Kevin stopped in at Always Buying Books in Joplin, MO. Bob and Alyse have such a great bookstore! Stop in if your in the area

A blast from the past this morning: Our location in 1976 and today!

1976: Woodruff’s Laundry and Cleaners
2025: Dickson Street Bookshop

Thanks to Lee Wyatt for sharing this black and photo their father took in 1976, and Paula Melody for resharing it recently.

💙📚We find all kinds of goodies in the books you bring us!

💙📚We recently acquire a few BIG estates of fiction, ancient studies, history, poetry, and more. There are some GEMS in here right now and lots going out on the shelves over the next couple weeks!

💙📚 Okay, maybe there is a portal 🤫

💙📚Happy Friday Bluesky folks, what’s everyone reading this weekend? I’ll start:

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Roses are red

Violets are blue

I slept terribly last night for some reason and just remembered that Valentine’s Day is like, two days from now, so I dug around in the boxes of things we found in books this morning in search of anything vaguely related to V Day and…

Here it is for you?

💙📚Continuing Black History Month today we’re featuring Until Justice Be Done, by Kate Masur, a groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, north and south, in the decades before the Civil War.

💙📚 Good morning Bluesky peeps. What’s everyone reading this weekend? I’ll start.

Black History is American History #BlackHistoryMonth

- “Let’s do this, Acura!” Short comic illustration, double sided

- Frank Sennes’ Moulin Rouge nightclub souvenir photo, July 2nd, 1955, Hollywood CA

- Neo American Silver Works Magazine card

- Wolf Woman enjoying her coffee, Carol’s Birthday and to Mindy

- Crossword from the April 29th 1943 issue of the daily Times

- Garden plan 1979

- Michael Bradford, inventor of the Genesis Bio-Entrainment Module, an early VR environment. 1997?

- William Hoye’s 1952 North Kansas City High School diploma

- Da Vinci Joker playing card

- Sarah McLachlan tickets, 2005

- Bigfoot’s Washington State driver(sic) license

- The Hogscald Hollow Furniture Doctor bookmark, in the hollow, Eureka Springs, AR

- Dog bookmark

- “The Future is Today” 1970s High School program booklet for the Electronic Computer Programming Institute

Part of the fun of working in a used bookshop is all the fascinating and unique things we find in our books every day. We share these periodically to spread the joy. Here's a selection of things found in books this week. 💙📚

Lots of Vonnegut hitting the shelves today. $8 each.