P. R. Spencer

Reproduction of a Victorian era penmanship lesson book. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

In Nine Easy Lessons

Book 5 presents sentences and sayings for writing practice.

Theory of Spencerian Penmanship

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Ryan H. Walsh

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Secret History of 1968

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed rock musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory - along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968.

Astral Weeks

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Joe Boyd

Making Music in The 1960s

"Joe Boyd's first proper job at 21 was bringing Muddy Waters to Britain in 1964. When Dylan went electric at Newport the following year, Boyd was the stage manager. His first session as a record producer was Eric Clapton's original 'Crossroads'. A year later, he had produced Pink Floyd's first single and installed them in the UFO Club, the heart of psychedelic London in 1967. With the help of the Incredible String Band, Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention, he arranged the brief but intense marriage between pop music and British folk. He discovered, produced and managed Nick Drake. He loved the Swedish songwriters he heard on a trip to Stockholm in 1970 - two years before they created ABBA - but not enough to turn down a job in California where he produced soundtracks for Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange and the definitive documentary on Jimi Hendrix."--BOOK JACKET.

White Bicycles

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Brian "Box" Brown

Life and Legend

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet tall. But the huge stature that made his fame also signed his death warrant.

Box Brown brings his great talents as a cartoonist and biographer to this phenomenal new graphic novel. Drawing from historical records about Andre's life as well as a wealth of anecdotes from his colleagues in the wrestling world, including Hulk Hogan, and his film co-stars (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, etc), Brown has created in Andre the Giant, the first substantive biography of one of the twentieth century's most recognizable figures.

Andre the Giant

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1954 first paperback edition. John Ciardi translator. Brittle and fading pages consistent with vintage. No markings. 

The Immortal Drama of a Journey through Hell

The Inferno

Mark Manson

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

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1911 edition, antique school copy. A sobering reminder of America’s once-noble vision. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

And Webster’s First and Second Bunker Hill Orations: Merrill’s English Texts

George Washington’s Farewell Address

Charles S. Murray

“The artistry of this book matches that of its subject.” Nick Tosches

Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock 'n' Roll Revolution

Crosstown Traffic

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Martha Bayles

Like new with remaindered mark on bottom. 

The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music

Hole in Our Soul

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Good vintage condition. 1931 edition of 1929 publication. The book explores Casanova's life, including his many love affairs, travels, and writing career. Endore also provides context for the time period, such as the political turmoil and the rise of the Enlightenment. 

His known and unknown life

Casanova

Good vintage condition. Charming illustrated 1961 annual guide of the British counterpart of Girl Scouts, with stories, civics lessons, survival and camping skills.   

The Girl Guides Annual

Good vintage condition, with tattered jacket. Fading. Building guide for midcentury modern homes. Published 1945 by Simon & Shuster. 

A Complete Guide for the Home Builder

Tomorrow’s House

Sam MacDonald

A Memoir

Faced with the truth that his debts and his waistline had both ballooned out of control, Sam MacDonald devised a plan to change his life.

When Sam graduated from Yale in 1995, he watched a classmate make inroads as a head-office guy in professional baseball, another become a day-trading millionaire, and another develop connections at the Playboy Mansion. Struggling to make ends meet, he shrugged his shoulders at their success and raised a tall one to them.

It wasn't until April 2000 that Sam got his wake-up call. He weighed 340 lbs. He was flat broke. And the IRS had caught up with him.

In a desperate attempt to save himself, Sam decided to limit himself to a budget of $8 a week and 800 calories a day. He called it "The Urban Hermit Plan."

He thought he would do it for a month. Instead, he embarked on a bizarre year-long journey. He lost 160 pounds in the process, befriended rent-dodging trailer-park denizens, flew to Bosnia on assignment, traveled to a peace festival in a hippie van, had a run-in with Cooter from the Dukes of Hazzard, and met the woman who would later become his wife.

