Rat Fink & Darger Lead the Charge
July is hitting like Thor’s hammer, so Artscape must be slithering up on us! Exotica Hypnotica, the Artscape wing of The Red Room has changed their name this year to Worlds in Collusion. Our Gold Plated Normal’s Golden West show is booked solid for Saturday, July 23. In the meantime, help us stay open until July 23rd by picking up some of these sweet new items just in:
Borough Satyr: The Life and Art of Austin Osman Spare. Very good + Fulgar oblong paperback edition limited to 961 copies, this being hand numbered 949. $80.
All the King’s Horses - Michele Bernstein. A novel by one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Semiotext(e) paperback, $7.
Henry Darger: Disasters of War - edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Out of print KW paperback quarto, $55. (Actually, this already sold before I could post this blog, but I’m keeping it on to show you what you miss if you don’t sit on our Facebook page hourly or shop at the store daily).
The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics - Blackbeard and Williams. 1977 first hardback quarto edition, $20.
Nazi Literature in the Americas - Roberto Bolano. New Directions paperback, $7.
Last Evenings on Earth - Bolano. New Directions paperback, $7.
Punk: The Definite Record of a Revolution - Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan. Thunder’s Mouth paperback, $10.
4 Dada Suicides - Cravan/Rigaut/Torma/Vache. Out-of-print Atlas paperback, $10.
A History of Secret Societies - Arkon Daraul. Out-of-print Citadel paperback, $6.
The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Reader’s Edition - Manly Hall. Paperback, $8. The book most consistently voted “Most Likely To Be Stolen By Hostile Racist Psychopath”.
Rat Fink: The Art of Big Daddy Roth - Douglas Nason and Greg Escalante. Out-of-print Last Gasp paperback, $15.
Grapefruit - Yoko Ono. Simon & Schuster hardback reprint, $8.
The Exit Collection - George Petros. Out-of-print Tacit paperback quarto, signed by Petros on the front endpaper with a drawing of a heart and arrow, $45.
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon. Penguin hardback, $10.
Against Pain - Ron Rege. Drawn & Quarterly hardback quarto, $12.
The Babysitter - Andy Ristaino. 2008 first SLG folio paperback edition, $12.
The Island: Guide - Tom Sachs. 2006, $15.
The Unclothed Man - Dash Shaw. Fantagraphics hardback, $6.
Vinyl Will Kill! An Inside Look At the Designer Toy Phenomenon. Book in box with web cards, but no poster, $10.
