I've been collecting mass market paperbacks (those small pocket paperbacks that really only exist these days at airports) since I was in high school in the late 1980s. Much of this collection fed my long-running Judging Books By Their Covers blog post series which I ran for years here on Justseeds. Now I've got boxes and boxes of books, and I'm slowly sorting and selling them off in sets at an amazing political bookstore and record shop in Brooklyn, NY called the P.I.T. (or Property is Theft).
Each month I produce a risograph one-sheet that gives background to the books, is a list of what's available, and a collection of cover images. Posting these on Instagram led to a lot of requests for copies, which brings us to this set here of the first six one-sheet zines (#3 is actually a two-sheet!) focused on mass market paperbacks about or by:
1: Student Movements
2: Ursula K. LeGuin
3. Caribbean Writers Series
4. Anarchism
5. Philip K. Dick
6. Our (Fragile) Environment
All of these come packed in a duotone riso-printed envelope, along with a 4-color riso-printed poster featuring 9 covers of Octavia Butler paperbacks (which will be featured in issue/series 7 coming up in December 2024).
