⠉⠎ ⠐⠒⠉⠏⠖IN PRINT⠉⠎ ⠐⠒⠉⠏⠖

Below are a few finds from the flea and the paperback section at Strand. Unfortunately, I have terrible luck at finding anything good in the paperbacks at Strand even though I have the eyes of a hawk especially when it comes to thriftin and diggin for a bargain. And yet I still go every Tuesday with my girl Annie and she ALWAYS finds three, three!! spectacularly crazy, vintage, cult-ey, or otherwise inspiring material for a steal. I did manage to find a good book of prints of Gauguin paintings that was falling apart and thus cheap which I promptly went home and framed, so now I have my own little wall of Gauguin, which I LOVE.
At ant rate, in the midst of frustratedly digging, I started to realize that I spend most of my time getting teased by intriguing fonts and color schemes on book covers that are filled with dull reading//visual material. SO I am now making it my mission to photograph these covers, the first is below.



Below is actually a pretty good lil drama by Paul Zindel, but I didn't know that when I bought it. The cover is by far my favorite out of the 3.


I actually found the one below on the street... which makes sense after reading it.


Note the strategically framed nip in the Y in 'your.' Great typeface, and the authors interpretations of dream motifs are great.

A few examples:
ANIMALS***"instinctual sexual cravings"
BULL***"sexual passion"
BEHEADING***"fear of impotence"
BAG***"a woman, the old bag"
BALL***"playing with the testicals"
BICYCLING***"puberty, handlebars (+ holding), therefore masturbation, riding.
CAR**sexual "drives"
DEVIL***"the sexual drives"
I kid you not, these are direct quotes.