We knew you couldn’t resist Vincent Price…neither could we. Come in and check out this and other classic horror movies. Now on our sale table for just $6.98.

I was in the store pricing remainders Friday night and, oh! the book geek pleasures! Of course, we often see a title and think so-and-so would love that, but that night I had folks in mind for almost every title.

Part of my pleasure was simply sensory: good jacket designs, nice paper (not so common), weighty illustrated volumes that you need.

We usually refer to remainders as sale books. They are new books, but really priced to move because they are publishers’ overstock. I’m talking a 24.95 hardcover for 6.99.* A book scheduled for paperback might be remaindered, one that got great reviews and was reprinted (then returned by the chains), and even brand new warehouse inventory if a publisher changes distributors or locations.

You gotta buy remainders when you see them. (more…)

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That’s OK. The scary thing is, even with just a topic or color, we can usually help. One example: this past year, when a longtime customer came in looking for a book she’d heard about on NPR 2 or 3 years ago about homosexuality during the 19th century. It seemed like a long shot. Todd remembered it, looked it up and found it on the shelf in the sale section–in hardcover. Amazon can’t do that for you, but we are happy to–just ask.

P.S. The book was Graham Robb’s Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century. Cartoon by Norm Feuti.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.–George W. Bush

And these have fantastic pictures at fantastic prices:
*W. Eugene Smith: The Camera as Conscience edited by Gilles Mora & John T. Hill, hardcover, was $60.00, now $29.99
*Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington’s Destroyed Buildings by James M. Goode, hardcover, was $69.95, now $29.99
*Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop by Jim Sherraden, Elek Horvath, and Paul Kingsbury, was $35.00, now $14.99 

Smush Bush for just 5.95 (pictured above).

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” H.L. Mencken

Quote courtesy of Gus Russo. His The Outfit: The Role of Chicago’s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America now resides on our sale table.