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Found cleaning out a file cabinet in the office: Some boring covers:  Some have a wonderful scarfolk vibe though:     No u can't have Galbraith, he's MINE Gonna save Galbraith, Australian cities, After the planners, Use & abuse of statistics and Vitruvius from the reaper, I think
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I took a few pictures of some of my girlfriend's stash while we were filling boxes with books to sell. I think she edited at least a couple of these.          
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I picked up a few new (used) books. First up, one about Genie the feral child, which is easily one of the most horrible and fascinating stories in recent history. I am both dreading and looking forward to reading a whole book about it.  I've spent years looking for a decent hardcover copy of this book at a reasonable price and finally found one. The official blowback from this book wrecked Gary Webb's life and he eventually killed himself.  On a lighter note, I also found a copy of this:   Another gem from Holloway House:   And some heavy reading about a serious topic: 
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I took a lunch break from my workplace in the charming hellscape of East Oakland and went to the Salvation Army to see what's new in the book room. I didn't have a ton of time to browse, but I still managed to find a few things.   I grabbed this one because I've never read a Hardy Boys book, and I remember the cover being used for some Liartown USA parodies:   http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/tagged/HardyBoys  Here's a promising one from a local:    I read this 20 years ago and was curious to re-read it after an unexpected visit I took to Tokyo last October:   I picked this up as a joke for a punk rock friend set to visit next week:  I figured I'd give him this copy of Fail Safe too. It's a great read and one I like to share, so I always pick up cheap used copies when I see them.  Speaking of visitors, my girlfriend's brother's family is staying in our apartment for a few days so I haven't been able to dig into our bookshelves to look for more crap for this thread (nor the Sci-Fi cover one), but I'll get to it eventually. I did get a pciture of one book I haven't posted (or read) yet, so that'll have to do for now. 
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I have a copy of this one! I assume it's insanely out of date, since it's from 1992, but the example sentences are worth the cost of admission.
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I had that Japanese Slang book too, got in trouble for reading it in highschool probably? I recall it had "Vitamin S" as slang for jizz and I laugh at that still.
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Please post some more Japanese street slang!
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If your girlfriend's brother's family are spending an indefinite amount of tine with you, aren't they just your in-laws? Which is a fine thing to be giving them space.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Please post some more Japanese street slang!      There were a couple of these bookmarks in the sections for goto (robber/burglar) and hero (heroin), which offers an interesting window into the life of the previous owner of this book.  I wish I had known this phrase when I went to Tokyo last year:  The in-laws have moved on from our apartment to spend a few days exploring the poo poo-covered streets of San Francisco before heading back to NYC, but they left me with this fine gift:  Not a book, but I don't care. Here are two pictures of one of the Giant Pacific Octopus housed at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. I spent at least half an hour watching this one watch me back.   Lastly, have a picture of Oakland: 
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I've always been fond of Jack London's adventure stories about drug-resistant gonorrhea. To Build a Groin Fire is a classic.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:
Ok I've never heard the term "hair pie" for vagina. And I've heard a lot of slang terms for vagina.
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Here's some recent pickups from the Goodwill. Bought this because I thought it was really weird that Judy Blume wrote a book about UFOs. Wrong Judy Blum...  "Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls" - a 1910 anti-prostitution book:   Lastly, I didn't buy this but I had to laugh that Harlequin has a "Delivery Room Dads" series: 
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Harlequin has a series for *everything*.
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"The Greatest Crime in the World's History" 
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wheatpuppy posted:Harlequin has a series for *everything*. They had a NASCAR series https://www.fictiondb.com/series/harlequin-nascar~13244.htm
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This is pretty great. Here's the website for the book about the internet http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565920637.do Also that nutshell logo looks suspiciously testicular 
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syscall girl posted:"The Greatest Crime in the World's History" “For God’s Sake Do Something!” That book has got to be either the thinnest excuse for racism, porn, or both.
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wa27 posted:Here's some recent pickups from the Goodwill. That is an amazing haul. Please post some highlights from the white slave book! Pththya-lyi posted:They had a NASCAR series Yes, and they are hilarious! Gutter Phoenix posted:Harlequin publishes an entire series of NASCAR-themed romance novels. Here are a few:
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Dixville posted:Ok I've never heard the term "hair pie" for vagina. And I've heard a lot of slang terms for vagina. “Hair pie!” Takashi, Revenge of the Nerds 1984
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wa27 posted:Here's some recent pickups from the Goodwill. Multimedia bonus:  Here's the documentary (1975) based off of that book, which features the author shortly after 45 minutes and 30 seconds. Dementropy fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Not books, but they relate to books I've previously posted, so I figure they count.     
