I have written before about 2nd Street Books in Osceola, Missouri—pretty much my favorite bookstore ever. Sunday morning after Thanksgiving this was all that was left of it: The entire building, as well as a couple of others, caught fire Saturday night. I bought a lot of my favorite books, and favorite editions of books, …
Tag: 2nd street books
Jun 22
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury passed away recently at the age of 91. I was 14 when I bought my first Bradbury book at the Higginsville Country Fair book sale in 1986. It was a paperback copy of The Illustrated Man. I bought it partly because I knew the name Ray Bradbury, but not knowing why he was …
Feb 04
Review: A Death in the Venetian Quarter
Alan Gordon’s is one of a series of mysteries set around 1200 AD and based on characters from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The main characters are jesters who belong to the Fool’s Guild, who in this particular novel attempt to solve a murder and prevent the fall of Constantinople. Judging the book by its cover like …
Jul 01
Frawgs
The following image is scanned from an old edition of The Virginian I picked up at 2nd Street Books in Osceola. I have no idea what is going on in the picture, as I haven’t yet read the book; I just picked it up because my friend Trampas was named after the character in the …
Feb 10
2nd Street Books
One of my favorite bookstores is 2nd Street Books in Osceola, Missouri, a small town about a half an hour south of Clinton on Missouri Highway 13. The store is in an old building just off the square, and has a pretty large inventory of books from all genres. Prices are very good: almost all …
