Rock & Roll Farm

Thursday! May 08 2003 // 2:19 pm //

the weird

Violet Books
Antiquarian Supernatural, Fantasy & Mysterious Literatures
Vintage Westerns, Swashbucklers, & Juveniles
Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Proprietrice

Violet Books specializes in Antiquarian Supernatural Literature, including literary ghost stories, Victorian science fiction, Yellow Nineties Decadence, H. Rider Haggard & haggardesque “Lost Race” novels, Marie Corelli & other occult romancers, Rafael Sabatini & Jeffery Farnol & all vintage swashbuckling historical romances, westerns, Yukon adventures, jungle tales, Sax Rohmer & all weird thrillers, classic detectives, vintage children’s & young adult fantasies & series books, & all things old, fictional, adventurous, & weird.

please *do* visit the Violet Books Art Museum. any of the three wings is sure to please. i got lost for hours, and ended up seeing every image in the dang thing, and you don’t hear me complaining. the illustrations themselves are worth the tour, but what spurred me on to the very end was the versant commentary Salmonson has included with almost every image.

the Gallery of Rare Dustwrappers & Decorative Bindings on Fantasies, Swashbucklers & Mysteries has a whole section of Portraits of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, or, Ayesha… She… the H. Rider Haggard creation.

in the Museum of the Golden Age of Book Illustration i found this image of La Yaga, one of the most famous of lady pirates.

and in the Biographical Gallery of Western Adventure Dustwrappers there is a Zane Grey gallery.

also worth a gander is the Violet Books e-zine, The Weird Review.

(and catalogs upon catalogs of books for sale.)

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bonus: my favorite from the whole of violet books.