Lux Mentis, Booksellers
@luxmentis.bsky.social
Niche bookseller with a focus on design bindings, artist books, and esoterica (challenging material of all sorts…occult to fetishism to hate speech). Recovering attorney. Cat owner. Mostly human.
Personal blather: @dominussomes.bsky.social
Personal blather: @dominussomes.bsky.social
Title Page of the Day...Originally intended for inclusion in The Age Letters, it was considered so obscene it was cut by the printers... #burroughs #ginsberg #fuckyoupress
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Title Page of the Day...Originally intended for inclusion in The Age Letters, it was considered so obscene it was cut by the printers... #burroughs #ginsberg #fuckyoupress
Quick Clarifying Note: As I've mentioned in various spaces, we have purchased a wonderful house in Ireland. It will eventually be our primary residence.
To be clear, Lux Mentis will continue to grow US operations while also expanding its European presence.
To be clear, Lux Mentis will continue to grow US operations while also expanding its European presence.
September 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Quick Clarifying Note: As I've mentioned in various spaces, we have purchased a wonderful house in Ireland. It will eventually be our primary residence.
To be clear, Lux Mentis will continue to grow US operations while also expanding its European presence.
To be clear, Lux Mentis will continue to grow US operations while also expanding its European presence.
Also today: two thick costume designers binders documenting, in photos and text, the transformation over the season of Glee’s m->f and f->m trans characters…the year Glee won an Emmy.
September 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Also today: two thick costume designers binders documenting, in photos and text, the transformation over the season of Glee’s m->f and f->m trans characters…the year Glee won an Emmy.
Well, today is off to a good start.
September 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Well, today is off to a good start.
"18 years old... 88 years old in human terms. He lived a long life and died peacefully at the end. He must have had a very happy life as a cat." Rest easy, Maru.
mugumogu. I Am Maru. Japan: Tokimeki Publishing, 2009. First (Japanese) Edition.
mugumogu. I Am Maru. Japan: Tokimeki Publishing, 2009. First (Japanese) Edition.
September 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"18 years old... 88 years old in human terms. He lived a long life and died peacefully at the end. He must have had a very happy life as a cat." Rest easy, Maru.
mugumogu. I Am Maru. Japan: Tokimeki Publishing, 2009. First (Japanese) Edition.
mugumogu. I Am Maru. Japan: Tokimeki Publishing, 2009. First (Japanese) Edition.
"It is indeed a painful duty I am called to perform to announce to you the tidings of the death of our little Alice, she died yesterday about 10 oclock her disease was cholera infantum - a disease which often attends teething..." Sarah Dunn writes to family about the death of her child #mementomori
August 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"It is indeed a painful duty I am called to perform to announce to you the tidings of the death of our little Alice, she died yesterday about 10 oclock her disease was cholera infantum - a disease which often attends teething..." Sarah Dunn writes to family about the death of her child #mementomori
Seems, sadly, apt for today... Dance of Death leaf from Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle], 1493.
August 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Seems, sadly, apt for today... Dance of Death leaf from Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle], 1493.
Not just books, Tarot and tarot decks are regularly featured in our inventory.
After two major exhibits in the Europe, the tarot is recognized as divination system, beyond
a parlour game novelty. Tarot tells a story and provides users with a framework.
Tarot is art. Tarot is engagement. #tarot
After two major exhibits in the Europe, the tarot is recognized as divination system, beyond
a parlour game novelty. Tarot tells a story and provides users with a framework.
Tarot is art. Tarot is engagement. #tarot
August 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Not just books, Tarot and tarot decks are regularly featured in our inventory.
After two major exhibits in the Europe, the tarot is recognized as divination system, beyond
a parlour game novelty. Tarot tells a story and provides users with a framework.
Tarot is art. Tarot is engagement. #tarot
After two major exhibits in the Europe, the tarot is recognized as divination system, beyond
a parlour game novelty. Tarot tells a story and provides users with a framework.
