City Basement Books

Monday, and another week dawns... and there are we grateful! We hope you had a lovely weekend, book friends all.

We have a few local histories today, including Michael Cannon's 'Old Melbourne Town: Before the Gold Rush', 'By These We Flourish: A History of Warrnambool', & 'The Good Country: Cranbourne Shire'. There's also 'Picture Postcards in Australia 1898-1920', 'Scots Kith & Kin', 'A Good Brew : The history of H.A. Bennett & Sons and tea and coffee in Australia', Tim Low's 'Feral Future', Joseph Johnson's 'The Royal Melbourne Golf Club : A Centenary History', and as always- more. The link to additional information on these and all our listings is here: https://tinyurl.com/yc7rtpvn

Look after yourselves, stay warm, and curl up with a good book when you can!

Greetings from our basement on this cool Friday. It's the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight, so it does feel like some kind of turning point has been reached, doesn't it?
There are a few people wandering about our bookshop, but we're seizing the chance for an update while we can.

For your consideration today: 'Murray of Yarralumla', 'Colonial Consorts', 'Viceregal Quarters', 'John Batman's Village', 'The Vagabond Papers', 'Queanbeyan', the birds of Wilson's Prom, Orchids of Asia, 'The Traitors' (by Alan Moorehead), Burns, 'The Highlands of Scotland', 'The Emigrant in Van Diemen's Land', 'Mariposa : A Story of the Learmonths of Western Victoria and Mexico, 1834-1930', and more. There's always more... Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2n34jzja

We hope your weekend is an enjoyable and restful one. (Our feline, after waking me at 2am yesterday, let me sleep till almost 7 this morning- I'm hoping this pattern will continue!) I'll get to sleep in tomorrow, but my friends will be here as usual from 10 till 2, so please do drop in if you're visiting our city.

Look after yourselves, stay cosy and warm, and read on!

Thursday, and we began our day with a couple from Florida, who are visiting Melbourne for the Lions Clubs Convention this week. We hope all those attending have a great time!

Today's lot features: 'Modern Love: The Lives of John & Sunday Reed'; Stephanie Alexander's 'The Cook's Companion'; David Syme; some local histories including 'The Land of the Lyre Bird', 'Pastures New', 'Men and A River', & 'Wodonga'; 'A Geographical, Historical, and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land'; 'Our Schools and the War'; 'Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder'; and - of course!- more. Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here:
https://tinyurl.com/tj9vh5r6

May the day be kind to all. Keep calm, and warm, and carry on reading!

A Tuesday update from our basement, accompanied by some of our latest arrivals.

We'll just mention a couple of the titles today: Eugen von Guérard, Philip Lindsay's 'The Mainspring of Murder', 'The Fortunes of Samuel Wynn', 'Justice Versus Sorcery', 'Laban for Actors and Dancers', 'Dookie College: The First 100 Years', and more. The beauty of being amongst all these thousands of stories contained within covers, is what you can discover. (It can also underline how little one knows!) For example, yesterday I 'met' Antony Beauchamp through his memoir 'Focus on Fame', written shortly before his death from su***de. (You know doubt knew of him, but in my ignorance, I'd known nothing. But he was a soldier, a photographer of the famous, a director and producer, and son-in-law of Winston Churchill. And now I know!)

More information on the condition of these and all our listed titles can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5yfy8pca

Last night we had a gentleman bemoaning the fact that he had to leave: 'I'd heard so much about this place; I'll be back!' We hope he does return- we're assuming what he'd heard was good?!

Take care out there, stay warm, and read on!

Monday, and we hope you had a good weekend, wherever and however you spent the time.

We have some books on law and true crime for you today, interspersed with a few other subjects. Sometime we open a box, and a theme emerges, what can we say?! Amongst the 'other' subjects: 'The Heart of Victoria: Bendigo, Castlemaine, Daylesford, Macedon', 'Australia's Kakadu Man', Inga Clendinnen's 'Tiger's Eye', 'The Old Melbourne Gaol', 'The Toolache Wallaby', 'Wyndham Lewis On Art', 'Pop: Andy Warhol', 'The John Flynn Memorial Church' and as always, more! Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5n89nzvh

I remember going to see John Flynn's church in younger days, but it had no lasting effect on me. I suspect it was the way Australian history was taught back then: I hope it's far more interesting for students today.

