#Vintage Contemporaries

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Have a weird Xmas (Blog about books acquired in Dec. 2023)

Maybe an hour ago, browsing in a used bookstore, I opened a worn and some might say dirty copy of Iain Banks’s 1985 novel Walking on Glass. The very first page of this old book was inscribed with the following: Have a weird Xmas ’90                  John This copy of Iain Banks’s 1985 novel Walking on Glass—a 1990 Abacus trade paperback printed in London, the embossing on its cover yellowed by…

[authorstalker]

My May & June Reads

Dominicana, Angie Cruz - A book club pick that I've thought of several times since I read it in early May. It's incredibly upsetting! A teenage girl is forced to marry a thirty-something man because it's her family's chance at immigrating to the United States. Excellent writing, but I wish I could Eternal Sunshine a few scenes from my brain.

Vintage Contemporaries, Dan Kois - A lovely ode to Laurie Colwin.

Unlikely Animals, Annie Hartnett - A perfect novel. It is so weird and unexpected and heartwarming (and heartbreaking) and funny. An all-time favorite!

[theblackestofsuns]

I Pass Like Night (1989)

Jonathan Ames

Vintage Contemporaries

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Pierre-Charles Comte, The secret rendezvous

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Artistic Bird-Shaped Canopy Bed Follow Research.Lighting on Tumblr

[miamaimania]

Night Owls Rejoice: A Neon-Lit Time Capsule in Albuquerque, 1986 ฆ‰ŒŒ

[vintagehomecollection]

In Manhattan, a 17th century screen attributed to the Kano school dictated a bedroom's design. Given the screen as a starting point by his client, architect Sam Takeuchi built a ledge behind the headboard for its display. A wall panel above holds the upper edge in place.

At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit, 1990

[janasojka]

blue night

[elixir]

A woman photographed laying on a literal ton(2.000 pounds) of weed while watching Johnny Carson by photographer Steve Cooper for High Times magazine, 1978.

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Francesco Balsamo (Italian, b.1969)

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Cubanito Hotel pool, Ibiza by sir20

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Books acquired, 13 Oct. 2023

I couldn’t pass on a used copy of the second edition of Steven Weisenburger’s A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion even though it ate up most of my trade credit. I used the first edition of the Companion when I reread Gravity’s Rainbow about eight years ago and then gave it to a friend I had been encouraging to read GR. He still hasn’t read it. I also picked up a hardcover first edition of Cormac…

[iridessence]

it’s 1934 at the Degas House

[hayleylovesjessica]

This piece about Lorraine Louie and her Vintage Contemporaries book designs in the 1980s is fascinating.

[constanzarte]

Ferdinand Leeke, The Rhinemaidens, 1913

[ghostlywriterr]

Contemporary art by Julia Stankevych