Jason Pettus's Blog, page 45
August 15, 2014
CCLaP Rare: "The Chicago Speller," Grade Eight, July 1944 edition
(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).
The Chicago Speller, Grade Eight
From the Chicago Public School District (Don C. Rogers, Superintendent)
July 1944 edition
DESCRIPTION: A great example of the mini-textbooks that were handed out by the millions in the Chicago Public School system during the early 20th cen...
August 14, 2014
CCLaP Rare: "The Stars" by Eugene Field (1901), First Edition First Printing
(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).
The Stars: A Slumber Story
By Eugene Field (1901)
First Edition, First Printing
DESCRIPTION: It's a shame that those writers who primarily get known through short ephemeral work (stories in magazines, columns in newspapers, slam poems at open mics) are so quickly destined...
August 8, 2014
The NSFW Files: "Lost Girls" by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
(Once a month through 2013, CCLaP staff writer Karl Wolff investigates literature of a more carnal kind with The NSFW Files. Despite being erotic, is there literary value to be found? For all the essays in this
series, please click here.)
Lost Girls
by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Review by Karl Wolff
Personal History: Alan Moore wrote an epic erotic comic. And Lost Girls also carried with it hints of controversy. As a longtime fan of Moore, I had to see what he did with this particular genre o...
The CCLaP Weekender for August 8th is here!
This week's edition of our new e-magazine, The CCLaP Weekender released every Friday morning, is now online for your free downloading pleasure. It features a new piece of original fiction by Bruce Douglas Reeves; a photography feature highlighting the work of Seattle artist Todd Schlemmer; and our usual look at the upcoming week of Chicago literary events. Use the links below to access it right now.
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CCLaP Rare: "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by E.M. Forster (1905), First American Edition [1920] First Printing
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
By E.M. Forster (1905)
First American Edition [1920], First Printing
DESCRIPTION: The early 20th century was a sneakily fascinating time in British literary history, mostly because of the British public really starting to wrestle for the first t...
August 7, 2014
And this just in: Eleanor Stanford's "Historia, Historia" wins Peace Corps Experience Award!
Exciting news that just came into CCLaP headquarters yesterday: Eleanor Stanford's CCLaP essay collection Historia, Historia has just won the 2014 Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award! This is given out each year by an organization called Peace Corps Worldwide, a group of current and former volunteers who all enjoy writing and reading about their experiences; so to have this award be determined by a group of her fellow Peace Corps writers is something extra-special to us, and we here a...
CCLaP Rare: "Human Sexual Inadequacy" by Masters and Johnson (1970), First Edition First Printing
(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).
Human Sexual Inadequacy
By William Masters and Virginia Johnson (1970)
First Edition, First Printing
DESCRIPTION: It can be argued that the Postmodernist Era REALLY began the moment the US won World War Two in 1945, thus kicking off the Mid-Century-Modernist age and all t...
August 6, 2014
CCLaP Rare: "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow (1975), First Edition First Printing
(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).
Ragtime
By E.L. Doctorow (1975)
First Edition, First Printing
DESCRIPTION: Among collectors of Postmodernist first editions, a popular guessing game is to determine which of the novels of our own age will eventually be the ones most sought after in another 50 years from n...
August 5, 2014
CCLaP Recommends: Contemporary authors you should be collecting in their entirety
(In preparation of opening a new money-making website soon on the subject of rare books, CCLaP has recently become an affiliate seller at eBay; so we will now be doing weekly recommendations of other interesting book sales taking place there besides just our own, grouped by an interesting theme or subject each week. Please be aware that when you click on one of these particular links and then maybe end up buying the book, CCLaP receives a percentage of that sale as a commission for recommendi...
CCLaP Rare: "Van Bibber and Others" by Richard Harding Davis (1892), illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson, First Edition First Printing
(CCLaP is now selling rare and unusual books through the main website, shipped to customers through USPS Priority Mail and with full refunds always guaranteed. To see the latest full list of volumes for sale, please click here).
Van Bibber and Others
By Richard Harding Davis (1892)
First Edition, First Printing
DESCRIPTION: The Victorian Age is littered with fascinating people who have now been mostly forgotten by the public at large; take for a good example Richard Harding Davis, who had just as...