Look after yourselves, book fiends. May the week ahead be kind to us all. Stay warm, and read on!

We've come to the end of the week, book fiends. Though we'll be here tomorrow as usual from 10 till 2, for those of you visiting our city who might fancy a little wander around our aisles.

Today's bunch of books includes: 'Soar' (David McAllister, former Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet), Elyne Mitchell's 'Chauvel Country', 'Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia', 'Liberty : A History of Civil Liberties in Australia', 'Using the Small Lathe', 'Night Has A Thousand Eyes', 'Convicts' (a booklet produced as part of the Port Phillip Project), 'Children Are People Too', and 'Our Home Front 1939-45'. More details on these and all our listings can be found here; https://tinyurl.com/bdfhpx3b

My chances of using a lathe (even with instructions!) are negligible, it must be said, though some of these other titles are very inviting. What an interesting life Elyne Mitchell had! And 'Night Has A Thousand Eyes' about an English woman living in Oslo during WWII sounds rivetting. But regarding 'Depraved and Disorderly', I confess to feeling rather defensive on behalf of my female convict forebear. I'm sure she wasn't depraved in the least (though possible a little disorderly?!).

We hope you have the 3 'R's covered this weekend: relax, rest & read!

As is often the way in a week where there's a public holiday, time has passed in a strange but steady blur somehow. And here we are : at Thursday.

We've had a bunch of ex library UK souvenir brochures in, as well as some more books on military history. There have also been several Tarot card sets in, if that's an interest of yours.

Other titles to note: 'Inspired: Melbourne Landscapes', 'Victorian Koorie Plants', 'Frank Harris', 'Charles Kingsford Smith' (Peter Fitzsimons), 'Field guide to the flowers & plants of Victoria', 'Solid Bluestone Foundations' (Kathleen Fitzpatrick), a collection of writings by Lewis Mumford, 'Middle English Verse Romances', and more. Information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/28chdb9k

We're struck every day by the politeness and good nature of the people who visit us, and I was reminded of this just now by someone wishing us a lovely day as they left. (Why is it that our brains register the less than kind, when they are so few in number?!) Thank you for your continued support and goodwill, which we appreciate and never take for granted.

May your Thursdays be kind; keep calm, and read on!

Tuesday after a long weekend for many of us. We hope you managed to get some relaxation and rest along the way.

We began our day wandering the bookshop to gather the books that had been ordered over the break, and crossed paths with someone from Brisbane who was enjoying his annual visit to us. He went away with a little stack of treasures, a happy man. And a lovely start for us, too!

Today's bunch includes: Hudson Fysh (founder of QANTAS), Graham Greene's 'The Lost Childhood and other essays', 'Why I Am Not A Christian' (Bertrand Russell), 'The Nuremberg Trials', 'The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (Posthumous)', 'The Knights of Bushido', Henry Cecil's 'Brief to Counsel', 'Tales of the Dervishes' (Idries Shah), 'The Natural Distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia', 'Kiss Me, Chudleigh. The World According to Auberon Waugh', and more besides. Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/v2av8jk6

Enjoy your day, book fiends. We can hear the cars swishing by on the wet roads above us, so a day for shelter and/or umbrellas here in . Take care out there, and read on!

Just a little lot today, for the last day of the week. There would have been more, but people have been buying the books before we could share them with you! And it's always good to sell our books and see them go to their new homes, after all. We had someone just now who'd found the latest book by her favourite author, and was thrilled to be going home to read it.

We have a long weekend coming up, and will be closed on Monday for the public holiday. We hope you have a great and relaxing time, whatever your plans may be.

