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Iliad Bookshop's March 2023 Newsletter (#74)

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Hi Gang!

If you've been around the store at night lately, you've seen our fantastic new parking lot lights, which are far brighter than our old ones (which were destroyed in the fire last November). As I write this, we're halfway through installation on our new main entry door, which is glass and will have automatic handicapped entry and a pulldown metal shutter for extra security. We're also still investigating camera/security systems.

In other words, despite the panoply of small disasters we've experienced over the last year (which included this last weekend's flash flood warning), we're coming back strong and looking forward to the rest of 2023.

We hope you're staying healthy, happy, dry and warm.

Dan, Lisa, Poul, Eric, and Sean (and Zeus and Apollo)

SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS

Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s by Paul Schimmel, Alma Ruiz and Catherine Gudis. Large paperback published by the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1992. In very good condition, with light sunning and scratches to wraps, and corners very slightly bent. $75

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The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family by Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian. Paperback second printing published by Process in 2007. Includes CD in opened pouch. In very good condition, with slightly bent corners and a lightly creased first page. $75

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The Cobra Story: A Man, His Dream, and His Automobile by Carroll Shelby. Hardback third printing in jacket published by Trident Press in 1965. Condition is very good in good jacket: jacket is sunned, stained and rubbed, some edge wear with 1-inch chips around spine ends; binding edges are lightly sunned. $75

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Darkwerks: The Art of Brom by Brom. Signed paperback first edition published by FPG, Inc. in 1997. Signed by Brom on tipped-in plate. Condition is near fine, wi minor rubbing and wear to wraps. $75

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A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. First British paperback edition published by Panther Books in 1978. Condition is very good minus, with light sunning and wear to wraps, corners slightly bent, and pages yellowing. $20

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King Rat by James Clavell. Hardback first edition in jacket, published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1962. Condition is very good in good plus jacket: Jacket is sunned and rubbed, some edge wear with several 1-inch chips and tears; head is stained, light foxing to endpapers. $75

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WHAT'S IN THE SAFE?

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...

Panels for the Walls of Heaven by Kenneth Patchen. Limited hardback published by Bern Porter in 1946. Numbered 72/150 copies, signed on rear board, boards are hand-decorated by Patchen. Condition is good, with light wear to binding edges, original plastic jacket is missing, tape and scuff marks on front and rear pastedowns, previous owner's plate on front pastedown (owner was Academy Award-winning animator Lee Mishkin), and minor foxing and soiling to pages. $1,250

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ZEUS AND APOLLO

The boys had a little vacation at Dan's home in late February as we hosted a big television shoot in the store and then worked on the new doors; here they are snuggled up in a chair at Dan's place.

We'd love to include your photos in our newsletter! Feel free to send to info@iliadbooks.com , let us know that it's okay to use the photo, and we'll include it in a future newsletter.

If you need more photos/videos of Zeus and Apollo please visit our Instagram page or our Pet Gallery (where you can also see photos of our earlier felines).