Showing posts with label thrift store finds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thrift store finds. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Home Library

Around The World in 2,000 Pictures, Doubleday, 1954 (1959) with homemade cardpocket and card ( "Due--Nov., Nov., Nov., Nov.,..." ) Thanks to MML for finding this and letting me take it home.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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Burl Ives Songbook. Ballantine Books, 1953 (1966)
G.B.S. on Music, Penguin Books, 1962
Improvisation, Hodgson & Richards, University Paperback, 1966 (1972)

Monday, October 11, 2010

misc. bookshelf






People of the Potlatch, Vancouver Art Gallery/UBC, 1956
Ship Models and How to Build Them by Harvey Weiss, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1973 (also by H.Weiss)
Far Beyond The Fringe (Three-Dimensional Knotting Techniques Using Macrame & Nautical Ropework) by Eugene Andes, VNR, 1973
String Figures and How to Make Them (A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands) by Caroline Furness Jayne, 1962 (here)
New Trends in Church Architecture by Justus Dahinden, Universe Books, 1967 (previously)
Forest Flora of Canada by G.C. Cunningham, Department of Northern Affairs Forestry Branch (Canada), 1958 (1969)

some recent library sale and thrift store finds

Friday, April 16, 2010

le père de l'art brut

from Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, Margit Rowell, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The New York Graphic Society, NY, 1973 (above works 1953-4)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau, Le Livre de Poche, Paris (no date)
cover drawing by Jean Cocteau

Friday, February 26, 2010

Illusion Circles, Moustaches, and Hexaflexagon

Selection of chapter headings from Steven Caney's TOY BOOK, Workman Publishing, 1972.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Fredun Shapur: Playsack

PLAYSACK designed by Fredun Shapur for Trendon (Made In England by Trendon LTD.Malton.Yorkshire) 1969. Found at a local thrift store and gifted to me (Thanks M.D.!!!). My package contains Panda, Leopard, and Bear.

From Design Council Slide Collection

United States Patent

Homemade knock-offs featured in Sunset Book - Things To Make For Children (revised edition) 1973, 1975

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Esoteric Truthfulness

The College Of Psycho-Therapeutics: Series Of Lectures by the Principal R.P. Beesley at Caxton Hall, Westminster, S.W.1---White Lodge, Kent, England 1970

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Record

"Vanguard CASH BOOK", Made In Canada, year unknown, rubber stamped book no. 3800, Blank.

Friday, January 22, 2010

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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM By George S. Fichter/Illustrated by Charles Harper, Golden Press, 1968. My best thrift store find of 2009 (Value Village 99cents).