BüK #24
Charles Baudelaire’s Transcendence and Other Poems
Translated by Walter Martin
$1.49

These lyrical translations unleash the meaning and hypnotic musicality of the nineteenth-century master’s poems in all their languid, lurid, and savage glory. (Read aloud for full impact!)

BüK #23
History of the World in Epitome
(for use in Martian Infant Schools)
by Bertrand Russell with drawings by Franciszka Themerson
$1.49

This modern morality tale told in just 21 words, written in 1962 by the influential British philosopher and set to images by a noted illustrator, is sure to blow your mind, among other things.

BüK #22
The House of Pride
by Jack London
$1.49

Set under the swaying palms of old Waikiki, this tale of brotherly love tainted by pride and racial intolerance is a tour de force of lapidary prose by one of America’s greatest storytellers.

BüK #21
Enchiridion:
The Stoic’s Manual for Living
by Epictetus
$1.49

Eat your heart out, Dr. Phil. Though written some 2,000 years ago, this slim volume of stunningly simple, incalculably wise advice remains the best self-help manual ever published.

BüK #20
Animals
by Peter Hujar
$1.49

Commune with creatures great and small in this selection of 32 magnificently nuanced portraits of animals by the late photographer whose unique sensibility combined grit and grace in equal measure.

BüK #19
The Telephone
by Akiko Busch
$1.49

Touching and insightful, this engrossing meditation on the telephone suggests just how much common objects shape our lives.

BüK #18
The DEFGS from Grossman’s Glossary of Every Humorous Word
in the English Language
by Richard Grossman
$1.49

Don’t deglutinate! Your long wait is over. Here’s the second installment in the cheerful lexicographer’s compendium of words guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.

BüK #17
Flexibility for an Action Hero Body
by Jørgen de Mey
$1.49

With trainer to the stars de Mey’s superb stretching manual in hand, you’ll be on your way to a lifetime of flexibility and good health. And who knows? Maybe that role in a blockbuster won’t be beyond your reach after all!

BüK #16
S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men)
by Valerie Solanas
$1.49

Best remembered as the woman who shot Pop artist Andy Warhol, Solanas was also a revolutionary with an axe to grind against society. Well, at least half of society: men. Her radical tract is a stunning salvo in the age-old battle of the sexes.

BüK #15
The Queen of Mold
by Ruth Reichl
$1.49

Can’t make a purse out of a sow’s ear? Well then, how about a nice stew? This memoir by Gourmet’s editor in chief about her food-poisoning mother should be savored by all those who appreciate a good meal and a good laugh.

BüK #14
The Paradise of Children
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
$1.49

Don’t open this BüK! But if curiosity prevails, go ahead. Indulge yourself—or a favorite child—in this retelling of the myth of Pandora’s box by one of America’s greatest storytellers.

BüK #13
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch
by Richard Wright
$1.49

A moving account of the psychic toll taken on blacks struggling to maintain their dignity in the face of injustice, this landmark 1936 essay by award-winning author, Richard Wright, remains one of the most potent indictments of racism in American literature.

BüK #12
Hobo Lexicon
by Eddy Joe Cotton
$1.49

Ready to ride the rails? Well, then, grab your bindle, pull your Kelly down low over your beezer, and highball it out of Shaky Town! But if you want to know what your fellow travelers are saying, better take along boxcar laureate Eddy Joe Cotton’s fascinating list of hobo lingo.

BüK #11
Newlywed
by Banana Yoshimoto
$1.49

There’s nothing like a train ride to clear your head—especially with a shape-shifter as a traveling companion. This magical tale of epiphanies on a commuter train may help you sort our your own emotional baggage.

BüK #10
Revelation: The King James Version
$1.49

Political statement, spiritual tract, historical record? Open to interpretation—or not? No matter what your point of view, the fevered imagery of the biblical book of Revelation is sure to fire your imagination.

BüK #9
The Constitution of the United States
by William Samuel Johnson, Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, et al.
$1.49

The revolutionary genius of the U.S. Constitution, the clarity of its logic, the eloquence of its language, cannot be underestimated. But have you read it lately? Or ever? Here is your golden opportunity.

BüK #8
Liberace: A Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz
by Dave Hickey
$1.49

Certifiable pop icon Liberace (1919–87) cultivated good taste and bad taste in equal parts—and often to disastrous effect. MacArthur Award-winning critic Dave Hickey explores the meaning behind the mixed message of Las Vegas’s most famous citizen.

BüK #7
Dracula’s Guest
by Bram Stoker
$1.49

Sink your teeth into this spooky morsel from the king of vampire literature. Slashed from the original Dracula manuscript by Stoker’s publishers, this haunting tale saw the light of day thanks to the author’s wife, who brought it into print in 1914, two years after his death.

BüK #6
The ABCs from Grossman’s Glossary of Every Humorous Word
in the English Language
by Richard Grossman
$1.49

Don’t be a cebocephalic accubator! Get off your callipigious cannikin and learn your ABCs anew. This selection from award-winning novelist Richard Grossman’s glossary of every humorous word in the English language is guaranteed to expand (and corrupt) your vocabulary.

BüK #5
Xingu
by Edith Wharton
$1.49

Join in the pursuit of the elusive Xingu! With its tart observations on dishonesty, pretension, false pride, this comic tale by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton, first published almost a century ago, is sure to strike a chord among the snob-intolerant—and members of book clubs—everywhere..

BüK #4
Ice
by Lynn Davis
$1.49

Experience the sublime majesty of the icebergs of Greenland’s Disko Bay in this BüK by internationally acclaimed photographer Lynn Davis. This rare record of our planet’s most transient and spiritually resonant monuments is nothing short of mesmerizing.

BüK #3
My Life with Dick
by Jeffrey Vallance
$1.49

A sidesplitting chronicle of the inescapable influence of our nation’s 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, on one of the art world’s liveliest mavericks, Jeffrey Vallance, this BüK is a must-read for all Americans and lovers of humor.

BüK #2
A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
$1.49

Hunger, poverty, overpopulation—society’s ills have changed little since 1729 when renowned satirist and author of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, posited a novel solution to Ireland’s pressing problems: use children as food! Radical, fascinating, and as relevant as the day it was written.

BüK #1
The Mall in Peril
by Christopher Knight
$1.49

The sanctity of Washington’s National Mall is up for grabs. Where some see a potent symbol of democracy, others see vacant real estate waiting for development. Distinguished art critic Christopher Knight explores the destruction of the single greatest artistic monument to America’s founding principles.

BüK Set IV
BüKs #19-24 in a slipcase
$11.95

BüK Set III
BüKs #13-18 in a slipcase
$11.95

BüK Set II
BüKs #7-12 in a slipcase
$11.95

BüK Set I
BüKs #1-6 in a slipcase
$11.95