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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With luck, this is a link to our virtual booth at the ABAA Fall Virtual Fair. Enjoy. zurl.co/yDVHh

Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Handmade 1880s Harrison Presidential Campaign Skirt using Harrison campaign bandannas and related bunting featuring portraits of both Harrison and VP Levi Morton. A unique example of political folk 'art'...mounted and framed. #politicalephemera #printedtextile #fabricart

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Day 3! Join us at London Firsts (H62)

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Really want to bring Bomb Angels ‘Pathogenesis’ to London Firsts…but think the likelihood of getting thought TSA or checked unmolested is vanishingly close to zero. Ah, well…

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It is amazing when something remarkable falls into your hands just before a major fair. Debuting at the @NYBookfair Larry Rivers’ original art for the suppressed cover of F. Ohara’s Collected Poems. #NewYorkSchool #MoMA #bookart #originalart

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth... and listen to silence." — The Canterville Ghost. New list on Death, Dying and Medicine. We have many items remaining from the list and in our holdings. Please check our catalogs section for Rage Against .... in the bio. 💀#booksondeath

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Kate Holland binding on Peter Koch's, Fragments of Parmenides. Photograph inside depicts refugees making the same crossing from Turkey to Greece nearly 2500 years later that Parmenides’s family made. #nyabaa26 #booktok #rarebooks #finepress #designbinding #artistbooks #bookarts

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

2026, quotations by Orwell from 1984 and Animal Farm. New book by Verdigris. #finepress #artistbooks #booktok #orwell

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

2026, quotations by Orwell from 1984 and Animal Farm. New book by Verdigris. #finepress #artistbooks #booktok #orwell

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Cataloging Verdigris Press’ new work [George Orwell] 2026 —citations—. More to follow.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

JB Bell was a conflict historian & expert on terrorism. Early work on the PLO led him to the IRA, which became his focus. His literary archive is at BC. We have his IRA reference collection. Nearly 800 books, pamphlets, & posters documenting the history and evolution of the IRA.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We were very pleased to place most of Dr. Sacks' annotated library at the NYPL to enhance his literary archive held there. This essay, only 'public' today, explores 'knowing him' through his annotations. Elements of his library remain available, msg us. zurl.co/FNHg6

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Thinking in the Margins - The American Scholar

What Oliver Sacks jotted down in the books he read

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Donald Trump: The Magazine of Poetry.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

List Tuesday! Check our new Eclectic Winter Reading List for bit of late winter reading, a very short illustrated list... A bit of everything such that all should find something fun and engaging! Check our bio and the Catalogs TAB. Happy cozy reading! #winterreading #occultbooks #oliversacks

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Reduction woodcuts by Gaylord Schanilec: This is a set of progressive proofs from Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin. Will be in the booth at the NYC ABAA fair. #nyabaa26 #woodcuts #finepress #artistbook #bookarts #rarebooks #booktok

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Antikamnia Calendars, 1899-1901. Antikamnia [Anti-Pain] Chemical Co claimed its drug to be a new synthetic coal-tar derivative but in fact contained almost 50% acetanilid, which was sometimes mixed with codeine or quinine. The calendars were issued from 1897 until 1901.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Tyler Starr's, Flags, Placards, and Illicit Climbers of the Capitol Insurrection. Images of rioters scaling walls of the Capitol Grounds, background removed to highlight rioters. Context provided via signage embodying affiliations, motivations & ideologies. #artistbook #bookarts

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Rauschenberg & Robbe-Grillet: Traces Suspectes en Surface. Widely considered to be Rauschenberg's magnum opus of book illustration. 4 years of collaboration, "The tension of image and text and of the two artists is evident, and the result is extraordinary." #bookarts #artistbook

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

All sorts of wonderful to be found in our booth at the ABAA Holiday Virtual Book Fair. zurl.co/NjkyA

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers | ABAA Virtual Book Fair: Holiday Edition

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Title Page of the Day...Originally intended for inclusion in The Age Letters, it was considered so obscene it was cut by the printers... #burroughs #ginsberg #fuckyoupress

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Quick Clarifying Note: As I've mentioned in various spaces, we have purchased a wonderful house in Ireland. It will eventually be our primary residence. To be clear, Lux Mentis will continue to grow US operations while also expanding its European presence.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Also today: two thick costume designers binders documenting, in photos and text, the transformation over the season of Glee’s m->f and f->m trans characters…the year Glee won an Emmy.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"18 years old... 88 years old in human terms. He lived a long life and died peacefully at the end. He must have had a very happy life as a cat." Rest easy, Maru. mugumogu. I Am Maru. Japan: Tokimeki Publishing, 2009. First (Japanese) Edition.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"It is indeed a painful duty I am called to perform to announce to you the tidings of the death of our little Alice, she died yesterday about 10 oclock her disease was cholera infantum - a disease which often attends teething..." Sarah Dunn writes to family about the death of her child #mementomori

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Seems, sadly, apt for today... Dance of Death leaf from Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle], 1493.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Not just books, Tarot and tarot decks are regularly featured in our inventory. After two major exhibits in the Europe, the tarot is recognized as divination system, beyond a parlour game novelty. Tarot tells a story and provides users with a framework. Tarot is art. Tarot is engagement. #tarot

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Hosting an east coast watch party for the debut of naming the dead… Please consider joining and even if you're not able to join, please support the exceptional work of DDP.

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DNA Doe Project Watch Party Fundraiser

By DNA Doe Project

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Happy Birthday to Dr. Oliver Sacks! We have posted a short list from his private library that we hope reflects his questing mind and interests. Enjoy. #oliversacks #neurodivergence zurl.co/14q5M

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Resume 1944: Rohwer Center High School: Today seems like an appropriate day to share an Internment Camp yearbook...because America First.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Just in time for the Dallas book fair, look what arrived in the post today: Wolgemut's, Dance of Death...a leaf from the Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493]. Fits my Dallas theme nicely...

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Another brilliant bit of work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. This from a deluxe copy with dozens of state proofs. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Cataloging some earlier work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. His engravings never cease to amaze me. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

A gem that retuned with us from Oxford. [and a test of Zoho social]

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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

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An exhibit honoring victims of gun violence is taken down at ATF headquarters

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Terminal 2 heading to Ireland for a few days. The robot trundles around saying ‘intelligent inspection operations’…proto-dalek.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Sometimes, at the fine press fair, you find something surprising.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Set up at the Oxford fine press and artist book fair. Nice space for the event (Oxford examination halls)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The Belfry at the Guy Fawkes Inn is the entire top floor (3-4 rooms plus bath (one is long and really effectively two rooms)). The bath has a copper tub ❤️‍🔥. Booking this might have been best/most clever thing I’ve done in ages.

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Lux Mentis, Booksellers @luxmentis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Cover of the Day… Cataloging more IRA material.

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