So just briefly: today's lot includes 'The Journals of George Augustus Robinson: January - March 1840', Patrick White's 'The Vivisector', 'Victorian Primitive', Mussolini, 'Bond in Motion' ( The largest official collection of original James Bond vehicles as at 2014), Sean O'Casey, and more. The link to additional information on these and all our listings is here: https://tinyurl.com/mtv68pms

We will be here tomorrow, if you're in our city and need a book to see you through that extra day off (if you're having one). Otherwise, look after yourselves, enjoy your weekend, and read on!

Thursday, and we hope your week is going well, book fiends.
There is a long weekend ahead for some, and we will be closed on Monday for the public holiday. Though getting used to the term 'King's Birthday' holiday still seems a little strange?!

Today's bunch of books includes: 'A Jerk on One End' (Robert Hughes), 'Gold Fleet for California', 'Melbourne Down Under: The Jewels of Port Phillip Bay', 'Shakespeare Unbound', 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. I', 'Led Zeppelin', T.S. Eliot's 'Notes Towards the Definition of Culture', 'The Catacombs of Paris', 'Darwin Bombed', 'The European World 1500 - 1800'. and more. The link to additional information on these and all our listed items is here:
https://tinyurl.com/8aarwdr3

We'll take the chance to get stuck into another box or two, hoping to find treasures. So tempting! Enjoy your day, take care, and stay warm!

Tuesday, and we don't mind admitting, book friends, that today is struggletown for various reasons. This is not helpful, we know, or even good conversation. But even in our lair, surrounded by wonderful books on all sorts of subjects, occasionally it's a struggle. So let's focus on those books instead?

We have the story of Jacka V.C., two Frank Hurley titles: 'From Kosciusko to the Sea' and 'Australia: A Camera Study', 'Stravinsky's Lunch', 'Viva Picasso', 'Curtin's Cowboys', 'The World of Dew: Aspects of Living Japan', '160 Years 160 Stories', Orchids, Hobsbawm's 'Age of Extremes', 'Cambridge Apostles', and more besides. A few books related to schools and education today, as you'll see. The link to find out more about these books and all our listings is here: https://tinyurl.com/2s463bvy

We've just had a few younger readers come down the stairs, which prompted us to check on when school hols begin: but not until 1st July for Victorian schools, so it's a mystery! But their enthusiasm is delightful.

Stay warm out there if you're in colder climes, and look after yourselves. And keep a good book to hand for solace and distraction. Read on!

Monday, and another week beckons. We hope your weekend was restful and enjoyable, and you're all ready for the days ahead.

Some good titles today: Edna Walling's 'The Australian Roadside', 'Dire Strait', 'The Felonry of New South Wales', 'The Australian Verandah' (speaking of restful!), 'Bruce Pascoe's 'Dark Emu', 'Whaling Around Australia', several histories of hospitals, 'Remarks on Board His Majesty's Ship Tamar; in a Voyage from England to Port Praia, Cape of Good Hope - New South Wales, And from thence, along the coast of Australia, to Port Essington in the Cobourg Peninsula, and thence to Bathurst and Melville Islands, Apsley's Straits' between February 1824 to January 1825; and more, more, more... Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/p595jpha

As we head into winter, we hope you're staying warm and snug, ready to get stuck into that stack of to-be-read books. The readiness is all! Take care, book fiends.

Friday, and the end of the week is nigh. Although we will be here tomorrow from 10 till 2, if you're visiting our city and fancy a little book-browsing...?

Today's lot includes: 'Charles Dickens's Sons in Australia', Osbert Lancaster's 'Facades and Faces', Daisy Bates, 'The Voyage of the Investigator 1801-1803 : Commander Matthew Flinders, R.N.', 'Wildflowers & Plants of Central Australia', 'Antique British Clocks', 'Sir William Angliss', 'From Antarctica to the Gold Rushes in the wake of the Erebus- the explorations of Alexander Smith RN...', 'Steve Fairbairn on Rowing', 'The Garden State: Inside Victoria's Private Gardens', and- yes, you guessed- more! The link to additional information on these and all our listed titles is here: https://tinyurl.com/4cux8dff

We do recommend that you use the link to check out any books you might be interested in. While it may be stating the obvious, our books are second hand, and may have flaws not readily apparent from our scans of the covers.

