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Dayton, OH, USA brick & mortar since 1939. Dealers in back-issue comics, magazines, used books, & videos, including vintage erotica.

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5/10/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Right now, visit the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration site and find out if you might get to see the northern lights this weekend.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

But don't count on getting super powers!

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5/3/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

For Star Wars Day, the original trilogy in 3 versions, plus original expanded universe novels, now known as Legends. These & many more here, now! May the Fourth be with You!

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5/2/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Even Nostradamus didn't predict I'd spend so much time 2024 with Westerns, Horseback Riding, Harness Racing, & Horse Care. I rode a horse once–part of Summer camp, a Scout badge, or something like that... My jam is sci-fi. Maybe it's time I rewatch that space Western series, Firefly.


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4/29/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Art & Logic are not mutually exclusive, though they do occasionally exist in isolation, to their own detriment. I believe there is artfulness in everything. Logic often finds that even chaos has order if we can look close enough. Perhaps, after all, they're really part of the same thing.

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4/23/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

It's insect season. Some are good, some aren't. These will help you know the difference. You might look the bugs up on your phone; but real books are better... You can swat the bad bugs with an old book. Try that with your phone and you could be out a few hundred bucks!

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4/22/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

I'm still corralling our Westerns. Louis L'amour reigns in the genre. Here's a 3-vol. collection of "The Sacketts" & a DVD miniseries, to boot! Take the dusty trail to our Arts section for a book of Charles Russell paintings. Saddle up & mosey in for many more!


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4/20/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Happy Earth Day!

Here's a slightly sun-faded bio of silent-film star Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin's first film with sound was "The Great Dictator," a hilarious & damning satire of Hitler & fascism in WWII-era Europe. Fire up your 4/20 Saturday a enjoy a 'little tramp" film festival!


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4/18/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Enjoying ? This ©2000 book hits the spot, chronicling the history of the from their comics origin through the millennium, including personal character details and info about their mansion/school/HQ, powers, vehicles, equipment, friends, foes, and alternate timelines! Just in at !


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4/15/24 — Open 6-9p Mask Recommended. No open drinks, please.

Derby Day & Summer Olympic buzz is ramping up. Enjoy this book of horse racing short stories or a photographic love letter to Paris, France!

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4/12/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

New to our Biographies... In '72 Hughes' Corp. built the Glomar Explorer mining/salvage vessel. To build it, a giant crane barge was made by Sun Shipbuilding. It was all a CIA cover, to recover a wrecked Soviet sub. That crane, the Chesapeake 1000, still works today at the MV Dali-shipwrecked Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, MD.


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4/6/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

If "The Spirit of '76" makes you think of Will Eisner instead of America's birthday, you might be a pulp fan.
When you hear "Psycho" and think of Robert Bloch instead of an ex, you might be a pulp fan.
Will Eisner's Spirit Casebook 1: True Haunted Houses & Ghosts (1976, 1st print, 1st ed).
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1962, 1st/1st).


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4/4/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Concept Art Book Alert!
I remember "The Road Warrior" new in 1981, watching his "Mad Max," origin on VHS, then meeting Auntie Entity & Master-Blaster to go "Beyond Thunderdome" in '85... A 4-yr journey to an apocalypse. It took 5x as long to get to "Fury Road." Now, 9 yrs later, catch up with their world before seeing the Max-less origin of "Furiosa!"


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A photo of the back cover of THE ART OF MAD MAX FURY ROAD. From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, comes Mad Max: Fury Road, a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. THE ART OF MAD MAX FURY ROAD IS THE OFFICIAL COMPANION BOOK TO THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MOVIE. Dominating the back is a low angle front-end painting of two heavily armored, rough hewn semis, sides scraping and sparking as they race through the desert. In the lower left isa detailed sketch of Imperator Furiosa. The lower right features Max jumping from the good of a large sedan escaping an immense fireball. FILM US $39.95/CAN $46.00/UK £24.99 ISBN: 9781783208167 53995 9 781783 398167 Copyright ©2015 Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. MAD MAX FURY ROAD and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. WB SHIELD ™ & © Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.(s15) TITANBOOKS.COM

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4/2/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Today's date is a palindrome. 4224 or 2442, depending on your standard. 42 is the answer to Life, The Universe, & Everything according to Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Odd subjects for a numerically even Tuesday. Today I present 2 books with 4 aliterative adjective pairs about unusual inventions. Enjoy!


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3/28/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

It's baseball season's Opening Day! Our sports section is ever popular, from vintage back-issues of Sports Illustrated to biographies and more. Go Redlegs!



