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Welcome to the internet home of Arundel Bookstores and its affiliates. Click here to learn more about us. We have two beautiful retail stores, in Seattle and Los Angeles, which you are always welcome to visit, and two large internet warehouses (in Seattle and on Vashon Island).

We stock well over 100,000 titles, and it is easy to search our complete collection from all four locations online. Curious about how we handle our internet orders?

Arundel Books was founded in 1984 to publish original editions of literature and graphic arts. We continue to publish work we believe in, and hope you take the opportunity to browse our publications.

Jezebel Returns

Jezebel worked with us in Seattle for 4 years, and although she is now in France she remains, at least in our hearts, our unofficial celebrity spokesmodel.

Jezebel was born in the eighteenth century, or thereabouts, where she enjoyed modest success as a chorus girl and maker of tatted lace. After losing all her teeth to mercury treatments, she came to work at Arundel Books.

She is a fan of French novels, English cigarettes, and the occasional spot of ether. She also knits.


Photo copyright Blair de Laubenfels.

An Arundel Book of the Year

Arundel Books Award, 2008
Best Non-Fiction Debut
Robyn Scott: Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Robyn Scott's Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is an astonishing debut. Set in Botswana, it is her account of growing up with one of the most wonderfully mad families you are likely to meet, whether in real life or between the covers of a book.

She has a remarkable ear for language, and a descriptive prose style that brings the bush country of Botswana, with all its flora, fauna, and people, to magically madcap life. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle brings to mind such authors as James Herriot and Augusten Burroughs.

This is our pick as the best non-fiction debut for 2008. It is insightful, inspiring, and heartwarming. Her parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbors, and the countryside surrounding them, are truly brought to life. Given Miss Scott's parents decidedly non-traditional approach to child rearing, this book will offer sustenance to parents of home schoolers everywhere.

Whether you like to read about travel, foreign cultures and peoples, families, education, natural history, biographies, accounts of coming-of-age, Africa, science, Horatio Algeresque narratives, women's studies, health and medicine, flying... or just like a darned good book, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is for you.

If this truly remarkable book is any indication, Miss Scott has an astonishing career ahead of her, and we are looking forward to her future efforts. Make no mistake, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle stands as an equal with the very best non-fiction published by any author in 2008.

We have a limited supply of copies available with a specially printed bookmark, signed by the author. Click to order

Seattle Store Loses Biggest Smile

Beloved longtime Seattle staffer Florine has left Seattle to join her family on the East Coast. We will miss Florine's warm smile, gentle nature, and passion for children's and young adult literature. She has promised to do some writing for us...

for which we have Great Expectations!

Rare Book Gallery

Here is a selection from our diverse stock of rare books.

RARE Signed Limited First Edition of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - bound in Asbestos!
New York, Ballantine, 1953, Limited Edition, one of 200 signed copies.

One of the most celebrated editions ever issued in any genre, this classic signed limited first edition was limited to 200 numbered copies (this is copy#127), SIGNED BY BRADBURY and bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a material manufactured from asbestos.

This book is from the library of Leonard Zweig was was producer in 1957 of a Mike Wallace TV interview show in NYC called "Nightbeat".. on which he booked Bradbury in what was to become a very well-known interview. There are no ownership marks. The book has some spotting and minor soiling to covers; front cover and rear cover each have a faint circular stain; wear to corners with show-through at top; there is a tiny chip to top upper hinge, and faint cracking at foot of upper spine; faint browning to text edges..

Price: $12,499.90

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Arundel Books Mourns Poet Harvey Goldner
The Bard of Belltown

Arundel Books mourns the passing of beloved Seattle poet Harvey Goldner, author of American Flyer, Ancient Pilot, Memphis Jack and other collections of poems.

Goldner, crowned the Bard of Belltown by our bookstore, passed away recently after a tragic illness. Harvey was a fine poet, good friend, and long-time part-time cab driver.

Click here to see a list of books by Harvey Goldner.

Photo copyright George Saronto Stamas

Staff Picks

Each affiliate of Arundel Books is fortunate to have an outstanding staff, who all read, and enjoy talking to people about their all-time favorites and recent discoveries. To meet our staff, please visit our Staff page. To see all of our staff picks, please visit our Staff Picks page.

Our Current Staff Pick:

Russian Roulette / The Sign of the Gun by Todd Moore.
Seattle, Spankstra Press, 2005. Price $9.90


Todd Moore is the author of over a hundred books and chapbooks. His work
has appeared in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Drinking with Bukowski
as well as thousands of journals and periodicals. His long poem Dillinger
[estimated at a quarter of a million words and counting] is destined to
become an American classic, once it is finished. He lives in Albuquerque,
NM where he co-edits the quarterly St. Vitus Dance with his son Theron.

Two book-length excerpts (each over 50 pages) from Moore's long poem "Dillinger"; episodic fantasies in short- lined free verse concerning the American bank robber's life and times, set from the manuscript (hand-typed on a 1937 Corona) and printed dos-a-dos on the same pages (with the jacket and wrappers also printed dos-a-dos). The two books, though complementary in nature, can be read independently.

Signed by Moore in black ink on both title pages (front and rear). One of only 74 trade copies signed by author Todd Moore. Unusual and "spanking"-new production of the press, this is a unique and entertaining answer to a vexing issue in book design.

Click here to order a signed copy of this unusual book!