Born on this date: 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, 1924 – Lloyd Alexander, 1931 – Allan W. Eckert, 1935 – Richard Brautigan, 1941 – Gregory Benford, 1955 – Judith Tarr.
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Item of the day: 008383
The Number of the Beast - True First Edition
Robert A. Heinlein


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Born on this date: 1873 – Colette, 1959 – Megan McDonald.
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Item of the day:
001484
Mobilier alsacien (French Edition)
Lucile Oliver


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Postal rates went up, took all day to adjust online listings.
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Born on this date: 1832 – Lewis Carroll, 1836 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
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Item of the day:
024265
"History of California Post Offices, 1849-1976 Includes branches and stations, Navy numbered branches, highway and railway post offices"
Harold E Salley


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Shelved a box of kids chapter books.
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Born on this date: 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, 1882 – Virginia Woolf, 1905 – Margery Sharp.
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Item of the day:
016445
"I Bequeath'' The Fantasy Foundation "I, Forrest J. Ackerman, being of imaginative mind, bequeath to the Fantasy Foundation, upon my demise, my 1300 fantasy books" (4 July 46)"
Forrest J. Ackerman


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Purchased & traded for three collections one right after the other, lots of kids picture books, ya novels, hardcover novels, more.
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Born on this date: 1862 – Edith Wharton, 1944 – David Gerrold,
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Item of the day:
001062
*Signed* So What Now
Nevelle Silliman


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Born on this date: 1783 – Stendhal, 1923 – Walter M. Miller, Jr..
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Item of the day:

009639
Chinese Opera Watercolors: Guo ju ren wu shui cai hua
Lan Wang; editor-Max C.W. Liu


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Purchased a tub of comics, a few older items, a stack of more recent Disney & Archie titles. Shelved a small box of mostly modern recent DC comics.
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Born on this date: 1906 – Robert E. Howard, 1937 – Joseph Wambaugh.
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Item of the day: 010176
"THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy Boxed Set Comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King"
J.R.R. Tolkien


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Phone is back up

The phone was down all morning, but is working again now.

Shelved a stack of Military Model kits, a Signed Ansel Adams book, and a few other books.
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Born on this date: 1948 – Nancy Kress, 1959 – Tami Hoag, 1959 – R.A. Salvatore.
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Item of the day:



001817
"The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series, No. 25"
"Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud, LL.D of Vienna; Authorized English translation by A. A. Brill, Ph.B., M.D."


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Several donations, even some Vinyl. 
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Born on this date: 1882 – A. A. Milne, 1932 – Robert Anton Wilson.
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Item of the day:

010310
My California
Kathleen Thompson Norris


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Born on this date: 1820 – Anne Brontë, 1899 – Nevil Shute.
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Item of the day:

003027
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1st)
Patricia A. McKillip


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Shelved a few Stage Magic books, and some Art books, and a stack of various non-fiction.
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Born on this date: 1935 – Robert Silverberg.
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Item of the day:
017934
Design in Nature Volume I (1)
James Bell Pettigrew


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Purchased a few books.
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Born on this date: 1886 – Hugh Lofting, 1896 – John Dos Passos, 1921 – Kenneth Bulmer, 1948 – John Lescroart, 1950 – Arthur Byron Cover.
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Item of the day:
014083
Bedrooms Have Windows (a Donald Lam/Bertha Cool mystery) 0511
A. A. Fair; Erle Stanley Gardner; Illustrator-Mike Ludlow


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Shelved several Sherlock Holmes books. Quite a stack of coffee table books out to the $1.00 table.
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Purchased a stack of vintage books, and picked up 5 boxes of donations.
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Born on this date: 1832 – Horatio Alger, Jr., 1893 – Clark Ashton Smith, 1926 – Michael Bond.
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Item of the day:
012402
Frank Frazetta: The Living Legend
Frank Frazetta


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Purchased a large stack of non-fiction hardcover books.
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Born on this date: 1628 – Charles Perrault, 1876 – Jack London, 1949 – Haruki Murakami, 1952 – Charles Faulkner, 1952 – Walter Mosley.
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Item of the day:
003348
*Signed* Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures
Ray Bradbury


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Born on this date: 1918 – Robert C. O'Brien, 1923 – Jerome Bixby, 1943 – Jim Hightower, 1952 – Diana Gabaldon, 1961 – Jasper Fforde.
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Item of the day:
026953
*Signed* Invincible #47 (Image Comics)
Robert Kirkman; Ryan Ottley [Illustrator]; Bill Crabtree [Illustrator];


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Shelved more music CDs.
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Born on this date: 1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, 1947 – George Alec Effinger, 1961 – Steve Hamilton.
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Item of the day:

013886
Kenkyusha's Lighthouse English-Japanese Dictionary (English and Japanese Edition)
S. Takebayashi; Y. Kojima


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Well someone swiped the entire box of kids books last night, guess we won't bother to put kids books on the discount table anymore.
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Born on this date: 1890 – Karel Čapek, 1928 – Judith Krantz, 1931 – Algis Budrys, 1933 – Wilbur Smith, 1936 – Anne Rivers Siddons, 1938 – Stuart Woods, 1942 – John Dunning, 1954 – Philippa Gregory.
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Item of the day:

017089B
*Signed* Mouse Guard V1: Fall 1152 remarqued (1st)
David Petersen


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Shelved about four boxes of books, almost a box of them kids picture book, and young adult chapter books, the rest where mostly hardcover non-fiction in a variety of subjects.
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Born on this date: 1824 – Wilkie Collins, 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, 1934 – Alexandra Ripley, 1942 – Stephen Hawking, 1944 – Terry Brooks.
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Item of the day:
018092
*Signed* The Pro
Garth Ennis; Amanda Conner; Jimmy Palmiotti


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Born on this date: 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, 1925 – Gerald Durrell, 1928 – William Peter Blatty, 1936 – Hunter Davies.
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Item of the day:


017091
1987 Topps Baseball Cards 2 Uncut Sheets rolled
Topps


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Culled out the religion, diet, & parenting sections, lots of $1.00 books out on the discount table.
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Purchased another stack of DVD's - they're all shelved, mostly action, some Science ficiton/horror.
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Born on this date: 1931 – E. L. Doctorow.
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Item of the day:


020601
Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography (1st)
June Burn


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Filled the discount table, some philosophy books, lots of $1.00 & 25¢ VHS movies.
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Marked a pile of comics down & filled the 25¢ comic box, and front spinners.
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Purchased some D&D books, and a few music books, and a couple of kids books, amongst the 10 boxes of books that came in & were donated today.
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Born on this date: 1785 – Jacob Grimm, 1933 – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 1962 – Harlan Coben.
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Item of the day:

003341
*Signed* The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
Rosemary Mahoney


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Just shelved several new Toys, including:

Born on this date: 1920 – Isaac Asimov, 1956 – Lynda Barry.
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Item of the day:
005187
*Signed* The Intelligencer
Leslie Silbert


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Born on this date: 1879 – E. M. Forster, 1919 – J. D. Salinger, 1935 – B. Kliban, 1949 – Olivia Goldsmith.
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Item of the day:
013570
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1st) (2nd State)
L. Frank; John R. Neill (illustrator) BAUM


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