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World's Largest Garage Sale 2008 Haul
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Showgirls
Found this set of showgirl publicity photos a few weeks ago at the BrooklynFlea. Not sure if they're for a stage production or film. I need to do some research but I'm running out the door so I'll just post and hope somebody recognizes a face. (click for larger versions)br /br /a onblur="try... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Stud Service
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Junk in My Trunk: October 2, 2008
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Published 5 days ago

NYC Sex Bloggers 2009 Pin-up Calendar
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Bat Country Books
Nathan Roberts (longtime commentator and tipster here) has started a blog for his online bookstore a href="http://batcountrybooks.blogspot.com/"Bat Country Books/a.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://batcountrybooks.blogspot.com/"img... Read more...
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Advertising Cards
I picked up a nice batch of c1900 advertising cards at the BrooklynFlea this weekend. Looks like they were removed from a scrapbook. Would have liked to see the whole book intact for context but it would have been out of my price range. Here's what I got:br /br /A patent medicine card with the... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

P.T. Barnum Items
I have a hellacious pile of books to pack this morning so just a quick blog post. Here are two unique P. T. Barnum items that came into the shop recently.br /br /First this Danish-language edition of a Barnum Bio a... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

New Bookplates
Found a striking batch of bookplates while culling my inventory and raiding the Strand Annex. Here are some:br /br /First this retro-future cityscape reminiscent of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It belonged to an "Anna C. Ury" and was found (appropriately) in a Modern Library H.G. Wells from 1909br... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

This man is an author. He writes stories.
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Published 3 weeks ago

Book Database Conversion: Homebase to Bookhound
I'm working on a massive book cull in prep for a Sunday stoop sale, so not a whole lot of time to blog/twitter etc. But here's a quick bullet list I compiled while converting from Homebase to Bookhound.br /br /Both programs are free book databases provided by bookselling venues: a... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Junk in My Trunk
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Published 4 weeks ago