Today I learned about Steve Fairbairn, who was born in Toorak in Victoria, but who had a significant impact on the sport of rowing in the UK: he founded the Head of the River Race in 1925, and there's a memorial to him on the banks of the Thames. I would also like to read more about Alexander Smith RN, who sounds like he led a fascinating life. So many books, not enough time!

We hope you have a lovely weekend; stay warm, curl up with a good book or two, and read on!

Thursday, and we trust you're doing well. Here we're hoping for a good day, after the unseasonable warmth of this morning! We know, rain is coming...

Today's books include: Peter Carey's 'True History of the Kelly Gang', 'Strict Rules: The Blackfella-Whitefella Tour', 'Flowers and Plants of Western Australia', 'Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook', 'Japanese Painting', 'The Covenanter Encyclopaedia', 'John Knox', 'Salthouse- the story of a Norfolk village', Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique', 'A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect', 'The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Railway Locomotives', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy', and as always- more! Something for almost everyone?! The link to additional information on these and all our listings is here: https://tinyurl.com/mr229mj7

A deep breath, ready, steady, and jump!
Happy reading, friends.

Tuesday, and it's a day of discombobulation. You know how some days are just that way? Nothing to be alarmed about, we'll try and settle ourselves, and regain some equilibrium from somewhere. (Surely there's a book on that?!)

Anyway, we have some books for you, as is our custom: Albert Namatjira, Alan Moorehead's illustrated 'Gallipoli', Thomas Keneally's 'Ireland & the Irish', Pete Townshend's autobiography, Kenneth Clark, 'Vietnam - The Australian War', Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' (Vol I), W.R. Bion, some more art catalogues, and just - more! Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/mwz539sx

My favourites out of this lot? Alan Moorehead, Pete Townshend, and Albert Namatjira, with a special mention to Julia Child (though I could never see myself producing anything from her book!).

We'll get on with our day, hoping for smooth sailing from here. And hoping you're having a grand day! Take care, stay warm, and read on!

Monday, and a small offering today to start us off on this brave new week. We hope your weekend was a lovely one: I had a wonderful drive through mist & fog yesterday which has stayed with me!

Today's books include 'Margaret Olley: Far From a Still Life' because I can't NOT include Margaret whenever she appears. We also have Christopher Isherwood's Sixties Diaries 1960-1969, the history of the Elwood Life Saving Club, 'The Golden Age of Murder - The Mystery of the Writers who Invented the Modern Detective Story', 'Commandant of Solitude : The Journals of Captain Collet Barker 1828-1831', 'Witch Hunters', Gurdjieff, 'Rough Infantry: Tales of World War II', and more. This link will lead to additional information on these and all our listed titles: https://tinyurl.com/5sbecauu

And please remember, if there's anything you're looking for you can also search through our listings via that link, using author, title or keyword.

We hope the week is a good one for us all: stay warm, book fiends, and read on!

Friday, and a cold day here in , though the sun is valiantly shining on the streets above. A reminder that we'll be here tomorrow from 10 till 2 as usual, if you're visiting our city and fancy a little browsing around our aisles. And we've already given out a few of the 'Walking the City of Literature' maps (thank you ) to some very pleased customers, so do get yours when you're next in if it's something you need.

Today's lot includes: Bill Gammage's 'The Biggest Estate on Earth', 'Catch-22', a very nice 7 volume set of Kipling's work from the Folio Society, 'Everywhere, Everywhen: Art, Artists, Stories of the Kimberley, Arnhem Land and the Southern Plains', 'Royal Persian Manuscripts', 'Islamic Art', Korean Art & Design', 'The Claimant' about the man from Australia who claimed to be the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, and more besides. Additional information on these and all our listings? We're glad you asked: https://shorturl.at/zDGJI

To the lady who just left, saying thank you for the page, we hope you enjoy today's offering!

We hope you have a lovely weekend planned, featuring our 3 'R's:
relax, recline, & read! Stay warm, book fiends!

