Hi, I decided to get rid of a ton of books that are just sort of sitting around. There's some weird stuff, some gems, some stuff that's interesting (or seems interesting to me), and some things that would be at the very least a good prop to have laying around.
Most of these books are $3, which is a used book price I respect. If you feel like I'm not charging enough for something please feel absolutely free to offer more, or to choose a price in between what I'm charging and what you'd expect to pay.
To buy, make a list of the books you want and email jacob@fujichia.com with subject "BOOK SALE". Just copy the prices and names from the listing and paste them into an email. I'll get back to you to with a shipping cost, and then you can paypal or venmo me. If you're local and want to pick up we can do cash. I'll try to remove stuff from the website as it sells, but there might be a lag, in which case something you want might already be gone. The time of the last update is listed above.
I'll be shipping things by USPS media rate, the cheapest option. Shipping will be at least $3. Here's a chart to get a ballpark idea of shipping prices: [link]. I will ship out within a week. I can ship via USPS priority if you want to pay extra, but it'll still take me a couple days to get to the post office. There is NO international shipping option. Local pickup (Providence RI) is free and preferred!
-- Jacob
$3 handbook of magic
nice beginner's magic book, with illustrations in black and white
$3 depraved and insulting english
sold to crusty tim
$3 crime suspenstories
magazine size ec reprints, in color
$3 games you can't lose
cool book of bar stunts and gambling-adjacent magic and tomfoolery, all kid-appropriate though, by harry, the judge from night court.
$3 henny youngman's giant book of jokes
great
sold to jenine
$3 secrets of the ninja
fuckin... hell yeah
sold to ryan
$5 goodbye
sold to tycho
$5 death of speedy
classic
sold to ryan g
$5 inventing marcel duchamp
nice big coffee table book that's about duchamp and also a catalog for a group exhibition of people doing portraits of duchamp. really nice!
$3 cryptonomicon
$3 flatland
a classic
sold to mike t
$3 scram #12
from that era where zines got big enough to get UPCs. great article on Toni Basil.
$3 dunninger's complete encyclopedia of magic
tons of illustrations of how to do stage magic. if you're trying to explain slight-of-hand in a book, the only way is with lots of great illustrations, and this book's got them by the score.
$3 Weirdo (A)
sold to adam b
$3 buzz
anthology comic from kitchen sink
sold to james ford
$3 elphi the cat with the high iq
$10 walt & skeezix book 5
sold to dan wars
$3 popul vuh
the basis for the movie "Space Jam"
sold to evelyn
$3 the sirius mystery
this is *the* book on the sirius mystery! attn: evelyn. see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sirius_Mystery
sold to evelyn
$1 wire magazine - lcd sound system
i rested my squeegee on this when i was printing something green, that's what the green stuff is.
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (I)
$3 black sun
"the brief transit and violent eclipse of harry crosby"
"American heir, bon vivant, poet, and publisher who for some epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature" (wikipedia).
$3 the a team
$3 sound collector magazine #6
hrvaski, orthrelm, more. (see zoom in). nice thick book-style music mag.
sold to james ford
$3 word mysteries and histories
$3 last gasp
anthology comic from last gasp
$3 Raygun
really cool music mag, this is the classic "hip magazine with crazy, borderline unreadable typography".
sold to jenine
$3 captain billy's whiz bang
reprint of this humorous periodical from the 20s. for more info see the wiki: [link]
$10 fair use by negativland
the Negativland book about their court cases, mostly about them getting sued by U2 for the Negativland CD entitled "U2", but also about their altercations with SST. interesting for people engaged in copyright stuff or for people with a bone to pic against greg ginn.
$20 hopital brut
insane huge and legendary silkscreened anthology from le dernier cri. I'm not going to list who's in here- someone will know what this is and they'll find it and be psyched :)
sold to chris day
$3 the divine invasion
$3 monkey business / duck soup
this is just the scripts to monkey business and duck soup. from before you could rent movies! far out.
$3 in search of dracula
$5 abandon the old in tokyo
sold to michael trek
$3 Bizarre
cult film mag
sold to james ford
$3 sound collector magazine #8
daniel johnston, eric dolphy, rock camp for girls, more (see zoom in). nice thick book-style music mag.
$3 shakespeare's bawdy
singles out just the dirty parts (lines, phrases, inferences) of shakespeare plays! finally!
