/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22534540]

rare books

[Anonymous No.22534645]

>>22534540
You got weird fucken hands OP

[Anonymous No.22534652]

>>22534540
This is the book Mann read before making Thief right?

[Anonymous No.22534696]

>>22534652
that's correct

[Anonymous No.22535231]

>>22534540

[Anonymous No.22536238]

>>22534540
Do you maybe have a PDF of it, brother? It is truly a rare book. Some years ago, I spent few days trying to find it, but I never did. It’s actually so rare and unknown, that I got really surprised and a little freaked out, seeing it posted here, but I forgot about the Thief movie.

[Anonymous No.22536390]

>>22536238
https://archive.org/details/the-home-invaders-confessions-of-a-cat-burglar-frank-hohimer

[Anonymous No.22536419]

>>22536390
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.22536461]

>>22534540
I would kill a man to get the planescape torment hardcover.

[Anonymous No.22536520]

I really want to find a copy of this online so I can read it. I'm not really a collector, I'm a consumer

[Anonymous No.22536659]

>>22534540
Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Morland

[Anonymous No.22536663]

He completely assblasts all of the fancy high falutin talking heads with succinct explanations that only an honest career banker could distill.

[Anonymous No.22536679]

>>22534540
Cory?

[Anonymous No.22536733]

That book about the next several million years of human evolution and post human species where it perfectly predicts most of the near future and our present but also in like 150,000 years the population will follow our religion where as a holiday they all watch a negro rape a white woman as a form of communal State sanctioned cuckolding and then they get to Lynch him but if he escapes to a national park he's free for life and considered sacred.

I think the same guy who narrated The will Durant audiobooks narrated this one

[Anonymous No.22536735]

>>22536733
Which by the way is especially funny because the writing is very similar to will Durant describing various Hindu practices in his work our Asian Heritage

[Anonymous No.22536807]

>>22536733
Last And First Men isn't rare, it's seen many reprints

[Anonymous No.22536889]

>>22536663
>honest career banker
Lel

[Anonymous No.22537110]

>>22534540

[Anonymous No.22537215]

>>22534540
Can't find this book anywhere.

[Anonymous No.22537380]

>>22537215
I have a copy

[Anonymous No.22538356]

>>22537215
Do you have a pdf for this book?

[Anonymous No.22538798]

bump for a good thread

[Anonymous No.22538833]

>>22536889
Yeah, he sued the Federal Reserve on behalf of the federal government because they were too pozzed to do it. He won a billion dollar judgement against the Jews back in the 1930s, back when that was a lot of money. What the fuck have you done?

[Anonymous No.22539076]

>>22538833
>standing up for a dead banker

[Anonymous No.22539129]

>>22539076
Yeah, just this one - and only one. Seriously, give it a spin if you are ever interested in economics. He gives very concise explanations of the mechanics. Everything else that I have ever read on the topic tends to convolute every aspect with a load of dross, making the actual concepts difficult to derive. Why is he the only clear writer on the topic? Why is there a family foundation dedicated to memorializing his writing that does not recognize this work - the one that is the culmination of his life's work?

[Anonymous No.22539135]

[Anonymous No.22539161]

Bing and Becoming. If you email the publisher he might give you a copy for free since they are out of business. Can't find it on my PC.

[Anonymous No.22539166]

>>22539161
Being* of course

[Anonymous No.22539168]

>>22539135
Neat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISM

[Anonymous No.22539203]

>>22536663
where do i get this

[Anonymous No.22539231]

sayla v!

https://youtu.be/0j4fbgiLff4

[Anonymous No.22539262]

>>22539203
Help me figure out how to get the images low res enough to upload. All I have is a GE camera with fixed high res. I imported the cover into Paint in order to export it low res, but it's too much of a pain. This was a prized possession of an old codger that I knew. His family tossed it in the trash when he died. People tell me that I am a larper - that the original text never existed. It's in a ziploc bag in a storage locker that I can see from where I am sitting. It's absolutely, no exceptions, babbies best intro to banking. I want this out in the wild, but I am a subtle melange of ignorant, deprived, savant. Somebody, give me a hand.

