Mulligan Books & Seeds

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New Winter Hours

Monday – Friday 10 – 4
Saturday 10 – 2
Sunday Closed

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Let’s Localize Our Food and Solarize Our Village

Ukiah, Mendocino Country, North California

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Your books will always cost less overall… by renting, buying, trading, and special ordering them with Mulligan, rather than Amazon, Kindle, Wal-Mart, Costco, Barnes & Noble…

Go to Underground Seeds here

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~Rent-A-Book~

$2 a week

Current Hardback Bestsellers

Also Audio Book CDs and True Films DVDs

Use Your Store Credit

To reserve a rental book:

eMail MulliganBooks@sonic.net

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~NOW RENTING MOST POPULAR~

…and many more…

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Gently Used Books Discounted New Books Trade/Rent/Buy/Sell/Find/Give 707-462-1555 eMail MulliganBooks@sonic.net

Monday – Friday 10 – 4 Saturday 10 – 2 Sunday Closed

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Local Community Book Rescue & Rental Library

~Save All Ways~

Books/CDs/DVDs

Read & Trade!

Bring us your current, your classic, your huddled books, yearning to breathe free…

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208 South State St (Downtown Next To Incognito) Ukiah 95482 Ukiah Valley Upper Russian River Watershed Mendocino County Klamath Bioregion North California ~~

Gift Certificates Always Available

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Locally-Owned Independent Business

Your money spent locally, stays and keeps circulating in our community, building local jobs and wealth, and is taxed for schools and emergency services. Spent online, at chains, or at franchises, your money leaves for parts unknown… never to return.

We specialize in:

Popular Fiction Mysteries & Thrillers Escapist/Trashy Fiction Community/Localizing/Transition Forward to the Land/Organic Food Meaningful Work Natural Health

Come on in…

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~The Mulligan Deal~

New $7.99 Mass Market Paperback Amazon $7.99 plus 3.99 shipping = $11.98 Kindle $7.99 (no trade-in or pass-along allowed) Mulligan $7.19 Mulligan Special Order $6.79 Mulligan used $1.95 – $3.95

New 27.95 Hardback Bestseller List Price $27.95 Amazon $16.31 Kindle $12.99 (no trade-in or pass-along allowed) Mulligan Used $4.95

Mulligan Rental — $2 a week Used $15.00 Trade Paperback Amazon Used $1-? plus $3.99 shipping Mulligan Used $4.00

We always take back every new or used book we sell for Mulligan Moola Store Credit, saving you up to another 50%.

BTW: Amazon almost never discounts their most popular new books, the $7.99 – $9.99 mass market size books. At Mulligan they’re 10% off and no shipping charge. Used: $1.95 – $3.95. And you can trade them back in for Store Credit.

It’s true that Amazon can sometimes beat our prices if you include the taxes we collect to support our local firefighters, police, public schools, libraries… and which, shamefully, Amazon refuses to collect… and which we all owe on our taxes by law (citizenship dues) but never pay.

Shop Local. Live Local. It’s our local future we build and protect together.

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Mulligan Moola (Store Credit Accounts)

[Please see Condition Guidelines For Gently Used Books We Accept For Store Credit below...]

Drop off your gently used books and we’ll take good care of them.

For Gently Used Books you have purchased from Mulligan, you receive half the price in Mulligan Moola Store Credit; for new books you purchased from Mulligan, and gently used books you bring in that we think we can sell, we reprice at ½ price or less depending on age, condition, and market price, and you receive up to ½ of that price (up to ¼ of original retail price) in your personal computerized Store Credit Account and are issued a Mulligan Moola Store Credit Certificate… or sometimes we put them on consignment and you receive Store Credit when sold.

Your Mulligan Moola Store Credit has no time limit… it’s good “forever.”

Use your Mulligan Moola Store Credit to purchase, or special order, New and Used Books… and to Rent Bestsellers and Audio Books for $2 a week.

