Happy 2011!! We are doing well and hope it's a great one for all of us.

We just want to thank you for looking at our website and/or blog and wish you a happy and healthy 2011.  2010 was long and arduous for many of us and we hope that this year is a great one for you and yours.  We plan on dealing in as many great books and printed materials as we can and hope that you will come visit us when you have a chance, or that we are able to do business with you online if you aren't in the area.  Thanks again and we wish you well.

We are still here and have been making some amazing acquisitions

Thanks for looking at our blog and we are happy to be posting some good news about the store- we are moving higher on the local search results for bookstores in town and have been able to acquire some high quality books that are improving our stock and exciting to deal in.  We purchased a collection of high end fashion books, some of which are listed now and some photos of a book about Grace Coddington, the legendary stylist at Vogue, are pictured below.  We've also purchased some beautiful sets from the 1800s which are in solid shape and extremely decorative, for any of you reading this who appreciate the finer aspects of book binding.  We have 34 volumes of Walpole's writings bound in the same leather binding as the last photo, along with a beautiful 6 volume set of Smollett's Works from 1806.  We have purchased books on Ferraris, samurai swords, Oregon history and lots of stuff in between.  Please take a look at the photos below and let us know if you have anything special or interesting that you would like talk to us about selling.  Thanks for looking.

New Photography and Art Websites

So I have been interested in photography for quite a while, but only started taking pictures seriously in the last 9 months or so.  My Mother was a photographer when I was younger, though she now focuses more on her Chinese art, but I've always been interested in the medium and decided that I would pick up a camera and see what happened.  9 months later I decided to put up a photography site to let people see my work and so I thought I would post the link to it here, in case anyone is interested in taking a look at it.  I would love to hear your feedback if you have any, and my email is on the contact me link on the homepage.  www.nilehagen.com


The second thing I have been working on is a website showcasing some vintage magazine covers we got into the store a while ago.  They are beautiful examples of the Art Deco style and we have over 20 original Erte covers, if you happen to know who that is.  Most of them are available to be sold and generally on a frame to suit basis.  Please check out the site and let us know if you are interested in any of these beautiful, original pieces:

www.vintagemagazineart.com

Longfellow's Books Named One of Portland's Best Places 2010/2011!!!

Congratulations are in order for us as we have recently learned that we are to be included in the new edition of Portland's Best Places.  We have been included 4 times in the last 9 years and this year it is particularly gratifying as we have been particularly dedicated to keeping the store clean, presentable and chock full of beautiful books and magazines as of late.  You can find the link to the new edition here:  Amazon.com: Portland's Best Places and we hope you will check it out.

Beautiful sets for interior decorators and bibliophiles alike

We have had some contact from local interior decorators looking for attractive books to buy to fill the needs of their clients.  We also notice that some of the books we have in the store are quite attractive and would be to any bibliophile.  Making them even more interesting is the fact that most stores don't carry many multi-volume sets and that we love the quality of antique publishers in lots of cases, thus I thought I would post some photos of books- some recently acquired and others we have had for years that I know someone out there wants.  The first photo is of some limp suede leather volumes with beautiful gilt on the spines, and then there are some sets that I'm sure will interest some of you.  Honestly we have approximately 20 other sets which might be of interest if you are looking for such attractively bound books, not to mention all of the single volumes in the store.  Please let us know if you would like more information and we hope to see you in person.

Nile

A wonderful review of the store written by an intrepid bibliophile

One of our new customers is apparently a blogger, and a good one at that from what I can tell.  Tiah came into the store a couple of weeks ago and wrote a very nice review of the store on her blog, which we are providing a link to here.  Please take a look for some photos taken by a customer and her thoughts on the store, which include the words "chaotic" and "higgeldy-piggeldy" but only in the nicest possible way.  Thanks for looking and I will be posting some photos of some books new acquisitions in the next couple of days.

http://placeofpassage.com/2010/07/27/longfellows%C2%A0books/

Thank you very much for looking at our blog (Also, Dante's Infernos have sold)

We have had a recent rush of inquiries regarding one of our posts- the copies of Dante's Inferno from the mid-1800s.  While we wish we had a thousand copies of these books to sell, unfortunately they were sold within a month of acquiring them and we haven't seen any similar copies since.  We will certainly post photos of any copies we acquire in the future and we thank you very much for looking at our blog and website.  It appears as though traffic on the blog and site have picked up considerably as we went over a year without any inquiries regarding these books and now have had many in the last two weeks.  Thanks again for looking and we hope you will check back next time you are looking for rare/antiquarian/interesting materials.