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Featured Books

- The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Taschen 40 Edition
  
  Frank Frazetta, Dan Nadel + 1 more
  
  $25.75
  
  This is the most – and best – Frazetta bang for your buck out there. This is the exact same book as the $200 edition, only smaller and without the dust jacket. It has the same super high quality reproductions of Frazetta's...
- Us: The Screenplay
  
  Jordan Peele
  
  $13.75
  
  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
  
  $13.75
  
  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...
- McSweeney's 74
  
  Art Spiegelman, R. Kikuo Johnson
  
  $25.00
  
  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....
- 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
  
  $25.00
  
  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,...
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  
  Lewis Carroll, Tove Jansson
  
  $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...
- Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
  
  Branden W. Joseph, Drew Sawyer
  
  $42.75
  
  Get ready for 448 pages of zines! Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is the catalogue created to accompany – and represent – the exhibit of the same name that was held earlier this year at The Brooklyn Museum. It a...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?...
- 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...
- 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...