Normals Books & Records
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A 34 year old book & record store nestled in the heart of The People’s Republic of Waverly. From the obscure to the indispensable is our motto. Open 7 days a week.
I got my annual flogging from Team Krampus!
December 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I got my annual flogging from Team Krampus!
Plumping the New Arrivals for your perusing pleasure. I’m sure excited about a new Joy Williams existing!!!! #BaltimreBookstore #ShopLocalBaltimore
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Plumping the New Arrivals for your perusing pleasure. I’m sure excited about a new Joy Williams existing!!!! #BaltimreBookstore #ShopLocalBaltimore
The old adage that the elder ones say about the 60s is “if you remember them you weren’t there.” For the 90s in Baltimore, it’s if you have memories of that decade they are most likely transplanted ones installed by evil genius Rocco who lurked by the “Cherry Bomb” jar at the Rendezvous Lounge.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The old adage that the elder ones say about the 60s is “if you remember them you weren’t there.” For the 90s in Baltimore, it’s if you have memories of that decade they are most likely transplanted ones installed by evil genius Rocco who lurked by the “Cherry Bomb” jar at the Rendezvous Lounge.
We got a rare visit from much missed local celebrity & good guy, @will.ingtochill Not much can get him to leave his cattle ranch in Montana, but his old pal Infinity Knives had finally “gone clear” & Will was invited to the secret Scientology ceremony to celebrate said occasion.
December 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
We got a rare visit from much missed local celebrity & good guy, @will.ingtochill Not much can get him to leave his cattle ranch in Montana, but his old pal Infinity Knives had finally “gone clear” & Will was invited to the secret Scientology ceremony to celebrate said occasion.
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Big Mouth Southern Smokehouse Burger – $14.99
The charred black bones of the farmhouse coughed and hissed and exhaled into the early morning fog, ghosts of smoke swirling whitehot against the sun, contrast in defiance of God ordained.
The charred black bones of the farmhouse coughed and hissed and exhaled into the early morning fog, ghosts of smoke swirling whitehot against the sun, contrast in defiance of God ordained.
Chili’s Menu, by Cormac McCarthy
Southwestern Eggrolls – $9.95 In a tortilla made by the boy’s abuela he watched her, with her armfat and canvas apron, cast frijoles negros upon fl...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Big Mouth Southern Smokehouse Burger – $14.99
The charred black bones of the farmhouse coughed and hissed and exhaled into the early morning fog, ghosts of smoke swirling whitehot against the sun, contrast in defiance of God ordained.
The charred black bones of the farmhouse coughed and hissed and exhaled into the early morning fog, ghosts of smoke swirling whitehot against the sun, contrast in defiance of God ordained.
Laying in some vinyl classics for snowday!
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Laying in some vinyl classics for snowday!
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You’ve heard of elf on a shelf. You’ve probably heard of some other stuff too. I get it. You’re a man of the world.
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You’ve heard of elf on a shelf. You’ve probably heard of some other stuff too. I get it. You’re a man of the world.
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kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders
We are open & lighted & selling tickets to the December 14th premiere of Shane of the Many Sorrows! 7:30, 9:30 & midnight! (Watch old man’s heart pop from caffeine) showing. PayPal $10 to rwondolowski@yahoo.com and let me know which showing or
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We are open & lighted & selling tickets to the December 14th premiere of Shane of the Many Sorrows! 7:30, 9:30 & midnight! (Watch old man’s heart pop from caffeine) showing. PayPal $10 to rwondolowski@yahoo.com and let me know which showing or
Put on your favorite holiday threads and peruse our stacks for Small Business Saturday. Clutch a Dickens leaning against the warmth of our old school radiators. 20% off all used books. Photo a still from Mrs William Horsley’s film Fleegix.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Put on your favorite holiday threads and peruse our stacks for Small Business Saturday. Clutch a Dickens leaning against the warmth of our old school radiators. 20% off all used books. Photo a still from Mrs William Horsley’s film Fleegix.
A New Horse Lords Day miracle! The last box of my RSD order came to my house early afternoon & Young Leo was able to pick it up.
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A New Horse Lords Day miracle! The last box of my RSD order came to my house early afternoon & Young Leo was able to pick it up.
Well my main distributor let me down and the RSD box with Ween, The Ramones and Talking Heads won’t arrive in time for opening tomorrow, but another box came with the new Horse Lords @horselords collaborating with Arnold Dreyblatt, “Extended Field”, LP. So tomorrow we will be immersed in
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Well my main distributor let me down and the RSD box with Ween, The Ramones and Talking Heads won’t arrive in time for opening tomorrow, but another box came with the new Horse Lords @horselords collaborating with Arnold Dreyblatt, “Extended Field”, LP. So tomorrow we will be immersed in
Happy Indigenous Peoples/Parade/Giving Thanks Day! I am thankful we’re in our 35th year and that you still grace our doors! Most of you clothed. At least 2/3 brilliant, the other 1/3 doggone charming. Have a great day in whatever way you roll,
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples/Parade/Giving Thanks Day! I am thankful we’re in our 35th year and that you still grace our doors! Most of you clothed. At least 2/3 brilliant, the other 1/3 doggone charming. Have a great day in whatever way you roll,
Black Friday #RecordStoreDay LPs prepared for the big day. Miles at the Plugged Nickel, Dylan’s “Freewheelin’” as it was supposed to originally be released, a Jonathan Richman never before released, rare Strata East reissue, Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef live.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Black Friday #RecordStoreDay LPs prepared for the big day. Miles at the Plugged Nickel, Dylan’s “Freewheelin’” as it was supposed to originally be released, a Jonathan Richman never before released, rare Strata East reissue, Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef live.
