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Gutter Phoenix posted:Found is a cool magazine that collects stuff people find on the street.
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 Both your parents leave home on the same day, abandoning you. Clearly the only option is dropping out of school, building the barely started kit-car in your garage, meeting up with a weird older guy and going to see another weird old dude and learning about AMERICA! SilvergunSuperman fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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Jun 25, 2018 19:54
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Not a book, but there was some talk of Supertrain earlier: https://imgur.com/gallery/v61N0du
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Jun 26, 2018 04:07
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Ornamented Death posted:Not a book, but there was some talk of Supertrain earlier: That is amazing!! I hope it ends up in a museum where I can see it on display. It gives me hope that George Barris' "Straight Arrow" from the 1977 classic The Van will be found one day... 
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Jun 26, 2018 17:12
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Life and Adventures of A-No. 1, America's Most Celebrated Tramp This one is on Project Gutenberg.
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Jun 26, 2018 21:56
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Picked up two books today for 50 cents each. ^ This is from 1973 and despite the title, it's a prediction of the future from the 90s through 2020. Mostly a selection of writings from the late 60s, with lots of conceptual artwork.  Chiang Yee was an author and artist who wrote about a dozen of these travelogue books. This one is from 1959 and describes his experience living in Boston from a Chinese perspective. It's littered with little line drawings in-between the text, and also 15 beautiful full-color pages. It's interesting to see american architecture drawn in a traditional Chinese style.  I would like to thank this thread for getting me to look into the book section when I go to thrift stores. Prior to this I probably owned a handful of books. Now I have the beginnings of a small collection. wa27 fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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Jun 27, 2018 00:22
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A few of my weirdies:    I got this one when I worked at a historic site and we used to make the horrible poo poo desperate people drank in the 1700s.   BrutalistMcDonalds posted:
I have a copy of Das Kapital like that. It claims to be printed in New York but the paper is ultra thin and appears to be poorly printed. I assume it was mass printed cheaply in a Warsaw Pact country like Romania or some poo poo for export.    I kind of love it, and wish I had more books printed in this 'minimalist' quality.
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Jun 27, 2018 01:08
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wa27 posted:Picked up two books today for 50 cents each. No fair, you can't mention concept art without posting some of examples
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Jun 27, 2018 15:02
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Has this been posted yet? Because the cover is probably the greatest one of all time:
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Jun 27, 2018 20:18
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Nurge posted:Has this been posted yet? Because the cover is probably the greatest one of all time: Badass.
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Jun 27, 2018 20:22
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Found is a cool magazine that collects stuff people find on the street. iirc, Found is published locally for me, and I'll always regret the one time I didn't send something in I found on the top of the garbage bin at the laundromat I worked at. It was a flyer for one of those MLM parties, selling sex toys. However, on the other side were a bunch of hand scrawled notes that looked like nothing less than trying to piece together a for real murder mystery based on clues, motives, and alibis.
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Jun 27, 2018 21:35
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Choco1980 posted:iirc, Found is published locally for me, and I'll always regret the one time I didn't send something in I found on the top of the garbage bin at the laundromat I worked at. It was a flyer for one of those MLM parties, selling sex toys. However, on the other side were a bunch of hand scrawled notes that looked like nothing less than trying to piece together a for real murder mystery based on clues, motives, and alibis. lmao i too wouldnt know what to do with such a thing
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Jun 27, 2018 21:58
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Nurge posted:Has this been posted yet? Because the cover is probably the greatest one of all time: 
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Jun 27, 2018 22:15
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 I learned that dinosaur erotica is a thing.
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Jun 28, 2018 01:46
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Two single player RPG books in a row?
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Jun 28, 2018 01:48
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Google image search Christie Sims, that dinosaur hole goes pretty deep.
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Jun 28, 2018 01:54
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A lot of these Fighting Fantasy gamebooks had great covers. I was in third or fourth grade when I found this bad boy in the kids' books section of the local used bookstore:  Great gnarly inner artwork, too. Scary as hell for a kid, but I was hooked.
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Jun 28, 2018 02:07
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 I saw this in the library of a ship I worked on. Unfortunately, I never learned how to read.
