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cheepreads

  1. Too cool for school? Cheep reads too square? Fine. Man-up: Hemingway's SUN ALSO RISES (trade, VG+) with D. Coupland's GEN X (trade, VG). $9
  2. NY-School great Frank O'Hara's SELECTED POEMS (Ed. D. Allen). PB. VG. All his best, including: "oh Lana Turner we love you get up." $8.50
  3. Recent but handsome HC edition of Austen's MANSFIELD PARK. Fine/unread in like DJ. No zombies though. Sorry. $8.50
  4. One of the finest graphic novels evah! Alan Moore's WATCHMEN. Trade paper, VG+. Just $10 for what some call the Citizen Kane of comics.
  5. Hey hep cat - Kerouac's SUBTERRANEANS in swank original Grove edition. Retro! Be the envy of the subway. PB. VG. $10 (beret not included).
  6. CR LIVES! Back from the dead! Today: Jonathan Lethem's debut novel GUN W/OCCASIONAL MUSIC. Talking kangaroos! Designer drugs! HC. F/F. $10
  7. Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones' LOST IN THE CITY and (the book for which he won the prize) THE KNOWN WORLD. PBs. VG. $8.00
  8. A handsome edition of John Fowles' FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN (HC, no DJ as issued) with (my fav) THE COLLECTOR (a plain ol' paperback): $9
  9. A book-lover's pair: Helen Hanff's biblio-classic 84, CHARING CROSS RD & Asne Seierstad's recent bestseller THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL. Pbs. $8
  10. In honor of this excellent NYT Op-Ed (http://bit.ly/163eZL ), Jim Trelease's READ-ALOUD HDBK. PB. $6
  11. Two masterpieces from Virginia Woolf: MRS. DALLOWAY and A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. Trade Pbs. Both practically as new. $9.00
  12. Hard boiled: Raymond Chandler's TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS & James Ellroy's THE BLACK DAHLIA. Trade PBs. VG. $9.00
  13. Sorry for lack of tweets this week. Unexpected travel. We now return to our regular programming.
  14. 2 for book lovers: NYPL's BOOKS OF THE CENTURY and READING IN BED: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading. PBs. $6.50
  15. Two today from bestselling NYTs columnist Thomas Friedman: LEXUS & THE OLIVE TREE (pb) with FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM (hc/dj). $8
  16. Just in time for National Poetry Month: Frank O'Hara's LUNCH POEMS & Gregory Corso's GASOLINE. Both pb, matching City Lights Pocket eds. $10
  17. Poe Ballantine's 2006 novel DECLINE OF THE LAWRENCE WELK EMPIRE. As new. 1st. A surfer's "Seventies bildungsroman" -Austin Chronicle. $8
  18. Quote of the day: "Had a walk-in customer today." "An online bookseller walk-in?" "Yeah, took a lot of bandwidth." @hangfirebooks via FB.
  19. The great George Saunders' short story collection PASTORALIA. HC/DJ. Remainder, else NF. 1st ed. W/rare blurb of praise from T. Pynchon. $8
  20. The happy couple: J.P. Sartre's LITERARY ESSAYS (1st, hc/dj) and his lovely wife Simone De Beauvoir's SECOND SEX (trade pb). $12.50