When: Friday September 30th, Saturday October 1st, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and Sunday October 2nd from 12 to 5 p.m.
5B4 is parting with hundreds of photography and art books that are priced to sell. Many are rare and out of print, some signed or inscribed by the artists. Have been collecting for 25 years and now parting with a selection of my library.
If I get in the car right now I could make it....
Mike
(Thanks to James Erlandson)
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That lens has lots of distortions...
Posted by: Rui Silva | Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 03:48 PM
When I conjure an image of heaven in my mind, it looks a lot like the photo in this post.
Posted by: Rob Atkins | Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 04:11 PM
Mike, you might make it, but would you have gas money left over to get home?
Posted by: Ed Kirkpatrick | Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 04:33 PM
Darn it! All those days I would be working; my schedules would make it impossible for me to swing by to Chelsea for even an hour. The upside is I am making money instead of spending it. But it would still make me wonder what sort of ink-on-dead-tree treasures I would not be adding to my library.
Posted by: Max Pasion | Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 05:05 PM
Mike, you could wait till very early Friday morning and make the sale, in a comfortable car or truck. Back in 1999, I began a trek to take pictures and teach a Photographers Formulary workshop out in Montana by driving from here (NYC, give or take in this context) to Janesville, WI, where I pulled in for the night at a Motel 6. I was quite pleased with myself for the non-macho idea of ending the day at 990 miles instead of turning the trip meter over. My wife's wry comment over the cell phone was, "Oh, I get it. You're getting in touch with your inner trucker."
Posted by: carlweese | Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 05:49 PM
Jeff Ladd's taste in photobooks definitely leans toward the eclectic and obscure, but his periodic 'de-accessioning' sales announcements on his blog always include real gems even for us philistines.
Probably just as well I'm stuck working straight through this weekend and can't attend. I'd end up divorced if I came home with another mountain of books.
Posted by: Geoff Wittig | Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 06:35 PM
Mike, just do it. What is so important about staying in home in Wiscosin.You want more photographic books so go and satisfy your craving.
Posted by: Bryce Lee | Tuesday, 27 September 2011 at 08:13 PM
Let's buy all of it and start a library.
Posted by: charlie | Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 12:00 AM
Rui- that's one pretty distorted ground glass you're viewing from; all I can see are hours of perfect fascination...
Posted by: Stan B. | Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 12:38 AM
I wonder what the back story is here. I certainly hope that it's not financial troubles. A worthy site that I enjoy. Hate to think that there is trouble.
Posted by: Sandy Rothberg | Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 08:07 AM
@Rui Silva: Is it the lens or the shelves that is distorted? There's an awful lot of dead tree there!
Posted by: Phil Cook | Wednesday, 28 September 2011 at 09:02 AM
See what happens when I don't read your blog for a few days..... Not quite enough time to arrange travel etc to NYC. I wonder how many book collections are sitting kind of ignored, needing a new home??
Posted by: Ian M | Thursday, 29 September 2011 at 09:04 PM