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Past NewslettersPlease note: there is at least a one-month lag time between a newsletter being mailed, and being posted to this website. Email us today to sign up! Browsers' Bookstore Newsletter for March, 2006HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!! STORE NEWS Spring is almost here! A great excuse to read some books – you don’t really want to start gardening yet, do you? If you must, be sure to check out our gardening and agriculture sections. We’ve added some great titles in there during the winter, and they are starting to go fast! Browsers’ welcomes our new employee Jannett. She’s still learning the ropes, so be nice! To those of you who are local, the answer is yes, the library is very happy that we helped them catch those thieves, and no, I am not a total idiot despite my less-than-illustrious-sounding quotes in the newspaper. RECENT ARRIVALS Let’s start with a couple cute books. These are the kinds of books that make great little gifts. 1. Silver Pennies: A Collection of Modern Poems for Boys and Girls. Blache Jennings Thompson. A small and very cute book originally printed in 1925 with wonderful pen and ink illustrations by Winifred Bromhall. One interesting thing about this book is that the editor has a brief introduction to each poem in which she asks conversation-starting questions that require a bit of creativity in response. I love books like this. This is a 1940 reprint (she later did a sequel called “More Silver Pennies”), $7.50. 2. Horse Power Days: Popular Vehicles of Nineteenth Century America. Ivan Collins. This author made miniature models of carriages and wagons, then photographed each one and wrote up a few paragraphs on its features. How fun is that? Nice appeal to the collector of Americana or miniatures. $15. Some books you may be interested in: 3. Machinery’s Handbook, 13th edition, 1946. Light wear, but overall very good. $25 4. A House for Mr. Biswas. V. S. Naipaul. First American edition, 1961. Ex-library copy with most markings removed by Mel. The “withdrawn” stamp is still visible, and a few tape marks and sticker mark, but otherwise this is a nice, solid copy with a bright dust jacket. $100 5. Riders of the Purple Sage. Zane Grey. Harper & Bros: 1912. This is the book that put both Zane Grey and the western genre on the map. An early printing from the same year as the first. $50 5-1/4. (Sorry for the numbering, but I added these later and can't figure out how to renumber everything, since Microsoft seems to want to do it for me. Hey, I'm a book nerd, not a computer nerd.) The Piano Tuner. Daniel Mason. First edition of this author’s best-selling first novel. I think this is a pretty sound investment: if Mason puts out a few more good books, his first one will become ever more desirable. Get it now before I raise the price! $12.00. 5-1/2. Distant Thunder (Thunder over the Ochoco vol. 2). Gale Ontko. This won’t last long at $15. I mean, it really won't last long, so call me right away. This hugely popular series is out of print, and will remain so indefinitely. The copyright owners got so screwed by a so-called screenplay writer that they basically want nothing more to do with the book. At least, that's the short version of the gossip I got from the original publisher. (You do know, don't you, how much bookstore people love to gossip?) 5-3/4. Rex Stout: A Biography. John McAleer. This book is a whopper at over 600 pages, and would make a great addition to a Nero Wolfe collection. And if you've never seen the beard Stout sported in his older days, just come by to check out the cover of this book - it's pretty wild. Dust Jacket is a bit worn, but otherwise in nice condition. $15 A couple of nice children’s books: 6. Time for Bed. Mem Fox, illustrated by Jane Dyer. I just adore this book. This is what “going-to-bed” books for young children are all about: beautiful illustrations, soothing and easy to memorize words (in this case, closer to lyrics.) This is in print as a board book for $6.95, or you can snag our large hardcover first edition for $6.99. (That extra four cents is really worth it...) 7. Stellaluna. Janell Cannon. This was all the rage when it came out, and remains the best of Cannon’s books. Printed from first edition plates for book fairs, this hardcover and DJ are still in very good condition. $7.50 And some you may not have heard of, but should: 8. The Pop-Up Book of Nightmares. Gary Greenburg, Balvis Rubess, Matthew Reinhart. Ten of your worst nightmares in full-color, full-size, pop-up reality, complete with pop-psychology interpretations. This is the kind of book that could well be worth ten times its current price in as many years. Mint condition, first edition, $15 9. Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A large hardcover with excellent photographs and scholarly comments of the carpets in this collection. A wonderful book for anyone serious about Oriental carpets. $40. 10. How to Choose a Good Milk Cow, or, A Description of All the Marks by Which the Milking Qualities of Cows May Be Ascertained. J. H. Magne, with a supplement on the dairy cattle of Britain by John Haxton. 1857, illustrated with seven engravings. A fun book in weird condition: the book has significant buckling from moisture, yet, in its 150-year life, the pages have never been cut! How can this book have been lying around for a century and a half with nary a reader? Crazy. $50. FREE AUTISM LIBRARY Did you know Browsers’ Bookstore has a little library on autism? This started out from my own frustration in trying to find books on the subject a year or so ago. We only have a couple dozen books total, but they are free for the borrowing. If you know anyone with an autistic child, I’m sure they would be interested to know this, so please share this information. Also of interest is our “Autism Bibliography” webpage, which lists, in a somewhat organized manner, lots of relevant titles. It’s a work-in-progress but I’ve gotten a good start on it. Check it out at http://www.browsersbookstore.com/autismbooks.html. Our annual sidewalk sale will be held in late April or early May, this year, depending on the weather (final date should be set by next newsletter.) Start saving up those quarters. . . Scott Givens Browsers' Bookstore121 NW 4th St. Corvallis, OR 97330 (541) 758-1121 info@browsersbookstore.com www.browsersbookstore.com
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