I screamed at the screen many times because there is NO way anyone who loved vintage paperbacks, let alone a rare book dealer, would handle them the way Ethan Hawke does in this movie. Just bending covers & cracking spines left and right, like they’re 2-dollar beaters, ugh! Also … wtf is this??

the artist, Clement Micarelli, after painting masterpieces like the cover for Sexbound, retired from commercial art in 1971 and later painted many ultra-conservative Christian artworks featuring Jesus and the usual tableaux. alas!
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Amazing catch