Thursday, and it's sunny on the streets above us. The sun always improves things on wintery days (behold us being determinedly glass half full!). The week is whizzing by, but we're getting in early with today's update for you.

We've added a few art catalogues to our listings over the last couple of days, so if art is an interest of yours, do check them out at the link below, using the keyword 'art'. For instance, we have a catalogue of an exhibition at Heide featuring Lloyd Rees and Brett Whiteley. We also have mammals of Australia, Grantlee Kieza's 'Macquarie', 'The Blue Funnel Line', Dali, 'Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company', 2 volumes of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, 'The Unknown Orwell', 'The History and Development of the Port of Blyth, Northumberland', Brian Ellis's 'Scientific Essentialism', 'Hand Knits for the Home', 'Distant Waters: the Greatest Fly-Fishing Worldwide', and more, The link to additional information on these and all our listed items is here: https://tinyurl.com/2em6mwyj

A day off for me yesterday, so I'd better get stuck in to some new boxes to see what treasures they contain!

We hope the day treats you well, book fiends. Keep warm, and carry on reading!

And the week is already under way! We're playing catch-up today, having missed Monday (mea culpa). We have a few music-related books just in, along with Keats, Yeats, Gorky, Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' (if you're quick!), 'Saltwater: Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country', 'Harold Cazneaux: The Quiet Observer', James Thurber, Albie Sachs, 'Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India', 'New Zealand Shipwrecks', and more. Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4ymxjcsc

Some days underline just how little one knows: today's titles alleviating that to some extent are 'The Stuart Case' and the biography of Pat Jarrett. There am I grateful!

Though the weekend is a distant memory now, we hope it was a good one for you. And that the week ahead will; be kind to us all. Look after yourselves, and read on!

Friday already? It hardly seems possible! Yet here we are, with the weekend before us. If you're visiting our city, we'll be open from 10 till 2 tomorrow as usual. And we're happy to tell you that we have the latest map 'Walking the City of Literature', which we received just yesterday from our friends at .

Today's lot includes 'Suho and the White Horse: A Legend of Mongolia' (charmingly illustrated), Brett Hilder's 'Another Time Past Created', 'The Mark Knight Collection: A Lifetime of Cartoons & Drawings', Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Derrida, Rilke, Essays in honour of Václav Havel, and -yes, still more. Additional information on these and all our listed items can be found here. https://tinyurl.com/y39zyuba

We hope you have a relaxing weekend planned. A good book, a glass (or mug) of something, and a semi-recumbent position in a cosy corner: wouldn't it be lovely?! Read on, book fiends!

Thursday, and we're delighted to say that we're almost back to normal after the flooding of last Saturday. Floors dry, and steam-cleaned, and books stacking up again as usual (and not in a panic to get them out of harm's way...). Anyway, for this relief, much thanks.

Today's titles include: a book on 's own 'Little Bookroom', Margaret Scott's 'The Black Swans', 'Bad Girls & Wicked Women'. Iris Murdoch, Germaine Greer's 'White Beech: The Rainforest Years', Leonard Bernstein, 'A Grief Observed' (C.S. Lewis), the Isle of Skye, 'Daily Life in Venice', Thomas Beecham, 'Restoring the Land: Environmental Values, Knowledge and Action', Wittgenstein, 'Jane Austen in Bath', and more. There's always more! Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5n8rz7rv

There's also a little book of poetry entitled: 'A World Where News Travelled Slowly'. For a moment, I read this and pined for such a time! Even as my brain immediately started pointing out the negatives...

We hope the week has been treating you kindly, especially on this Thursday where the skies were a brilliant blue above us on the way into the bookshop. We can't see if it's still the case, as there's a truck parked opposite our doorway, but we suspect it's blue skies and sunshine still. Enjoy your day, and read on!

Tuesday, and we hope you're doing well, wherever you are in our wide world. Here, we still have the heavy-duty fans with us drying off the floor, which is a Good Thing. The floor is largely dry now, but better to be sure...

