Need a great place to Live??

Need a great place to Live??
FOR RENT: Lovely 4-Bedroom Farmhouse – between Potsdam and Parishville NY, next to a bookshop with over 80,000 books!

Fenced yard. Pets welcome. $1000 per month plus utilities. Available August 1st. Call the BirchBark Bookshop (315) 265-3875 or comment on this post.

Great books for guitarists, musicians, music historians, ethnomusicologists ….

The BirchBark Bookshop just listed two beautiful volumes of The Guitar Review from 1946 through 1951. These lovely books are currently available to purchase through our online shop at Biblio.com, and may also be listed in our Amazon inventory soon.

The Guitar Review – Vol I

Vladimir Bobri (editor)         Edition: First printing     Book condition: Fine  $80.00

New York: The Society of Classic Guitar, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. Fine. This beautiful volume includes the entire editorial contents of issues 1 through 6  from 1946 through 1948, without the advertising pages. Included within is a rich assortment of editorials, commentary, letters, music notation, and technical resources interspersed with delightful illustrations, portraits, and graphics. This volume includes articles by and about Andres Segovia, an article on Flamenco songs and Dances, and the Memoirs of Makaroff, among many other pieces of wisdom about the history and music of the classic guitar. This book is in fine condition with gilt designs imprinted on a black cover and spine. There is no damage or any signs of wear to the pages or cover. The previous owner’s name is written on the front endpaper, and dated 1976  : R.A. Stephan (Crane School of Music professor emeritus). 160 pages.

Click here to see this book in our Biblio inventory…

The Guitar Review – Vol II

Vladimir Bobri (editor)     Edition: First printing     Book condition: Near Fine  $80.00

New York: The Society of Classic Guitar, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. This beautiful volume includes the entire editorial contents of issues 7 through 12 from 1948 through 1951, without the advertising pages. This volume includes articles by Pablo Castellanos, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Andres Segovia, among many other pieces of wisdom about the history and music of the classic guitar.   Issue 11 is the “Portrait Issue” – an extensive album of photographs of famous guitarists and composers. This book is in near fine condition with gilt designs imprinted on a red cover and spine. The the top of the spine has been bumped and there is a small tear at the top of the front joint, but there is no other damage or any signs of wear to the pages or cover. The previous owner’s name is written on the front endpaper: R.A. Stephan (Crane School of Music professor emeritus). 211 pages.

Click here to find this book in our Biblio inventory…

AN AGENT WANTS TO SEE YOUR WORK! NOW WHAT?

AN AGENT WANTS TO SEE YOUR WORK! NOW WHAT?.

We just found this great blog that has a lively, fun, and honest approach to getting published and other issues that writers deal with on a regular basis. Hope you find it inspiring and useful!

Some very special books ….

The BirchBark Bookshop has listed some very rare copies of 20th century fiction for sale through Biblio.com. Check these out…

A Good Man is Hard to Find

by Flannery O’Connor  $950.

Edition: First edition    Book condition: Very Good + This copy includes a rare “point” on page 125.

New York: Harcourt, Barce and Company, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good.
Ten stories by this acclaimed author. These are tales of bitter comedy and stark tragedy set in the rural south against a backdrop of farms and poverty. ** This book is one of the rare copies with a point on page 125 with the word “trying” misspelled. The dust jacket is in good condition with slight fading on the spine and small chips on corners and rear flap. The binding is tight, and the pages are clean with slight sunning on the edges. This is a first edition, with magazine copyright dates listed for 1953, 1954, and 1955. 251 pages.

AND…

A Letter from Pontius Pilate’s Wife

Catherine van Dyke  $165.