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3/26/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Who doesn't love a good pop-up book; and–1 month from , why has Ridley Scott's movie never had one?

The used book market doesn't often see pop-ups in working condition. This one is 100% functional with a small, unintended fold of the frontal lobe. In other words, it has minor brain damage.


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3/25/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Reminder... The solar eclipse is just 2 weeks away. Masses of people, normally safe at home during darkness, will be gathered to watch the moon block the sun's light – a 3-minute bonus-round smorgasbord for creatures of the night!


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3/23/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

This here's a sign up in Bonnett's Bookstore, hangin' near a few toys from our collection; Huckleberry Hound, Ziggy, & Bugs Bunny. The poster stakes claim to our Western Stories section. It was drawed for us by friend to the shop, Adaline Hawkey, in the days and style of a pulp magazine cover, more'n 4-score years ago.


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3/21/23 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Here in SW Ohio are many prehistoric first-peoples archaeological sites: Fort Ancient's Great Serpent Mound, SunWatch Indian Village, and more which could make interesting Solar eclipse viewing...


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3/19/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Plenty of conspiracy theories around. Mine is... What if was "glue" holding Earth's together? Now, the climate-weakend "glue" allows of / alignment to pull the planet apart! Or... will emerge during , taking advantage of our assembled masses – craned necks exposed as we focus all attention skyward.


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3/18/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks please.

If you're still trying to piece together the puzzle of your St. Patrick debauchery, you might skip this post. If you like Sudoku puzzles, this one's for you! 16 unmarked number puzzle mags! These are all about 10 years old, so, even if you do these all the time, you've probably forgotten this batch by now.


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3/16/24 — Open 6:30-10p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Literally & metaphorically, the Sun is gaslighting us. We're in a relationship with a bi-polar Solar partner. It gives us light but also makes shadows. There's light we can't see! What's Sol hiding? We're told to fear the dark, but Night is when we rest! What to do, what to do..?


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3/15/24 — Open 6:30-10p Mask Recommended. No open drinks, please.

You can't beat nature's fury but you can learn it's warning signs, ways to be safe, & what to do after. We've got books on First-Aid, DIY building/repair, many more related subjects, & Weather, itself.

Some areas hit by last night's Ohio tornadoes are also preparing for the eclipse, 3 weeks away. Beware of opportunist roadside vendors. Support established local businesses. Be generous in patience & kindness.

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3/12/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Featuring 12 of author & director Madeline Frank Brandeis' 20+ "Children of All Lands" children's stories from the 1920s-'30s. They're photo illustrated by she, featuring child actors in international garb & scenery.


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3/11/24 — Open 6-9p Mask Recommended, no open drinks, please.

It's nearly road-trip & car-show season. Are your wheels for goin' or for showin'? We've got a books to help you fix & care for cars, books of places to go - like Dayton's Packard Museum, and books made for dreaming... which is the way many epic journeys begin.


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3/9/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

These books are for the young-at-heart scientist & fun for responsible kids of ALL ages! Explore science, discover your surroundings.




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3/8/24 — Open 6:30-10p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

The big eclipse is just a month away! If you want to dig deeper into Solar science, these might be for you! We're within, but near the edge of the path of totality. The center is just a short trek north of here. I'm really looking forward to it.


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3/5/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

In our local Spring-like weather–the smell of earth stirring as buds break ground & roots begin to stretch–the birds sing and the mystical life-force of nature is revealed. Bursting forth today are 2 volumes of other ancient mystical secrets.


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3/4/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks please.

The groundhog was right. It's a beautiful here. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to buy books today. Still, I'll be putting cool stuff out, like these...


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3/2/24 — Open 6:30-10p tonight. Masks recommended. No open drinks, please.

Just thinking ahead to 🍀 followed by tournament 🏀, whose games are held right here in li'l ol' . A weeklong party! 🍻 Good times! Stop in and say "Hi!"


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3/1/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

From November 1979 LIFE magazine, "Barbie Turns 21." A walk through the first 2 decades of a toy line nearing 70 years of age. Now, in 2024, a wonderful & fun Oscar nominated movie. Good luck! A lot has changed over the years, but much has not.


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2/28/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

From 1528 fairy tale to 1959 Technicolor animation, to 1983 "blue" erotic fantasy... Most fairy tales get re-interpreted, but few with pedigree. Until 2011 and "Fifty Shades" no other sexy trilogy caused such a stir. Perhaps the trend from Technicolor to off-color to Grey reflects worlds into which they were created.