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Jun 28, 2018 11:11
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Iron Crowned posted:No fair, you can't mention concept art without posting some of examples Here's a couple selections:  
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Jun 28, 2018 17:13
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A family submersible was a swing and miss, but those others were shockingly prescient, if a little ambitious in the dates they would happen.
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Jun 28, 2018 17:18
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Antivehicular posted:A lot of these Fighting Fantasy gamebooks had great covers. I was in third or fourth grade when I found this bad boy in the kids' books section of the local used bookstore: Grabbed the video game versions of the Sorcery! series last year. Just beating them is hard but getting a good ending is even harder. super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jun 28, 2018 |
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Jun 28, 2018 22:20
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Behind the Urals by John Scott. The author was a Democratic Socialist who went to the Soviet Union to work as a welder in the 1930s, and later published this book in 1942 based on his experiences building a factory town in the middle of nowhere. At the time of publishing, he was already a bit disillusioned with Stalin and on his way to being a vehement enemy of the Soviet Union, but his account is still flavored with admiration for the Soviets he worked with and the early communist ideal. As it was published during wartime, the book also served as a useful "This man is your friend!" narrative for American readers. Prisoners of the Good Fight by Carl Geiser is an account of the author's time as an American volunteer fighting for the Spanish Republic against Franco. I picked it up back in 2016 for research purposes following the death of Del Berg, the last living American veteran of the Lincoln Battalion. As the title suggests, Geiser was captured and spent time in a fascist concentration camp until the US secured his release and the book focuses heavily on how the international volunteers survived in captivity.  Geiser narrowly escaped the firing squad upon his capture, being saved at the last minute when an Italian officer recognized him as a both a commissar and an American and intervened. The two had a pretty cordial chat about why they were fighting, with the Italian eventually explaining that he wasn't a fascist personally, but was generally okay with "most" of the things they were doing. Grammarchist fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jun 29, 2018 |
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Jun 29, 2018 00:10
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Antivehicular posted:A lot of these Fighting Fantasy gamebooks had great covers. I was in third or fourth grade when I found this bad boy in the kids' books section of the local used bookstore: I also picked that one up as a kid haha, never could track down the rest... super sweet best pal posted:Grabbed the video game versions of the Sorcery! series last year. Just beating them is hard but getting a good ending is even harder. I had no idea this was a thing, $5.99? SOLD!
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Jun 29, 2018 02:28
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Proteus Jones posted:A family submersible was a swing and miss, but those others were shockingly prescient, if a little ambitious in the dates they would happen. Also nuclear lasers.
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Tiggum posted:Also nuclear lasers. I’ll give partial credit for the laser part. And a couple more points for the sheer audacity of the prediction.
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Jun 29, 2018 13:24
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There were a bunch of free books left by someone moving out of my apartment building. Nothing amazing, but I grabbed a few. Jimmy Carter's memoirs:  A book on Hot Rods from 1959:  And one on great American cars published in 1957:  A rule book for 250 different kid's games:  A magazine from some high school in Missouri circa 2000:  I grabbed a small blue book and an envelope of what appeared to be tracts because I thought it might be one of those cheap free copies of The Book of Mormon that missionaries sometimes hand out, or something of that nature. It turned out to be a Alcoholics Anonymous handbook and some AA pamphlets, all in Spanish:   I haven't really had a chance to look through any of them yet. I'll probably read the Jimmy Carter book and hold on to the old car books, but the rest will probably be going back into the free pile unless they contain anything particularly notable.
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Jun 29, 2018 19:17
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There were a couple hundred people protesting ICE in downtown Alameda today, so my girlfriend and I decided to go check it out. On the way there, we stopped at a garage sale. They had a lot of books, but they were mostly cookbooks. Also, the seller was asking way too much for her stuff, which is always a bummer. Nonetheless, I did buy this 1934 copy of The Song of Roland for two dollars:  The Song of Roland amuses me because towards the end the title character blows on a gilded horn made of an elephant tusk until his brain explodes from his temples! Somehow Roland survives long enough to be stabbed in the head by someone on his own side who doesn't recognize him (probably because of the brain leaking out of his temples), and that finishes him off. My favorite part of the protest was this woman toting a caged baby doll around on a wagon:  There were about 200 people there, and one single Trump enthusiast lurking around the fringes:  While we were down there, I stopped into one of my favorite used bookstores and picked up a couple of things:    I also got this to feed my unholy fascination with Jar Jar Binks:    On the way home, we stopped at an estate sale, where I purchased this framed picture of Smokin' Lucy for $7:  I got this book and a handful of old magazines for $2:      I took pictures of lots of stuff from the old magazines, but I'll do that in a separate post.