$3 voltaire's alphabet of wit
$10 encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology
hell yeah. a dynamite in the "imposing tome" category. mostly about witchcraft in England and North America, witch trials, etc.. many pics of old woodcuts.
sold to crusty tim
$5 dick tracy
great big collection of Dick tracy strips, with a few complete stories plus some other fun padding
sold to adam b
$3 fate magazine, june 1977
$3 amazing real life coincidences
$3 Sassy - June 1990
"we suck up to a b-52"
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (G)
sold to james ford
$3 a history of the machine
cool art book
$3 ciba clinical symposium
lots of unsettling full color illustrations of mouth problems
sold to james ford
$3 futurism
sold to ryan
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (C)
sold to james ford
$3 from the land beyond beyond
cool book about the stop motion kings from days of old. lots of pics, in black and white obviously.
sold to james ford
$3 terry and the pirates
book of reprints focusing on that diabolical femme fatale supreme, the dragon lady! comes with a newspaper clipping that was in there when I bought it, also looks like someone tried to forge a milton caniff signature on page 1! it wasn't me.
sold to james ford
$3 galaxy mag
$3 wire magazine - broadcast
i think i got this because of "christian marclay on herb alpert"
sold to james ford
$5 altered states of consciousness
huge book on altered states of consciousness, just like it says. a classic from the year 1969.
sold to mark
$3 UFO magazine
"let's just call our magazine 'UFO'."
$3 outsider - colin wilson
$3 sea monsters
$5 portable darkness - an aleister crowley book
like new!
sold to mike t
$3 the yoga of light
very groovy hippy cover on this kundalini yoga book.
$3 the werewolf by montague summers
as seen in the danzig "welcome to my book collection" video. for more info see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Summers
sold to crusty tim
$3 suttree
$3 light a last candle
sci fi with cool cover, beyond that, i don't know
$3 sassy - april 1990
sassy magazine was definitely a force for good, right? this has some pages cut
$3 lipstick traces
$1 home study course
this is just one week's lesson that would get mailed to you if you signed up for one of those illustration schools by mail you see advertised in comic books.
freebie for chris day
$3 megatherion
sold to crusty tim
$3 The World's Best Jokes.
they're right here, folks!
$10
esperanto bible
translated by Dr Esperanto himself, inventor of Esperanto! you can't use this to learn esperanto because the good doctor invented a special verb ending for use in this book only, to make things seem old timey and respectful. a totally boneheaded move if you ask me, especially since the thing that makes esperanto so special is it's internal consistancy. Oh well! onion-skin pages and weird green vinyl cover just scream "i'm a bible!". slight tear on the inside cover.
$3 the occult - colin wilson
classic!
sold to mike t
$3 moveable feast
$20 HUMBUG
2 volume HUMBUG reprint, without slipcase. kurtzman's mad after mad. really nice edition.
$3 giant robot (B)
$3 scenarios of the commedia dell'arte
i bought this book to send to Dane Martin for plot ideas for his very Commedia Dell'Arte-ish comic strip, but then I realized that's kind of insulting. "have you tried doing a time-tested thing?"
$3 read
eddie deezen interview! attn: dan wars
$5 alan watts - three
three books in one
$3 myths to live by
$3 the pogo papers
$3 basic layout design
sold to ryan
$5 famous monster movie art of basil gogos
beautiful book of paintings by Basil Gogos, including many Famous Monsters Of FIlmland covers.
sold to crusty tim
$3 the wu tang manual
$3 your flesh
fanzine with dan clowes cover. lots of great stuff, zoom in for more.
sold to james ford
$3 great people of the bible and how they lived
you're a little curious, admit it.
$3 ufos and their mission impossible
$3 vineland - pynchon
$3 how to read a person like a book
lots of illustrations
$3 in search of ancient mysteries
$3 liquid conspiracy
JFK LSD CIA UFO
$1 starlog
i think the posters are missing from this
sold to olivia :)
$3 Weirdo (B)
sold to mike t
$3 amazing science fiction december 1974
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (E)
sold to james ford
$3 the source - art bell
sold to mike t
$3 journey to the earth's interior
what are the hollow earth people doing now that flat earthers are back? are there any hollow earth rappers? hollow earth is honestly way way cooler than flat earth. a hot take waiting for its callback.
sold to adam b
$3 prelude to mars
$3 japanese prints
sold to ryan
$5 masterpieces of terror and the supernatural
Gorey cover! cool book of spooky short stories.
sold to ryan
$3 american boy's handy book
cool reprint book of "old-time fun", lots of pictures.