Tarot is art. Tarot is engagement. #tarot
Happy Birthday to Dr. Oliver Sacks! We have posted a short list from his private library that we hope reflects his questing mind and interests. Enjoy. #oliversacks #neurodivergence
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July 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Happy Birthday to Dr. Oliver Sacks! We have posted a short list from his private library that we hope reflects his questing mind and interests. Enjoy. #oliversacks #neurodivergence
zurl.co/14q5M
zurl.co/14q5M
It would be nice to think that America had learned and matured and progressed...and yet, here we are...
July 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It would be nice to think that America had learned and matured and progressed...and yet, here we are...
<scowl> Please note, the "Tule Bound" image with the graduating seniors waving from train windows are the kids being shipped from the 'family camp' they've been in to the segregation camp in Tule Lake.
July 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
<scowl> Please note, the "Tule Bound" image with the graduating seniors waving from train windows are the kids being shipped from the 'family camp' they've been in to the segregation camp in Tule Lake.
Resume 1944: Rohwer Center High School: Today seems like an appropriate day to share an Internment Camp yearbook...because America First.
July 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Resume 1944: Rohwer Center High School: Today seems like an appropriate day to share an Internment Camp yearbook...because America First.
Love that first sale in TX is this.
June 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Love that first sale in TX is this.
Just in time for the Dallas book fair, look what arrived in the post today: Wolgemut's, Dance of Death...a leaf from the Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493]. Fits my Dallas theme nicely...
June 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Just in time for the Dallas book fair, look what arrived in the post today: Wolgemut's, Dance of Death...a leaf from the Weltchronik [The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493]. Fits my Dallas theme nicely...
Another brilliant bit of work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. This from a deluxe copy with dozens of state proofs. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Another brilliant bit of work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. This from a deluxe copy with dozens of state proofs. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts
Cataloging some earlier work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. His engravings never cease to amaze me. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts
June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cataloging some earlier work by DR Wakefield and Chevington Press. His engravings never cease to amaze me. #finepress #artistbooks #bookarts
A gem that retuned with us from Oxford. [and a test of Zoho social]
May 31, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A gem that retuned with us from Oxford. [and a test of Zoho social]
Terminal 2 heading to Ireland for a few days. The robot trundles around saying ‘intelligent inspection operations’…proto-dalek.
May 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Terminal 2 heading to Ireland for a few days. The robot trundles around saying ‘intelligent inspection operations’…proto-dalek.
Sometimes, at the fine press fair, you find something surprising.
May 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sometimes, at the fine press fair, you find something surprising.
Set up at the Oxford fine press and artist book fair. Nice space for the event (Oxford examination halls)
May 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Set up at the Oxford fine press and artist book fair. Nice space for the event (Oxford examination halls)
Pimms and lilac in Oxford.
May 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Pimms and lilac in Oxford.
Book find of our last day in York.
April 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Book find of our last day in York.
The Belfry at the Guy Fawkes Inn is the entire top floor (3-4 rooms plus bath (one is long and really effectively two rooms)). The bath has a copper tub ❤️🔥.
Booking this might have been best/most clever thing I’ve done in ages.
Booking this might have been best/most clever thing I’ve done in ages.
April 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The Belfry at the Guy Fawkes Inn is the entire top floor (3-4 rooms plus bath (one is long and really effectively two rooms)). The bath has a copper tub ❤️🔥.
Booking this might have been best/most clever thing I’ve done in ages.
Booking this might have been best/most clever thing I’ve done in ages.
Cover of the Day…
Cataloging more IRA material.
Cataloging more IRA material.
April 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Cover of the Day…
Cataloging more IRA material.
Cataloging more IRA material.
New timely broadside from Michael Kuch debuting at the @nybookfair (Booth D33). As with the related, first term prints (Rise Up, Resist, Reject) it is an open edition. #bookarts #michaelkuch #fightfascism
March 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New timely broadside from Michael Kuch debuting at the @nybookfair (Booth D33). As with the related, first term prints (Rise Up, Resist, Reject) it is an open edition. #bookarts #michaelkuch #fightfascism