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May 12, 20232 min read
Romeo and Juliet Has No Balcony
The balcony scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has no balcony. Shakespeare likely didn't know what a balcony IS. So why do most...
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Apr 3, 20231 min read
In CC for the Spring Sale: A. Conan Doyle First Editions
This May you'll find a few first editions by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the shelves in the Collector's Corner, including this handsome...
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Apr 2, 20231 min read
In CC for the May Sale: Vintage Pop-Ups
This intriguing piece of paper engineering, a Pantomime Toy book printed by the McCloughlin Brothers in 1885, forms the shape of a little...
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Mar 18, 20231 min read
In CC for the May sale: Vintage Sci-Fi
This is the first appearance in print of "The Fireman," the story Ray Bradbury would later develop and expand into his classic Fahrenheit...
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Mar 14, 20231 min read
In CC this May: Civil Rights ephemera
We have a fair bit of Civil Rights Movement ephemera available this spring, including a number of pamphlets produced by the Congress of...
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Feb 22, 20231 min read
In CC this May: Iditarod Poodles
In 1989 an enterprising Alaskan by the name of John Suter participated in the grueling 1,200-mile Iditarod race with a crack sled team...
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Feb 22, 20231 min read
In CC this May: Indie Comics and Beat Stuff
This spring check out the counterculture adventures of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and the Lone Groover, or discover the work of...
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Feb 22, 20231 min read
In CC this May: Nineteenth-Century Gems
Here are just a few of the treasures we have available for the book sale this May. This first edition, first printing of Mark Twain's...
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Feb 22, 20231 min read
In CC this May: Milne and Dhoruba
Poster: Power to the People / Support the Committee to Defend the Panther 21, created by the Committee to Defend the Panther 21 and the...
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