 | Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan
Buy used from: $0.16 "Perception is Reality". William Beulow Gould, aka Billy Bellow, Billy Gould, The Forger, The Artist, plums the depths of Reality and will change how you perceive it forever. Richard Flanagan has a gargantuan appetite for descriptive language and Tasmanian
black humor the comical is sad, the sad outrageously funny. Man as Fish -- or is it the other way around?
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 | The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.83 Quintessential modern journey into the Dark Ages called "Afghanistan" by Lawrencian Brit.
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 | Charles E. Burchfield: The Sacred Woods by Nancy Weekly
Buy new: $30.78 / Used from: $26.75 Artist recluse Charles Burchfield was perhaps America's #1 watercolorist -- admired by Hopper and other more famous artists.
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 | Sony Cybershot DSC-T100 8MP Digital Camera with 5x Optical Zoom and Super Steady Shot (Silver)
Buy new: $699.99 / Used from: $299.00 I love this little guy. About as big as a credit card, slips into shirt pockets, but with genie-like power. Great digital shots, large screen to review photos, even VCR capability. Holds lots of photos -- 150? Easy to download to my computer. This is the best camera I've ever owned.
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 | A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.99 Illustrator, historian, craftsman Eric Sloan's seminal guide to the fabric of early America -- wood.
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 | Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana) by Eric Sloane
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.84 Wonderful fictionalized diary of a 15 year old colonial boy, Noah Blake.
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 | Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and The Modern by Jake Milgram Wien
Rockwell Kent,book & magazine illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, painter of the North (Greenland) had a large appetite for life and this comprehensive volume displays it powerfully.
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 | New York Doll
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.94 Incredible documentary about the New York Dolls reunion in London. Fascinating journey.
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 | A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.22 Sad, hilarious, fascinating transformation of a New York Ad Man.
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 | Tales of the Weirrd
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.67 Sketches of bizarre Victorian oddities and odd sketches by a bizarre contemporary.
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 | The R. Crumb Handbook by R Crumb
Buy used from: $22.00 The American Hogarth of our time -- Robert Crumb. Brutally honest and funny cynic.
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 | Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $8.93 A remarkable volume reproducing Da Vinci's numerous inventions, ideas, observations.
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 | The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $9.52 Thurber, Darrow, Booth, Addams, Koren, Day -- they're all here. And 5,000 more. All the good stuff without the pretentious "literature".
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 | Artist''s Water Colour PLUS Traveller Set by Winsor & Newton
Buy new: $99.95 Wherever I travel, I always pack my W&N watercolors. Great color density, nicely designed, compact and convenient.
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 | Men's Casio Illuminated G-Shock Tri-Graph Watch
I've worn a Casio G-Shock for the past 15 years -- through marathons, ocean swims and dives, icy ski falls, and day-in-day-out wear and tear. It's a workhorse and makes a statement too: "I'm a down to earth kind of guy who values function over glitz."
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