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“Senioritis” Guarantee

We guarantee that you haven’t already read a book you’ve purchased at Mulligan. If you discover that you’ve already read it, you may return it for a full refund. [You must be 21 years or older...]

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Give

Books you bring in that we can’t sell, you can pick up, or we donate for you. The hopelessly tattered, stained, dog-chewed, mildewed, odored, and used up, are recycled.

Mulligan Books loves and supports our libraries.

Your donated books are now circulating at the High School Library, Downtown Library, Senior Center, Hospice, Juvenile Hall, County Jail, Wagenseller Neighborhood Free Library, and other local schools.

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~Mulligan Pricing~

Most USED Books Priced $2 – $5

Discounted New Books

Under $20…..10% off Over $20……..20% off Selected Hot Bestsellers….25%-40% off

Book Clubs or Special Orders receive an additional 5% off New books

Books are still the best idea value in the universe. ~Seth Godin

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~Special Orders~

It takes just a minute to order books with us. Send us book name(s) and author(s) by eMail MulliganBooks@sonic.net or call us 707-462-1555 or stop by the store.

We’ll find your book in the store if we have it,  or order best quality/price, new or used. No prepayment necessary. We’ll notify you of arrival for store pickup at your convenience… and you purchase only if books meet your full approval.

We charge $2 for each used book we search and purchase for you. New books special orders receive an additional 5% off (see pricing above) and arrive in a day or two, used books in a week or two. All books guaranteed.

We can often save you time/money ordering new books, and save you money on used books. We order books daily, search several suppliers, and have volume shipping discounts.

Why Special Order Used Books Through Us?

The Hassle Factor: Unfortunately, online dealers sometimes do not describe books honestly, or don’t send them when promised. We sometimes have to return and reorder books because of quality problems and have developed a list of dealers we won’t order from because they misrepresent their books.

We guarantee all new and used books we order for you. You only accept and pay for books that meet your expectations.

Thank you. Dave Smith Proprietor

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Dave explains to customer, Jackson, that he CAN tell a book by its cover… while Sarah, local political activist and gadfly, is absorbed in some really trashy fiction she wanted to peruse, “just to see what people are reading.”

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Mulligan Books publishes…

Ukiah Blog [Mendo Island Journal] Timely. Useful. Sometimes Cranky.

The Contrary Farmer Gene Logsdon and Friends

Your Local Market Blog Startup – Bellevue, Washington

Our teeny tiny garden at Church and Clay

Mystic Horse Sanctuary Animal Rescue and Shelter Beverly Smith

Herd of abandoned horses (and other animals) sell books and unusual art to support their hay habit…

Purpose of the animal rescue sanctuary is to research, educate and communicate the value of animals considered no longer useful

Come visit their Art Nook at the bookshop.

A Mulligan Books Enterprise

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Mulligan Books is dedicated to the memory of Roy Kepler and the original Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park within which I spent numerous hours learning how the world works, and more importantly, how the world should work; and to the old East West Books in Menlo Park within which I learned that there was much more to the world in us than what we think we see outside ourselves.

BOOKSHOP MANIFESTO (Thanks to Gallery Bookshop Mendocino)

WE BELIEVE IN THE BOOK. We believe in quieting the noise and listening to the stories. We believe in traveling far and wide between paper pages. We believe in touching the words, scribbling in the margins, and dogging the ears. We believe in surrounding ourselves with books long finished and books not yet read; in revisiting our younger selves each time we pull old favorites off the shelf. We believe in five-year-olds inking their names in big letters on the flyleaf. We believe in becoming someone else for four hundred pages. We believe in turning off the screens and unplugging the networks once in awhile. We believe in meeting the author, reading the footnotes, looking up the words and checking the references. We believe in holding our children on our laps and turning the pages together. We believe in standing shoulder to shoulder in comfortable silence with our fellow citizens before a good shelf of books; we believe in talking face to face with friends and strangers in the aisles of a good bookstore. We believe that together, readers, writers, books and bookstores can work magic.

