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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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Patterns: Four Television Plays ( Patterns / The Rack / Old Macdonald Had a Curve / Requiem for a Heavyweight ) by Rod Serling. Hardback first edition published by Simon & Schuster in 1957. Very good condition in very good jacket, with jacket sunned and rubbed, some edge wear, price clipped; minor sunning and edge wear to binding. $75
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Conjuring Up Philip: An Adventure in Psychokinesis by Iris M. Owen and Margaret Sparrow. Hardback first edition published by Harper & Row in 1976. In very good condition with very good jacket. Light sunning, rubbing, and edge wear to DJ; binding corners slightly bumped, a few pen marks to fore-edge. $100
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The Illustrated History of Don Post Studios Deluxe Edition by Lee Lambert. Published by Blacksparrow Inc. in 2015. Hardback in fine condition with no jacket as issued. $100
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Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film. Edited by Danel Olson, introduction by Guillermo del Toro. First edition paperback published by Centipede Press in 2017. In very good condition, with just minor rubbing to wraps and corners very slightly bent. $100
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald and illustrated by Willy Pogany. Hardback published by the David McKay Company in 1942. Condition is fine. Signed by illustrator Willy Pogany, in box (some wear to box) and plain vellum jacket (edges slightly worn). $250
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Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth By Jack Kirby Volume One. Hardback first edition published by DC Comics in 2007. Condition is very good in fine jacket, with just slightly bumped 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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Billy Al Bengston, published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1968. The covers of this unusual art book are decorated sandpaper, bound with nuts and bolts, signed and inscribed by Billy Al Bengston, also signed by Frank Gehry and Ed Ruscha (both of whom are mentioned in the Acknowledgements); the covers are lightly soiled and creased, corners slightly bent, bound-in ribbon marker is frayed on end. $500.
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The boys spent the first few days of our re-opening wondering who was behind all those masks...but they got over it quickly and are back to greeting their favorites with shoulder rides and lap cuddles!
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