All week, October 5th through the 11th, is Banned Books Week.
Consider reading some titles that were challenged in libraries, schools, and bookstores in the past… many still are!
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Orwell: 1984
James Joyce: Ulysses
Octavia Butler: Kindred
Allen Ginsberg: Howl
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 452
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
Jacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
and many others…
Our current window display contains a number of retro tech items, including a variety of types of phones, a UNIX programming book from 1986, a 1982 IBM manual for the Basic computing language, a complete Mac computer from the 1980s, and an authentic “Think Different” sign from the office of a former Apple employee fondly known as Gandalf (because he had worked there so long, had a long grey beard, carried a walking stick, and was an excellent magician).
One of the gems of Bell’s Rorty collection is Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason. This 1948 edition of Kant’s monumental work on ethics was Richard Rorty’s personal copy, with underlining and marginalia. An invaluable insight into Rorty’s thought on ethical matters as they relate to Kant, it has various colors of markings indicating that Rorty returned to this work at different times to revisit certain relevant issues. With Rorty’s surname inked in his hand on the front free endpaper. 366 pages. A unique item!
Our new Bell’s Books bags have arrived in a number of new patterns.
Canvas or cotton. Just in time for the summer!
John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors is back in stock from Oak Knoll Press. This is the definitive and latest edition of one of the very best resources on book collecting. It includes definitions and examples of some of the most commonly used terms in the book trade, such as “leaf book,” “condition,” “first printing,” “royal bindings,” and many more. Invaluable!
Priced new for $25.
A call came in the other day regarding a particular translation of a classic Greek tragedy which we had. Unfortunately, the customer was unable to find parking at that particular time, so the transaction was done by phone and handed to the customer curbside.
Total time from query to delivery: 10 minutes!
Allow us to help you
with your curbside
needs!
Time to brush off some old classics, or read some scary stories you didn’t get to in years past. There’s always Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (which is in at least two versions), or perhaps Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. Why not try the weird tales of H.P. Lovecraft, or Stephen King’s collection of short stories entitled Night Shift, if you are looking for a change? Start your spooky reading now!
A lifetime gathering of signed, first, and rare editions of
California’s favorite author, offered for sale individually by Bell’s Books, Palo Alto
