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A copy of "13 years of good luck" sampling all works Microcosm! [Add $2 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 years of good luck" and a copy of "Zine Yearbook #9," detailing the best reprints from zines printed in 2007 [Add $3 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "How & Why" plus a copy of the limited edition "The Truth About Terminator Seeds" zine by Adam Gnade (hint: 1984 movie)

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Receive a signed copy of the book and seeds saved from Matte's garden!

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Receive a canjo and a signed copy of the book! (What's a canjo? It's a diatonically tuned 1-string instrument that is great for people who have never really played before. Comes with a songbook of old folk/traditional songs that can be "played by number.")

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," and "X Ray Visions" by Benjamin Artur Ellis. [Add $15 if you're outside the US]

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Receive a Resist Instrument Works cigar box guitar and a signed copy of the book! (A guitar with a resonator made from a cigar box! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_box_guitar)

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," and "Constant Rider Omnibus" by Kate Lopresti. [Add $20 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "Constant Rider Omnibus," and I Hate This Part of Texas #5 and #7 by John Gerken. [Add $20 if you're outside the US]

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Get a signed copy of How & Why plus the original and unique blueline printer's proofs for the same book! For the serious collector nerd who has it all.

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Get a signed copy of How & Why plus the original and unique blueline printer's proofs for Zinester's Guide to New York City! For the serious collector nerd who has most of it all.

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Get a signed copy of How & Why plus the original and unique blueline printer's proofs for Chainbreaker: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance! For people who really love bikes.

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Get a signed copy of How & Why plus the original and unique blueline printer's proofs for SCAM: The First Four Years! Some serious nostalgia in this big package.

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Get a signed copy of How & Why plus the original and unique blueline printer's proofs for the very first printing of Henry & Glenn Forever! It may not look like much but it was touched by Richard the Roadie and will probably at least net enough on Ebay for a new guitar. Except with How & Why you can build your own guitar!

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "Constant Rider Omnibus," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, and "My Life in a Jugular Vein" by Ben Snakepit. [Add $25 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "Constant Rider Omnibus," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, "My Life in a Jugular Vein," and "The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-o Box". [Add $25 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "Constant Rider Omnibus," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, "My Life in a Jugular Vein," "The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-o Box," and "Sounds of Your Name" by Nate Powell. [Add $30 if you're outside the US]

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Twenty copies of How and Why at 50% off with free shipping. Perfect for retailers, distros, and kids with backpacks and five cool friends. [Add $45 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "Constant Rider Omnibus," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, "My Life in a Jugular Vein," "The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-o Box," "Sounds of Your Name," and a Microcosm Sweatshirt. [Add $40 if you're outside the US]

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Get a signed copy of How & Why plus the original and unique blueline printer's proofs for Henry & Glenn Forever! Of all of our crazy ideas, we can tell you this one is actually worth something on Ebay!

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "Constant Rider Omnibus," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, "My Life in a Jugular Vein," "The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-o Box," "Sounds of Your Name," a Microcosm Sweatshirt, and a 6 month BFF subscription to everything that Microcosm publishes. [Add $60 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "Constant Rider Omnibus," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, "My Life in a Jugular Vein," "The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-o Box," "Sounds of Your Name," a Microcosm Sweatshirt, a 6 month BFF subscription to everything that Microcosm publishes, The Flow Chronicles, Things are Meaning Less (1st Edition), The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #1-4, On Subbing, $100 & A T-Shirt DVD, Doris Anthology, Hot Damn & Hell Yeah / The Dirty South, Dreamwhip #14, Coffeeshop Crushes, and Homeland Insecurity DVD. [Add $80 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, "My Life in a Jugular Vein," "The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-o Box," "Sounds of Your Name," a Microcosm Sweatshirt, a 6 month BFF subscription to everything that Microcosm publishes, The Flow Chronicles, Things are Meaning Less (1st Edition), The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #1-4, On Subbing, $100 & A T-Shirt DVD, Doris Anthology, Hot Damn & Hell Yeah / The Dirty South, Dreamwhip #14, Coffeeshop Crushes, Homeland Insecurity DVD, Brainfag Forever, Chainbreaker Bike Book, CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #5, Constant Rider Omnibus, Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick, DIY Screenprinting, Dwelling Portably '80-89, Invincible Summer: An Anthology, Invincible Summer: An Anthology Volume II, Mostly True, My Brain Hurts, Vol 1, Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance, Snakepit 2007, Still We Ride DVD, Welcome to the Dahl House, and Zinester's Guide to Portland (4.5 edition). [Add $100 if you're outside the US]

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A copy of "13 Years," "Zine Yearbook #9," "How and Why," "Cantankerous Titles," "Best of Intentions," "Xtra Tuf #5," "Xerography Debt #25, 26, and 27," "X Ray Visions," "I Hate This Part of Texas" #5 and #7, "My Life in a Jugular Vein," "The Curious Case of the Communist Jell-o Box," "Sounds of Your Name," a Microcosm Sweatshirt, a 6 month BFF subscription to everything that Microcosm publishes, The Flow Chronicles, Things are Meaning Less (1st Edition), The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #1-4, On Subbing, $100 & A T-Shirt DVD, Doris Anthology, Hot Damn & Hell Yeah / The Dirty South, Dreamwhip #14, Coffeeshop Crushes, Homeland Insecurity DVD, Brainfag Forever, Chainbreaker Bike Book, CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #5, Constant Rider Omnibus, Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick, DIY Screenprinting, Dwelling Portably '80-89, Invincible Summer: An Anthology, Invincible Summer: An Anthology Volume II, Mostly True, My Brain Hurts, Vol 1, Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance, Snakepit 2007, Still We Ride DVD, Welcome to the Dahl House, and Zinester's Guide to Portland (4.5 edition). [Add $100 if you're outside the US]. And to top it all off, a Microcosm staffer will take you out for dinner the next time we're in your town and you can pick our brains about the subject of your choosing!

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As a not-for-profit*, collectively-run publisher and distributor of books and zines, Microcosm Publishing nurtures self-empowerment, shows hidden history, and fosters creativity. As a commitment to our ethics, our books are printed by union workers in the U.S. and we are moving towards all production using post-consumer papers, with vegan inks and bindings.

The distro and then-record-label was started by Joe Biel in his bedroom in 1996 and is now based in Lansing, KS and Portland, OR. Since then it's grown to become one of the largest zine distributors in the world, reaching an international audience through our website and distributors.

* We operate central to a mission statement and are financially not for profit, but we are not a 501c3 organization because it does not allow us to self- manage.

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