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Jul 1, 2018 03:56
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Starting with that Oakland newspaper from January 1958, the inside was filled with tales of death:  But most notably, this story of 15 year old girl who was beat with a baseball bat by her foster brother because she badmouthed Elvis!!      I searched for more information about this story, and learned that Carol Taylor died a couple of days later and 15-year-old Cordie Lee Pendleton was sent to the California Youth Authority until he turned 21. I can't find anything on him after that.     On a lighter note, here are some local ads from sixty years ago:   I checked an inflation calculator and this TV cost the equivalent of $2,000: 
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Jul 1, 2018 04:12
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I ended up with part of an issue of Family Circle from 1936, and part of one without a cover from, I think, 1942. Here are some ads:     
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Jul 1, 2018 04:18
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"Woman scoffs at Presley" that's gold
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Jul 1, 2018 04:26
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The 1940 issue of Life brings you... Crow bombing:      Worm-proof plastic coffins:   Gearing up for war:    The decapitation and sausagification of Adolf Hitler:    Ads:    
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Jul 1, 2018 06:08
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The 1953 issue of Life is more mellow.              
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Jul 1, 2018 06:15
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I also got this to feed my unholy fascination with Jar Jar Binks: Jar Jar and a Brian Blessed without a beard? Truly the most cursed of images.
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Jul 1, 2018 09:36
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The First Six Books Of The Elements Of Euclid, In Which Coloured Diagrams And Symbols Are Used Instead Of Letters by Oliver Byrne, 1847      There was Kickstarter to complete the work
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Jul 1, 2018 13:07
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That Euclid book is pretty neat. I didn't know that existed. I stopped by my dad's place today and while I was there, took a few pictures of neat books I saw.  ^1937 publication, if I remember        
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Jul 2, 2018 04:06
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wow this thread took a really dark turn
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Jul 2, 2018 04:21
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Gutter Phoenix posted:These books are about the bizarre case of Mark Hoffman, who forged embarrassing Mormon historical documents and then sold them to the LDS church so they could lock them away from public view. When it looked like he might be caught, he killed two people with bombs in a crazy attempt to divert suspicion. Yeah, it makes no sense, but it's still an interesting story. The first book is a typical true crime paperback, but I enjoyed it. Salamander is the better of the two. I was pleasantly surprised to see that my used copy was signed by the authors. I picked up three more books on master forger/ incompetent bomber Mark Hoffman. I read the first one a long time ago and seem to remember it being good. The other two are new to me.    Speaking of crazy Mormons, I also bought Fawn Brodie's classic biography on Joseph Smith. I wonder if L. Ron Hubbard read this and took notes on how to start a new religion to bilk idiots...  Another new octopus book:  A book of stories from Scott Ian of Anthrax:  Another NABAT biography that I've never read:  Another free book from my apartment building:  Last, but definitely not least, I scored a small pile of books about Jar Jar Binks:    
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Jul 3, 2018 16:04
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There was definitely a copy of this in my house around during the lead up to Episode 1. One of my parents won a prize pack which also included a Jar Jar action figure, and a few other random things from the radio.
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Jul 3, 2018 17:08
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Are you ready to Laugh with Larni? Martti Larni was a Finnish writer living in the Soviet Union. This book was printed in Mostcow in 1973 and is a collection of long jokes/skits about America. Here is an example:   
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Eight years ago I had a serious break with reality that coincided with me finding hundreds of rare old books about UFOs that had been dumped at a local book store. My collection used to be about 5x bigger but most of them were just repeating the same information from a core of primary source materials, and those are mostly the ones I tried to keep. They're all pretty goony but I wouldn't feel right without posting this one specifically:  
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