[Anonymous No.22539280]

>>22539262
use some online image resizer thing

[Anonymous No.22539319]

>>22539280
>online image resizer
https://imageresizer.com/
OK. This looks to be free. I am running out of time tonight. I will try to start uploading to this thread tomorrow. We can just launch a new thread when this one runs out. I have never seen this in the wild, so I want to be as complete as possible. Total images will need to be about 90. What is the optimized resolution for this application?

[Anonymous No.22539352]

Found this in an abandoned greenhouse complex/house. They tore it all down, but you used to be able to go inside the house and there where shelves and shelves of old books. Each shelf had a different topic like Ancient Egypt or like old American novels. The guy was some independent scholar or something. It was always sketch as fuck cause sometimes there would be at&t workers there-ig some kind of tower was on top of the greenhouse office building thing, idrk how to explain it. Plus i think some kid got charged with like trespassing for hopping on a tractor, so basically I never walked in there without my heart pounding lol. I remember just grabbing this cause it looked cool, but it's what really made into ancient history, lost civilizations, etc. Anyways, it's actually a very good read and the dude explains the history of pyramidological research super well and succinctly. He was apparently writing to inform the American public on the basics of the subject, when nobody else had offered such an explanation, but he winds up going on about Piazzi-Smyth and more esoteric ideas. Also bump for rare thread.

[Anonymous No.22539445]

The National Hymns book is from 1861, and is an interesting look into pre-civil war American national identity. Sun and Steel was aqquired at a garage sale for $2. The CAS books I got in a thrift store in a small colorado town nestled in the rockies

[Anonymous No.22539471]

>>22539445
based and comfypilled

[Anonymous No.22540239]

dead board dead thread

[Anonymous No.22540336]

>>22537380
Cool, could you scan it and upload it to libgen?
>>22538356
No.

[Anonymous No.22540441]

>>22534540
>>22536390
just when you think this place is a completely irredeemable shithole beyond saving, anons come through with gold

kings walk among us

[Anonymous No.22540584]

>>22539445
I think you misunderstand the point of the thread

[Anonymous No.22540677]

>>22540584
That national hymns book i could'nt find a picture of online. Pretty sure that would make it rare. The CAS books are a bitch to find anywhere, especially zothique. Does that not make them rare? The mishima might not be on account of multiple printings but the others definitely are

[Anonymous No.22540822]

The 2018 English translation of Josefine Mutzenbacher. It's touted to be the most accurate version, but I suspect everything I've read online about it comes from the mouths of its publishers. I'd like to get a copy one day to compare with previous releases, in any case

[Anonymous No.22540883]

>>22539262
>>22539319
I'm also interested in this one. You can pirate Photoshop and use it to resize entire folders as well, if time's an issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1JlrzQaJWU

[Anonymous No.22540884]

Anybody remember the anon who was (I think) taking scanned books, using OCR, and then formatting them nicely as EPUBs and AzW3 files? I'm pretty sure everything he did was from scans you could already find online but which had shit quality. Not sure if anything in there was really rare outside of digital, but it was still pretty cool.

All the links from the old thread (>>/lit/thread/S15590170#p15599208)) are dead, and likewise for a MEGA folder that I later got them all from, so I've re-uploaded them here:
>https://mega.nz/folder/fgsABRLI#xwfcX6zMBtG9RFT4wMpNUQ
(with a few zip versions if anyone wants to download them all; not sure if I got all the files, or what's up with the few MOBI versions).

Out of these I remember reading "Fires on the Plain", "Will O' the Wisp", "Dark Spring", "Moravagine", and "A Posthumous Confession", which were all worth it. "Fires on the Plain" was probably my favourite, and "Moravagine" my least.

[Anonymous No.22540903]

>>22539262
>>22540883
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) should be the next step after that, though formatting will likely be fucked and recognition won't be perfect. There are lots of utilities to do it, but I've had success with PDF24, which has an application on Windows as well as an online version. I've fucked around with terminal utilities and Python shit, but PDF24 ended up working best for me.
>tools.pdf24.org/en/ocr-pdf
They've also got utilities for converting images to PDF in bulk, I think. But there are tons of ways to do that.

