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The Rose City Book & Paper Fair opens TOMORROW. We are all set up and ready for you -- booth pictures to come!We've brou...
06/12/2026

The Rose City Book & Paper Fair opens TOMORROW. We are all set up and ready for you -- booth pictures to come!

We've brought a lot of visual materials for your perusal: portfolios, prints, posters. Included are this rare signed copy of Berni Wrightson's Creature coloring book and the cover image from the 1990 Spider-Man for Marvel, issue #3, matted and signed by McFarlane in gold at bottom.

Come browse booth E4 TOMORROW Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland!

Oops, three days away from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and I owe you a 2 for 1 today!We have the third issue of Spie...
06/10/2026

Oops, three days away from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and I owe you a 2 for 1 today!

We have the third issue of Spiegelman and Mouly's groundbreaking alternative comic, Raw, as well as Read Yourself Raw which contains its first three issues. Both are signed by Art Spiegelman and Charles Burns.

Come browse booth E4 on Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland!

Only five days left until the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down with some of our fair offerings this y...
06/08/2026

Only five days left until the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down with some of our fair offerings this year.

How about another great dust jacket today? Check out this beautiful first printing of Wolfe's counterculture classic, signed by one of the characters, Sonny Barger, leader of the Hells Angels.

Come browse booth E4 on Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland!

Six days until the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down with some highlights from our fair offerings.Next...
06/07/2026

Six days until the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down with some highlights from our fair offerings.

Next up is a signed copy of Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the basis for the iconic films, The Thing from Another World (1951), and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and, perhaps, the creepiest cover art that we're bringing.

Come browse booth E4 on Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland!

ONE WEEK until the Rose City Book & Paper Fair! We're counting down with some of our favorite items that we're bringing....
06/06/2026

ONE WEEK until the Rose City Book & Paper Fair! We're counting down with some of our favorite items that we're bringing.

Today, we have Margaret Wise Brown's first collaboration with Leonard Weisgard in The Noisy Book. Look at these illustrations!

Come browse booth E4 on Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland

Nine days out from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down of some of our favorite items we're bringing....
06/05/2026

Nine days out from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down of some of our favorite items we're bringing..

Today, a found-materials art book by Marshall Weber: "House of Ghosts uses physical and metaphorical architectural structures to illustrate the interior emotional landscape of psychic exile and repatriation within one’s own body, psyche, and home."

Come browse booth E4 on Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland!

Nine days out from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down some of our favorite items we're bringing thi...
06/04/2026

Nine days out from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair and we're counting down some of our favorite items we're bringing this year...

Any puzzlers out there? We're bringing #1 and #3 of the Crime Club "Jig-Saw" puzzle series. Both contain short stories by Edgar Wallace accompanied by a 200-piece, double sided puzzle which shows the solution to the mystery when completed and both are complete!

Come browse booth E4 on Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland!

Somehow we're already 10 days out from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair! How about another countdown of some of our favor...
06/03/2026

Somehow we're already 10 days out from the Rose City Book & Paper Fair! How about another countdown of some of our favorite items we're bringing?

Starting out strong with this sharp first American edition of Agatha Christie's most widely read work, and the world's best-selling mystery of all time. Laid in is the owner's original purchase receipt for the book from May 1940.

Come browse booth E4 on Saturday June 13th and Sunday June 14th from 10-5pm at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland!

Care to peruse in person? We've got a BUSY summer lined up!Catch us locally in Gig Harbor and Bremerton, just down the r...
05/14/2026

Care to peruse in person? We've got a BUSY summer lined up!

Catch us locally in Gig Harbor and Bremerton, just down the road in Portland, and later in Colorful Colorado.

NYC, we are ready for you! Stop by booth 206 at the Manhattan Rare Book and Fine Press Fair today, Saturday May 2nd from...
05/02/2026

NYC, we are ready for you! Stop by booth 206 at the Manhattan Rare Book and Fine Press Fair today, Saturday May 2nd from 9am-5pm.

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