Pictured:

The Cramps, Smell of Female LP (£2, Putney charity shop)
Yes I have it on CD, but great band, best album title ever, cool cover.

Fairport Convention, Liege & Lief LP (£2, Putney charity shop)
Didn’t have this one at all. I only have Unhalfbricking by Fairport, which I’ve mentioned previously.

Rodreiguez, Cold Fact CD (£1, Putney charity shop)
Another recent coincidence this – I was chatting to a friend about Searching for Sugar Man over dinner the other evening, then this turns up. I’ve mentioned Light in the Attic, who have re-released the 1970 album, before. There’s another ‘alluring narrative’ that goes with Rodreiguez: he was (re)discovered a decade ago working as a labourer in Detroit, not knowing his debut album had become a cult classic, and he had become a national hero and beacon of hope in South Africa.

Paul Nash in Pictures: Landscape and Dream (£3.50, Putney charity shop)
Beautiful book.

Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (£3, Hammersmith charity shop)
Even though this will turn out to be another Gravity’s Rainbow, I’ve been desperate for this ever since going to Kosovo. H said it would turn up eventually, and it did. There was no way I was ever going to pay £21 for a paperback.

Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman (£2, Crystal Palace charity shop)
The best comic strip ever.

Not pictured:
Two-for-one tickets for Kew Gardens
To see the newly restored Temperate House, even if it did rain.

Free screen print from Mai 68: Posters from the Revolution exhibition, Lazinc gallery, London
To the same friend I was chatting to about Rodreiguez, I muttered something about The Clash line “turning rebellion into money” with regards to the exhibition, but fascinating nonetheless.

Previously on Barnflakes blog
Barngains
London Through its Charity Shops

Elsewhere on Barnflakes
BARNGAINS is a select list of rated barn-gains from 2007 to the present day.