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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Published by Viking Press in 1973. Hardback second printing of the first edition, in very good condition with near fine jacket. Light edge wear to binding, corners slightly bumped, light soiling to page edges. $100
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Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson, with an introduction by Israel Regardie. Oversized paperback first edition published by Falcon Press in 1983. Signed and inscribed by Wilson. Condition is good; creased around spine, light wear to wraps, corners slightly bent, some underlining to text. $100
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The Funny Fuzzywogs by Carol Vox, with illustrations by Nana French Bickford. Oversized paperback published by Stoll & Edwards Co. Inc. in 1921. Condition is good; all 'fuzzywog' figures are present and still attached; some soiling and wear to wraps, corners slightly bent, worn along spine, light staining to pages with minor rippling, book has a slight smoky smell. $75
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Dennis Wilson - The Real Beach Boy by Jon Stebbins. Oversized paperback published by ECW Press in 2000. In very good condition, with wraps that are lightly creased on spine and corners slightly bent. $100
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A Short History of Chemistry by Isaac Asimov. Mass market paperback published by Anchor Books in 1965. Condition is very good; wraps are creased on spine and slightly on front and rear covers, light sunning, previous owner's name and stamps inside front cover. $25 (We also have other volumes in Anchor's "Science Study Series" of mass market paperbacks.)
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Saloons, Bars & Cigar Stores: Historical Interior Photographs by Roger E. Kislingbury. Hardback first edition published by Waldo and VanWinkle Publishers in 1999. Bound in full black leather without jacket, as issued. Condition is very good, with light wear and soiling to binding, spine top bumped, and the last few pages have bent lower corners. $100
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Have you ever noticed the big safe full of books behind Iliad's front counter? We get asked about it frequently. "Is it really old?" is a common question (the answer: no, we bought it new just a few years ago). But most customers want to know what kind of books merit storage in a safe (we think of these as the rarest of our rare books), so in this column we'll pick one book every month and tell you about it. This month's book is...
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Black Swans: Stories by Eve Babitz. First edition hardback in jacket published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1993. Signed and inscribed by Babitz. Condition is very good in very good jacket, with very light sunning and rubbing to the jacket and light soiling to the head. $250
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Our December posts may have been talking about good books for the holidays, but even though the holidays are now past the books are still good!
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We should probably all worry when Apollo starts studying the counter-culture books...
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