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Our Totem Animal -- it's a long story, and less interesting than you might think.

31 Russell Avenue     Troy, NH 03465     603.242.3638 (24 hour machine)     aardbooks@cheshire.net

Also, we offer a 20% discount on orders of 3 or more books.

Our Books
These are a couple of representative shelves of our inventory. We have very little that's old or rare, but we learned early on the value of condition and edition. To that end, 90% of our stock is 1st printings in dustjackets, and it all looks pretty much like this. (One area of exception, however, is the group of books we have on consignment from a retiring colleague. For a variety of reasons (age, care through the years, scarcity), many of these consigned books are not in tip-top shape. These books will almost always be indicated as consigned in the listings.)

Our philosophy of bookselling (BS'ing for short) involves a combination of Kantian Metaphysics, Keynesian Economics, and Keseyan Psychedelics, which we hope you'll take to heart. In other words, we want you to say, "Oh, wow! A good book at a good price! What a trip!" (Ok, that's not quite where Keynes was coming from, but J. C. Penney's just didn't do the trick!)

We've been selling books since 1984, first in a storefront in Seattle, and for the past 10 years through the mail and the Internet in Seattle and New Hampshire. We are acutely aware that we're in competition for your business with about 10,000 other bookdealers, so while we will not always have the absolute best copy at the absolute best price, we will generally be competitive. We also know that it can be daunting to buy a book sight unseen on the 'Net, so we try to describe an item's condition fully and conservatively. We Brodart all dustjackets, we ship promptly, and we make sure every book that leaves here is shipped in a box. We accept returns for any or no reason, and are somewhat proud of the fact that our return rate is less than one book in a thousand. That's not to say we haven't made a few more mistakes than that, but we're generally able to work things out to everyone's satisfaction.




Usual Terms and Shipping Charges:

• Our usual terms are payment with order, (institutions accommodated), with any item being returnable for any or no reason, with phone notice. All books are subject to prior sale, prices are net to all, and we don't hold 'on spec' for booksearch services.
• On orders of 3 or more books to one address, we offer a 20% discount.
• Postal rates increased July 1, 2002, and in some cases have gone up enormously. For Media Mail we charge $3 for books with a shipping weight of up to 4 pounds. Priority Mail is $5.00 OR AT COST, WHICHEVER IS GREATER. For example, a 2 pound book to the West Coast is now $5.75; a 4 pound book to the West Coast is now $10.35 (up from $6.45, and more than it would cost us to ship it airmail to Japan--go figure!). If your order doesn't fit neatly into the parameters, we'll be in touch.
• International Orders: Happy to oblige! We prefer to work with credit cards internationally, but will do U S $ checks as well. (Other currencies carry such high exchange charges for us that we pretty much have to limit ourselves to these methods.) We much prefer to send Global Priority Mail for those books that will fit in the special flat rate envelope ($9.00), to those countries where the service is available. For surface mail and other air, we'll have to quote shipping.