Rare, Collectible, & Otherwise

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New from Inlandia Press

In the pipeline – and scheduled for a late summer 2010 release is Living on this Water Planet called Earth by Dexter MacBride, who draws upon his longtime legal and civic background in Southern California to produce a series of observations regarding the ever-changing state of our fragile planet. The author resides in Oklahoma City, Ok.

Visit the Bookstore!
McHuston Booksellers, 1603 South Main St. Broken Arrow, OK

http://mchustonbooks.com

Cultural Connection!

http://tulsahispano.com

Obscure but Commonly Requested

Do you have a copy of…. I’m looking for a certain book… Can you look up your books in stock and tell me if you have… By phone and front door, these are regular questions. Surprisingly, a good many of the inquiries are about obscure or scarce titles. Someone Cry for the Children is an example. Another inquiry about it today. It’s been out of print for years. We had three copies before Christmas 2009 and sold them all. It’s not been back in stock since. The Mullendore Murder Trial is another one. It concerns an Oklahoma murder case in northeast Oklahoma’s Osage County. Hard to find, and not cheap. The odd part? When scarce books are in stock, they sell infrequently. Folks just wonder “Do you have it?” and that seems to be reassurance enough.

Ol’ Trusty

A digital moment of silence, perhaps – in light of the unexpected collapse of my NCR electronic calculator, having served faithfully for thirty-five years. The plug was pulled this morning and the oversized math aid was placed in an area of honor at the back of the store.
It was a pioneer in its field. Ol’ Trusty couldn’t be bothered with scientific functions: no sines or cosines, no square roots or such etherial thinking. No, it was the big four that O-T mastered. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. A paper record of transactions? No way. Just the facts, ma’am, on an inoffensive glowing green screen. It came from the days when calculators were the new thing, just like those upstart electronic 4G phones are today. Ol’ Trusty was not 4G. More than likely – 1A Dinosaur.
I’m awaiting a call from the Smithsonian, where it surely belongs.

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