Collectible? Commerce? Useless junk? You decide!
Selling your own words, poems, stories, art or idiocy is a weird thing. But I've found that it's best not to let weird things deter you. It only slows you down. I understand that you can live without everything here, but who in their right mind would want to? Sorry about the different shipping prices for non-US orders, but the postal service here is tightening he screws on us, man. But considering that our dollar is virtually worthless anyway, you probably won't even notice the difference.
desert dog press chapbooks
don't quit your day job 12 poems - 28 pages - DDP-010
porcupine quill pen 12 poems - 24 pages - DDP-020
Oscar Night short story - 16 pages DDP-030
Set of three chapbooks. Edition of 50, numbered and signed, with original hand made block print covers. I made these myself because alternative man was over a year and a half late in being published and distributed and people were openly mocking me; "So...where's that book you are always talking about? Ha ha ha!" Had I stopped to think about how much work it would actually be hand print 150 covers and assemble 150 books I would have never started, but once I was ankle deep in it I couldn't stop. I think I sold these sets for $10, which, in retrospect, seems insane. But I'm like Crazy Eddie, man, slashing prices to the bone! At least back in those days.
To order any of the items on this page, use the link in the item description, or send cash money, money orders or food stamps to:
Michael Phillips
PO Box 218
South Pasadena, CA 91031
(No personal checks please! And no food stamps, really.)
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Riding Out the Dumb Silence
Poems and short stories, 1996 - 2005
The paperback edition ($9.99) is 120 pages, perfect bound with a groovy full-color cover.
The special hardcover edition ($79.99) is limited to 26 signed, lettered copies and includes a bookmark that contains a poem not in the paperback edition, and a one-of-a-kind original ink poem tipped in (that means it's attached to the inside of the book, baby). If you really think you might want this, you might want to pick one up sooner than later because more than half of the edition is gone. Yes, I know, I am as surprised as you are.
Orders shipping to the U.S. or Canada:
• Buy the paperback • Buy the hardcover Orders shipping to other countries: • Buy the paperback • Buy the hardcover Or send payment to the address at the bottom of the page. • Buy Riding Out the Dumb Silence and alternative man together and get free shipping! (U.S. orders only) |
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alternative man
poems and short stories Mother Road Publications ISBN 0-9636829-5-4 71 page perfect bound trade paperback - $8.95 After 10 years I have finally tracked down the remaining, brand new old copies of alternative man. They were found in a sealed box in the corner of a decommissioned ICBM silo in New Mexico, but that's all I can say about it. Read more about it here. Let the rejoicing begin. Or something. • Buy and ship to the U.S. or Canada • Buy and ship outside North America Or send payment to the address at the bottom of the page. • Buy Riding Out the Dumb Silence and alternative man together and get free shipping! (U.S. orders only) |
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Limited edition letterpress poem
I WRITE THIS POEM DIRECTLY IN THE STICK is a hand set and letterpressed poem that was actually written as the type was picked up out of the case. The poem will be available only on these cards - it will never be published anywhere else!
This unique piece is 8 x 6 inches, set in 10 point ATF Century Schoolbook type, and printed in three colors on 80# laid ivory cards, on an 1890's era 5x7 platen press. It is limited to 50 signed, numbered copies (though only 40 were made available for purchase).
To order, use this PayPal link, or send $30 to the address at the bottom of the page.
Comes complete with genuine uneven letterpress printing!
And a real spelling error!
Be one of only 40 people in the world to own this poem, art work, printing project, conceptual art piece...however you define it, there is nothing else like it. Guaranteed by mjp!
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Hand printed poem, "Still No Sign of Osama bin Laden"
If this looks familiar it's because it is the overprint from my contribution to the ANTI-WAR set below. An edition of only 19, signed and numbered. Normally the overprint for a limited edition would be destroyed, but I saved these. Long story. Now you can benefit from my paranoid, pack rat behavior! To order, Use this PayPal link, or send $10 to the address at the bottom of the page. |
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ANTI WAR A collection of dissident work by letterpress printers 
Edition of 250 set consists of 21 5" x 5" cards Featuring work by letterpress artists Tara Bryan, Tim Dunn, Bryan Hutcheson, Michael Phillips, Boris Savic and Gail Watson. Includes the mjp poem Still No Sign of Osama bin Laden, hand set and printed on my late 1800's letterpress! Astounding, yeah? Well, interesting anyway. And a lot of nice work on the other cards (samples below -- note that not all of the cards are pictured here). 
This beautiful set was three years in the making, and is not available to the public anywhere but right here. I only have three of them that I can let go. That's why it's expensive, and that's why you should pick it up now and add it to your extensive collection of dissident letterpress work. Johnny Brewton's letterpressed X-RAY collections sell on the secondary market for $150 to $200 per issue. This collection is equal in quality to the very best X-RAY releases, in my humble (and extremely biased) opinion. To order, use this PayPal link, or send $79.99 ($75 + $4.99 shipping) to the address at the bottom of the page. |
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don't quit your day job 12 poems - 28 pages - DDP-010
porcupine quill pen 12 poems - 24 pages - DDP-020
Oscar Night short story - 16 pages DDP-030
Set of three chapbooks. Edition of 50, numbered and signed, with original hand made block print covers. I made these myself because alternative man was over a year and a half late in being published and distributed and people were openly mocking me; "So...where's that book you are always talking about? Ha ha ha!" Had I stopped to think about how much work it would actually be hand print 150 covers and assemble 150 books I would have never started, but once I was ankle deep in it I couldn't stop. I think I sold these sets for $10, which, in retrospect, seems insane. But I'm like Crazy Eddie, man, slashing prices to the bone! At least back in those days.
SOLD OUT
PO Box 218
South Pasadena, CA 91031
(No personal checks please! And no food stamps, really.)