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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth Jun 3, 2019, 10:22 PM UTC

Rare Book of the Day - Diary of a Drug Fiend, Aleister Crowley. First Edition Thus.

Aleister Crowley was a fascinating character. Born in 1875, he was a prolific writer and poet, a world traveler, mountaineer, chess master, artist, yogi, social provocateur, drug addict and sexual li…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth Jun 1, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

Rare Book of the Day - The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson. First Edition.

Neal Stephenson is a fascinating cat and can spin a killer yarn. He's written numerous speculative novels, exploring topics of mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the hi…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 30, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

Rare Book of the Day - The Godfather, Mario Puzo. First Edition.

This one probably needs no introduction. The Godfather, published in 1969, was Puzo's sixth and most famous novel. It details the story of the fictional mafia family, the Corleones, in New York City…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 29, 2019, 6:48 PM UTC

Rare Book of the Day - H.R. Giger's Necronomicon II. First American Edition.

As a companion to yesterday's post, Necronomicon 2 was the second major book of paintings published by H.R. Giger. It was originally published in German in 1985 and released in English in 1992. It fe…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 28, 2019, 6:31 PM UTC

Rare Book of the Day - H.R. Giger's Necronomicon. First American Edition.

H.R. Giger (1940-2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his rather surreal and nightmarish airbrush technique representing humans and machines in a cold, interconnected and biomechanical relationshi…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 23, 2019, 8:54 PM UTC

Literary Video of the Day – Beautiful Minds: Professor Richard Dawkins (BBC, 2012)

Following up on my last post, here's a great documentary put out by the BBC in 2012 about Richard Dawkins. It's a brief journey through his life, while discussing the Selfish Gene and how Dawkins has…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 23, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

Rare Book of the Day - The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins. First Edition.

Richard Dawkins, born in 1941, is a British biologist and author. His first book, The Selfish Gene, is an impassioned argument, written in elegant prose, for the reality of natural selection. The wor…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 21, 2019, 10:48 PM UTC

Rare Book of the Day - A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. Limited First Edition.

This book is really badass. For those who don't know H.P. Lovecraft, he's arguably the most significant figure in 20th century horror fiction. He was the first genre writer to have his work collected…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 21, 2019, 1:09 AM UTC

Rare Book of the Day – The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy. First Edition.

One could make the argument that Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living writer, and I'd be hard pressed to find a counterargument. His 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses won both the National Book Awar…

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The Rare Book Sleuth
@rarebooksleuth May 20, 2019, 4:44 PM UTC

Literary Video of the Day - An Evening With Ray Bradbury (2001)

In keeping with my recent Bradbury theme, here's a great video of him delivering the keynote address at The Sixth Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea, sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University. It…

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