Biblioarchy

Pinkerton

2011-07-26T12:02:00.000-07:00

Alberto Moravia

2011-04-21T17:27:00.001-07:00

Forgotten Works 1.0

2009-09-20T06:28:00.000-07:00

Some updates from bibliotopia:

1. Allegra has moved on from the book matrix in order to pursue her Music. We settled on a buyout, and she remains a trusted ally and co-conspiritor. Her work building this business and living with my book madness should be eligible for Sainthood. She will be missed and loved forever.

2. I have acquired a big Warehouse in Viroqua. I have christened it "Forgotten Works Warehouse" as a working title. The plan involves moving the online biz and the bookstore to one final resting place. The books will eventually share their home with artists and thespians.....a lovely life indeed.

3. Some elements have congealed, Ben has moved in and is running the Main St. Station store, and plotting the new store structure, and furiously writing for the Kickapoo Free Press. I am waiting for the next right person to appear and find their place in the Bibliomatrix. Could it be you? email me....

School is back in session, so my High School apprentices have less time, but I hope to rally them into evening work and soon begin the bookbinding and repair learning.......

The weather has been delightful, and the farmers seem to all be happy with their crops. Harvest approaches.

Books, strangers, and.... pocket knives?

2009-07-03T13:04:00.001-07:00

Here is what happened: this fairly elderly guy with a gruff look walks in to the shop and stands in the middle of the room for a few moments as I say goodbye to another customer. Turning my attention to the man I greeted him and told him to let me know if he needed anything. He kind of shrugged me off and said he was just browsing; but he didnt really do this in a mean manner or anything, in fact he had a fairly polite air about him in spite of his outward roughness. So I went back to entering books and he walked around the store for about ten minutes seeming to be actively looking for a book that might catch his interest. But then he came up to me to ask a question which I assumed would have been your average "hey, do you guys have such and such", but instead he grumbled some vague inquiry about pocket knives and if we had any..... I was pretty confused and needless to say I felt weird telling a customer that "No, we dont have any pocket knives" when I work in a book store. The man kind of wandered out with a "thanks anyways" and I was left with a strange feeling of perplexity.... That is until later I realized he was probably referring to "us" not as just the bookstore as the market on a whole, which would make much more sense. Mystery solved I suppose, but it sure made the day interesting for a bit.

Omnia Opera Migne Patrologia Latina

2009-03-08T07:54:00.000-07:00

So this sweet old man calls me the other night. Man of the cloth, coming to visit bookstore. We discuss religion, metaphysics and books for the next hour. Next day he arrives and i bring in an old 1840's Latin Tome to impress him. We have a few volumes of this set, which i had not had a chance to research, being in latin, and also being such a charming big old religious tract, that i wasn't in a hurry to sell it.

The sweet man of the cloth tells me all about this volume, and the set of some 170+ volumes. All the writings of the Church Fathers, The sublime and elusive Patrologia Latina

According to Wikipedia...

The Patrologia Latina is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865.

Although consisting of reprints of old editions, which often contain mistakes and do not comply with modern standards of scholarship, the series, due to its availability (it is present in many academic libraries) and the fact that it incorporates many texts of which no modern critical edition is available, is still widely used by scholars of the Middle Ages and is in this respect comparable to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The Patrologia Latina is one part of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, the second part of which is the Patrologia Graeco-Latina, consisting of patristic and medieval Greek works with Latin translations.

The Patrologia Latina includes over 1000 years of Latin works from Tertullian to Pope Innocent III, in 217 volumes: volumes 1 to 73, from Tertullian to Gregory of Tours, were published from 1844 to 1849, and volumes 74 to 217, from Pope Gregory I to Innocent III, from 1849 to 1855. Although the collection ends in 1216, after the death of Innocent III, Migne originally wanted to include documents all the way up to the Reformation; this task proved too great, but some later commentaries or documents associated with earlier works were included.

The printing plates for the Patrologia were destroyed by fire in 1868, but with help from the Garnier printing house they were restored and new editions were printed, beginning in the 1880s. These reprints did not always correspond exactly with the original series both in quality and internal arrangement, and caution should be exercised when referencing to the PL in general.^[1]

So the next day, having left the book sitting out next to the comfy leather chair, another guy walks in and grabs it and explains that he has been looking for this forever, etc etc...and that he really wants the volumes of Pope Gregorys Letters, but that this volume, Number 78 I believe, consists of Gregorys writings on the Sacraments. He wants it bad.

Now, the fact that a guy in the middle of Dairy country backwoods driftless Wisconsin can walk in and read a 150 year old religious book in Latin is weird enough, but when he returns the Flannery O'Connor to the shelf, and demands a price for the old gem, well things are getting pretty weird.

Now this is not the kind of book that you can type in and isbn and check the replacement costs. In fact, there were no other copies listed anywhere for this particular volume. I had not priced it, and this is the lesson of the day, never bring stock into the store, for a moment, without knowing the price you will be happy with it leaving. Ugh. In fact it still had dear Bob Shui's 40 year old price of 3.50 penciled in the corner of the first page.

I offered the kind scholar use of the book, at no charge, until the end of time, but he wanted to purchase it. Now if we were in Rome, or Bozeman, we could charge a usurious extreem capitalist pricetag to this kind of rarity. But alas, we are in teh Kickapoo valley, and customers for a book like this are not really beating down the doors. Sure, we could have listed it on ebay and maybe sold it, or catalogued it and let the right monestary find it in a few years, and get some ok price. But, the joy of this game is to make the exchange face to face, to see the wonder and amazement when someone finds something they though was gone in the past, out of print, lost.

So we gave him a price, and after some hemming and contemplating, he agreed and seemed tickled pink for having made such an auspicious exchange.. So did we. and we commemerated it with a photo.

Although i am sad to see this particular book leave our care, i am fully assured it's Karmic path has been followed, and now i have to dig up the other volumes from the dusty latin and greek language shelves and see where they fall in the massive set of ecclesiastical graveyard.

I though colecting Philip K Dick Pulps was a challenge, but now i think i may set a new goal to assemble a complete set of the Patrologia Latina. All 170some volumes. MAybe an old monestary will read this and some young monk wil email with an offer..... We'll save at least one volume for the store, maybe awaiting the day when the kids beg us to teach them Latin again, and we gather the elders who remember their own grade school classes and the cycle can continue.

e

Been to the desert on a book with no name...

2009-03-08T06:44:00.001-07:00

"Hi, I'm looking for this book...I don't remember the name...I know it has something to do with gardening...and it's green...does that help? I need it right away!" This kind of request happens more than you would think, and I am beginning to think it is probably every bookseller's nightmare. Of course you wish you could help, that's why you're there, but it's not always possible. Sometimes you have to send these poor souls away in search of more information. They may cry, they may wring their hands and beg, but you are helpless without at least a part of a title or author, and you kindly try to explain your position; it's all you can do...

Junior Bibliophiles

2009-03-08T06:26:00.001-07:00

A Kitty whirlwind tumbled through our store. These girls were having a birthday party and wanted to make an appearance in their local used bookstore. (I got purred on mercilessly.)

Viroqua Store Report Month #1

2009-03-06T05:15:00.000-08:00

We have made it through the first month since opening our new Viroqua store. It has been an absolutely magickal ride so far. The customers have been a real slice of the Wisconsin countryside, with the older community really representing, forcing us daily to dig through our stacks in search of old and obscures tomes from childhoods. The free kids books we offer all the young'ins have been very effective in quieting the young minds who may be somewhat overwhelmed by the cavernous alleyway of books. The Leather chair is a favorite resting spot for young and old, and the conversations blow my mind daily.

Vernon County may indeed be the 3rd poorest County in the state, but the level of intellectual prowess exhibited in the store makes me think I live in a community of ascetics living in caves in the hills, pusuing the deepest of the esoteric sea in buckets full of words.

The books on The Black Hawk War, Wisconsin History, and Native American Studies move faster than we can order new ones. It's interesting to see the price of some of these books raise themselves overnight on the web due to us buying a copy here and there. The time spent searching the dusty corners of the internets for certain books has been occupying most of my time most days, but I have realized that I am nearing my 10,000th hour of this kind of madness, and the benefits in time saved are very real.

We had our first meeting of our Book Club, and a lively discussion was had by all. We are reading and discussing 2012, by Daniel Pinchbeck. Our Econoclast wizard friend, Jerome McGeorge is facilitating the meetings, which is a treat in itself. We have even contacted Daniel and asked him to come and speak to the Viroqua community. Cross your fingers.

We need more space. It has been very difficult to keep everyone happy, with our limited retail space. Every day we bring in new boxes of books which people had requested. We are hoping we can expand into the next stroefront, and connect the to with a custom BookArch© cut into the connecting wall. The operators of the most excellent space we are in wish to promote a diversity of businesses, and are counciling the old addage of not getting too big too fast. Wise words and ideals. The secret egenda is just to be closer to Artos Bakery, to more easily smell the fragrent blessed breads and pies coming from their nearby ovens.

We also have a first class high school apprentice from Youth Initiative High Schoo. Hannah is a future Book Store owner, so she tells us, and her enthusiasm and hard work wil make her dream come true for sure. It's great to have the help, and more importantly nice to train someone young in this dying practice of recycling old tomes.

Today we are having a visitor from Madison bringing some of his olf Theological texts as a donation. We spoke for an hour on the phone last night, and he sounds like a fascinating man. He wanted to know if he could spend some time writing poetry in our store. I said by all means YES. He's 75 years old, and a former man of the Cloth. He said something that really struck me, The the Church has a responsibility to preserve and promote and protect the Written Word.
On a similar note, we had a church in La Crosse call us about buying their library.

We're learning the ins and outs of buying books on the fly, with a store full of browsers, from anyone who may wander in. Sometimes it is very hard to find common ground, but often it goes flawlessly, with both parties happy with the trade. We try to encourage trades for credit, and sometimes we give both, but folks seem to need cash these days, and i hope we can continue to offer this service, without having to buy another building to store it all.

We made a very auspicious arrangement with the local Biodynamic Agriculture Group to help sell a slew of Organic Farming books they have been selling at conferences and such. It is the kind of brand new stock we cannot really afford to puchase new, and the books are the perfect kind of material for our area, and we will have them in the store next week. Where we put them, and which section has to retire back to Viola is another matter.....

Spring is showing it;s tips through the clouds and retreating snow. It feels nice to imagine opening the window again and tearing off the plastic winter sweaters they all wear. Half of Viola seems to be for sale, starting with the bar next door, which never recovered from the flood. Anyone want to open an organic coffeehouse with pancakes and tempeh ruebens?

The sun is coming up, so i must get to work ...

e

Viroqua Store Grand Opening Feb. 1

2009-01-18T10:00:00.000-08:00

We're finally opening a small shop in Viroqua at the Lovely Main Street Station.

5pm. Bring a mystery something, or not.

We're building the store all this month.

Here are 2 pictures of the store before we started building. we figure we can fit 5-8 thousand books in the 400+ sq. ft.

Amandla! Uber Alles!

2008-08-15T09:33:00.000-07:00

I livedin South Africa from 1986-1987 during the height of the State of Emergency following the Biggest of the Soweto uprisings. Being a naive and green 17 year old from wisconsin, i had bought a pile of recently published books on the political situation in South Africa. Among these was a wonderful book by Exiled South African poet Breyten Breytenbach called The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist. I also had writings by Mandela, Biko, and others.
Upon arriving in Johannesberg, I discovered these were all BANNED books. All my luggage was searched for hours and hours, and I was questioned. They ended up confiscating all my books, journals, and even a vomit-bag which i had been scribbling notes on the flight over.

They gave me a receipt and laughed when i asked if there would be any chance i could get these back a year from them, when my stay was over.

The year passed and it was the most exciting and transforming year of my life.

From The bibliophile listserve:
Subject: [b] South African bookdealers face legal dilemma

A new law that has been extended recently to include used bookdealers
is forcing them to list every book and the price they paid for
it. They have to list every purchase and the price paid for it,
whether bought in bulk or individually. Moreover, when it sells they
have to indicate the price at which it sold. On existing stock, they
have three months to get these books listed. Because of the expense
and time involved, it could drive the bookdealers out of business.

This was reported in the Sheppard's Newsletter #69. The law has not
yet passed but has passed its first reading. However, bookdealers are
indicating that police are behaving as if the law has already passed
and is in force.

ps...if the US passed an insane law like this, i would be dead from dread in 23 minutes.

Visit to Castle Arkdale

2008-08-12T17:21:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time there was a lonely old farm, in the flat lands of central Wisconsin. There were fields of Genetically Modified Corn, cows, and a big lake, right down the road. One day, the farm was bought by a young couple with big dreams and incredible stamina. The made the farm successful, and started to fill the building on the farm with books they had read and picked up here and there.

Soon the books filled the sheds, and the house, and the barns. The couple decided to make a new building for the books, and they turned their manure tank into a magical castle.

They kept on collecting books and more books, until they had so many books, that they decided to open a store. They made a beautiful store out of their manure tank, and another large storage building, and a few cabins, and some other buildings too. They never put a sign up on the lonely road that ran by their farm. But the people found them. The book lovers of the world found them on that big old farm in the middle of nowhere. And every day some crazy book person drives down that old road and searches for the farm with the castle full of books. And they usually find it.

the end.

Blessed Unrest - A review..

2008-08-11T06:54:00.000-07:00

This is a draft review I wrote for the Organic Valley magazine, Rootstock.

The Planet has an immune system, and that system is us.

What do Thoreau, Gandhi, Rachel Carson and Rosa Parks have in common? They were all the mad-prophets of a movement which lives today without a name. A movement of over one million NGO',s community groups, Farmer Co-ops, activist circles, and indigenous groups who are fighting for environmental and social justice in all the remote corners of the world. A symbiotic cluster of human immunity acting as as a whole to heal the planet and redeem the human condition. A Movement of movements, hard to locate in time and space, but thanks to a visionary new book, a movement with a hIstory and a purpose. Form the bottom up. Without leaders and ideologies. Rumbling...

In a time when hope is hard to find, Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest - How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, Viking 2007, is a inspiring call to action, harkening us to envision a future where human rights and environmental justice and sanity are not only possible, but are the inevitable outcome of wave of resistance and struggle the world over.

Hawken, well known for his ground breaking "Natural Capitalism", which former President Clinton has named one of the five most important books in the world today, traces the roots of "The Movement", thousands of disparate groups struggling for environmental and social justice around the world to 3 sources. Environmental Activism, Social Justice Initiatives, and Indigenous Cultures resistance to Globalization.
We see the early visions of 'Ecology' in Henry David Thoreau, the non-violent Satyagraha of Mahatma Gandhi, the heroic determination of Rachel Carson, and Rosa Parks' spark that lit a generation afire, among many others. We follow the environmental destruction of the planet as corporate power increases. We begin to understand the relationship between natural resource extraction and indigenous peoples' loss of their homelands, between genetic engineering of our food and the massive health problems of consumers, of the silent storm of industrial agricultural chemicals and our skyrocketing cancer epidemic.

Hawken gives us a history lesson full of frightening statistics of our blind rush towards homogeneity and dismal walmarti-ness. We loose one indigenous language every two weeks. Our planet is sicker than we imagined. Most of the world's children are poor, and most of the poor are children. More than one billion people are without work: we are the only species with 'unemployment'. Corporations are leading us, like so many lemmings, to a immense precipice. Dar-fur, Palestine, Exxon-Mobil, Monsanto. But like Nature, our stability will come through diversity, and not ideology.

Following the history of this global yearning, Hawken weaves a masterful tapestry,as it appears and disappears, like a rhizome, headless and growing underground, spreading horizontally. Not seeking to dominate, rather to disperse unhealthy concentrations of power.

