Close-up of a reclining cat's mostly white paw. She has pink beans and a black palm, resting on an old, tattered, striped comforter.
Trav heard #SmallBizSaturday & thought #SmolBeanzCaturday – not the sharpest claw on the paw.
11/29/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Did you stash books to make room for dinner guests?Want 'em out of the way? #BonnettsBooks accepts trade-ins!
#HappyCaturday #SmallBusinessSaturday
#Caturday
A table covered with a variety of dozens of newer books. At the back of the table is an upright rack displaying even more books. To the right of the table is a rack of DVDs. To the left is a crate full of vintage magazines. Between the mags and the upright is a Speed Racer Helmet, a Brutus Buckeye doll, and the backside of another rack of DVDs.
"Officially," scary season is over. Here's a reminder of the other things you can find at #BonnettsBooks...
11/3/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
The scary is still around, if you're down. And, our Holiday selection has been here all along. Entertaining, cooking, baking, stories, & more! 🍂
A night photo of a hillside covered in glowing jack-o-lanterns depicting a wide variety of carved faces and scenes. Prominent in the foreground is the lips and tongue symbol of The Rolling Stones. Across the hilltop are a few shrubs and a tree with a purple light at it's base. Beyond that is brightly lit church facade.
Last night after work, took a quick trip with a friend to the Stoddard Pumpkin Glow in Grafton Hill.
10/28/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
I think tonight is the last night. Check it out after a stop at #BonnettsBooks! There were food trucks, an activities tent, & lots of great carvings!🎃
A photo of a softcover book superimpised over a cropped, dimmed, and blurred image of itself, to provide a square frame. The book is "Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700, A Documentary History, Second Edition," edited by Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters, revised by Edward Peters. The cover art is a black and white illustration of a chaotic scene featuring naked witches, perhaps a sabbath.
Witch-themed 2025 #HauntfestOn5th is mere days away! Still time to find inspiration at #BonnettsBooks, costumes at #FeathersVintage & #ClashDayton, accessories at Goodwill, your #Halloween soundtrack at #OmegaMusic & #BlindRageRecords, & plan the night!
10/22/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Exterior of a small light-brown paper bag, used as an envelope, each letter a different font, exclaims "Read a Book." The return address is P.O. Box 7489, Detroit, MI 48207.
A message #BonnettsBooks stands by, 100%!
10/16/25 — Open 6-9p
I've been receiving mystery envelopes in the mail for a little while now. No regular schedule. Inside, positive missives, handsomely printed on cardstock.
I like the mystery and the advice.
Visit. Bring nice trade-ins! Read a book.
A photo of a small personal in-home Halloween display. Spanning the back are 3 action figures on cards: Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow & Cosmic Angela from Spawn Comics, made by McFarlane Toys, with Sara Pezzini as Witchblade by Moore Action Collectibles. Seated in front of the figures are 8 small Universal Monsters plushies in two rows: across the back are Dracula, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's monster, (who appears to be leaning pass gas on...) the Bride of Frankenstein, and the Phantom of the Opera; front row is the Mummy, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and a noticeable gap before the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In front of the plushies, laid flat, is a flat, green-felt bat silhouette with blue and white fabric wing inserts. All of this is staged on top of a large blue plastic storage tub.
Dayton, Ohio's #HauntfestOn5th is just 10 days away!
10/15/25 — Open 6-9p. No open containers, please.
A little display from my living room, on a temporary storage tote table. My fave is the Invisible Man.
Stop in #BonnettsBooks to see how many monsters are hiding in the store collection! 😱🕸️🕷️🐈⬛🧹🧙🌛
A close-up crop of the wide-eyed and pursed-lips face capturing a look of surprise from a vintage pin-up girl painting.
What day did you say it was? I'm pretty sure it's Monday.
10/13/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Some had a day off. Not #BonnettsBooks. Nor my orthopedist's office.
Buy a book. Grab a bite. Enjoy a beverage. Do some recon for your potential visit to #HauntfestOn5th, under 3 wks away! 🎃🦇👻
A photo of a Halloween Themed Golden Age Dell Comic, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories №. 98 (Vol. 9 №. 2), original cover price 10¢. On the cover, "Unca" Donald Duck wears an orange shirt with a green ruffled collar and large yellow polka-dots, accessories with a pointy orange cone-style hat with black stars in it and a lighter-orange puffball dangling from the top. Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey, & Louie are all dressed in black capes and tall black hats with red bands, as they ride brooms, pretending to be witches - one is wearing a shaggy red wig. Meanwhile, Donald has been bobbing for apples in a steel tub and has paradoxically come out with a little lobster, hanging by one claw, from Donald's bill.
