IT'S OFFICIAL.

We have been approved for financing, so later this year, we will be moving to our new home at 219 N. Gilbert Street.

Thank you for all the curiosity, excitement, support, cardboard box offers, help offers, and general absolutely delightful supportiveness you have shown us during this process. You've made what might have been an incredibly stressful prospect fun!

The bad news: Murphy-Brookfield won't be right down the street from us anymore. (Murphy-Brookfield Books is shifting to an online format for their business, and they kindly let us make an early offer on their building, hence the familiar address.)

The good news: The Haunted will have growing equity in a beautiful, historic home, which will help us to remain stable and committed to the Iowa City book community for decades to come.

Moving dates are not yet set (because we have not yet officially scheduled the upgrades we'd like to do *before* moving 40,000 books into the house), but we will keep you informed.

 

 

YES, we will be open on Labor Day, 10-8 as usual. Meaning neither disrespect to the Labor movement nor protest of it - we just have that many MORE BOOKS to process.

See you later this weekend!

Take pride in your loves. We'll be proud to support you.

 

 

All the sections look like this right now. Packed with genius, laughs, perspectives, and epiphanies. Find your next inspiration.

Remember when paperbacks ranged from $1.50 to $8 for the big fancy ones, and hardcovers started around $4.50 and got as high as $12.95?

HERE, they still do.

(...We do charge a little more for the 16th and 17th century books though. I'm sure you understand.)

And then I got more. Books, not cats. (Mark Twain and Neil Gaiman fans, you're going to be *so* happy.)

Someone just donated piles of pretty, old leatherbound books to the Benefit Sale. $1 each while they last, and the entire $1 goes straight to Local Foods Connection.

Also, some beautiful and thought-provoking Judaica, 19th century volumes of poetry, and an adorable set of Shakespeare - 12 volumes, 4" tall, red cloth with gilt titles, $36 if you buy it before the weekend.

We've got some lovely 19th-century surprises for you, from popular poetry titles to self-help and anti-atheism tracts (remarkably similar to each other) to a somewhat preemptive History of the United States dated 1835. Also lots of recent plays, reference works for Finnegans Wake dorks, and some nice, crispy Twain paperbacks.

Logan also wants me to tell you that he is desperately lonely and neglected and hasn't been admired properly for more than an hour.