We are an online used-book dealer, selling mostly non-fiction titles at reasonable prices since 2001. Our main inventory categories are: art, culinary, entertainers, LGBTQ, and spirituality. We strive to make our listings as informative and accurate as possible, but feel free to ask questions about any item in our inventory. Generic stock images of books are displayed as a shopping aid. Photo scans of specific copies are gladly provided upon request.
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--- The KC "STIMULUS" : A 10 Percent Markdown ---
As an anti-recession move, KingChamp Books has reduced all prices on its own web site by 10 percent. This rewards customers who purchase KingChamp's inventory at https://kingchampbooks.secure-chrislands.com/ rather than through marketplaces that charge ever-rising commissions and shipping fees. Thank you for your loyalty. Although the federal government contends the Great Recession ended years ago, KingChamp has extended its "Stimulus" discounts into 2018.
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Please search or browse our inventory by using the search box on the lefthand side of this page or clicking on the browse-by-category link. Feel free to e-mail to confirm availability and reserve a title for 14 days. If you can't find what you need, please fill out our off-line search form and we will search our off-line inventory, other bookstores and book search services for you.
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U.S.: Media Mail rate $3 first book, $1 additional. Priority, $7.00 first book, $2 additional. International: International Priority, $20 and up each book. International First Class also is available, but in some cases, it may be more expensive than International Priority.
NOTE: Despite U.S. Postal Service rate increases every year from 2006 through 2018, KingChamp Books continues to use its 2005 domestic shipping rates, starting at $3, to keep your total price as low as possible. The 2007 increase eliminated ocean shipping rates for overseas shipping. KingChamp uses International 1st Class and Priority Mail envelopes whenever possible to provide the lowest rates available. We do not use postage to pad our modest profits. Any overpayment of postage on overseas shipments will be refunded to the customer.
NEW ARRIVALS
"Blind Date," a 2007 collection of essays about Daytona Beach and its 40-plus years of hosting summer concerts by the London Symphony Orchestra. A like-new copy edited by the late music critic Drew Murphy. $30.
Photographic scrapbook of the Bel Air Country Club, favorite golfing haunt of Hollywood celebrities, includes many photos of actors. $120.
Several titles in the Maud & Miska Petersham Story Book series for children, each signed by both authors. Latest additions, the Story Book of Coal and the Story Book of Wool, each $35.
Handsome Heritage Press edition of Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" in slipcase, $22.
The A-Team comic book, published 1984, first issue in the Marvel series. $10
For lovers of Italian cooking -- Marcella Hazan's "Marcella Cucina," beautifully illustrated with dozens of color photographs and her delightful personal commentary on each recipe. Close to new, $30.
Hokusai's Sketch-books, near perfect with inscription by author James Michener $120
Two 1909 back issues of The Outlook, forerunner of Time and Newsweek, featuring political articles by Theodore Roosevelt, who was its associate editor. $12 and $14.
Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories, Omnibus Edition, very good condition. $70
TWO WW 2 U.S. Army collectible booklets -- "The Fifth Division in France" ($50) and "A Camera Trip through Camp Croft" ($25)
--Several antique German colonial maps -- folding maps with panels mounted on cloth -- are being catalogued and placed in our inventory. Most show various districts of colonies in Africa. Nice material for collectors of Africana or World War 1 material. Newly added -- large map of Kissaki region in Tanzania.
-- Several early printings of Jules Verne adventure novels. Newly added: "Tour of the World in Eighty Days" (A.L. Burt Home Library edition); "Five Weeks in a Balloon (George Routledge & Sons.)" "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea." "Underground City" and "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
New Yorker back issues -- We have on hand about 7 years' worth of recent New Yorkers. E-mail which copies you need. $3 for one, $2 for each additional issue. We also will be offering box lots of 3 months' worth (10 to 12 issues, all in good to very good condition) for just $12 each. Just added -- the new single issue cover showing Hillary Clinton as a bruised but happy boxer. Also a packet of 5 Trump covers.
-- Several Stephen King hardcovers (mostly later printings) have been added to the inventory and more are coming. Latest titles: "Thinner," "Heart of Atlantis," "Insomnia" "Pet Sematary," "Storm of the Century" screenplay, and "Salem's Lot," E-mail us if you need a particular title for your collection.
