Adding on to yesterday’s theme of beautiful natural history books…there is something about these illustrations that are just timeless. There are several styles to choose from in this stack, and more on the shelves since I can never turn them down! 1934. The color plates are soft and colorful, pastels I think, but I especially love the brown and white drawings that decorate each page. This is a well read and inexpensive volume, but so fun to read through! 
Another classic featured is the 
American Natural History book by W.T. Hornaday. This book fell off the shelf and had a cracked hinge repaired with book tape, bringing the price down, but any one will love the detailed information and vintage 1926 drawings and photos. Lastly we have a copy of Handbook of Nature-Study for Teachers and Parents 
by Anna Botsford Comstock published in 1922. This 900 page volume has pages of “Teacher’s Stories” to be read, lesson plans, photos, you name it. Wish I learned this much about birds in school!
Category Archives: Sales
101 Holiday Gift Ideas: #52-53 Amazing Wildflower Book Sets
We have two beautiful and authoritative wildflower book sets, one for the Pacific Northwest States and one for the Southwest states, that would be a wonderfully special gift for the botanist in your life. These sets, edited by Harold William Rickett of The New York Botanical Garden, are oversized volumes with full color photos of each flower adjacent to the descriptions, always a plus in my opinion! The northern Sierra Nevada is covered in the Pacific Northwest set, and the Southwest includes our more deserty southern areas.
If you have an incurable gift box shaker, these heavy volumes out to cure her!
101 Holiday Gift Ideas: #43-51 Love a Local History Book
We now have nine of the ever popular Images of America series on the Owens Valley and Eastern Sierra. From Bodie to Bishop to Manzanar, these cover the range! If you haven’t seen them, they are simply organized collections of historic photos with carefully edited, paragraph captions for each photo. They are perfect to pick up and thumb through, and a perfect way to get a feel for the historic flavor and special people that make up a town or region. And did I mention they make a perfect gift? We can always order other localities for you as well, we’d be happy to check availaibility! 
This may be the only time I put these on sale….
101 Gift Ideas: #37-42 Purely Adorable Junior Elf Books
Hurry, because these are selling quickly on-line! We now have a basket of vintage Junior Elf Books, published by Rand McNally from the 1940’s through 1960s. They are a small format 5″x6″ light weight hard cover with brightly colored illustrations on the cover and throughout. They were not expensive children’s books when published, or now for that matter, more along the lines of The Little Golden Books – the kind of book a mom would purchase to keep her child busy on a shopping trip.
It is hard to identify the tipping point for vintage childrens’ books; the point when they are adorably nostalgic versus embarrassingly outdated, but these little books have all of the charm required to qualify. They would be a perfect multi-generational present, or could even be framed!
101 Holiday Gift Ideas: #29-36 Fishing for Compliments
You know you have at least one fishing obsessed person on your gift list, why not consider a beautiful and informative fishing book to peruse when he or she can’t be on the water? We have some really nice ones right now, and there are some great vintage titles too. You can opt for the all inclusive series, the stunning Orvis Flyfishing Guide, a little Philosopher Fish, some excellent women writers discussing fishing, or many, many other choices.
As an added incentive, pick any of the featured books this month, and we’ll give you 10% off! You can throw in some lures!
101 Gift Ideas: #21-28 Vintage Paperbacks
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I picked a random number of gift choices on this one, because there really are a lot to choose from! These vintage paperbacks are inexpensive, but so much fun! Of course many of the stories are enjoyable, from Tennessee Williams to classic detective novels like Sam Spade or Perry Mason, but it is definitely the covers that appeal so strongly. Vintage sci fi art is especially collectible, but we have great examples even many genres. Anyone will love, love, love a paperback in the stocking or a basket full for an instant collection.
Ask us if you don’t see these collectibles, some are tucked away in baskets and not on the general shelves. But do come and look at them!
101 Gift Ideas: #17-20 Beautiful Mountain Books
How can you go wrong with the many mountain lovers we have in our lives? This batch features beautiful books on climbing world famous summits, including Mt Whitney and El Capitan, two on the High Sierra, and another on the more scenic aspects of Southern California mountains. Of course there are many more choices in the store, come in and see!
November Sale – Cookbooks Galore and Holiday Crafts
With the amazingly beautiful fall weather, for those of us in the Eastern Sierra and obviously not impacted by hurricanes, it is still a little warm for the full soup, stew and holiday feast regimen….but it IS coming! You can be ready if you come check out our great stock of cookbooks, newish and vintage. They are on sale this month, 10% off! Plan your feasts and drool a little (maybe not in public), and come see us this month!
And I am sure it is not too late to make handmade, beautiful gifts for your friends and family, those books are on sale too!
May Sales To Consider
We have more books on sale for May, including all Science Fiction – you’ll want to scour the shelves for some more great cover art after checking out cover contest! Plus, Civil War and all Military History is on sale 10% off, and now I’m thinking gardening will be too, aren’t you in the mood for gardening with this weather? Do some reading before you put out those tomatoes unprotected, it can STILL freeze!
Community Reads Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Inyo County Office of Education has chosen 127 Hours, or Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston as the 2012 book to enjoy and share as a community…maybe enjoy is the wrong word to describe Ralston’s experience. Mr. Ralston will be here in Bishop to discuss his book and survival story in March, so you have plenty of time to pick up a copy and read it for yourself! East Side Books has a stack of new copies at discounted prices to get you going, and we will make sure any used copies get out as quickly as possible as well. We always have a stock of other climbing, survival and mountaineering stories as well in a similar vein. Let us know if you need special orders or have questions about the Community Reads events.