Comments | princeofcairo: Fields Book Store, Thou Hast Conquered!!

princeofcairo

Fields Book Store, Thou Hast Conquered!!

Feb 13, 2004 02:01

I have been in some excellent occult bookshops in my day. I've been in the Orion Bookstore in Toronto, which had that wonderful Canadian bookstore habit of having British books at close to reasonable prices, plus shelves un-harvested by American conspiracy theorists. I've been in the Atlantis Bookshop, famous for letting Aleister Crowley hang out ( Read more... )

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fengshui February 13 2004, 17:49:02 UTC

Fields does kick serious ass. Last time we were in the area, I didn't have time to really plumb its depths.

Too bad Acorn is so expensive (they usually know what their books are worth).

artbroken February 14 2004, 09:20:21 UTC

Kingdom For A Stage: Magicians & Aristocrats in the Elizabethan Theatre

I want I want I WANT.

anonymous February 15 2004, 05:11:59 UTC

I've visited it once, and Field's is as wonderful as he said and more. It holds the record for the largest amount of money I've dropped in a bookstore ($140). That was for two books. No, I didn't regret it.

Hint: Make sure to check the stuff that just came in. One of those books I mentioned had just came in, and they sold it to me despite the waiting list because I was there and had plastic.

Pantheacon taral_nln February 17 2004, 22:28:05 UTC

As it happens, we did manage to sneak into Pantheacon's dealer's room and hit the good stuff. I picked up a good set of white-on-ice-blue cut glass runes for use as D&D props (blue being Odin's propitiate color) and got to be amused by the attempts of the elderly runecaster woman trying to teach me their use.

(And I too dropped a required $130 at Field's. I got new copies of the classic Jane English-Gia Fu Feng editions of the Tao Te Ching that I had lost to water damage as well as a few other fine bits.)

I don't mean to be anonymous... anonymous February 18 2004, 02:12:41 UTC

have you been to samuel weiser's, in NY? I may have the spelling wrong... I haven't been there in ten years, so it may not even exist, anymore, but they were more "serious" than magickal childe (I believe there was something of a rivalry, in fact).

Re: I don't mean to be anonymous... salimondo February 18 2004, 16:17:03 UTC

Neither Weiser NY nor Magickal Childe has existed for several years.

Re: I don't mean to be anonymous...But Weiser does exist in our Universe anonymous March 13 2004, 03:40:39 UTC

Weiser Rare and Metaphysical Books is in York Beach, Maine. Stop by the Visitor Information Center there on Highway 1....is it by Exit 4/Route 4 from I-95? Weiser's warehouse/Red Wheel is on the ground floor of a building less than a mile from the Info Center. Weiser's Rare and Metaphysical Books is upstairs. Browsers and Buyers are welcome!

Same Universe, Not My City salimondo March 13 2004, 06:19:44 UTC

The Maine location, while nice, is a long way from being "samuel weiser's, in NY." I simply don't want visitors to either the city or this blog to spend a lot of time looking for a store that no longer exists.

Thanks for the memories,