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DIY: Build your own book arch

Scott Hill, the proprietor of Sandman Books in South Florida,  has shared his secrets on how to make your very own book arch.

It begins with a familiar bookseller quandary - what to do with all those books one acquires "that are simply at the end of their lives".

Hill decided to do something fun and went to work building a book arch. He built his first one in 2013 and when his shop moved in 2019 he was back at it.

The arch has become a bit of tourist destination and next month the first wedding vows will be taken under it.

Hill's process and more images at Bored Panda

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Literary Coffee. Illustrazione di Gianluca Biscalchin

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Via Pinterest: bookpatrol: “ Wolfman’s Books by kylejglenn on Flickr. ”

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Book Patrol

Like D'Youville's extensive history in community services these police officers believe in giving to children in need. 

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Angry Graphics: Protest Posters Of The Reagan/Bush Era

by Karrie Jacobs and Steven Heller. Published by Peregrine Smith, Salt Lake City, 1992. First edition. Softcover, stiff pictorial wraps. 92pp. well illustrated.

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The De Stijl Environment

by Nancy J. Troy.  Published by MIT Press, 1983. First edition. Softcover, illustrated wraps. 254pp.

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New Worlds Fiction of the Future.  Volume 3 Number 8 Winter 1950.

 Edited by John Carnell. Published by Nova Publications Ltd, London (1950). 

Includes the novelette Guardian Angel by Arthur C. Clarke. 

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The Collected Poems of Donald J. Trump

“I thought maybe I could turn the thing that has been weaponized into something beautiful,” says Gregory Woodman of Portland, the 29-year-old founder of the ad agency Weller Creative, who along with his business partner Ian Pratt have published The Collected Poems of Donald J. Trump. 

The 373 page book compiles hundreds of Trump’s tweets and is arranged in chapters such as “Loathings,” “Free Verse” and “Introspective Musings.”

Combining the measured contentiousness of Thoreau, the terse poignancy of Hemingway, and the incisive social commentary of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Toni Morrison, Donald J. Trump has emerged as one of the leading poets of his generation. Together with contemporaries such as Rupi Kaur and Haruki Murakami, Trump has helped bring about a revolution in twenty-first-century literary expression. Considered one of the most inventive poets in a digital world, Trump masterfully uses technology and the written word to reflect and shape the hearts and minds of his culture.

About 450 copies have been sold, “anecdotal evidence suggests a majority of sales are to conservatives” who see the book as “making fun of the art world and the liberal elite by using Donald Trump as the tool to wield against the art world.”

I trust Volume II  is coming soon.

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Pacific, Volume 1, Number 1 (November 1945)

edited by Harriet Pratt and Ann Roy. Published by Pacific, Oakland, California (1945)

Contributors include Wallace Stevens, Robinson Jeffers, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, and Witter Bynner.

Illustrations by Claire Falkenstein, Ann Roy and Bartle.

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The Revolution is to be Human by Walter Lowenfels

"In the movement we are all poets"

Published by International Publishers, New York (1973). First thus, review copy. Paperback. 70pp. 

International Publishers / Little New World Paperbacks (LNW-37).

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Music and the Racial Imagination (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

Edited by Ronald M. Radano and Philip V. Bohlman.. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2000. First Edition. Foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr. Softcover. 

Representing a broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, this work examines how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception, and scholarly analysis. It reviews the history of race in European and American, non-Western and global music.

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Boxers by Kurt Markus

Photographs & Introduction by Kurt Markus. Boxing shorts by Walter Kirn. Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First Edition. Markus's vivid memories of raising his fists, mano a mano, led him into the working-class barrios of Havana, Mexico City, Brooklyn, and Dublin, where the odds against celebrity and high-stakes prize fighting belie the drive that motivates these young men. In a series of intimate portraits infused with purpose, determination, and the physical and emotional struggles of intense training, Markus gives a more human face to a sport that rewards only those from its highest ranks. Far from the bright lights and stereotyped fame, these young fighters possess unrivaled dignity and grace.

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Fire in the Library - The 1986  Los Angeles Central Library fire

It was the largest library fire in the history of the United States. 400,000 books were destroyed and over 700,000 were damaged by water or smoke. It took firefighters over seven hours to put out the fire with little flare ups continuing for several days. 

Here are some images of the fire gleaned from the digital collections of the UCLA library.  They are all from the the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

The epic blaze was the basis of Susan Orlean’s 2018 bestselling and New York Times Notable Book of the year, The Library Book.

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Avant Garde: Summer, 1971, No. 14

edited by Ralph Ginzburg, New York: Avant-Garde Media, 1971. Quarto. Pictorial wraps. 64pp. Illustrated. Designed by Herb Lubalin. Near Fine, nick with minor creasing to top corner.

Last issue of this seminal magazine. Includes a portfolio of photographs by Mary Ellen Mark of people using heroin.

Ceased publication after 3 years when the publisher Ralph Ginzburg began serving his prison sentence for an obscenity conviction in another publication.

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The Art Of Babar: The Work of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff

by Nicholas Fox Weber.  New York: Abrams, 1989. First Edition. Quarto. Red cloth. 191pp. 280 illustrations, 256 in full color. Near Fine, unmarked, scuff mark to front endpaper, in Near Fine dust jacket.

Babar the elephant fled the jungle and entered Western civilization in 1931 in a book by the de Brunhoffs. Here, for the first itme, is a fascinating look at the story behind Babar and his creators.

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Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Adapted By P. Craig Russell

New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial boards. 186pp. Illustrated by P. Craig Russell. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unmarked.