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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 May, 2006HERE COMES MEMORIAL DAY!!! Get ready for your summer reading by stocking up on some great paperbacks! Mention this newsletter for a 25% discount off all pocket fiction from now until Memorial Day. Thank you to everybody who stopped by for our school library benefit sale. We were able to raise $500 for our local schools (that’s a lot of quarter books!) We’re thinking of doing another sidewalk sale this spring, so stay tuned... A minor shelving change is the addition of an “Adventure” shelf. This includes real-life life-threatening stories which used to be shelved in a variety of other sections. Soooo, next time you’re looking for edge-of-your-seat reading, check out this section; it is next to “Bookshelf 451" in the Travel aisle. Mark your calendars early! June 24th is Oregon Authors Day at Browsers’ Bookstore. We’ve invited local authors to come sign their books (six are confirmed so far, with a few maybes.) As you know, Browsers’ is a “used only” bookstore, but we do actually stock a few new books if they are from local authors. We’re cramming a bunch of writers together at one time because: a.) we don’t have the money to lose to advertise several events, and b.) hey, it’s going to be fun having a historian, a hunter, and a poet all sitting at the same table (sounds like the intro to a bad joke -- a historian, a hunter, and a poet walk into a bookstore... Hey, I'll give a free quarter book (what a prize) to anyone who can finish that joke.) RECENT ARRIVALS Don't you just love books? Here are some of the best ones we've found recently. First, a few novels for the collector: 1. The Eight. Katherine Neville. First edition. This is my “investment” choice of the month. If they ever make a movie out of this, the book will skyrocket in price. The Eight is a great adventure novel which has been well-loved for twenty years. In fact, it recently was re-released in a trade paperback format, which is pretty good without a movie, or sequel to spur production. This chess/conspiracy/historical fiction/modern espionage novel is bound – someday – to be turned into a film, so get this while the gettin's good. $25 2. Visions of Gerard. Jack Kerouac. First edition. The bottom of the boards show some edgewear, but the dust jacket is in really nice shape. $100. Or, we also happen to have an ex-library copy for $45, take your pick! 3. Other Gods: An American Legend. Pearl S. Buck. First edition. This unusual Buck book describes an expedition to the Himalayas. There has been a well-deserved renewal of interest in Pearl S. Buck after Oprah picked her Good Earth as an Oprah Book Club. Near fine in good DJ. $35 4. Outlander. Diana Gabaldon. Book club edition, but still a difficult book to find in hardcover. $12.50 5. Shogun. James Clavell. Surprisingly hard to find in trade hardcover despite its phenomenal popularity. This is an eighth printing, 1976. $30 Next, some fun stuff: 6. Grasshopper Green and the Meadow-Mice. John Rae. This is the most adorable book I’ve seen in a long time. (Is it just my imagination or do I say that in every newsletter?) This children’s book, which is the “true” story of the traditional grasshopper & the ants tale, was published in 1922. It has beautiful illustrations of a fiddle-playing grasshopper, mice in cute clothes, fairies and more. What makes this copy especially noteworthy, though, is that it comes in a nice box, with the front cover illustration repeated on the box. The book itself is in excellent condition, with a brief, contemporary gift inscription being the only real flaw. The box has a tear at one corner and on one side, but is otherwise in nice shape. An excellent piece for any children’s book collection. $100 7. The Flight of Dragons. Peter Dickinson, illustrated by Wayne Anderson. Fantasy art is one of the most creative kinds of illustration around these days, and there’s nothing like the mythology of dragons to inspire some great artwork. First edition, nice condition, $20. 8. Speaking of fantasy art.... Fantasy Art Portfolios. Three “portfolios” which consist of either 4 or 6 11” x 14” prints of fantasy art. Two of these are limited printings, and one is signed. C’mon, you know you want some prints of Conan hanging on your wall! $15-20 9. “Faith” from the Epistle to the Hebrews. By Charlotte Murray, illustrated by W. J. Webb. This must be seen to be appreciated. It is a 1890s gift book, nice thick pages, all of which have wonderful color illustrations on one side and b/w on the other, interspersed with inspirational scriptures. A great period piece, in excellent condition. It would still make a nice gift . . . $25 And two on the more serious side of things: 10. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Wallace Stegner. 1st edition. Very good condition, with large fold-out drawing of the Grand Canyon. This book has a gift inscription from Arthur H. Kent, who may be the man by the same name who was chief auditor for Standard Oil Co. Maybe not, as this would be an odd book for an oil company big-wig to own. Anyways, still a nice copy. $75. 11. A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of Two Passages over the Atlantic, in the Years 1805 and 1806; with Considerable Additions, Principally from the Original Manuscripts of the Author. Third Edition, in Three Volumes. Benjamin Silliman. Three volumes, recently and nicely rebound with leather & gilt spines with four raised bands and faux marbled boards. Silliman was a Yale professor, with a strong background in geology and natural history, who needed to learn more about the new field of chemistry, and took the trip which is the basis for this memoir. Silliman did lots of cool stuff: he almost single-handedly made Yale’s mineral collection the most important in the U.S.; he helped found the National Academy of Sciences; he helped establish Yale’s medical school; and my favorite part is that he is the first person to commercially bottle artificially carbonated water! Talk about your Prometheus' Fire! (or Pandora's Box, depends on your point of view.) This third edition of his journals is expanded by popular demand from the first edition. It includes three wonderful fold-out engravings of Stonehenge (two elevations and one top-view plan) Very good condition, $300. Here's a 'history of books' factoid I recently learned: Gutenberg did not, in all probability, produce the so-called Gutenberg Bibles. Got any spare time? Remember to check out our ongoing book review blog at: www.browsersbookstore.com/blogger.html. Ever notice those staff favorites book lists hanging from the fiction cases? I recently got someone to try reading a Francis Beeding novel, who is on my list, and now he's totally hooked!! Be sure to check these lists for some ideas for this summer. That's all for now, enjoy the reading!! Scott GivensBrowsers' Bookstore 121 NW 4th St. Corvallis, OR 97330 www.browsersbookstore.com
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