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Featured Books

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  
  Lewis Carroll
  
  $16.75
  
  To mark the 100th anniversary of its 1865 release, Tove Jansson embarked on an illustrated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which was released the following year. Now, just in time for the holidays, NYRB Kids has...
- McSweeney's 74
  
  Art Spiegelman, R. Kikuo Johnson
  
  $29.75
  
  Celebrate McSweeney's 25th Anniversary with this crazy collector's item issue that comes packed in a hefty steel lunch box designed by... Art Spiegelman. And, collectible "author cards" (think baseball cards) illustrated by R....
- Us: The Screenplay
  
  Jordan Peele
  
  $16.75
  
  Remember the glory days of cinema studies and those great illustrated screenplay editions, filled with stills from the film? Well, it looks like the fine folks at Inventory Press do, as well, with exhibit A being this softcover...
- Greatest Hits
  
  Harlan Ellison
  
  $15.75
  
  While Harlan Ellison's star has dimmed somewhat with the passing of the years, likely due, at least in part, to his abrasive personality, it remains hard to overstate his influence on science fiction, and then, in turn, on...
- Last Girl Standing
  
  Trina Robbins
  
  $15.75
  
  We had been selling this in the shop since it was published in 2017, but only now, with Trina's passing, did we realize that it wasn't listed here on the site. The Last Girl Standing is an amazing, mind-blowing memoir of...
- Signal: 09
  
  Alec Dunn, Josh MacPhee
  
  $13.75
  
  Co-edited by former Pittsburgher (and Copacetic customer), Alec Dunn, Signal weaves a story of how culture is central to social transformation, both yesterday and today. We now have all nine issues in stock! (links below...
- Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's Edition
  
  Utagawa Hiroshige, Andreas Marks
  
  $33.75
  
  This 320 page, full color, 8 1/2" x 12" hardcover volume is a fantastic collection of some of the finest prints ever produced. It presents full-page, full color reproductions of all 118 of Hiroshige's Edo prints, along with...
- A Place Beyond Shame
  
  Ed Steck
  
  $25.75
  
  Ed Steck's latest traces a harrowing intersection between horror movies and horror life, with each overlapping the other, making for a blurry consciousness wherein nothing is clear, but, eventually leading to connections,...
- Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
  
  Shigeru Kayama
  
  $17.75
  
  Here's from the publisher, University of Minnesota Press: The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaiju Godzilla! Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film,...
- Self-Portraits
  
  Osamu Dazai
  
  $14.25
  
  Out of print for thirty years, Self-Portraits is once again available in this new edition from New Directions, who have this to say abou it: “Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel...
- Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
  
  Cookie Mueller
  
  $16.25
  
  At long last we have a definitive collection of the work that flowed from the pen of the actress – most closely associated with John Waters – adventurer, "East Village raconteur," and lifelong writer, Cookie Mueller that...
- Really the Blues
  
  Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe
  
  $20.00
  
  The definitive account of the early jazz scene -- and so much more... An unforgettable reading experience that opens new perspectives on American history and cultural life. Now, at last, back in print from New York Review...
- The Flowers of Buffoonery
  
  Osamu Dazai
  
  $13.75
  
  The back cover blurb pretty much says all that you need to know: "For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai's hilariously comic (!) and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human." ... but we'll throw these in for good measure:...
- Harry Smith: American Magus
  
  Harry Smith, Paola Igliori
  
  $17.77
  
  Now is the time to get hep to that enigmatic polymath connecting so much of mid-to-late 20th century avant garde counter culture. Out of print for over two decades, the still definitive single volume work on Harry Smith is now...
- Doughnut Economics
  
  Kate Raworth
  
  $15.00
  
  If you’re looking for a book to kick-start your brain and move it into a higher gear, a book that will set your thinking on a fresh path and that by doing so will help extricate us, as a society, together, out of our present...
- A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
  
  Aaron Cometbus, Scott Satterwhite
  
  $16.75
  
  Documenting and celebrating 25 years (and more!) of the 309 Punkhouse in Pensacola, Florida in 152 pages, this softcover book was (thankfully) edited and coordniated by former Punkhouse residents Aaron Cometbus and Scott...
- You Can't Win
  
  Jack Black
  
  $16.25
  
  Finally, a new edition of the seminal novel,You Can't Winby Jack Black. Here's a book thatcan lay claim –if any can –to having launched the "outlaw" literary counterculture, way back in 1926. This edition sports an intense...
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  
  Ibram X. Kendi
  
  $16.19
  
  Whilethis book has been enthusiastically soldin ourshop since shortly after its publication, we now feel thatitshould also be offeredhereas well. The single most important work of history to arrive at Copacetic during the...
- Smoketown
  
  Mark Whitaker
  
  $16.25
  
  Inspired by the Teenie Harris Archives at theCarnegie Museum of Art, renowned journalist and media executive, Mark Whitaker – whose grandparents were Pittsburghers during the Teenie Harris era –delveddeep into the history of...
- Seventeen Years of Media Consumption (2002 - 2018): The books; The recordings; The films
  
  John W. Fail
  
  $75.75
  
  Readers of this space are more likely than not to have their identity invested fairly heavily in media consumption. Who are we? How do we see ourselves? Where does this vision of ourselves originate? How is it formed?...
- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassination
  
  Terrance Hayes
  
  $15.75
  
  The latest poetry collection by the National Book Award-winningMacArthur Fellow,Pittsburgh-based poet, Terrance Hayes features 70 poems sharing the same title, identical with that of the collection itself. Prepare to be...
- In the Swarm
  
  Byung-Chul Han
  
  $12.75
  
  In the Swarm presents a cogent response to the rising tide of internet inf(l)ected consciousness that is deeply rooted in the European – primarily German – philosophical tradition, but don't let that scare you off. This slim...
- Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
  
  Michael Tisserand
  
  $29.75
  
  Krazy Kat aficionados have long placed its creator, George Herriman at or near the center of the development of comics and cartooning. A prodigious talent, and true comics pioneer – possessed of an unquestionable genius – he...
- Bowie
  
  Simon Critchley
  
  $15.25
  
  This very personal,heartfelt,thoughtful, intelligent, conciselywrittenand thoroughly engaging tribute to the life, work and figure of David Bowie is agem of a book sure to be treasured by any Bowie Fan. Written shortly before...
- Jazz A B Z
  
  Paul Rogers, Wynton Marsalis + 1 more
  
  $19.95
  
  OK, this is not just the perfect gift book for the jazz fan on your list, it is also makes for an ideal gift to give to anyone -- of any age -- who has a love of words and pictures. This sumptuous hardcover volume has the...