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Stashes pens around the house like drinkers stash bottles. Comics for cash. Where applicable. Artist/Author: Crash Course, Rumble Strip, Donny Digits, Sugar Buzz!, Plastic Culture, etc https://woodrowphoenix.co.uk/

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 15h

Just got lost in the listings for 19th & 20th century literature auction (long passed) at Swann Auction Galleries: so many beautiful editions

www.swanngalleries.com/auctions/pas...

Two leather-bound books side by side, with gilt lettering and images.

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STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. 2 volumes. Title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. 8vo, original dark brown cloth, front covers with gilt-blocked vignette, repeated in blind on back covers, short chipping to spine tips, corners bumped with exposure, vol. 2 with two chips to rear joint and slight lean, short crack to outer edge of front board on vol. 1; penciled ownership signature to flyleaves, unobtrusive bookseller's label to front pastedowns. Boston: John P.
Jewett, 1852
Sold: $2,125.00
Estimate: $3,000 - $4,000
(Sold Price includes Buyer's Premium)

Hardcover book, showing some signs of age:
‘Young Man with a Horn’ by Dorothy Baker

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BAKER, DOROTHY. Young Man With a Horn. 8vo, publisher's brown-stamped tan cloth, two small corner stains; dust jacket, price-clipped, tape repair to spine panel head on verso, light shelfwear; spot to rear endpaper, else contents clean.
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Based on the life of Davenport, Iowa native and jazz music legend Bix Beiderbecke. Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall starred in the 1950 film adaptation directed by Michael Curtiz. Cambridge, Mass.:
Houghton Mifflin, 1938
Estimate: $300 - $400
Passed

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LEROUX, GASTON. The Phantom of the Opera. Color frontispiece and four 2-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne. 8vo, original pictorial brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white and blind, light spotting to top-edges, minimal wear to spine tips, tiny blemish to bottom of front board; dust jacket, unclipped, light soiling to panels with a few small stains to spine panel, 1 3/4-inch rectangular chip to bottom of front panel with loss of some letters, 20mm square chip to spine panel head touching three letters in the title, two small tape repairs on verso, few short closed tears, penciled price of $1.29 to top of front flap; front hinge cracked at frontis, internally clean. New York: Bobbs-Merrill
Company, (1911)
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000
Passed
19TH & 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE
November 10, 2016 1:30 PM EST
New York, NY, US

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MACDONALD, ROSS. The Drowning Pool * The Way Some People Die. Together, 2 volumes.
8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jackets, first title scratched with small puncture to spine panel, second title price-clipped with tape repairs and dampstain to verso. FIRST EDITIONS. New York: Knopf, 1950;
1951
Sold: $687.50
Estimate: $300 - $400
(Sold Price includes Buyer's Premium)
19TH & 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE
November 10, 2016 1:30 PM EST
New York, NY, US

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 16h

yes, I would happily do it under those conditions. The dawn hallucinations are only temporary, after all.
PS: sorry about your torment with the ball chair but don’t let it stay your hand in future, can supply any ref needed

Woodrow sitting in an Eero Aarnio ball chair looking at what he pictures as John’s pained expression

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah! It was usually just the knowledge I could go downstairs at 7am for a quick breakfast at the Rivington Cafe that kept me going.

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 21h

Apple’s call screening app is worthless as a previewing function. The actual words this woman spoke were “District Nurse”. But I didn’t find that out till after I had to apologise for not responding to her message. Sigh.

Photo of iPhone screen:
Voicemail
• "This written ass."
Yesterday 00:07

Screenshot of voicemail on iPhone, showing the buttons for play, speaker, trashcan, add contact, report spam. Underneath them is the transcript, labelled “(low confidence)” which is the most accurate part of this nonsense:
it says
“This written ass.”

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 22h

Precisely. Insane! I did many all-nighters at Detonator in the Studio Years but only out of dire necessity!

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 22h

24-hour comics are insane but I remember you telling me this and being sorry I missed it :)

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 22h

Gorgeous lettering especially on that g into Th combo

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 1d

Join me at 7pm tonight for a listen along party to my new album, Public Works And Utilities. warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/merch/public...

Public Works and Utilities Listening Party from Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Listening Party from Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan.

warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 2d

News! Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th. www.brokenfrontier.com/goblin-marke...

Goblin Market Small Press Comics Fair Comes to Stanley Arts, South London this Sunday, October 19th – Broken Frontier

Details on exhibitors and events at the Goblin Market small press comics fair at Stanley Arts in South London.

www.brokenfrontier.com

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

I assume the real story here is proof of the afterlife because you died and are now writing to us from Beyond

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds intriguing. I love Frank O’Hara. I’ve ordered a copy from Carcanet

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

I think you mean ‘excitable little shop!!!’

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Please try them!!!

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

The shop.

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

It was the missing steps in between those stages that broke my spirit as a child

Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if this sign was a person.
I like the intensity :)
But a whole shopful of signs punctuated like this… probably not (!!!!)

A sign over the freezer cabinets in an asian supermarket.

NEW ARRIVAL!!
Japanese Fish Cake
Products!!!
Please try them!!

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Except that the key factor here isn’t size of screen, it’s resolution. Most TVs are 4k. And phones are effectively the same when you’re holding them up to your face. So all that detail works just fine.
Whether it’s most effective composition is a different argument, I think