sold to tycho
$3 101 puzzles in thought & logic
sold to james ford
$3 the neanderthals
lots of pics. like a school library book about the neanderthals.
sold to james ford
$3 the science fiction book
sold to olivia :)
$10 locas book 1
a little dinged up, a little stained on the cover, all from being read and loaned out. a huge book and an extremely enjoyable read.
bea
$3 meet mr product
cool little book with tonnnnns of pictures of cute little guys that were used in product advertisements from the 50s onward. attn emma
sold to ryan
$10 where demented wented
cool book about 70s underground comic maniac rory hayes
$3 you might as well live
dorothy parker bio!
sold to dylan
$10 exegesis of philip k dick
like new!
sold cullen beckhorn
$3 20 master plots
sold to dylan
$3 wire - wolf eyes
rare pic with regular sunglasses
$3 secret history of marvel comics
misleading title, but this book is about other artwork that the artists in the marvel bullpen did, mostly focusing on risque stuff for men's magazines.
$3 the aura
extremely basic but functional design
$3 cosmic trigger volume 2
$3 complete peanuts. no cover on this one but it's 65-66
$3 freedom from the known - krishamurti
this book is falling apart but the cover is dynamite
sold to laura paul
$3 giles
weird european political cartoons about things that i have no idea what they're about. really really fun to look at, great drawings with lots of stuff going on in the details, gross faces.
$10 777 and other qabalistic writings removed :)
$3 roadside america
$3 MOMMY AND I ARE ONE
$3 card magic
dynamite book of card magic with lots of clear illustrations
$3 rauchenberg
slim book about rauchenberg's trashy assemblages, fun to flip through. might also be a good gift for a kid?
$3 an alien harvest
huge book about cattle mutilation, with pics. attn crusty tim
sold to crusty tim
$3 wrinkle in time
$3 creature catalog
cool little monster book with illustrations by Michael Berenstain, of Bears fame.
sold to crusty tim
$3 interaction of color - joseph albers
sold to mike t
$3 secret destiny of america
stupid book by an interesting character. Manly P Hall's birth name was "Men's Room". that's just a little joke for you. that's not in the book, i made that up.
$3 surely you're joking mr feynman
classic bio on physics superstar richard p feynman.
$3 god i am
new wave end time book from 1994, getting you ready for the big change in consciousness that will start happening in... 2011.
$3 official handbook of practical jokes volume 2
$10 the grouchophile
nice big book with tons of pictures, about the life of the man behind the mustache.
sold to greg harvester
$3 autobiography of a super tramp
recently-republished hobo fiction from the golden age of the hobo. or maybe it's a true story? i forget.
sold to ryan
$3 teach yourself esperanto
$3 shock value
sold to tony from the internet
$3 scrap irony
whimsical Gorey cover on this weird book of humoristic poems
$3 the enigma of the mind
seems like a part of a "weird stuff" encyclopedia set. tons of cool pics.
sold to dylan
$3 giant robot (A)
sold to ryan
$3 merz world: processing the complicated order
nice little book about kurt schwitters and the original merzbow
$3 comic art
really cool magazine. the ernesto cabral pages are dynamite.
sold to adam b
$3 our gods wear spandex
this is really goofy but it connects themes in mythology to big house (marvel & dc) comic books of the 20th century.
$3 best comics of the decade
$3 Kinnikuman 29
somewhat recent MUSCLE man (aka Kinnikuman) comic, in Japanese
$3 think on these things - krishnamurti
$2 sewing for men and boys
free gift to EDY
$3 african folktales
$3 sears roebuck catalog
small-size reprint of a 1909 Sears Roebuck catalog, lots of great pics and fonts, and also just a cool thing to flip through looking for ideas, ala Ernie Bushmiller.
$3 chaos : making a new science
classic chaos theory book
sold to sarah crowe
$3 design since 1945
cool, lots of pics
sold to ryan
$3 limbo of the lost
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (F)
sold to james ford
$3 the urantia book
really nice huge book of nonsense from this classic california christian UFO religion. hardcover, with bible-esque onion skin pages.
sold to ryan
$3 songs of the pogo
songs from the comic strip pogo, with guitar chords!
$3 more tricks to fool your friends
sold to mike t
$3 the world of ulysses
sold to adam b
$3 barlow's guide to extraterrestrials
classic.
sold to mike t
$3 japanese jive
book of japanese products from the 80s and 90s that have names that mean something else in english.
