Jena Friedman

Brilliant witty social and personal commentary 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, et Cetera

"[A] hilarious and much-needed book." --Samantha Bee, Emmy Award-winning comedian, author, and host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award-nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a witty and insightful collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.

Growing up, Jena Friedman didn't care about being likable. And she never wanted to be a comedian, either. A child of the 90s, she wouldn't discover her knack for the funny business until research for her college thesis led her to take an improv class in Chicago.

That anthropology paper, written on race, class, and gender in the city's comedy scene, was, in Jena's own words, "just as funny as it sounds." But it did lay the groundwork for a career that has seen her write and produce for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Late Show with David Letterman, and the Oscar nominated Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Friedman's debut collection, Not Funny, takes on the third rails of modern life in Jena's bold and subversive style, with essays that explore cancel culture, sexism, work, celebrity worship, and...dead baby jokes.

In a moment where women's rights are being rolled back, fascism is on the rise, and so many of us could use a breather as we struggle to get by, Jena applies her unique gifts to pull a laugh from things deemed too raw, too precious, and too scary to joke about. She shares her stories of taking on those who told her she was too brash, too edgy, and too "unlikable" to make it. She deftly dissects how we get coerced into silence on the issues that matter most, until they've gone too far afield to be turned back around again. And she shares her struggles to make it (-ish) in a world that, more often than not, would rather tune out than listen to a woman confronting the indignities we've been told to bear.

Not Funny

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Hannah Tennant-Moore

A Novel

Nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent world

Purposefully aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels lost. She's in a tumultuous relationship, is stuck in a dead-end job, and has a relentless, sharp intelligence that's at odds with her many bad decisions. When her initial attempts to improve her life go awry, Elsie decides that a dramatic change is the only solution.

While traveling through Paris and Sri Lanka, Elsie meets people who challenge and provoke her towards the change she is seeking, but ultimately she must still come face-to-face with herself.

Whole-hearted, fiercely honest and inexorably human, Wreck and Order is a stirring debut novel that, in mirroring one young woman's dizzying quest for answers, illuminates the important questions that drive us all.

Wreck and Order

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Large format typographic art periodical with full color illustrations. Published 2000. Printed in England. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

No 32 2000

Baseline international typographics magazine

Important exhibition catalogue with both color and black and white reproductions. 

Exhibition catalogue: Monaco 1990

Sotheby’s Futurisme Italien

Dez Skinn

Denis Kitchen

The Underground Revolution

While mainstream comics have graced newsstands since the 1930s, there has long been an underground comics scene brewing deep beneath the surface. Underground comic books (which took the name “comix,” using the “x” to signify their adult nature) erupted in the 1960s as a reaction to ultraconservative and patriotic comics produced by the large corporations that featured characters like Captain America and Superman. Bored with moralistic tales, artists such as Robert Crumb, creator of Zap Comix and Fritz the Cat; and Gilbert Shelton, creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, produced a new and revolutionary style, freely attacking politicians, the war in Vietnam, and corporate America. Comix is an homage to both the motivation and the talent of the artists working then and now in the genre. Beautifully illustrated throughout with original artworks from the likes of R. Crumb, Denis Kitchen, and Gilbert Shelton, the book graphically expresses a range of attitudes on topics ranging from sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll to politics, big business, and women’s liberation. This is the first book to explore the artwork and countercultural legacy of comix, key events in the history of this medium, and biographies of its most influential artists and writers.

Comix

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Marina Keegan

Anne Fadiman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Essays and Stories

This hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate who died tragically five days after graduation details the struggle that we all face as we figure out what we want to be and how we can positively impact the world.

The Opposite of Loneliness

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Keep an Eye on the Sky is a 4-CD, 98-song career retrospective box set from American rock group Big Star, released in 2009. It features 52 unreleased tracks: demos, alternate takes, and live performances. As well as material from founder member Chris Bell's earlier bands Rock City and Icewater, it includes all titles (in many cases as alternate mixes or demos) from Big Star's first three studio albums, #1 Record, Radio City, and Third/Sister Lovers, and a recording of a 1973 Big Star concert. Staged in January at Lafayette's Music Room, the Memphis venue used again in May for the Rock Writers' Convention, the concert took place after Bell's departure and before the remainder of the group began work on Radio City.[4] The box set's liner notes won a 2011 Grammy Award for author Robert Gordon.[5]

Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1971 by Alex Chilton (vocals, guitar), Chris Bell (vocals, guitar), Jody Stephens (drums), and Andy Hummel (bass). They have been described as the "quintessential American power pop band", and "one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll".[1] In its first era, the band's musical style drew influence from 1960s acts such as the Beatles and the Byrds, pioneering a style that foreshadowed the alternative rock of the 1980s and 1990s. Before they broke up, Big Star created a "seminal body of work that never stopped inspiring succeeding generations" according to Rolling Stone.[5] Three of Big Star's studio albums are included in Rolling Stone's lists of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

CDs and book insert in excellent condition. 