The Urban Hermit is a wildly hilarious story about backwoods living, as told by a man who should have known better.

The Urban Hermit

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Good vintage condition for a pulp paperback. Fading and brittle pages but no marks. 

And other stories

Adventures in the Skin Trade

Lot of three vintage pulp novels, including Sex, Inc. (“an original Nightstand book”) and The Perfumed World (“the pent-up desires of wealthy society women!”). Fair to good condition consistent with age. 

Case of the bodies beautiful

Honey in the Flesh, private eye

Anne Truitt

Alexandra Truitt

Rachel Kushner

Brand new. I mistakenly ordered two copies of this book. 

The Journal of an Artist

Named by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt's remarkable series of journals

 

"Impressive. . . . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . . [T]hese daily entries . . . offer a version of Truitt free of artifice as she meditates on the sacred and mundane. . . . This sparks with intelligence."--Publishers Weekly

 

"Truitt wrote as she sculpted, returning to the past again and again to find fresh truths. . . . A model of discipline and open-ended inquiry and a welcome counterweight to the kind of anxieties that so often accompany a creative practice."--Megan O'Grady, New Yorker

 

"In its stripped-down intimacy, Yield shows Truitt at her most eloquent in demonstrating, as her sculptures do, that all revelation in art is self-revelation."--Donna Rifkind, Wall Street Journal

 

In the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermittently, over the next six years, writing in spiral-bound notebooks and setting no guidelines other than to "let the artist speak." These writings were published as Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1982). Two other journal volumes followed: Turn (1986) and Prospect (1996). This book, the final volume, comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death.

 

In Yield, Truitt's unflinching honesty is on display as she contemplates her place in the world and comes to terms with the intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life, even as that life approaches its end. Truitt illuminates a life and career in which the demands, responsibilities, and rewards of family, friends, motherhood, and grandmotherhood are ultimately accepted, together with those of a working artist.

Yield

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Terry Southern

Michael Cooper

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Legendary Photographs of a Band in the Making, 1963-1973

The Early Stones

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Thomas Frank

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Salvos from the Baffler

Gathers articles from The Baffler magazine which offer criticism of the new American cultural order such as the rise of "alternative" culture.

Commodify Your Dissent

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Peter Constantine

Cynthia Ozick

Leo Tolstoi

Cover has some sun fading. Otherwise like new, never read. 

Olenin, a wealthy orphan from Moscow, joins the Russian army and is sent to the Caucasus, where he rediscovers the beauty of nature, unrequited love, and the colorful culture of the Cossacks and Chechens.

The Cossacks

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Jim Lichtman

Stories about Principles That Matter

What Do You Stand For?

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Mike Edison

A little shelf smudge on bottom edges (shown), otherwise very good condition. 

Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World

"If your book's subtitle isSavage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, you have a lot to live up to--and somehow Mike Edison does . . . Edison seems to have nine lives and enjoys every moment of each of them to the fullest . . . His journey takes him around the world, but he always returns to magazine writing, and his insider scoop on these bizarre workplaces is what, finally, makes this memoir truly memorable." --Penthouse

"Cooler than Toby Young and more credible than James Frey."--Bookforum

"Will have you alternately envying Edison and being glad you've avoided such encounters." --New York Daily News

"Gloriously told . . . Surprisingly intelligent." --SF Weekly

"[Edison's] an engaging, sardonic guide to some of magazinedom's more disreputable territories." --Entertainment Weekly

"Brash, irreverent, funny as hell and beautifully written."--PopMatters

I Have Fun Everywhere I Go

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1929 pre-war second printing by Oxford University Press. No marginalia. Jacket and cover are tired and worn as shown. Inscription of owner in ink, dated 1933. 

Oxford University Press

Some Modern Sculptors

Moscow City

International Travel Maps

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Hank Harrison

Rare, weird hippie memoir by Courtney Love’s father. Cover shows some wear but no interior marks or damage. 

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