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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols. Hardback first edition in dust jacket published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1974. Signed by Nichols on title page. Condition is very good in very good jacket, with light sunning, soiling, and wear to jacket; and light soiling to binding, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, and light soiling to fore-edge and head. $150
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The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. Mass market paperback published by Bantam Books in 1967. Condition is very good, with light sunning and wear to wraps, and slightly bent corners. $15
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Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship by Alan Watts. First hardback edition in dust jacket published by Pantheon Press in 1964. Condition is very good in very good jacket, with light sunning and rubbing to jacket, and corners and spine ends slightly bumped. $75
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Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. Special edition hardback in slipcase published by Abbeville in 1981, flat-signed by Thomas and Johnston on a tipped-in plate, and includes a foot of original film from Bambi. Condition is very good, dust jacket is missing. Light wear to slipcase, and minor sunning to binding on spine. $200
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The Last Unicorn graphic novel by Peter S. Beagle, Peter B. Gillis (adaptation), Renae De Liz (art), and Ray Dillon (inks and colors). Third printing hardback edition without jacket published by IDW in 2013. Condition is very good, with minor wear and rubbing to pictorial binding. $75
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Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s edited by Kier-la Janisse and Paul Corupe. Hardback second edition without jacket published by Fab Press in 2016. Condition is very good, with just light wear to binding. $150
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Qabbalah: The Philosophy of Ibn Geberol, the Qabbalah, and the Zohar by Isaac Myer. Hardback with no jacket published by Wizards Bookshelf in 1988. Condition is very good, with minor soiling to binding, and previous owner's name and address written on front free endpaper. $75
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Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz. Hardback third printing in jacket published by E. P. Dutton in 1978. Condition is very good in very good jacket; light sunning and edge wear to jacket (1-inch closed tear on front upper edge); binding edges are lightly sunned, corners bumped, and previous owner's name written on front pastedown. $75
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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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The Night I Lost My Baby by Mason Williams, designed by Edward Ruscha, photography by Patrick Blackwell. Hardback without jacket self-published by Mason Williams in 1966. Limited to 500 copies, signed and inscribed by Mason Williams. Condition is very good, with light wear and staining to gold cloth binding, corners slightly bumped, and a few pages weren't completely cut in the binding process. A scarce Ruscha work! $1,500
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Here's a blog post suggesting a few books to celebrate Pride Month with.
We've been listing some interesting items on ebay recently - including rare Lenny Bruce stuff and a moon landing collection - so check out our ebay store!
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When it's too hot to nap in your fleece-lined bed... (photo by Eric)
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