5/29/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
By request, a little flashback to a 1966 newspaper article about the shop. This story mentions Dad (Walter Bonnett) too, so – early Happy Father's Day!
We've got great Father's Day Gift ideas on hand for all types of Dads!
5/21/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
Sex & relationship advice in the 1970s was vastly superior to that of the '50s, which were better than the '30s... We should know. We've been here the whole time!
These seem a little mansplain-ish by today's standards, & probably so. Still useful, though. Maybe good for laughs!
5/18/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
There's a pleasure in reading a rough old pulp paperback. Will new books, with generic graphics on "immortal" acid-free paper catch the interest of a reader 3 or 4 generations hence?
Older books instantly transport a reader into their stories. Texture makes the world feel real, organic, and lived-in, the art gives you a clue what's in store, & they absolutely grab your attention!
4/23/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
It's insect season. Some are good, some aren't. These will help you know the difference. You might look the bugs up on your phone; but real books are better... You can swat the bad bugs with an old book. Try that with your phone and you could be out a few hundred bucks!
4/16/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks please.
Adult Western fans, let's call this two-gun Tuesday. Passion & Action, double-barreled double entendre. Many of these series blew through like a tumbleweed. Others linger like the memory of perfumed passion after the musk of the dusty trail, numbering into the hundreds. Lace your chaps or your corset & rustle up some rollicking adventures!
4/12/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
New to our Biographies... In '72 Hughes' Corp. built the Glomar Explorer mining/salvage vessel. To build it, a giant crane barge was made by Sun Shipbuilding. It was all a CIA cover, to recover a wrecked Soviet sub. That crane, the Chesapeake 1000, still works today at the MV Dali-shipwrecked Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, MD.
4/6/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
If "The Spirit of '76" makes you think of Will Eisner instead of America's birthday, you might be a pulp fan.
When you hear "Psycho" and think of Robert Bloch instead of an ex, you might be a pulp fan.
Will Eisner's Spirit Casebook 1: True Haunted Houses & Ghosts (1976, 1st print, 1st ed).
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1962, 1st/1st).
For collectors of salacious sixties smut, a pair of vintage volumes – titilating tomes for a wanton weekend. Just 2 relatively tame titles from our sexy selection of naughty novels for your bawdy bedside library.
Cryptic books from the cobwebbed stacks in the dark secret vault of the hidden cellar in the deepest chamber of the dank tunnels and haunted passages beneath the innocent looking bookshop named BONNETT'S. What more waits for you? Do you dare enter to examine the tomes of a forgotten age?
Tonight's Vampire Ball at Next Door Lounge has inspired today's post. But, who can think of vampires without also conjuring werewolves? The King book is illustrated throughout by horror art icon, Berni Wrightson!
A few days ago I shared a 6 vol serial novel from Fawcett in '97. This is the set that inspired it, from Signet in '96. Note, the first vol of this 1st ed, 1st print set is embossed in silver. Later printings were embossed, but plain white. The other volumes are not embossed. This set is available here, now!
Some recent additions from my personal library, hard to find works in very good condition added to The Curiously Curated Collection of Vintage Books at KnoxvilleRose on Etsy 🌹📚🌹
Funny thing... In a previous post from our wrecked shed was a box labeled "Good old sci-fi." I have yet to reach that box, and yet, the loose books from the last few posts are AMAZING! I can't wait to see what's in that box.
The shop will be closed Tuesday through Friday next week (July 18th - 21st, 2023). I need to get some dusty, sweaty work done–which doesn't mix well with the customer service aspect of retail. Stop in Tomorrow, Saturday, or Monday if you can't wait until next Saturday. Closed Sunday, as usual. Hope to see you soon!