Blue Bicycle welcomes local artist and book-maker, Bette Mueller-Roemer Sat., Feb. 5, 2-5 pm. Bette’s beautiful hand-made journals combine her affinity for ceramics, painting, and drawing. Bound with waxed linen thread, the journals are filled with blank cotton paper, separated with hand-painted section covers. Journal covers range from fine paper to ceramic plates, making the books as much of art [...]
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Bret Lott signs Dead Low Tide , Jan 28!
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Local professor and New York Times bestselling author Bret Lott will sign his new book Dead Low Tide at Blue Bicycle Sat. Jan 28, 1-3pm. This long anticipated sequel to The Hunt Club, set in the South Carolina Lowcountry, returns with more murder, mystery, and family secrets. No longer a teenager and now a young man, protagonist Huger Dillard must [...]
All Necessary Force Launch Party with author Brad Taylor, Jan. 17!
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Join Blue Bicycle at Red’s Ice House Tues, Jan. 17, 7:30 pm for the official launch of Brad Taylor’s anticipated new thriller All Necessary Force, second in the Pike Logan series. Last year, the launch of first book, One Rough Man, drew a crowd of over 200 people! Taylor draws on decades of experience in the [...]
Delicious Samples from the Charleston Junior League- Sat., Dec. 10!
Monday, December 5, 2011
Blue Bicycle Books welcomes the Charleston Junior League this Sat., Dec. 10, 2-4pm for a taste of Charleston Receipts, our best-selling cookbook! Charleston Receipts was first compiled in 1950 as a way for the League to raise money for the Charleston Speech and Hearing Center. Since that time, proceeds from the cookbook sales have supported [...]
YALLFest Schedule Changes
Friday, November 11, 2011
Please note that there have been some minor changes to the YALLFest schedule for this Saturday. In particular, the Industry Insiders Panel at 1 pm has been cancelled, and some personnel changes have been made to the Zombie Attack Panel at 5 pm. Please click the YALLFest! link above to see the updated schedule.
YALLFest This Saturday!
Monday, November 7, 2011
YALLFest 2011, a FREE event featuring 26 of the country’s top YA authors is Sat., Nov. 12, 10 am to 6 pm. This is Blue Bicycle Books’ largest event ever. Adding up all the volunteers/writers/donors/and more, just the number of people working alone ranks in our all-time Top Five shindigs. A spin-off of last year’s [...]
Come one, Come YALL!
Monday, November 7, 2011
We are truly grateful for all the authors who are coming to Charleston this weekend just for what we think will soon be the nation’s top Young Adult book festival. It’s an amazing, wide ranging group, former soccer moms and teachers, graduates of Yale, Williams, Harvard, Brown, Columbia who love spinning rich stories, natural talents [...]
Recently Acquired
Monday, November 7, 2011
A few new treasures decking our halls in time for the holidays: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. First edition, first printing. Viking, 1958, hb., 244 pp., in very good dust jacket with original price of $3.95 intact, some rubbing on front and back panels, and photo of ‘Ti Jean’ on the back panel. Black cloth [...]
Book-Launch for Kwame Alexander’s Acoustic Rooster Nov. 10!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Poet and author Kwame Alexander will be signing copies of his new children’s book, Acoustic Rooster, on Thurs., Nov. 10 from 6-7:30 pm. Kwame is also the founder of Capital Bookfest, the predecessor of this year’s YALLFest on Nov. 12. Kwame’s new musically-themed book follows a jazz-loving rooster on his quest to win glory in [...]
Signed Gone with the Wind
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Recently acquired! Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, first edition, first printing, signed, $19,900. Macmillan, 1936, signed in black ink by Mitchell on the front free endpaper, as was her custom. With all first printing, first issue indicators: “Published May, 1936” on copyright page, rear panel has GWTW listed second in the right-hand column. [...]