But the book balances the doom with a huge dose of inspiration, which comes through the stories of individuals who are dedicating their lives to heal the destruction and mend the social distances. It's about resilience in evolution. We find the we are not alone, that under the corporate news radar, there are millions of people, doing amazing work, bringing comfort to the sick and creating new technologies to more sanely live on earth. Through Seattle's WTO Protests, to NIgeria, The Black Hills, Africa, and into living rooms full of clergymen and women, we see the many faces and manifestations of the drive towards justice. These are the survival mechanisms of species. Green design, alternative currencies, cooperatives, solidarity.

The book should be required reading for high school students who are searching meaning in an out of balance world. Hawken inspires, and teaches, frightens and enlightens, and brings us face to face with our responsibility to help our brothers and sisters heal our own self-inflicted wounds. A rare book which illuminates the darkness of our own desperate search for community and survival.

The last one-third of the book is an amazing taxonomy of the groups which comprise this movement, this unnamed dragon stumbling towards utopia. Thousands of NGO's are listed,and reading a few pages inspires the reader to connect the dots and find the inter-relatedness that ties all of our struggles together, whether organic farming or refugee housing, we are all on the same web, dancing, vibrating, crying and shouting for justice. If you listen very hard, you will hear the rumbling, and you will see your own place, your node of connection to the millions, your family here on earth.

Evolution is optimism in action, and our actions today will determine the world we leave our children.

Eddy Nix is a book dealer and High School teacher . He lives in Viola, Wisconsin

Orwell Online Diaries

2008-08-10T09:56:00.000-07:00

The George Orwell Diaries are finally coming online, day by day.
Today's entry was a gem...

"Drizzly. Dense mist in evening. Yellow moon."

The diaries are being added to each day.
from the website....

"to mark the 70^th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written,"

Cool. Bookmark it.

Amazon Eats Abe.

2008-07-31T06:40:00.000-07:00

The Big news this morning is the letter from the Abe CEO announcing the gobbling up of ABE Books by Amazon.

Here's the letter in full.

Dear Booksellers,

AbeBooks has reached an agreement to be acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. This is a major landmark in the 12-year history of AbeBooks.

AbeBooks will continue to operate as a stand-alone business with all aspects of AbeBooks' bookseller and customer experience remaining intact. AbeBooks' headquarters will remain in Victoria, BC, Canada, and our European offices will remain in Dusseldorf, Germany. We will continue to support both our international marketplaces and our domestic marketplace here in Canada. I will continue to lead AbeBooks.

We expect this change to allow AbeBooks to expand its offerings and introduce new features and services to enhance the book buying and selling experience. Amazon is committed to further developing the AbeBooks brand and building upon the success of the past 12 years. This is not the first time AbeBooks has changed hands since being launched in 1996. Hubert Burda Media, a German media company, took a majority shareholding in 2003.

The bookselling community has been a vital component in our success, and we are grateful for your continuing support. We will be happy to answer questions about our new ownership and what the future holds. A bookseller Roundtable will be held on Thursday August 7th at 2:30pm PDT/9:30pm GMT/7:30am AU where I and the Director of Sales & Account Management, Shaun Jamieson, will answer any questions you might have. In addition, the 'Ask AbeBooks a question' folder will continue to be available for ongoing questions from the seller community.

We realize this is important news for our community, and we are confident that this acquisition will greatly benefit AbeBooks' sellers and provide us with many opportunities for future growth.

For more details please see the official release posted today.

Regards,

Dr. Hannes Blum President and CEO AbeBooks
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In other News, yesterday we traveled the back roads of Wisconsin to the Magical world of ....Nowhere.
Our destination was Castle Arkdale, Markesan, Wisconsin.

We first heard of this place earlier this year when a Wisconsin State Journal Article featured their 'castle', which is a lovely manure tank converted masterfully into their flagship building full of books, of which there are over 10. Buildings that is.

The other day, while reading the book seller blogs, i noticed a Wisconsin blog, with a video about the great bookstore in the middle of nowhere.
A video you must watch.

Our report of our magical day will be coming soon.....

In other book news....

Bookchase has a review of the New WILLIE NELSON NOVEL.
Book Chase: A Tale out of Luck

There's a Great start-up story out of Virginia at
the Bookstore Blog. - A Recipe For Starting A Used Bookstore

Back from the flood.

2008-07-30T11:02:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a LONG TIME since i've blogged here, and so much has happened, that to tell the backstory at this point would take a trilogy. Suffice it to say that we have survived and recovered from the nasty Record-Breaking Flood. The Pos office has moved back in after a major face-fift to their abode. We even built a new concrete handicap ramp for the older folks who use the post office.
Our building is on the left at center.

We lost about 3000 books during the flood. hese were books wihin 1ft of the floor that we had to leave when the fire dept evacuated us by boat about 9pm. All in all the destruction transformed to creation, and we are back where we started.

A kind professor from a local university has gifted us with a few hundred tomes from his old office. So many writing and rhetoric books. And they have been selling well. School time again.....

So I wil make every effort to start up the blogging again, and keep the booklore rolling. I just bought a new camera, my first digital one ever, believe it or not, so the blog should brighten up with images soon.

e

2007-12-15T06:05:00.000-08:00

WINTER WONDERKIND

Bob is Dead! Long Live Bob!

2007-01-11T15:20:00.000-08:00

Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.
All Hail Eris!

On behalf of his children and those who cared for him, deepest love and gratitude for the tremendous support and lovingness bestowed upon us.

(that's it from Bob's bedside at his fnord by the sea)

RAW Memorial February 07
date to be announced

No more pretending for him: he was
completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile,
the rest of us go on pretending.
--JESUS' SON

RIP Brad Will

2006-10-28T15:32:00.000-07:00

My dear frien Brad died yesterday, ....RIP.

Last Communique from NYC Indymedia Journalist Brad Will

one more martyr in a dirty war -- one more time to cryand hurt

By Brad Will

NYC Indymedia journalist Brad Will was killed by Mexican government forces in Oaxaca today. Here is his most recent communique from Oaxaca, entitled "Death in Oaxaca."

Keywords: Analysis, Local, War & Peace, Bradley Will, Repression,

Death in Oaxaca by Brad Will early dawn, oct16

yesterday i went for a walk with the good people of oaxaca -- was walking all day really -- in the afternoon they showed me where the bullets hit the wall -- they numbered the ones they could reach -- it reminded me of the doorway of amadou diallos home -- but here the grafitti was there before the shooting began -- one bullet they didnt number was still in his head -- he was 41 years old -- alejandro garcia hernandez -- at the neighborhood barricade every night -- that night he came out to join his wife and sons to let an ambulance through -- then a pickup tried to follow -- he took their bullet when he told them they could not pass -- they never did -- these military men in civilian dress shot their way out of there

a young man who wanted to only be called marco was with them when the shooting happened -- a bullet passed through his shoulder -- he was clearly in shock when we met -- 19 years old -- said he hadnt told his parents yet -- said he had been at the barricade every night -- said he was going back as soon as the wound closed -- absolutely

just days before there was a delegation of senators visiting to determine the ungovernability of the state -- they got a taste -- the call went out to shut down the rest of the government -- dozens went walking out of the zocalo city center with big sticks and a box full of spray paint -- they took control of 3 city buses and went around the city all morning visiting local government buildings and informing them that that they were closed -- and we appreciate your voluntary cooperation -- and they filed out preturbed but still getting paid -- shut -- as they pulled away from the last stop 3 gunmen came out and started shooting -- 2 buses had already pulled away -- mayhem -- 10 minute battle with stones and slingshots and screaming -- one headwound -- another through the leg -- made their way to the hospital while the fighting continued -- shout out on the radio and people came from all parts -- the gunmen were around the side of the building -- they got away -- they were inside -- no one sure -- watchful -- undercover police were reported lurking around the hospital and folks went running to stand watch over the wounded

what can you say about this movement -- this revolutionary moment -- you know it is building, growing, shaping -- you can feel it -- trying desperately for a direct democracy -- in november appo will have a state wide conference for the formation of a state wide assemblea estatal del pueblo de oaxaca (aepo) -- now there are 11 of 33 states in mexico that have declared formation of assemblea populares like appo -- and on la otra lado in the usa a few -- the marines have returned to sea even though the federal police who ravaged atenco remain close by -- the new encampment in mexico has begun a hunger strike -- the senate can expell URO -- whats next nobodies sure -- it is a point of light pressed through glass -- ready to burn or show the way -- it is clear that this is more than a strike, more than expulsion of a governor, more than a blockade, more than a coalition of fragments -- it is a genuine peoples revolt -- and after decades of pri rule by bribe, fraud, and bullet the people are tired -- they call him the tyrant -- they talk of destroying this authoritarianism -- you cannot mistake the whisper of the lancandon jungle in the streets -- in every street corner deciding together to hold -- you see it their faces -- indigenous, women, children -- so brave -- watchful at night -- proud and resolute

went walking back from alejandros barricade with a group of supporters who came from an outlying district a half hour away -- went walking with angry folk on their way to the morgue -- went inside and saw him -- havent seen too many bodies in my life -- eats you up -- a stack of nameless corpes in the corner -- about the number who had died -- no refrigeration -- the smell -- they had to open his skull to pull the bullet out -- walked back with him and his people

and now alejandro waits in the zocalo -- like the others at their plantones -- hes waiting for an impasse, a change, an exit, a way forward, a way out, a solution -- waiting for the earth to shift and open -- waiting for november when he can sit with his loved ones on the day of the dead and share food and drink and a song -- waiting for the plaza to turn itself over to him and burst -- he will only wait until morning but tonight he is waiting for the governor and his lot to never come back -- one more death -- one more martyr in a dirty war -- one more time to cry and hurt -- one more time to know power and its ugly head -- one more bullet cracks the night -- one more night at the barricades -- some keep the fires -- others curl up and sleep -- but all of them are with him as he rests one last night at his watch

uro= Ulises Ruiz Ortiz "governor" of the state of oaxaca planton= sit in, vigil, encampment zocalo= central plaza

more info: http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2180.html http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-index.php?page=DesalojoOaxaca http://www.oaxacalibre.org/libertad/ http://elenemigocomun.net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/messages

From Bob to Eternity...

2006-10-12T11:59:00.000-07:00

We're finally back from being w/ Bob for 2 months. Been back for a week and a half. It was really hard to leave the "Gurus" (Bob & Emma). Being w/ Bob was the most educational experience of my life in some ways. I really tried to incorporate Maybe Logic into my every day experience. Just eliminating words like "never" & "always" is a monumental task in & of itself. Bob told me that the first level of accepting Maybe Logic thinking is going through "Chapel Perilous," & that was somewhat comforting, having a label to put on the utter despair at having my paradigms crumble like so much dust... (The next level is trying to correct other people's dogmatic thinking.) The 3rd level is Acceptance & a sense of awe & wonder that "anything & everything is possible." Ahhh, that's more like it. And, it's just in time too, since we've got a mountain of books to put into the data base & up on shelves. (Not to mention the thousand & one books we brought back from all those most excellent book sales from CA! ) We missed the summer here in the Driftless, but we made it back in time to see all the fabulous colours of Fall here. And, anyway, I wouldn't have passed up the opportunity to be w/ Bob for anything in the world. Praise Bob! Hail Eris! (- the photo is from Bob's bathroom...)
-a

Silicon Valley Book Binge

2006-08-06T07:40:00.000-07:00

It's been less than a week since we returned to the cool Bay of Monterey, and we had our first day of booksales. Saturnday morning we took off over the hill to San Jose. There were three sales we wanted to hit, and we got to them all in 3 hours. MLK library in San Jose was the first stop. the sale was outside on the patio, and was scheduled to start at 10 am. A patio sale means the books will be 'out' much sooner than 10, and the ability to browse and buy early is a halmark of these. Sure enough, at 9:30 we arrived and saw people walking away with books. Danm!, the tables were set and a handful of eager browsers milled about the tables. We filled 4 bags in 45 minutes, some nice history, tech, lit, Native American and randon fiction. The selection was not the best, due to the library's huge sale room inside the library, which was closed, but which appeared to get the nicer 50% of the donations and discards. Nevertheless, we were in California, and the quality of titles is so much better than the midwest, that the finds were nice additions to bring back to the rolling green hills oof home.

Next was a few miles away at the Tully library in San Jose. I had been here last month, and lost my prized coffe mug on a parkbench. The sale is small, and a first sunday of the month thing. Last month i had been there at 9:30 and got to pick through things a bit early. (another patio sale) The selection was poor, but someone who wanted a huge cach of Hmong and asian language books would have found this a blast. We do have a big Hmong population back home, but i didn't remember that till today. Found a great history of the HEroin trade and a Thomas altas of California. great tool for the month to come.

The third and final stop was in Morgan Hill, a fe miles south and forcing us to take the old watsonville rd. home over the hills. a pretty drive through vinyards and scorched yellow hills. The morgan hill sale was also a regular event. i had shown up last month on sunday, for the 5$/bag day and filled a back or two and was happy. This month the only notable finds were 3 auto repair manuals, and a nice hardcover copy of Mao TSE-Tung'on Guerrilla Warfare.

Life is good here on the Bay. We are going to put together some more auctions for Bob this week, and today we spend the day with EmmaBelle.

Back to Cali (Discordian Psychopomp)

2006-07-26T09:58:00.000-07:00

Well, only a week back in Wisconsin and we are preparing to head back to California for a two-month stint caring for our dear friend Bob. The Bookstore is no closer to opening than it was 3 months ago, but when an opportunity like this comes up, there's not much you can do. The heat wave here has been intense, although the situation in California looks worse.

We fly out Monday, and this weekend we'll get our last library sale here of the summer. Friday night in Reedsburg, small sale, but there's got to be something there. THen Saturday and Sunday is the amazing Kickapoo County Fair, at the Organic Valley World headquarters just up the river in La Farge.

Our friend Bo has moved into our other apartment above the Bookstore, and has cleaned out our back storage space, and is creating a killer Drum Making Shop. A perfect addition to the project.

While I was in California last month I hit a great Library sale in Palo alto where i found one of the coolest books i have ever found. A first printing, first edition copy of "The Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs. It was printed in Paris in 1959, while the book was still illegal in the US. The book seems to be worth over 1000.00. Not bad for .25 cents.

Tubular cut-up

2006-07-16T16:01:00.000-07:00

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) on the Internet -- Techno Version

Sen. Ted Steven's statement on the Internet have gotten a lot of play. This was the statement made famous by such displays of knowledge as "the Internet is a series of tubes" along with the unforgettable "an internet was sent [to me] by my staff".

Finally someone has set this 'deluge of expertise' to a techno beat! Now you too can dance along to the Senator's statement

It's Not Some Truck!

http://www.driftlessbooks.com/Members/e/DJ_teds_techno_tubes.mp3

Hail Eris

2006-07-06T08:39:00.000-07:00

I recently came accross this book. As I have been acting as a discordian bartender for Bob the past few weeks, this came as a a nice synchronicity. I had heard of Robert W. Chambers, but had never asked Bob about him or about this book. Bob says that Chambers is one of his favorite authors from that period. He says that he based much of the mythology of Illuminatus! on Chambers and Lovecraft.
Bob has never heard of this novel. Unfortunately, the book is Not about the Great Goddess Eris, rather about a farm girl who becomes a movie star and cannot have her love because of her social status.

Hail Eris!

Happy Birthday Emma Goldman

2006-06-27T20:54:00.000-07:00

RAW Bib.2

2006-06-22T21:54:00.000-07:00

fnord

Haiku from Bob

2006-06-22T13:56:00.000-07:00

Send 'em back to Russia

Tsarist Government
makes even starting auctions
a pain in the Butt

june 22, 06

Robert Anton Wilson Mystery Auction
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270000805511

Rainbow Jah.

2006-06-22T13:12:00.000-07:00

Tensions run high in forest
Forest Service abandons checkpoint after incident with Rainbow group

By Matt Stensland

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

CLARK — The Rainbow Family peace gathering turned hostile Tuesday when a
group of attendees began hurling rocks and sticks at law enforcement
officers, U.S. Forest Service officials said.

