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I’m full of Thanksgiving for Housing Works Bookstore Cafe!
This November, there are so many ways we can help you out!
Stressed about holiday meals? Order delectable pumpkin, pecan, and apple pies from our cafe. C’mon in and try a slice, or jump right in and email cafe@housingworksbookstore.org for more details. Buying pie from us instead of slaving over it ensures holiday meals for hiv-positive New Yorkers.
Stressed out about holiday gifts? You will not believe how many brand-new books and gifts we’ve been stockpiling for your shopping pleasure. And on Black Friday, our entire store will be 30% off!
Stressed out about leaving the house? No need to! You can shop Housing Works Bookstore online! Just use the little blue box on the bottom, and you’ll be searching our very own AIDS-fighting inventory!
With all the help we’re giving you, you might almost forget that is it you doing the helping, supporting the Housing…
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Rare Book Feature of the Week!
This wonderful illustration of colonial Philadelphia is just one of Norman Rockell’s additions to Benjamin Franklin’s legendary Poor Richard Almanack. Franklin began publishing his almanack in 1732, and it was so wildly popular (eventually selling over 10,000 copies) that he put out new editions for 25 years. Even Napoleon Bonaparte was a fan, and had it translated into Italian (the French was already immensely popular). The Almanack contained many things – poems, meteorological and astronomical information among them – but is today most famous for Franklin’s proverbs and aphorisms, such as “He who lives upon hope will die fasting.”
This collectible volume, produced by the Limited Editions Club in 1964, weds Franklin’s earthy, homespun wisdom with the splendidly colorful and organized compositions of Norman Rockwell. 1,500 hundred editions were printed in folio size with leather spines and a protective slipcase. Ours is number 1,408 and it is SIGNED by Rockwell on…
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Rare Book Feature of the Week!
The Evergreen Tales or Tales from the Ageless
The stories we learn as children leave indelible impressions on us – as much for their continuous resurfacing in popular culture and metaphor as for the warm memories their words conjure up. If you grew up with fairy tales like “Hansel and Gretel,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “The Ugly Duckling,” you’ll find this exquisite collection of nine illustrated stories in three folios truly irresistible. The full set of nine volumes kept in three bright clipcases also includes “Bluebeard,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Saint George and the Dragon,” “Dick Whittington and His Cat,” “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” Each is exquisitely illustrated and signed by Jean Hersholt, Edy Legrand, Edward Ardizzone, Malcolm Cameron or Henry Pitz. Only 2,000 copies of this beautiful Limited Edition Club set were printed in 1949, and our set is in…
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News & Press
Mayoral Candidate Forum on AIDS Announced; Thompson Attendance Confirmed Thompson releases positions on important AIDS issues at AIDSVote.org September 28, 2009 at 11:10am
Candidates for New York City Comptroller and Public Advocate to Participate in AIDSVote 2009 Forum De Blasio, Siegel, Gioia, Yassky, Liu, Katz and others will address AIDS issues at town hall-style meeting September 01, 2009 at 12:33pm
Books, Quiche Rock ‘N’ Roll Is a small Soho bookstore the most exciting new venue in town? June 24, 2009 at 5:26pm
