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Would You Like To Own This Wacky Telegram From Ernest Hemingway?

by Alexis Coe In the summer of 1959, Ernest Hemingway lit out for Spain on assignment. He was to write a long article about a series of bullfights between the country’s finest matadors, Antonio...

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This Functional Yet Minuscule Gold Skeleton Can Be Yours On Monday

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale in New York City… fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures...

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Today You Can Buy Queen Mary I's Secret Trump Card

by Alexis Coe At the age of 15, King Edward VI was dying. For his last act as king, he excluded both of his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, from the line of succession. (To get Mary out of the line,...

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You Can Buy Carl Jung's Letter To The 'New Republic' About UFOs

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale in New York City: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures...

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One Prescription For Alcohol, Coming Right Up

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale in New York City: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures...

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W. H. Auden's Juicy Missing Diary Appears! And Then Promptly Disappears, For...

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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A Portrait Of Boxing's First World Championship

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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The Nobel Peace Prize For Espionage

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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Eldridge Cleaver's Emo Diary

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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The Mysteries of Ambrose Bierce

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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Inexpensive Japanese Pornography

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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The Excellent Jewish Propagandist

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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The Killing Of Neighbors

by Alexis Coe Hello, would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that...

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The Last Of America's Slave Tags

by Alexis Coe Would you like to buy something weird? Hammer Time is our guide to things that are for sale at auction: fantastic, consequential and freakishly grotesque archival treasures that appear...

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The Very Best Copy Of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" And Just A Little Of...

by Alexis Coe For 30 years, Rick Synchef carried around Tom Wolfe’s 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It was a first edition purchased from a dealer, but it never occurred to Synchef that...

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Nepotism, Slavery And Inheritance: The Tale Of Bushrod Washington

by Alexis Coe President George Washington’s favorite nephew would go on to make his uncle proud. But at the age of sixteen, rumor had it that Bushrod Washington was bringing shame upon the family. His...

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This Is An Ad By Dr. Seuss, It Will Cost More Than A Caboose (If You Say His...

by Alexis Coe After receiving twenty-seven rejection letters, Theodor Seuss Geisel published his first children’s book in 1937. But And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street wasn’t going to pay...

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A Letter From Tolstoy

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For Sale: The Private Letters of David Foster Wallace

by Alexis Coe JT Jackson was David Foster Wallace’s friend and occasional muse at the University of Arizona MFA program they attended together in the nineteen eighties. Or he was Wallace’s old pot...

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The Mysteries of Ambrose Bierce

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