The incident forced the officers to abandon a checkpoint they had
established near the entrance to the Rainbow gathering campsite in North
Routt County, Forest Service spokeswoman Diann Ritschard said. Officers had
not returned to the checkpoint as of Tuesday afternoon.

The incident happened at about 11 a.m. and involved Forest Service officers
who were manning the checkpoint set up to issue citations to anyone
attempting to enter the gathering. Citations were being issued because
Rainbow Family members had not signed a free Forest Service special-use
permit, which is required for gatherings of 75 or more people.

Before the Tuesday morning incident, Forest Service officials were blocking
people from entering the gathering and telling them to "turn around," Forest
Service spokeswoman Denise Ottaviano said.

Officials said a group of about 100 people -- some of whom already were
inside the gathering area -- participated in the incident. Other
participants included people waiting outside the checkpoint who were told
they could not enter the gathering, Ritschard said.

No arrests were made, and the officers left the scene because they did not
want to escalate the situation, Ritschard said. No officers were injured.

"This incident will be investigated, and we're not exactly sure what course
of action will be taken," Ritschard said. "The Forest Service is deciding
what action to take."

In addition to Forest Service law enforcement officers, a Routt County
Sheriff's Office deputy also was at the checkpoint at the time of the
incident, Ritschard said.

"The Forest Service is very serious about the safety of our officers and
cooperators," Ritschard said.

Also Tuesday, an incomplete special-use permit application was submitted to
the Forest Service, Ritschard said. She said the application contained
profanity where the applicant was supposed to write the location of the
gathering. The application can't be accepted as submitted, Ritschard said.

Between 60 and 70 illegal gathering citations had been issued to Rainbow
gathering attendees as of Tuesday morning. As many as 20,000 people are
expected to attend the official peace gathering from July 1 to 7. About 500
people already have arrived.

Citations will be issued to people who use the closed trails or ignore other
regulations, including:

“ Public nudity

“ Camping within 150 feet of any running stream or body of water

“ Placing kitchen facilities, food preparation areas, gray water pits or
slit trenches within 300 feet of any running stream or body of water

“ Placing kitchen facilities, food preparation areas, gray water pits or
slit trenches within 150 feet of any open road

“ Cutting any standing trees in the area described as: north of Forest
Road 505, west of Forest Road 498, south of the private property in Big Red
Park and east of Forest Road 500.

Also, about 15 miles of National Forest system motorized trails (numbers
1204 and 1199) near the Rainbow gathering have been closed. Ritschard said
the trails were closed to keep the public away from the gathering.

"Most people would enjoy (trails) more at a place that is less congested,"
Ritschard said.

Robert Anton Wilson Mystery Auction and Bibliography

2006-06-18T21:48:00.000-07:00

I'm Staying with my Friend, Author Robert Anton Wilson for a few weeks while he recovers from some health things.

i produced and directed his play, Wilhelm Reich in Hell, about 10 years ago, and have known him ever since.

we set up an ebay auction to help with some of his expenses.
check it out. we will do a couple more in the next couple weeks.

http://tinyurl.com/jn8fg

well, ebay took the auction down and so we are scrambling to do it another way. they said it was a charity auction and we didn't use a non-profit.

here's the second auction link started thursday 1pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270000805511

anyway.....

While i'm here, i'm working on a bibliography of his work. it's endless.

this is a working draft of SOME of it. any suggestions or additions appreciated.

i have not included most of the We interviews or references, and am rather focusing on printed, published work.

e

RAW Bibliography

1959

Joyce and Tao

By Robert Anton Wilson

From The James Joyce Review, vol. 3, 1959, pp. 8-16

General Semantics piece - 1959. The Verbal Level

The realist, freethought criticism and satire; no. 13.
Krassner, Paul, editor
the monthly New York November 1959 16p., browned and slightly edgeworn. Lengthy cover story explores how US religious thinkers have been affected by the space-race and guided missiles and outer space stuff, with a sidebar on von Braun. Robert Anton Wilson lengthily meditates on "Negative thinking, notes of a skeptical mystic" with a rebuttal to Wilson by one Reginald Dunsany. And there is back-page parody of congressional hearings dialogue

1960

Ezra Pound at Seventy- Five., in The Realist, No. 19, July-August 1960.
Wilson, Robert Anton.
The Realist, 1960., 1960. 4to, newsprint, stapled. (24)pp.

1961

1962

BALANCED LIVING VOLUME 18, NO. 4
Various Contributors ( Wilson, Robert Anton )
Ohio: School of Living, 1962, 1962. Very Good /No Jacket. 8vo - over 7_" - 9_" tall. Issue of April, 1962. VERY SIXTIES. The School of Living at Lane's End Homestead in Brookville, Ohio produced one of the first monthly publications dedicated to the "back to the Land" movement

WAY OUT VOLUME 18, NO. 8
Various Contributors
Ohio: School of Living, 1962, 1962. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7_" - 9_" tall. Issue of Sept, 1962. VERY SIXTIES. The School of Living at Lane's End Homestead in Brookville, Ohio produced one of the first monthly publications dedicated to the "back to the Land" movement. This little magazine was produced by "An organization of individuals who protest the fragmentation, the social pathology, the injustice and ugliness of modern life. It is making long range plans for bringing together fraternally those who are trying earnestly to hold out against the destructive aspects of modern civilization." It featured guest editors and was able to attract some well known contributors. Includes Robert Anton Wilson on Proudhon. . Original green wraps and stapled. Generally about 36 pages per issue. The publication name just changed to WAY OUT. Formerly Balanced Living.

1963

WAY OUT VOLUME 19, No. 4
Various Contributors
Ohio: School of Living, 1963This issue includes Zen plus Anarchy, robert Anton Wilson and Jack Sophir. Original wraps and stapled. Generally about 36 pages per issue. The publication name changed to WAY OUT and Later A Way Out from the original Balanced Living.

WAY OUT VOLUME 19, No. 5
Various Contributors
Ohio: School of Living, 1963, 1963. This issue includesFreedom in Banking, Integrated Personality via Zen Community and Implementing Anarchism. Attaching Usury at its Sourse by Robert Anton Wilson and Treichler. Original wraps and stapled. Generally about 36 pages per issue. The publication name changed to WAY OUT and Later A Way Out from the original Balanced Living.

1964

Fact, Volume 1, Number 2 (March-April 1964; includes article on atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 'The Most Hated Woman in America', by Robert Anton Wilson)
Ginzberg, Ralph (editor); Robert Anton Wilson (contributor); Mark Twain (on onanism); Alexander Ivanov; Madalyn Murray O'Hair (about); et al.
Fact Magazine Inc., 1964.

Fact, Volume 1, Number 3 (May-June 1964; includes article on 'The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan' by Associate Editor Robert Anton Wilson)
Ginzberg, Ralph (editor); Robert Anton Wilson (associate editor); et al.
New York: Fact Magazine Inc., 1964. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to, 64pp, glued wrappers. Third issue of this important 1960s investigative magazine, includes an article on 'The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan' by Robert Anton Wilson, who was Associate Editor at the time.

1965

FACT July/August 1965
The Religion of Kerista and Its 69 Positions
by Robert Anton Wilson
http://www.kerista.com/nkerdocs/raw.html

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

Lysander Spooner 1808-1888 Author: WILSON, Robert Anton. Published by No information given (issued ca. 1970). 8 1/2 x 14 in. Single mimeographed sheet printed on both sides ..

1971

1972

_ Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words (1972)
-Playboy Press – 1972

The Occult Digest VOL. 2, NO. 6 1972
Includes: The Mead of Odhraerir by C.F. Russel, The Return of the True Light From the West (part 1) by Max Freedom Long, Reflections on Chicago's Occult Metamorphosis by Allen Hartman, The Great Beast - Crowley (part 1) by Robert Anton Wilson, Establishing Mental Connecttions: Part One - The Three Ways; The Daliniated Press.

1973

_ Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (1973)
-Playboy 1973
-NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS; Year: 1987

_ The Sex Magicians (1973)
-Sheffield House (GX inc.) 1973 – Mass Market Paperback

Gallery Magazine Heavy Holiday Issue: January1973 Gallery Magazine
Interview U Thant, fiction William Saroyan, Robert Bloch, also Robert Anton Wilson, Gay Talese, much more.

Agape: An Occult Review (Vol. 1, No. 3; First Quarter 1973)

1974

_ The Book of the Breast (1974)
- Playboy Press 1974/1975 – Hardcover
- Playboy Press, 1976, Mass Market Paperback

1975

_ The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) (with Robert Shea)
-Dell, 1983 Paperback
-MJF 1975/1997/98 Hardcover
-CONSTABLE AND ROBINSON, 1998 Paperback 805 pp
-Robinson Publishing, 1998
- Fine Communications 1989 HC (ISBN: 1567312373) 805 pp
- Hugendubel Heinrich GmbH, 2002. (Hardcover German)
_ The Eye in the Pyramid
- Dell 1975. Mass Market Paperback.
- SPHERE, 1977 (UK) 311pp.
- Dell/Laurel 1980
- Rowohlt Verlag, 1989 Und die Erde wird beben
_ The Golden Apple
- Dell 1975. Mass Market Paperback.
- SPHERE, 1980 (UK) 250pp
- Dell/Laurel 1980
- Rowohlt Verlag, 1989 Der Sohn der Witwe
_ Leviathan
-Dell 1975. Mass Market Paperback.
-SPHERE, 1980 (UK) 253 pp
-Dell/Laurel 1980
-Rowohlt 1999 (german)
- Sphinx-Basel: 1978.

General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century. (ISBN: 0879680091)
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph.
Gordon Press, ., 1975. Reprint of the classic exposition of individualist anarchism. Preface by Robert Anton Wilson. Contents: 1. Reaction causes revolution. 2. Is there sufficient reason for a revolution in the 19th century? 3. The principle of association. 4. The principle of authority. 5. Social liquidation. 6. The organization of economic forces. 7. Absorption of government by the economic organism. 301 pages.

OUI For the Man of the World Vol.4, No.
Chicago: Playboy Publications, January 1975196pp. This issue features a focus on jukeboxes, with Albert Goldman, John Blumenthal and John Rezek writing on the subject, how it works, and how to buy one; photography by Bill Aresenault and Richard Alcorn; illustrations by Kenneth Kneitel and Charles E. White III. Also, ""In Search of the Apocalyptic Orgasm: Do Various Pills make for Sexual Thrills?"" by Robert Anton Wilson;

1976

Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger (Paperback)
by Malaclypse, Robert Anton Wilson, Kerry W. Thornley, Loompanics Unlimited

OUI For the Man of the World Vol. 5 No. 6
"Chicago: Playboy Publications, June 1976 edition. 132pp
This issue features an article on Candy Barr, plus photos and a sequence from her stag film, Smart Aleck; Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Richard Condon on ""Brainwashing: How to Fold, Spindle and Mutilate the Human Mind in Five Easy Steps""; Francis Burke on male prostitute Fred Doane; an interview with Pele; Robert S. Wieder asks ""Is Oakland the New San Francsico?""; a look at European cowboys, and more

1977

Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)
- And/Or 1977 Mass Market Paperback Illustrated by John Thompson
- Pocket Books 1978 Soft Cover
- New Falcon Publications, 1987
- Rowohlt, 1979. (ISBN: 3499156490) (German) Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten
-Sphinx Verlag 1979 (ISBN: 3859142011) (German)
- PALMYRA, 2006. (ISBN: 849350033X)
- EL MARTILLO COSMICO: LIBRO 1: EL ULTIMO SECRETO DE LOS ILLUMINATI Book Condition: New(Nuevo). -1x-1. 365 páginas. Libro en Espanol
- HUGENDUBEL HEINRICH GMBH Februar 2004 Cosmic Trigger, Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder an den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewußtseins (ISBN: 3720525163)

GNOSTICA, Esoteric Knowledge for the New Age. No. 43 Sept./Oct. 1977
MN: Llewellyn Publications, Volume 5, Number 7, 7 _ x 10 _ magazine, slick gloss cover, 110 pgs. In the letter section is three letters making comments on T. Casey Bennan's article in issue No.42. There is also a review of Israel Regardie's THE EYE IN THE TRIANGLE, which mentions The Secret Rituals of the OTO, pg.13. There is also a seven page article by Robert Anton Wilson titled THE COSMIC TRIGGER, pgs.62-68, where Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant are mentioned. In the section titled THE PAGAN FRONT, pgs 81-83, there is a letter submitted where Alden Holloway, the Director of AMORC, discusses the OTO/AMORC connection. On the same page the author David F. Godwin submits another letter re: OTO/AMORC. There are also two full page ads for THE LAW IS FOR ALL & EYE IN THE TRIANGLE, pgs 105-106. [14]

Conspiracy Digest, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1977: Evidence-Theory-Speculation
by Alpine Enterprises,
1977 Newsletter, 16 pages, vg reprint issued by publisher; Arcane Science of Conflict Management; Robert Anton Wilson Interview.

International Times Vol.? No.8 April 1977
Interview With Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
Very large format (17ins x 11ins) 32pp Radical underground counter-culture newspaper. This issue having 2pp 3pp interview with authors of Illuminatus Trilogy

http://www.frogboy.freeuk.com/illuminatus.html
Weird Trips #2 Wilson?Shea interview with Haskin Williams? In London on the day of Illuminatus stage performances.

OUI For the Man of the World Vol. 6 No.1
Chicago: Playboy Publications, January 1977, 180ppThis issue features an interview with stripper and actress Ann Marie; a conversation with Federico Fellini; ""Voodoo in New Orleans"" by Ishmael Reed; Robert Anton Wilson on Atlantis;

City Miner, Vol. 2, No. 4 (December-January 1977-1978)
Helm, Michael (editor), Robert Anton Wilson (cover and interview), Lenore Kandel, et al.
Berkeley: City Miner Magazine, 1977. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Robert Anton Wilson featured on cover and interviewed within (about 11pp, discusses 'Cosmic Trigger', Timothy Leary, etc.); also poems by Lenore Kandel et al., other period content.

1978

_ Neuropolitics The Sociobiology of Human Metamorphosis (1978)
(with Timothy Leary and George Koopman) (ISBN: 0915238187)
- Starseed/Peace Press, 1977. Softbound160 pp,
- Basel Sphinx 1981 (German) Neuropolitik - Die Soziobiologie der menschlichen Metamorphose
-Neuropolitique - Las Vegas, Falcon Press, 1988 - in-12 broché sous couv. illustrée, 187pp. - édition originale - bon état - (texte en anglais) –

Worlds Beyond: The Everlasting Frontier
New Dimensions Foundation (Larry Geis & Fabrice Florin with Peter Beren & Aidan Kelly)
And/Or Press, Berkeley, CA, 1978; softcover;; 301p; out of print;

Freaked out space science anthology, including contributions from Robert Anton Wilson, Jacques Vallee, Timothy Leary, Buckminster Fuller, Edgar D. Mitchell, Stewart Brand, Gerard K. O'Neill, J. Allen Hynek, Stanton Friedman, and many others, on extraterrestial life, UFOs, space industries, space colonies, space age myths, neuropolitics, cryonics & much more. Scarce.

Illuminoids: Secret Societies and Political Paranoia (ISBN: 0895400456)
Neal Wilgus, Robert Anton Wilson (Introduction)
Book Description: Sun Pub Co., 1978.

Future Life, November 1978, No. 6
Starlog
New York: Starlog, 1978 Battlestar Galactica. Behind the scenes. What $20 million can buy. Robert Anton Wilson: Next Stop, Immortality. Superman, Brave New World , Matamorphosis, Robot probes on Venus. Solar architecture

On Turtle Island" in City Miner No. 10.
Callahan, Bob.
Berkeley: City Miner Magazine, 1978, 4to. A long interview with Bob Callahan on the history and publishing program of the Turtle Island Foundation. Also in this issue: Robert Anton Wilson on Raymond Chandler, and poems by Steve Abbott, Clive Matson, Beau Beausoleil, and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, among others.

