Indiana University IU Basketball Championships Blanket

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Every now and then, I come across an item which is just unique. I've had such an item for a while now and now have it listed in my store. It's a nice knit throw blanket celebrating Indiana University's five National Championships - 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981 and 1987. It is 100% acrylic and made by Logo Knits. You can see the blanket here.

Silver Screen Books shelves are filling up!

The store still isn't huge, but we're gradually filling the shelves and open for business - opened this summer, Silverscreenbooks.com has many volumes of books which have been made into movies. A number of them are vintage copies - a great opportunity to read the works that inspired some of the best movies made with some of the greatest actors on screen.

<----- a handful of James Bond books by Ian Fleming!

Travels with Charley - Steinbeck on Antiques

I just finished reading John Steinbeck's travelogue Travels with Charley, In Search of America. Towards the beginning a bit jumped out at me as a seller of items found here and about. It made me think of the selling online that many of us do, finding treasures here and selling them to others all over the world.

He wrote:

I can never get used to the thousands of antique shops along the roads, all
bulging with authentic and attested trash from an earlier time. I believe
the population of the thirteen colonies was less than four million souls, and
every one of them must have been frantically turning out tables, chairs, china,
glass, candle molds, and oddly shaped bits of iron, copper, and brass for future
sale to twentieth-century tourists. There are enough antiques for sale
along the roads of New England alone to furnish the houses of a population of
fifty million. If I were a good businessman, and cared a tittle for my
unborn great grandchildren, which I do not, I would gather all the junk and the
wrecked automobiles, comb the city dumps, and pile these gleanings in mountains
and spray the whole thing with that stuff the Navy uses to mothball ships.
At the end of a hundred years by descendants would be permitted to open this
treasure trove and would be the antique kings of the world. If the
battered, cracked, and broken stuff our ancestors tried to get rid of now brings
this much money, think what a 1954 Oldsmobile, or a 1960 toastmaster will bring
- and a vintage Waring Mixor - Lord the possibilities are endless! Things
we have to pay to have hauled away would bring fortunes.

Andersen's Fairy Tales - Beautiful Edition

Sometimes you find a book that just catches your eye. Some time ago, I picked up a very nice 1945 edition of Andersen's Fairy Tales with illustrations by Arthur Szyk.

<------ Here's a photo of the inside front cover (and the identical illustration is on the back inside too).

There are similar one page illustrations throughout the book, along with some black pen drawings.

Check out my books at http://silverscreenbooks.com/

Cincinnati Reds Honor Ken Griffey Jr. at 6/17/08 Game

Last night the Cincinnati Reds comemmorated the 600th Home Run hit by Ken Griffey Jr. with three giveaways at the game. I've got those items listed in my store available to his fans - a poster, an oversized card and a photo (including one listing with the ticket stub). Check them out here. Fast Shipping!

I also still have the Joe Nuxhall replica statue.

Joe Nuxhall Remembered At Cincinnati Reds Game Last Night

On the 64th anniversary of Joe Nuxhall's debut in the Major Leagues at the age of 15, the Cincinnati Reds and the City of Cincinnati renamed the 100 block of Main Street in downtown Joe Nuxhall Way. In commemoration, the Reds gave away replica bronze statues of Nuxhall; the same statue that stands in front of Great American Ball Park. I have four statues up for sale in my store's Baseball Emporium.

I also still have copies of both Cincinnati newspapers remembering Nuxie after he passed away - both the Cincinnati Enquirer and the now defunct Cincinnati Post's editions.

Ken Griffey Jr. Joins the 600 Home Run Club

Cincinnati Reds outfielder, Ken Griffey Jr. hit home run #600 last night in Miami. He is now one of just six players in history to hit 600 or more home runs.

We've got a great book in our store titled Junior: Griffey on Griffey - a 1st edition copy.

I've also listed some packages of Ken Griffey Jr. Valetines - another great find.