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Condition Guidelines For Gently Used Books

We Accept For Store Credit

We accept books for Store Credit (and sometimes cash) that we can resell, based on their expected retail value. That retail value is derived from the books desirability, current and historical market values, in-print prices, and our current stock needs.

What we buy We will look at any book, but the more current, the better, and classics… as needed.

What we don’t buy With so many books in the world, and our own stock continually changing, it is impossible to say exactly what we’ll be interested in at any one time. However, we can say exactly what kinds of books we are not interested in. Those are:

• Books in poor condition
• Family bibles
• Outdated textbooks
• Old encyclopedia sets
• Westerns except for L’Amour
• Adult series romances (Harlequin, etc.)
• Many book club editions
• Hardback fiction once the paperback is published
• Magazines
• Original software users manuals

Condition problems are the number one reason we pass on books. No rips, tears, stains, or odors

Our general guideline is that any title with a cover tear of more than a quarter of an inch or any title with multiple rips or tears to the edges will be passed on condition. Some books may not have obvious rips or tears but are still generally beaten up or in worn condition or may be covered in unsightly stickers or price markings from other stores. Books with tape repairs to any portion of the interior or exterior will also be passed on. For dust jackets, the same rule of thumb should apply albeit with a slightly less demanding eye, and it’s possible that we will keep a book at a lower bid even if the dust jacket is in poor condition. All of the above are reasons for books to be passed on.

Stains: Stains and/or water damage in the form of wavy pages or brittle pages that have since dried from a nasty fall into the tub are also reasons to reject a title regardless of how much or how little it affects the books. If any part of it has had liquid touch it, there’s no need for anyone else to touch it either.

Odors: Books are made from organic materials that can and will pick up the scent of things around them. Poor storage such as in basements or garages can result in a musty, if not downright moldy, smell that won’t leave no matter how long you let it air out. Smoke or fragranced storage materials will also be absorbed by the paper and can’t be removed. Regardless of whether these books are in perfect condition otherwise, they can’t be saved and will be passed on.

No writing or highlighting (with the exception of an owner’s name written in front): Writing and/or highlighting of any kind won’t be accepted. This applies to any part of the book including its covers and dust jacket. Please check your books thoroughly before sending them.

No pages falling out or coming loose and no broken spines/bindings: Please thumb through any book you are offering us. Beyond the obvious pages that may come loose in this process, you are looking to see if the book naturally falls open or stops at a certain section which is often the indication of a broken spine. Broken spines can also be spotted by noting white crease lines down the spine of a paperback title. Additionally, paperback books with a pronounced angle to their spine may also be passed on. You won’t be able to see a broken spine as easily from the exterior of a hardcover, but you’ll find the same internal symptoms as those described for the trade paperback above.

Mass Markets: Due to the cheaper construction of mass market bindings, they will tend to have more condition issues than other titles. Always flip through the book first to check for loose pages. Any mass market title that has a pronounced crease in the spine should not be sent as this is most often a sign that the binding is broken or near enough to breaking that we may not be able to resell it again.

No Ex-Library or Book Club Editions No Advanced Reader Copies, Uncorrected Proofs, or books marked “Not for Resale” All hardcovers originally sold with a dust jacket must include the dust jacket: Some titles are not issued with dust jackets, but these are few and far between and usually apply only to computer, technical (as in any higher math, science, engineering, or mechanics), and/or textbook titles. If an ISBN and barcode is printed on the rear cover of a book, this is often (although not always) an indication that a book was published without a dust jacket.

Accompanying media: CDs, DVDs, or any other additional inserts, maps, or the like must be included with any items sold. Please be sure to check that anything that originally came with a book is included with the book when it is shipped.

