Cookbooks - Yum!

My wife, daughter and I hit some church rummage sales last weekend and I picked up about a dozen books. One of particular interest is a 1st printing of The Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book; printed in 1954 (the year I was born!). I've added to the Cookbook section of my TSC Sales store. It's not a huge collection, but there are a number of vintage editions.

Besides the Furness cookbook, I have

• 1953 El Molino Best Cookbook including allergy recipes!


• Vintage Cocktails, Authentic Recipes from 1920 to 1960 - 96 pages of great drinks!


• Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes Revised - signed by the late Congressman John Jennings Jr. of Tennessee.


• Good Housekeeping's Cake Book - 1958 edition, they made cakes great back then!


• Favorite Recipes of America - a five volume boxed set, 1966 edition.

Lots of great food to be made from the vintage books.

Getting the Auction Bug Again

It's been nearly a year since I've listed anything on eBay following the change in their rules for Sellers. I've continued to list items in my two eCrater stores (TSCSales and Silverscreenbooks.com), plus on Amazon. Sales have been up and down over the last year.

I've been hankering for some Auction sales and decided to make my way back to Overstock.com. I've now listed a couple of items there: a nice collection of James Bond paperback books, vintage from the 1960's and a book about the Football Hall of Fame signed by three Cleveland Browns Hall of Famers (Lou Groza, "Gluefingers" Lavelli and Paul Warfield).

Check out these great items!

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!