1979

_ The Game of Life (1979) (with Timothy Leary)
- Peace Press; 1979, 4to, 288 pgs.
- New Falcon Publications, 1993

City Miner 12 (Vol. 4, No. 1; 1979)—includes an interview with Gary Snyder, Neuropolitics: The Meaning of Space Migration by Timothy Leary, etc.
Helm, Michael (editor), Gary Snyder (cover and interview), Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Lenore Kandel, et al

OUI For the Man of the World
"Chicago: Playboy Publications, March 1979,",. Vol. 8 No. 3rd edition.. This issue features an interview with Robin Williams; Robert Anton Wilson on ""The Science of the Impossible"" (spoon bending, levitation, faith healing, out-of-body experiences, psychic phenomena, etc);

The Diagonal Relationship #9
Hlavaty, Arthur D. (editor)
Self-Published, New Rochelle, New York, 1979. Corner Stapled. 16 page fanzine. Contributors include Robert Anton Wilson, Buck Coulson,

1980

_ The Illuminati Papers (1980)
- And/Or Press 1980 Paperback
- Sphere 1982 (UK)
- Ronin 1990
- Reinbek, rororo, 2003
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_ Schrödinger's Cat trilogy (1980-1981)
-Dell 1979,1988
-Rororo – 1984 (German)
-Sphinx – (Basel) 1981(ISBN: 3859144065)
-Wilhelm Heyne 1984, München, Schrödingers Katze. Das Universum nebenan. Eine spektakuläre Unwirklichkeit und ganz anders als jene, die Alice (im Wunderland) sah
-Rowohlt Taschenbuch Hamburg 1993 -285 p
-Kreuzlingen, München, Hugendubel Verlag, o.J. [2002]. 764 p
-Hugendubel 2003 (German)

_ The Universe Next Door
-Pocket 1979
-Sphere 1979 (UK)
-Rowohlt- 1984+ Das Universum Nebenan.

_The Trick Top Hat
-Pocket 1979
-Sphere 1979 (UK)
-Rowohlt- 1984+Der Zauberhut. (ISBN: 3499153823)

-The Homing Pigeon
-Pocket 1979
-Sphere 1979 (UK)
-Rowohlt- 1984+ Die Brieftaube.

High Times, April 1980
Levitt, Shelley, editor
Trans-High Corporation, Farmingdale, NY, 1980. 4to. 110 pp. Interview with Robert Anton Wilson, White House Drug Scandals, Tax Tips for the High Bracket, the Bicycle Boom.

Magical Blend: A Magazine of Synergy - #2 (Summer, 1980)
Zunic, Katherine & Michael Peter Langevin (eds.)
Magical Blend, SF, CA, 1980; magazine; 64p;

Second issue of New Age magazine. This issue: Facing the Future Fearlessly by Robert Anton Wilson; Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain; Spells by Jo Steen; Wheels of Fire by Andy (Antero) Alli; The Wiccan Reed; fantasy; poetry; comics; more. Lush illustrations. Silver cover.

Future Life #21 (Sept 1980)
Harlan Ellison, Robert Anton Wilson, Gregory Benford, Others.
Magazine covering science, science fiction and more. Photos and art throughout. Partial contents of this issue includes Harlan Ellison's "An Edge in my Voice" column (this installment on George Pal); Brian W. Aldiss interview; "Human Intelligence Increase" an article by Robert Anton Wilson; Gregory Benford on "Aliens I Have Known"; and more. 74 pages.

SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW: No. 37, Winter: November, Nov. 1980 Published by Richard Geis Portland, OR. Vol. 9, no. 4. Inteview with Robert Anton Wilson. Wraps Near Fine.

Literary Voices: Interviews with Alex Haley, Christopher Isherwood, Jessica Mitford, Richard Armour and Robert Anton Wilson No. 1 (ISBN: 0893702390)
Jeffrey M. Elliott
Borgo Press, 1980. Op. Quarto64 pp.

1981

_ Masks of the Illuminati (1981)
-Pocket 1981 Mass Market Paperback
-Sphere 1981 (UK) 294pp
-Basel, Sphinx 1983 Paperback 320 pp
-Dell 1990 Softcover
-Taschenbuch Verlag. 2002

Future Life #26 (May 1981)
Harlan Ellison, Robert Anton Wilson, Poul Anderson, Others
Magazine. Magazine covering science, science fiction and more. Photos and art throughout. Partial contents of this issue includes Harlan Ellison's "An Edge in my Voice" column in which he answers his mail; Robert Anton Wilson reviews Bucky Fuller; Interview with Poul Anderson; Interview with director Peter Hyams and more. 74 pages.

HIGH TIMES, May.1981
"Interview with Buckminster Fuller' by Robert Anton Wilson,

Critique Volume 1 Number 3 Spring 1981
Banner, Bob -- Editor
: Critique Publishing, Santa Rosa, California, 1981. Magazine. A Journal Exploring Conspiracy Theories, Exposes, Metaphysics and the "American Culture", 50 pages. In this issue: Ecology and Conspiracy by Robert Anton Wilson; Michell Werbell: An Interview; Conspiracy-Watcher's Field Guide; Bilderbergers and the Oil Shortage; Russia's Spy Schools; Arab Banks; Jewish Genocide: Fact or Propaganda?; Tax Resisitance;

STARSHIP/ALGOL Spring 1981 Robert Anton Wilson

1982

_ The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles

_ The Earth Will Shake (1982)
- J P Tarcher 1983 Hardcover
- Bluejay, New York 1982/84
- St Martins Pr, 1984 (ISBN: 0312941285)
- Lynx 1988 Mass Market Paperback
- Roc 1991, Mass Market Paperback
- New American Library (Mm), 1991 (ISBN: 0451450868)
- New Falcon 2004 Softcover
- POLIEDRO, 2006. LA TIERRA TREMA (VOL. I) (CRONICAS HISTORICAS DE LOS ILLUMINATI) (ISBN: 8496071545) 382 p

_ The Widow's Son (1985)
- Bluejay Books, 1985
- Lynx Books 1989 Mass Market Paperback
- Roc 1991 Mass Market Paperback
- New Falcon, 2004 Softcover
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_ Nature's God (1991)
- ROC, 1991 (1st ed)
- New Amer Library, 1991.
- New Falcon, 2004

The Eye in the Triangle By Regardie, Israel , Third Printing, SIGNED LIMITED Edition of 250 Copies, An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley (ISBN: 0941404072)
By Regardie, Israel , Black Endpapers, SIGNED By Author, Illustrated B/W, Introduction By Robert Anton Wilson
-Falcon Press Arizona, 1982. 1982, Third Printing, , Brown Decorated Cloth Boards with Black cloth spine with Gold Gilt Design on Front, 525 pgs 250 copies,
-New Falcon Pub, 1997 Soft cover. xxi, 560 pgs, illus w/ photos, intro by Robert Anton Wilson, 2 appendices, ISBN: 1561840548 1997

The Prism Lecture
Wilson, Robert Anton
Wilson says we all seem to be abstracting in different ways, creating separate universes or reality tunnels. Yet we still manage to communicate by creating reality labyrinths with each other. - 1982 Santa Cruz, Ca - One Audiotape
http://www.bigsurtapes.com/merchant.mv186.htm

1983

_ Right Where You Are Sitting Now (1983)
- And/Or, 1982
- Ronin 1992
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_ Prometheus Rising (1983)
- Falcon 1983
- Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1987
- rororo, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1987. 278 Seiten, Der neue Prometheus; Die Evolution unsrerer Intelligenz
- ACCESS PUBLISHERS NETWORK, INC.
- New Falcon, 1992
- HUGENDUBEL HEINRICH GMBH August 2003

The Lazy Man's Guide to Death and Dying
Gold, E.J.; Lilly, John, M.D. and Wilson, Robert Anton (Introduction)
Book Description: Nevada City, CA: IDHHB Publishers 1983, 91 pp.

1984

Best of The Realist.
Krassner, Paul (editor).
Running Press Philadelphia, PA (1984) First Paperback Printing Softbound. Quarto. 256pp including index. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white reproductions. Stiff illustrated paper wraps. Includes contributions by Woody Allen, Terry Southern, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson and more

The I In The Triangle
Wilson, Robert Anton
We attempt to live in constantly changing and vanishing present. Wilson considers accepting responsibility for creating our future a necessary goal. - 1984 Esalen - One Audiotape

1985

An Interview with Israel Regardie : His Final Thoughts and Views
Hyatt, Christopher S. (editor), Israel Regardie
Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A. Falcon Press 1985

144 pages, B/W photos. Book reveals the honesty, integrity and sincerity of Regardie who died in 1985. Contents include: Selected Introductions of writings by-Robert Anton Wilson, Richard Satriano, Aleister Crowley, Christopher Hyattt; Interview; Articles: What is Psychotherapy; Cry Havoc; On Reich; Alchemy in the World Today. First Edition Soft Cover

NOTES FROM THE POP UNDERGROUND. (ISBN: 0867193379)
BELSITO, Peter (ed.). [Robert Anton Wilson, Art Spiegelman, Keith Haring, Jello Biafra,].
Book Description: San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1985 143 pages. ISBN: 0867193379 Church of the SubGenius, anarchist author Robert Anton Wilson, Art Spiegelman, Keith Haring, anarchist Jello Biafra, Spalding Gray, et al.

Zen Without Zen Masters (ISBN: 094140434X)
Benares, Camden and Robert Anton Wilson
Book Description: Falcon Press Publishing Co., Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, 1985.

Aeon II Autumn Equinox 1985
Aeon Press, Seattle, 1985. Paperback. The Priesthood by Nema, Barvarian Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson, Manifesto of the Anti-Christ by Jack Parsons, The Book of the Anti-Christ by Jack Parsons, The Initiation by Aleister Crowley.

Magical Blend Issue 12 Robert Anton Wilson interview. How to tell your friends from the apes. Halley's Comet. Robin Williams. Rebirthing. Koko's Kitten.
LANGEVIN, Michael Peter & SNIDER, Jerry (Editors).
Magical Blend., San Francisco, CA:, 1985. Magazine, 76 pp,

Magical Blend Issue 13.1985
Robert Anton Wilson on James Joyce's Ulysses by Robert Anton Wilson
Few books have had as great an impact on literature as Ulysses. Robert Anton Wilson examines Joyce's transformative milestone.

The Golden Horde-Robert Anton Wilson
Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy - LP
6 Track Mini Album Id Records Nose 7 Pressed
In France 1985 Vg Ex

1986

_ The New Inquisition (1986)
-Falcon/New Falcon 1986,
-Zweitausendeins, (1992)

Critique A Journal of Conspiracies and Metaphysics
Banner, Bob
Critique Publishing, 1986, Santa Rosa CA, Rare works by Robert Anton Wilson, Carl Jung, Elizabeth Clare Prophet and many more. "Critique has proved to be an intelligently written and edited journal, chock full of the strangest stuff one is likely to come across in print on these shores.".

1986 THE MAGICKAL MOVEMENT: PRESENT AND FUTURE featuring MARGOT ADLER, ISAAC BONEWITS, SELENA FOX, AND ROBERT ANTON WILSON *****
This is a seminal panel discussion between four of the leading voices in the Magical community at a critical time in its history. This panel discussion was the concluding program of the 1986 WinterStar Symposium held at Atwood Resort in Delroy, OH. is a sealed new cassette produced by ACE, the people who bring you the Starwood Festival: America's Greatest Magickal Event!

The Illuminatus! Trilogy , won the 1986 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

1987

_ Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987)
- Falcon Press, 1987

_ Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy (1987)
-Loompanics 1987

Hinter den Kulissen des Dritten Reiches. Geheime Gesellschaften machen Weltpolitik; Behind the window blinds of the third realm. Secret societies make world politics;
Braun, Otto Rudolf
116 sides; 15 partly-full-page text illustrations; Raymond Martin publishing house market Erlbach 1987 (Dt.Erstausgabe) with a preface by ROBERT ANTON WILSON

Critique: A Journal of Conspiracies & Metaphysics -- Vol VI No 3, 4 Fall/Winter 1986/87
Banner, Bob; Editor
Critique Publishing, Santa Rosa, California, 1987. Original Printing. approx 150. David Tame, Gary Allen, Jay Kinney, Renè Guenon, Ben G. Price, Jesse R. Freeland, Laird Wilcox, Robert Anton Wilson, Carl Jung, Dennis Stacey, Elizabeth C. Prophet.

Magical Blend Issue 16 John Lilly On Satori Part 1. Joseph Campbell on the Day of the Dead. Robert Anton Wilson on Finnegan's Wake. Lynn Andrews.
LANGEVIN, Michael Peter & SNIDER, Jerry (Editors).
Magical Blend., San Francisco, CA:, 1987. Magazine, 96 pp,

Philip K. Dick: The Dream Connection ed. D. Scott Apel (Permanent Press, [May ’87], , 296pp, hc); Mostly non-fiction, a collection of memoirs and essays on Dick, an interview with him, and a Dick short story.
“Afterwards” • Robert Anton Wilson •

1988

_ Coincidance (1988)
- New Falcon 1988, 1991
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_ Neuropolitique (1988) (with Leary & Koopman) [revision of Neuropolitics]
- New Falcon Publications, 1995. Trade Paperback

All Rites Reversed: Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation (ISBN: 0941404811)
Alli, Antero & Guests
Falcon Press, 1988. Paperback 184 pp.
Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson.

Dream Illuminati: The Vimana Conspiracy (ISBN: 0941404722)
Saalman, Wayne (Author) Wilson, Robert Anton (Designed by)
New Falcon Publications, 1988

BRAINCHILD A wild carnival ride through the futuristic realities created by cyber-piloting contraol of the brain and nanotechnology
Brown,David (ISBN: 0941404927)
Falcon Press, 1988. Intro. by Robert Anton Wilson. 117pp. Soft covers.

Gnosis: A Journal of Western Inner Traditions - No. 8 (Summer, 1988) - Alchemy: Practical, Psychological & Spiritual
Kinney, Jay (ed.)
Lumen Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 1988; magazine; 64p; VG cond

Spirituality, esoteric wisdom & metaphysics magazine. Special issue on Alchemy. Partial Contents: Sexual Alchemy by Robert Anton Wilson; C.G. Jung & the Alchemical Revival by Stephen A. Hoeller; The Rose Garden of Philosophers by David Fideler; much more.

CROW magazine
Dale, Bill (Editor)
AFTA Press, US, 1988. Soft cover. Lively American journal of film, music and literature of a pulp, underground or subversive nature. Features on horror director Stuart Gordon, Leonard Nimoy's poetry and Star Trek mythos, Native American philosopher Wallace Black Elk, Ed Wood Jnr, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, cult TV classic Dark Shadows and extensive round-ups of underground comics, Uk and US cinema, books and albums. 130 densely packed A4 pages in soft wraps, with film stills and promo shots throughout.

Critique: A Journal of Conspiracies & Metaphysics -- #27 Beyond Left and Right
Banner, Bob -- Editor
Critique Publishing, Santa Rosa, California, 1988. 80 pages. Cover Story: Beyond Left and Right; Conspiracy Against Miracles; Aliens, Angels and Archetypes; Karma, Reincarnation, and Abortion; Art as Black Magic and Moral Subversion. Authors: Robert Anton Wilson, Marian Kester, Laird Wilcox, Jay Kinney, Dennis Stillings, Bob Black, Michael Walker, David Tame, Ben G. Price.

Magical Blend Issue #18
Robert Anton Wilson on Philip K. Dick
Robert A. Wilson's new ongoing column for Magical Blend kicks off with an investigation into the mysteries and controversies surrounding the enigmatic, vision-haunted last years of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick

Critique: A Journal Questioning Consensus Reality, #28

The Semantics of "Good" & "Evil" by Robert Anton Wilson
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050822222856857

Trajectories Vol. 1, No. 1 (Premier Issue)Summer 1988
Wilson, Robert Anton, Editor
San Jose, Permanent Press, Summer 1988; 1st Edition; 12 pgs

THE ACCELERATION OF KNOWLEDGE. THE JUMPING JESUS PHENOMENON.
WILSON, Robert Anton.
Sounds True, Boulder, Co, 1988. Scarce tape cassette with printed fold cover which states:- 'A new commentary by Robert Anton Wilson on the exponential doubling of knowledge throughout history. A look at the inevitable migration of technology and culture - to space and beyond." About 60 minutes.

