All significant flaws are described dust jackets are protected by archival covers, and books are packed carefully for shipping. Traditional bookseller grading used - fine is our highest grade (an 'A'), very good is above average (a 'B), good is average (a 'C'). Call us at 20 or contact us by Our web page is Oak-covered hills, we built a 'bookhouse' for our books. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierraįoothills of Amador County, about 35 miles east of downtown SacramentoĪnd between Ione & Sutter Creek. (open every day fromġ0-5) The emphasis there is on Western Americana, children¿s books

We have a large booth dedicated to books (called Books Upstairs) at theĪntiques Upstairs Mall, 5 Main Street, Jackson, CA. We have been selling books by mail order and on the internet since 1993. Only about 50% of our stock is catalogued, so please inquire if you are searching for specific titles. We also have a large selection of books signed by the author and uncorrected proof copies.

Of the approximately 60,000 volumes in stock, the majority are hardcover first editions, although we also stock vintage science fiction paperbacks as well as sf digests and pulps.

We try to offer many uncommon books, and have a large selection of first books, and books by authors who are less frequently collected. In the waking dream that now constitutes everyday reality, images of a blood-spattered widow, the chromium trim of a limousine windshield, the stylised glamour of a motorcade, fuse together to provide a secondary narrative with very different - the name used by Volk and Iiams, Booksellers- specializes in first editions of twentieth century literature, with an emphasis on women authors, African American, Native American and Latin American authors - plus mystery & detective fiction, science fiction & fantasy, poetry and children's & illustrated books. Ballard’s novel Crash represents one of the author’s most sustained efforts to explore a delusion centered on trauma and the possibility of acceptance of death. How do we make sense of this ceaseless flow of advertising and publicity, news and entertainment, where presidential campaigns and moon voyages are presented in terms indistinguishable from the launch of a new candy bar or deodorant? What actually happens on the level of our unconscious minds when, within minutes on the same TV screen, a prime minister is assassinated, an actress makes love, an injured child is carried from a car crash? Faced with these charged events, prepackaged emotions already in place, we can only stitch together a set of emergency scenarios, just as our sleeping minds extemporize a narrative from the unrelated memories that veer through the cortical night. A huge volume of sensational and often toxic imagery inundates our minds, much of it fictional in content. “The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory.

Concrete island by jg ballard