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2/23/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

It's the weekend! Who's going on a trip?
Be sure to update your maps.

Be absolutely sure your maps are dated before traveling back in time. If you're going to the future, just go with the flow, like the rest of us. Once the A.I.s figure it out, they'll badly autocorrect your route or dump you in their virtual hallucinations.


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I love WGI competitions!
I grew up in a neighborhood with a hotel off my back yard. The hotel parking lot was flanked by a large hill. We'd sit up there and watch competitors practice in the parking lot, like it was a mini arena. 😄

I believe the Dayton Convention Center is one of the WGI venues? Our shop is about a 10-minute walk straight down East Fifth Street. A lot of WGI folks visit this area, thanks to many nearby restaurants & other cool shops. 🙂👍

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Awesome! ✌️

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2/22/24 – Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Two very interesting books from a pile of new arrivals. Are they Philosophy? Writing? Sociology? I love the challenge of shelving cross-topic books. I'll probably put them in Science... Or, just let them float around the tables for a bit and see who finds them first. 😉


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2/21/24 — Open 6:30-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

We have new button flair! Each a one-of-a-kind item, hand-picked from locally-sourced remnant ephemera, artisanaly crafted, and built to last!

Find one uniquely yours, accessorize your gear & adorn your decor. They also make great gifts!


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2/16/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

New Fantastic Four promo steeped in MCM trappings suggest a '60s setting for the July '25 film.

The LIFE mag in Ben Grimm's hands seems to be 12/13/63, but at a Valentine's Day party, so, at least 2 months old when he's reading it.

A better cover choice for the FF might have been the 10/4/63 DNA cover.

Found both in my recent work pile.


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2/13/24 — Happy Birthday, Grandma!
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The ancestors are always near. Grandma Ruth Bonnett reminds me to straighten things up. The shop was her space. While Grandpa Harold was visiting publishers, Grandma kept the store in order, for almost 60 years.

Color inset photo by Walter Bonnett, in the shop, ca. early-1980s.


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2/12/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

I like to spot old magazine ads for cars I've driven. My brother had an IH Scout for a while–I borrowed it a few times. Dad gave me his VW Beetle after teaching me to drive stick. From Catalina to Montana via El Dorado, Monte Carlo, Saturn and more... What a long, strange trip it's been.


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2/9/24 — Open 6:30-10p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Boxes; some empty, awaiting their next assignment; some full with the real & imagined, comic & tragic, timeless & fleeting, crowded & lonely fears & desires spilled from the cornucopia of human imagination. You've entered, the Used Bookseller Zone.



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2/6/24 — after-work post. Open 2/7/24 from 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Working on really cool old LIFE magazines. This photo hit home today, 62 years after it's publication. Our shop was already about 23 years old when this magazine was new.


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2/5/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Monday's stink. I can't find the copy of "Everyone Poops" that I shared last week. I've looked everywhere & now think it may have been shoplifted. Maybe a good laugh will help clear the air... although, I'm not entirely sure if this book will help or not...



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1/31/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Avians & Asians <- I didn't notice this when picking today's books.

American Born Chinese are people who've been here all along. I'm German Born American, imported. Dayton, Ohio is "home." No one is born a nationality. That's learned.

Birds travel freely without problems. Invasive species are most often displaced by people, with passports & visas.


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It's Tuesday, the 2nd day of the workweek, the deuce.

Here's a steaming hot fresh copy of the classic book about going Number 2; and, everything from Winnie-the-Pooh to The Firm. Plus, DIY books about plumbing & bathroom remodeling.

1/30/24 — Open 6-9p. No open drink containers, please. Mask recommended & don't forget to wash your hands. 🙌 💩


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1/29/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

What if "The Shining" is s book about shadow puppets? One's inner light illuminating the evil in another. The clarity of youthful innocence versus the corrupting cynicism of adulthood?

Any genre-lit fans out there with thoughts on this idea?


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1/27/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please

Today would be Dad's 89th birthday.

Here he is in "Satan in High Heels" (1962), alongside it's stars–Meg Myles & Grayson Hall, with Del Tenney, who later directed schlock-classic, "The Horror of Party Beach."

Happy Birthday, Dad!


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1/24/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Today would've been Mom's 89th birthday. 'nuff said. She was private. She passed in August.

We grew up in a house full of books like this. There was always something cool lying around. We learned about places, animals, plants, architecture, mysteries of the human body, history, & much more; without even trying.

Is your coffee table naked? We can help.


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