November 07, 2009
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September 05, 2009
August 26, 2009
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August 21, 2009
house poor
something about this i like. overlarge house with a barn the same size..and a sandwich board that advertises odd jobs. gotta love the new economy.
August 19, 2009
August 18, 2009
August 11, 2009
FS box of ink - Best Offer
The Truck is dead...well it's not actually dead, but it is coughing up blood. My mechanic won't fix it even if i had the money for a new cylinder head as this would only make the truck think that it will be okay to start dropping parts of itself on the side of the road. To start off the BUY JOYCE A NEW TRUCK FUND I am going to just start grabbing things off the shelves and offering them here for Best Offer. But seriously no reasonable offer refused and unreasonable offers will be seriously considered.
First Up we have a BOX OF INK nearly all full, some unused.
Quink Black LG
Noodler's Black LG
Noodlers Eternal Brown LG
Noodlers Hunter Green
Noodlers Luxury Blue
Noodlers Fox Red
Sennelier Cobalt blue
Windsor and Newton Peat Brown sm
WHY do i have such a cache of ink? My hands hurt, i get serious cramps and detest ball point pens. Fountain pens don't need as much pressure and I can actually write legibly with them.
My preferred pen is the Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen, but that has been getting harder and harder to find So I invested in some decent fountain pens Safari's and Shaffers which i will offer here soon. I DID buy a cache of 50 Varsitys on ebay so I don't use the fountain pens much anymore.
Shipping will be Priority and should NOT exceed 6 bucks, depends on where you live I will try to make sure they don't leak, even to the extent of taping the necks.
FS Doré by a Stroller in Europe - Best Offer
Doré: by a Stroller in Europe.[W.W. Wright] NY:Harper Bros, 1857, 386pp +2pp advs, brown cloth
VG-, bumped corners, minor edge-wear head and tail, very slightly clocked, missing front free endpaper, one sig misaligned. On the whole an adequate copy.
No, this doesn't have anything to do with Doré the illustrator. I thought it might when I pulled it from the box. But I looked it up - Doré is also a form of gilded silver bullion, go figure. The author also defines it as "the difference between the inside and outside of things" which is probably now some obscure French idiom.
This book is your typical wealthy American does his third grand tour of Europe. Who takes the opportunity to show off how civilized he is by insulting the populace with a book publish anonymously; in short the author is a bit of a jerk. The modern day equivalent of a blogger - visit interesting place and send out unsigned dispatches slagging off on the locals.
Excerpt: "the French are modern Troglodytes who desire the advantages without choosing to exercise the virtues of self-government. After their spasmodic attempts are Republicanism they have sunk back into lethargy and sloth, and now hail with delight a successor to the elect of 7,000,000 whose only title to be their rule shall be one vote that of his Father!"
He goes on about people of color, and immigrants and anyone else he can think of while comparing Europe to America. Overall it is an interesting read - you can download pdfs of this book, but the actual book itself is scarce and hard to find, especially in such good condition.
August 06, 2009
FS Gosford Park promotional board game BEST OFFER
Gosford Park (2001)
Clue type board game. completely as issued, nothing missing, never used.
This item was never vended, it was a promotional item given away to reviewers and critics etc.
I love board games..or should i say i LOVED board games.. i took a fancy to them for a few years. I drove an hour to meet with an all boy board game group just to play once a week. These new 'German' games are a total mind****. you have to spend 40 minutes just reading the directions. Then another hour learning how to play. So you really have to dig logic puzzles to get into them. There are so many types of excellent, well planned and challenging games out there to buy and share with your friends..
This isn't one of them. I remember working through the directions on this when i got it. The particulars escape me, but I remember it being something like Clue but as challenging as Chutes and Ladders. The reason to buy this promo piece is that Gosford Park totally kicked ass. I went to see it 4 times, bringing people with me each time. It was a movie for grownups that wasn't 'adult' , it was clever and sexy and a joy to behold. The DVDs make it even better, if you haven't watched the DVD with Julian Fellowes alt commentary track, you are missing something.
