All sorts of wonderful to be found in our booth at the ABAA Holiday Virtual Book Fair. zurl.co/NjkyA

Title Page of the Day...Originally intended for inclusion in The Age Letters, it was considered so obscene it was cut by the printers... #burroughs #ginsberg #fuckyoupress

Booth tour of our interesting bits at the Boston ABAA book fair, 2025. Enjoy. youtu.be/t4LKwA6zL6g?si=WQyaA...

Quick Clarifying Note: As I've mentioned in various spaces, we have purchased a wonderful house in Ireland. It will eventually be our primary residence.  To be clear, Lux Mentis will continue to grow US operations while also expanding its European presence.

Also today: two thick costume designers binders documenting, in photos and text, the transformation over the season of Glee’s m->f and f->m trans characters…the year Glee won an Emmy.

Well, today is off to a good start.

"18 years old... 88 years old in human terms. He lived a long life and died peacefully at the end. He must have had a very happy life as a cat." Rest easy, Maru. mugumogu. I Am Maru. Japan: Tokimeki Publishing, 2009. First (Japanese) Edition.

"It is indeed a painful duty I am called to perform to announce to you the tidings of the death of our little Alice, she died yesterday about 10 oclock her disease was cholera infantum - a disease which often attends teething..." Sarah Dunn writes to family about the death of her child #mementomori

Seems, sadly, apt for today... Dance of Death leaf from Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle], 1493.

Not just books, Tarot and tarot decks are regularly featured in our inventory. After two major exhibits in the Europe, the tarot is recognized as divination system, beyond a parlour game novelty. Tarot tells a story and provides users with a framework. Tarot is art. Tarot is engagement. #tarot

Hosting an east coast watch party for the debut of naming the dead… Please consider joining and even if you're not able to join, please support the exceptional work of DDP.

Happy Birthday to Dr. Oliver Sacks! We have posted a short list from his private library that we hope reflects his questing mind and interests. Enjoy. #oliversacks #neurodivergence zurl.co/14q5M

Resume 1944: Rohwer Center High School: Today seems like an appropriate day to share an Internment Camp yearbook...because America First.

Love that first sale in TX is this.

Just in time for the Dallas book fair, look what arrived in the post today: Wolgemut's, Dance of Death...a leaf from the Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493]. Fits my Dallas theme nicely...

Another brilliant bit of work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. This from a deluxe copy with dozens of state proofs. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... RFK jr. will impact the lives of many Americans. His ignorance will bind us to false narratives and the eventual needless hospitalizations and deaths of many Adults and children throughout this country that he was sworn to protect.

Cataloging some earlier work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. His engravings never cease to amaze me. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts

A gem that retuned with us from Oxford. [and a test of Zoho social]

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

Terminal 2 heading to Ireland for a few days. The robot trundles around saying ‘intelligent inspection operations’…proto-dalek.

Sometimes, at the fine press fair, you find something surprising.

Set up at the Oxford fine press and artist book fair. Nice space for the event (Oxford examination halls)

Pimms and lilac in Oxford.

Book find of our last day in York.

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

The Belfry at the Guy Fawkes Inn is the entire top floor (3-4 rooms plus bath (one is long and really effectively two rooms)). The bath has a copper tub ❤️‍🔥. Booking this might have been best/most clever thing I’ve done in ages.

‘A surfyte of cheese doth bringe payne’: Leeds University transcribes early book on cheese 📜 www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...

Cover of the Day… Cataloging more IRA material.

When you read The Name of the Rose, did you think "I wish I could play this as a computer game!" Wish no more, please discover: Pentiment unwinnable.com/2025/04/08/w...

New timely broadside from Michael Kuch debuting at the @nybookfair (Booth D33). As with the related, first term prints (Rise Up, Resist, Reject) it is an open edition. #bookarts #michaelkuch #fightfascism

His statement sounded better in the original German on the steps of the Reichstag in 1940…

Top of the playlist...bodes well for the day... youtu.be/a3HEePMLAVU?...

Wonderful news… ilab.org/article/rare...

Sorry. Just realized my personal rantings were posting here. Deleted some…then gave up. Will try to parse better going forward. See my personal if such amuses.

GOP Senator Roger Wicker on Pete Hegseth’s NATO speech: “I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.” Wicker (who voted to confirm Hegseth) told Politico, adding that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s comments.

Hagan Scotten, assistant U.S. attorney for the SDNY who was working on the Eric Adams corruption case, has resigned from his position in a blistering letter to Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion”

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

They’re deleting websites while we watch the Super Bowl This one for CHILD TAX CREDITS

Well…good on Nike.

Fuck SCROTUS and his band of loathsome fluffers. Wish nothing the a miserable existence of Ms Miller. Fuck off and die.

When cities clear homeless encampments, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos. Over and over, people across the U.S. told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses: https://propub.li/3WScD3g

joincanada-eh.com My chuckle for the day. Let’s all join Canada, eh?

The most qualified Supreme Court justice nominee in history gets dismissed as a “DEI hire”—because she’s Black. Mediocre White men don’t get this disrespect!

NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over. "Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.

Ah, yes — late Saturday night EST, when government agencies notoriously issue all-staff directives.

These companies want to be “non-banks” that can accept deposits of your money and then not have any legal obligations to protect it—which lets them use it to speculate on crypto etc—and not have FDIC insurance. They need to kill the cfpb to do that.

Fuck Thiel and all these other malevolent asshats and/or fluffers.