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randyjay.bsky.social
Artist & online book dealer. I live near Palm Springs, California. Friend of cats, birds, nature. Love art, books, movies, music, history, paper... I'm on AbeBooks as Randall's Books https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=61552643
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Currently reading 👇 'Gould's Book of Fish' by Richard Flanagan (Grove Press, New York, 2001). #booksky #fiction #novel #books #RichardFlanagan

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So much happening today, but can't forget #Caturday . These felines are by Saul Steinberg from 'The Labyrinth' (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1960). #booksky #books #cats #drawings #art

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On this horror-filled news day I came across this while fitting a dust jacket for a new mylar sleeve. It's the front board of 'Whitman's Men: Walt Whitman's Calamus Poems Celebrated by Contemporary Photographers' (Universe, 1996). Thanks, Walt! You cheered me. Happy Pride! #booksky #LGBTQ #poets

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Bookhound 📖🐩☁️

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The collective silence of the former Presidents right now is unnerving.

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Currently reading 👇 Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories, by David Crystal (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2025). #books #booksky #etymology #vocabulary

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"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

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Baklava, the most delicious lava.

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Me and my Bluesky bubble

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Is it early Bastille Day? The items I'm shipping to 3 new homes this morning are all French-related. Okay, #Simenon was from Belgium. #Maigret #detective #ParisOpera #architecture #CharlesGarnier #sheetmusic #bookselling #booksky

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Just found this musical theatre program from 1972, written by #MickiGrant .The art student in me is fascinated by the hand-drawn typography, especially the explosive back cover. And isn't the title a fitting one for these troubled times?. #theatre #booksky #musicals #AfricanAmerican #PerformingArts

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To draw horses

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Currently reading 👇 'William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love', by Philip Hoare. Pegasus Books, 2025. #books #booksky #WilliamBlake #visionary #PhilipHoare #artists #poets

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I’ll be at the Cheshire Print fair at Chester Cathedral tomorrow (Saturday 24th).

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Currently reading 👇 #birds #birdsky #books #booksky #AmyTan #birdwatching

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Perfect summary of where we're at.

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Fun weekend yard sale find. Winnie-the-Pooh in Latin. Published by Dutton, 1961. #books #booksky #Winnie-the-Pooh #Piglet #Rome #A.A.Milne #E.H.Shepard #AlexanderLenard #Latin

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Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

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Currently reading 👇 (and enjoying). What I Ate In One Year, by Stanley Tucci. #booksky #books #food #cooking

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It's #Caturday and I just re-discovered a ragged children's book I'd forgotten all about. 'My Kitty Cat', by A E Kennedy, published by Samuel Gabriel & Sons in 1917. #booksky #books #cats #childrensbooks #vintagebooks

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Iris in rain ✨

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I'm currently reading 👇 #books #booksky #ElaineMay #biography #movies #writers #directors

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Western Tanager in our backyard last night. #birds #birdsky #nature

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Currently reading this. #booksky #BarryLopez #books #essays #nature 👇

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Happy Earth Day from the desert. #earthday

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For #Caturday here's Andy trying once again to reach through a glass work table to play with my eyeglasses.

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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Vi-An Nguyen. #NewYorkerCartoons

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*watches a customer reach for Ayn Rand*

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Sold this one a few days back. Admit I never read it, but the movie version (1954) held me in thrall as a boy - whenever it was rerun on daytime TV. The gorgeous young Elizabeth Taylor, elephants crashing & rampaging through a mansion... #books #booksky #bookselling #RobertStandish #ElephantWalk

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I wish dread burned more calories.

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I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like: --Canada's cool, leave them be --Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus --We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it --Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice

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Savage... but Donald and Elon were asking for it.

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Just came back from a quick peruse of new books at Barnes & Noble. Was taken slightly aback by these two. 🧐 #books #bookselling #booksky

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A vintage cartoon for our coming Recession.

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Happy #Caturday. A few felines from my book inventory. The cat with the fish bowl is from 'The Best Cartoons from France' (Random House, 1953). #booksky #bookselling #cats

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Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

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