What's scarier than moving to a new place, when your elbow is healing and you're under a deadline?
10/7/25 — Open 6³-9p. No open drinks, please.
Golden Age Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, & Louie having Halloween fun in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, number 98. Now at #BonnettsBooks!
A photo of "The Usborne Book of Secret Codes." A Scholastic book. The cover illustration is an oblong parchment with a stylized ancient Egyptian border. It rests on a dark, rocky surface. Strange symbols on the document's face are illuminated with a flashlight and examined through a magnifying glass, held by a black-gloved hand.
A photo of the "Monster High" book, "Ghoulfriends Just Want to Have Fun" by Gitty Daneshvari, author of "School of Fear." On the cover, 3 cute, happy, monster-girls – a dark, stitched together Frankenstein-style creation, a pale vampire with wings, and a green sea creature – sit on a bed with brushes, mirrors and other accessories, in a dark gothic setting. A bolt of lightning flashes in the night sky outside an ornate window.
Fun times in tomes for your little monsters at #BonnettsBooks!
10/3/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
We currently have a selection of Goosebumps – while they last. Don't miss out!
Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Percy Jackson, and more, plus table-top RPGs, classics, comics, manga, anime & DVDs!
A photo of a cat's eyes and forehead as it tries to hide behind a small trashcan under a nightstand.
Happy #Caturday! Stop lurking in the shadows. Tonight is the last day of the 20 purr-cent off sale at #BonnettsBooks!
9/27/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Scroll our timeline or click the #BonnettsBooks hashtag to shine some light on the wide variety of books you might find on our shelves
A composite photo of 2 books. On the left is a vintage, tan-colored, clothbound hardcover of "Ramona" by Helen Hunt Jackson. The cover is a black line drawing, embellished in white and sky blue, of an 1800s Southern California Mission-style building. On the right is a sepia-tone trade paperback. "The Collected Erotica – An illustrated celebration of Human Sexuality through the ages." The cover is a vintage image of a nude woman resting on a divan, viewed from behind.
20% off Sale Extended thru Saturday!
9/25/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Here's a chance to take advantage of a super-rare sale at #BonnettsBooks.
Processed items only. No trade-ins or store credit. No rainchecks or holds.
Scroll my old posts to see what kinds of things you might find!
A composite photo of 6 cinematic horror books and magazines, as follows: 1. The Rue Morgue Library. Rue Morgue Magazine's "Shark Movie Mania – a bloody history of Cinema's greatest killing machines," by Michael Gingold. On the cover, the iconic Jaws poster shark, surrounded by a collage of 8 other shark attack related films. 2. "Queens of Scream – the new blood." Edited by David Byron. Cover concept and design by Dennis M. Willman. A blood red tinge saturates this vintage-looking image of a smiling, seductive nude woman on a Victorian divan. Superimposed behind her back is the terrifying face of a tortured woman with yellow eyes and a steel pipe bridle in her mouth. 3. "Discover the Horror – one man's 50 year quest for monsters, maniacs, and the meaning of it all," by John Kitley. The cover is an innocent child in a library, aghast, reading a book called Scary Movies. 4. Monster! Number 2, Feb 2014. A 1950s alien movie monster is reproduced in shades of yellow and green. 5. Monster! Issue 6, June 2014. A black and white image of two men handling a 10-foot giant body concealed in tarps and tied with ropes, as if cargo. 6. Weng's Chop III – this shit will fuck you up! A collage of 3 very heavily altered images that appear to come from Asian crime cinema.
Have a little #HumpdayHorror!
9/10/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Recap: I shared some of these before. If you want interesting, unusual, creepy books lurking your pad this #SpookySeason, #BonnettsBooks can help, w/ novels, mags, comics, & DVDs, too!
Tomorrow's aim: #GoldenAge #Funnies!
Part of the lower half of a concentric circle, showing dozens of alternating bands of bright yellow and orange rings
If "birds" is slang for attractive women, reading adults-only men's magazines should be called "pornithology."