$10 walt & skeezix book 2
$3 seth speaks
a seth book, but it's not by or about the seth that's the sad horny spirit of a 1920s fop. it's about the seth that's the blazing horny spirit of a matter-less energy personality essence. i should honestly keep this book just to keep making this joke.
sold to me :)
$3 gargantua and pantagruel
i have three copies of this because it's extremely enjoyable. selling one of them, gonna keep one, and just leave the other one somewhere weird
$3 the hanging book
morose book of gag comics, 100% about hanging
$3 the mystery experience
a modern approach to the hermetic tradition
$5 complete peanuts 87-88
$3 dangerous pussy
comic book
sold to james ford
$3 in the shadow of young girls in flower
sold to laura paul
$3 agatha christie - after the funeral
$3 best worst and most unusual
sort of a guinness book without the grandstanding.
$3 heart of darkness
$5 chester square
sold to tycho
$10 agony
RAW first edition mark beyer!
bea
$3 trialogues at the end of the west
terrance mckenna!
$3 secrets of houdini
cool Houdini book with good drawings illustrating how he did such things.
sold to ryan
$3 confessions of a rat fink
big daddy roth autobio!!!! pretty fun read, lots of pics of course.
sold to ryan
$3 batman year 100
cool paul pope futuristic batman. I liked this.
sold cullen beckhorn
$3 proust- guermantes way
sold to michael trek
$3 stranger by the river
eckankar book printed in blue on bluish paper in handwriting font??? i have so many stupid occult books because so often the design is incredible.
our gang
walt kelley's out gang comics reprint!
sold to james ford
$3 Hot Rod magazine
classic. I got this for the full page big daddy roth ad, the rest is fun to look at too tho.
$3 the island of the day before
$3 myth and reality
sold to mike t
$3 the thing that ate the constitution
later robert anton wilson book
$3 illustrated goetia
goofball crowley book (aren't they all though)
sold to ryan
$3 Morrissey autobio
no cover.
sold to ryan
$3 sock it to me
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (D)
$3 ecstacy and me - my life as a woman
maybe the apex of the tell-all celebrity ghostwritten autobio. really fun read.
sold to laura paul
$3 little women
$3 the little book of famous insults
sold to jordan cabin floor
$3 in search of shrodinger's cat
$10 le corbusier and the occult
cool coffee table book about... Le Corbusier and the occult! lots of pics
sold to sarah crowe
$3 the shape of content
sold to tony from the internet
$3 book of the hopi
$3 asimov book of facts
$10 walt & skeezix book 1
these books are really beautiful!
$3 babylon's banksters
the goofball conspiracy presses started hiring graphic designers, which is probably a good move, but I'm against it. this is about like, alchemy, deep physics, and international banking.
$3 humbug
pt barnum bio
$3 vampires - restless creatures of the night
cool book about vampires, lots of color pics
sold to crusty tim
$3 yeti
this is real, but it's not about yetis, it's a music mag in 6x9 book form. it's cool! cool format too.
$3 amazing science fiction september 1975
$3 catonsville nine
cool book about the catonsville nine by father daniel berrigan. "The Catonsville Nine were nine Catholic activists who burned draft files to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, they went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files, brought them to the parking lot in wire baskets, dumped them out, poured over them homemade napalm (an incendiary used extensively by the US military in Vietnam), and set them on fire." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catonsville_Nine
sold to james ford
$3 transmigration of philip k dick
$3 why a duck?
torn cover. cool book
$3 Weirdo (D)
sold to james ford
$3 SJ Perelman "The Road To Miltown"
$3 the mummy the will and the crypt
gorey cover on this great kid's mystery
$3 aztecs of mexico
sold to james ford
$3 encyclopedia of bad taste
cool weird book, tons of great pics, a few pages missing
$3 outrageously pogo
$10 el borbah - charles burns
big charles burns book with monsters and wrestlers, before he started his decades-long storyline about boring teenagers with stupid haircuts.
$3 coincidence
better looking cover
sold to mike t
$3 Kinnikuman 3
somewhat recent MUSCLE man (aka Kinnikuman) comic, in Japanese
$3 yeats mythologies
$5 toolbox for sustainable city living
sold to me :)
$3 wire magazine - sound art explosion
sold to james ford
$3 the nature of personal reality
another Seth book
sold to me :)
$3 aliens on earth!
lots of pictures. sort of thing you might find in an elementary school library, and if you catch anyone else looking at it, boom, you're friends. lots of great illustrations of different aliens, their various spacecrafts, and different abduction stories, all based on witness testimony.
sold to olivia :)
$3 the comic tradition in america
$3 john heartfield - art and mass media
sold to crusty tim
$3 american humor
$3 field guide to reptiles and amphibians
you got one of these? gonna need one.