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Localizing Heroes – Organic Farmers, Small Business Owners and Community Advocates

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I don’t use the Kindle or an e-reader. I can understand why if you’re on an airplane going around the world, you’d want a Kindle. But I think books are great technology. Once they’re produced they don’t use any energy. If their materials are decent and sound, and you take care of them, they’ll last forever. I like the feel of a book, I like to turn pages, I like to see print on paper. The pleasure of going into a bookshop, finding things you didn’t even know you were looking for, discovering things—that’s what we’re losing now. Everyone knows in advance what they want, and they order it online or download it. ~E.L. Doctorow

~ The book doesn’t have to have its battery warmed up, or a wi-fi hotspot to make it work, you can turn down its corners and skip ahead and then back; easier than scrolling. You can keep it on your shelf and consult it in an instant without tedious searching time. And, if it is a particularly good, dull book, you can see its spine hanging over your head, haunting you a little, urging you to read it … more readers have been seduced by spines (“I’ve got to read that Tolstoy”) than have been summoned by iStores. No, the book is a fabulous, seductive technology. ~Adam Gopnik ~

I would like to personally thank the following individuals for their love of books and continued support of Mulligan Books. -Dave

Bev, Cheryl, Evelyn, Eric, Cindi, Marlene, Kevin, William, Judy, Jeffrey, Stephanie, Ryan, Teff, Mary, Jason, Sherrie, Sheryl, Diana, Mike, Isa, Tom, Guinevere, Naoko, Yoshiki, Jessica, Jacquie, Mary Jo, Jennifer, Tim, Eddie, Jan, Dori, Kristie, Ginger, Liz, Paulette, Kip, Carol, Katrina, Bobby, Patricia, Nephele, Bob, Kay, Phyllis, Lucy, Dennis, Dave, Hal, Susan, Jana, Sid, Laurel, Cherie, Nansea, Mari, Lisa, Dara, Spencer, Alex, Poppy, Carole, Daniel, Molly, Trista, Kerry, Holly, Dot, Lily, Jackie, Ruth, Leeya, Els, Allen, Sid, Joe, Scott, Christina, Adriana, Mina, Julie, Phil, Jeanne, Lisa, Rachel, Dorotheya, Beverly, Annie, Janie, Greg, Jamie, Jeff, Pat, Mark, Erin, Ken, Elian, Eric, Linda, Lauren, Sallie, Tracie, Emily, Aaron, Forest, Griffin, Doug, Rebecca, Craig, Irene, Kelly, Patty, Theresa, Ansley, Stan, Terry, Sean, Janice, Eric, Tara, Maleek, Coleen, Ingrid, Jo-Ann, Wendy, Tom, Gail, Don, Sandi, Julia, Henry, Virgilia, Hannah, Will, Marlene, Dan, Sarah, Callie, Margaret, Janet, Tom, Gail, Chris, Cindi, Debra, Charity, Helen, James, Jimmy, Eric, Char, Gail, Kirth, Sean, Al, Brad, Dennis, Tom, Wynd, Bec, Ben, Bette, Anne, Dennis, Marty, Halie, Dan, Judy, Andrea, John, Kristine, Carl, Ellen, Leslie, Susan, Tim, Marci, Linda, Susan, Ike, Carol, Teresa, Jaime, Benj, Susan, Elaine, Kate, Patricia, Jerry, Robert, Mary Lou, Mary Anne, Howie, Krista, Rose, Kim, Star, Marvis, Ham, Maria, Margo, Ed, Michael, Jessica, Helen, Marion, Mary-Margaret, Lynda, Joe, Darca, Terry,  Ann, Marge, Carol, Wayne, Tara, Katie, Eagle, Yoli, Tarney, Jill, Leon, Hafsa, Terence, Stuart, Jan, Justin, Irene, Lynn, Mikell, Lenny, Fran, Diana, Rick, Catherine, Roberto, Ron, June, Will, Elizabeth, Jody, David, Martin, Cara, Charles…

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