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Dog-eared paperbacks, out-of-print vinyl, forgotten film prints — every listing carries the quiet weight of someone else's highlight marks.
Beach-battered novels.
Salt-stained paperbacks that survived a whole season in a tote bag. The ones with sand in the spine.
The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch · Vintage
"Margin notes in blue ink throughout"
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys · Penguin
"Underlined in pencil, 2 dog-ears"
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles · Ecco, 1978
"Previous owner: "M.L." stamped inside"
Songs of the Humpback Whale
Jodi Picoult · Vinyl 12"
"Original pressing, no skips"
Course readers & anthologies.
The Norton anthology someone annotated for you. Out-of-print criticism. The Foucault your professor keeps assigning.
The Norton Anthology of Theory
3rd Ed. · Heavily annotated
"Two colors of highlighter, extensive marginal notes"
Discipline & Punish
Michel Foucault · Vintage
"Underlined throughout, clean copy"
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · Penguin, 1972
"1st Penguin edition, light foxing"
Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes · Hill & Wang
"Unmarked, tight binding"
Ambient vinyl & long films.
The afternoon that stretches. A record that fills a room. A film that asks for your full attention and gives it back.
Discreet Music
Brian Eno · EG Records, 1975
"Original UK pressing, sleeve VG+"
Stalker — 16mm Print
Tarkovsky, 1979 · 2 reels
"Grease pencil labels, projected 4x"
The Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett · ECM, 1975
"Double LP, both discs play clean"
Jeanne Dielman — Laserdisc
Akerman, 1975 · Criterion #141
"Criterion CLV, booklet included"
Recent finds.
Still warm.
Blood Meridian
Listed by @cormac_shelf · Austin, TX
"Vintage 1985, tight binding, no marks"
Kind of Blue — Mono
Listed by @vinyl_obsessive · Brooklyn
"Original 6-eye Columbia mono pressing"
2001: A Space Odyssey — 70mm Trailer
Listed by @film_teacher · Chicago
"70mm promotional print, 1968"
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Listed by @jeanette_fan · London
"Pandora Press 1985, annotated in red"
Horses — Patti Smith
Listed by @ariel_records · Portland
"Arista 1975, promo stamp, plays mint"
The Emigrants
Listed by @winfried_g · Berlin
"New Directions, 1996 US 1st ed."
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