A Conversation between Tom and Ashley
T: [cautiously walks in room]
A: Thank you for meeting with me. Please take a seat.
T: [sits six feet away]
A: [in infomercial style voice] Are you feeling anxious, isolated, depressed about
the current state of the world?
T: [silence]
A: [gestures for an answer] ahem
T: Uh...yes?
A: Then you need….ponies! [pulls down screen revealing slideshow of ponies]
T: Sigh
A: Ponies are a great investment for your happiness!
T: [stands]
A: They’re cute…
T: [heads towards door]
A: You can use them as transportation…
T: [walks away]
A: [yelling] WHY DON’T YOU WANT ME TO BE HAPPY!?
the end
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[Collingswood, New Jersey: circa 1898]. Unbound. Broadside printed in blue. Approximately 20" x 18". Old folds with small tears and a couple of repairs with archival tape on the verso, removed from a scrapbook and slightly skinned on the verso where it was tipped in, but handsome and very good..... More
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[No place: No publisher, no date - circa 1800?]. Unbound. Small lottery ticket on stiff card decorated with vignette of a horse. Overall measurement approximately 2.25" x 3.25". Age toned and corners a little rounded but overall a pleasing very good example. An interesting artifact of a small lottery, listing..... More
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Wevertown, New York: 1946 - 1948. Hardcover. Oblong folio measuring 15" x 11.5". Brown leather over paper boards with "photographs" stamped on the front board. Contains 125 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1.5" x 3" and 5" x 7" with some captions. Very good photo..... More
New York: Random House, (2002). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. More
[no place]: Walt Disney, [no date]. Unbound. Animation cell. Measuring 10.25" x 19" and matted in a 29.5" x 20.5" wooden frame. Fine. A limited edition, hand painted animation cell numbered 45 of 350. The image feature a shy Bambi's first outing in the meadow. More
(New York): Delacorte Press, (1995). Hardcover. First edition. Near fine with small dampstain on spine tail in near fine dustwrapper with corresponding dampstain, closed tear on bottom edge of rear panel. More
New York: Macmillan, 1963. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Robert Lowell. Illustrated by Herschel Levit. Folio. Glossy illustrated boards. Fine. A beautiful copy. More
London / New York: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh / E.P. Dutton, (1885). Hardcover. Probable first American edition. 214+16pp. Four black and white illustrated plates, including the frontispiece. Spine cocked, some soiling to rear board, corners worn, about very good. An adventure story set in South America. Ker was a...... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864. Hardcover. First edition. 24mo. Green cloth stamped in blind with elaborately gilt decorated spine. Illustrated. A fine copy. Inscribed by the author: "Miss Cornelia Coyle with the love of The Author." More
Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, (1972). Hardcover. First edition. Owner stamp on the front fly else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine and flap folds and some soiling. More
New York: Macmillan, (1954). Hardcover. First American edition. Small faint stain on rear board, faint foxing on the bottom edge of the pages, very good in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of short tears and nicks and a little spine fading. Fifth book in *The Chronicles of Narnia*..... More
New York: Esquire, 1992. Softcover. Offprint. Quarto. Fine in stapled wraps. *Esquire* magazine excerpt which preceded the book publication. The book that propelled the literary author to the top of the bestseller list, winner of both the National Book Award and The Book Critics' Circle Award. Basis for the Billy..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1941). Hardcover. First edition. A faint pencil name on the front fly, fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears at the extremities, and very slight loss at the crown. The author's first book. Basis for the eponymous 1943 film directed by Harold..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, (1909). Hardcover. Early reprint. Illustrated By Frank Ver Beck. Fine in lightly soiled, very near fine dustwrapper. Apparently a reprint, with the illustrations in black and white, rather than color. A very scarce jacket. More
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, [circa 1890]. Hardcover. Early printing. 12mo. (iv), iv, 245, (xv) pp. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Charming contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, about fine. A lovely early copy of The 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' of the Horse" More
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[New York]: W.W. Norton & Company, [1994]. Unbound. Poster measuring 16" x 26". Rolled with slight spotting else about near fine. A poster for the book release of Patti Smith's 1994 collection *Early Work 1970-1979*. The poster includes the famous black and white photograph of Smith from 1975 taken by..... More
London: Printed for R. Bonwick, J. Tonson, T. Goodwin, [et al.], 1717. Hardcover. The Second Edition Corrected from many Errors in the former Edition. Two parts, each with a separate title page, in one volume. Folio. [2], xlv, [1], 324 ; [2], xvi, 300, [4]pp., frontispiece portrait plate and six..... More
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1932. Hardcover. First edition. Tiny owner's name, and slightly cocked, near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Autobiography of a Japanese-American schoolgirl. More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1984). Softcover. First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Fine and crisp in wrappers. Signed by the author. More
Austin, Texas: Madrona Press, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Barry Goldwater. Quarter morocco and cloth over boards. Fine, lacking the slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by Walker, publisher Robert Weddle, and the designer, Carl Hertzog. More