Prospero's Books

06/01/2026

06/01/2026

shaping up to be a scotching squelcher — Welcome to June! How’s bout a Monday BOOKday to kick iff this month!

in their own words: Capote & Petty

a few “Bs”: Borges & Bucky Fuller & Madame Blavatsky

The sexual life if savages

a classic on Hypnotism

a rare book in Hauntings and a oldie on spying…

06/01/2026

shaping up to be a scorching squelcher — Welcome to June! How’s bout a Monday BOOKday to kick iff this month!

in their own words: Capote & Petty

a few “Bs”: Borges & Bucky Fuller & Madame Blavatsky

The sexual life if savages

a classic on Hypnotism

a rare book in Hauntings and a oldie on spying…

05/30/2026

shaping up to be a Grpahic Novel/Manga (not to be confused with MAGA) kind of BOOK-day!

9 issues of Preacher (great stuff!)

Y: the last man Issues #1-3 (+4 more)

S*x Criminals issues #1- #6

2 deluxe hardbacks of Brubaker & Philips’ “Fatale” and a a single of “Reckless”

American Virgin 4 issues…

05/30/2026

shaping up to be a Grpahic Novel/Manga (not to be confused with MAGA) kind of BOOK-day!

9 issues of Preacher (great stuff!)

Y: the last man Issues #1-3 (+4 more)

S*x Criminals issues #1- #6

2 deluxe hardbacks of Brubaker & Philips’ “Fatale” and a a single of “Reckless”

American Virgin 4 issues…

05/26/2026

just in: A selection of hardback WPA American State guides from the dig-out of the depression era — including the Missouri & Kansas volumes!

05/24/2026

Dont know about you, but its feeling like a BOOKday (sun’s a beaming, Todd is decanting some way-smart rock on the juke…)

A coupla rare Stephen Kings!

a tour of Sunflower breweries

A memoir of 4 women who meet (and read 😎) at the Cedar Roe library right here in Roeland Park, ks!

an all too timely survey of the Great Depression

Throw the (closet) door open on a little secret: a history of Gay Washington DC (where’s the porcine one, Lindsay…)

a SIGNED Ben Carson, a great mind when not allowed to bungle history (no the solid stone pyramids were NOT granaries…)

“You are not a Gadget” by one of the seminal architects of the current online world… Jaron Lanier. SIGNED

a little rare first peoples…

05/01/2026

TONIGHT (fri 5/1) - we will close at 5pm.

back to normal, tomorrow…

04/27/2026

kick off your week correctly: some thunder-boomers + some fresh BOOKday

the grand dame of US Feminism, Gloria SIGNED

KEN KESEY’s illustrated prison journals

Jodorowski’s El Topo

The intimate Journey by Loren Eisley

The Legend of the Latin Quarter and the. Irth of Bohemia

a SIGNED John Gardner visit to “Morte Arthure”. And other poems

04/25/2026

anyone out here in Prospero’s-land have a working typewriter you might wanna part with?