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  • The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce)
    The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce)
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    “A facetious guide to emulating the look, speech patterns, thinking, and lifestyle of those who attend prep schools and are a part of high society” Workman Publishing, 1980 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Todd Lawson – The Quran: Epic And Apocalypse
    Todd Lawson – The Quran: Epic And Apocalypse
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    “How do people understand the Quran to be divine revelation? What is it about the text that inspires such devotion and commitment in the reader/believer? Todd Lawson explores how the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vocabula Amatoria: French-English Dictionary Of Erotica
    Vocabula Amatoria: French-English Dictionary Of Erotica
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    A usable and convenient French-English dictionary of terms commonly used in erotica. University Books Inc, 1966 Hardcover edition. Some discoloration/wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar  

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William T. Vollmann – Rising Up And Rising Down
    William T. Vollmann – Rising Up And Rising Down
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    “Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wood Works: Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
    Wood Works: Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
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    “Wood is nature’s greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans worldwide. And it is ingenious as building material: remarkably malleable and at the same time [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Yale French Studies, Number 78: On Bataille
    Yale French Studies, Number 78: On Bataille
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    Amazing in-depth volume studying the work of Georges Bataille as a philosopher, sociologist and writer. Yale University Press, 1990 Softcover edition. Some discoloration to spine and upper edge [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Princeton Field Guides: Caterpillars Of Eastern North America
    Princeton Field Guides: Caterpillars Of Eastern North America
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    “This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis
    Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis
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    “Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rob Chapman – Psychedelia And Other Colours
    Rob Chapman – Psychedelia And Other Colours
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    “In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Steven H Pollock – Magic Mushroom Cultivation (Incredibly rare)
    Steven H Pollock – Magic Mushroom Cultivation (Incredibly rare)
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    A guide by the mycologist and psychedelic researcher who was also the victim of a famously unsolved murder/conspiracy. Herbal Medicine Research Foundation, 1981 Softcover 2nd edition. Wear to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors (1st Edition)
    Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors (1st Edition)
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    “Considers the metaphors with which acquired immune deficiency syndrome is cloaked, the presentation of the illness as a plague, and its bearing on the way society views disease, sexuality, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sy Montgomery – Secrets Of The Octopus
    Sy Montgomery – Secrets Of The Octopus
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    “The companion to the highly-anticipated National Geographic Disney+ special Secrets of the Octopus, narrated by Paul Rudd, this beautifully illustrated book explores the underwater world [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Assassinations: Probe Magazine On JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcom X (as-is)
    The Assassinations: Probe Magazine On JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcom X (as-is)
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    “When informed by the movie JFK that thousands of documents about the president’s murder remain sealed, a distressed American public motivated Congress to create the Assassinations Records [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Cradle Of Erotica
    The Cradle Of Erotica
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    “This book examines African and Asian sexual behavior. It is a sequel to The Jewel in the Lotus, a survey of the sexual culture of the East. An immensely readable […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Plants Of The Gods: Their Sacred, Healing And Hallucinogenic Powers
    Plants Of The Gods: Their Sacred, Healing And Hallucinogenic Powers
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    “Three scientific titans join forces to completely revise the classic text on the ritual uses of psychoactive plants. They provide a fascinating testimony of these “plants of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peyote: An Account Of The Origins And Growth Of The Peyote Religion
    Peyote: An Account Of The Origins And Growth Of The Peyote Religion
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    “An account of the origins and growth of the peyote religion” Crowell, 1971 Hardcover edition. Some wear apparent to dustjacknonet under mylar. Some staining to upper edge of text block.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
    Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
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    “This is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
    Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
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    The 1982 spring issue of Parabola, featuring contributions from Ursula Le Guin and Marguerite Yourcenar. Society For The Study Of Myth & Tradition, 1982 Softcover edition. Writing on front [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
    Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
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    An overview over occultism by the enigmatic Ophiel Peach Publishing Company, 1969 Hardcover edition. Some staining and tearing to dustjacket apparent under mylar.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Narcotics And Drug Addiction
    Narcotics And Drug Addiction
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    An early pharmacological and sociological study on narcotics. Philosophical Library, 1946 Hardcover edition. Dustjacket clipped. Noticeable staining and wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
    Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
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    “Michelle Remembers is a book published in 1980 co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Manson: In His Own Words
    Manson: In His Own Words
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    “We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as “the most dangerous man alive.” But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
    Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
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    “It’s only natural that rock and roll — “the devil’s music” — and Satanism should be intimately linked. Lucifer Rising explores this unique cultural confluence. Divided into three parts, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
    How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
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    A guide to avoid the draft, written during Vietnam. Grove Press, 1967 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Stamp and old sticker on front wrap.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History Of The Freak Film
    Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History Of The Freak Film
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    “Freakshows – human anomalies presented for spectacle – have flourished throughout recorded history. The birth of the movies provided a further outlet for these displays, which [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lowell Hart – Satan’s Music Exposed
    Lowell Hart – Satan’s Music Exposed
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    A bizarre tract linking contemporary Christian music to “satanic” rock music. Salem Kirban Inc, 1980 Softcover edition. Wear to edges of wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
    H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
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    A “combat guide” from the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, as written by a former marine. Posterity Press, 2014 Softcover edition. Light general wear

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
    Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
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    The first book about Jonestown, as told by a journalist who was there and other key eyewitnesses. Berkley, 1978 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Writing on front page. Wear/discoloration to wraps [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
    Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
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    “Fille de joie, lady of the evening, lady of pleasure — delightful euphemisms. The fille de joie is seen variously as mysterious, remote, and incredibly sinful; desirable and corrupt, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
    Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
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    “Offers homeowners and architects a comfortable and economical approach to underground housing based on modern construcion techniques, providing plans, details, and photographs of existing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
    Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
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    “An orgy, the dictionary tells us, is “a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc.” Burgo Partridge tells us precisely what that has meant down through [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
    Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
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    “For many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually one of the human body’s most wondrous creations–elegant, efficient, and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
    Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
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    “Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
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    “This work examines the writings of this Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturge, directing attention to this neglected area of study by focusing on the question of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
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    A book-length interview with the controversial filmmaker covering his career up till Theorem. Thames & Hudson, Cinema One Series, 1969 Paperback edition. Discoloration/wear to wraps and edges [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
    Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
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    “Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
    Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
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    “Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was “someone who is interested in everything.” Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
    Susan Sontag – Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
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    “In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation
    Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation
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    “Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
    More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
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    Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
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    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
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    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
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    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rocker Magazine – Issue #8
    Rocker Magazine – Issue #8
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    ROCKER is a digest published in the great city of Philadelphia, PA, USA. It focuses on harsh noise, ambient, experimental + In this issue: • on the cover: Nick Forte’ […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Title TK
    Title TK
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    “Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
    Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
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    “For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
    Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
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    “Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
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    In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
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    At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
    Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
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    In the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction