GREY MATTER BOOKS

After a year of hauling out the poetry and literature, we thought we'd give the right hemisphere a rest and activate the other half of our bicameral mission. Thus we are offering steeply-discounted new copies of Ox Bow Press science reprints (pictured above). These include all four volumes of the Philosophical Papers of Niels Bohr, as well as books by his sometime friends Heisenberg and Schrodinger. The press also published several titles by and about J. Willard Gibbs, a volume of Goethe's botanical writings and a smattering of other near-classics in science and philosophy.

Such a deal! Found this in an auction box lot--Limited Editions Club founder George Macy offering 6 signed Matisse prints for $40. The illustrations were supposed to be for Joyce's Ulysses, but Matisse botched it and did Homer instead.

Welcome to the Grey Matter/Troubadour Amalgamation of Books, Hadley's #1 hard-to-find source for hard-to-find books and records. We are located just off the bike path at East St. and non-motorists get a 10% discount year-round. We have a large, constantly churned selection of scholarly, scientific and general stock, nearly all priced below their internet brethren. House-calls made for quality collections in Amherst, Northampton, Springfield, and thoughout Connecticut and the New York metropoliitan area.

In Troubadour news, I put Bob Willig and his wife on a plane the other week. They have relocated to Santa Rosa, CA. The valley will not see the likes of him again. Not unrelatedly, Gabriel Books proprietor John Riley has issued his collected stories, entitled Books of the Weird, after Bob's beloved categorization. The volume is dedicated to Bob, and can be purchased at the my store, his store and many other locations.

 We have recently acquired around fifty brand-new copies of Robert Seydel's 'A Picture is Always a Book', co-published by Smith College Library. The book is half the list price, or $18, but if you were a friend or student of Robert's and don't have $18 to spare, we will trot out the old sliding scale.

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