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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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The Andy Warhol Diaries edited by Pat Hackett. Hardcover in jacket published by Warner Books in 1989. Condition is very good in very good jacket: light wear to jacket, sunned on spine, minor staining to jacket flaps, price clipped; binding edges are lightly sunned and worn, front free endpaper has 1-inch scuff and tear. $150
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The Invisible Government by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross. Second printing of the mass market paperback published by Bantam Books in 1965. Condition is good, with wraps creased on spine, spine is slightly concave, some sunning and rubbing to wraps, and light staining to page edges. $12.50
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The Total Film-Maker by Jerry Lewis. First edition hardback in dust jacket published by Random House in 1971. Condition is good in very good jacket; jacket is lightly sunned and rubbed with minor edge wear; minor staining to binding, several 1-inch tears in cloth on front board, corners slightly bumped, page 45 has pen mark, a few pages have dog-eared corners, book has a musty smell. $100
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Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami. First hardback edition in jacket published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2017. The book is in fine condition and the jacket is very good, with some very light sunning to the spine. $75
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The Way to Cook by Julia Child, Twelfth printing hardback in jacket published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1996. Flat-signed by Child on title page. Condition is very good in very good jacket, with light creasing to jacket along front top edge; previous owner's inscription on title page, and minor yellowing to pages. $75
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The Werewolf of London by Carl Dreadstone (pseudonym for Walter Harris), introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Paperback first edition published by Berkley in 1977. Condition is very good, with wraps slightly creased around spine, minor edge wear and rubbing, corners very slightly bent, 1/2-inch scuff on rear cover, and previous owner's book plate inside front cover. Includes photos throughout. $35
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Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico by Virginia M. Fields, John M. D. Pohl, and Virginia I. Lyall. Hardback first edition without jacket published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Scala Publishers in 2012. Condition is very good, with light rubbing to the binding and a slight spine slant. $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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Design: Just for Fun by Bob Gurr. Hardback first edition in jacket published by APP-GurrDesign in 2012. Signed and inscribed by Gurr on title page. Condition is fine in fine jacket, without flaws or defects. $500
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BONUS PHOTO! Thanks to Iliad staff alumnus Kevin Cazares for this shot of the boys crawling around on the open door of our book safe when they were just kittens (in 2014).
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