PAPERBACK ISLAND II, the Book About Books . . .
New! Sequel to the cult favorite PAPERBACK ISLAND, the book about books, 204 pp., featuring 65 pages of color artwork. Cover photo by Beowulf Sheehan. artsendbooks@gmail.com
WITHDRAWN & QUARTERED, 15 LIBRARY DISCARDS . . .
Imagine the Ayler brothers as bibliographers and — voila! — you've got it.
Published in a Limited Edition of 53 copies (26 in hard covers).
Stay tuned for periodic book updates and annotations here.
New . . . ONETIME MEETINGS . . .
Non-fiction / Memoir. Six life-changing onetime meetings.
74 pages, illus. with full-color photos. Pb and hardcover ed., $15 / $25, postpaid.
Printed in a numbered, Limited Edition of 125 copies, 26 of which are in hard covers.
NEW in 2016!
PAPERBACK ISLAND
"Lovely and vibrant . . ."
— BIBLIOKLEPT April 2013
"An eccentric and one-of-a-kind volume . . . "
—NOTRE DAME REVIEW
"...one-of-a-kind endeavor, the ultimate labor of bibliomaniacal affection, the quintessential offbeat book about offbeat books . . ."
—Bill Ruehlmann, NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT
"This book is a classic!!!!! Necessary for students as well as those interested in book history fast going into a tunnel of neglect."
—Herschel Silverman
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PAPERBACK ISLAND
Ltd. First Edition Pressing of 150 copies.
—192 pp., copiously illustrated with b&w and color photos
—8 x 5.5"
—$20, paper ISBN-13 978-0-933292-31-4
—$35, hard ISBN-13 978-0-933292-32-1
—book design by the author
PAPERBACK ISLAND available post-paid, the old-fashioned, non-monopolistic way (checks, m.o's., pieces of eight, et alia) from :
ARTS END BOOKS
POB 441
W. Dover VT 05356 USA
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Paperback Island
Sid
This Way to the Apocalypse
Tuli
Susanna
James T. Farrell Paperback Library
Bill Free Library
Mom, Dad, Me & Alfred Kinsey
Indexes
Publishers
Physical Allure of the Book
The Hotels of James T. Farrell*
Bookstores
Fred
Bookstores—II
Thomas Bewick, Greedy for Eels
APPENDIX
Some Reading That Liam O'Dell & I Did
Additional Notes on Sid Bernard
James T. Farrell Paperback Library Catalog
James T. Farrell Underground
*Contains the incomparable James T. Farrell Suite
of Photographs by Gert Berliner