Resizing the images really shouldn't matter for OCR, but OCR is going to be far from perfect in producing final text.

[Anonymous No.22541632]

>>22540883
I am trying to pull straight from the camera. The resizer is giving me fits.

[Anonymous No.22541646]

>>22541632
Fuck it. Good enough. I used to not be able to upload straight from the camera. The table of contents will reveal it to be a ''conspiracy theory'' flavored text. Keep in mind two things - the copyright date and the fact that he successfully sued the Federal Reserve.

[Anonymous No.22541653]

>>22537110

>mfw the paperback copy of this I own I bought from Amazon

[Anonymous No.22541693]

>>22541646
I am back to finagling. I am now getting error messages for oversize images. I have no idea why the file size would change without me making changes.

[Anonymous No.22541748]

>>22541693
test

[Anonymous No.22541919]

>>22541748
Starting clean over. The camera does have a resolution adjustment. The manufacturer just used retarded terms, so it was not obvious where to find it and how to properly select resolution. Hopefully, this will work out.

[Anonymous No.22541923]

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[Anonymous No.22541927]

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[Anonymous No.22541932]

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[Anonymous No.22541933]

>rare book thread
>filled with mass produced paperbacks
Lmao just because you got ripped off on amazon doesn't make it rare

[Anonymous No.22541935]

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[Anonymous No.22541939]

>>22541933
Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous No.22541948]

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[Anonymous No.22541962]

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[Anonymous No.22541969]

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[Anonymous No.22541973]

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[Anonymous No.22541974]

>>22541939
Thanks for spamming the thread with shit no one cares about

[Anonymous No.22541979]

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[Anonymous No.22541985]

>>22541974
Wow. Powerful insight. I will keep this in mind.

[Anonymous No.22541988]

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[Anonymous No.22541995]

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[Anonymous No.22542002]

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[Anonymous No.22542009]

>>22540884
Didn't know Mephisto wrote a book

[Anonymous No.22542011]

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[Anonymous No.22542013]

>>22541919
Nice

[Anonymous No.22542014]

>>22542011

[Anonymous No.22542028]

>>22542013
I think that this may be all the time that I have today, boys. Now that I got the resolution issue figured out, I should be more efficient tomorrow. I don't know where we are in the text. It's like Moby Dick, wherein the author has an overarching narrative, but darts in and out with technical explanations. He gives concise explanations for how the FDIC and bond markets work without any distracting fluff.

[Anonymous No.22542165]

>>22542028
keep the yoghurt flowing

[Anonymous No.22542317]

Got this at a massive book fair because I liked the premise. Hard science book about what life would be like for the forklift driver types in space. Sadly it wasn't very good writing wise, but the setting still kept me reading.

[Anonymous No.22542439]

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[Anonymous No.22542442]

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[Anonymous No.22542485]

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[Anonymous No.22542490]

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[Anonymous No.22542510]

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[Anonymous No.22542511]

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[Anonymous No.22542534]

>>22542511
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>>22542485
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>>22542439
>>22542028
>>22542014
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>>22541939
>>22541935
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>>22541927
>>22541923
>>22541919
make a mega nz you'll saturate the image limit

[Anonymous No.22542551]

>>22542534
>thinking a retard like me even knows what that is

[Anonymous No.22542554]

>>22542551

[Anonymous No.22542568]

>>22542554
OK, boys. That is it for sure for today. I will try to get the rest up tomorrow. If we hit image limit then I will launch a new thread. I will review when I am done and reshoot the worst ones.

[Anonymous No.22542901]

>>22542317
the real heroes

[Anonymous No.22543024]

>>22537215
What is that book about?

[Anonymous No.22543080]

>>22542568
Wow cant wait to read more of the most boring book ever tomorrow

[Anonymous No.22543143]

>>22543080
Yeah, I understand. It's one of those things. If one wanted to understand the industry, then there is no better intro, because he has no interest in obfuscating the subject. If you have no interest, then just read something else.

[Anonymous No.22543242]

>>22541969
What does it mean to subscribe to the capital stock?

