I have been a full-time bookseller since 1986 and closed my shop in 2001 to concentrate on mail order, appraisals, and do some writing. My stock includes a large collection of books on Baseball as well as True Crime, Ohioana, Botany, and Music (Blues, Classical,Folk, Jazz,Rock). I am a member of the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS) and A Book CoOp which operates TomFolio.com. My personal book interests include H.L. Mencken, P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Darwin, Jim Tully, travel, baseball, especially the Negro Leagues, botany, true crime, and music.

My books. In 1992 a man walked into my bookshop in Kent, Ohio, and asked for a copy of The Bruiser by Jim Tully. I'd never heard of the book or its author despite the fact that many credited Tully with being the father of hard-boiled fiction. Worse, Tully began writing in Kent in the early 20th century. Nineteen years later, Mark Dawidziak and I completed Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler. Ken Burns contributed a foreword.We've also written introductions to reissues of four of Tully's books: Beggars of Life, The Bruiser (Fwd by Gerald Early), Circus Parade (Fwd by Harvey Pekar), and Shanty Irish (Fwd by John Sayles).

One of many delays was another book: Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues by Frazier Robinson w/ Paul Bauer. Fwd. Buck O'Neil. Intro. Gerald Early. Frazier caught, among others, Satchel Paige and Leon Day. When he wasn't playing baseball, he was hitting the jazz clubs of KC, NY, and Baltimore where he saw Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and others. Redd Foxx was one of his bar-hopping buddies. Frazier loved baseball and jazz.

Currently available:

Circus Parade (Foreword by Harvey Pekar). Tully's gritty memoir of carny and circus life.

Beggars of Life . His breakthrough autobiography about his life as a road kid.

Shanty Irish (Foreword by John Sayles). Tully's autobiographical novel about his childhood.

The Bruiser (Foreword by Gerald Early). Tully's classic novel of the ring.

Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler by Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak.

A box of Tully:
To celebrate the release of Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler, buy the biography and three of the reprints from ArchersBooks.com and get the fourth Tully reissue for free. I'll issue the discount when I fill the order.

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Buy Now US$35.00	Item number: BOOKS003110I. Bauer, Paul J. and Mark Dawidziak. Fwd. Ken Burns   JIM TULLY: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler  Publisher: Kent State Univ. Press Kent, OH 2011. ISBN: 9781606350768 fine/fine, 1st ed, boards Mark and I spent 19 years working on this. I still can't believe it's done.
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Buy Now US$17.00	Item number: BOOKS001273I. Tully, Jim. Fwd. Harvey Pekar. Intro. Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak   CIRCUS PARADE  Publisher: Kent State Univ. Press Kent, OH 2009. ISBN: 9781606350010 new, 1st ed thus, wraps Tully's hard-boiled classic about carnies and circus grifters. This edition w/ a fwd by friend and legend Harvey Pekar.
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Buy Now US$18.00	Item number: BOOKS018974I. Tully, Jim. Intro Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak   BEGGARS OF LIFE: A Hobo Autobiography  Publisher: Kent State Univ. Press Kent, OH 2010. ISBN: 9781606350 new, 1st ed thus, wraps Jim Tully's autobiography covering his years as a road kid, his breakthrough book
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Buy Now US$17.00	Item number: BOOKS018976I. Tully, Jim. Fwd. Gerald Early. Intro Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak   THE BRUISER  Publisher: Kent State Univ. Press Kent, OH 2010. ISBN: 978160635-0 new, 1st ed thus, wraps Jim Tully's classic novel of the ring
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Buy Now US$18.00	Item number: BOOKS001258I. Tully, Jim. Fwd. John Sayles. Intro. Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak   SHANTY IRISH  Publisher: Kent State Univ. Press Kent, OH 2009. ISBN: 9781606350232 new, 1st ed thus, wraps A lost classic back in print. The John Sayles fwd ranks w/ the finest writing ever done on the Irish-American experience.
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Buy Now US$18.00	Item number: BOOKS000125I. Robinson, Frazier w/ Paul Bauer. Fwd. John Buck O'Neil. Intro. Gerald Early   CATCHING DREAMS: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues  Publisher: Syracuse Univ. Press Syracuse, NY 1999. ISBN: 0815605633 fine/fine, 1st ed, red cloth new in dj
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Buy Now US$15.00	Item number: BOOKS000038I. Robinson, Frazier w/ Paul Bauer. Fwd. John Buck O'Neil. Intro. Gerald Early   CATCHING DREAMS: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues  Publisher: Syracuse Univ. Press Syracuse, NY 2000. ISBN: 0815606583 fine, 1st ed thus, wraps 230pp, new in shrinkwrap
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Terms of Sale:
Mail order only. All first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. E-mail preferred. Ins extra and recommended. Ohioans must pay 6.75% sales tax. Extra charges may be requested for some priority and international orders. Books will be shipped on receipt of payment (US funds/accounts only) and may be reserved for ten days. Visa/MC accepted. Phone (330/346-0926) w/ answering machine. Books returnable within 2 weeks of delivery. DJs in mylar.

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