1989

_ Ishtar Rising (1989) [revision of The Book of the Breast]
- Falcon Press / Golden Dawn, USA, 1989

_ Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (editor, with Rudy Rucker and Peter Lamborn Wilson)
Autonomedia 1989 (ISBN: 0936756438)
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Portable Darkness An Aleister Crowley Reader. (ISBN: 0517571285)
CROWLEY, Aleister, edited by MICHAELSEN, Scott (Editor) (Forewords by Robert Anton Wilson and Genesis P-Orridge).
Book Description: Harmony Books., New York, NY:, 1989.

SPIN MAGAZINE JULY 1989
Robert Anton Wilson
Book Description: 1989. Elvis Presley cover. Robert Anton Wilson contributes an article about the Secret Order of the Knights of Malta.

Magical Blend January 1989, Issue 21 Gore Vidal & Riane Eisler interviews. Fat Holy Men. The Goddess and Marilyn Monroe by Robert Anton Wilson
LANGEVIN, Michael Peter & SNIDER, Jerry (Editors).
Book Description: Magical Blend., San Francisco, CA:, 1989. Magazine, 104 pp,

Trajectories Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 4. Spring 1989
Wilson, Robert Anton. EDITOR
Permanent Press, San Josè, California, 1989.
Robert Anton Wilson's Trajectories Newsletter, 20 pages. GAIA: Trajectories of Her Evolution Part I by Robert Anton Wilson; Get It? by Peter Russell; Review--The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler (Reviewed by Arlen Riley Wilson); Drama News: Wilson's Wilhelm Reich in Hell; The Last Temptation of Muhammed (Salman Rushdie Affair) by Robert Anton Wilson

Etcetera 46,no.4 (Winter 1989)
Includes: TOWARD UNDERSTANDING E –PRIME By Robert Anton Wilson
Another version of this article appeared in Trajectories, no. 5, the newsletter published by Robert Anton Wilson.
Also see Robert Anton Wilson's "Quantum Psychology," (E and E-Prime, Chapter 13, pages 97-107), New Falcon Publications, 1990
https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0404a&L=ecolog-l&P=8061

Trajectories Newsletter
Wilson, Robert Anton. EDITOR
Permanent Press, San Josè, California, 1989. 16 Pages.
Back to the Future! Special Futurism Issue. Artificial Intelligence Coming Soon? The Hillis Machine and Nanotechnology by Simon Moon. The Future of the Future by Robert Anton Wilson, Ph.D. The Value of Illusions. The Future That Failed by d. Scott Apel. Exo-Evolution.

Magical Blend Issue #25
Have You Ever Danced With The Devil In The Pale Moonlight?
A trip to the movies with Robert Anton Wilson reveals "Batman" to be a classic film noir romp into existential angst.

Trajectories Newsletter Number Five, Summer 1989
Wilson, Robert Anton. EDITOR
Permanent Press, San Josè, California, 1989. 8_ x 11. 20 pages. In This Issue: Dr. timothy Leary on guerilla journalism; Barbara Marx Hubbard--The Trajectories Interiview; Medard Gabel and Buckminster Fuller's World Game; George Carlin on the seven forbidden words; Ed McMahon offers us money; Arlen Riley Wilson; Faith Healing Failures vs A.M.A. Failures; GAIA: The Trajectories of Her Evolution by Robert Anton Wilson;

Critique: : #30, February / March / April / June 1989
Banner, Bob -- EDITOR
Critique Publishing, Santa Rosa, California, 1989. Slick Magazine. Book Condition: Very Good. Original Printing. 8 x 11_. 96 pages. Exposing Consensus Reality--A Special Issue on Miracles. In This Issue: Before Miracles Occur by C. S. Lewis; The Science of Blessing and Cursing by Robert Anton Wilson;

1990

_ Quantum Psychology (1990)
- New Falcon 1990

Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob": Short Stories in the Subgenius Mythos
(ISBN: 0671671901) Stang, Reverend Ivan (editor)
Book Description: Simon & Schuster/Fireside Books: New York, NY, 1990. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Fair. 1st Printing. Worn, torn, stained, generally mishandled by Pinks. The "Bob" Dobbs phenomena illuminated by William S. Burroughs, John Shirley, Robert Anton Wilson, Mark Mothersbaugh, and a teeming quantity of deluded cult-followers.
The Horror on Howth Hill,

Island Man, (nv) IASFM Jan 19 1981
_ Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre, ed. Charles Ardai, Galahad 1990

Creating Your Giant Self
Rose, Robert: 0941404617 New Falcon Publications, AZ 1990 Paperback Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson.

Illuminaten der Nacht - Die Vimana-VErschwörung - mit einer Einführung von Robert Anton Wilson
Saalman, Wayne
Knaur München 1990 paperback ISBN 342602973

Loompanics' Greatest Hits: Articles and Features from the Best Book Catalog in the World (ISBN: 155950031X)
Hoy, Michael (editor)
Loompanics, 1990, Trade Paperback.. A collection of articles and essays, cartoons and rants, gleaned from the pages of the Loompanics Unlimited book catalog. For over a decade, the Loompanics Catalog has served as a kiosk for writers from the far left, the far right, and the far out -- including Robert Anton Wilson, Bob Black, Kurt Saxon, Robert Shea and many, many others. 300 pages.

New Libertarian August 1990 Volume Four, Number Twenty & Volume V Numbers 9 & 10
Konkin III, Samuel Edward, Editor
New Libertarian Company, Costa Mesa, California, 1990. 66 pages. Special Science Fiction Issue. Prometheus Meltdown: A Tribute to Robert A. Heinlein. Fiction by Victor Koman, L. Neil Smith, Oyvind Myhre, Robert Anton Wilson, Brad Linaweaver, Robert Shea. "Just Binding My Time by Samuel Edward Konkin III

The Realist
Krassner, Paul (editor)
Book Description: 1990. #111; Winter. "Robert Anton Wilson Covers The Futurists Convention".

Magical Blend Issue #28
Cyberspace and Techno-Zen
Robert Anton Wilson admits to having had a lot of experience with non-ordinary realities, but rarely has he found a netherworld as accommodating as Cyberspace, where Virtual Reality is virtually anything you want.

1991

_ Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991)
- New Falcon 1991; HB - Limited numbered collector's edition
- New Falcon 1991 Softcover
- New Falcon 2004 Softcover

WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER: In The Dark; Bugs; Peace of Mind; War in the Ponrappe Islands; Caruso; Prayers on the Wind; Burning Up; The Prince; The Mirror Planet; The Invisible Country; Von Neumann's Second Catastrophe; Final Weapon; Smile; Jim and Irene (ISBN: 0553289853)
Shiner, Lewis (editor) (Pat Cadigan; James P. Blaylock; Nancy Kress; Yoshio Aramaki; Sherry Coldsmith; Walter Jon Williams; Mark L. Van Name; John Shirley; Yuri Glazkov; Paul J. McAuley; Robert Anton Wilson; Wayne Wightman; Marian Henley; Bruce Sterling)
Book Description: Bantam Spectra, New York, 1991. Soft Cover

Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection (ISBN: 0941404455)
Antero Alli; Robert Anton Wilson (Designer)
Vigilantero Press, 1985, Boulder, Colorado
New Falcon Publications, 1991.

Deadline, Issue 30
Spencer, Si (ed.)
Deadline Publications, 1991. Mid-period issue of the long-lived comic/music magazine. Slowdive; Curve; S'Express; Robert Anton Wilson; Hewlett and Martin's 'Booga'; D'Israeli's 'Fatal Charm'; Evan Dorkin's 'Milk and Cheese'; Jamie Hewlett's 'Fireball'.

Magical Blend Issue #31
Cosmic Trigger II
Am exclusive pre-publication peek at the author's eagerly awaited sequel. A Wilsonian feast completer with slice of life and a serving of B.S.

Religion for the Hell of It (ISBN: 1564550990)
Produced by Robert Anton Wilson
Book Description: Sounds True, 1991. Audio Cassette.

PROJECT 91 CD
CONCRETE PRODUCTIONS
Released in 1991 Made in the UK
Track:9 ROBERT ANTON WILSON - Calvi, The Pope And The Brotherhood

1992
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_ Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: An Illustrated Screenplay (1992)
-New Falcon 1992

The Illuminati Conspiracy: The Sapiens System (ISBN: 1561840513)
Donald, M.D. Holmes; Robert Anton Wilson
Book Description: New Falcon Publications, 1992..

THE ILLUMINATI OF IMMORTALITY : ALCHEMY, DREAMS AND THE CYBERSONIC QUEST (ISBN: 156184022X)
Saalman, Wayne
New Falcon Publications, 1992. Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. Soft cover; 293 pgs.

Lobster Magazine (Britain) 1992-#23 (4-5)

The Gemstone File,
Keith, Jim (Editor)
IllumiNet Press, Avondale Estates, GA, 1992, A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File by Stephanie Caruana and other people's reaction to it such as Mae Brussel, Robert Anton Wilson, Jonathan Vankin, Kerry W. Thornley,

THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK 1975-1976 Volume 4 (ISBN: 0887331114)
Dick, Philip K., intro by Robert Anton Wilson, edited by Don Herron
Book Description: Underwood Miller, 1992, 351 pages,

Anarchic Harmony: The Spirituality of Social Disobedience (ISBN: 1559500824)
Murray, William J. (Robert Anton Wilson, introduction)
Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend, WA, 1992

Magical Blend Oct. 1992, Issue 36 Explorations in Consciousness. John Lilly, Carol Tarvis and Dan Millman interviewed. Androphobia II by Robert Anton Wilson
LANGEVIN, Michael Peter & SNIDER, Jerry (Editors).
Book Description: Magical Blend., San Francisco, CA:, 1992. Magazine, 88 pp,

1993

TOTAL Vol. 2: The Body (Total, Volume 2) (ISBN: 1898243018)
Derek Jarman; Antero Alli; Robert Anton Wilson; Fakir Musafar; Zoviet France; Robert H. King (Editor)
Book Description: Total, 1993. Soft Cover.

Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation: The Split Brain Conspiracy (ISBN: 1561840572)
Christopher S. Hyatt, Robert Anton Wilson (Introduction), Israel Regardie (Introduction)
Book Description: New Falcon Publications, 1993.

The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: Volume Five: 1977-1979. (ISBN: 0887331203)
Dick, Philip K.
Underwood-Miller, 1993. Book Condition: Series edited by Don Herron: introduction to this volume by Robert Anton Wilson. 260 pages.

Magical Blend Jan. 1993 Issue 37 Unveiling Body and Soul. Thomas Moore Interviewed. White Boys Dancing. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by Robert Anton Wilson
LANGEVIN, Michael Peter & SNIDER, Jerry (Editors).
Magical Blend., San Francisco, CA:, 1993. Magazine, 96 pp,

Steamshovel Press, Number Seven 1993
Thomas, Kenn and Philip Gounis
Steamshovel Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1993. 8 _ x 11. 59 pages.
In This Issue: Conspiracy writers interviewed: Jonathan Vankin, Robert Anton Wilson, and John Judge; Science as Credo by Roy Lisker; Virtually Reality by Jim Keith; Wilhelm Reich in Vienna by Jim Martin; Len Bracken At Phenomicon

1994

_ Chaos and Beyond (1994) (editor and primary author)
- The Permanent Press 1994

1995

_ Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995)
-New Falcon 1995

DARK DESTINY: PROPRIETORS OF FATE [AN ORIGINAL WORLD OF DARKNESS ANTHOLOGY]
Kramer, Edward E. (edited by) [Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson] [Nancy A. Collins, S. P. Somtow, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Roland J. Green, Basil Copper, Charles L. Grant, Poppy Z. Brite, Fred Olen Ray, Rex Miller, Philip Nutman, John Mason Skipp, et al]
no place [Clarkston] White Wolf Publishing [1995]
442+ pages,

ZEN IN THE ART OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS -- Crazy Wisdom and UFOs
Pursglove, Paul David
The New Being Project 1995 softbound, 333 pages. An anthology of UFO fact and fiction, including: Edwin A. Abbott; Shari Adamiak; Bill Barker; Daniel Drasin; Ersatz Dodo Comedy Team; Marilyn Ferguson; Neil Freer; Steve Greer; Michael Grosso; Nick Herbert; Jon Klimo; Stanley Krippner; Rima Laibow; Timothy Leary; Robert Anton Wilson.

The Backlash! - March 1995
Language and Lunacy
All white men own corporations and meet weekly with David Rockefeller a the Patriarchy Club to make all the decisions for our society, and other pop-feminist myths
by Robert Anton Wilson

Trajectories Newsletter Number 14, Spring 1995
Wilson, Robert Anton. EDITOR
Permanent Press, San Josè, California, 1989 Robert Anton Wilson's Trajectories Newsletter. The Journal of Futurism and Heresy -- 26 pages. Cyberspace vs Geospace; Post Modernism; Excerpts from Cosmic Trigger III and Bride of Illuminatus; WWWe're WWWired!!! by D. Scott Apel; Uncle Bob Speaks: Apologias and Divagations: Theologies, Demonology and Codology; Beneath the Planet of the Priory of Sion; Life and Death on the Infobahn; Satanism Report: Accusations: 12,000 Evidence: 0;

1996

Secrets of Western Tantra: The Sexuality of the Middle Path (ISBN: 1561841137)
Christopher S. Hyatt, Preface by Robert Anton Wilson
Book Description: New Falcon Publications, 1996.

Rebels & Devils; the Psychology of Liberation (ISBN: 1561841218)
Hyatt, Christopher S., Editor
New Falcon 1996. Trade Paperback. 382 pp. B&W illustrations. Introduced by S. Jason Black. Foreword by Nicholas Tharcher. With contributions by William S. Burroughs; Timothy Leary; Robert Anton Wilson; Austin Osman Spare; Lon Mile DuQuette; Genesie P-Orridge; Aleister Crowley; Jack Parsons; Osho Rajneesh, and many others

Robert Anton Wilson's Trajectories Newsletter Autumn 1996
Wilson, Robert Anton. EDITOR
Book Description: Permanent Press, San Josè, California, 1996

1997

_ The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997)
-New Falcon 1997

Transit Lounge (ISBN: 9057041111)
Crawford, Ashley; Edgar, Ray (eds)
Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997. PaperbackSm 4to. A series of essays and articles by some of the best contemporary writers, exploring tomorrow's world; Acker, Ballard, Chomsky, Burroughs, Zurbrugg, Gibson, Greil Marcus, Roszak, Stelarc, Virilio, Robert Anton Wilson, James Joyce, and more 192pp.

The Alchemy of Opposites (ISBN: 1561840858)
Rodolfo Scarfalloto, Robert Anton Wilson (Introduction)
Book Description: New Falcon Publications, 1997.

Free Space
Free at Last • Robert Anton Wilson
Linaweaver, Brad & Kramer, Edward E. (eds)
New York Tor 1997

Stories about the struggle against Tyranny, in space, by Robert Anton Wilson, John Barnes, Greg Benford, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sawyer, Poul Anderson, others. First Edition Fine Hard Cover

ISBN: 0312859570 Fine

1998

_ Everything Is Under Control (1998)
- HarperCollins 1998 Softcover
- Pan Books (Macmillan), London. 1999 -(ISBN: 0330389947)

Disco 2000
Champion, Sarah (Editor) London Sceptre 1998

365pp. An anthology of cult fiction set in the final hours of 1999. Contributions from Pat Cadigan, Nicholas Blincoe, Grant Morrison, Jonathan Brook, Poppy Z. Brite, Charlie Hall, Doug Hawes, Paul di Filippo, Steve Aylett, Bill Drummond, Martin Millar, Helen Mead, Courttia Newland, Douglas Rushkoff, Tania Glyde, Steve Beard, Neal Stephenson, Robert Anton Wilson, Douglas Coupland. Soft Cover ISBN: 0340707712

film _23_ (1998)

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

1999

Paul Krassner's Impolite Interviews (ISBN: 1888363924)
Krassner, Paul
Seven Stories Press, New York1999. Trade Paperback
Paul Krassner is a very important figure of the Movement, having fought for free speech and freedom of the press. Co-founder of the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman. He was also publisher, editor and writer of the underground press The Realist. The Realist started in 1958, and saw sporadic publication until the turn of the Century. This is a collection of 21 interviews (with assistance from Robert Anton Wilson on 2). Some of those interviewed include: Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Albert Ellis, Dick Gregory, Joseph Heller, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Mort Sahl, Ram Dass, Jerry Garcia, Hugh Hefner, Arianna Huffington, Timothy Leary, Terry Southern, Alan Watts and others.

