Weird fact of the day: woofwoofwoof's Ballard cover above is, I find, by Chris Foss, who did another Ballard cover...
http://www.ballardian.com/images/peck_waif.jpg
..and also illustrated the original 'Joy of Sex'.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Joyofsezx.jpg
― James Morrison, Friday, 29 February 2008 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
They should bring back Foss for Ballard. Miracles of Life: "The SHOCKING TRUE story of a CHILD PERVERTED by WAR" w/pic of feral urchin bayoneting Japanese soldier near some barbed wire & rubble. Naked female prisoner blank-eyed in the background.
Anyway, just to keep the great ape ratio high: http://themidnightbell.com/tmb/image/coexpl2.jpg
― woofwoofwoof, Friday, 29 February 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay...wtf is going on with that last book? Simply from cursory inspection of the cover I can tell that there must several things that are very wrong with it.
But anyway. http://www.the-isb.com/images/YoungLustySluts.jpg
― Stone Monkey, Friday, 29 February 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.the-isb.com/images/SuckerForArabs.jpg
― James Morrison, Sunday, 2 March 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.artybees.co.nz/bizarre-book-images/why-craft-fairs-are-scarry-and-crimes-in-the-kitchen/the-happy-cooker.jpg
― James Morrison, Monday, 3 March 2008 06:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/sneed_flash.jpg
"Bestselling author of SIR, YOU BASTARD"
I think that might the greatest book title I've ever heard. Seriously.
― Pheeel, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/sneed_sir_alt.jpg
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.barakabooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Ishmael-Reed-Barack-Obama-72dpi1.jpg
― ogmor, Sunday, 31 July 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
wtf??????
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Sunday, 31 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
that cover painting is a commission based on a concept from the author. which I guess makes more sense than the image already being out there in the world, waiting for the perfect book.
― ogmor, Sunday, 31 July 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
i know zeroing in on any one aspect of that cover does disservice to all others, but i love how they've apocalypse now era brando'd his face in the illustration
― sitcom neighbor (schlump), Sunday, 31 July 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
Sir, You Bastard is very good incidentally.
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 31 July 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
A Highland Fling Romancehttp://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179367491l/909644.jpg
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 August 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
really? there was a copy of it at my folks house (no idea who it belonged to originally) with that cover but i couldnt take it seriously to attempt reading it. im sure its long gone now.
― Michael B, Monday, 1 August 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6772/satanwasalesbian.jpg
― Pheeel, Monday, 1 August 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
the '80s edition of concrete island is just as good
http://www.jgballard.ca/images/concrete_island/concrete-island-vintage1985_250.jpg
and so, so '80s
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
Sir, You Bastard is very good incidentally.really? there was a copy of it at my folks house (no idea who it belonged to originally) with that cover but i couldnt take it seriously to attempt reading it. im sure its long gone now.― Michael B, Monday, August 1, 2011 12:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
― Michael B, Monday, August 1, 2011 12:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
If it's the NEL edition it's worth about a tenner (or more if in good nick). It's not high art obviously, it's hardboiled pulpy (and nothing wrong with that), but the characters are great comic book villains, corrupt, violent and amoral (and that's just the cops - boom boom!). G F Newman had some pretty out there opinions (see the stuff he wrote about the NHS) but his belief that crime benefits the police as much as criminals and that the police are just state sanctioned thugs is a good place to start a novel.
― a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 1 August 2011 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
THE PROTO PAPERS is really piquing my curiosity, I can't find out anything about it - except it apparently has a similarly demented companion piece, with added nudity!
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/ciu/7d/48/4f66c27a02a04a0e6a55a110.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― ledge, Monday, 1 August 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Found two obits for Philip Oakes which describe him as "full of contradictions", a gentle poet and a hard-nosed journalist, but neither mention his foray into demented ape-sex thrillers. He did work with Desmond Morris though.
― ledge, Monday, 1 August 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
good lord, ishmael reed
― thomp, Monday, 1 August 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
A Proto Papers sequel? Verily, the world never stops delivering
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Monday, 1 August 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/images/AC-1603-Fa.gif
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/429415.1020.A.jpg
― alimosina, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
NickB, that is a picture of a known vector, (the ghost of) a flea.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
My friend who works in a bookstore posted this pic on facebook yesterdayhttps://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/484325_3418425544237_1325474376_n.jpg
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
yikes!
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
Reading this at the moment, love the cover:
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/30/64829526_4b9bbf025e_z.jpg
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
This title has been my email address for probably 14 years.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
built upon dope and vice
― ogmor, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/r8sc5x.jpg
― You can fondle the cube but it will not respond. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 4 May 2013 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
Not nearly as demented as the OP, but pleasant to contemplate:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/8Hhjs9T0e-s2dTkErbhwfsckbgvi-vJLff2C4AdLHPBYytPgcWpxiHqS29IoGBEvtsuxkE8xcr52US8l7tmEYGk-7FfmuPTMXgxi_Qm673U=s0-d
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 27 March 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
that dog knows what you did
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 27 March 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
those cheap ebook editions of public domain titles are often terrible
https://kbimages1-a.akamaihd.net/a8ed6d40-33af-4baa-b798-ed918cb61d32/353/569/90/False/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-volume-one.jpg
which looks like a re-cycled Roman Holiday cover
― koogs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
saying "Swamp Hoyden" in a Jerry Lewis voice
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50961568-the-hand-of-ethelberta
― koogs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 17:37 (one month 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 (one month ago) link