Eureka Books

Eureka Books We buy and sell books: new, used and antiquarian, from a Victorian storefront in Old Town Eureka, CA.

This page features rare & wonderful selections from our used wares.

Rest in peace Barry Lopez. The naturalist and National Book Award-winner died on Christmas day from prostate cancer. Lop...
12/27/2020

Rest in peace Barry Lopez. The naturalist and National Book Award-winner died on Christmas day from prostate cancer. 

Lopez’ writings about the natural world and the consequences of climate change turned tragically personal last year when the devastating wildfires that burned through his property in Oregon destroyed his archive of books, awards, notes and correspondence.

Desert Notes was his first book. This copy inscribed by Lopez to actress Gloria Swanson and her husband, the writer and union activist William Dufty.

Breathing is the new smoking. 😷
12/14/2020

Breathing is the new smoking.
😷

Circa 1949. This pledge was to be signed by white Americans to oppose discriminatory laws and practices.
10/28/2020

Circa 1949. This pledge was to be signed by white Americans to oppose discriminatory laws and practices.

Leashes are the invention of men who lack confidence in their dogs.
10/23/2020

Leashes are the invention of men who lack confidence in their dogs.

Loving this bright and beautiful 1898 binding.
10/22/2020

Loving this bright and beautiful 1898 binding.

Statements against dictatorship still required.
09/30/2020

Statements against dictatorship still required.

A sweet literary treat: a collection of Jack London’s inscriptions to his wife, Charmian, in her copies of his books. ...
09/16/2020

A sweet literary treat: a collection of Jack London’s inscriptions to his wife, Charmian, in her copies of his books.

It sure is fun to find copy number 1.
08/14/2020

It sure is fun to find copy number 1.

Revolt!
06/29/2020

Revolt!

It’s always delightful to discover another nineteenth century author writing under a male pseudonym to get around the pr...
05/28/2020

It’s always delightful to discover another nineteenth century author writing under a male pseudonym to get around the prejudices of book buyers and reviewers

A scarce, signed copy of the 1880 teen adventure story A Jolly Fellowship.
05/28/2020

A scarce, signed copy of the 1880 teen adventure story A Jolly Fellowship.

13 years before Dracula, Bram Stoker was touring America, a country about which he later wrote he was "absolutely ignora...
05/20/2020

13 years before Dracula, Bram Stoker was touring America, a country about which he later wrote he was "absolutely ignorant" when he first arrived in 1883. "I took some pains to post myself up in things exclusively and characteristically American... before we left at the conclusion of our second visit I had accumulated a lot of books -- histories, works on the constitution, statistics, census, school books, books of etiquette for a number of years back" (from Stoker's Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving). Upon his return to London Stoker wrote a lecture that was later published in a pamphlet titled "A Glimpse of America."

The Grandissimes, featuring Stoker's ownership signature, is a novel set in New Orleans after the Louisiana purchase. It “may be said to be the first ‘modern’ Southern novel,” wrote literary scholar Louis D. Rubin Jr. "For if the modern Southern novel has been characterized by its uncompromising attempt to deal honestly with the complexity of Southern racial experience, then The Grandissimes was the first important work of fiction written by a Southerner in which that intention is manifested."
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