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 Back on my terrible indian bullshit: LET'S PLAY INDIAN!  a Wonder Book (With a washable cover!) from 1950 that I bought my very white wife as a present and a joke. She's an educator of small children, so whenever I can find a weird, preferably vintage or antique book for children, I tend to snag it. This I couldn't resist because of how shockingly bad it was.   The plot is then that there will be a school play about the first thanksgiving and Susie is chosen to be a pilgrim because-  Spoiler: The kid chosen to play the 'Indian Chief' gets sick and Susie gets to live out her dream and ruins the play. The teacher is thankful that the upcoming nativity play has 'no Indians.' This one is not terrible and I never new it existed-  Found as is, no dust jacket, but the simple cover stood out to me at a yard sale. It's a children's book called "Where the Buffaloes Begin" and was published in 1981, written by Frederick Warne, and when I opened it - unmistakably illustrated by Stephen Gammell.    Moving on from ~The Native Zone~ Here's a children's story book, about children, with no publication date but with a gift inscription from 1925   One of the things I love about vintage books is finding inscriptions, drawings, notes or personal bookmarks.  Appropriately cheery material. A fun little (Dutch?) book about cats found in an antique shop, I bought just for the illustrations inside.     I have this poor, ragged book from 1883 I found online: Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight  A poem/story that my wife's late grandmother loved and loved to tell to my wife as a child. So closely associated is it with her memories of her grandmother that she has the phrase tattooed on her in remembrance. Maybe one day I'll chance upon a slightly better version of the same era, but it is on display on a shelf at home.  Droogie fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 15, 2023 |
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Goddamn it Gutter Phoenix, there’s a new Night Court and you’re nowhere to be found.
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Droogie posted:One of the things I love about vintage books is finding inscriptions, drawings, notes or personal bookmarks. I am 100% sure that I have accidentally sold/given away books with $20's inside of them. I need to leave neater stuff in books cause I agree, it's very cool. I once found a love note written into a copy of The Stranger by Camus. Lost to a flood. 
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Desert Bus posted:I am 100% sure that I have accidentally sold/given away books with $20's inside of them. I need to leave neater stuff in books cause I agree, it's very cool. I once found a love note written into a copy of The Stranger by Camus. Lost to a flood. I found some newspaper clippings in my copy of Abominable Snowman: Legend Come to Life by Ivan T. Sanderson:   
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I have a copy of The Legends of Tono full of vacation photos from Tono, Japan.
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Found the most British book possible in a bar/hostel in Reykjavik  I've only ever been to Edinburgh and none of the pubs I visited there were featured. Maybe they weren't as good in 1990.
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My mom was going through stuff and found some neat old books. This one is literally falling apart so I just bagged and boarded it cause why not:    
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the kid in the chair is a vampire
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Found some cool books at a garage sale today  
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Hollywood Babylon is fun. Some of it may even be true.
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wa27 posted:Found some cool books at a garage sale today That must be Johnny 5 Aces' grandpa.
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lifg posted:Hollywood Babylon is fun. Some of it may even be true. Someone gave me Hollywood Babylon when I was like 13. I hardly knew who any of the people were but the scandalousness was still great. Now I want to check it out again, it’s almost like remembering a favorite children’s book.
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 Picked this up. It's not a little pamphlet either this thing is thick and could be used as a weapon. The author really does not like the CIA and pretty much immediately alleges they were infiltrated with Nazis after WW2.
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"And this is how I warm my fingers."
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Found in an op shop.
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My partner has just moved in and brought a bunch of interesting books, some of which I'll share here, I think. She was given this, new, in the early-ish 1970s, and her copy is pretty... used. But I do like Robert Crumb. I don't think that, at 6-y-o, she knew what a Fi e Joint Soup is.    
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I found some wonderful old Judy Blumes in the Red Cross op shop and thought I would replace my awful modern copy. (that being said, now that I handle the old paperback I think I better keep both, since it's on its last legs.)
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Teach posted:My partner has just moved in and brought a bunch of interesting books, some of which I'll share here, I think. Man you'd never guess R. Crumb had a fetish, would you?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Man you'd never guess R. Crumb had a fetish, would you? A fetish? A? He's got them all AFAIK.
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Man had more fetishes than the British Museum.
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Found a perfectly ordinary paperback in the op shop. Looks like someone called Tim previously found it and passed it on to Nabeela.  Uh oh, Nabeela appears to be child.  If you're in Bremer Bay, Nabeela has a fine selection of childrens' books and one adult book in her collection! 
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Favourite Foods of Celebs from Vantaa
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