$3 japanese movie magazine
beautiful old film star magazine. kind of falling apart but so fun to look at! glamorous and cool.
sold to james ford
$5 alfred jarry bio
with pictures througout by Bill "Zippy The Pinhead" Griffith!
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (H)
$3 black helicopters over america
$3 MC Escher
has some schmutz on the cover. lots of great reproductions of mind bending prints. i loved this shit when i was a kid and i still love this shit.
sold to sarah crowe
$4 KRSNA
I got this for the great paintings of krisna, of which there are several within.
sold to ryan
$3 the monster show
really good book about horror movies, especially what i'd call "classic american monsters" - Dracula, Frankenstein, et al. the Edward Gorey cover is in disrepair because I read this a lot and loaned it out
sold to jordan cabin floor
$3 world's finest
black and white "phone book" reprint. the binding is falling apart.
$5 human anatomy
$3 back of history
$3 classics for pleasure
$3 eyes of blood
recent book about the Hammer Studios Dracula movies starring Christopher Lee. lots of pictures!
sold to mike t
$3 big foot and nessie
$3 odditites
sold to crusty tim
$3 newgate calendar
$3 raygun this magazine really is nuts! very 90s and absolutely bonkers design.
sold to jenine
$3 norstrilia
cool sci fi from the enigmatic cordwainer smith
sold to james ford
$3 Weirdo (C)
sold to adam b
$10 patience, dan clowes
cool time travel story from dan clowes. hardcover
sold to ryan
$5 tears from heaven
sold to michael trek
$3 those gods who made heaven and earth
ancient aliens
sold to crusty tim
$3 castaneda- the writings of don juan
you're gonna need this for your beach shack
sold to mark
$3 the bell the clapper & the cord
good basic joke book
$3 la machine infernal
in french! really great cover, that's why i got it.
$3 secret societies
sold to crusty tim
$3 prometheus rising
now we're talkin
$3 aha!
another fun martin gardner puzzle book, this one's about insight, the "aha" moment.
sold to jordan cabin floor
$3 yeti researcher
this... is fake? it's one part of an unbound issue of McSweeney's that was like, a bunch of fake stuff all bundled together. it's fun to look at but I don't want to keep it around because it casts a bad vibe on my other bigfoot books.
$3 underground bases and tunnels
sold to crusty tim
$5 girl groups
really great book about girl groups of the 1960s. lots of info, tons of pics.
sold to olivia :)
$3 squa tront
EC fanzine
sold to james ford
$3 thor
black and white "phone book" reprint. the binding is falling apart.
$3 the careful writer
$3 Flatland magazine
Wilhelm Reich edition! attn: O
sold to olivia :)
$3 kinnikuman 4
somewhat recent MUSCLE man (aka Kinnikuman) comic, in Japanese
$3 we discovered alien bases on the moon
love it when they just say what the book is. what are they? alien bases. where? on the moon. what happened? they got discovered. by who? us.
sold to jordan cabin floor
$3 draw comics the marvel way
sold to ryan
$3 the haunt of fear
magazine size ec reprints, in color
$3 I need all the friends i can get
peanuts classic gift book
$3 weird and wonderful words
sold to jenine
$3 mason & dixon
$3 salt: a world history
sold to mark
$5 ludwig
tezuka's bio of beethoven, which he (tezuka) died in the middle of, making this an unfinished symphony. in japanese. i bought this at a 7-11 in Japan!
sold to james ford
$3 good times are killing me
$3 psychotronic encyclopedia of film
really cool book with lots of listings of weird old movies, with lots of pictures in black and white. great if you make flyers or have a zine or are interested in old weird horror movies. this was the book of a zine that was listings of old weird horror movies, from before an age where you could rent movies, and you had just hope to catch them some time on late night TV.
sold to derek
$3 ym - mega guy issue
"will he call?"
$3 national sunday law
classic wingnut christian shit that got mailed to me for some reason. via rationalwiki: "National Sunday law involves a conspiracy theory which alleges that the United States government is on the verge of enacting a national blue law that would make Sunday a day of rest and worship. The theory depends on the idea that the Pope is the Antichrist and the Mark of the Beast is worshipped on Sunday."
sold to crusty tim
$3 against world literature
sold to EDY
$1 fighting stars
"celebrities in the art of self defense"
$3 milton berle's private joke file
famous joke thief Milton Berle's collection of material for erstwhile comedians, toastmasters, and office loudmouths. jokes are ordered by topic. misogyny, racism, and also a lot of "just jokes", but not for kids ok.
