Season's Greetings...

Season's Greetings from Bart's Books!
Many people find themselves in a quandry over just the right gifts. Whatever their interests, you can be sure that a good book will bring smiles. Children, Sports Fans, History Buffs, Movie Goers, Game Glayers, Science Fiction fanatics, Fantasy followers, readers of all things Fiction and Non-fiction, have books written just for them!

First Editions make the perfect gift because:

• They are a direct connection to the author
• A first edition is a work of art
• They increase in value over time
• They are fantastic investments in art, culture, and the future of both!

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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York Globe, established the Pulitzer Prize through an endowment to Columbia University. The Fiction Award is given annually for fiction in book form by an American author and preferably dealing with American life.

1918: Ernest Poole His Family
1919: Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons
1920: No award
1921: Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
1922: Booth Tarkington Alice Adams
1923: Willa Cather One of Ours
1924: Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins
1925: Edna Ferber So Big
1926: Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith
1927: Louis Bromfield Early Autumn
1928: Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1929: Julia Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary
1930: Oliver La Farge Laughing Boy
1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes Years of Grace
1932: Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
1933: T.S. Stribling The Store
1934: Caroline Miller Lamb in his Bosom
1935: Josephine Winslow Johnson Now in November
1936: Harold Davis Honey in the Horn
1937: Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
1938: John Phillips Marquand The Late George Apley
1939: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
1940: John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
1941: No award
1942: Ellen Glasgow In this Our Life
1943: Upton Sinclair Dragon's Teeth
1944: Martin Flavin Journey in the Dark
1945: John Hersey A Bell for Adano
1946: No award
1947: Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
1948: James A. Michener Tales of the South Pacific
1949: James Gould Cozzens Guard of Honor
1950: A.B. Guthrie The Way West
1951: Conrad Richter The Town
1952: Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny
1953: Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
1954: No award
1955: William Faulkner A Fable
1956: Mackinlay Kantor Andersonville
1957: No award
1958: James Agee A Death in the Family
1959: Robert Lewis TaylorThe Travels of Jamie McPheeters
1960: Allen Drury Advise and Consent
1961: Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
1962: Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness
1963: William Faulkner The Reivers
1964: No award
1965: Shirley Anne Grau The Keepers of the House
1966: Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967: Bernard Malamud The Fixer
1968: William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner
1969: N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn
1970: Jean Stafford Collected Stories
1971: No award
1972: Wallace Stegner The Angle of Repose
1973: Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter
1974: No award
1975: Michael Shaara The Killer Angels
1976: Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift
1977: No award
1978: James Alan McPherson Elbow Room
1979: John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
1980: Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song
1981: John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
1982: John Updike Rabbit is Rich
1983: Alice Walker The Color Purple
1984: William Kennedy Ironweed
1985: Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs
1986: Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
1987: Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis
1988: Toni Morrison Beloved
1989: Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons
1990: Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1991: John Updike Rabbit at Rest
1992: Jane Smiley Thousand Acres
1993: Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1994: E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1995: Carol Shields Stone Diaries
1996: Richard Ford Independence Day
1997: Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1998: Philip Roth American Pastoral
1999: Michael Cunningham The Hours
2000: Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
2001: Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2002: Richard Russo Empire Falls
2003: Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
2004: Edward P. Jones The Known World
2005: Marilynne Robinson Gilead

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The Booker Prize
Financed by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company, and awarded annually for the best full length novel in the British Commonwealth of Nations. In 2002 the Man Group became sponsor of the Booker Prize Foundation, and the prize is currently named the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

1969: P.H. Newby Something to Answer For
1970: Bernice Rubens The Elected Member
1971: V.S. Naipaul In a Free State
1972: John Berger G
1973: J.G. Farrell Siege of Krishnapur
1974: Stanley Middleton Holiday and Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist
1975: Ruth Prower Jhabvala Heat and Dust
1976: David Storey Saville
1977: Paul Scott Staying On
1978: Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore
1980: William Golding Rites of Passage
1981: Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
1982: Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark
1983: J.M. Coetzee Life and Times of Michael K.
1984: Anita Brookner Hotel Du Lac
1985: Keri Hulme Bone People
1986: Kingsley Amis The Old Devils
1987: Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
1988: Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
1990: A.S. Byatt Possession
1991: Ben Okri The Famished Road
1992: Michael Ondaatje The English Patient and Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger
1993: Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994: James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late
1995: Pat Barker The Ghost Road
1996: Graham Swift Last Orders
1997: Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
1998: Ian McEwan Amsterdam
1999: J.M. Coetzee Disgrace
2000: Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
2001: Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang
2002: Yann Martel Life of Pi
2003: DBC Pierre (Peter Warren Finlay) Vernon God Little
2004: Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
2005: John Banville The Sea

Books, Books, and More Books

Opossums Make Good Pets

Famed author and opossum expert Terrell Lankford stopped by over the weekend. He rescued this little critter out of his pool a while back and nursed her back to health. If you're thinking you'd like one of those, you're in the same boat with Dave who has since drawn up plans to breed them and is convinced that in a couple of years they'll make cats a distant memory.

Ever Wonder What an Original Etching by Salvador Dali Might Look Like?

We just got this book in the store a couple of days ago and this is one you're not likely see to again in your lifetime! It's Lewis Carroll's one of a kind children's classic novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland illustrated numbered and signed by the father of surrealist painting himself. These are a few of the pictures I took since it really is something special.

Bart's Welcomes The Chamber

Under a cloudless canopy of late October starshine Bart's Books welcomed the Ojai Valley Chamber of Commerce for its monthly mixer. It was an evening of networking, interfacing, and just plain old touching base, with friends old and new. As with all good things, it ended too soon!

The Mutt

As it turns out, Rodney "The Mutt" Mullen is not only legendary skater who practically invented freestyle skateboarding, he is also a fan of Western philosophy. While he was here, he just couldn't leave without picking up a 13 Volume First Edition set of Will Durant's unbelievably thorough exploration into the foundations of humanity entitled simply, "The Story of Civilization." Thanks, Rodney!

Outlaw Poetry at Bart's Books

When I called back home to my folks and told them that the Chief of Police of Beverly Hills, Dave Snowden, read poetry at Bart's Books open mic night, I knew they would never believe me, so here is the proof...

Remember those rare first editions I mentioned? Pictured here are only a few of the most valuable books we carry. Our collectible books include Antiquarian, Modern First Editions, Western Americana, Beat Literature, Poetry, and Art Books, and rare and out of print Children's books to name a few!

Bart's Goes Hollywood

It wasn't more than a few months ago when a TV crew from The Travel Channel piled into Bart's to do some shooting to feature us in a reality based dating show called "High Road, Low Road." They told Dave he was a natural along with Kristen, Jay, the cat, the live oak, and on and on. Look for Bart's on TV sometime in January of 2006!

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