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SCREAM AT THE LIBRARIAN
Sketches of our Patrons in Downtown Los Angeles
By Joel J. Rane
The Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2007
Illustrations by Raymond Pettibon
& Cristin Sheehan Sullivan
9-3/4 x 7 x 3/4 inches. 94 printed pages
Edition of 50 signed by author and illustrators.
After five years at the central library,
I seriously doubted the humanity of my peers. —Joel J. Rane
An instant cult classic, Scream at the Librarian sucks you into the flop house grime of downtown Los Angeles at a time when it was abandoned by all but the terminally desperate. The Screamer, Mr. Brain Damage, The Devil . . . these are just a few of the unforgivable characters that people Rane’s real-life accounts from deep within the stacks of a library which had become a refuge for squatters, drug addicts, and the mentally deranged.
Each story is accompanied by stunning new illustrations by native Californian Cristin Sheehan Sullivan and Raymond Pettibon, progenitor of LA’s punk rock art scene.
Printed in two-color silkscreen, the deluxe, hardcover edition is an elaborate art object, loaded with novel idiosyncrasies throughout. The front of the “inside out” cover sports a circulation card signed by author and artists, alongside an amalgam of library stickers, stamps, cataloging numbers, and thumb divots.
$2,000 (plus $18 shipping within the u.s.)
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