Landmark Books Buys, Sells and Services Typewriters
So we’ve been in the new location for three weeks now and I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone we do service old manual typewriters and also sell ribbons. In an effort to keep print alive we do our best to help those who love their typing machines. If we don’t have what […]
Get Your Dickens On At Landmark Books
On December 19th, 1843 one of the most famous and influential Christmas books ever written was published in London, England by a small published named Chapman & Hall. The book was called “A Christmas Carol” and it was written by Charles Dickens. The story deals with themes of poverty and wealth and evils of greed […]
Landmark Books Now Carries Books From Big Maple Press
Landmark Books supports local publishing and is proud to offer books produced right here in Northern Michigan by Big Maple Press. This new press produces high books currently featuring the work of internationally acclaimed author Jerry Dennis and the illustrations of well known artist Glenn Wolff. The first two books currently on sale are reprints […]
Christmas Ideas From Landmark Books
So there are nine days until Christmas and you haven’t gotten your shopping done? Don’t find yourself in line at the convenience store buying scratch offs at 5:00pm Christmas Eve. Here are some great ideas for readers that we offer here at Landmark Books which make it easy to make everyone happy. First, Landmark Books […]
Celebrate Solzhenitsyn At Landmark Books
On this day in 1918 Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, RSFSR (now in Stavropol Krai, Russia). That same year his father was killed in a hunting accident and was left to be raised by his mother. She passed away in 1944, but encouraged his literary studies. Solzhenitsyn studied mathematics at Rostov State University. […]
Landmark Books In The News
Over the year we have received a good amount of local press. Today we were featured in a story in the Record Eagle about our recent move to the new location. It has been an exciting change and we look forward to the positive responses we have gotten from previous stories. Here is the link […]
Need A Good Used Book?
Landmark Books sells a lot of used books a year, but one of the best sellers bar none is ‘Gone With the Wind’. In observance of Margaret Mitchell’ birthday today (she would be 114 today), I thought we would share some fun facts about her and her monumental piece if Fiction. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was […]
Looking For A Used Book, Check Out Landmark Books
As we prepare to bed down for the long winter ahead, some wonder what might be worth reading. If you are like me, disenchanted with many modern authors, I look to the past to seek out something to read. Turning back the clock 30 years to 1984 here are the New York Times Best Sellers […]
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 […]