List the oddest,most peculiar books on your private library shelves.

Many of my oddest books were lost during my latest move.I have a feeling mom tossed them along with my absinthe spoon..

Here is what is left:

Mars On Earth(Uncorrected proof for limited distribution)The Adventures of Space
Pioneers in The High Arctic-Robert Zubrin

Painting as a Pastime-Winston Churchill

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick-A Citadel Twilight book

Klee-Drawings

Miro-Roland Penrose

Rabbits&Other Small Mammals-Time Life Television series

William Blake-The Complete Poems

People of the Earth-The New Pagans Speak Out-Ellen Evert Hopman and
Lawrence Rond

The Russian Museum-Painting-Aurora Art Publishers,Leningrad

Mona Lisa Overdrive-William Gibson

Shopgirl-Steve Martin

Dictionary missing three pages-Bought at 99 cent store

Not a book,but still..Press kit for Phantom of the Paradise

Some of my oddest books were sold-All of my Edward Gorey Books,Poems and Illustrations by Gunter Grass(first edition),and more.The need to eat can be a real pain.

Procedures in Experimental Physics, John Strong, 1938

Reprint of Complete Practical Distiller, Byrn, 1875 reprinted 2002

Reprint of Complete Practical Brewer, Byrn, 1852, reprinted in 2002

A bullets Flight from Powder to Target, 1906, FW Mann, This was reprinted with the handwritten notes by Harry Pope (famous barrel maker) in the margines in 1980. It is not a second edition, but a special reprinting of the original.

Complete guide to handloading, Philip B Sharp, 1949 and 1951 coppies.

Advanced Gunsmithing by WF Vickery, 1943

Who Killed Kenedy by Thomas G Buchanan, 1964.

Hatchers Notebook by Julian S Hatcher, Major General USA, ret 1966

Foxfire 5 1979

Collins books.
Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens - 1966
The Man in the Iron Mask, Dumas - 1959
The Black Tulip, Dumas - 1966
Twenty Years After, Dumas, 1959

A very old copy of "A Streatcar named Desire" that I can't locate right now.

I've got over 60 hardbound books on Guns and Gunsmithing, and additional 60 or so softbound books on same, maybe 40 books on brewing, 20 on HD Motorcycles.

1. Special cases, the study of physical deformity.

2. Long hard road out of Hell: Marilyn Manson

3. How to think like Leonardo DaVinci

4. The Book of Martyrs.

5. The complete Salvatore Dali

6. Green Eggs and Ham.

DG

1. Dictionary of Obscenity and Taboo
2. The Human Brain Coloring Book
3. The Devil, a Biography
4. Conserving (Daniel and Geo Fuchs)
5. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days

Stay Married Forever-A. Dickhead
The Internet is Only for Info-N. O. Rohmans
Allentown Yellow Pages (they were White until I couldn't "make it".
The Big Book of Louched Lounge Humor. Hmmm, maybe I dreamt it.
Smoking Monkeys Worth Listening To-D.G. Hedsledder

Oh, yeah!
My FeelThisCatAss popup book.

That suckah is sticky.

Different Loving: The world of Sexual Dominance and Submission
The Bible and the Koran (funny, they get along alright), i.e. know thine enemy.
Diabetes A-Z
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Explosives and Demolitions FM 5-25
Illuminatus! Trilogy

and my pride and joy

Principia Discordia

Gail Holst: Road to Rembetika: Muic of a Greek Sub-culture - Songs of Love, Sorrow and Hashish.

A welsh phrasebook.

A cockney rhyming slang phrasebook.

A bulgarian-german dictionary.

I'm at work so I can't give exact titles nor authors but:

Various text books of Chemistry,biochemistry,physics,pharmacology,mathematics,etc of both undergrad and grad courses---zzzzzzz

A 1930's volume from a series called "The Psychology of Sex" -this vol. deals with deviant behavior.

3 vols of a collection of works by the Marquis de Sade

A 1763 book, Neune Praedicten von Wahren Christantum by Johann Arndt

An almost complete paperback collection of Issac Asimov's sci-fi works

Yoshitsune--a translation of a classic Japanese Samurai novel

A tale of Genji- a paperback of selections from the Genji Monagatari(sp?)

N - a magazine put out by the Naturist Society

HA! Much like this board!

DG

Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin

Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered

A Mad People's History of Madness

The Gates of Janus

I've got that book too! Isn't it GREAT? Some of the photos are outstanding!

