I manage a used bookstore and I’m constantly getting a giggle out of the old books that come in. Many of them have to be thrown away or recycled because of the condition so I save some of them and bring them home. This is a collection of them and other book-centric stuff I think is cool. Tumblr (3.0; @booksyoullneverread)http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdr3zk6c5Q1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #69:  Christ’s Witchdoctor</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/36081633582http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/36081633582Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:09:20 -0500booksneverreadwitchdoctorforchristnakednatives<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdp96kLyon1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #68:  Rally Round the flag, boys!  By Max Shulman.  A wonderfully funny novel about love and missiles.  From the inside flap:  ”Is it funny?  You bet your sweet life it’s funny!  From Shulman you’ve learned to expect big, loud, laughs and here you’ll get them in wholesale lots!”</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/36008440600http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/36008440600Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:06:20 -0500booksneverreadunintendedhomoeroticismit'sfunnydamnit!<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9fk416WXc1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #67:  Strange & Amazing Facts! from 1953 “a keep-busy book”</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/30333398921http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/30333398921Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:12:01 -0400booksneverreadretro50s<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9dg6rK0fT1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #66:  I love the Word Impossible by Ann Kiemel.  ”…it’s like joy after sorrow.  people being friends after being enemies.  rainbows after drenching rain…I love the word impossible because my God believes in adventure and extraordinary mountains and He dares to be alive in a world crawling with terrible situations.  He promises to be bigger than any impossibility because He is love…”  Christian living from the 70’s was all like hippy and love everybody and stuff.  That must have been nice.</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/30249348251http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/30249348251Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:52:03 -0400booksneverread70'shippychristiansit'sabouttheloveman<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92okxlRze1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #65 (cookbook edition):  Vintage Betty Crocker’s Dinner in a Dish cookbook complete with entertaining tips and tons of deliciously fattening recipes.</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29849665085http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29849665085Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:19:45 -0400booksneverreadvintagecookbookretro<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92ofs88Vr1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92ofs88Vr1rpdo4mo2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>books you’ll never read #64 (magazine edition):  The Official Movie Souvenier Magazine of the film Dick Tracy by Topps in 1990.  I remember buy this with my own money when I was 12 and when I saw it in the trash at work I had to rescue.  Centerfold poster of Madonna as Breathless Mahoney still intact!</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29849478872http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29849478872Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:16:40 -0400booksmagazinesnevereaddicktracyiboughtitwheniwas12<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92o9oCaH81rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92o9oCaH81rpdo4mo2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>books you’ll never read #63:  With Miss Viola Through Bible Lands  by Viola Walden published in as a revised edition in 1972 being “the diary of incidents on 1965 Sword of the Bible lands with rich background material from many sources, and notes added on six later tours.”  ”Incidents…”  Oh my!  From the looks of Miss Viola on the cover and the pic I included from inside she had a few good fucks on her trip, bible land or not honey, good for her!</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29849246358http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29849246358Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:13:00 -0400booksneverreadladieswholookliketheyjustgotfuckedladiesnamedviolatravelingtheholyland<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92nuy9DJr1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92nuy9DJr1rpdo4mo2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>books you’ll never read #62:  SLIM by William Wister Haines, 1934.  ”The famous first novel that catapulted William Haines into the front rank of American storytellers.”  It’s funny because if this book was released now everyone would think it was gay porn from looking at that stud hanging off that pole on the cover.</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29848695015http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/29848695015Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:04:10 -0400booksneverreadcoversthatlooklikegaypornslimhotdaddy<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m702xms5dh1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #61 is from 1905 and on the inside in classy old-school cursive is written R.B.Spellman, Indianapolis, Ind</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26977743864http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26977743864Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:29:46 -0400booksneverreadpigs<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6uvm8zg8o1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #60:  Shyness by Philip G. Zimbardo.  The breakthrough book that offers sound, solid help to America’s 84 million shy people!</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26776414073http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26776414073Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:03:44 -0400booksneverreadshyness<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6rdgz550O1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>in honor of my girl Leah’s birthday and all of us winning tons of money at the casino I give you books you’ll never read #59:  Hootenanny Tonight! Compiled by James F. Leisy.  An exciting collection of hootenanny favorites along with valuable inside information about creative arrangements and performance.</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26653157598http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26653157598Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:38:59 -0400booksneverreadleahis30bigmoneybigmoneyhootenanny<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6n4tpfHkG1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #58 is falling apart but the cover is still beautiful:  The Wahoo Bobcat by Joseph Wharton Lippincott and illustrated by Paul Bransom about the “tigers” of the Florida swamps in the 1940’s and one man’s mission to kill them all!</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26492165118http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26492165118Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:41:49 -0400booksneverreadbobcatwahookillingcritters<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6g1g0fpuc1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #57 is a real treat!  Jogging with Jesus by the very enthusiastic and stylish C.S. Lovett.  From the back cover:  ”Many people start off jogging and almost as many quit out of boredom.  Why?  They have nothing to do.  But if you learn to JOG WITH JESUS, that won’t happen to you…”  I actually wish I had the time to post all of the inside pages because they’re all basically pictures of him in different poses with his sweat suit and boy does he love having his picture taken! </p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26223315108http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26223315108Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:45:36 -0400booksneverreadchristiangurusnamedCSjoggingjesus<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6cj5k1wOl1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>in honor of the supreme court’s ruling i give you books you’ll never read #56:  The First Woman Doctor by Rachel Baker which is the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, MD.  The library card in the back of it says the last time it was checked out was 1985.</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26094262148http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26094262148Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:17:44 -0400booksneverreadwomandoctorwomanauthorsnamedrachel<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6a6adlgq41rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #55:  Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson wins the prize for cutest northern European cover ever!  ”…the moomins live in the forests of Finland.  They like sunshine and sleep right through the winter.  The snow falls and falls and falls where they live until their houses look like great snowballs…”</p> <p>Inscribed on the inside in scribbly, shaky cursive:  ”This book is private and belongs to San jay Singh”</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26000965425http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/26000965425Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:44:37 -0400booksneverreadmoomintrollcutecoversfromfinland<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5axeazHJH1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>since i’m leaving for Alaska in a few short hours books you’ll never read #54 has to be The Viking Cipher:  ICEBOUND.  ”Meet Eric Ivorsen-the new action hero of the 80’s who uses brains and brawn in a battle against high-tech terror!”  Look out Alaska, here I come!</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/24677863861http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/24677863861Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:56:34 -0400booksneverreadalaskavikingciphericeboundunknown80'sactionhero<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m57ajs6HyW1rrqpkxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://uneviecreative.tumblr.com/post/24540177274/r-i-p-ray-bradbury">uneviecreative</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>R.I.P. Ray Bradbury</p> </blockquote>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/24540330968http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/24540330968Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:54:38 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m57ao4xuQK1rpdo4mo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>books you’ll never read #53:  The Cross and the Switchblade!  A thrilling TRUE story of a country preacher’s fight against teen-age crime in big-city slums!  It’s a one-man mission to the asphalt jungle of hell!!!  Cover painting by Lee Gregori (which I think is pretty rad).</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/24540269683http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/24540269683Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:52:52 -0400booksneverreadswitchbladejusticecoverartistsnamedLee<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rhog8ePq1rpdo4mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sweet Hillary loves my office (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/23971426067http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/23971426067Mon, 28 May 2012 22:02:39 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rhf42snw1rpdo4mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My favorite set of books when i was a kid (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/23971026829http://booksyoullneverread.tumblr.com/post/23971026829Mon, 28 May 2012 21:57:04 -0400