As we prepare to move a half a mile (and half the rent) away from our home for the past eight years, it's obviously a time to reflect on that time. And, of course, there's the packing up process, and coming across things we haven't thought about in a while. Like the boxes of signed copies of first editions of the last book Al Franken wrote before becoming a US Senator: The Truth (with Jokes)
Hosting Franken for a book signing at the Carter Center and then a performance of his Air America radio show from the Variety Playhouse was certainly one of the highlights of our Moreland Avenue years, if not our entire bookselling life. Both appearances were mob scenes--this was during the exciting lead-up to the Kerry-Bush election of 2004 when it seemed that we might avoid a second term for W. (How'd that term work out, by the way?)
With many fans turned away at the door at the Carter Center event, and the Variety broadcast taking place during the middle of a work day, we expected a continued demand for signed copies of Franken's latest bestseller, but with his hectic schedule--he was heading off to Iraq within days to entertain troops as he did annually on USO tours--Al frantically signed books during commercial breaks of the live radio performance but ultimately ran out of time to sign all of our books.
As a consolation, he signed a number of bookplates and mailed them back to us to affix to our remaining copies. As sometimes happens, the demand did not continue as we expected, and all these years later, we've got a lot of first edition copies of The Truth (with Jokes) with signed Al Franken bookplates in them. And we really don't want to move them all down the street. We want to GIVE THEM AWAY.
So here's the deal:
More recently, just this past November to be exact, another one-time great liberal Senator from the Midwest, George McGovern, had to cancel a scheduled Atlanta appearance, but we managed to get some copies of his latest book, What It Means to be a Democrat, signed anyway. Like everything else in the store right now, they're priced at 25% off the regular price ($22.95). So, while they last, if you purchase a copy of McGovern's book, we'll give you a copy of Franken's book FREE.
Email us (info@acappellabooks.com), call (404-681-5128), or come by (11-8 Mon-Sat, Noon-7, Sunday) to take advantage of this--and all the other great deals we've got going on right now.
Stay tuned to this blog, we'll be coming up with more deals to ease our move, and wax a little nostalgic, as the month continues.
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