$3 mysteries - colin wilson
sequel to "the occult"
$3 sources of chinese tradition
sold to mike t
$10 story of crass
new(ish) CRASS book
$3 twist
another anthology comic from kitchen sink
sold to james ford
$3 art in modern culture: an anthology of critical texts
$3 love and rockets #49
$3 fantasy empire (A)
not to be confused with the zine of the same name, this is all (mostly?) british sci fi.
$10 creeping death from planet neptune
really cool early wolverton book! hardcover, focusing on his sci fi stuff, with lots of info and reprints of a few of his many rejection letters!
sold to michael trek
$3 i-d magazine - june 1995
UK club magazine / scene artifact.
$10 pranks!
sold to olivia :)
$3 schultz and peanuts
hardcover schulz bio. this is supposed to be really good but mike said it was too sad so I didn't read it. shoutout to mike.
$3 sneakier uses for everyday things
$10 the atrocity exhibition
jg ballard with phoebe gloeckner illos! like new
sold to dean (mindy will pick up)
$3 welcome to gojinko world
$3 cruel shoes
$3 tales from the crypt
magazine size ec reprints, in color
$3 man-made ufos 1944-1994
great book to just leave lying around. lots of pics.
sold to crusty tim
$3 rules of thumb
$3 sorrows of young werther
$3 i go pogo
$5 Manga: sixty years of japanese comics
nice big softcover book about manga
$5 love & rockets new stories #3
sold to ryan
$3 MY ROOM
japanese teen home ec magazine. sewing, interior design, dolls...
sold to kw
$3 LOC #2
$3 werewolves in western culture
cool book if you dig werewolves, which i do. :)
sold to crusty tim
$3 fate magazine, december 1967
$3 aliens the final answer?
$3 pogo sunday parade
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (A)
all these Acme Comics Novelty Library issues are $3 even though they should be more. i don't want to deal with putting them on ebay- some of them are kind of dinged up and i picture fans of this stuff being among the fussiest fans there are. the individual comics are better than the collected jimmy corrigan book because they're all different shapes and there's tons of incredible extra stuff, like letters, fake ads, paper cutouts... someone cool grab all these, please
note: I am listing these as A,B,C, etc., rather than by issue number because I can't tell from looking at the pics what issue it is, so just deal with it!
sold to james ford
$3 dr strange
black and white "phone book" reprint. the binding is falling apart. give it to a kid or keep it in the bathroom?
sold to james ford
$3 in praise of idleness
$3 marx brothers scrapbook
sold to greg (accidentally sent him the wrong one)
$3 zero zero (c)
anthology comic from fantagraphics
sold to derek
$5 in the studio
cover's a little dingy and this still has the price tag from building 19 on it (RIP). The best part in this (obviously) is the Gary Panter stuff.
sold to mike t
$3 The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
"1977 book by Carl Sagan, in which the author combines the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how human intelligence may have evolved. " -wikipedia
no cover
$3 iggy pop i need more
sold to ryan
$3 the culture corner
cool Basil Wolverton book, collecting his "culture corner" strips. in many cases the strips are reprinted alongside the initial pencil art, which i don't find very interesting at all! I mean it's cool to see one or two and see little changes get made, but so many? hardcover's a little dinged up.
$10 Purr
verrrrrrry cool uk mag from the 90s or early 2000s. Edward Gorey interview, the Cramps, Dame Darcy, more.
$3 witchcraft and sorcery
cool cover on this classic
sold to jordan cabin floor
$5 Mark Twain's autobiography 1910 - 2010
really funny book, i laughed out loud. a writing book, not comics.
$3 homo ludens
the seminal work on the study of play. via wikipedia: "Homo Ludens is a book written in 1938 by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga. It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. Huizinga suggests that play is primary to and a necessary (though not sufficient) condition of the generation of culture."
sold to sarah crowe
$3 the age of spiritual machines
$3 the mind of a mnemonist
about this guy with a memory so good it messed up his life. not a novel! it's real.
sold to mike t
$5 videogames for humans
cool big book about indie video games, especially twine-based works. cover by MDF
sold to tony from the internet
$3 religion and the decline of magic
it's my understanding that this is a classic. Underlined in light pencil by someone else, feel free to just zip right to those parts. :)
sold to laura paul
$3 witchcraft oracles and magic
sold to crusty tim
$3 esperanto dictionary
$3 vampires
Gorey cover! Torn tho :(
Another cool book of spooky short stories.
sold to crusty tim
$3 bridges to infinity
$3 official handbook of practical jokes
book about practical jokes, with many funny and most likely apocryphal stories. don't let a kid have this, it'll make them so annoying and also give them the wrong idea of what "funny" is. that said, a fun book.
