Time to Plan Ahead

 

Everyman's Library Children's Classics

Only Friday and Saturday this week, and then Wednesday through Saturday next week, because Saturday, October 29th, will be the last day of the 2022 Dog Ears Books season! We'll be back in May and celebrating 30 years of bookselling next summer, but please visit if you can before we close for the winter, especially if you're thinking ahead to holiday gifts. 

And thanks for a better 2022 season than I expected. It was difficult personally, in a lot of ways, but I was helped along with support from bookstore friends and customers -- two groups that certainly overlap! Thank you!

Stars and Chickadees

 

The director of the International Dark Sky Assocation, Dr. John Barentine, says of author Mary Stewart Adams that her “grasp of night sky lore is second to none.” Nevertheless, this book is one for the whole family. As the images above suggest, there are illustrations and rhymes for the young fry, along with plenty of textual detail for teens and adults. 

 

Now, late summer under dark northern Michigan skies, is a perfect time to pick up your copy of The Star Tales of Mother Goose (“For those who seek the secret language of the stars”), but it would also make a fantastic Christmas present for the whole family to share and enjoy

 

The Star Tales of Mother Goose

By Mary Stewart Adams

Illustrated by Patricia DeLisa

Hardcover, 97pp.

$29.95

And speaking of Christmas, Bill O. Smith from Traverse City has a new book out, Chickadees in December, another collaboration with Traverse City artist Charlie Murphy. Fun! And if a child has an opportunity to open one single book before Christmas, let this be the one. When you read it, you’ll understand why.

 

Chickadees in December

By Bill O. Smith

Illustrated by Charles R. Murphy

Hardcover, $19.35

We Are Back! With a Unique Wedding Present for the Literary Couple This June!

The Works of Charles Dickens – 16 volumes of 21-volume set: 

These beautifully bound volumes were published by the Oxford University Press and produced by the Franklin Library in 1985 as a special limited edition of 7,500, available exclusively to subscribers to the Oxford Library of Charles Dickens. Bound in scarlet and black leather, with all edges gilt, silk endpapers, and scarlet bookmark in each volume, the books feature three raised spine bands and are richly decorated, each with an individual motif to the front panel symbolic of the contents. One volume only (Nicholas Nickleby) has a previous owner bookplate pasted in; all others are absolutely pristine. The books feel as if never opened, let alone read. 

Note that this is the limited 1985 edition of 7500 copies sold to subscribers only. There was another edition, also from the Franklin Library, done in decorative red (without the black), but not nearly as luxuriantly produced. 

 

Titles include:

 

American Notes/Pictures From Italy

Barnaby Rudge

Bleak House

Christmas Books

Christmas Stories

Martin Chuzzlewit

The Old Curiosity Shop

Dombey and Son

Little Dorrit

Master Humphrey’s Clock/A Child’s History of England

Our Mutual Friend

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Nicholas Nickleby

The Pickwick Papers

Sketches by Boz

The Uncommercial Traveler/Reprinted Pieces

No volumes will be sold individually. They are offered together for $2,000 plus tax. If you give this Dickens library as a wedding (or graduation) present, you can be fairly certain your gift will not be a duplicated!

 

I do not want to ship, however, so please stop in the store on Friday or Saturday or e-mail me at dogears@netonecom.net. Thank you. 

Small Sample of Gift Ideas that await you during the LAST WEEK of Our 2020 Season!