Landmark Books Says VOTE!
Today is Election Day and it gave us at Landmark Books an opportunity to learn a little more about the election process. Here are some interesting little tidbits that we learned. The word ‘ballot’ comes from Italian ‘ballotta,’ meaning a “small ball used in voting” or a “secret vote taken by ballots” in Venice, Italy. […]
Traverse City Used Bookstore Has Autographed Books
Landmark Books, Traverse City’s premier used bookstore has a huge selection of autographed books. The store’s owner has been fascinated by signed books for many years and has gone out of his way to assemble one of the area’s best selections. In the store you will find over five hundred autographed copies from local and […]
Authors and LSD
Today being Dr. Timothy Leary’s birthday it seems appropriate to look at LSD and the affect it has had on writing. LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938 and has been a source for expanding one’s mind ever since. One of the early pioneers was Aldous Huxley. His work entitled ‘The Doors of […]
National Book Award Finalists
So last week I somehow missed discussing the National Book Award Finalists, guess it was because a couple of my picks fell by the wayside. Today I would like to review who was left standing after the last cut. •Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic) •Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See […]
What Was On The New York Times Best Seller List 1964?
Slow news day at the shop today so I thought we could look at what books were on the top of the New York Times Best Seller List for October 18th, 1964. Topping the chart was the espionage classic that set the bar for spy thrillers, ‘The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’ by […]
What’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ Worth?
Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on this day in 1915. He was the second of three children. He attended the University of Michigan where he wrote his first play, ‘The Villain’ in 1936. He would go on to win a Hopwood Ward for that play. In honor of Arthur Miller’s birthday today, […]
Happy Birthday To Gunter Grass
Landmark Books celebrates the birth of Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass. Sporting the mustache before it was cool, Gunter earned a reputation for works such as ‘The Diary of a Snail’, ‘Cat and Mouse’ and of course, ‘The Tin Drum’. Grass was born on this day in 1927 in Danzig-Langfuhr, Free City of Danzig. His parents […]
Do You Love Typewriters? We Do!
Are you in love with those typing machines of loving grace? We at Landmark Books are, in fact we held the first ever Type-In in Traverse City, Michigan in April. At that event we had owners who displayed typewriters from as far back as 1890 all the way up to the early 1970’s. I got […]