Happy New Year From All of Us @ PFB

Thanks to everyone who bought, sold, or traded books with us in 2009. A busy and successful year.

Coming soon to both stores: new shelves, way more new books, and tons of publisher's remainders (about 1500 pounds of them, scheduled to arrive some time in the first week or two of January).

We have also just received a massive shipment of protective plastic Brodart book jackets, and can now cover anything from tiny Science Fiction Book Club hardcovers to oversize art books. Never Brodarted your books before? Bring yours in to either shop; the jackets are really inexpensive, and we'll cover your books while you wait.

Kits will be CLOSED New Year's Day, but Main Street will be open from 12 noon to 6pm. See you next year!

We just finished helping a lost delivery driver find the Main Street store. In the back of his truck was a pallet of remainders (new books returned to publishers and sold by us at approximately one-third to one-half their original Canadian cover price) to be divided between the Main Street and Kitsilano stores, including titles by Lacan, Rilke, Ryu Murakami, and about a hundred pounds of miscellaneous Shambhala Press books on Zen Buddhism, Japanese swordsmanship, and Asian martial arts.

It's pretty full in here this afternoon.