Lyrical Ballad Bookstore

We just got in A LOT of books on American history and the sea, so many that Jan is walled in until we sell some of them. Stop by and take a look, many are 20% off.

Excellent photos of the store and a very nice write-up in the Times Union this week!

Who knew that William Faulkner could draw?

Happy birthday Jorge Luis Borges!

Stop by after the Travers and pick up a book on horse racing-we have the largest stock of racing books in the region, and prints too!

We have well over 5000 Saratoga post cards. Views of the track, the great hotels, history and Victorian splendor. Stop by and take a look!

This apparently has an excellent recipe for "Bat Soup". Going out soon with the new cooking inventory!

Some exciting new cookbooks coming out of the vault soon!

"Someone has said that bad coffee is an abomination, but good coffee is so glorious that its mere aroma in a sickroom is enough to terrorize death, This is sheer nonsense."-Coffee, 1976, by Charles and Violet Schafer

Happy birthday Herman Melville!

Attention local folks: book signing with Paul Roberts, London-based author of THE SPA: SARATOGA'S LEGENDARY RACE COURSE and Strategic Development Advisor for NYRA, this Friday, August 5, 6:30 - 7:30. Stop by for a chat and a signed copy!

Many thanks to Lloyd Rose for the nice article on the store in the Washington Post earlier this month.