Wonder Book Blog
This is an old story. It likely took place in the mid 1980s... A phone call from outside the old railroad town of Brunswick, Maryland on the Potomac River piqued my interest. It sounded a bit dodgey but back then I would attend to every... Read More
Coffee, a light breakfast and then I headed downtown to Greenwich Village. It was brilliant day. Quite warm for February. I had time to ramble the Village's cobble streets and tree lined sidewalks before the show opened. The show has been held in the venerable... Read More
"Books for the Blind. Bob." Followed by a phone number. Very many of the phone messages taped to my office doorjamb are scrambled but this one couldn't be that far off. So believe it or not, when I found this taped to my door the... Read More
Millie, Mickey, Wallpaper, the Doctor, DC and Downsizing: These are a few of the stories of people and books at Wonder Book in the last week, December 2-9, 2017... Read More
"Who you?" I knew who he was. He was from down in the city and the top book dealer in the region. I was just a newbie book guy—unknown... I told him who I was: "I'm Wonder Book." Very medieval. Like that was my title... Read More
This story is all legend and faded memory... Almost immediately after entering the book business in Sept 1980, I began hearing stories of Johnny "G." He was a legend...of sorts... in the DC Region. Older booksellers would say Johnny did this... Johnny did that... Read More
