Showing posts with label Sight Unseen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sight Unseen. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Sight Unseen: Palookaville No. 21 With an Original Drawing by Seth

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A copy of Palookaville No. 21 offered by Hourglass Books caught my eye on line. Priced at $50 with AbeBooks, it offered the promise of an or...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Sight Unseen: Lee Lorenz's Old Farts Are Forever, Signed

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Yes, that's the title. Old Farts Are Forever  is a 2009 cartoon collection by Lee Lorenz, then the former cartoon editor of The New Yor...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Sight Unseen: Four Books by Liza Donnelly

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Back on March 20, Wonder Book of Frederick, Maryland, listed two children's books by the  New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly. They we...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Sight Unseen: Reporting by David Remnick

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There was yet a third book I bought sight unseen from Dave's Books of Brooklyn last month, another reasonably-priced volume of particula...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Sight Unseen: Lea and Everett Raymond Kinstler's Copy of Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill

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Brendan Gill's Here at The New Yorker was published in 1975 to celebrate the magazine's fiftieth anniversary. It served as my intr...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Sight Unseen: Lore's Copy of Edward Koren's Do You Want to Talk About It?

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The idea behind Sight Unseen posts is pretty simple: I select a book that sounds visually appealing even though I actually cannot see what i...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Sight Unseen: A Witch's Copy of Nightcrawlers by Charles Addams

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This may come as a surprise, but I have a predilection for Charles Addams books. If a bookseller from all the way in the U.K. comes along a...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Sight Unseen: A Signed First Edition of Edward Gorey's The Other Statue

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Edward Gorey's The Other Statue  (1968) is marketed as The Secrets: Volume One. There are no further volumes nor, apparently, were any ...