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The Iliad Bookshop family lost one of our own yesterday (7/14), with the abrupt passing of employee Brett Brezniak. Brett suffered from a variety of […]

Fans of vintage mystery paperbacks revere many of the great cover artists of the 1950s – Robert Maguire, Robert McGinnis, Rudolph Belarski, James Avati, etc. […]

Happy Pride Month! We’ve put together a few books from our shelves to help celebrate. Click any pictures below to order, and feel free to […]

By now I’m sure you’ve all heard (or know just by going outside for a few minutes) that Southern California is in the midst of […]

This was a nice surprise: the April 14, 2022 issue of the LA Times ran an article on the “65 Best Bookstores in L.A.,” and […]

The Iliad’s longtime employee Bob Johnson passed away on January 24, 2022, of a massive heart attack. Bob was much loved for his sense of […]

Have you ever heard that one line in that Christmas song that goes, “There’ll be scary ghost stories,” and wondered what ghost stories had to […]

Are you looking for that perfect holiday gift book and you can’t come up with anything? Well, how about a book about the holidays? We’ve […]

A few months ago, we did a blog post about an extraordinary collection of vintage children’s books we’d recently received. Well, given the size of […]

We’ve reached that time of year when magic’s in the air (or is that just pumpkin spice?). Fall is setting in, Halloween is coming, temperatures […]