Sex and Rockets The Occult World of Jack Parsons (ISBN: 0922915563)
CARTER, John (Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson).
Book Description: Feral House., Venice, CA:, 1999. 26 pp +230 pp,

High Times Presents Paul Krassner's Pot Stories for the Soul (ISBN: 1893010023)
Krassner, Paul (editor)
High Times Pr, New York1999. Trade Paperback. This book contains stories by and about Ken Kesey, Stephen Gaskin, Allen Ginsberg, Michelle Phillips, Abbie Hoffman, Mountain Girl, Jerry Rubin, Hunter S. Thompson, Wavy Gravy, Lynn Phillips, Robert Anton Wilson, Harry Shearer, Kate Coleman, John Sinclair, Jack Herer, David Peel, Pot Star, Michael Simmons, Mark Mothersbaugh, Jonathan Pekar, Stan Mack and many, many more.

High Times 1999--Nov #291 25th Anniversary Edition
High Times 1999--Nov #291 25th Anniversary Edition (magazine)

Article by Jorge Cervantes--Still Growing After All These Years, Robert Connell Clarke--Who Invented Hash?, Paul Krassner--Pot Stories for the Soul, Dean Latimer--With Paul Krassner, Dick Russell and Robert Anton Wilson - Top 10 Conspiracies & Ed Rosenthal--Adventures in the Cannabis Trade. Interview with Barney Frank.

Gnosis No. 50 (Winter 1999).
Smoley, Richard and Jay Kinney, "Doubt!: The Gnosis Interview with Robert Anton Wilson",

Magical Blend Issue #46
How to Live Eleven Days in 24 Hours
Through a sure cure for Millennial Madness and Acute Narrow Mindedness, Robert Anton Wilson's daily calendar is about as complicated as Rubik's Cube.

X Factor #65
01-01-1999
Featuring genetic resurrection, UFO reports, cults, paranormal investigators, Robert Anton Wilson interview, nuclear war preparations. Significant spine roll.
Ritual Slaughter

Opium Den.
WILSON, Robert Anton. [1999]. LSD blotter art featuring a detailed color illustration of an opium smoker and two attendants in an upper class den. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Robert Anton Wilson. The sheet measures 9.5" x 9.5" and is divided into 900 perforated hits. As new. Image available.

2000

Disinformation : The Interviews (ISBN: 0971394210)
METZGER, RICHARD (editor) : WILSON, ROBERT ANTON : P-ORRIDGE, GENESIS : MORRISON, GRANT : COLEMAN, JOE (interviewed)
The Disinformation Company, New York, 2000

Astrology, Aleister and Aeon (ISBN: 1561841358)
Kipp, Charles Wilson, Robert Anton
New Falcon Publications, 2000.

High Times 2000--May #297
High Times 2000--May #297 (magazine) (Cover illustration by: Andre Grossman.)

Article by Brian Hassett--Somkin' Beats, Lord Jagi--With Kyle Kushman - Mini-Closet, Mega-Buds, Kyle Kushman--Two Dutch Masters & Robert Anton Wilson--Temporary Autonomous Zone. Interview with Howard Marks.

Ramsay, Robin. Conspiracy Theories. Herts, England: Pocket Essentials, 2000. 95 pages.

2001

Taboo: Sex, Religion and Magick (ISBN: 1561841609)
Christopher S. Hyatt; Lon Milo DuQuette; Robert Anton Wilson (Introduction)
New Falcon Publications, 2001.

Wake Up Down There! (ISBN: 0932813828)
Greg Bishop 2001. Paperback
Adventures Unlimited Pages: 420,
The great American tradition of drop-out culture makes it over the millennium mark with a collection of the best from The Excluded Middle, the critically acclaimed underground magazine of UFOs, the paranormal, conspiracies and psychedelia.P>Veteran conspiracy researcher and magazine publisher Greg Bishop has put together an intriguing collection with contributions from Robert Anton Wilson, Ivan Stang, Martin Kottmeyer, John Shirley, Scott Corrales, Adam Gorightly and Robert Sterling, and interviews with James Miseley, Karla Turner, Bill Moore, Kenn Thomas, Richard Boylan, Dean Radin, Joe McMoneagle and the mysterious Ira Einhorn (an Excluded Middle exclusive).

Paul Krassner's Psychedelic Trips for the Mind (ISBN: 1893010074)
Krassner, Paul
High Times Pr, New York, 2001. Trade Paperback 193 pages. Includes Kesey, Hoffman, Robert Anton Wilson, Susie Bright, Jerry Garcia, Groucho Marx, etc.

Picknett,L. Prince,C. The Stargate Conspiracy. 2001 (236, 285)

Think for Yourself!: Questioning Pressures to Conform (Self-Mastery) (ISBN: 1579510507)
Sharon Presley, Robert Anton Wilson
Book Description: Ronin Publishing (CA), 2001

50 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR BUSH: Just Say No To Dubya
Sterling, Robert FERAL HOUSE
ISBN 1932595023,

" Contributors include Greg Palast and Robert Anton Wilson

THE THRESHER The First One
New York: Altar Inc., 2001
192pp. A political-cultural journal edited and published by David Latimer who used the name of a secret organization of the 1800s to which his great- great grandfather belonged. Includes articles, stories and art by Robert Anton Wilson, Huey P. Newton, Richard Preston, RU Sirius and others

THRESHER 3
Interesting conversations with folks on the fringes. In this issue: Scientologists punked; meth-sick goddesses, surgical deprogramming, Jim Goad, R.U. Sirius, Robert Anton Wilson, John Zerzan, more.

High Times, the Best Of # 28 2001
High Times, the Best Of # 28 2001 (magazine) (Art of Stephen E. Lewis.)
Art of Stephen E. Lewis. Article by Steve Bloom--Al Gore's Party Years, Jorge Cervantes--What to Feed Your Weed, Gabe Kirchheimer--Mad Couws and Englishmen, Preston Peet--Inside the Octopus the Barry Seal Story, Dick Russell--With Paul Krassner, Dean Latimer and Robert Anton Wilson - Top 10 Conspiracies, Chris Simunek--Bushwacked - High Times Crases the Grand Old Party, Dan Skye--Villa's Trail & Bill Weinberg--Return of the Bush Dynasty.

2002
-
_ TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution (2002)
-New Falcon 2002

Murder at the Conspiracy Convention (ISBN: 1569802319)
Krassner, Paul
Barricade Books, Incorporated, Fort Lee, NJ., 2002. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by George Carlin. The book is dedicated to Robert Anton Wilson.

The Gospel According to Philip K.
Vendor Name: First Run Features
UPC: 720229909655
Release Date: 7/16/2002
Director: Steensland/massagi
Duration: 0081 Minutes
That may leave the casual viewer a bit bewildered by it all, but fans will appreciate the comments of cult author Robert Anton Wilson and rare audio recordings of Dick himself (set to funky minimalist animation).

2003

The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture (ISBN: 193104466X)
Adam Gorightly Robert Anton Wilson
Book Description: Paraview Press, 2003.

Book of Lies –
Metzger, Richard 2003 Disinformation Company
Pages: 353 An Excerpt from Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
ISBN: 097139427X

Disinformation: The Complete Series
Metzger, Richard
This deluxe 2-disc DVD release follows hot on the heels of the publication of companion book "Disinformation: The Interviews" Literary celebs interviewed include "Illuminatus!" author Robert Anton Wilson,
ISBN: 0971394261
Publisher: Disinformation Company
Publication Date: 2003

2004

The Dance of Opposites: Ancient Wisdom for Promoting Health and Happiness in the Here and Now (ISBN: 1594535469)
Scarfalloto, Rudy (Author) Wilson, Robert Anton (Introduction by)
Bookman Publishing, 2004.

INSIDER'S GUIDE TO ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Wagner, Eric 2004
NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS ISBN 156184165X,

Paperback. .

To Lie Is Human: Not Getting Caught Is Divine
Christopher S. Hyatt, Robert Anton Wilson (Introduction)
ISBN: 1561841994
Format: Paperback, 224pp
Pub. Date: March 2004
Publisher: New Falcon Publications

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/07/10/3920910
Hang the Tsar! Robert Anton Wilson In Conversation With R.U. Sirius Saturday, July 10 2004 @ 08:38 AM PDT

2005

_ Email to the Universe (2005)
-New Falcon 2005

Maybe Logic 2005 DVD Biography
Maybe Logic "is" a hilarious and mind-bending journey into the multi-dimensional life of Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Featuring video spanning 25 years and the best of 100 hours of footage thoroughly tweaked, transmuted and regenerated, Maybe Logic follows the ever-open eye of Pope Bob as he penetrates human illusions exposing the mathematical probabilities and spooky synchronicities of the 8 dimensions of his Universe. The feature-length documentary features Tom Robbins, RU Sirius, Ivan Stang, Paul Krassner, Valerie Corral and Douglas Rushkoff. The soundtrack includes music from Boards of Canada, Animals On Wheels, Tarentel, Funki Porcini, The Supplicants, Pullman, Matt Elliott, The Cinematic Orchestra, Ognen Spiroski and Amon Tobin.

Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse
Brown, David J. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Hardback ISBN: 1403965323)
Pages: 288, Introduction by David Jay Brown
Quantum sociology and neuropolitics : Robert Anton Wilson

Metro Santa Cruz. August 10-17, 2005
Premature Illumination
By Bill Forman
Robert Anton Wilson, the iconoclastic genius behind the famed 'Illuminatus! Trilogy,' has a few thousand things he'd like to teach you
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/08.10.05/wilson-0532.html

2006

EL MARTILLO COSMICO: LIBRO 1: EL ULTIMO SECRETO DE LOS ILLUMINATI (ISBN: 849350033X) 2006
WILSON, ROBERT

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008105
'A' Is for Anarchy
Anarchism has gone from intellectually complicated and violent to just plain silly.
Friday, March 17, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST
Wall Street Journal Article mentions Bob and Hakim Bey in the same line, calling them “chaos-worshiping pranksters”.

- Tale Of The Tribe
-TBA

BOOK INTRODUCTIONS/CONTRIBUTIONS

Magazines…

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VIDEO/DVD

Details

AUDIO RECORDINGS…

Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything (ISBN: 1591793750)
Wilson, Robert Anton (Author)
Sounds True, 2005. Compact Disk

http://www.bigsurtapes.com/merchant.mv186.htm

Robert Anton Wilson Interviewed By Faustin Bray And Brian Wa
On Finnegans Wake And Joseph Campbell
CD Album

Weblinks

http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/rawilson.htm

http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/raw.html

http://www.kbuxton.com/discordia/new_inquisition.html
Model Agnosticism vs. A New Idolatry: A Critique of Robert Anton Wilson's The New Inquisition

http://www.gettingit.com/author/43
Getting it - online zine c. 1999
December 13, 1999
Bugs Bunny And Other UFO Victims
Reality isn't always consensual
November 15, 1999
Coming Again
The orgasmic release of the Apocalypse myth
September 20, 1999
I Remember Satan
'Recovered memory,' demonology, and duck soup
November 29, 1999
In Doubt We Trust
Cults, religions, and BS in general
November 1, 1999
Reality Ain't What It Used To Be
Thirty-five years after Bell's Theorem
December 27, 1999
The Devil On The Chimney
A tale of Lovecraftian horror and psycho-archeology
October 11, 1999
The Lumber Of The Beast
Tracking the Antichrist

http://singlenesia.com/eris/po
principia ordia (1993)

http://english.csusb.edu/grad/wagner.pdf
Eric Wagner’s Thesis Proposal: The Influence of Finnegans Wake on Robert Anton Wilson’s Masks of the Illuminat

http://anti-masonry.info/alt.illuminati_FAQ.html
alt.illuminati Frequently Asked Questions
compiled by Trevor W. McKeown
version 2.0
Last modified: 19 March, 2004

http://www.levity.com/mavericks/raw.htm
Firing the Cosmic Trigger
with Robert Anton Wilson
Interview with David Brown

http://www.bkmarcus.com/belief/celine/
Hagbard Celine's Laws of Social Cybernetics –

Magazines

The Nose
Mondo 2000

Mysteries

Cosmic Trigger Advanced Reader (ISBN: 112722400X)
Wilson, Robert Anton
Price: US$ 75.00
Book Description: AND/OR PRESS INC. ADVANCE READER ISBN: 112722400x

FUTURE Magazine: April 1978 #1 thru Dec. 1981 Complete 31 issues Zimmerman, Howard Editor:
New York: Future Magazine Inc, Apr.1978-Dec.'81. 1sts. Magazine. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. ALL 31 ISSUES are near fine to fine (slight rubs at some spines). 4to colored wrappers The first issue includes color illustrations by Chesley Bonestell and interview with Fred Pohl and article by Isaac Asimov. Artists include Boris, Alvarez, Bob McCall, Shusei Nagooka, Gil Kane, etc.Writers such as William F. Nolan, Robert Anton Wilson, A.E.Van Vogt, Jerry Pournelle, Harlan Ellison, Timothy Leary, Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Ray Bradbury, etc.

Nomos - Studies in Spontaneous Order No. 42
Shea, Robert (ed.)
Glen Ellyn, IL Stapled Cardstock Covers 30 pp.
Robert Anton Wilson: Freedom's last chance. Plus: Brad Linaweaver on cyberarchy - the high price of Utopia - Even fanatics have the right to bearr arms - more Libertarianism for beginners. Pat Hartman on "Family values: yours, mine or whose?".

Rant Issue #4
Vitale, Alfred [Editor]
Rant, New York, New York. Ethan Cornell, Carl Alessi, Blair Wilson, Shalom, Walt Neary, Joe Chiapetta, Mary Lou Pilkington, Eric Drooker (illustrator). Original Printing. 76 pages. ISSN 1069-9419. Featuring. . . . Robert Anton Wilson,

Pacts With the Devil: A Chronicle of Sex, Blasphemy and Liberation (ISBN: 1561840580)
Black, S. Jason
Book Description: New Falcon, 1993, 1993. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: As New. Trade Paperback. As New. 285 pages.

