Anglophile alert! Many good things newly on the shelves. Many volumes of the Oxford History of England, at four dollars apiece. Several volumes of the annual Age of Johnson, the yearly collections of scholarly articles on the good Doctor, including such titles as “Horace Walpole’s Abuse of Samuel Johnson”–an amusing notion, consdering Johnson having been just about the all-time master of the unkind remark. And there’s been a splendid couple of shelves of biographies and studies of the Bloomsbury Group–ideal if Leon Edel is your favorite bedtime reading or you’re fond of people named Geoffrey (Grigson OR Keynes). Good stuff. Come take a peek.

Well, a LOT of embroidery and needlework books–probably the best lot we’ve had. It’s all in neat piles in the upstairs craft room, at least until SOMEONE STREWS IT ALL AROUND (grumbly Glenn mutters to himself). Also some excellent new art books, and a really exceptional lot of poetry books written by contemporary women. Come take a peek!

If you’re coming in this weekend, check out the display tables down in the courtyard. Randi just pulled in a great cadge of books on knitting, fashion, gardening and medieval history. (Bravo for our clientele’s varied interests.) It’s good stuff. Come take a look. Come buy! Our shelves are sagging, bursting, burdened, buried. We have a lot of books. Come buy, come buy!