$5 complete peanuts 75-76
$3 perfect put-downs and instant insults
$3 comics journal #301
$3 Acme Comics Novelty Library (B)
$3 madness and civilization
sold to tycho
$3 stanislaw lem "the investigation"
sold to laura paul
$3 the quiet americans
this is a bootleg???? the printing's weird, it's cut weird, the paper is not the paper you're used to... weird to see a bootleg of a book
$3 the controllers
more from commander x
sold to crusty tim
$3 marcel proust bio
slim bio on proooooooooooooooost
$3 beyond the occult
the other sequel to "the occult"
$3 selected poems of william carlos williams mindy
$3 robinson crusoe
in english
$3 african masks
sold to mike t
$5 art and architecture of islam
cool book, really fun to flip through
mike t
$3 cinefantasique
$3 houdini: his life and art
houdini book by the amazing randi! with lots of great pics and original posters and stuff.
$3 hinduism
$3 creative mythology
$3 vault of horror
magazine size ec reprints, in color
$3 zen master hakuin
cool book about poet monk and cartoonist hakuin. do i have to say "poet, monk, and cartoonist" or can I just say "cartoonist" and the other two are implied?
$10 sing sing nights
harry stephen keeler is best described as "enthusiastic". this was his most popular novel. some of his books sell for hundreds of dollars but I don't want to deal with the aggravation.
sold to adam b
$3 trivia encyclopedia
the trivia about this trivia encyclopedia is that they sued trivial pursuit for stealing trivia. They caught them with a fictitious entry! see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_Pursuit#Legal_action
$3 cosmic trigger
bleak graphic design on this robert anton wilson classic, i'm guessing to attract the coast to coast crowd?
$3 comic fandom's forum
$3 bullfinch's age of fable
$3 supernatural strategies for making a rock n roll group
hard mcsweeney's vibe on this goofy book. i thought this was actually going to be about strategies for making a rock n roll group, but it's just strategies for ian svenonius to make a book. which is maybe just what you want! slight coffee stain.
sold cullen beckhorn
$3 zero zero (a)
anthology comic from fantagraphics
sold to derek
$5 Monkey Business
new writing from Japan, in English. 2012 great literary magazine!
$3 beastly inventions
sold to crusty tim
$3 witches almanac spring 2005
$3 ellsworth kelley
$3 Eckankar
$3 the landry news
cute recent YA book about running a newspaper.
$3 collected stories of philip k dick
heavy water damage but totally readable. huge book of short stories.
sold to mark
$3 joyce bio
$3 ten ever-lovin blue eyed years with pogo
$3 the ultimate deception
sold to crusty tim
$3 VALIS
$5 tramping with tramps
cool old hobo book
$3 zero zero (b)
anthology comic from fantagraphics. Gary Panter cover!
sold to derek
$3 underground alien bases
this book is probably totally stupid and this guy is almost certainly not good, but this book looks so sick, admit it.
sold to crusty tim
$10 the art of harvey kurtzmann
great book about the early Mad editor, cartoonist, and writer, who set the tone for so much of american satire.
$3 kinnikuman 5
somewhat recent MUSCLE man (aka Kinnikuman) comic, in Japanese
$3 weird fantasy
magazine size ec reprints, in color
$3 forbidden fighting techniques of the ninja
hell yeah. american publishers of ninja secrets are really a special class of people. really great interview with ashida kim in the believer, you gotta check it out if this interests you at all: [link]
sold to ryan
$5 hutch owen - unmarketable
$3 your youth - getting the most of it
$3 ufo ufo ufo
the loom of ruin
signed (to me) $5
$3 wire magazine - alvin lucier
$3 midsummer night's dream
maybe not the best "guy turns into a donkey / talking donkey" story, but definitely in the top 40.
$3 the gods of the egyptians
sold to mike t
$3 wire magazine - jandek interview
i had someone drive me to barnes and noble to buy this.
