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(Prouty, Howard) Catalog Number 1: "Objects of Obscure Desire"; offered by ReadInk, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ReadInk (c.2008) First Edition Stapled wraps Fine
(brand-spanking new). (color photographs) My first print catalog, and a mighty fine thing it is, too, if I do say so. It's 8½x11, 20 pages (including covers), fully color-illustrated, and presents an eclectic selection of books reflecting many of my primary interests as a buyer and seller. Included are pages dedicated to: California fiction; hard-boiled/noir literature; Hollywood fiction; African-American life and literature; books by and about women (see our Catalog #2 for a lot more of this); boxing literature; books from the Great Depression; and writer-director Samuel Fuller. A fair number of the books listed herein are still available, but even if someone else has beaten you to your particular Object of Desire, I guarantee that there's enough entertainment value in the thing -- including many fun facts about some books you've probably never even heard of -- to be worth the trouble of picking it up. Because my supply is running short, I'm charging $1 (+ my standard $4 shipping, in this case for First Class), but there are two ways for you to get your money back: (1) buy something -- anything, not just from the catalog -- and I'll rebate you the whole $5 it cost you to get it; or (2) if you really don't like it, or feel that you didn't get $5 worth of reading pleasure out of it, just ask me and I'll send you a refund. What could be easier?
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(Prouty, Howard) Catalog Number 2: "Skirts, in Jackets; a couple of hundred books BY - ABOUT - FOR (and sometimes AGAINST) Women!"; offered by ReadInk, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ReadInk (c.2010) First Edition Stapled wraps Fine
(brand-spanking new). (color photographs) My second print catalog, an eclectic selection of over 200 books centered around a single "theme," if you can all it that: Women! (Although, to be more accurate, one would have to say: Women as seen and presented in the popular culture from roughly the 1920s through the 1960s, although some of the books do fall outside that time-frame.) To quote from my own introductory comments in the thing: "There's no subversive gender-based agenda at work in this catalog -- no Statement regarding the 'neglected' place of women in the Book Collecting Universe -- no attempt to argu that women are either wonderful or horrible creatures. (Although some of the books herein are not exactly neutral on the latter subject." Basically, these are just books I've found appealing -- whether they're about good women or bad girls; flappers, fliers, or floozies; housewives or adventuresses; the intrepid or the insipid, the emancipated or the downtrodden. It's 8½x11, 28 pages, fully color-illustrated -- and many of the covers, like many of the women, are gorgeous. A fair number of the books listed herein are still available, but as with #1 there's enough entertainment value even if the book you want has been sold, to make it a worthy browse. And the same guarantee applies as with #1: you can get your $5 back ($1 + First Class shipping) in either of two ways. (1) Buy something -- anything, not just from the catalog -- and I'll rebate you the whole $5 it cost you to get it; or (2) If you really don't like it, or feel that you didn't get $5 worth of reading pleasure out of it, just ask me and I'll send you a refund. We aim to please, or at least not to displease.
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