Here you have museum-quality photographs of key books, both in how they developed from cave paintings, Egyptian cuneiform tablets, Burmese palm leaves, up to parchment scrolls to actual books.
You may know the “100 items” craze (we have one on the Civil War, a new one on WWI) where 100 items are explored as significant examples of key markers, transitions, or signifiers of important points in history. It should be well made, too, because - as you can tell from the title - it literally is a book about books. The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, for Egypt to e-book Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad (Firefly) $35.00 This is a weighty, well-made book, with sturdy binding and glossy paper, over 360 pages, slightly over-sized. If you don’t hear back from us within a few hours or so, you might want to give us a ring, or email me at We want to make your shopping with us enjoyable and confident, even if we’re a little clunky and old fashioned.Īs old fashioned as anyone who believes books still make really great Christmas presents! We’re closed on Sunday, of course, but every other day, we reply to inquiries, orders, or emails pretty promptly. During the holidays we are here 10 – 8 Monday through Friday, and 10 – 6 on Saturday. Just see below for the links to get to our order form page, or give us a phone call, if you’d like. If you’d rather, we can just send you an invoice, and you can pay later by check, as we explain at the order form page. Our order form page is certified secure, by the way, so you are safe entering credit card digits.
We can gift wrap for free, too, if you’d like - just add a note to the bottom of our order form page. We show the regular retail price, but we’ll deduct 20% OFF those prices, at least as long as we have these in stock.
Here are some great gift ideas, some not the sort of thing we typically review, nor titles that we have tons of.
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