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GOAT: Champ’s Edition Is The Definitive Treatise On Muhammad Ali, Makes For Heavyweight Reading
Boxing may be dying on its knees (with the Pacquaio-Mayweather debacle serving as its latest poison), but the great memories of pugilists past will remain with us forever. Taschen’s latest opus on Muhammad Ali, GOAT: Champ’s Edition, is the definitive volume on boxing’s greatest practitioner, collecting an insane amount of content relating to the champ over the last 50 years.
GOAT (acronym for Greatest Of All Time) is one huge treatise in eight-color print – 792 pages, consisting of over 600,000 words (collecting the best essays, interviews and writing on Ali) and over 3,000 images (all gloss-varnished). It’s XXL-sized, measuring 20 x 20 inches and weighing 75 lbs. It comes with two 80 x 20 inch gatefold sequences and four silver 20 x 20 inch gelatin prints (signed by both Muhammad Ali and photographer Howard L. Bingham).
The book sports a white silk cover with pink lettering, slid inside a silk-clad box [...]
Moonfire: Lunar Rock Edition Comes With Spaceship Case, Genuine Moonrock And An Out-Of-This-World Price
There’s no better way to say “I’m rich, bitch!” than buying a special-edition book for $90,500. That’s why I’m taking my Lamborghini from my million-dollar mansion, liquidating it on JamesList and grabbing myself a copy of Taschen’s reissue of the Norman Mailer classic, Of a Fire on the Moon. Which I won’t even read.
Okay. The above were all lies. Except for the part where the “Lunar Rock Edition” of Mailer’s epic tale of the Apollo 11 launch – reprinted as Moonfire – costs over ninety grand. That part is real.
Why the exorbitant price? The book comes in a single-body aluminum case, sporting a front cover that’s been designed to feature a topographical reproduction of a section of the moon’s surface. It also gets further Apollo 11 accents, including the struts and feet, making it look like an alien aircraft rather than a coffee-table volume.
The clincher, however, is the piece [...]
Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made, Turned Into A Book
Vaporware fans rejoice! Stanley Kubrick’s unfilmed ouvre on Napoleon Bonaparte, which many consider to be “The Greatest Movie Never Made” (I know how stupid that sounds), is celebrated on a new collector’s edition book that details all the two years of work the director has spent in preparation for it.
Discussed by Kubrick fans and film buffs for over forty years, Napoleon was supposed to be one big-ass epic. In fact, the director was said to have amassed an “unparalleled treasure trove of research and pre-production material” during the time that his team worked on the project, including over 15,000 photographs of scouting locations and over 17,000 slides of imagery fit for the era. From the sound of it, the collection is every bit as epic as the movie Kubrick was hoping to make.
All of those materials, including correspondence about the film from the director himself, costume studies, various drafts and [...]
Emergency: What To Do When It Really Hits The Fan
What do you do when going gets tough and the carefully crafted world you’ve built around you falls to pieces? Most of us probably don’t even think about those scenarios but New York Times best-selling author Neil Strauss did. He documents the result of that paranoia and learning to be ready for it in his latest full-length book, “Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life.”
As with his previous works, Strauss delves into his subject and literally lives it. In the classic and brilliant low-brow tome “The Dirt,” he put himself among the members of Motley Crue during a tour, partaking in their drug-and-alcohol-addled life on the road. On the 2005 hit “The Game,” he managed to entrench himself into the inner circle of self-proclaimed pick-up artists, reveling in their nightly juvenile pursuits of winning women’s adoration. For “Emergency,” Strauss throws himself in the midst of survivalists, whose lives revolved around [...]