Four CD box set

Keep an Eye on the Sky

Periodical/catalogue of an important 1959 traveling exhibition. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

1959 print show catalogue

American Prints Today

Exciting period in modern art. Fascinating gallery ads and vivid color pages. 

January-February 1968

Art in America

One of the most powerful and psychologically compelling novels from Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra and the evil innkeeper Schomberg, taking her to his island retreat. The affair between Heyst and Lena begins with her release, but the relationship shifts as Lena struggles to save Heyst from detachment and isolation.

Featuring arguably the most interesting hero created by Conrad, Victory is both a compelling tale of adventure and a perceptive study of the power of love.

1929 edition. First pub. 1915. Very good condition. Only a remnant of jacket. 

An Island Tale

Victory

1920 edition. The Yellow Claw is a 1915 crime novel by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, known better under his pseudonym of Sax Rohmer.

The story features Gaston Max, a Parisian criminal investigator and master of disguise, and his battle with Mr. King, a master criminal similar to Rohmer's earlier character Dr. Fu Manchu.

The Yellow Claw

1858 library edition. Both volumes included. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

In Two Volumes

The Old Curiousity Shop

1874 edition. Pages complete in good condition, minus a few child’s pencil marks. Some cover separation, a hole cut out of the spine. 

Or, The Adventures of a Factory Boy

Brave and Bild

P. R. Spencer

Reproduction of a Victorian era penmanship lesson book. 

In Nine Easy Lessons

Book 5 presents sentences and sayings for writing practice.

Theory of Spencerian Penmanship

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Ryan H. Walsh

A Secret History of 1968

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed rock musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory - along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968.

Astral Weeks

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Joe Boyd

Making Music in The 1960s

"Joe Boyd's first proper job at 21 was bringing Muddy Waters to Britain in 1964. When Dylan went electric at Newport the following year, Boyd was the stage manager. His first session as a record producer was Eric Clapton's original 'Crossroads'. A year later, he had produced Pink Floyd's first single and installed them in the UFO Club, the heart of psychedelic London in 1967. With the help of the Incredible String Band, Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention, he arranged the brief but intense marriage between pop music and British folk. He discovered, produced and managed Nick Drake. He loved the Swedish songwriters he heard on a trip to Stockholm in 1970 - two years before they created ABBA - but not enough to turn down a job in California where he produced soundtracks for Deliverance and A Clockwork Orange and the definitive documentary on Jimi Hendrix."--BOOK JACKET.

White Bicycles

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Brian "Box" Brown

Life and Legend

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet tall. But the huge stature that made his fame also signed his death warrant.

Box Brown brings his great talents as a cartoonist and biographer to this phenomenal new graphic novel. Drawing from historical records about Andre's life as well as a wealth of anecdotes from his colleagues in the wrestling world, including Hulk Hogan, and his film co-stars (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, etc), Brown has created in Andre the Giant, the first substantive biography of one of the twentieth century's most recognizable figures.

Andre the Giant

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1954 first paperback edition. John Ciardi translator. Brittle and fading pages consistent with vintage. No markings. 

The Immortal Drama of a Journey through Hell

The Inferno

Mark Manson

A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

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1911 edition, antique school copy. A sobering reminder of America’s once-noble vision. 

And Webster’s First and Second Bunker Hill Orations: Merrill’s English Texts

George Washington’s Farewell Address

Charles S. Murray

“The artistry of this book matches that of its subject.” Nick Tosches

Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock 'n' Roll Revolution

Crosstown Traffic

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Martha Bayles

Like new with remaindered mark on bottom. 

The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music

Hole in Our Soul

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Good vintage condition. 1931 edition of 1929 publication. The book explores Casanova's life, including his many love affairs, travels, and writing career. Endore also provides context for the time period, such as the political turmoil and the rise of the Enlightenment. 

His known and unknown life

Casanova

Good vintage condition. Charming illustrated 1961 annual guide of the British counterpart of Girl Scouts, with stories, civics lessons, survival and camping skills.   

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