[Anonymous No.22543259]

>>22541974
Fuck you. If you don't like it leave. Go to reddit or something

[Anonymous No.22543380]

>>22543242
The subscription is a promise to buy a stock before it is issued for sale. Technically, it can not be purchased yet, because it does not yet exist.

[Anonymous No.22544011]

>>22542568
create a cbz when youve taken all the pictures and upload it to libgen
>put pages into a folder and name it after the book title
>name the pages by number (add a 0 to the filenames before numbered pages, a 1 for numbered pages)
>zip the folder
>rename the folder, change the extension from .zip to .cbz and ignore any warnings
>open it in any program that accepts cbz files, most pdf readers and any comic book reader should
>go to libgen(dot)rs
>click to "upload" in the top bar
>username: genesis password: upload
>fill in any info you can
>when uploaded post link here
if i find it interesting ill ocr it and make a good epub, if i dont then hopefully another anon will

[Anonymous No.22544285]

Rarest book I own

I stole it from the rare book collection at my library

[Anonymous No.22544714]

>>22542317
Insane how even the worst shit back then still got amazing cover art

[Anonymous No.22544832]

>>22540336
>Cool, could you scan it and upload it to libgen?
Maybe if I can find the time. Don't hold your breath
>>22543024
That the idea that hypnosis cannot make you do immoral/destructive things is a myth. A clever and ruthless hypnotist could make you commit murder

[Anonymous No.22544980]

>>22544832
Lmao, never mind, it sounds like hacky bullshit

[Anonymous No.22545110]

>>22544832
>Maybe if I can find the time. Don't hold your breath
I hope you do.

[Anonymous No.22545149]

>>22541653

Its not legal to buy / search results are obscured in certain countries.

[Anonymous No.22545408]

>>22536390
I don't know shit about literature but this is a fabulous read—wild.

If I've got the timing right, he gets out of prison at 33 so it must be 1956. His first night as a cat burglar he scores $7,000 after expenses. That's officially $78,000 in 2023 dollars. The thing that makes it intoxicating is the details like rifling through a fridge to drink milk because he was exhausted from stealing. Very intriguing, damning, and amusing.

[Anonymous No.22545413]

>>22544285
>I stole it from the rare book collection at my library
based

[Anonymous No.22545565]

>>22545408
>the details like rifling through a fridge to drink milk because he was exhausted
A lot of evidence gets generated during this phase of a burglary. I am aware of one burglary wherein the perpetrator left a turd floating in the toilet, presumably because he was trying to be quiet, and he did not want to flush.

[Anonymous No.22545667]

>>22545565
that was just his calling card

[Anonymous No.22545694]

>>22545667
>not leaving an upper decker

[Anonymous No.22545821]

>>22539262
I can't help you but if you can upload this you will be a legend. I very much want to read this

[Anonymous No.22545891]

>>22545694
kek

[Anonymous No.22546603]

I have many books which are totally undocumented on the internet. Old things which don't even stick together anymore.
Most are garbage, but some are absolute gems, like a book which makes an excellent summary of the roman republic and empire, with many excellent insights into the roman mindset. This is probably one of my favorite books, the prose is not only masterful, it really shows how passionate the author was about the subject, and yet, I haven't found anything about the book, let alone the author, on the internet.
I must scan that book someday, such a masterpiece can't be forgotten.

[Anonymous No.22547002]

>>22546603
You must scan the book today~

[Anonymous No.22547118]

>>22545821
No time today. I will try again tomorrow. I am going to look through the other relics as well.

[Anonymous No.22547959]

>>22534540
TND Manuel: Why and How it must be done!

[Anonymous No.22548046]

>>22534540
>>22536390
>"yeah there's no way a professional burglar would do anything against your life or person, too messy..."
>goes on to discuss torture crews who's remove your nuts for some shiny pebbles
No wonder for over 5 centuries these shitbags were brutally tortured and executed by Medieval European governments. It made the world a better place.

[Anonymous No.22548115]

>>22548046
He separates burglars from criminals

[Anonymous No.22548171]

>>22548115
I'd like to separate burglars from their heads

[Anonymous No.22548284]

>>22548171
No amount of property is worth a human life

[Anonymous No.22548324]

>>22548284
What an absolute cop out of an argument.
>no amount of lives is worth my own property
There. Just as valid an argument as yours.