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You should send those screenshots to Stupid Comics
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Oh, man, are those the tiny books they used to sell at supernatural checkout stands? I think I had the palm-reading one with the red cover when I was a deeply credulous child. Good times. HULK STRUGGLE TO REMEMBER PUNY BANNER'S SAFEWORD HULK SUSPECT THAT SETTING SAFEWORD WHILE PUNY BANNER AND MAINTAINING IT INTO SCENE AS HULK NOT A VERY GOOD IDEA
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Published in the mid fifties, this is a collection of Winston Churchill political cartoons spanning his whole career. While a lot of it is wartime stuff like this, there are also a lot of cartoons that require some knowledge of early 20th century British parliamentary politics and not all of it is flattering.  Canadian aviation books, I have a few. The R-100 was a British Airship that crossed the Atlantic to Canada in 1930 on a demonstration flight. The rival R-101 tried to fly to India and became an Iron Maiden song.  The book has a lot of great photographs like these of the airship over Toronto. I found this book in the late 90s at a small museum's giftshop, they were selling it as a new book but it turned out to be an early eighties printing.  The Canadair North Star was a DC-4 variant built under license with Rolls Royce Merlin engines. This relatively obscure subtype apparently justified a 300 page fully illustrated book about it. In the left corner of the picture is Airwar 2000, a think tank publication from 1988 that outlines plans for dealing with the threat that the Soviet Union's air power will pose in the 21st century.   You know you have too many books when you have books that used to be owned by the author of your other books.  This is a farm equipment catalogue from the 1930's. Mainly stuff for use inside barns like manure carriers and water troughs. It also has a section of barn plans.   This pulley came from the same farm as the book and is in it. 
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wa27 posted:Lastly, I didn't buy this but I had to laugh that Harlequin has a "Delivery Room Dads" series: Years ago, there was a thread about hilarious romance novels and there was a goon who talked wrote them under a pen name, and he said that there were three "B's" to remember to always use: Babies, Billionares, and...it's been killing me trying to remember what the third one is. 
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We have at least a few weird books that are worthy of this thread, but before I go through the boxes of to-sell stuff and the various shelves of stuff we're keeping So this one, I don't think I've actually opened at all prior to this. I think YES! BUT WHAT DID THEY EAT? was the driving force behind the sale.    It certainly wasn't the, uh, parts talking about how nice a guy General Custer was and how he liked bear steaks for dinner. Same book, now:   drat, Sven. Okay, next up, some little old ladies from Minnesota. Timeframe, unknown.   My molars are already rattling just reading that one. (edit: I'm being told by my partner as I'm posting this that that's just what Russian Tea is. I've never heard of the stuff before. Yikes.) If you like donuts...  ...this piece has you covered. This section in the back reads like someone built a markov bot for household tips.  And in case you need to know how many heads of lettuce it takes to feed fifty people, here you go:  This next one, addressed to a Mrs. Homemaker, comes from an unexpected place, as the fifties became the sixties:    New Jersey. (that logo on the back is seriously devo though) Last but not least, we got to Binghamton, NY in the mid-late 80s for a collection of recipes from guys who completely look the part of mid-late 80s radio guys. I should know, I used to work in radio, we can smell our own.    Two Endicott radio amateurs back in 1927 had an idea. A radio idea. Here comes the murderer's row to get the led out live on drive time at five on your home for less talk, more rock --- wait, this station has a polka show? A SIX-HOUR-LONG POLKA SHOW?     I have no idea if this guy's wine pick is classy or trashy, I don't drink. But I suspect the latter.  More stuff later, probably some real trashy books we bought for like a dollar because it was funny. Maybe some batshit RPG stuff, but that seems a bit offtopic.
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Oh, man, that Radio Recipes cookbook is legit. I really miss the days when just about any little group - a church, a school, an office - would have everyone contribute a recipe and collect them in those little comb-bound cookbooks with tiny print runs and charmingly amateurish typesetting and illustration and etc. I have a fair few of these, but the one I don't, and wish I did, was the one from my elementary school. All the teachers and staff submitted recipes, and as a kid that was still capable of having his mind blown by seeing a teacher outside of the school, it was like forbidden knowledge.
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