Do you have any of your other books for sale? I have the last one, but want more....
What are the titles? If I do a search on abe for you, I'll likely pull up a lot of religious books....
I'm sure that you have seen the other Michael J. Phillips on the leterpress forum? He is a publisher of a letterpress journal.
Yeah, I have received a lot of email in the past meant for the letterpress Michael Phillips and the CHRISTIAN Michael Phillips.
I had a couple of other books but they are out of print. The publisher of one of them recently re-emerged from a decade of silence, but won't answer my question when I ask if he still has
any copies left that I could buy from him. I take his silence as a "no," since I can't imagine him passing on the chance to unload them if he could. It was a small run anyway, so maybe they are all gone. Or maybe he'll start selling them on eBay like the Bukowski posters he published back in the 90's...
Hey, actually looks like
there are a few on Abe. That book is kind of hit and miss though, honestly. I don't like some of the things in there. But maybe I just don't like them because they are old, and they seem a little dusty to me. ;)
The other thing I consider a "book" is actually a three chapbook set that I did around the same time, with hand printed covers made from lino cuts and all that fancy shit. But there were only 50 of those sets, and I sold them way too cheaply, so they kind of disappeared fast. I have one set and Carol has one. Otherwise, they're all out there somewhere.
But now that you mention it, there are still some cool things available at smog.net! http://smog.net/words/
I recently found a few copies of the rare
ANTI-WAR - A collection of dissident work by letterpress printers broadside sets that I didn't know I had, so that's available again for as long as those last (unfortunately they are still relevant). And you can see all my old out of print crap there too. You know, for those of you who are really tremendously bored.
I feel no shame pimping my wares in this forum, and neither should anyone else. We are our own best audience and market.
I also took inspiration from someone here and made a checklist of my publications. You know, because I'm not self-involved enough as it is. But it's good to have, because I forgot about some of the stuff, and some of it I don't even have a copy of, which is kind of a drag. Maybe I should be checking eBay for a copy of SLUGfest vol 5, no. 2, (my first published work!) ;) I think I could safely win that auction.
Actually, the issue
after that one is funny, because they fucked up something when they printed my poems, so I wrote them this bitchy little letter about what idiots they were to do that (very first-time-published kind of thing to do), and they exacted their revenge by reprinting the poems properly in the next issue, but they also printed my letter, which made me look like the tremendous asshole I was being. Lesson learned.
That's the one to look for if you think I'm a dick. It will reinforce your view.