[Anonymous No.22548359]

>>22548324
It's not, you start from a false axiom, the truth is that no amount of property is worth the same or more than an individual human's life

[Anonymous No.22548389]

>>22548359
>the truth is that no amount of property is worth the same or more than an individual human's life
Proof?

[Anonymous No.22548420]

>>22548389
The presence of a soul in each human being

[Anonymous No.22548425]

>>22548420
OK. Suppose you eat out the sustenance of a man such that his entire family dies?

[Anonymous No.22548435]

>>22548425
Evil does not justify evil. No amount of property is worth the taking of a human life.

[Anonymous No.22548442]

>>22548435
Ah, so now the burglar's life outweighs the lives of entire innocent families. What philosophical tradition adheres to such values?

[Anonymous No.22548443]

>>22548442
Mine

[Anonymous No.22548461]

>>22548443
Great. Post your home address so I can send Jamal over for all of your stuff.

[Anonymous No.22548777]

>>22534540

[Anonymous No.22549627]

>>22548777
Free online, not really that rare

[Anonymous No.22550485]

>>22548461
Oh, you're just a racist, makes sense now

[Anonymous No.22550491]

>>22534645
lol

[Anonymous No.22550538]

>>22550485
Resort to ad hom. It all adds up.

[Anonymous No.22550799]

>>22550538
Better than resorting to murder over mere property

[Anonymous No.22551079]

>>22550799
Protecting one's self and property from plunder and murder is not murder. You conflate victims with aggressors. You are a menace.

[Anonymous No.22551247]

>>22548284
New anon. Don't steal. Then you don't risk your life or freedom. Retard.

[Anonymous No.22551252]

>>22551247
Of course, don’t steal. But along with that NEVER kill

And of the two, killing is worse than stealing

[Anonymous No.22551277]

>>22551252
You initiate the stealing you initiate tthw consequences. You're extra stupid. You will learn.

[Anonymous No.22551423]

>>22534540
where TF can i read this? i dont know the lore but all i could find is 500 dollar collector copies and zero digital copies anywhere. i just wanna read it.

[Anonymous No.22551441]

>>22551277
Nothing can be stolen from you that justifies you stealing a human life

[Anonymous No.22551467]

>>22551423

nevermind. didnt know someone posted link.

[Anonymous No.22551531]

>>22551441
Okay. Enjoy going to prison and getting further stabbed in prison if you don't get shot. You're a fucking idiot of idiots. No one cares and your belief is irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.22551534]

Maybe when this retard gets stabbed in prison for stealing coffee he will learn. Goddammit some dense motherfucker. Probably owns nothing wears rags and has never worked. Bye I'm gonna go watch on patrol joggers get clipped.

[Anonymous No.22551547]

>>22551441
Demagoguery. Take this selfish philosophy of yours elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.22551600]

Very surprised to discover lit iis full of people who believe dirt can outweigh a soul

[Anonymous No.22551630]

>>22551600
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.

[Anonymous No.22551753]

Cormac McCarthy novels translated to Finnish are really rare around here. I've never seen Blood Meridian for sale used, the two first volumes of the Border Trilogy are near impossible to find... There's only some shitty paperbacks of The Road and No Country For Old Men.

[Anonymous No.22551918]

>>22551630
Your ashes do no out weight my ashes

[Anonymous No.22552070]

>>22551918
They do once you try to murder me, faggot.

[Anonymous No.22552078]

>>22549627
Really? I couldn't find it on libgen.

[Anonymous No.22552607]

>>22552078
>libgen
There's your problem

[Anonymous No.22552613]

>>22552607
It isn't on anna's archive or pdf drive either.

[Anonymous No.22553174]

>>22551753
Who is the translator?

[Anonymous No.22553651]

>>22536461
that one was made so you would print it out and send it to a book binder to make it hardcover. It's quite easy to get it done if you're willing to spend the cash;

[Anonymous No.22553749]

>>22540884
>https://mega.nz/folder/fgsABRLI#xwfcX6zMBtG9RFT4wMpNUQ
mein Neger