9/8/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Visit #BonnettsBooks, where the intercourse of facts, fictions, & fantasies may reveal wisdom or absurdity, depending what you bring with you.
A photo of the book "Pogs: The Milk-cap Guide" by Tommi Lewis. Photography by Craig Cameron Olsen. The book is a squarish trade paperback with a photographed cover. A multitude of colorfully decorated discs are spread across a surface made invisible through the layers of circular totems. Represented on the various discs are any variety of random graphics like smiley faces, cute or crazy animals, and billiard balls to famous characters or scenes from famous books or movies to advertisments from well-known brands
Whatever happened to #POGs?
9/5/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
If you're feeling nostalgic, #BonnettsBooks is a good place for print time-travelers to get a fix.
Bring your caps & slammers. Maybe a POG* match will break out!
*POG is a Passion-fruit, Orange, Guava drink from Maui, HI
In a park, beneath a tree, a chipmunk sits, resting on a railroad tie.
I forgot to photograph books again. Here's a chipmunk I saw Monday while disc-golfing.
9/4/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
If you're gathering up books, like chippy is gathering food, #BonnettsBooks is a good place to find things you didn't know you wanted. Come, forage for your next read.
A composite photo of 2 trade paperback book covers. On the left is "Flight or Fright," 17 turbulent tales edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. A matte black cover with broken letters in the title and an image of a passenger plane printed in a glossy red and orange, resembling fire. On the right is "Long Division," a novel by Kiese Laymon. "Smart and funny and sharp...I loved it." says Jesmyn Ward. A black cover features a jumbled illustration of many colorful common workaday items. A mauve computer keyboard, a red shower head spraying white water, the jagged yellow lines of graphed business charts, a white bottle of wine, serated green leaves, smooth blue leaves, and thick purple grass.
A couple of fresh trade-ins hit our "new" section last night.
8/28/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Trading with #BonnettsBooks is a great deal, saves money, & keeps your to-be-read pile fresh; time-tested here over 80 years!
There's no telling what might turn up next. Follow to find out!
A composite photo of 6 book covers. The top 3 are acclaimed American novels. The bottom 3 are highly regarded non-fiction. 1. "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck. A worn copy of the Bantam paperback edition of the classic, set during the Great Depression. Made into a film–combined with it's post-World War Two sequel, "Sweet Thursday"–in 1982. 2. Winner of the P.E.N./Faulkner Award, "The Human Stain" by Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Pastoral." 3. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon. 4. "Freakonomics–Revised and Expanded Edition." A Rogue Economist Explore the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. 5. "X* (*Ten)." A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century, by Chuck Klosterman. 6. "Outliers." A Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, author of "The Tipping Point" and "Blink."
New to the shelves tonight, more classics of American non-fiction & novels!
8/22/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
All of these are frequently requested and won't last long... In other words, hurry in or they'll be gone! Don't miss out these & much, much more at #BonnettsBooks!
A composite photo showing 8 books arranged in 4 pairs: 2 comics, 3 paperbacks, 1 educational workbook, and 2 hardcovers, as follows: 1. Marvel Comics Group, Marvel Premiere 15 featuring Iron Fist. Kung-Fu Action—In the Mighty Marvel Manner! Awesome origin issue! The hero, while battling 3 assailants, says "You karate killers wanted a showdown—now you've got it!" 2. The Uncanny X-Men 125. The dramatic return of The Phoenix! The Mystery of Muir Island! The perils of the Danger Room! All this and more! (We guarantee it!) The silhouette Jean Grey appears inside the shape of a firebird. 3. The novel that became the hit movie "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson, author of Somewhere in Time. After Life there is more. The end is just the beginning. 4. An original Star Trek adventure. A mind-dazzling based on the award-winning television series created by Gene Roddenberry. "Vulcan!" by Kathleen Sky. Introduction by David Gerrold, author of "The Trouble with Tribbles." Spock and a female science officer, phasers drawn, face off with a horde of giant ants. 5. "Life and Death," Twilight re-imagined, by Stephanie Meyer, author of the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga. A pale hand offers a green apple. 6. Disney Learning, Grade 2, "Time and Money," featuring characters from your favorite Disney Pixar films. Comprehension skills. Reading made fun. Parent Resources. Bendon Adventures in Learning. 7. The international best-selling novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson. 8. "Health and Medicine in the Catholic Tradition" by Richard A. McCormick.