So if you liked the film as much as I do and would like a piece of ephemera that your friends will envy, here you go.
Shipping will probably be about $5.00
BTW if you want a really good Clue like game try Kill Dr Lucky from CheapAss Games. it's my favorite and it's under 10 bucks
FS 6 volumes The Adventures of Conrad Stargard
Frankowski, Leo. The Adventures of Conrad Stargard
the Cross-Time Engineer. NY:Del Rey, 1989, 3rd
The High Tech Knight. NY:Del Rey, march 1989, 1st editoin, PBO
the Radiant Warrior. NY:Del rey, July 1989, 1st edition PBO
The Flying Warlord. NY:Del rey, October1989, 1st edition PBO
Lord Conrad's Lady. NY:Del rey, Sept 1990, 1st edition PBO
Conrad's Quest for Rubber. NY:Del rey, Dec 1998, 1st edition PBO
They are all near fine, cept for some dust and some page discoloration due to NATURAL aging.
I have a thing for series but i need to own the entire series before starting even the 1st one. There is nothing so horrid as finishing a book in series in the middle of the night and NOT having the next book in the series. So if i have one book in a series, i have them all. Here they are as a unit, the 1st six volumes in Frankowski's marvelous alt history series. Take a trip to 1200 AD and save yourself some shipping, buy all the volumes at once.
Shipping is 3.50 media mail.
August 05, 2009
FS Irrational Ravings Best Offer
Pete Hamill. Irrational Ravings. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1971.
First edition of author's second Book. Black, cloth boards with stamping on spine.
Not an ex-library, I swear, but this book DID have a dj cover on it when I bought it. One of those truly evil ones from Gaylord, with the brown edging and the self adhesive strips. You can see the residual of the dj cover lining, i'm certain these can be removed with patient use of a Nylon Sticker Lifting tool, such as the ones I sell, and Bestine adhesive solvent or lighter fluid.
There is a teensy piece of Scotch tape to the head of the DJ and a 3 inch rubbed mark on the spine of the dust jacket, and even lighter rubbing to its extremities. The fact that these black inked printed dust jackets were prone to such self damage may have caused the previous owner to buy a dust jacket cover. A noble effort but self stick kind are truly the invention of the devil or just a bored librarian. However the cover portrait of Mr Hamill is nice and clean with no rubbing and no fading. In contrast to all this shelf wear, the book itself looks and smells unread. Though to steal a line from books_by_onart: "Used books may come from a household where smoking cats eat peanuts." So there.
FS Handmade 'Toilet Paper' Howl SOLD
Another offering in the BUY JOYCE A NEW TRUCK FUND I am grabbing things off the shelves and offering them for Best Offer. Seriously no reasonable offer refused and unreasonable offers will be seriously considered.
I made this. I don't remember when. I was screwing around with stuff in my office it was probably just after I saw the Kerouac Scroll. I figured Ginsberg's Howl was about the right size to use for practice.
This is made of airmail paper sheets pasted together wrapped around a toilet paper tube. Not sure how long it is in feet, but it's the entire poem.
It will be shipped 1st class in a box for about $4.00
August 04, 2009
July 17, 2009
95 Trek Antelope all gussied up
She's got a new saddle, new gears, new Planet bike fenders, I put her rack and panniers back on. and she's got her own bike sticker 'My other bike's a POS too"
July 13, 2009
todays find
Raleigh Record 3 Speed with an undated hub..
just so happens a friend of mine gave a beautiful Brooks Saddle.
July 12, 2009
never assume
Every bike teaches me a lesson..this one taught me never assume. What started off as a nice little orange Raleigh Record with a 3-speed Sturmey Archer Hub soon exposed itself in to Frankenbike. There was rust on all the fastener, nuts and bolts and pedals as well as the wheels. Like Raleigh had started cutting corners and using inferior parts. But after scrubbing off much rust on the wheels, I found the 'Schwinn' label. The wheels and the Sturmey Archer Hub is off another bike altogether.
I am at a loss to decide what to do. I can put it back on craig's list or break it up for parts. I suppose if I can move the bike, I should and put the money into another bike.
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