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Iliad Bookshop's May 2019 Newsletter (#28)

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Hi Gang!

If you've been to the store recently, you may have noticed a rather (ahem) significant change to the front entrance...as in, it's not there anymore.

What happened: the city suddenly decided that the 64-year-old front steps infringed on their property. Fixing that entrance would've involved moving the entire front area of the building, so instead we jackhammered the steps out and closed that entrance permanently. The good news is that we'll soon start building a new sales counter near the back entrance, and will also begin work on a separate buying counter (something we've long wanted and needed!).

After taking the month of April off from buying, we have resumed looking at books for cash or credit. Please remember to call us at 818-509-2665 if you have more than 3 bags and/or boxes, or anything potentially very valuable. You can view our complete guide to selling your books here.

Whether selling or buying, we hope to see you soon.

Dan, Lisa, Bob, Ricky, Poul, Brett, Sean, Kevin, Richard, Eric, Zeus and Apollo

SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS

Black Swans: Stories by Eve Babitz, hardback first edition published Alfred Knopf in 1993. Signed and inscribed by Babitz; very light sunning and rubbing to DJ, and light soiling to head. $250

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William Peter Blatty on The Exorcist from Novel to Film by William Peter Blatty. First edition paperback published by Bantam Books in 1974. A very good copy, with just mild sunning and wear to wraps. Scarce in this condition! $25

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The Porsche 911 Book: 50th Anniversary Edition by Rene Staud. Hardback published by teNeues in 2013. Condition is very good (no jacket, as issued), with light wear to binding, and spine ends and corners slightly bumped. $75

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In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States by Ilene Susan Fort, Tere Arcq, and Terri Geis. Hardback published by LACMA / Museo De Arte Moderno / Delmonico / Prestel in 2012. Condition is very good in fine dust jacket, with a slight spine slant and slightly bumped corners. $100

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The Silver Surfer Omnibus Volume 1 by Stan Lee and John Buscema. First edition hardback published by Marvel Publishing in 2007. Very good in fine jacket, with just minor soiling to page edges. $300

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Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense, edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie Klinger. Hardback first edition published by Pegasus Books in 2019. These are new hardbacks in jackets, signed by Iliad's own Lisa Morton. $25.99

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WHAT'S IN THE SAFE?

Have you ever noticed the big safe full of books behind Iliad's front counter? We get asked about it frequently. "Is it really old?" is a common question (the answer: no, we bought it new just a few years ago). But most customers want to know what kind of books merit storage in a safe (we think of these as the rarest of our rare books), so in this column we'll pick one book every month and tell you about it. This month's book is...

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, signed and limited hardback published by Random House in 1965. Signed by Capote and numbered 173/500, in slipcase. In fine condition, without dust jacket, as issued. A beautiful and very rare copy of an important book. $2,000

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BOOK NEWS

Have you heard of the Espresso Book Machine (EBM)? It's essentially a self-contained all-in-one print shop that can produce a bound paperback book within minutes. The idea is that the EBM can make you a hard copy of any digitally-available book, in about ten minutes.

According to EBM's own website, there aren't that many of these machine out there...but the stores that have them have recently made innovative use of them: New York City’s Shakespeare & Co. and Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard Book Store used their EBMs to print and sell hard copies of the Mueller Report.

Viva technology!

nin 2016, 87 new ABA member bookstores opened for business in 32 states and the District of Columbia. That is almost a 43 percent increase over the number of store openings in 2015.

in 2016, 87 new ABA member bookstores opened for business in 32 states and the District of Columbia. That is almost a 43 percent increase over the number of store openings in 2015.