A bunch of recently reshelved items whose potential buyers changed their minds in favor of other selections.
8/19/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Did Fate cause them put it back for you to find?
Perhaps your destiny awaits, at #BonnettsBooks!
A composite photo of 4 books, as follows: Origami Omnibus – Paper Folding for Everybody, by Kunihiko Kasahara. Trade paperback. The Florence Prescription – From Accountability to Ownership, the next frontier of Patient Satisfaction, Workplace Productivity, and Employee Loyalty, by Joe Tye (with Dick Schwab), foreword by Charles S. Lauer. Trade paperback. The Storm Lord, a saga of an alien world by "The Birthgrave" author, Tanith Lee. DAW Books, № 193. Vintage paperback. The Books of Paradys I & II by Tanith Lee. Book Club hardcover.
2 new to our shelves & 2 from the stacks. Fun, facts, & fantasies!
8/13/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
My week started with a car that wouldn't. It's rolling again and ready to hit the humpday road.
Take a roadtrip of the mind in the finite-infinity conundrum that is #BonnettsBooks! ♾️☯️
A photo of a hardcover book, "The Selby is In Your Place" by Todd Selby, a multi-hyphenate creator. The book collects some of his photos from visits to the homes of other creatives (musicians, authors, actors) to document them in their own environment.
Trying to open early today for the O.D. Groove Garden & Clash Dayton's Pistons & Pin-Ups 14th Anniversary show.
8/9/25 — Open ?-?p & 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Multi-hyphenate lifestyle photog Todd Selby won't be in attendance but, this & much more can be found today at #BonnettsBooks!
A common question...
"How long have you been here?"
#BonnettsBooks has been in the same location since 1939. Stop in!
8/2/25 — Open 6-9p.
No open drinks, please.
#WorldsOldestComicShop
#DaytonsOldestBookstore
A composite photo of three book covers, side-by-side. On the left is the American Heritage Children's Dictionary from Houghton-Mifflin. An astronaut in an E.V.A. suit is shown against a stylized starfield, between lower-case letters A and Z, set against banners and background in shades of blue. The center book is Webster's New World Power Vocabulary, by Elizabeth Morse-Cluley and Richard Read. A treasury of word lore and learning to increase your command of English expression. 500 word parts to build on. Origins of borrowed, evolved, and invented words. A bright red border surrounds the cover text on a tan background. On the right is The Adult Only Joke Book. A glossy plain black cover is dominated by large text. The words "The Joke Book" fill the cover in three rows of bold white letters. The words "Adult Only" are encircled by a border, all embossed in foil red across the cover and at an angle, superimposed between the words "The" and "Joke" to appear as if it was added by a stamp afterwards.
Don't mess up a good dirty joke with poor word power.
7/31/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Good grammar & vocabulary are key social skills, as are developing a good sense of humor & propriety.
😏 It's important to be a cunning linguist. #BonnettsBooks can help.
A composite photo of 6 children's books. "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" by Stan and Jan Berenstain, featuring the Berenstain Bears in the "Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners" series with the Cat-in-the-Hat in the logo. "LEGO City Reader Collection," 6 Easy-to-Read stories published by Scholastic. The next 4 books are branded "Disney Wonderful World of Reading" inside a Mickey Mouse ears logo in the upper left corner. The books shown here are as follows: Disney Pixar "The Incredibles" & three Disney Princess books, "Cinderella", "The Princess and the Frog", and "The Little Mermaid."
It's still Summer break. Little scholars can enjoy vacation and stay on track with these fun new arrivals at #BonnettsBooks!
7/28/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
The Berenstain Bears, LEGO City, Cinderella, The Princess and the Frog, The Incredibles, & The Little Mermaid, while they last!
A photo of a loafing tabby with a white face, a pink nose and green eyes looking back over her left shoulder toward the camera. In the background, between her ears is a fluffy calico on hindquarters supervising the scene.
Curious sorts want to know... What's new today at #BonnettsBooks?
7/26/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
You'll have to stop in to find out! Or, just have a scroll through the posts & see what it's like.
#HappyCaturday!