Das Lexikon der Verschwörungstheorien. Verschwörungen, Intrigen, Geheimbünde. (ISBN: 3492240240)
The encyclopedia of the conspiracy theories. Conspiracy, plots, secret federations.
Wilson, Robert Anton
Book Description: Piper Verlag GmbH, 2004. Taschenbuch. Book
Paperback. Book condition: New one. 188mm x 121mm. who are actually the notorious Illuminaten? Did Jack the Ripper on behalf of a French Freimaurerloge work? And which has it with the puzzling grain circles on itself? If you wanted to know all this always, you should absolutely in this original encyclopedia schmoekern. From the rose cruisers over the legendary Italian loge Robert Anton Wilson, cult author of the ' Illuminatus' novels, information gathered P2 up to the mafia and CIA to the most fascinating conspiracy. Not without winkings he kidnaps the reader in the uncanny twilight of mysterious powers of this world. 188mm x 121mm. 358gr. Seiten/Pages

Beaubo
Gulyas, Jim, and Richard Sassoon San Francisco: The Bindweed Press
1967 100pp, glued wrappers. A bizarre, seemingly LSD-inspired screed (reminiscent of the Boo Hoo Bible, Principia Discordia, etc.) that combines rather disturbing art and text (as shown on the front cover: "A man-god has severed each of his feet above the ankles and holding these in his hands has severed his right hand above the wrist and holds the wrist between his teeth and thus he is seen dancing, his stump legs spread and his hair standing on end."). Twisted. Cover has light band of sunning at spine; last copy available

Best Minds: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg
Morgan, Bill & Rosenthal Bob (editors)
Lospecchio Press, New York, 1986. Cloth. This is such an important volume for a beat collection. (at Logos)

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel (ISBN: 0345335880)
Shea, Robert
New York, Ballantine Books, 1989; 468 pgs

The Saracen: The Holy War (ISBN: 034535933X)
Shea, Robert
New York, Ballantine Books, 1989; 1st Edition; 357 pgs

Literary Voices: Interviews with Alex Haley, Christopher Isherwood, Jessica Mitford, Richard Armour and Robert Anton Wilson No. 1
Jeffrey M. Elliott

Nomos-Studies in Spontaneous Order No. 42
by Shea, Robert (Ed. )
Stapled Cardstock Covers 30 pp.
Robert Anton Wilson: Freedom's last chance. Plus: Brad Linaweaver on cyberarchy-the high price of Utopia-Even fanatics have the right to bearr arms-more Libertarianism for beginners. Pat Hartman on "Family values: yours, mine or whose? "

Rant Issue #4
Robert Anton Wilson, Jim Feast, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Laurie Calhoun, Gina Grega, Bob Carlton, Frank van Zant, Mary Panza, Peter Lamborn Wilson ...

The Diagonal Relationship #9
Very Good. No Dust Jacket16 page fanzine. Contributors include Robert Anton Wilson,

Trajectories. Robert Anton Wilson
v.1#1(Sum'88), 2(Aut'88), 4(Spr'89), 5(Sum'89), 6(Win'90), 7(Spr'90), 8(Aut'90)
9(Spr'91), 10(Aut'91), 12(Spr'93), 14(Spr'95), 16/17(Aut'96) @x12

ROBERT ANTON WILSON in NEW LIBERTARIAN

Vol. IV No. I. March 1978

NL 145

“Neurological Relativism”

$8.00

Vol. IV No. 3, May 1978

NL 147

“Anita Bryant and the Gays”

$8.00

Vol. IV No. 4, Aug. 1978

NL 148

“The Prisoner’s Dilemma”

$8.00

Vol. IV No. 5/6, Jan. 1980

NL 155

“Schrödinger’s Cat”

$15.00

Vol. IV No. 7, Apr.-Jun. 1980

NL 157

“Miscellaneous Heresies”

$10.00

Vol. IVNo. 8, Feb. 1981

NL 158

“Miscellaneous Heresies II”

$12.00

Vol. IV No. 9, Apr.-Jun. 1981

NL 159

“Another Column of Miscellaneous Heresies”

$12.00

Vol. IV No. 12, Oct. 1984

NL 164

“A New Writer: F. W. Nietzche”

$12.00

Vol. IV No. 13, Apr. 1985

NL 166

Natural Law Debate that inspired Wilson’s most controversial book! Plus: “Why UFOs Fascinate Us”

$12.00

Vol. IV No. 15, Aug. 1985

NL 170

“Natural Law, or Don’t Wear a Rubber on Your Willy” (The article that became the book!)

$12.00

Vol. IV No. 16, Aug. 1986

NL 174

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle One”

$12.00

NLN&C 18.3 [No. 10], 5/87

NL 179

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle Two”

$2.50

Vol. IV No. 18/19, Dec, 1987

NL 180

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle Three”

$12.00

Vol. IV No. 20 / Vol. V No. 9/10

NL 187

Prometheus Meltdown: “Dirty Socks & Denture Breath”

$15.00

Complete Set of All 14 Issues (save $50.50)
(1-9 are photocopies, 12-20 are the actual issues)

$99.00

ROBERT ANTON WILSON in
NEW LIBERTARIAN: THE NEWSLETTER

Vol. V No. l, Jan. 1988

NL 182

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle Four”

$4.00

Vol. V No. 2, Feb. 1988

NL 183

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle Five”

$4.00

Vol. V No. 3, Apr. 1988

NL 184

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle Six”

$4.00

Vol. V No. 4, Mar. 1989

NL 185

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle Seven”

$4.00

Vol. V No. 5, Jun. 1990

NL 186

“Letters from Ireland, Epistle Eight”

$4.00

Complete Set of All 5 Issues (save $5.00)
(All are photocopies)

$15.00

ROBERT ANTON WILSON in
NEW LIBERTARIAN WEEKLY

16 issues of NEW LIBERTARIAN WEEKLY that contain articles by and about Robert Anton Wilson. These are the actual original issues!

Vol. Ill, No. 39, 9/5/76

NL 81/82

Interview with RAW by Jane Talisman & Eric Geislinger

Vol. Ill, No. 45, 10/24/76

NL 88

Luna Wilson Obituary

Vol. Ill, No. 50, 11/28/76

NL 93

“Truth Comes on Swift Wings”

Vol. Ill, No. 55. 1/2/77

NL 98

“Escape Velocity”

Vol. Ill, No. 60, 2/6/77

NL 103

“Eight Kinds of Libertarians”

Vol. UI, No. 65, 3/13/77

NL 108

“The Noble Eight-Fold Path”

Vol. Ill, No. 69.4/10/77

NL 112

“That Old Black Magick”

Vol. Ill, No. 75, 5/22/77

NL 118

Letter to Editor

Vol. Ill, No. 80, 7/3/77

NL 123

“I, Robot”

Vol. UI, No. 83, 7/24/77

NL 126

“The King is Dead! Long Live the King!” review of King Kong

Vol. Ill, No. 87, 8/21/77

NL 130

“Abortion & Logic”

Vol. Ill, No. 88/89, 9/4/77

NL 131/2

“From Inner Space to Outer Space”

Vol. Ill, No. 92, 10/2/77

NL 135

“No More Secrets”

Vol. Ill, No. 95, 10/23/77

NL 138

Letter to the Editor

Vol. Ill, No. 99, 11/20/77

NL 142

“The Compleat Skeptic”

Vol. Ill, No. 100, 11/27/77

NL 143

“Skepticism and Solipsism”

13 articles, 2 letters, 1 interview. One price: $19.95

TOTAL Vol. 1 Magazine + cd
Articles on conspiracy theories, cults, secret societies, the Process Church, and more. The CD features tracks by Frontline Assembly, Fini Tribe, Broubonese Qualk, The Anti Group, The Occult Technology of Power, Ege Bam Yasi, Flux, Pornosect, Coil, Jass, Andrew Lagowski, John Avery, and Hole. An official release, not a CD-R or bootleg.

Cell Block e

2006-05-10T11:15:00.000-07:00

This is the corner i live in. nothing is ever really organized, but under the chaos, if you look, you will see some order. Books come and go, but the chaos never ends.

we picked up a great book the other day called 'only in books' by j. kevin graffagnino. it is an amazing anthology of quotes about books by the greatest minds throughout time. here's a couple to wet your whistle...

"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum"
-Elbert Hubbard

"It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him"
-Victor Hugo

"There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

HOLY BLOOD, HOLY COW!

2006-05-09T00:08:00.000-07:00

"Life of Saint Mary Magdelen, 1904
Anonymous. Hawtrey, Valentina, translator.
John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904
Decorative binding designed by Jessie M. King

OH MY GODDESS! What a day! e had showed me this auction that was up on ebay (knowing full well that I would freak out & need to have it "by any means necessary,") & sure enough that is exactly what happened... Today the auction (finally) ended at almost 2 A.M.. Are you wondering if we stayed awake to see it end? Let's just say that wild horses (or even heavy medication for that matter) couldn't have kept me away. As many of you probably know, the pressure can be incredible. In the last few hours we had to distract ourselves watching films so that I wouldn't have a complete melt down. Unfortunately the 2nd film wasn't able to do the job fully, so there i was, in the last 17 minutes, hitting the refresh button every couple of minutes... One day there will probably be a self-help group for ebayers who have gone over the edge (if there isn't one already,) and then they'll come up with a name for it: ebayaholic? ebayophile? any body else have any good ones? I almost lost it & increased the maximum bid in the last 10 minutes but decided that it was going to have to be okay one way or another. (And, besides, I felt that I was on "a mission from God/dess.) For all I knew there was some sniper waiting in the bushes with a couple of thousand ready to pounce on me. Luckily it wasn't necessary because, frankly, we collect books, not money. (If someone would've told me a year ago that one day I'd be spending so much on a single book I would've belly laughed!) All I knew was that I would raise this money some how, so I started making phone calls & got some backers.

Now that we've survived a tornado, I know that if it came down to it & there was some other disaster where I only had enough time to grab just one thing before I ran out the door, it would be this book. I'm thinking about making a box for it & placing it above my computer next to antique Last Supper print I found at a church rummage sale last year - it's one of the renditions showing the women at the table as women, not as efeminate-looking men without beards. Of course the women were there serving the food to the men! I mean, really...

I have been a Mary Magdalene "fan" since H.S. when I met my best friend who's name was Magdalene. I couldn't believe that her mother had named her after such a notorious woman so I asked her about it. She said that where her Mother was from in Mexico Mary Magdalene was not viewed as a prostitute, & that she was, instead, considered to be a Saint! This really floored me, especially since we were attending a pretty conservative Catholic high school. I secretly wanted to challenge Father Sweeney (our religion teacher) about how this could be possible. However, he was already challenged w/ my already over-the-top debating over the seeming contradictions within the New Testament. (Like how could The Church consider Mary, the Mother of Jesus as "ever-virgin" when the New Testament clearly states that she had children afer Jesus was born. Or how Joseph would've married her even though she was already pregnant. I can just imagine the scene "No, really, I wasn't with any one, honey, it was...uh, God! Yeah, that's it, God got me pregnant!" Yeah, right...Knowing the times women were subjected to endure during that period of our tedious existence, I doubt very much she wouldn't have just been stoned to death with a story like that.) Whenever poor Father Sweeney couldn't sufficiently explain my queries away, he would simply say "Look, we are supposed to take it on Faith, girl; it's not for us to try to understand these mysteries, they're way to complicated for our untrained minds - that's why we have The Church - to do this thinking for us!" Well, unfortunately (for him) that never really sated my appetite to uncover the truth (or obvious inconsistencies) & I would wait simply wait until class was over to continue my probe. I think it was particularly exasperating since I was an A student, and he couldn't just write me off as a trouble maker attempting to "rattle his cage," as my Dad would say. I've gotta hand it to him, for a fiery tempered ex-boxer from Ireland, he did pretty well... Perhaps deep inside he appreciated the interest in any case. I also was quite disgruntled that I wasn't allowed to be an "Altar Girl" (blasphemous even its very title which didn't even exist) while the notorious, brand-new-Lincoln-Continental-driving, drug-dealing sons of mafia gangsters in our school got the priveledge (& were known for falling asleep during Mass). As you can well imagine that this was one of those "mysteries" Father Sweeney would resort to telling me to take on faith. Hugh? That really boggled my teenage mind: "Why does The Church dislike women so much?" I would think.

This question lingered in my mind over the years until I came across the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. Now this rang a lot truer for me than what I found in my Biblical studies. Of course Mary Magdalene wasn't what they said she was. Of course she was actually the wife of Jesus, this made perfect sense. Especially since that Jesus was at an age & position (Rabbai) where, by law, he would've been required to be married. He would've been in danger of violating Jewish law otherwise & they would've had a "real reason" to crucify him (and this is curious considering that Caesar clearly is perplexed over his troubled conscience because the blatant innocence of the Nazarene. And then in subsequent years, when hidden scrolls started to become unearthed, these questions have only intensified. Especially when it has been revealed that women's rightful place in spiritual history seems to have been highly edited.

My question, since meeting Magdelene Santiago in H.S. was "Why would The Church want to discredit Mary, and the position of women in general? Why was Eve labeled as The Temptress? Why are Catholic priests celebite (leading them into having to reduce themselves to taking on altar boys as sexual outlets)? What is the root of fear behind all of this? This fear of the most natural part of being human - our sexuality. What about "going forth and multiplying over the earth?" Without sex? And, what is the deal with blaming all the ills of our human existence on women? Surely we must be super powerful w/ so much suppression going on.

Being a woman growing up in the '60's and '70's with a Feminist as a Mother, this question lingers & will no doubt go unquenched until... ? Any clues, any map, any story, regardless of its "legitmacy" will not go unprobed or considered with great fervor. And, as I learned more about other groups who have been suppressed over time (Jews by the Nazis, African Americans, Salem Witches, the Native Americans, Ghandi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lennon, John Kennedy,... the list is probably endless) I saw the corrolation between them - the common thread: when people are perceived to have a lot of power to influence the collective consciousness, other people want to have it for their own. And they will go to great lengths to ensure the realization of this, (and to silence them) including throwing them in prison or slandering their character, or even killing them.

But, I digress. So, back to the auction story. In any case, this volume would be mine. I knew this the minute I saw it. In the last day we were up against some rich guy who buys scuba gear & other high-priced recreational items, none of them even hinting at any kind of possible quest he was on. He probably has some over-sized diamond-fingered fiance he wants to impress. For me, however, this book is a piece of the grail, & I knew that it just couldn't fall into "the wrong hands."

When the auction ended, I decided to check my astro transits for the day. It seems that my sun is trining Venus right now & that any investment I make right now, especially in regards to antiques, etc., would be a good one! That topped the cake.

This will probably be the only time I ever make such a purchase, (unless there is another similar subject being unearthed). We're going to do research on this title & see if we can reprint it without copyright infringement. Yes, I'm on a mission...

If you'd like more info on this topic, click here: Magdalene

Or, if you'd like to find out more about the author of the introduction, click here: Vernon Lee

SEVEN LITTLE POSTMEN!

2006-05-08T14:53:00.000-07:00

I think perhaps we are the luckiest book people around - our post office is located in our building! All we have to do is run downstairs (which is apparently how Steve, our Post Master, says he knows when we have an order to ship - he can hear Eddy, my partner, running down the stairs in the hallway next to the post office. I don't know how many times we have bragged to people about our Post Master; he really is the greatest asset our business has. Sometimes it feels like we've got "the Grand Parents Syndrome - you know, "OH, my grand daughter is sooo cute, wanna see some photos?" Only we didn't have photos, which is probably the only thing separating our zeal from theirs. Well, now we do have a photo! Isn't he great?

Steve has stuck by us through thick and tornado (8/18/05) and always has a sweet disposition (post office workers who have "gone postal" could take lessons from his calm demeanor under pressure!)
As you can probably guess from the fact that you've probably never heard of our town (Viola,) and you're probably pronouncing it V-ee-ola instead of V-eye-ola, we live in a small town. Very small. Population of 667: almost all of whom we see going up & down our stairs every day as they visit the Post Office. The other great thing about living in the Post Office Building is that it is also the hub of information for the community. Anything you want to know in terms of what's happening can be found out right there on those steps...

For those of you, who when you hear the word "Wisconsin," immediately see images of zealous sports fans dressed in cheese head hats, should know there is a very good reason for such behavior: it is also known as Packer Country. Our delightful postmaster is an avid Packer fan, (though it would be very difficult for me to imagine him with a cheese wedge on his head) and has found many of the Packer books we have come across irresistable. We're always on the look-out for new Packer books for him, but at our last book buying outing we spotted The Little Golden Book "Seven Little Postmen," & we just couldn't resist it! We gave it to him as a gift today (though we wish we could give him something bigger like free tickets to a Packer game or something more representative of his importance.) But he was happy with it (the vintage illustrations are sooo cute!) He said that the little boy looked like he did as a kid. Well, it turns out that there is a post office in another town that is putting together an exhibit of old time post office ephemera. He's going to loan it to them. Thanks Steve, You're the greatest!

