Bad Banana Books, Publishing and Other Cool Stuff
BAD BANANA Books & Other Cool Stuff
ebay store is linked uptop
BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/BADBANANA
born 1-5-2025 at 10:05 AM
(Bought Blue Hand Books and will be moving books here)
BEST QUOTE EVER
"Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities—their brute persistence." - author Nicholson Baker
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