Close-up excerpt from a sketch of Speed Racer by Dave Aikens inside my copy of his book, at Gem City Comic Book Convention 2025.
A photo of my copy of Dave Aikens' art book, "Pop Culture Portrait Drawings, Volume One" from Gem City Comic Book Convention 2025."
Thanks old friends & new for visiting #BonnettsBooks & sharing #BonnettsStamp love during #GemCityComicCon! Thanks to organizers for having another great show!
7/21/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Pictured is my sketch/signed "Art of Dave Aikens, Pop Culture Portrait Drawings, Volume One.🙂
24 comic books from the 1940s to the 1970s, including Spider-Man, X-Men, 2 unrelated Daredevil comics, Captain Marvel Junior, Blue Bolt, Boy Comics, Airboy, All-True Crime, Joker, Isis, Eerie Tales, and Babe, Darling of the Hills.
#BonnettsBooks will be OPEN tonight after #GemCityComicCon! Visit the the Oregon District for dinner and come say Hello!
7/19/25 — Open 6-?pm. No open drinks, please.
Last night's Preview included many of these. There's more no one's seen except me!
Stop by to visit the #WorldsOldestComicShop!
An enhanced photo of a panel in DC Comics' Wonder Woman, issue number 203 from November 1972. Art by Dick Giordano. The panel is a facial close-up of a clearly irritated Diana Prince. Her long, black hair indicates she has just sharply whirled leftward to speak to someone behind her. Her left hand is extended, palm down, fingers spread wide, as if motioning "cut it out," and she exclaims, "HEY, you guys... !" For context, at this time in the comic's run, Diana Prince had given up the powers of Wonder Woman to live life as a normal person. Just prior to this panel, she was being cat-called by a group of guys while walking along a older, big-city, neighborhood sidewalk. She has around turned to tell them off.
An enhanced photo of part of a 1940s-era black and white ad illustration. A girl with long, dark, wavy hair happily, excitedly, has something to say to the reader. She's leaning slightly to her left and showing the raised index finger of her right hand, skyward, to make a point. The empty upper left corner of the image has been altered to include a color poster, by artist Stuart Sayger of Spider-Man atop a building, beneath a dark, cloudy sky, for the 2025 Gem City Comic Book Convention, July 19th and 20th at the University of Dayton Marriott hotel, 1414 South Patterson Boulevard in Dayton, Ohio. Weekend pass $10, Sunday only pass $5. Early Buy, 9 A.M. both days $5.
CLOSED Friday 7/18/25 ahead of #GemCityComicCon. OPEN Saturday Evening 7/19/25.
7/17/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Cosplayers welcome!
I hope to visit the convention on Sunday. While you're in town, don't forget to stop at #BonnettsBooks, the #WorldsOldestComicShop, since 1939!
A comic book back cover portrait of "The Superman Family" includes 24 popular characters from the early 1960s.
7/14/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks please.
Last night, at Dixie Drive-In (Est. 1957), I saw about half the characters from this portrait (ca. 1962) in the new Superman movie.
Visit #BonnettsBooks on 5th St., the #WorldsOldestComicShop, during #GemCityComicCon this weekend!
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A cropped image of a colorful vintage adult paperback book back cover. Shelf rubbing is evident on the surface. Asymmetrical bands of wavy lines in primary and secondary colors are separated by two thin, straight, parallel black lines crossing the color field at a slight upward angle from left to right.
Abstract paperback art...
7/10/25 — Open 6-9p.
I'll often click a book photo for later use as a background. I saved this last week when it sold & the front was too sexy to share!
I've not snapped any books lately so, y'all get this little secret instead, from behind-the-scenes at #BonnettsBooks.
A photo of two antique hardcover books. On the left is "Pagan Love" by John Murray Gibbon. Orange cloth with red border and lettering. Edgeworn, age-toned, and a dampstain in the bottom front open corner. On the right is "Algebra for Today: Second Course–New Edition" by Betz. Red cloth with faded black titling. Very nice looking book.
Gettin' down to the real nitty gritty...
7/8/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.
Do you:
Long for Historic Fiction?
Hunger for Exotic Recipes?
Yearn for Pythagoras' Theorem?
Lust for Genre Fiction?
Pine for Vintage Erotica?
Hot for Oxford Commas?
#BonnettsBooks will get your heart thumping!🔥❤️
