50 Watts Books - December 2024

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50 Watts Books Thank you for a whirlwind 2024. While I'm still behind on loading books onto the website, I do have an absurd number of books in stock which would make good gifts. I feature some of them below (and don't forget the Penguin Clothbound Classics). The 50 Watts retail shop in Philly had great foot traffic this weekend and a nice write-up in a local paper. My sudden decision to open the shop could still be a huge folly, but it's nice to run the business from a bookshop instead of from my cramped home office (where I melted in summers and froze in winters). (I apologize to my customers outside the US for suspending overseas shipping until 2025... I was having too many service issues and the holiday shipping slowdown hadn't even begun.) Karel Martens - Calendar 2025 $39.95 A tear-off calendar for 2025 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Shop now Always popular at 50 Watts! I, Caterpillar - Suzuko Momoyama $60.00 Hives - A Visual History of the Beehive - Aladin Borioli $32.00 Sculpting in Time - Andrey Tarkovsky $34.95 Fuochi d'artificio - Hirayama Fireworks Company book $27.95 Karla Knight - Navigator $54.95 Remedios Varo - The Mexican Years $45.00 Shuna's Journey - Hayao Miyazaki $27.99 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll and Tove Jansson $19.95 A Frog in the Fall - Linnea Sterte $36.95 One of our bestsellers for good reason... Shop now Picture Books Of course the picture books we publish come with our highest recommendation. Our most recent publication I Am a Wolf is a legit picture book classic. I Am a Wolf, After All - Maki Sasaki $20.00 A Tiger in the Land of Dreams - Tiger Tateishi $21.95 The King of Circles - Shuntaro Tanikawa and Kiyoshi Awazu $20.00 Animal Land Where There Are No People - Sybil and Katharine Corbet $14.95 Stocking stuffers Mirai Mizue Flipbook $20.00 $18.95 The Charles Mingus Cat-alog (pamphlet) $10.00 Videoland - A Visual Catalog of American Video Store Logos, 1980-1995 $12.00 Logos of the Early Ufology Scene - Studio AKA $20.00 Cat's Meow - Chiaki Sakamoto $20.00 The Cat Afraid of Dark Clouds - Eunji Ryu $25.00 Matriochka - Fanette Mellier $22.00 Bad People - Japanese TV show villains $19.95 Lotte Reiniger Flipbook $20.00 Anthropomorphic Japan - The Frogs $16.00 The response to this book has exceeded expectations (especially thanks to some booksellers around the country who have handsold it) & I hope to release the second (and third) in the series in 2025. Shop now Some recent arrivals Brian Blomerth's Lilly Wave $35.00 Telefantasy Videomancers $30.00 Bannkorbe - Aladin Borioli $40.00 Banana Meringue - Ellen Berkenblit $10.00 Half Gold - Half Dung - Margot Ferrick $20.00 Zine Panique - Sword and Sorcery $22.95 Neurocity - Colorblind Edition - Gavriel Quiroga $42.00 Street Cop - Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman $20.00 Keisai Draws the World $29.95 50 Watts Books gift card 50 Watts gift cards purchased on our website are all virtual. When you order one, you will receive an email containing a unique gift card code which you can send to the giftee. The recipient can use this code at checkout to redeem its value (online or in our retail shop). The cards have no expiration date. (Ignore the automated cart message "Spend x more and get free shipping" -- there is no shipping charge for these.) Please note that in our retail shop you can buy a physical card (but only in the shop). Shop now I have to somehow update the address info in the email footer, but until then note that our retail shop address is 15 W Highland Ave in Chestnut Hill Philadelphia. 50 Watts Books 41 W NIPPON ST Philadelphia PA 19119 United States © 2024 50 Watts Books