Blue Rose Books

10/03/2011

Thanks to all our customers at Elan Collections , 408 St. Louis Av. (corner of 4th and St. Louis Av.), Long Beach, CA 90814 for a great year of service.

But today, alas, Elan Collections Moved, and Blue Rose Books has no place to move to.

We will keep you posted if we find another walk-in-store where we can reestablish our kiosk. But for now Blue Rose Books is only available on the internet at:

http://www.abebooks.com/bookseller/BLUER...

or at

http://bluerosebooks.alibrisstore.com/

Thanks for your continued business, interest, and moral support!

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09/21/2011

The burdens--and joys--of the printed word versus the digital.

Élan Collection Vintage is having a moving sale. Give us less to move and pick up some bargains.

Ideas are immortal, but the handy carrying cases in which they're toted around — i.e., books — are not. As proof, I offer my paperback edition of “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925) by Virginia Woolf. Published by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1953, the book is in sad shape; entire sections have fallen away from th...

08/11/2011

Philip Levine, whose poems capture the industrial heartland, is to be the next United States poet laureate.

08/07/2011

A new month means a new round of author birthdays! Come and look at which authors came into the world in August.

08/04/2011

"Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow."

Sylvia Plath's YA novel reaches middle age.

07/02/2011

4th of July WEEKEND Sale!
All books: 20% off !
Selected Items: 50% off!

05/31/2011

Happy Birthday to Walt Whitman! Thanks to Out of Print for sharing this great letter from Mark Twain to Whitman on his 70th.

Fascinating letters. Interesting correspondence.

05/31/2011

Loads of new inventory at Blue Rose Books! Check it out!

05/25/2011

Philip Roth, chronicler of 'the sexually liberated Jew in postwar America', beats stellar shortlist to take the fourth Man Booker International prize

05/21/2011

A different kind of Rapture (text)

I can feel she has gotten out of bed. That means it is seven A.M. I have been lying with eyes shut, thinking, or possibly dreaming, of how she might look if, at breakfast, I spoke about the hidden place in her which, to me, is l

05/21/2011

A different kind of Rapture (Audio)

By Galway Kinnell

05/03/2011

Did anyone get the the Festival of Books this year? Sadly we at Blue Rose did not, but would love to hear from others who did.

This weekend’s LA Times Festival of Books was jam-packed with all things literary. USC’s campus swelled with book-loving Angelenos. Children enjoyed readings by R.L. Stine and Jamie Lee Curtis, USC students waxed poetic from the USC stage, and laughs ebbed from comedian Patton Oswalt's audience. Pub