Posts filed under collectibles

July 26, 2016

Full stop: Portland

As I end this trip in Portland, the first obvious stop had to be Powell’s, the “city of books”. It keeps its promise of gigantism, complete with a colored-and-numbered coded…
July 24, 2016

My frontier for this trip

When I reached Prineville in the late afternoon, there was no bookstores to be seen, though there were books in one of the windows of the block-long “Neat Repeat” store….
July 23, 2016

A parenthesis… or not

When I left Klamath Falls this morning, the bookstore, Basin Book Traders, was still closed; a lone reader sat on the bench placed outside the strip-mall store. So, I thought, this…
July 22, 2016

Tournier spotting in Eugene

The table outside J Michaels Books, in downtown Eugene, looked promising (the anniversary edition of Eloise’s adventures!); the carefully curated collection inside confirms the promise. For the first time since I…