Welcome to the home of KingChamp Books. We are an online book dealer providing choice titles about entertainers and other celebrities at reasonable prices. Some of our secondary specialties include art, culinary, crime & courts, detective, ephemera, spirituality, paranormal and business/investment.
For your convenience, this website provides a shopping cart. However, you do not need to log in or create an account to make purchases. Simply send an e-mail listing what you'd like to buy to info@kingchampbooks.com. We will reply with prices, information about availability, shipping fees and options for sending payments. We also will e-mail photo scans of books upon request.
KingChamp Books is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, an alliance of booksellers supporting professional standards, ethics and courtesy in the Internet book market. Visit IOBA's website at www.ioba.org for useful information on technical aspects of book collecting.
VACATION -- MARCH 5-13 -- KingChamp Books will be on vacation for a few days, but will continue to accept orders. If you have an order that can wait until mid-March for processing and shipping, go ahead and submit your requests.
--- 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 http://www.kingchampbooks.com/ rather than through marketplaces that charge ever-rising commissions and shipping fees. Thank you for your loyalty.
And don't forget about our standard "REPEAT CUSTOMER DISCOUNT" -- buy a book here and then get $1 off every additional title purchased. Trade discounts are offered to bona fide book dealers and libraries.
SEARCHES
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.
If we don't have the book you need, please try the independent booksellers listed on our Links page. Displayed below is a box that allows you to search the inventories of dozens of other small dealers simultaneously. They, like KingChamp Books, are affiliated with the Chrislands.com bookselling portal:
Shipping
U.S.: Media Mail rate $3 first book, $1 additional. Priority, $5.50 first book, $2 additional; Priority to West Coast states, $6.50 first book, $2 additional. Canada: Priority International $13 first book, $6 additional. International: International Priority, $13 and up each book. International First Class is available upon customer request, but in many cases may be more expensive than International Priority. NOTE: Despite U.S. Postal Service rate increases in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and yet again in January and May 2009, KingChamp Books continues to use its 2005 domestic shipping rates to keep your total price as low as possible. The 2007 increase eliminated surface rates for overseas shipping. KingChamp will use International Priority envelopes whenever possible to provide the lowest rates possible.
NEW ARRIVALS
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-- "Helmut Jahn" -- A scarce, attractively signed paperback compendium of Jahn's architectural work in Chicago and elsewhere. $50
-- "Gothic Styles" by Kathleen Mahoney. A dazzling photo survey of Gothic-revival architecture, primarily mansions, in Great Britain and America. $22.
-- "The Living Edge: Richard Pousette-Dart Works on Paper 1916-1992," edited by Ingrid Ehrhardt and Katja Hilbig. A hard-to-find collection of more than 100 watercolors, drawings, etchings, gouaches and collages. $55.
-- "A World of Enchantment," a stunning oversized collection of cityscapes by Russian painter Liudmila Kondakova. $155.
-- Independent American, a right-wing political newspaper "April 30, 1968" issue promoting the presidential candidacy of George Wallace, commenting on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and railing against Stokely Carmichael and other black-power leaders. Folded but still very sturdy and only lightly yellowed. $35.
-- "Raggedy Ann Stories" by Johnny Gruelle in hard-to-find illustrated gift box, published by P.F. Volland. $185.
-- "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" by Mrs. (Hannah) Glasse, Reduced to $450. Collectors of antiquarian cookbooks looking for something special will want to examine this rebound 1796 beauty.
-- "Great Storms of the Jersey Shore" by Larry Savadove and Margaret Thomas Buchholz. A photographic survey of a century of hurricane experiences in New Jersey. $25.
-- ATTN PULP FICTION COLLECTORS -- Several signed copies of Hugh B. Cave novels and short-story anthologies have been added to our inventory, and more are coming. These are noteworthy association copies, inscribed to Cave's biographer, Audrey Parente of Ormond Beach, Fl. Also a very unusual old Argosy Weekly issue, with an inscription by Theodore Roscoe. Check under the Cave listings plus those for Theodore Roscoe and Judson Phillips.
-- "Home & Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration," 5th Edition (1953). Excellent for a nostalgic look at how the 1950s ushered in a clash of Scandinavian-inspired sleekness with the imitation Colonial-style furniture of earlier decades. Very handsome copy. $25.
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GOT THE BAILOUT BLUES???
We have dozens of investment-related books at prices you can afford -- even in a recession. Here are a few suggestions:
-- "Rolling Stocks" by Gregory Witt. A guide to short-term stock investing using disciplined technical analysis.
-- "Greed and Glory on Wall Street" by Ken Auletta. Incisive reporting on how an internal revolt shook Lehman Brothers in 1983 and ousted its patrician chairman, Peter G. Peterson, who now is leading efforts to trim Social Security and other social-welfare programs.
-- "The Day the Market Crashed" by Donald Rogers. Revisiting Wall Street's Black Thursday in 1929 in the form of a novel giving the hour-by-hour events of that gloomy day.
-- "Can You Trust Your Bank?" by Robert Heller and Norris Willatt. Two British financial writers examine the U.S. banking system in the 1970s, long before it went wild and crazy in the late 1980s and then again in 2005-2008.
-- "Stock Market Logic" by Norman Fosback. Yes, Virginia, there is a pattern to stock market prices, as Fosback explains in this well-regarded guide to technical analysis.
-- "The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing" by Loral Langemeier. Her hopeful message is that even middle-class people can become millionaires by paying close attention to their assets and managing them to the max.
See the inventory listings for more details about each of these books.
SPECIAL EVENTS
SUNDAYS 10 a.m. -- NEW CHURCH FAMILY, a congregation affiliated with International Christian Community Churches based in Asheville, N.C. (http://www.intlccc.org/), holds worship services in Daytona Beach at the Copytronics Building, 815 Beville Road, Unit B, with the Rev. Beau McDaniels preaching. Visitors of all faiths, races and orientations are welcome; dress is very casual and refreshments are excellent. NCF benefits from books sold in our "Church Benefit" category. The church also offers a continuing "Book Giveaway" -- books and magazines donated by KingChamp Books and others are offered free of charge. Donations to the church are appreciated. More information is available at http://www.newchurchfamily.org/.
MARCH 26-27 -- BOOK SALE sponsored by Friends of Port Orange Library. Most books are in the 25 cent to $1 price range. Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Port Orange Library auditorium, City Center Circle, off Dunlawton Avenue, Port Orange.
APRIL 1 -- Deadline for applications for the OneDaytona scholarships, supporting GLBT students enrolled in colleges and vocational schools in Volusia and Flagler counties in Central Florida. Forms and instructions are available at www.onedaytona.com
