shopping cart
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Save up to 70%

Find Books

Read the City

Win Free Books!

PowellsBooks.news

Technica

PowellsBooks.kids

Matthew Goodman Read an original essay by Matthew Goodman and save 30% on The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York

  1. The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
    $18.20 Hardcover add to wishlist

    The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York

    Matthew Goodman

indiespensable

Powell's subscription club delivers the best new books, with special attention to independent publishers. Signed first editions. Inventive, original sets. Exclusive printings.... Every six weeks, another installment to read and admire.
VOLUME 8
Ships on January 21, 2009
** Subscribe now to get Volume 8 **

Tinkers
by Paul Harding
(Bellevue Literary Press)Indiespensable, Volume 8
Special limited edition with custom endpapers and tipped-in limitation page
Signed and numbered by the author
Available only to Indiespensable subscribers.

All packages will also include special gifts. Click to see gifts from previous editions of Indiespensable.

Claim your limited edition of Tinkers before they disappear. (Past Indiespensable installments are selling for as much as $200 on eBay. We found out when the author emailed us.)

Plus, every package is stocked with exciting surprises: bonus DVDs or CDs, prepublication copies of books we're looking forward to, mugs, posters, chocolate... thoughtfully selected, hand-picked gifts.

Subscribe now!

ongoing (until I cancel)
3 shipments
6 shipments
12 shipments
Only $39.95 per shipment, includes shipping and handling within the continental United States.

Subscribers outside the continental U.S., please add $12 per package for shipping.

Please note that each gift subscription must be placed on an individual, unique order to ensure accurate shipping and handling.


The Lit-Journal CollectionVOLUME 7
Shipped December 2, 2008
SOLD OUT!

The Lit-Journal Collection

Indiespensable subscribers received four of our favorite literary journals:

  • The Believer
  • The Paris Review
  • Open City
  • Tin House
  • Plus, two very special mystery items to enhance your reading pleasure!

Standard Edition
The Crow Road
The Crow Road
by Iain Banks

• find more books by Iain Banks

The Crow Road VOLUME 6
Shipped October 23, 2008
SOLD OUT!

The Crow Road
by Iain Banks

  • Hardcover first edition, with laid-in bookplate signed by the author; packaged in a custom, full-cloth slipcase.
  • Full-length CD of original music by Portland artists and a limited printing of Graeme Thomson's 40 greatest death songs of all time.

Read the Powells.com interview with Iain Banks

Standard Edition
The Flying Troutmans
The Flying Troutmans
by Miriam Toews

• find more books by Miriam Toews

The Flying Troutmans VOLUME 5
Shipped September 30, 2008
Only 780 copies available SOLD OUT!

The Flying Troutmans
by Miriam Toews

  • Hardcover special edition
  • Signed by the author

Read the 2004 Powells.com interview with Miriam Toews

Read the original essay by Miriam Toews

Standard Edition
Clown Girl
Clown Girl
by Monica Drake
Clown Girl VOLUME 4
Shipped July 31, 2008
Only 750 copies available SOLD OUT!

Clown Girl
by Monica Drake

  • Hardcover special edition
  • Signed by the author

Read the INK Q&A with Monica Drake

Read the original essay by Monica Drake

Standard Editions
The Outlander
The Outlander
by Gil Adamson		 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
VOLUME 3
Shipped May 30, 2008
Only 500 copies available SOLD OUT!

The Outlander
by Gil Adamson

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski

  • Hardcover first editions
  • Signed by the author

Read the Powells.com interview with Adamson and Wroblewski

Standard Edition
Mudbound
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
Mudbound VOLUME 2
Shipped April 17, 2008
Only 350 copies available SOLD OUT!

Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
(Algonquin Books)

  • Hardcover first editions
  • Signed and numbered by the author
  • Packaged in a custom, full-cloth slipcase
  • Available only to Indiespensable subscribers

Read blog posts by Hillary Jordan

Standard Edition
How the Dead Dream
How the Dead Dream
by Lydia Millet
How the Dead Dream VOLUME 1
Shipped March 5, 2008
Only 200 copies available SOLD OUT!

How the Dead Dream
by Lydia Millet
(Counterpoint Press)

  • Hardcover first editions
  • Signed and numbered by the author
  • Packaged in a custom, full-cloth slipcase
  • Available only to Indiespensable subscribers

Read the Powells.com interview with Lydia Millet

See all books by Lydia Millet

  • back to top
Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.