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September 14, 11—4pm
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August 30, 10—4pm
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August 15-17, all day
Avrom Farm, Green Lake, WI

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

THE DIARY OF ANAIS NIN VOL. 3 + 4

First edition (!) printings of volumes 3 and 4 of the personal diaries of the French-American giant of erotic fiction.

Harvest
(1969—first edition!)

DELTA OF VENUS by Anais Nin

The atmospheric and electrifying cornerstone of Nin’s erotic oeuvre ;-)

Harcourt
(1977 [1969])

LIPSTICK TRACES: A SECRET HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Griel Marcus

Sex Pistol surrealism and mosh pit philosophy—do you punks even know your own history?

Belknap
(2009 [1989])

PHYSIQUE PICTORAL (COLLECTION)

These midcentury, erm… “physique guides” are great for keeping up with workout trends. Just don’t show the government censors.

Mizer’s Athletic Model Guild
(1950’s — 1960’s)

THE HUMAN FACTOR by Graham Greene

First edition (!) printing of an entry from the American master of espionage fiction.

Simon & Schuster
(1978 – first edition!)

IN MEMORIUM TO POSTMODERNISM: ESSAYS ON THE AVANT POP by Mark Amerika and Lance Olsen

Impress the rest of Scuffletown with your grasp of the post-postmodern condition.

SDSU Press
(1995)

ROMANCE IN MARSEILLE by Claud McKay

An early entry in queer Black literature rediscovered in a Yale University archive decades after McKay first penned it.

Penguin
(2020)

A CERTAIN HUNGER by Chelsea G. Summers

What if every time a man annoyed you, you just ate him?

Unnamed Press
(2020)

LATE IN THE DAY by Tessa Hadley

Complicated relationship status? We get it. Here, read this.

Vintage
(2019

GALATEA 2.2 by Richard Powers

If Her and Ex Machina had a literary baby conceived by a Nobel Prize winning author.

Picador
(1995)

THE DOOR by Magda Szabó

Did you know how good Hungarian literature is? You do now, thanks to the NYRB translation of this haunting portrait of feminine intimacy.

NYRB
(2005 [1987])

SEDUCED BY STORY: THE USE AND ABUSE OF NARRATIVE by Peter Brooks

Find out why you’re so obsessed with that fictional anime boy.

NYRB
(2022)

THE LOFT GENERATION: FROM THE DE KOONINGS TO TWOMBLY: PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss.

A memoire of the Manhattan art scene before it became insufferable.

FSG
(2021, first ed.)

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