Ain't Portland Grand

Thank you very much for taking the time to look at us. We are a small business doing our best to have a great time while providing things of interest to our customers. We have lots of strange/esoteric/fun things to look at, in addition to a great selection of used and rare books. We would love to see you in person and encourage you to come into the store, located at 1401 SE Division St, Portland, OR 97202-1139. We are here in the afternoons Monday through Saturday.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Thanks to everyone who visited us at the Rose City Used Book Fair!

We returned from the Rose City Used Book Fair with a bounce in our step and feeling good about business and things in general.  Thank you to everyone who came by to visit, and thank you to all those who purchased things from us this year.  We did a better job of bringing books which stood out, though I'm surprised that all of the kids books with beautiful dustjackets didn't sell- in fact, not a single one of them did.  In any case, we still have a great bookstore full of stuff and we welcome you to come in to take a look some day.  Thanks again to Debbie and Rachelle of PAUBA (www.pauba.org)  I've attached some photos below to give you an idea of what you missed in case you didn't have a chance to make it this year.  This is the 5th or 6th annual and it's always a great time, so we hope that you can make it next year.




New Featured Books on the website

I've noticed that it's not terribly difficult to upload photos of our books to our personal website, so I will begin to do so for the best books that we have- I hope to have photos of all of our books priced above $100 listed within a couple of months (let's see how I do).  Today I updated some of the featured listings on our site and think that they give potential customers a great idea of the kind of books which interest us and which we enjoy selling- the rare, beautiful and sometimes curious.  Thanks for looking and we hope that you find something which interests you.