Bookfever.com (Chris Volk and Shep Iiams.) has been selling books online since 1993, specializing in the sale of first editions of 20h century lit, with an emphasis on women authors, African American lit, mysteries, science fic, poetry & more
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- Gold Rush Book Fair
Nevada County Fairgrounds
Saturday, May 16 at 10:00am
bookfever.com Well, the Sacramento Bee story is out - complete with a slide show of 11 pictures and a sidebar with basic info on our business!
Remote Amador County booksellers thrive on rarities - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sac
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bookfever.com - - in the midst of our 20% off sale, and things are going well - remember on bookfever, the full price is shown, the shopping cart subtracts the discount. Got a nice thank you for a customer about using the cloth wrapping (she ordered 9 kids books....) - said it fit her family's goals of reusing what they can -
bookfever.com - finding it hard to work with the rare snow coming down (first time in 11 years we've lived here) .... feel just like a kid with the schools closed for snow, but there are power outages everywhere so I really, really need to get books ready for shipping just in case!
bookfever.com - almost too busy - we just blew off our proposed Sat trips (but not the Sunday party and the Monday book buying trip to the City (San Francisco, for those who don't know what the "City" is...) - busy is good.... dreaming of our January vacation -
bookfever.com -- We have long offered free giftwrapping, but we just decided to go "green" with this option - so books can be wrapped either in traditional paper or reusable cloth. First order this morning requesting wrapping asked for the cloth! so I hope this will be a popular choice . . .(I am just following my daughter's lead ...on this - she has been doing "reusable" for years)
bookfever.com - 2 days ago I heard that bookseller Nolan Smith had died & ever since I have been thinking of the fragility of the online bookselling community - which is not getting any younger. It seems like so many have gone in the past few years. I never met Nolan, but we had been on the same list for years & bought & sold the ...odd book from each other - but others I was at least lucky enough to meet, even if briefly.
bookfever.com - book serendipidity strikes again! I was just about to catalogue a signed ARC of Mueenudin's book IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS when I realized that any moment the National Book award winners (for which this is a finalist) will soon be announced - - I also have a very special copy - he inscribed it to me, and note...d that this was just the 3rd book he had ever signed as an author! not for sale...
bookfever.com - and finally, deal of the day - a like new, signed copy of ALVIN JOURNEYMAN - 4th book in this series based on American history, folklore and religion -Winner of 1996 Locus Award for best fantasy novel. Price $25.00 = 1st person who says they saw this on facebook gets it for $12.00 pstpd in the US
bookfever.com - follow up to registration fun - I don't think I have ever been able to simply "transfer ownership" of a used car in one visit... the snag this time - car bought in Colorado, had been registered in Colorado, but we had a Calif pink slip and I need a statement from CO that a CO title was never issued... oh well, we pai...d our money, so they won't fine us..
bookfever.com - went to register the "bookmobile" (aka camper van) - since we had to pay sales tax on the purchase price, I feel like we have done our bit to help CA's budget deficit. Interesting to see the DMV up here in Jackson in the era of reduced government - DMV offices are closed on Fri in Nov, so Mon was busier than ever. ... Usual wait time at that office - 20 min - this time, over 2 hours, and I just squeaked in..
bookfever.com - I have been spending far too much time during these last beautiful days of autumn at the computer - but I got hundreds more books listed. Still, the books are gradually taking over everywhere. We just plain have too many - Buying is too much fun to give up, so we are having a sale now thru the end of the year - 20%... OFF everything-FREE media mail shipping - FREE priority on orders of $100 & a free totebag!
bookfever.com might have found a collaborator for my long-planned bibliography of Augusta Huiell Seaman - with two of us pooling our knowledge, we should be able to accomplish a lot more - so I'm pretty jazzed about this!
bookfever.com finally decided to list an uncommon book we have - Andersonville Violets, by Herbert Collingwood, published 1889, a novel written in an attempt to heal the continuing divide between the North and the South, and especially over the treatment of prisoners-of-war. Loads of print-on-demands, etc - but no other firsts. Late...r as an editor, Collingwood led the charge against the hyping of a Burbank hybrid -"wonderberry."
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bookfever.com -we have been totally neglecting this page... is two weeks in Maui enough of an excuse? and yes, we bought books there - and in keeping with our promise to offer items here first, here is the most special book we got there: a first (first issue) of Baum and Maxfield Parrish's first children's book -MOTHER GOOSE IN PROS...E - in somewhat worn, but all original condition- - specially priced here at $2500 postpaid
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