Felis, why on earth would you consider my HERO, William Gibson weird??? Mona Lisa Overdrive is (IMHO) his apogee, the best writing I have ever read! That book doesn't have 1 superfluous word, & the story is an incredible tour de force. Every time I sit down to really do some writing, I read some of Gibson's early work first.

1) The Bible--God
2) Selections of the Works of Haruki Murakami, in Japanese
3) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency--Douglas Adams
4) What is Philosophy?--Deleuze
5) Venus on the Half-Shell--Kilgore Trout

hehe i have these as well: Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin, A tale of Genji.

um, lemme think...

the complete hardcover edition of the Bizarre fetish magazines.

The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon

most of LaVey's stuff

A Sexual Bill of Rights for the Erotic Minorities

When Someone You Love is Kinky

The Clitourist

and many many others i can't think of now.

Ditto. Good book.

We're a kinky lil' bunch, eh? And dirty. Kinky and dirty. And evil. Kinky, dirty and evil. And...

don't call me lil'.

Okay...how 'bout "Lillian"?...

lily is prettier.

so i'm guessing it'll be lillian.

Lystie

Weird equals Good(much of the time.)

Good usually does not equal Weird(filisoficaluly speaking.)

Mona Lisa Overdrive is a fine piece of literature,and William Gibson is a fine author.
I am tempted to read it again,between selections from Blake and Poe.

You might like a short story called Pick My Bones With Whispers from Jan.03's
copy of Asimov's S.F magazine,if you can find it.

Mr Liver,our Esteemed Mayor

I am glad you so enjoyed the F.T.C.A pop-up book.

Take it easy,though.A very few were published.

Would you like a signed copy?







Purrs and Cheers,
F.T.C.A

I think he's happy as long as his still pops up.

Being a HPL fan I had to buy this one:

I had a copy of the Necronomicon once. A friend of mine freaked out and was saying that it was evil and he did not want it around him. I about laughed my ass off.

Then I saw it was printed by Avon publishing and realized he was right...

yeah i have a copy i bought when i was a teen.

what a fucking waste of paper.

although it is a useful tool when trying to freak out catholic mothers.

Just a few:

1. Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health (1950 edition)
2. L. Ron Hubbard, Messaih or Madman? by Bent Corydon
3. The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS
4. The Gnostic Gospels
5. The Real War, by Richard Nixon
6. Summeray of the Warren Comission Report
7. Sip of Seduction
8. UFO Abductions: A Dangerious Game
9. Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
10. Book of Mormon

10. Book of Norom

1. Le Dragon Rouge
2. Sex and rockets by "John Carter"
3. The Secret King - Karl Maria Wiligut Himmler´s lord of the runes
4. Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll
5. The Lay of Maldoror translated by John Rodker

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What an unexpected sick and twisted ending!

1.Holy Blood / Holy Grail
2. the Mabinogian
3. Helter Skelter
4. Cold Mountain poems by Han Shan

Harvard Classics "five foot shelf of books"

old, old version purchased from a public library for $40. (may have even been less)

one of these days i'll get around to opening the books and edumacating myself.

Greeneyes,

How does one color a human brain?
If this is some kind of twist on the easter egg thing, I like it.

That's pretty much how I spent college.

Well, that and a lot of pot and 40's of Mickeys.

Some of them Great Books are actually pretty good.

i got a 'book of norom' or three stashed around my house... along with other gems with titles like 'why noroms are better than everybody else', 'spurious correlation between norom scripture and actual history', 'joe smith wasn't such a bad guy', and 'don't listen to anybody talkin bad about noroms, especially if they make sense'

my daughter's mother got superficially super-religous after the birth of our child, re-embraced her mormon faith (as far as the other noroms could tell) and decided that i was an asshole because i refused to convert to noromism so we could be sealed for all eternity and live in the upper level of heaven or some such tripe... some of her 'literature' still 'litters' my pad...

</rant>
--
sancho
aka da debbul

Sanch, how do you like that grappa?

Crayola colored pencils, in my pretty book.

For rat brains, Cresyl Violet or Prussian Blue reaction work nicely.

Wanna come over and help me stain tissue?

I prefer staining the sheets.

hehe

sheeeeet stains

...

A few favorites on my bookshelf.

and this one.

and a favorite

and one from my collection of rarities from 1944.

You forgot:

...and how could you forget:

the grappa is fine... tastes like brandy... i like brandy...

Excellent!