Christmas is coming, baseball fans!

With the annual Winter Meetings closing yesterday, baseball is on the minds of fans during the cold winter months. With Christmas just around the corner, fans can peruse our Baseball Emporium to find great books, along with various Cincinnati Reds items. I still have some Ken Griffey Jr. items in the store, some commemorating his 600th home run last season. I also still have a couple of the Joe Nuxhall replica bronze statuettes.

As always, we ship quickly. Remember on the books, the shipping costs reflects U.S. Media Mail, so if you need 1st class or Priority Mail, contact me directly.

Chagall's Fiddler Screenprint Reproduction

I haven't put this up for sale, but I thought I'd solicit some help from our readers. I picked up a screenprint of Marc Chagall's Fiddler this weekend at The World's Longest Yard Sale. I've tried researching who may have produce a screenprint version of the famed painting, but haven't foudn anything. There are no identifying markings on the front or back of the piece.

Any clues?

Ken Griffey Jr. Moves on - now with the White Sox

It wasn't unexpected, but the anticipated move of Ken Griffey Jr. from the Cincinnati Reds to the Chicago White Sox took place on the last day of July. For Reds fans, it was a thrill to have one of the greatest baseball players of all time on our team, even if it never turned out as expected. Griffey did hit more than 200 home runs with his hometown team. Included were home runs #400, #500 and #600 just this season.

We have quite a number of Griffey items in our store:

• KEN GRIFFEY JR 600 HOME RUN PHOTO CINCINNATI REDS W/TICKET



• KEN GRIFFEY JR 600 HOME RUN PHOTO CINCINNATI REDS



• KEN GRIFFEY JR 600 HOME RUN CARD CINCINNATI REDS



• Ken Griffey Jr. Cleo Valentines - 32 count box



• Junior: Griffey on Griffey 1st Edition

Indiana University IU Basketball Championships Blanket

SOLD OUT - Thanks!

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.

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