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William Gaddis – JR
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk-mail […]
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The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“An anthology of erotic literature contains selections from leading writers of the genre including Henry Miller, Jean Genet, the Marquis de Sade, and Pauline Reage” Ballantine Books, [...]
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William S Burroughs – Cities Of The Red Night
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused [...]
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William S Burroughs – Exterminator
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Queer
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For more than three decades, while its writer’s world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and [...]
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Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
$225.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Sea of Fertility (豊饒の海 Hōjō no Umi) is a tetralogy written by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The series, which Mishima began writing in 1964 and which was his […]
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Remedios Varo – Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
$65.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908–63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never [...]
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Roland Topor – The Tenant
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Tenant chronicles a harrowing, fascinating descent into madness as the pathologically alienated Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, an enigmatic suicide whose presence saturates [...]
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Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“”Power and haunting,” and “nights of unrest” were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its [...]
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The Body And The Dream: French Erotic Fiction, 1464 – 1900
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn anthology and survey of French erotica, featuring rare and classic texts. Quartet, 1984 Hardcover edition. Light general wear.
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Peter Sotos – Index (Very scarce)
$80.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Peter Sotos, the writer who ‘rapes a blank page’, whose pen is ‘the verbal knife of a sadist’, is now regarded as perhaps the most important modern writer on [...]
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Pauline Reage – The Story Of O
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“How far will a woman go to express her love? In this exquisite novel of passion and desire, the answer emerges through a daring exploration of the deepest bonds of […]
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Patrick Suskind – Perfume
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest [...]
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Mary Gaitskill – Bad Behavior
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically [...]
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Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
$150.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]
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Hubert Selby – The Demon
$26.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr’s lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds — a good marriage, a good corporate job […]
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Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo (Scarce edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“It is the 1920s in New York City and an epidemic known as Jes Grew is sweeping the nation—a dancing plague, irresistible, joyful, and undeniably Black. Naturally, the powers-that-be are [...]
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J.G Ballard – The Crystal World (Book Club Edition)
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“J. G. Ballard’s fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the [...]
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Iva Pekarkova – Gimme The Money
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The street-wise, sexually liberated Gin has blagged and bribed her way into the decidedly insalubrious dwellings of New York for the past three years. Now, besieged by financial troubles [...]
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J.G Ballard – The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere (Book Club Edition)
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Wind from Nowhere, 1st published in ’61 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories. The […]
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Jerry Weissman – The Zodiac Killer
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A novel based on the still-unsolved San Francisco murders of 1968-69.” Pinnacle Books, 1979 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Wear & discoloration to edges of wraps.
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Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego (1st Edition)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Tells the story of an Argentinian poet, who may also represent Borges himself, and discusses the limits of literature” Dutton, 1984 Hardcover 1st edition. Corner clipped on [...]
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Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key, […]
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Kathy Acker – Blood And Guts In High School (as-is)
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent [...]
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Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This is a book to delight the mind and the eye – the first collection of the poet Kenneth Patchen’s unique and remarkable “picture-poems.” As a creative form, the [...]
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Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century. It created an international sensation upon [...]
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Jean Lorrain – Princesses Of Darkness And Other Exotica
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“When Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was recruited to the stable of writers assembled by Catulle Mendès to supply L’Écho de Paris with material on a weekly basis, in July 1890, he […]
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Jean Lorrain – Errant Vice
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel […]
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Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
$200.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]
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Harry Matthews – The Journalist
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The [...]
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Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on […]
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Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
$110.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]
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Ernst Juenger – On The Marble Cliffs
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of […]
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Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]
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Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. [...]
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Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from […]
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William S Burroughs – Naked Lunch
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict […]
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Federico Garcia Lorca – Three Tragedies
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward [...]
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Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A [...]
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Julio Cortazar – Cronopios & Famas
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortázar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists. “The Instruction Manual,” the first chapter, is an absurd [...]
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Don Delillo – Players
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind […]
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Don Delillo – Libra
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of […]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in […]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation [...]
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Baudelaire – Les Fleurs Du Mal (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire’s poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August […]
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Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLong out of print and presented here for the first time in paperback, is Arthur Machen’s classic collection of prose poems. The ten exquisite pieces included in this volume are: […]
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Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAlthea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]
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Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]
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Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon, an eccentric, outmoded dandy leads ennui-filled French tourists around misty Amsterdam. Guiding them through sailors’ bars, whorehouses, and costume [...]
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