Edition: First Edition  Book condition: Near Fine  – PLUS this copy has been autographed and inscribed by the author.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.
An unusual tale from an unusual point of view! Based on ancient manuscript, this book recreates a letter to a friend of the wife of Pontius Pilate as she recounts  the inside scoop on the man who condemned Jesus Christ to death. This first edition is a very special copy that has been signed by the author and inscribed to the original owner with a date of 1930. The book is in near fine condition with some smudges on the covers and spine, and a quaint, poetic bookplate on the inside front paste board. The pages are clean and in excellent condition. 53 pages.

Find our current listings of rare and special books at http://www.biblio.com/bookstore/birchbark_bookshop_potsdam

Gardening and Cookbooks! 20% off for the month of May

In Honor of May, and Spring, and Warm Weather finally making it to Northern New York we are offering all our gardening books and cookbooks of every flavor at a special discount of 20% off.

Come visit the BirchBark Bookshop to gather a little inspiration for your food and flowers!

Start Your Own Printshop!

Chandler printing press – a workhorse in the letterpress world!

Need a new career?  We are selling enough printing equipment to get you set up and printing to your heart’s content!

It is an incredible assortment of letterpresses, cabinets, binding equipment, type, dingbats and more.

You can see it all on eBay.  Here’s the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300894176930

Please share this with anyone who might be interested!

Two Timeless Tales – elegantly illustrated

Collector’s take note! ~ The BirchBark Bookshop has listed two exquisite little books on Biblio.com.

Sleepy Hollow   $110.

Rip Van Winkle  $110.

These are both hardcover first editions, published in 1899, with elegant illustrations by Miss Margaret Armstrong. These beautiful little books include the full tales by Washington Irving, with text on every right-hand page, framed by illustrations in pale green or light marroon ink, and small pen & ink illustrations in black on almost every left-hand page. There are also 7 photogravures by Frederick Simpson Coburn with quotations printed on the overlay tissue. The covers are cream with Armstrong’s color & gilt illustration on front & spine. Gilt top edge and deckle fore edge.  These book are in Very Good condition. To see the full description and more photos click here: http://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=&keyisbn=&format=&dealer_id=1019476&page=2&sid=233222451

Do You Love the Adirondacks?

The Birchbark Bookshop has posted two lovely books that are rich with the Adirondack tradition:

Great Camps of the Adirondacks by Harvey H. Kaiser   $40

and

Adirondack Furniture and the Rustic Tradition by Craig Gilborn $20

Click the titles to look at them on Biblio.com

See our online inventory here …

http://www.biblio.com/bookstore/birchbark_bookshop_potsdam

April is Poetry Month!

In Honor of Poetry Month the BirchBark Bookshop offers a 20% discount throughout the month of April on all of our books of poetry and books about poets!

Stop in to browse our extensive collection of poetry…and lots of other great books!

We are open 1:00 to 6:00 Thursday through Sunday.

Farming: 19th Century style!

Old farmer’s wisdom never goes out of style!
We just listed 2  treasure troves of agricultural tips and tricks from the mid-nineteeth century on our online store at Biblio.com. Click the links below to learn more about these neat old books!

The Farmer’s Every-Day Book
By Rev. John L. Blake; 1850      $75

This beautiful book offers a wealth of timeless agrarian wisdom on “practical & theoretical agriculture” and rural economy, as well as “twelve hundred laconics and apothegms relating to ethics, religion, and general literature.” The laconics frame the text on every page with gems like: “The excesses of youth are drafts upon old age, payable with interest.”!! This is a first edition.
(More info: http://www.biblio.com/books/587079313.html )

and

The Farmer’s Guide to Scientific and Practical Agriculture – Vol I & II
By Henry Stephens, F.R.S.E; 1854
$80 for 2 Vol. set

Two volumes of tools and terminology, best practices, and agricultural science and methods from the mid-ninteenth century. This extensive resource includes chapters like: “Feeding Cattle on Turnips , “Fattening of Swine in Winter” and “Turning of Dunghills”. Numerous charts, illustrations, and full-page engravings illustrate the text. First edition.
(More info: http://www.biblio.com/books/599837558.html )