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.
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.
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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 $9 first book, $4 additional. International: International Priority, $11 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, 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
-- "The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy" by Mrs. (Hannah) Glasse, Reduced to $500. Collectors of antiquarian cookbooks looking for something special will want to examine this rebound 1796 beauty. -- "Interlocking Lives," a charming collaboration of pop artist Alex Katz with poet Kenneth Koch. A seldom seen 1970 art paperback. Value priced at $30.
-- "Tom Wesselmann: Recent Works," published by a Tokyo gallery with Japanese text; association material laid in, including a note from Wesselman's Manhattan gallery to art historian Sam Hunter. $20. -- 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.
-- SOME OF OUR NEWEST COOKBOOKS:
-- "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" Volumes 1-2. A very nice set of the modern classic cookbooks by Julia Child and Simone Beck. $50 -- "The French Chef Cookbook" by Julia Child. A summary of the recipes presented in the first season of Julia's popular television series. Gift quality condtion. $9. -- "La Cuisine Moderne," a massive French-lanquage antique cookbook of interest to culinary collectors and historians of continental household life. The edition is uncertain, but appears to be pre-1950. $40. -- "Gourmet Bahamian Cooking," a spiral paperback guide to island cooking. $18. -- "The Gourmet Cookbook (Revised) Volumes I and II. $28 for the set and no additional charge for overweight shipping.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
AUG. 1-2 -- NON-PROFIT BOOK SALE benefitting Friends of the Port Orange Library. Friday Aug. 1, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday Aug. 2, 9 am.-1 p.m. Most books are priced 25 cents to $2. Also includes games, puzzles, videos and magazines. Donations welcome. Library Auditorium, City Center Circle, Port Orange, Florida (For out- of-town visitors: Take Interstate 95 to the Port Orange exit, 5 miles south of Daytona Beach. Exit eastbound on S.R. 421. Look for the entrance road to City Hall and the Library -- a lefthand turn just after you pass Home Depot and Wal-Mart.)
July 20-31 -- ALL THINGS PRIDE STOREFRONT CLEARANCE SALE, 2130 S. Ridgewood Ave., South Daytona. Merchandise markdown of 10 to 50 percent as the store prepares for closing its Ridgewood location. The business will continue online at www.allthingspride.com. Store hours: July 20, noon- 4 p.m., July 23-26, and July 28, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
SUNDAYS 10 a.m. NEW CHURCH FAMILY, an independent Christian congregation, holds worship services in Daytona Beach at 815 Beville Road, Unit B, with the Rev. Beau McDaniels preaching. Visitors of all faiths, races and orientations are always welcome; dress is very casual. 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/.
DAYTONA-AREA POOL HOME FOR SALE -- REDUCED, $258.5K
Thinking of relocating to Florida? Here is an excellent buy for $258,500 in Port Orange, a Daytona Beach coastal suburb, about 45 miles northeast of Orlando.
824 Black Duck Dr. -- 3 bedroom, 2-bath brick and stucco ranch-style home, approx. 2,000 sq. feet of living space on one level, with a rear yard leading to a well-stocked private lake, ideal for a rowboat or canoe, plus a screen-enclosed newly-resurfaced pool, an extra large enclosed Florida room, 2-car attached garage, fireplace in beamed and vaulted great room, new roof with architectural shingles, large kitchen and 2 storage sheds on a 12,000-sq-foot lot with citrus, maples and palms. Located within Cypress Cove, a well-maintained neighborhood of retirees and working families 1 mile east of I-95, 2 miles from the Intracoastal Waterway and beach. A quiet retreat with no through traffic but less than a mile from stores, library, hospital, restaurants, City Hall and Palmer College. This is a "For Sale by Owner" offer but will consider co-brokering at 3 percent. For more details and photos, please e-mail us at brownt218@yahoo.com. Or telephone 386-761-5075 or 386-681-2292 (office) a day in advance for a showing or a brochure. Several photos are available at Craigslist.com, zillow.com and homes.com. Thanks for your interest. -- Tom Brown
