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April 15, 2005
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Zebulon said
Bert H. said
Zebulon said
Abe is very legit. It is less a bookstore than a network of bookstores, which gives the small independents nationwide reach
I can also recommend Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon, which has a Website store. They buy libraries and I’ve bought a number of used O’Connor and Elmer Keith titles from them, both online and in the big store on Burnside in the Pearl district.
Powell’s has been one of my favorites for more than 40-years. It was just a short drive from my grandparents’ home in Portland.
Bert
Then you probably grieve with me what’s happened to the City of Roses. I first went there on a case not long after Mount St. Helen’s eruption in 1980, and couldn’t get enough of the city. Later, my son moved there and my grandchildren were born there. I visited many times and Powell’s was always on my agenda.
The last time I was there, Pioneer Plaza had become dangerous. Even so, if I could, I’d have an apartment in Goose Hollow near the library.
I very have purposefully have not visited downtown Portland in more than 25-years. It (like many other of the larger west coast cities) has denigrated to Slum status. Way too many drug dealers selling their poison to the addicts and homeless people infesting what was once a beautiful city.
Bert
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Blue Ridge Parson said
Ian,
If you are truly looking to buy the Stevens Target Rifle books, the two web links I provided in post #6 have the books in stock, and both sites are thoroughly reputable. Buy or don’t buy, but there they are.
BRP
Well, $32.50 on the site I posted seemed way too low to be real. Your two sites have the two volumes for $164.95 and $239.95. I’ll think about ordering the set.
$164.95 and $239.95 sounds like a lot of money, but dinner for two anywhere you sit down costs that now once you get a bottle of wine.
I see gun book purchases as the best money I can spend. The books often outperform the guns themselves as an investment. It’s the gun books I did not purchase when they first were published that haunt me, as they can quite rapidly appreciate in value beyond my ability to purchase them!
And to Bert & Bill— I used to ride my bicycle to Powell’s Book store, before I even had a driver’s license, as the City of Roses was where I grew up. Powell’s book store, and Rose’s Restaurant and Deli (where you get a cinnamon roll the size of a Cadillac hub cap) are things I still remember with great fondness.
BRP
September 22, 2011
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Blue Ridge Parson said
mrcvs said
Blue Ridge Parson said
Ian,
If you are truly looking to buy the Stevens Target Rifle books, the two web links I provided in post #6 have the books in stock, and both sites are thoroughly reputable. Buy or don’t buy, but there they are.
BRP
Well, $32.50 on the site I posted seemed way too low to be real. Your two sites have the two volumes for $164.95 and $239.95. I’ll think about ordering the set.
$164.95 and $239.95 sounds like a lot of money, but dinner for two anywhere you sit down costs that now once you get a bottle of wine.
I see gun book purchases as the best money I can spend. The books often outperform the guns themselves as an investment. It’s the gun books I did not purchase when they first were published that haunt me, as they can quite rapidly appreciate in value beyond my ability to purchase them!
And to Bert & Bill— I used to ride my bicycle to Powell’s Book store, before I even had a driver’s license, as the City of Roses was where I grew up. Powell’s book store, and Rose’s Restaurant and Deli (where you get a cinnamon roll the size of a Cadillac hub cap) are things I still remember with great fondness.
BRP
I agree! I paid the price not getting the 1895 book when it came out.
From your link, this is the cheapest price for BOTH volumes at $164.95. But the seller is Innovative Solutions, a consulting firm in Roswell, Georgia. Is it legitimate?
June 1, 2023
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With a 5 star rating on Alibris, there is little to no chance of any problem. And if any issue should arise, Alibris would take care of you.
BRP
April 15, 2005
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Blue Ridge Parson said
And to Bert & Bill— I used to ride my bicycle to Powell’s Book store, before I even had a driver’s license, as the City of Roses was where I grew up. Powell’s book store, and Rose’s Restaurant and Deli (where you get a cinnamon roll the size of a Cadillac hub cap) are things I still remember with great fondness.
BRP
I spent a lot of time in Portland during the ’60’s & ’70’s (before enlisting in the U.S. Navy), but by the time I got back home to the west coast (in early 1985), Portland was rapidly declining into a cesspool, and it has only completely rotted since then.
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September 22, 2011
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Blue Ridge Parson said
With a 5 star rating on Alibris, there is little to no chance of any problem. And if any issue should arise, Alibris would take care of you.
BRP
Okay I ordered these. THANK YOU!
With regards to the sites I located, how, or why, are these even allowed to operate?
September 22, 2011
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Bert H. said
Blue Ridge Parson said
And to Bert & Bill— I used to ride my bicycle to Powell’s Book store, before I even had a driver’s license, as the City of Roses was where I grew up. Powell’s book store, and Rose’s Restaurant and Deli (where you get a cinnamon roll the size of a Cadillac hub cap) are things I still remember with great fondness.
BRP
I spent a lot of time in Portland during the ’60’s & ’70’s (before enlisting in the U.S. Navy), but by the time I got back home to the west coast (in early 1985), Portland was rapidly declining into a cesspool, and it has only completely rotted since then.
Bert,
What is Seattle like and how does it compare to Portland?
Inquiring minds want to know!
January 20, 2023
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Ian, i have kin near Seattle. Seattle is even more expensive than Portland to live in. However, they both seem to be governed by Moonbats.
I think the suburbs and exurbs of both cities are still pretty nice, although mind-numbingly expensive to a Texan.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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