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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 April, 2007HAPPY TAX TIME!! Two announcements in this newsletter: First, the Albany store will be hosting Autism Awareness Day on Saturday, April 28th from 1:00 to 3:00. This event is open to anyone who would like to learn more about autism and Asperger's or who would like to find out about local resources for the same. We will have a couple of authors, a doctor, an activist, an educator, and I'm still trying to get a speech and/or occupational therapist. Since autism is closing in on affecting one percent of all children, it is increasingly important to learn about what it is and how best to treat it. Second, Browsers' is going to begin operations on our latest volunteer venture -- book recycling. Do you have beat-up books, old textbooks, encyclopedias or books that have otherwise outlived their use? Neither Albany nor Corvallis support curb-side pickup of books for recycling, so your only option is to throw them away (or "donate" them to someplace else that will just fill up their dumpster. But now....don't throw them away! We're working with Allied Waste and the Department of Human Services to start recycling books' usable paper. Drop your books off at either location, and we'll take care of the rest! This is a program I've been planning for years, as it is very important to me. The good news for you is that getting the necessary equipment was not cheap, so we'll need to have some kind of sidewalk sale fundraiser to help cover the expense. Keep checking the newsletter! (Donations happily accepted, of course...) NEW ARRIVALS A few of the books we've purchased recently: 1. Collection of Ursula K. Le Guin first editions. This is a great collection of one of Oregon's best writers. 30 books, all in excellent condition, a few signed, a few limited editions, etc. One of the nicest single-author collections I've seen for a while. (Corvallis) $10-100 2. Collection of Sylvia Browne. Eight books by this psyhic publishing phenomenon. Her books are nearly impossible to find used except at ... Browsers'! (Albany) 3. Valdar, the Oft-Born: A Saga of Seven Ages. George Griffith, illustrated by Harold Piffard, 1895. An awesome nineteenth-century adventure that would make Sylvia Browne proud. The hero of this tale is reborn into different centuries, and, if the pictures are anything to go by, he has a lot of swashbuckling to do each time! Listen to this great writing: "When I flung Zercal down and dashed his brains out against the steps of his throne, I believed myself that my last hour had come, and that I should be overpowered by hundreds, and carried out to torture and death." So much for Egypt, but how about his vanquishing Hufr the Beserker "As he stumbled past me, I made a backward cut at his neck and sent his great ugly head rolling along the floor like a skittle ball to within a yard of Brenda's feet." (Accompanying illustration shows appropriate headless and handless (missed that part) infidel.) Lucky Brenda! $75 4. Jack Kerouac: A Memoir in Which Is Revealed Secret Lives & West Coast Whispers, Being the Confessions of Henry Morley, Alex Fairbrother, and John Montgomery, Triune Madman of The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels & Other Trips. John Montgomery, 1970. Limited edition of 2,000. $20 5. Collection of books on bridge. These generally date from the 1920s-40s. Great little gifts for your favorite bridge player! $5-20 6. Two great reprints for the metallurgist or miner in your life! Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica first published 1556, and Lazarus Ercker's Treatise on Ores and Assaying, from 1580. Both are large, mid-20th century, illustrated, nicely cloth-bound books (Agricola has a dustjacket.) $40 and $50, respectively. 7. Don't think I mentioned it last month, but the Albany Browsers' now has a separate submarine section in our military section. Two cases, fiction and non-fiction! 8. Rand-McNally Indexed Pocket Map and Auto Road Guide and Shippers' Guide of Oregon. 1919. Includes large, two-sided fold-out map of Oregon. $25 9. Before the first Pocket Books book was published (1939), softcover books were largely European affairs, dominated by Tauchnitz and Albatross editions. Thus, it is unusual to see a handful of 19th century American softcovers show up at once. These were originally sold by subscription, rather like a magazine: The Essays of George Eliot, The Miseries of Paris (Eugene Sue), Winter in India (W. E. Baxter), two different versions of Ault Licht Idylls (J. M. Barrie), and a few more. Some have advertisements for a variety of products: cocoa, trains, etc. Generally $15 each. 10. Signs of Life. John Gierach. Arguably the best American fly-fishing author ever, Gierach did not originally intend to write about fly-fishing. His first publication was in 1977 and is a slim book of poetry. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and admit that I don't think it's very good poetry. But . . . who cares? It's John Gierach's first book! $250. 11. Also, our piano is for sale. We need the space. $350 That's all for this month. Please spread the word about Autism Awareness Day and the book recycling program! Happy reading, Scott GivensBrowsers' Bookstore 121 NW 4th St. Corvallis, OR 97330 1425 Pacific Blvd. SE Albany, OR 97321 www.browsersbookstore.com info@browsersbookstore.com
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