NEW ARRIVALS & RESTOCKS: Art, Childrens, Comic, etc

...just got in a large collection: Drawn & Quarterly graphic novels, Outsider Art monographs, Classic Children's picture books, most of Roberto Bolano's ouevre, Edward Gorey, and more!

FEATURED: Biker Lit

Hunter Thompson, Hell's Angels







Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Ridin High, Livin Free






Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Hell's Angel



These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

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FEATURED: Two by Edward Lear

Nonsense Songs & Stories
Hardcover, $29.95



Nonsense Botany & Nonsense Alphabets
Hardcover, $29.95




These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

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Featured: The Elvis Conspiracy

The King's last days recounted by Elvis' bodyguard.

Dick Grob, The Elvis Conspiracy
Hardcover, published in Las Vegas (out of print)
$45.00




This book, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

EVENT: This Saturday, September 18th: The Doozer & Willie Lane at Brickbat!

This Saturday, September 18th, 8pm

at Brickbat Books:

The Doozer
Willie Lane

The Doozer
"Hailing from Cambridge, England, The Doozer bears an almost uncanny vocal resonance to past legend Syd Barrett, as well as a knack for cobbling together occasional found-tape narration with string-strum and hypnotic percussive plonk not unlike The Shadow Ring. The gin doesn't come much pinker than this." _Siltbreeze

"The Doozer makes angular bedroom psych-pop from guitar, keyboards and drum machines. He insists that he 'builds' music, and it's an apposite word. Sheet Music has a lovely constructed precision underlying its surface awkwardness, with a gift for finding chords or sour melodic twists that initially sound wrong, but turn out right. His counter-intuitive logic and oblique associations put him in a lineage connecting The Incredible String Band, Kevin Ayers and Billy Childish, but most of all another Cambridge alumnus, Syd Barrett. The Doozer has a voice of his own, though, and the quavers and quirks of songs like 'Dogwalking' and 'Burn the Tape' lodge themselves in the brain with strange persistence."
--Sam Davies, The Wire
http://www.myspace.com/thedoozerman





Willie Lane
"...his playing ranges from Wizz Jones power-pluck at its cleanest to Michael Chapman electro-smear at its phasingest. But Willie knows his stuff cold and this instrumental slide through the gates of Neverland is one of this year’s great rides." -Arthur

FEATURED: Henry Rollins' End To End Volume II

A first edition copy of Henry Rollins' second book, with mandatory coffee cup rings on the cover as well other unidentifiable stains which seem to to be the inevitable result of the hardcore lifestyle. But unlike punk rock books, hardcore books don't seem to stink of cigarettes. Go figure.




This book, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

NEW ARRIVALS: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom

...got a handful of first printings of Franzen's Freedom in stock.
Pick up a copy and decide for yourself whether he's the voice of his generation, or another aging Swarthmore chump.



This book, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
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215 592 1207

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FEATURED: Three by Mickey Spillane

The Big Kill
Paperback, $8.95
"There's only one kind of talk a punk understands...I snapped the side of the rod across his jaw and laid the flesh open to the bone. He dropped the sap and staggered into the big boy with a scream...I pounded his teeth back into his mouth with the end of the barrel..and took my own damn time kicking him in the face."

ouch!
(what's a "big boy"?)





Vengeance Is Mine
Paperback, $8.95
"Mike tangles with a crew of sinister gangster, the likes of whom he'd never seen before, and beautiful women who wrap themselves around him like snakes around a rabbit."




One Lonely Night
Paperback, $6.95 (as is)
"...she's the best looking thing I ever saw. I get steamed up watching her from fifty feet away. Whatever a dame's supposed to have on the ball, she's got it..."




These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

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NEW ARRIVAL: Richard Scarry's The Polite Elephant

The Polite Elephant by Richard Scarry
A First Little Golden Book (out of print) $9.95

"If you should ever meet the polite elephant...he'll tip his hat and say "How do you do?"

Polite Elephant makes me want to be polite! If Polite Elephant did not make me so damn happy, I would be filled with guilt and shame, but I am not! We must all strive to be like Polite Elephant! We must wear hats! All hail Polite Elephant!


This book, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
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215 592 1207

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FEATURED: Little Lit

A collection of "New Thing" comix for kids. Kind of like Raw Magazine for the pre-adolescent crowd. The first volume contains Chris Ware's board game, "Fairytale Road Rage" along with its elusive game pieces. Other highlights include Mattotti's "The Two Hunchbacks", Kaz's "The Hungry Horse", and Daniel Clowes sequel to Sleeping Beauty, in which Sleeping Beauty's evil mother-in-law schemes to eat Beauty's children!




Little Lit: Strange Stories For Strange Kids
edited by Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly
Hardcover (out of print)






Little Lit: Folklore & Fairytale Funnies
edited by Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly
Hardcover (out of print)




These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

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FEATURED: Two by Bolaño

The Insufferable Gaucho
Hardcover, $22.95
A collection of 7 stories and an essay called “Literature + Illness = Illness”




The Return
Hardcover, $23.95
...aka Putas Asesinas. Collects those stories omitted from Last Evenings on Earth.





These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

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NEW ARRIVAL: Night Becomes Day by Richard McGuire

Night Becomes Day by Richard McGuire
Paperback (out of print) $11.95

I first became aware of Richard McGuire in Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly's Raw Magazine during the 1980s. His comic strip "Here" was an obvious influence on the development of the young Chris Ware. During the 1990s he wrote and illustrated a series of children's books, all of them now out of print. He has gone on to successful career as an illustrator/graphic designer.











This book, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

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We accept Visa, MC, Amex, Paypal and cash.

FEATURED: Two by Agatha Christie

The Secret Of Chimneys, $6.95


By The Pricking Of My Thumbs, $6.95




These books, and thousands of others, can be purchased from:

Brickbat Books
709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

215 592 1207

Open every day, 11am to 7pm.

We accept Visa, MC, Amex, Paypal and cash.

We ship anywhere.