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  • Bobby Womack –  Across 110th Street
    Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street
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    “The soundtrack to a relatively little-known 1972 blaxploitation film featured songs written and performed by Bobby Womack, as well as a musical score by J.J. Johnson. Although the [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Boris With Merzbow ‎– 2R0I2P0 (White And Neon Magenta Butterfly Wings Vinyl)
    Boris With Merzbow ‎– 2R0I2P0 (White And Neon Magenta Butterfly Wings …
    $22.00 | , ,

    “Japan’s overdriven avant-metal power trio Boris and industrial noise pioneer Merzbow (Masami Akita) have been working together intermittently since 2002. This is their fifth studio [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Metal
  • Anteloper ‎– Pink Dolphins
    Anteloper ‎– Pink Dolphins
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    “As Anteloper, the duo of trumpeter jaimie branch and drummer Jason Nazary make a synth-adorned, groove-heavy kind of subaquatic free jazz, leaning into structural improvisation and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Aphex Twin ‎– Collapse EP
    Aphex Twin ‎– Collapse EP
    $14.00 | , ,

    “The legendary Aphex Twin returns bringing the heat once more! One of the most spectacular and critically lauded artists in the world, the Collapse EP is one surely not to […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle
    Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle
    $18.00 | , ,

    “Composer, clarinetist, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid descended on Chicago’s jazz & improvised music scene just a few years ago. In very short time, the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Larry Townsend – The Severed Head
    Larry Townsend – The Severed Head
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    During the riots that followed the unpopular verdicts in the Rodney King trial, a group of skinhead punks preys on the Gay Community of West Hollywood. In the course of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • S. English – Narco-Analysis
    S. English – Narco-Analysis
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    “This program connects the dots between various lone wolves and outsider units operating on the outskirts of the nascent international mail art / audio cassette trading network of the 1980s [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Warlord ‎– Deliver Us
    Warlord ‎– Deliver Us
    $15.00 | , ,

    Classic 1980’s melodic heavy metal. RIYL: Iron Maiden, Dio Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Metal
  • Paul Haines – Darn It!
    Paul Haines – Darn It!
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    Huge collaborative work by the provocateur/jazz musician/poet, Paul Haines. Features guest spots from Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, Roswell Rudd, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and many many more. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Spoken Word
  • Robert Longo (Rizzoli Monograph)
    Robert Longo (Rizzoli Monograph)
    $20.00 | , ,

    Monograph covering the New York-based multi-media artist. Book is in Like New condition and shows very light general wear. *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Andre Bazin – The Cinema Of Cruelty
    Andre Bazin – The Cinema Of Cruelty
    $50.00 | , ,

    Perhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development of the scholarship that we know now as film criticism. Bazin has […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Howlin’ Wolf – The Chess Box
    Howlin’ Wolf – The Chess Box
    $35.00 | , ,

    “This three-CD box set currently rates as the best — and most digestible — overview of Howlin’ Wolf’s career. Disc one starts with the Memphis sides that eventually [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Bill Evans – The Complete Riverside Recordings
    Bill Evans – The Complete Riverside Recordings
    $90.00 | ,

    “This magnificent 12-CD set contains all of Bill Evans’ Riverside recordings as a leader, an extremely important period in the influential pianist’s development. The first [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wes Montgomery – The Complete Riverside Recordings 12 CD Box Set
    Wes Montgomery – The Complete Riverside Recordings 12 CD Box Set
    $90.00 | ,

    “Wes Montgomery recorded exclusively for the Riverside label during the four years covered by this massive 12-CD box set and, although his later albums for Verve and particularly the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers – The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    Sam Rivers – The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    $90.00 | , ,

    “From the time of his first Blue Note recording in 1964 to his final session for the label in 1967, Sam Rivers made stunning progress as an avant-garde innovator. Starting […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
    In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
    $12.00 | , ,

    Looks at paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Arp, Dali, Ernst, Gorky, Grosz, and others This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
    Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
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    Classic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
    Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
    $8.00 | , ,

    Gnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God–Gnosticism being [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
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    One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Walter Burkert – Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
    Walter Burkert – Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in …
    $7.00 | , ,

    We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
    Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
    $7.00 | , ,

    “The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Idries Shah – The Sufis
    Idries Shah – The Sufis
    $7.00 | , ,

