Biblioctopus

BASICS
Book entries include author (or its equivalent on non book items), title (or its equivalent on non book items), place, date, a bibliographical conclusion, and a physical description, typically in that order. Practical limits in a commercial listing preclude a complete deconstruction, but any aspect chosen as a digression, for any particular entry, follows the evaluation of many relevant factors at once, their interdependence, their related importance, and their consequences. We strive to weigh them fairly, and place them properly in relation to one another, so that, what gets written is not accidental, but rather the result of an encompassing view, that should have width, breadth and depth. You can decide whether it has merit

STICKER JOY
We price to challenge other equivalent items of like kind and quality, so everything is marked (or remarked) to market, by recent world wide survey, the aim being, that no one is offering a finer example at our price, and no one is offering an equal example for less.

METHODOLOGY
In a stumble towards neo scholarship we apply, for example, intellectual history (place within a body of work), iconography (symbols that point to meaning), iconology (social symbols), semiotics (signs), formalism (the subjective data), connoisseurship (comparisons within the corpus), and then, any other techniques that seem interesting, helpful, or appropriate, without the stifling limits usually imposed by academia.

ARGOT
We never spin 'fine' into a term for books with faults by using hypnotizing enhancements like fine plus, fine indeed, very fine, unusually fine, extremely fine, exceptionally fine, exceedingly fine, unbelievably fine, or unimaginably fine. Restoration and repair are aesthetic, directed at soundness, and clearly noted, without the use of evasive terminology (jargon). 'Contemporary' means parallel to the time of publication. Items attributed, as 'Ex-somebody' were once owned by that person.

ILLUSTRATIONS
Photography is accomplished with digital camera that conveys a straightforward view of that item. Nothing has been intentionally positioned to hide its failings, the associated text candidly describes the item itself, not just the faults peculiar to, and obvious in, the picture, and those items, or sides of items, not illustrated, have their flaws articulated with special clarity.

A COLLECTIVE SOUL
While the range of material may veil it, the items selected have a shared essence.

TIMELINESS
Logically, everything is subject to prior sale.

DELIVERY
Everything is sent via FedEx, at our expense, but we may take a week to get it wrapped. Purchases under $750, that are to be shipped out of the United States may be sent through a carrier other than FedEx.

ASSURANCES
Everything is guaranteed to be authentic, and way cool, regardless of vintage, but autograph material, created by the living, is particularly burdened with, and isolated by, specific disclaimers of warranty.

INSUFFICIENT THRILLS
Everything is deemed to be sold on approval, and anything may be returned, with prompt notice, for any reason, for a full refund.

Everything is sent via FedEx, at our expense, but we may take a week to get it wrapped. Purchases under $750, that are to be shipped out of the United States may be sent through a carrier other than FedEx.