Affordable McPhees and Frosts at Johnnycake II bookstore

SALISBURY — Good news for bibliophiles: Dan Dwyer’s Johnnycake II opens Saturday, July 18, with a reception at 4 p.m.

Located in Salisbury Square (the red building across the road from the LaBonne’s parking lot), the new shop is a “post-Internet bookstore,†according to Dwyer.

The stock is from a large private collection — around 9,000 titles — purchased by Dwyer and bookseller James Jaffe of New York City.

The really rare books were culled and a catalog issued over the winter; the stock of Johnnycake II consists of “good books at good prices.â€

For instance: John McPhee’s “Coming Into the Country.†The current trade paperback edition lists at $17; Amazon.com has it for $11.56. But Johnnycake II has a first edition hardcover for $15.

Dwyer said he is deliberately pricing most of the books between $15 and $25.

The collection is heavy with poetry: Robert Frost, e.e. cummings, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Donald Hall, James Dickey and Seamus Heaney.

Most of the major naturalists from the late 19th century to the present are represented, and there are a lot of books on birds, wildlife and conservation.

The modest shop has space for about 3000 titles  — “the deep, esoteric, or familiar,†Dwyer said.

Hours will be 11 a.m. through 5 p.m. seven days a week through Labor Day.

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