$3 musings on human metamorphosis
absolute goofball fonts pervade this 90s timothy leary book, very "early Macintosh" utopian vibe.
sold to olivia :)
$3 kandy-kolored etc. - tom wolfe
$3 loc #4
$3 agatha christie - they do it with mirrors
$3 robinsono kruso
robinson crusoe in esperanto!
$10 wacky packages
nice little book of all the artwork from the original Wacky Packages stickers. like new .
sold to jenine
$5 peanuts treasury
nice hardcover
$10 locas book 2
a little dinged up, a little stained on the cover, all from being read and loaned out. a huge book and an extremely enjoyable read.
sold to ryan
$10 walt & skeezix book 3
sold to dan wars
$3 potluck pogo
$3 the immortal game
cool book about the origins of chess
mike t
$3 decameron
after much debate i decided to keep a worse translation of this sprightly set of tales. for fans of "a bunch of stories loosely threaded". see also 1001 nights, canterbury tales, divine comedy, turok: son of stone.
$3 serpent and the rainbow
they made a movie of this, which i remember being pretty good. wes craven, bill pullman, paul winfield.... pretty sick!
$3 book of j
bible stuff
sold to EDY
$5 complete peanuts 77-78
$3 shock suspenstories
magazine size ec reprints, in color
$5 drifting life
beautiful thick manga autobiography
sold to tycho
$3 the man without qualities
$3 zen and the art of writing - ray bradbury
this book is 100% not about zen, clearly the jump off here is "zen and the art of motorcycle repair". nonetheless this is a fun book of advice about writing from ray, which is quite suffused with his eager boyish energy.
sold to tony from the internet
$3 charlie chaplin autobio "my autobiography"
$3 flight of the eagle - krishnamurti
$3 do what thou wilt
pretty good crowley bio
sold to ryan
$5 russian criminal tattoo volume 3
sold to crusty tim
$3 2000 more insults
$3 schott's original miscellany
really nice trivia compendium, very misc. great bathroom book.
$3 the magic handbook
nice book about magic, with tons of pictures and a good balance of history, concepts, and tricks you can do.
$3 ubik
$3 illustrated history of horror and science fiction
$3 the illuminati 666
i got this off the shelves at the library, there's no library stuff in it though, someone just sneaked in and put it with the new releases in the science section! i put it in my bag then got the distinct feeling that someone was waiting to see who was gonna grab it. i ran.
sold to crusty tim
$3 myths and their meaning
sold to crusty tim
$3 modern day houdini
bio of rock DJ and escape artist bill shirk
$5 collected hutch owen
i love these tom hart comics but it's time to let other people read them, you know?
$3 psychic dictatorship usa
kozik cover (?) on this 90s mind control conspiracy book
sold to crusty tim
$10 i was a tv horror host
extremely cool book about tv horror host john stanley (not to be confused with the comic book writer of the same name). the blurbs on this one are bananas:
Everybody should read this book. EVERYBODY!" - Ray Bradbury
"John Stanley has definitely shaped a well-rounded study of American horror hosts, but I seriously doubt he will ever be able to keep abreast of me." - Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
see also this review: https://egorschamber.com/tvhorrorhosts/johnstanleybook.html
sold to tony from the internet
$3 groucho, harpo, chico, and sometimes zeppo
cool marx brothers book
$3 robert graves greek myths 2
you don't need to have read greek myths 1, you can just jump right in on 2, you'll figure it out
sold to tony from the internet
$3 illuminatus trilogy
$20 pogo vol 1 & 2
this is volumes 1 and 2 of the pogo collection that fantagraphics did a few years ago, in the slipcase and everything. slipcase is a little dinged up, but so aren't we all?
$1 skills for language power
language workbook from a catholic school, with lots of illustrations and some of the lessons done by a girl with good handwriting.
sold to EDY
$3 the vocation of the artist
$3 mathematical puzzles and diversions
I got into these sorts of puzzle books- Martin Garnder wrote the games section of OMNI magazine, I liked his books best
sold to tony from the internet
$3 martian manhunter
black and white "phone book" reprint. the binding is falling apart.
$5 Barnaby
great comic strip reprint book. love these characters and the look of these strips.
$3 whittling and woodcarving
that's nice
sold to crusty tim
$3 the loch ness monster
$3 tetrascroll
I think the idea behind this is it's a children's book, to unlock their potential for dymaxion ideas or whatever. Cool weird book by and with drawings by Buckminster Fuller, starring Goldilocks and the Three Bears
$3 the great houdini
a lesser houdini bio is still better than most people's bios!