No matter how you treat the holidays, like Young Leo filling in today retreating into his scalp shrubbery anticipating his Thanksgiving Popeye’s turkey, or upbeat Lottie in her holiday sweater, they are coming! Closing tomorrow at 5 & closed on Thanksgiving. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
No matter how you treat the holidays, like Young Leo filling in today retreating into his scalp shrubbery anticipating his Thanksgiving Popeye’s turkey, or upbeat Lottie in her holiday sweater, they are coming! Closing tomorrow at 5 & closed on Thanksgiving. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal
Stocking the larder with vinyl sweets for holiday or every day use!
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Stocking the larder with vinyl sweets for holiday or every day use!
Reissue of the debut of #Grouper , Japanese super group Food Brain from 1970, mentioned in Julian Cope’s Jap Rock Sampler, “Songs of the Cambodian Liberation” & new #OpticSink , Gonerfest regulars. And Baltimore encompassing all, it turns out Bruiser
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reissue of the debut of #Grouper , Japanese super group Food Brain from 1970, mentioned in Julian Cope’s Jap Rock Sampler, “Songs of the Cambodian Liberation” & new #OpticSink , Gonerfest regulars. And Baltimore encompassing all, it turns out Bruiser
New #BillOrcutt ! This imposing cover photo was taken in the Revolver warehouse just as our pal ED stole his Halloween candy and packed it with our shipment. New expanded 2 lp version of Sun Ra’s first Saturn album, “Supersonic Jazz”. “Smile” reissue and one of the few albums
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New #BillOrcutt ! This imposing cover photo was taken in the Revolver warehouse just as our pal ED stole his Halloween candy and packed it with our shipment. New expanded 2 lp version of Sun Ra’s first Saturn album, “Supersonic Jazz”. “Smile” reissue and one of the few albums
The #Yuletide vinyl had crashed upon the Waverly shores early this year!! We usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to put it out but folks seem to be in the holiday mood early. #BaltimoreRecordstore #HolidayLocalShopping #DontLetTheFascistGrinchesGetYouDown
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The #Yuletide vinyl had crashed upon the Waverly shores early this year!! We usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to put it out but folks seem to be in the holiday mood early. #BaltimoreRecordstore #HolidayLocalShopping #DontLetTheFascistGrinchesGetYouDown
6 boxes of exceptional literature, poetry, Native American history, radical and anarchist theory, sociology and Black Studies hitting the shelves. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal #WaverlyMerchants
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
6 boxes of exceptional literature, poetry, Native American history, radical and anarchist theory, sociology and Black Studies hitting the shelves. #BaltimoreBookstore #ShopLocal #WaverlyMerchants
Thank you so much Baltimore for somehow keeping it hard to keep the goodies on the shelves in these increasingly weird times! Our new intern Mrigaanka of The Many Skills got to see a wonderful wave of faces Saturday scooping up music and books and stirring fine chatter.
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Thank you so much Baltimore for somehow keeping it hard to keep the goodies on the shelves in these increasingly weird times! Our new intern Mrigaanka of The Many Skills got to see a wonderful wave of faces Saturday scooping up music and books and stirring fine chatter.
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Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930.
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930.
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
Two more new “no brainers” as the gravediggers say. Affordable reissue of reverb drenched classic and a hypnotic East African 80s album rooted in traditional Rwandan praise songs.
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Two more new “no brainers” as the gravediggers say. Affordable reissue of reverb drenched classic and a hypnotic East African 80s album rooted in traditional Rwandan praise songs.
I’ve been really waiting for this one! Before @unsociable_cat_dad the doe-eyed Marxist’s power partner @amelia_bedeliya became a farmer of renown she was a liberation theologian and she cut this wild lp. Folk spirituals somewhat with Judee Sill vibe with some Bruce Haack added!
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve been really waiting for this one! Before @unsociable_cat_dad the doe-eyed Marxist’s power partner @amelia_bedeliya became a farmer of renown she was a liberation theologian and she cut this wild lp. Folk spirituals somewhat with Judee Sill vibe with some Bruce Haack added!
Sometimes a Best Of kicks out some true Besties. Like this one. And not just because some of our favorite nabobs are bound up in it…..Fantastic compilation cobbled exquisitely by Terence Winch, who just turned 80.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Sometimes a Best Of kicks out some true Besties. Like this one. And not just because some of our favorite nabobs are bound up in it…..Fantastic compilation cobbled exquisitely by Terence Winch, who just turned 80.