We do have some books to share with you today: behold us carrying on regardless! A facsimile limited edition of Arthur Phillip's 'Voyage to Botany Bay', a collection of Spike Milligan's stories and poems, Simon Schama's 'Citizens', Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Fathers and Sons' (Alexander Waugh), 'Painting Masterclass', Coleridge, Jung, André Malraux's 'The Voices of Silence' and more besides. You can find additional information on these and all our listings here: https://tinyurl.com/2hwzxs6c

For now, we'll get on with the dance. Look after yourselves, and read on!

Thank you for all your concern over our last post regarding the flooding we experienced on Saturday. We've come in this morning to a much-improved situation, and over the weekend a lot of clearing up has been done, for which we are most grateful. The cause of the flood was apparently a pump which had been turned off in error. (Truth to tell, we are still a little twitchy and the adrenaline is still evident, but this too shall pass.)

A smaller bunch of books for you today, normal service will resume later this week! This lot includes: Elizabeth Jolley's biography, 'The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick', the story of the Palm House at Kew Gardens in England, P.L. Travers, 'Talkin' Up to the White Woman' (Alison Moreton-Robinson), 'The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery', 'Sleepless Souls: Su***de in Early Modern England', 'The Making of Australians' (featuring the art of Robert Ingpen), & Mary E. White's 'Listen... Our Land is Crying'. The link to find out more about these titles and all our listings is here: https://shorturl.at/adkvX

We'll leave it there for now: the fans brought in over the weekend are quite noisy, but they're drying things out nicely, and should be gone overnight. We hope the week is kind to us all, keep calm and read on!

Friday and we hope things are well with you, wherever in our wide world you are.

We are featuring 'The Lost Diggers' once again, as another overseas customer has baulked at the extra postage involved in sending this 3.3kg book to Europe. It is understandable, of course, but we thought we'd include it in today's post to show it some affection. The book may be destined to be with us for some time yet! (Some books are with us for a very long time before they find their new homes.)

Today's lot includes: 'The Diaries of Ethel Turner', 'Dark Victory' (David Marr & Marian Wilkinson), 'History of Su***de', 'Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith', 'Imperial Mud' (James Boyce), 'Humanity's Mirror: 100 years of Anatomy in Melbourne', 'Northern World', 'The Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of Peru', '100 Famous Views of Edo', and ever more. Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://shorturl.at/bghO0

We hope you have a happy and relaxing weekend, book fiends. And happy Mother's Day to all the mums out there, may you feel appreciated and cherished on this and every day!

Thursday, and we've just put two copies of 'Struggletown' aside, which seems appropriate for the week somehow! Some weeks are just like that, aren't they? But enough of all that: we shall keep calm, and carry on as best we can.

Today's bunch of books includes: Graham Kennedy, Osbert Sitwell, Wendy Lowenstein's 'Weevils At Work', Tim Winton, David Lodge, 'River Boat Days', 'Islam and Romantic Orientalism', Bono, 'London - So Help Me!" by Winifred Ellis with drawings by Ronald Searle, a complete set (44 volumes) of the New Series of Australian Historical Monographs, 'Rites and Riots: Folk Customs of Britain and Europe', and as always- more! The link to additional information on these and all our listings is here: https://tinyurl.com/4tphjw2s

Have a wonderful Thursday, we hope it's treating you kindly.

A fine autumn Tuesday out there on the streets above us, and we hope your day is going well. We've been moving books around from stack to stack, gradually making progress though the casual observer may not think so!

Our offerings for today include: 'A Story of Australian Painting', 'Michelangelo', Dyson Hore-Lacy's 'Fitzroy', several books about Shakespeare, 'Mutiny on the Bounty' (Fitzsimons), 'Killers of Eden', Peter Singer, Simon Schama, 'On the Fall of the Hammer : A personal history of the Newmarket Saleyards', 'Inventing Ireland', 'Poor Souls, They Perished. The Cataraqui: Australia's Worst Shipwreck', and - yes, ever more. Additional information on these and all our listings can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4as5ej6j

And now- those stacks are still calling to us, and we can find homes for a few more books, so we'll get on! Take care out there, and enjoy your virtual browsing...