wars Sonar Deluxe TransMetals 2 Heroic Maximal Hasbro Toy UPC: 076281803777. unopened $7.00

003500 Transformers Beast Wars Air Hammer Deluxe Fuzors Heroic Maximal Hasbro Toy UPC: 076281803630. unopened. $9.00

003499 Transformers Beast Wars Jawbreaker Hyena Deluxe TransMetals 2 Heroic Maximal Hasbro Toy UPC: 076930804445. unopened. $24.00

Sunday

Finagled the computer a bit, at least got it working for a short time. Added pictures to some old posts, and to some listings notably the signed books and Nancy Drew djs.


Some Comics:

003498 X [Asuka C] Vol. 1 (Ekkusu) (in Japanese) CLAMP $7.00
003497 Daredevil 161 The Man Without Fear! vs Bullseye Frank Miller and Klaus Janson $19.00
003496 Daredevil 254, 255, 256 Typhoid Mary (lot of 3) Ann Nocenti with art by John Romita Jr.; Al Williamson ( inker ) $9.00
003495 Batman Versus Predator Books 1, 2 and 3 (The Complete 3 Part Series) Dave Gibbons; Editor-Denny O'Neil; Illustrator-Andy Kubert; Illustrator-Chris Warner; Covers -Suydam $13.00
003494 Batman Sword of Azrael # 1, 2, 3 and 4. (The Complete Four Part Limited Series) Dennis O'Neil; Illustrator-Joe Quesada; Illustrator-Kevin Nowlan $19.00

Saturday

Free Comic Book Day was successful, there are a few comics left which will be available free with any purchase until they are gone.

Managed to get some of the Nancy Drew Mystery Series listed.

Newly shelved stock:
003493 The Parkerstown Delegate : A Christian Endeavor Story Grace Livingston Hill (as Grace Livingston) Lothrop Publishing Company 1892 Collectible: Good Her 5th Book, published before her marriage to Hill. Former owners name & note inked on fly, sticker on fly. Blue boards, a small book. There is rub-through to the corners. illustrated. nice firm condition. $195.00 First Edition 1st Printing

003492 The Clue of the Tapping Heels (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #16) Carolyn Keene Grosset & Dunlap 1939 Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. /Good+. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. dj flap lists to #32 (1954). Blue tweed boards with blue silhouette in flats on cover, blue digger endpapers. white spine dj with silhouette in heels. small chips to dj corners. chip to top spine dj. rubbing to bottom and corners. ink checks to dj flap list plus scribble. Former owners name inked on inside cover. $19.00

003490 The Clue in the Diary (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #7) Carolyn Keene Grosset & Dunlap 1932 (1954) Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. /Good. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. dj flap lists to #32 (1954). Blue tweed boards with blue silhouette in flats on cover, blue digger endpapers. face with magnifying glass in circle on dj spine. small chips to dj corners. chip to top spine dj. rubbing to bottom and corners. ink checks to dj flap list plus sliver star. $19.00

003488 The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #11) Carolyn Keene Grosset & Dunlap 1934 Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. Good+. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. dj flap lists to #33 (1955). Blue tweed boards, blue digger endpapers. face with magnifying glass in circle on dj spine, blue silhouette in flats on cover. rubbing to bottom and corners. Former owners name inked inside front cover. rubbing dj corners. The spine has a very slight roll/lean/cock/twist to it. $19.00

003487 The Mystery of the Tolling Bell (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #23) Carolyn Keene; Illustrator-Russell Tandy Grosset & Dunlap 1946- (1954) Hardcover Collectible: Very Good Very Good-. /Good+. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. lists to #32 (1954). Blue tweed boards, blue digger endpapers. gray silhouette with heels on dj spine, blue silhouette in flats on cover. small chips to dj corners. small ink mark to dj flap. rubbing to bottom and corners. $19.00

003486 The Clue of the Velvet Mask. Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #30 Caroline Keene Grosset & Dunlap 1953 Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. /Good. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. lists to #32 (1954). Blue tweed boards, blue digger endpapers. face with magnifying glass in circle on dj spine, blue silhouette in flats on cover. small chips to dj corners. ink checkmarks to list on dj flap, and a star. rubbing to bottom and corners. Former owners name inked on rear fly. small chips dj corners, slightly larger chip to bottom cover dj. The spine has a slight roll/lean/cock/twist to it. $19.00

003485 THE CLUE IN THE OLD ALBUM - Nancy Drew Mystery Stories 24 Carolyn Keene Grosset and Dunlap 1947 (1955) Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. /Good. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. chips to dj corners. dj flap lists to #33 (1955). Blue tweed boards, blue digger endpapers. ink checks to front flap list. rubbing to bottom and corners. ink name on rear fly. orange silhouette with heels on dj spine, blue silhouette in flats on cover. $19.00

003484 THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL (1st Edition) Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #33 Carolyn Keene Grosset & Dunlap 1955 Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. /Good-. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. chips to dj corners. dj flap lists to #33 / inside lists to #33. Blue tweed boards, blue digger endpapers. Face with magnifying glass in circle logo on dj spine. some ink & pencil checks to front flap list. rubbing to bottom and corners. dj torn in half across cover - old tape residue remains on outside of the cover, newer tape on the inside. creases cover. despite all that it still looks quite nice. - see pic - $30.00 First Edition 1st Printing

003483 The Haunted Bridge (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #15) Carolyn Keene; Illustrator-Russell H. Tandy Grosset & Dunlap 1937 (1954) Hardcover Collectible: Good Good+. /Good. The DustJacket is protected inside an archival plastic protector sleeve. chip to top corner cover dj. dj flap lists to #32 (1954). Blue tweed boards, blue digger endpapers. ink checks to judy bolton series on rear flap. rubbing to bottom and corners. $19.00

003482 Walt Disney's Story Book of Peter Pan adapted by Campbell Grant, Text Adapted Annie North Bedford; From the Walt Disney Motion Picture Based on Story by Sir James Barrie Simon and Schuster / Golden Press 1953 Hardcover Used: Very Good Very Good-. A Big Golden Book. Former owners name inked on inside cover. light bumps corners, rubbing bottom, small tear to spine case at top. Browning to the edges of the pages. $13.00

Friday

Shelved a few boxes of comic books in honour of FREE COMIC BOOK DAY tomorrow.

Hubbell was here.

3 boxes of paperbacks shelved, a bunch of new romance on the rack.

Purchased 2 boxes of old kids books, many in dj, some Nancy Drew.

Thursday

New Month - new books

Purchased a couple of boxes of books, a run of 1st Edition Robert Jordan 3-9, History, philosophy, modern lit, more.

Packaged up the online orders for shipment on Friday.