Catches of The Month!
The Rainbow Stories by William Vollmann, hardback 1st edition.
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A very good 1989 Atheneum hardback 1st edition of William Vollmann’s second book, “instructive tales of skinheads, Faith, mechanical engineering, love & other pathologies…” With slightly faded light green cloth bound spine with gilt & pink lettering on spine. Orange boards. In near fine Mylar protected, unclipped jacket. $40.
Signed 1st edition of The Ice-Shirt by William Vollmann.
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Very good + 1st edition with full numberline, flatsigned by Vollmann on half-title page. Black remainder line at bottom textblock. One faint pea-sized smudge at top textblock. Bright, square copy in near fine Mylar protected unclipped jacket. $70.
Skies by Eileen Myles, signed.
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Just in - signed limited edition of Skies by Eileen Myles. Hand numbered 23 of only 200. Very good tight copy that has foxing along edge of front & back board edges. $75. Includes the trademark Black Sparrow acetate jacket.
Every Month Is Black History Month At Normals!
Just published & just in - You Don’t Know Us Negroes and other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston. Edited with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New hardback from Amistad Press, $28.
Black history in the US & the ongoing struggle for equal rights & battles against entrenched forces of White Supremacy in the country’s institutions remain as important as ever. Especially with right wing banning of black literature & trying to silence the history of slavery & oppression. We try to maintain a substantial Black History used book section & mix in some essential new copies of the works of Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Bell Hooks & Fred Hampton.
The Works of Bell Hooks
People tend to not let go of their Bell Hooks books, so we are trying to keep them present by ordering new copies.
The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, a bilingual edition published by The University of California Press.
Out of print fine 2007 hardback in near fine dustjacket. Edited & with an introduction by Clayton Eshleman. $50.
Making It Up: Poetry Composed at St. Mark’s Church on May 9, 1979. By Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Koch & Ron Padgett.
Very good clean, bright 1994 Catchword Papers paperback first. 1 half inch diagonal indentation/scratch on lower portion of back cover.
Some of today’s fresh catch! Raymond Chandler, Milestones, Nerval, Raymond Roussel, Lovecraft, Lydia Davis.
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Group Doueh - Guitar Music from the Western Sahara
New Addition
Near mint ripping LP from Sublime Frequencies! In thick near mint gatefold. Not available on vinyl for years. $40.
1977 “Lust For Life” by Iggy
Keep swinging with Iggy! Very good 1977 RCA pressing of “Lust For Life”. Side 2 is vg+. Jacket is solid, good +. $60.
Near mint triple 12” “The Fifth Mission” by Two Lone Swordsmen
In vg+ jacket. On Emissions Audio Output. $60.
My Year Abroad & The Souvenir Museum, signed by authors.
New Addition
Two recent hardback literature publications, fine in fine dustjackets, flatsigned by each author on title page. My Year Abroad by Pulitzer Prize finalist Chang-Rae Lee & The Souvenir Museum by bestselling author Elizabeth McCracken.