    Idries Shah’s The Sufis is the most authoritative book about Sufism ever produced for a modern audience. This definitive work explores an immemorial wisdom tradition best-known for its [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Colin Wilson – Poetry and Mysticism
    Colin Wilson – Poetry and Mysticism
    $7.00 | , ,

    The mystic’s moment of illumination shares with great poetry the liberating power of the deepest levels of consciousness. In the words of William Blake, “If the doors of perception [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
    Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, an…
    $7.00 | , ,

    In his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
    John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
    $16.00 | , ,

    An exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
    From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
    $7.00 | , ,

    From the Nile’s black land to the Aztec’s world of the Fifth Sun, from the shrines at Phylakopi to the Maya ceremonial center of Xunantunich, sophisticated scientific techniques have [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Camille Paglia – Sex, Art And American Culture
    Camille Paglia – Sex, Art And American Culture
    $7.00 | , ,

    A collection of twenty of Paglia’s out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America’s ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
    Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
    $6.00 | , ,

    For many ancient societies, the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets constituted an elaborate language, expressing the intentions of the spiritual forces they believed ruled the world. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes
    The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the …
    $18.00 | , ,

    An introductory overview by Ann Farkas and essays by Russian authorities explain the history and archaeology of the nomads of Eurasia, the Filippovka kurgans, cults and rituals of the steppe […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • George L. Hersey – Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
    George L. Hersey – Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the B…
    $20.00 | , ,

    The age of the Baroque—a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics—witnessed the construction of some of the world’s most magnificent buildings. What did the work of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio Hopewell Sites
    Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Mounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. This book, now in its seventh printing, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
    The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
    $8.00 | , ,

    Though its roots are in Hinduism, tantra’s goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era, and can be applied to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited
    The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited
    $8.00 | , ,

    In 1995, to honor the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West, the New York Open Center invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
    Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiri…
    $8.00 | , ,

    First published in 1911, Mysticism remains the classic in its field and was lauded by The Princeton Theological Review as “brilliantly written [and] illuminated with numerous well-chosen [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Derrida – Of Grammatology
    Jacques Derrida – Of Grammatology
    $8.00 | , ,

    Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534
    Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Co…
    $8.00 | , ,

    “The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity…. Above all, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
    Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey…
    $8.00 | , ,

    A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination
    The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagin…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Ibn al-‘Arabi is still known as “the Great Sheik” among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Josef Albers – Interaction of Color: Revised Edition
    Josef Albers – Interaction of Color: Revised Edition
    $15.00 | , ,

    The masterworks of one of the most influential teacher-artists of the twentieth century, originally published as a limited, boxed edition in 1963, was conceived as a guide and teaching aid […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
    Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
    $12.00 | , ,

    Despite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment
    Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment
    $10.00 | , ,

    The mandala appears in many forms – painted, made of sand, modelled three-dimensionally or constructed completely in the mind of the meditator. This volume presents the art and philosophy [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothingness and Emptiness: A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre
    Nothingness and Emptiness: A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of …
    $10.00 | , ,

    This sustained and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean conception of nothingness [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis
    The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through Jung’s Mysterium Coniu…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This book is a section by section commentary on Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. Alchemy is a confusing topic by itself. Jung’s interpretation of it is highly nuanced and can easily be [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carl E. Schorske – Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
    Carl E. Schorske – Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
    $10.00 | , ,

    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life
    Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life
    $10.00 | , ,

    A survey of the importance and place of astrology in the Renaissance, in the context of magic, Platonism and hermeticism. The book also includes charts of astrology of the period. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Forests of The Vampire
    Forests of The Vampire
    $9.00 | , ,

    Of all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plains, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Art of the Sepik River
    The Art of the Sepik River
    $8.00 | , ,

    Detailed and illustrated overview of the art found in the communities on the Sepik River in New Guinea This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • John F. Michell – The New View Over Atlantis
    John F. Michell – The New View Over Atlantis
    $8.00 | , ,

    The View Over Atlantis, John Michell’s unrivaled introduction to megalithic science, earth mysteries, and the inner meaning of number and measure, was described by Colin Wilson as [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annemarie Schimmel – Mystical Dimensions of Islam
    Annemarie Schimmel – Mystical Dimensions of Islam
    $8.00 | , ,

    Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism — Islamic mysticism — from its beginnings through the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective
    Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective
    $75.00 | , ,

    One of the leading female artists of the late 20th century, Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) became widely known for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages from […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography