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Books Bought & Sold

Used and New Titles

“in this thicket, each smallest branch, plant, fern, root --- must now be isolated, observed, picked over, measured, raised as though a word, an accuracy were a pincer!” -Charles Olson
Row of books from the "Foxfire" series, numbered Foxfire 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and The Foxfire Book, edited by Eliot Wigginton, with various colored spines.
Virginia Brock, Anne Marie Jauss, illus., Pinatas (Abingdon Press, 1966). It's April and Easter is around the corner, so why not some family crafting time and history of the pinata? Also pictured, the original pignattas--clay pots broken by blindfol
Joel Weishaus, ed. On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing (City Lights Books, 1971). Awesome anthology of a great range of poets who congregated around Bolinas, California in the early 70s. Creeley, Kryger, Clark, Bergeson, and more. Except fr
Baum, L. Frank, Barry Moser, illus., The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (University of California Press, 1986). Trade edition of Barry Moser's epic Pennyroyal Press edition (which is beautiful, but maybe not in most folk's price range). We love Moser's boo
William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998 (Hasselblad Center/Scalo, 1999). Ever since encountering "The Red Ceiling" adorning the cover of Big Star's Radio City, we've been obsessed with the photographs of Eggleston. The dye-transfer pr
Jean Baudrillard, xerox and infinity (Touchepas, 1988). A pamphlet essay from one of the titans of postmodern philosophy and sociology. Taking a cue from the xerox machine to germinate on the idea of replication and our relationship to them, yields
Geza Csath, Opium and Other Stories (Penguin, 1983). Illustrations by Attila Sassy. We are huge fans of the Writers from the Other Europe Series that Philip Roth edited for Penguin. The hits were Kunders, but A Tomb for Boris Davido
Kahlil Gibran, Patterns of Happiness (Hallmark Editions, 1971). Illustrated by George Kauffman. We don't know anything about the illustrator, but, whoa, these M.C. Escher meets Roger Brown meets Tolkien meets, uh, the greeting card industry, are so
Jacqueline Heriteau, Grow It, Cook It (Perigree Books, 1983). Expanded edition of How to Grow and Cook Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs. It's spring and we always go back to this classic when garden planning. It's an all-in-one how to reference, with a
Radio Silence: A Visual History of American Hardcore Music, by Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo (MTV Books, 2008). Heroin, Heroin LP, Gravity, 1993. Going to the show and getting a patch, stopping by the record store just hoping. We remembe
Armadillo [2], edited by John Weber, design by Barbara Weber (Periplus Press, 1970). Second issue of this awesome, and sadly short lived, literary magazine. The Patchen cover is such a great example of his work. Bunch of great little works by some r
Claus Oldenburg, Notes in Hand (E. P. Dutton, 1971). Thinking of notebooks, this pocketbook selection of Oldenburg's notebooks (he did about 50 pages a month!) radiates the whimsy and humor of his art. So many imaginative, fanciful, and (sometimes)
Marshall McLuhan, Counterblast (McClelland and Stewart, 1969). Designed by Harley Parker. Whoa. This expanded edition of McLuhan's original photocopied manifesto is a graphic designer's dream of a nightmare. We know nearly nothing of Harley Parker,