i just adore the jauntiness on display here, like this saucy signorina is punting the coliseum right into the dustbin of history. get tae fuck, imperialism! https://www-wikihow-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/4/45/Be-an-Anarchist-Step-9-Version-3.jpg/v4-460px-Be-an-Anarchist-Step-9-Version-3.jpg
― “humanity, whom I love” (cat), Sunday, 6 November 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
hold on, i’m not sure if my enthusiastic anarchist posted correctly
https://www-wikihow-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/4/45/Be-an-Anarchist-Step-9-Version-3.jpg
― “humanity, whom I love” (cat), Sunday, 6 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
fuck! okay, pretend there is a picture of a guy who is really excited about the fall of the roman empire
― “humanity, whom I love” (cat), Sunday, 6 November 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
same publishing company:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51oyUQo2EPL._SY346_.jpg
i'm not the only one who's noticed:
https://reprobatepress.com/2022/02/12/the-eccentric-world-of-sheba-blake-publishing/
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
Yes, they stole most of that from me: https://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2020/10/classics-reconsidered.html
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
^The original is still the greatest.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
:)
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
the follow up to Little Women has a cover that matches, which is nice. i also like what they've done for A Short History Of England
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
My hunch is that Sheba-Blake puts really weird covers on their editions of "classic" public domain books in order to sell them to people who know perfectly well how inappropriate the covers are and buy them just for the 'joke' aspect. After all, anyone can have a copy of Little Women in any one of dozens of editions, but only a Sheba-Blake customer can have one with a crazy Red Guard cover. It's their unique selling point.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9781248196007-us.jpg
― koogs, Sunday, 27 November 2022 07:58 (one year ago) link
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/barchester-towers-69
https://kbimages1-a.akamaihd.net/20bcf88e-64ad-4591-8dd9-caace4340f70/353/569/90/False/barchester-towers-69.jpg
― koogs, Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/list/norwegian-author-translator-and-playwright-jon-fosse-is-the-2023-nobel-prize-in-literature-winner/KVPWyCKmvsAYiQjbyzIWvw
not demented as such but these fitzcarraldo editions are so simple yet no two of them are alike
― koogs, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 21:10 (seven months ago) link
Not sure what they were going for here (NSFW)
Joan Didion - Play it as it Lays
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 01:59 (seven months ago) link
I was curious, so I looked this up. Eve Babitz, seen in the photo with Duchamp (it's not the more famous one where you can't see her face), had some kind of correspondence with Didion and mentions her a bit cryptically in the dedication to Eve's Hollywood.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/joan-didion-letters-eve-babitz
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 02:23 (seven months ago) link
I tried reading that Vanity Fair article. I stuck with it for about 3000 words, but it never seemed to rise above the level of celebrity gossip -- and the gossip was fifty years out of date.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 04:32 (seven months ago) link
Here's the story from Eve, via NYRB
https://lithub.com/eve-babitz-on-the-time-she-played-chess-nude-with-marcel-duchamp/
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:04 (seven months ago) link
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50961568-the-hand-of-ethelberta
― koogs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 17:37 (three months ago) link
(thomas hardy illustrated by a robot hand)
not necessarily demented but...https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51IZF4j5QmL.jpg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:54 (three months ago) link