Dear friends,
The other day we were doing some research on a local history project and came across this extraordinary website.
That’s it.
A webcam and some links to cool photos.
It made us so bloody nostalgic we could barely contain our excitement. Here, in the depths of northern Ontario, was a little website intentionally or unintentionally defying the swarm of social media, algorithms, AI sludge, and general noise and bother. Just a simple little page with information. Remember when the internet looked like this?
Remember when it looked like a simply designed page from a simply designed book?
We do. We miss that.
Our recent website redesign was in part an attempt to get back to this lovely simplicity. No more spreadsheets. No more fuss. We recently added a post on our site filled with photos of book piles and book info.
We’ve already sold a bunch of them. Lord it was so much easier. No hyperlinks. No forms to fill out. No CAPTCHA thingies or personal info needed. Just orders over the phone and email.
Again, Lord, it was so much easier.
So knowing that it lacks the convenience of online ordering, as well as the up-to-dateness of hyper-retail, we offer again to you: pictures, lists, and an invitation to come into our shop, email us or give us a call.
It’s how the biz has worked for centuries. Welcome it with us. This peace. This lovely peace.
Much love,
Jason & Vanessa
P.S. Here’s the book info (from left to right).
Punk Planet. Issue #9. September/October. 1995. Staplebound newsprint b&w. 4vo. 105 pp. + ads. Very good+. Includes vinyl 45. Very good+. $30
Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Oxford, 2000. 486 pp. Softcover. Very good. $10
Peril, Lynn. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now. Norton, 2006. 408 pp. Illus. Softcover. Near fine. $10
Fisher, M.F.K. Two Towns in Provence. Vintage, 1983. 208 pp. Softcover. Very good. $10
Roe, Sue. In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí. Penguin, 2018. 309 pp. Illus. Softcover. Near fine. $10
A Treasure Chest of Ventriloquism. Treasure Chest Publications, 1938. Not paginated. Many terrifying illustrations. Original wraps. $20
Showalter, Mary Emma. Mennonite Community Cookbook: Favourite Family Recipes. John C. Winston, 1950. 494 pp. Illustrations by Naomi Nissley. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good. $25
Roden, Claudia. Coffee. Penguin, 1981. 136 pp. Softcover. Very good. $10
Verill, A. Hyatt. Perfumes and Spices: Including an Account of Soaps and Cosmetics. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1940. First Edition. 304 pp. 8vo. Colour frontispiece (stained along edge). B&w illustrations in the text. Hardcover. Very good in a good+ jacket. A few tears and creases along edge of jacket. $75.
Huson, Paul. Mastering Herbalism. New York: Stein and Day, 1974. ISBN 0-8128-1663-3. First edition. 371 pp. 8vo. Paper-over-cloth hardcover. Dust jacket worn and price clipped, with a horizontal slice across the spine. Very good+ in good jacket. $150.
Rudgley, Richard. Essential Substances: a Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society. Kodansha, 1993. 195 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9781568360751. Softcover. Near fine. $10
Farmer, Fanny [Fannie] Merritt. What to Have for Dinner: Containing Menus with the Recipes Necessary for Their Preparation. Dodge Publishing Company, 1905. 271 pp. Illus. Hardcover. Good+. Hinges cracked. Recipes taped inside. Remains a more than decent copy. Lovely cover. Mid-century recipes (mostly from newspapers) taped onto pages throughout (but nothing too crazy, fortunately). Some handwritten notes includes as well. $50
Colette. The Ripening Seed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1955. 186 pp. Translated by Roger Senhouse. Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket. Owner’s inscription on front free endpaper. Fore-edge spotted. $20
Schimmel, Herbert D. and Cate, Phillip Dennis (eds.). The Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec W. H. B. Sands Correspondence. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1983. 207 pp. 4vo. Hardcover. Dust jacket price-clipped. Significant bump and tear in the top of the text box from pages 90-98. Good in very good jacket. Reproductions in b&w. $20.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion. George Allen & Unwin, 1977. ISBN: 9780048231390. 365 pp. Fold-out map present. Export edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket. $150
More detailed cataloguing can be found here.