This is a photo of The old feed mill in town, which was more recently being used as a "Flea Market." The owner Gene also has 2 other buildings, one is the old opera house, which seated 500 people in "The Day," a hundred years ago, and also the old Odd Fellows Hall. Both are gems. Gene is in the process of looking for interested buyers to take them over so he can move to his off-the-grid dream acre in Alaska. Our hope is that a fellow bibliophile will buy them & help to create a beautiful Mid-western Book Village with us. Let us know if you're interested...

listless driftless rummaging

2006-05-07T20:08:00.000-07:00

the last 24 hours was a book buying frenzy here in the hills of
wisconsin. we completely missed the huge 100 mile long mississippi
river rummage sale extravaganza. hundreds of sales on both wisconsin and minnesota sides of the river. oh well. i heard about it from a nice old
woman in a tiny town on my way home. she was having a sale in her
garage and we found a sweet cache of al-anon stuff and some delighful
old disney story books with nice 45's of the stories enclosed. old
stuff, will mix very welll with my radio show, when i get around to doing it again. the lady talked with us about how people don't read anymore. we noticed that there were as many video cassette tapes of movies as there were books at her sale. we realized that of the 50 or so rummage sales we did hit this weekend, most sales had more video tapes than books. the woman ended up giving us a life size stuffed lime-green alien doll.

huge library sale in la crosse last night. nowhere near the knock
down drag out kinda scene you find in madison sales. this one was
polite and well organized. and not one phuking cell phone or scouting
scanner. those should be outlawed from library sale in my opinion.
too many people who grab a huge pile of the best titles, and then sit
and type the numbers into their cellphones, and leave with 10 prime
old science books and a huge pile of their discards which the library
volunteers have to reshelf before the morning. or worse, the folks who rummage through books with their ISBN barcode scanner. one woman at the madison sale was very obviously not at all interested or even looking at the titles, just at the price her little scanner brought back. that would be a funny hack, to reset the pricing setup so that the daniel steele paperbacks bring back big numbers and the valuable titles are passed over. but that would be mean.

back to the library sale...kids books were the best. they had thousands, and unlike bigger library sales, the section was not a rugby match with poor children trying to escape the scrum of their desperate mothers frenzy. in fact, allegra was alone there for a a bit. we found some great kids books, a sweet mary magdalene book, 8 volumes of the shakespeare survey from the 1950's, to fill out my collection. in short a load of great non-fiction. we stayed away from the fiction,as that is not our strong point, and it all looks the same. on the way out i saw a free box of foreign affairs journals from the mid eighties. couldn't pass that up.

rummage sailing on a sunny spring saturday can be a religious experience at best, a bad dream at worst. we had a bit of both. every third sale had a nice title or two. always 10-25 cents. good to stock the shelves with the newer novels that the locals read. the bad dream was having to pee and not having the balls to ask the kind old ladies in their garages to use their wc.
but in the middle of squirming down the block of neighborhood bazaar, i stumbled on a mint 1961 copy of the LIBER USUALIS, edited by the benedictines of solesmes. This is a thick pre vatican II gregorian chant book in latin with rubrics in english. 25 cents for a classic slice of catholica. i think this copy is worth 40-50 bucks and oh do catholics love the pr-vatican II stuff. there is something elegantly romantic about a good mass, done the old school way. as we have a collection of a few thousand odd and old masses from the sheet music collection, this should fit in well.

anyway the church next to my parents house had a book sale too, a day of bibliomania in the highest midwest sense.

the gem find at the church sale was 70 pristine 'collectible automobile' magazines spanning the years 1984-2002. each one mint in a mylar bag. we are in the process of listing them now, and the cars are amazing. we did some ebay research and found one auction where an 18 page article from one of the ones we bought sold for 217 dollars. wow.
i guess if you spend 100,000 on a nice old car, you don't mind paying a few hundred for an article with the history of the car and some killer photos. we think the collection os worth 400-500. some of the issues routinely sell for 5-10 and some for 50 and up. i think 'rodders' magazine has some higher value, at least older copies, but this bunch will pay for the weekend of acquisitions.

i think my favorite score from a cobwebbed corner of a garage in la crosse was a first edition 1939 book entitled 'the evolution of chiropractic' by a. aug. dye. this is a fascinating history of all aspects of this work. and the kick is it has a pristine dust jacket, and is signed by the author of the ffep. fnord! i just looked it up on abe and there is one copy there for 30.00. and it is a reprint of the 1939 original.
heh
one woman liked my cheerful disposition and out of the blue GAVE me 2 folders full of exquisite prints of scarecrows, 15 in each, some color, some b/w. they were painted by a minnesota artist. lovely gift.

other memorable titles from the day include a first edition 'journeys out of the body', with sweet dj by robert monroe, who went on to found the monroe institute, where all the best Remote Viewers trained. a first 'up from nigger' by dick gregory, a few nice morman titles, some FE thomas mertons for the merton memorial shelf i have been collecting for, and a great copy of an obscure local title called kickapoo sunrise, a resource directory prepared by the kickapoo energy alternative staff. it's from the 70's and was put together by some great local 60's homesteaders. i have taught some of their kids and even grandkids at the waldorphish high school. one of the contributers is our resident bookfriend and cataloger mick,
Mick helps out at the shop sorting and explaining to me who all these obscure british lords and travelers were. he has an encyclopedic mind and has devised a 15 page organizational scheme for the books here. see picture...

on the theatre side, some great african and african american anthologies of plays, a book of gertrude steins operas and plays, and even an ubu by jarry, which we have been conspiring to put on recently with some of the dreamtime village folks.

on the way back into town after 24 hours of filling the back of the pickup
truck with a couple three hundred books and a rocking chair and some
boards for shelves and even a homemade green stuffed alien. on the way into our town of 700, i see a small rummage sale.
the books were laid out on an old farm trailer, rusty wheels and greying oak boards. 80 years old. old
books on my two favorite subjects, Organic farming and Metaphysics.
quite a stash of rodale stuff, some uncommon titles on both the occult
side and the prestidigitation side of magic, pruning, grafting, card
tricks and odd fellows code books. and to top it off a pamphlet on
the propagation of the eggplant. and a lovely first edition of the
flying saucer conspiracy.

life is good.

when we arrived home we found that 20 of our paragon piano concertos had sold on ebay, lots of henselt, hummel, tschaikowski, and some liszt. no one has bought the bukowski, but we did upload some more pictures to excentuate the beat up very good condition.

In the morning is the packing and posting, but hey the post office is right downstairs and steve our postman always has all the latest news, so that is always worth looking forward to.

from the hills of south west wisconsin

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When the old bookman dies...

2006-04-27T16:23:00.000-07:00

I have been thinking alot about the old bookman, you know the guy. Little shop stacked floor to ceiling with a lifetimes collection of words words words. I have been wondering what happens when the old bookman dies. We have met many of these guys in the past couple years. The sad thing is that even though they have clients and friends and other dealer buddies, they all share the same fatalistic question. What will happen to the books?

One particular instance stands out. While driving a thuck of shakespeariana through New York last summer, we came accross a little sign on the side of the road...Books. It was the size of a yard sale sign, something the average joe would mistake for a campaign sign and never even glance. My eyes have been trained by decades of rummage sailing and the smallest addition to the american lawn will elicit at least a quick glance. I had to question myself immediatly, because a sign saying 'books' on a lonely country road, is like seeing a mirage, especially when you already have 10,000 books in the back of the U-haul you are driving.

We found the next large driveway, and turned around. as we approached, i wondered where the books could be? it was a samll white house offset from the road. farmland and hills around it. Maybe it was a day long rummage sale and the sign was an illusion. No, the sign got nearer and it did actually did say the magic word. We turned into the driveway. As we wove our way around the small house i could catch a glimps through the picture window a table with stacks, many stacks of books. At the back of the house was a small garage. The window displayed a small sign that said 'open'. Just our luck.

It was starting to feeel a little david Lynch like as we exited the vehicle and approached the little building. We knocked. No answer. We waited and knocked again. Nothing. I tried the doorknob and it gave. Opening the door a crack, i spied a wonderland of delicious tomes stacked a clutter and shelved with stacks piled in front of the shelves halfway up. We repeated our call, but there was nothing. i started to look around and was amazed at the selection. oon the counter were a number of pre 1800 small books and under them some lovely volumes, ornate and obviously very expensive. We looked at each other and shrugged. After 3 or 4 minutes of wonderous browsing, we heard a shallow, soft and very kind voice say "hello there, are you here for books?"

He was a small little man, well into his eighties and moving with some difficulty and weilding a lovely can, hand carved.

We eneded up talking with him for near an hour, and he was like the old wise man you meet on the road. MAster wisdom there. We talked books and more books. He had made the transition to the internet and had an impressive 4 thousand listed on abe. That left 15,000 more , which were in the garage. He told us that he had bought out a book store in Florida in 1969, There were 40 thousand books and half were still in storage in a container somewhere. Never got around to unpacking those.

the point of the story is that he also told us his wife didn't really like books, in fact, she assured him that when he finally died, she would throw them all away.

Our hearts sank.

We have heard a variation of this story from many old guys. Some gals too. I think about these folks often, as we build shelves and i think 30 years in the future. Who will take over?

i have yet to meet my generation of bookseller. i see their pale shadows at library sales, franticly punching ISBN numbers into their cell phones, looking for the quick buck, the easy money.

I wonder if we are really that dying of a breed. the last apprentice kind of thing. ...

CANTI JAVA

2006-04-22T09:02:00.000-07:00

As everyone knows, Civil War books can be a goldmine. We recently aquired a few boxes of Civil War related items. The book pictured above sold for 200.00. It is a scarce history of the 75th Indiana Regiment. The woman who bought it saw the picture of her Great-grandfather in the ad and bought it for that reason. He was not a major figure in the book, but the picture was so representative of the period, that we included it. The woman said she had two other pictures of him, but they were both from his later life, after he was quite sick.

We have also started the lifelong task of organizing the sheet music collection. We have an entire two room filled with this stuff. We aquired 6 pallets of music from the New Haven dealer we got many books fro last summer. We finally have it all moved upstairs and that was a huge chore. Thanks to the YIHS kids for moving alot of thoses boxes up the stairs.

We have a nice bound Folio of Popular tunes from the early 1850's listed this week on ebay. The pages are thick like they are maybe Hemp paper.
The book comes from a woman named Mary Darrow. Hmmmm. wonder who she was.

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The music all came from Lincoln Square Music in New York City. They apparently had an auction when they closed some decades ago. The music has been packed and sitting there all this time until we liberated it.

A major collection that has emerged from this morrass is a massive quantity of Masses, especially requiems. Hundreds of masses for every Saint and Feast imaginable. Also a huge number of very unique cantatas. Adaptations of the words of Whitman, Joyce, Frost and many other literary luminaries.

My favorite from the Cantatas is the Infamous "Coffee Cantata" written by J.S. Bach in 1732. While Voltaire may hav drank 3 gallons of Java a day, Bach's habit seems to have been a bit less severe. In the 1730's it was still quite risque to have coffee in the house. I think it is the perfect Cantata for our Age. We may try to stage it in the summer if we can find a pianist.

David Rovics is playing in Viroqua Manana. I can't wait. If you've never heard his music check it out for free at:

http://davidrovics.com/

"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time."
--Buddhist proverb

BOOK is Still a Four-Letter Word

2006-04-14T08:14:00.000-07:00

Life has been fast and busy these past couple weeks. A major library sale in Madison last weekend was a big education. The intense vibe in the first 30 minutes of a sale like that is enough to knock you silly. Very contact sports oriented. The amount of folks punching ISBN's into cell phones was ridiculous. If i were running that sale i would ban cell phones. period! The whole game takes the fun and risk away from the experience.
We ended up going back for the back sale and added a great deal to our wisocnsin history section and the Agriculture Periodicals were abundant. The next weekend was a smaller sale in Madison which happens every month. Didn't like this one as much. Too expensive, and the selection was a bit lame. We did find a sweet Masonic Temple sale on the way there. As usual, the mystery find of the Mason sale outdid the library sale in quality of books and price. We picked up some nice kids books and some good gun references and hunting books. Around here, the hunting material is a good thing to stock. If you don't hunt yourself, you probably let your buddies hunt your land. Mornings waking up to a symphony of gunfire.

Speaking of gunfire, we aquired a section of a large Civil War collection from a collector in Florida. We may be getting the rest later in the year. Cross your fingers. The amazing books in this bunch knocked us out, and gave us a real education as to Civil War values. Obscure Generals and little battles. We spent 2 days cataloging it and have a a few books up on ebay.

Ebay has been good to us this week. Some nice soil surveys, yearbooks, and town histories, and farm machinery books paid the bills. I started listing some sheet music again, and that felt good. A scarce and expensive reprint of ottaviano petrucci's Canti B was very popular. We sold 2 copies in 2 days and raised the price a bit on the third. He was the Gutenburg of music printing. The first guy to use movable type for laying out music.
I think we'll hang onto the other few we have and do a bit more research on him.

Bought a new planer, so shelf building will commence this Saturday. Need more wood.......

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Escape From the 19th Century

2006-03-30T07:19:00.000-08:00

Some days I feel like I am living a hundred years ago. Approx. 30% of our stock of 100,000 books are pre-1900, and constantly opening these old tomes and dusting off their hundred-year dust can make you feel like you are living in another age. You begin to wonder who is meant to have these tomes. Why they would want to haul them home and what kinds of esoteric data they hope to recover.

Yesterday we had our two best customers show up again, this time with checkbooks open. Even though the store is in no shape for browsing, the two men spent hours skimming spines and moving piles. By the end of the day they had a stack of titles and the whole thing felt somehow organic. Fritz, the older guy, is very interested in J.B. Priestly and John Dunne. I found a Priestly play and read it last night. Nice script, but a bit dated. Apparently, he also came up with a bizarre theory of time, which i haven't wrapped my head around.

The 200 or so books aquired from the big Madison University Book Sale are all catalogued. There were some amazing finds there. Still to be entered are a huge pile of scholarly journals and ephemera. One of the best magazines we found was an old Magazine of Wisconsin History which has an elaborate article on some early Wisconsin Communes. I have been trying to research the Ripon Phalanx, and how it may have played a role in the founding of the Republican Party, also in Ripon. A few of my former students are studying there now, and there is a book sale there in a couple weeks, so a road trip seems indicated.

We have been ordewring alot of books on the Effigy Mounds here in Southwest Wisconsin for a client. One book was only available from the Netherlands, even though it was a small paperback published in the 90's here in the US. The Best title in that field has to be the book, "People of the Web" by Gregory Little. The book deals with UFO's, Nead Death Experiences, Stone Circles, and related it all back to the mounds.

With spring here now, it is time for Mound visits, and in a couple weeks there is a work day to clean up a group of mounds near Muscoda.

All for now.

Books and such

2006-03-26T06:55:00.000-08:00

This is the first post to the new Biblioarchy Blog. The idea here is to give a snapshot of some of the high wierdness that comes from a life of selling books. We are in the process of sorting, cataloging, and arrarnging over 100,000 books and sundry ephemera in a small shop in southwest Wisconsin. We are not 'open' to the public yet, but folks are begining to hear the rumors and are showing up at all hours.

Yesterday, two gentelmen were observed behind the building searching for a way in. They eventually made their way upstairs and i decided to show them the shop. Nearly an hour later, they were gone and i had a pile of books on metempsychosis (study of the evolution of the soul after death) put aside that they would return one day for. I guess the idea of actually bringing money to a bookstore seemed odd that day.

We finished a week long "Theme Week" with 8 kids from YIHS. They made their own books and helped to add some order to the chaos, or chaos to the order. Not quite sure yet.

The Madison University Book Sale was a success. Opening night was a knock down drag out full-contact kid of event. The Saturday Bag sale was much more laid back and 13 bags later, we were in the Black Stallion, escaping back into the driftless.

Spring is here, but still chilly.

Back to Cataloging.